Turns out that when the federal government becomes an existential threat to your institution, the number and frequency of townhall meetings rises dramatically.

A major insurance industry professional organization submitted a letter in support of the Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research, calling it crucial infrastructure for understanding weather & climate risk, and saying dismantling it threatens US insurance coverage. tinyurl.com/4aaxh22d

You may find this map shocking. The crazy imbalance even surprised me! It’s the ratio of record highs vs record lows in each city since 2020. That’s right, in Miami there have been 115 daily record highs, but only 1 record morning low! Phoenix: 138 to 0!… 1/

On a busy day for science policy, it looks like oversight and operations of NCAR’s supercomputing center are transitioning to a third-party operator. www.nsf.gov/news/transit... Lean more about the costs of dismantling NCAR with this opinion from @carlonimbus.bsky.social.

NSF has announced that they will officially transfer @ncar-ucar.bsky.social supercomputer to a third-party manager. www.nsf.gov/news/transit...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

OMFG.

Enough is enough. It must stop.

oh, what a surprising finding. 🤦‍♂️ www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

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Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

There IS still joy in the world. youtu.be/I5XR48KLE8I?...

If a license plate doesn’t match the car it’s on, I would imagine the car should be impounded. Right? @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social

Go away, Susan Collins. We need NCAR to remain

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

Jerome Powell makes it clear: The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President. www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

today’s word: tyranny dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionar...

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Our guide to approaching (and starting!) conversations about NCAR and the importance of weather and climate science. #SaveNCAR

There aren't a lot of resources for what people can do to prevent the destruction of NCAR, so I made this: #NCAR #climate #climatescience #weather #meteorology #activism #myresources

The word “climate” goes back at least to the 14th century, with fairly modern connotations by the 16th century. I vote we keep the word, and use it when appropriate. www.etymonline.com/word/climate

This post has been edited to add a link and context around new reporting from NOTUS (bsky.app/profile/anna...) that suggests the NCAR closure is related to a personal spat between Trump and Colorado's governor, which if true is shocking in its context.

Uhhhh, yikes ☹️ www.nsf.gov/news/intent-...

I just spent much of last week telling people that I think NCAR is mostly safe and we just need to see what the NSF budget ends up being. I think Russ Vought is just trolling me.

AGU has a Congressional email and call script up on NCAR:

At the No Kings protest in Farmington, MI today. I’ve been signing multiple petitions; good to see democracy being valued!

Proud to start the morning with THOUSANDS of fellow Coloradans in Fort Collins at the No Kings rally who are standing up for our constitution and the rule of law!

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

NASA confirmed the (sudden, I heard from employees) resignation of Joseph Pelfrey from his role as director of Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Huge employer in the state, critical to human spaceflight initiatives at the US space agency.... www.cnbc.com/2025/09/25/n...

Apple Music on iOS 26 Critical Fix: Settings > Apps > Music > Song Transitions TURN OFF!!!

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol... $200M is the entire annual budget for the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

weekend goal: try not to learn about or even think about pedophiles nor friends-of-pedophiles. 🤞

New commentary about model hierarchies agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc

Meanwhile, here are the weather balloon launches from this morning. The red dots indicate locations that missed the launch today owing to short staffing. The blue dots indicate long-term outages.

NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward. I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... This article is about State, but the broader point is that the morale is down across the federal government, government contractors, academia, and most of the “knowledge worker” class in this country because of the existential dread looming over them.

A poignant picture: NSF staff overcome obstacles to mark agency's 75th anniversary. www.science.org/content/arti...

REMINDER: ICECHIP Field Day is tomorrow from 2-4 pm MDT for open viewing to the general public in Boulder, CO! Come see our instruments and talk to us before we head to the Plains! More information in the flyer below.

These jets are more than $50MILLION each. That could cover a lot of science research that actually has an ROI.