EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE Another scorching day in FRANCE with Temperatures up to 39.1C at Argeliers, but this is nothing to what's coming in few days: European climatic history will be rewritten once again.

The severe wx setup in the Midwest for Wednesday is one of the more impressive I have seen in a long time, with a springlike system mixing with summertime heat and instability. PTC1 also is a big flash flood threat for The Gulf region, particularly from SE TX up into MS. tinyurl.com/bdekjztt

Forecast soundings along warm front in IL and IN tomorrow are insane. Don't recall the last time I've seen > 100 kts of 0-6 km shear with an unstable thermo profile (below is from NAM 3km, but HRRR is similar). Multiple CAMs showing intense supercells training along or just north of the warm front.

We have known for a long time that rapid CO2-induced global warming 56 million years ago caused extreme rainfall events and enhanced erosion of the landscape. Our new work shows that this drove increased burial of eroded soil and plant organic matter, which could have removed some of that CO2.

Maybe it was a bad idea to fire all the government scientists who know how stuff like this works.

The tide is turning on OOI. Today, 11 senators (including one Republican) and 23 House members sent letters to NSF demanding they stop the dismantling of the Ocean Observatories Initiative.

The perfect obit headline for this particular climate denier, who knew better but preferred to live a lie heatmap.news/daily/lee-raymond

Severe thunderstorm watch now in place thru 11 pm. Main timeframe in and around Beltway looks like 6-10 pm. Dangerous lightning, scattered wind gusts to around 70 mph, and isolated hail or a brief tornado all possible. Updates @ capitalweather.com & Capital Weather app.

🚨 Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued June 14 at 4:18PM EDT until June 14 at 11:00PM EDT by NWS Baltimore MD/Washington DC 🚨 Additional Details Here.

The NY Times won't cover Trump's dementia or corruption, but they have money and space for crap like this. Don't click thru. That's not a photo but an "artistic interpretation." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/u...

This chart from Thomas Piketty illustrates what Jefferson Cowie calls “the Great Exception,” the period of the New Deal Order from the 1930s to the 1970s when inequality was low, and rates of unionization and federal marginal tax rates were high.

The Storm Prediction Center issues Day 1 Slight Convective Risk at Jun 14, 19:48z for portions of LWX at Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:50:32 +0000 via IEMbot Additional Details Here.

Washington DC 9 pm tonight. via Weather Channel #JustSaying

Now they're fighting... the Weather Channel

Just a reminder that tomorrow is Barack Obama Appreciation Day. The plan is to post as many pictures, along with words of appreciation of President Obama. Fuck the orange guy and his birthday celebration. #NoKings

#Arctic air temperature rank by month over the satellite era - now updated through May 2026... + Ranks: 1=warmest (red), 47/48=coldest (blue) + Download higher resolution: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe... + Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social: doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Your money — whether it’s a 401K, a pension, or a college endowment — is now tied up in Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Guess who will be stuck holding the bag when the rocket crashes?

This is accurate & not hyperbole from @jfallows.bsky.social With support from USAID, the DRC had built an outbreak preparedness & response system “ready to go,” e.g., surveillance, labs, health workers, & stockpiles of personal protective equipment When Musk killed USAID, that system collapsed 😢

"When I first started out in the news, there was far too much reporting. Barely anyone was just making stuff up. It was as if nobody even wanted to put their thumb on the scale on behalf of the powerful."

This is terrible news for every American who doesn't want Trump-aligned billionaires to control what they watch and how much they pay. The Paramount-Warner Bros. deal has reeked of corruption and influence-peddling. This fight isn't over. State AGs must block this merger.

Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...

How 6 Billionaire Families Fund Climate Denial and brought us Project 2025 - desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial

just catching up but any new yorker will tell you, the scaffolding can be there for a long fucking time before the work actually gets done

27 year olds have seen half of the global warming so far happen in their lifetime.

NEW: They have requested a 12-hour extension on their homework. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Props to CNN’s chyron writer:

tbh a pretty good summation of GOP policy: scared of the wind

Get out the popcorn! Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm... #KennedyCenter

They've reached the THE

BREAKING: Judge Angel Kelley (Biden/MA) blocks Interior Secy. Doug Burgum's "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" order at nat parks nationwide. Feds must restore race, climate & LGBT mentions www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Hoo boy, this is an amazing piece of scholarship that @samlmontano.bsky.social has done! Bottom line if FEMA Council report becomes law: you’re on your own, disaster survivors.

Look at this beautiful shot from the Washington Monument of the incoming line of severe thunderstorms in DC. 70mph damaging winds inbound now to the District! Take shelter now!

Elon Musk sees a future where AI replaces HALF of all jobs. If he’s right, our country’s wealth could get sucked up by a handful of billionaires while workers get left behind. We need to tax AI so Americans share in its growth—and Big Tech pays for the disruption it causes.

Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth. We need a wealth tax.

No one on this godforsaken planet needs, deserves or has the slightest right to possess a trillion dollars. We need a society and governance healthy enough and moral enough to amend its rules enough to take 500 billion away, use it to address real need and assure the shitheel he will somehow endure.

📢 AGU and partners are urging Congress to fully fund NSF in FY27 and to protect the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) directorate🧪 📖Learn more⬇️ thebridge.agu.org/2026/06/02/a...

I think I heard it would take the average American family 11 MILLION YEARS to earn that much! #INSANITY

🚨EXCLUSIVE: A commercial airline pilot tells us they filed FAA and NASA safety reports after lighting from Trump’s UFC event at the White House allegedly flooded their cockpit on approach to Reagan National. They called it “10 times worse than any laser illumination event” they’d ever experienced.

“Some of the first visitors declared themselves underwhelmed by the 2,000ft pool’s somewhat dull color – American flag blue. Others were bemused to see workers scraping algae from the bottom, just days after it had been filled with 6.75m gallons of fresh water.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The area near the #Galapagos Islands are very hot. About 6-10F above normal. Obviously this has very negative implications for wildlife on/around the islands and the coastal communities / fisherman in Ecuador, Peru, etc...

How a record-high ‘energy imbalance’ is driving global warming It has increased by around 40% since 2019, from an average 0.79 watts per square metre (Wm2) over 2006-18, according to IPCC AR6, to 1.12Wm2 over 2013-25. www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...

The annual heat-related emergency visits or hospitalizations in the US will rise from 109,000 cases a year to 237,000 cases by 2040, new research has estimated. This will almost double annual healthcare costs for heat-related conditions to more than $1bn. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A masterpiece of science communication by Craig McLean, former Chief Scientist of NOAA, in response to the outrageous and dangerous new proposal that would give Trump officials more control over scientific research grants (the OMB debacle) 🧪 youtu.be/WKkRVhwiJAM?...

Red alert: The OMB regulations could disable science permanently open.substack.com/pub/holdenth...

“History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power have destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let that happen again.” — Carl Sagan

California is now home to the first major battery installation in the U.S. that can supply electricity for eight hours rather than four — a big step toward 24/7 clean energy: www.canarymedia.com/articles/lon... via @canarymedia.com

In May, for the first time, solar supplied more of the nation’s electricity than coal, or 12.8%. Coal supplied 12.2%, its fourth-lowest monthly share ever.

Charts of daily sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the Niño 3.4 monitoring region since April 20 show a warming trend, followed by a plateau, followed by another spike in SSTs... now well above any year for this date since 1982.