“Avoidance of water quality, avoidance of the environmental consequences of agriculture has been a real tragic mistake here for the Democratic Party.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...

This is an important message - forest management alone can’t stop the surge in wildfire. We must halt climate change if we want to keep the increasing wildfire trend from getting worse - much worse.

Powerful feature article by @alexlubben.bsky.social on rapidly heating Gulf of Mexico, driven by human-caused climate change, with enormous consequences for hurricane intensification & sea-level rise. Meanwhile, Trump wants to cut funding of observations. Gift 🔗 www.nola.com/news/environ...

Funding uncertainties and an outsized reliance on few countries’ contributions have put the ocean sciences community in a “really risky place,” researchers say. eos.org/articles/cha...

~2006: "You can't link any weather event to fossil-fuel emissions." ~2026: There's "a direct and well-understood impact." 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Was "deep ocean turbulence" on your bingo card? Currents, eddies and internal wave in the world's ocean affect its productivity and climate through awesome processes. We are unravelling these mysteries, but "global ocean research is at risk" because of Trump's cuts and restrictions.

Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."

Mighty proud of my junior Senator and how she took on Russell Vought.

National Academies report that advances in tools, observations & methods now allow attribution of extreme events to climate change to be completed within days. Trump's first term science advisor Kelvin Droegemeier was a member of the committee. www.nationalacademies.org/publications...

The Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in MD develops the food safety practices that prevent food-borne illnesses like Cyclospora. Yet, this admin is trying to close BARC with a half-baked plan that threatens critical research, wastes taxpayer money, & risks more outbreaks.

What in hell were you thinking. He’s a freaking jerk!

Cartoon by @hickeycartoons.bsky.social.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus Farooq Azam has been awarded the Kyoto Prize, Japan’s highest private award for global achievement, for his groundbreaking discoveries on the microbial loop at @scrippsocean.bsky.social. 🏆 https://bit.ly/4eQUEm5

Trump has Algae Derangement Syndrome (ADS). @alanburdick.bsky.social writes: let's "cede the Reflecting Pool to the algae, step away and let the protists run it." Gift 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/s...

President of Maryland'sJohns Hopkins University: "Recent & very marked slowing & reduction of federal research funding &, worse yet, the proposed shift away from merit-based, peer-reviewed science, runs the risk of gravely damaging the American research enterprise." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

429.68 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 01-Jul-2026 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

My eye was drawn to image of Mississippi Deltaic Plain on the GRL issue cover containing European heat wave paper. It relates to another paper on tracking river stage pulses from space. Other regional articles on CO2 emissions from LNG facilities & heat from Hurricane Ian. Everything's related!

40% of glaciers will melt no matter what we do now. Episode 3 of the podcast "Written in the Ocean" explores what we really know about the frozen world of our planet – and why all of it connects back to the ocean. 🎧️ links to listen in the comments @frontiersmedia.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger ceremonially signed a measure into law that ensures Virginia will rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Learn more about what this means for climate action and the Chesapeake Bay: https://bit.ly/4vIQwfi

Tump Administration accelerating closure of USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center is clear retribution to Maryland. 92% of 2000 public comments and many stakeholders oppose it. Unique facilities supporting American agriculture at risk. www.science.org/content/arti...

Thought for the day for aquatic and marine ecologists. "Who the hell puts in algae?"

BTW, as Roger Pielke Jr distorts here while trumpeting the ProPublica article on CMI, the actual US debate in the 2000s was not about the balance between CCS and solar, but between research and deployment —

Each Friday night, I write a briefing on US science & higher ed. 🧪  June 26 (Year 2, Week 26) made me angry: - dismantling programs to prevent teen pregnancy & fatal overdoses - Texas adds Bible stories to mandatory school readings - bad $$ news from NSF, NIH & more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

A case study in bad public policy: Enriching fossil fuel executives while making everyone else poorer, less healthy, and less secure.

Just like in the Gulf of Mexico, Washington D.C. has a big Dead Zone that is fueled by avarice and ignorance, with the algae just doing what they are supposed to do. robverchick.substack.com/p/the-reflec...

I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.

Many thanks to these former NOAA scientists for keeping all this hard work and useful information concerning climate change alive online despite the Trump climate science purge.

The oppressive heat and humidity in #Texas and #Florida and the rest Gulf Coast was made much more likely due to climate change. 100X in Texas and Louisiana and 20-80X more likely in Florida. #climatechange #heatwave H/T @shelwinkleywx @ClimateCentral

Maryland Senator @vanhollen.senate.gov said he was considering running for President. Based on my work with him over more than 30 years, he would be just what we needed to recover from Trump's damage to science, climate change action, and environmental protection. 💯% thehill.com/homenews/cam...

A shrinking strip of New Orleans marsh helps protect 1.5 million people. Louisiana wants to save it The New Orleans Land Bridge could disappear in 50 years, making the metro area more vulnerable to storm surge

The "harsh realities of chemistry and biology." "You’re basically taking natural, untreated river water, pumping it in and expecting it to do something different from what it would do out in the open.” www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

You’ve probably heard about the nasty globs of sargassum overwhelming Florida beaches. You probably haven’t heard they’re fueled by nutrient pollution from agriculture. Ag is the leading driver of deforestation, biodiversity loss, water shortages…and this. www.foxnews.com/video/639839...

Tiered implementation! Inside joke for all those #chesapeakebay TMDL aficionados.

Just going to drop this here since we haven't talked about NSF strangling geoscience for about a month. It's still strangling geoscience (and everything else) with 9% the number of grants issued compared to the 2021-2024 average. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

I’m half-expecting Trump to propose coloring the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay American flag blue and installing nano-bubblers to fix its algal bloom problems “for good.” Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/c...

These algae are woke!

One of the true villains of our time leaves the scene. Lee Raymond, the former CEO of Exxon-Mobil probably did more to undercut climate science and policy than anyone, despite the company's own experts accurately predicting warming. @heatmap.news @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social 1/

Sönke Dangendorf, Qiang Sun, Pravin Maduwantha, Thomas Wahl, Marta Marcos, Ben Marzeion, Aimée B. A. Slangen, and Jerry X. Mitrovica: Human-driven sea-level rise has quadrupled the frequency of coastal sea-level extremes since 1900. Nature Climate Change www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The AGU Chapman conference on sea-level rise projections was a great success. Learned a lot, great discussions. Thanks for your leadership, Bob.

Ouch. Flood protection infrustructure is typically designed for a 1-in-50-year or 1-in-100-year flood. New study finds, “At nearly half of the 130 sites analyzed in the study, a flood expected once every 100 years in 1900 now occurs at least once per decade.” news.tulane.edu/pr/sea-level...

Also flying under the radar is continued funding for the major U.S. contributions to the global Argo profiling float array that provides crucial information on ocean heat and sea-level trends, salinity redistribution, and with BGC Argo ocean chemistry & biology @bgc-argo.bsky.social argo.ucsd.edu

May monthly CO2 average breaks record again: scripps.ucsd.edu/news/annual-...

Seven worst oil spills of all time. Three of them in the Gulf of Mexico. www.earthview.media/p/7-worst-oi...

Why the @chesapeakebayfdn.bsky.social has joined in a law suit to block EPA from rescinding its finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and well being. marylandmatters.org/2026/05/30/c...

O’Neill is totally qualified and should not be confirmed by the Senate as Director of the National Science Foundation.

Not only is sea level rising, but it’s rising faster every year Since 1960, 43% of global sea level rise attributed to thermal expansion of water Melting ice : 27% came from mountain glaciers, while 15% came from Greenland Ice Sheet and 12% from the Antarctic Ice Sheet eos.org/research-and...

Global observations of ocean heating are critical for weather forecasting and for understanding climate change. These are particularly at risk from threatened withdrawal or disinvestment by the US by the Trump Administration.

"Right now Greenland could be helping us convert their nation into sea level rise."

Sad to see T-Jeff Landry off to Greenland, embarrassing my native Louisiana like dis. Bringing MAGA caps and cookies to entice dose kids, dat couyon musta thought he was goin to New Roads not Nuuk. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/w...

This is good news, but we need to get off using fossil hydrocarbons, including natural gas, for electricity even faster.