My collaborator and friend Chris Piecuch's new paper confirms: despite what the Department of Energy claimed, sea-level rise is indeed accelerating around the contiguous US

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

That's just one of many instances of distortion and misinformation in the US Department of Energy "Critical Review on the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions". Which in fact is a fossil fuel propaganda scam. Let's hope Americans are not that easily fooled. tamino.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/s...

"Reducing our dependence on whales as an energy source will send us sliding down the slippery, spermaceti-lubricated slope to socialism. If we give up whaling, what will those lackwits come for next? Will I have to surrender my peg leg for a titanium prosthetic?"

The appearance of large language models caused a drastic shift in the vocabulary of academic writing, according to an analysis in #ScienceAdvances of more than 15 million biomedical abstracts published from 2010 to 2024. Learn more:

“A 1.5-foot-tall wave might not seem like much, but #tsunamis are waves that extend from the seafloor to the ocean’s surface,” said Ben Hamlington, an oceanographer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California." #NASA #JPL www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/us-fren...

🌊❄️🧪 🇦🇶 Please share: We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October. If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)

Thanks for the boost, @whoi.edu! www.linkedin.com/posts/woods-...

When it comes to rice and pasta, dieticians recommend eating brown or whole grain because they're more nutritious. But you can create a super nutrient in white rice and white pasta. Here's the trick.

Perspective: It has been argued that parts of the climate system can experience rapid changes and that such tipping can be anticipated by early warning signals. Here the authors discuss the limitations of such indicators and common pitfalls in their application rdcu.be/ejQfr

North American ice sheets may have persisted into past warm periods --- and this matters for projections of future ice sheet mass loss. Check out our new preprint! eartharxiv.org/repository/v... With @bobkopp.net , @drandreadutton.bsky.social , and co.

Excellent chance to increase the reach of sea level science -- consider submitting!

As summer in the Northern Hemisphere approaches, it is important to keep in mind how temperatures are changing 🌡️ Shifting distribution to the right ➡️ increasing societal risks from extreme heat The driver? Humans... The burning of fossil fuels Visualization created by NASA svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/

🧪 Whoa this @aaup.bsky.social guide for navigating NSF grant terminations looks amazing!! 👀 And quite timely: there's another EO deadline this Friday (3/28) to "terminate or modify...grants...to advance the policies of my administration." PDF: www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

Parts of Alaska are losing 10+ meters of coastline yearly, and this loss may accelerate over the next century. Thanks @pnas.org for highlighting our work! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQCd... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Love it when GIA makes it into @nature.com!

ROSES 2025 is now 69 days late. And counting.

New preprint on the persistence of North American ice sheets in past warm period and implications for constraining future ice sheet projections, led by @rogercreel.bsky.social

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Permafrost Dynamics Observatory: Remote Sensing Big Data for the Active Layer, Soil Moisture, and Greening and Browning We analyze a big dataset of airborne L-band SAR data over permafrost in the Arctic-Boreal region agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Even animals with very small brains turn out to have cultural traditions, which poses a puzzler for biologists wondering what makes human culture unique.

“A new review of 50 recent studies finds that protests tend to sway media coverage and public opinion toward the climate cause, without appearing to backfire, even when disruptive tactics are used”. climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...

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Did you know that from 2000 to 2020, retreat of marine-terminating glaciers exposed >2,400 km of new Arctic coastline? www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congratulations, @mettebendixen.bsky.social, @cpecz.bsky.social, Jan Kavan, Matt Strelecki, and co., on your excellent paper!

Food for thought, mentoring friends.

Honored to announce that our paper on Alaskan permafrost received the 2024 Cozzarelli prize from @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/post/update/...

New paper out today showing big latitudinal swings in the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies over the last 11,000 years www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Thanks to @pnas.org Science Sessions and Paul Gabrielson for this podcast about our recent paper! @whoi.edu www.pnas.org/post/podcast...

🧊🔥 New paper @natclimchange.bsky.social: After millennia as a carbon deep-freezer for the planet, a third of the Arctic-boreal zone is now a CO2 source to the atmosphere. The int’l research team was led by @annvirkk.bsky.social ⬇️ Learn more: permafrost.woodwellclimate.org/after-millen...

USDOT has now deleted this webpage

Neat paper alert: To match Antarctic isotope records, we would need to know way more about the Last Interglacial than we currently do! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I am ✨BEYOND✨ excited to share my “Classification Framework for Assessing #Anthropogenic #Sedimentary Facies”! It covers composition, bed- and grain-scale descriptors, structures, and nomenclature. Now we can describe the developing #sedimentology of #Anthropocene #Earth 🌍 bit.ly/4hLbd2X 🧪 ⚒️

Moving @npr.org story about the Eaton Fire, featuring @bhamlington.bsky.social

You can browse NIH awards by location (even aggregated by congressional district) here. Some may be surprised by how many people are employed by these grants in their districts…

The warming stripes are now officially art! @edhawkins.org

Mysterious continent-sized masses lurk under Earth's surface – and new measurements suggest they may have remained stable for billions of years, resisting the powerful churn of the planet's interior. www.newscientist.com/article/2465...

Looking to have your jaw drop? Check out the Zanclean flood.

A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions - new study Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global warming www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more

Organising an academic conference in 2025? See our reflections here from the @quaternaryra.bsky.social Annual Discussion meeting: www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/01/how-...

Cicadas have little, bendy micro-pillars on their wings that pierce bacterial membranes and are as effective at killing microbes as a bleach solution. It might be possible to mimic this effect for use in medical (etc.) equipment. 🪳🪲🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

How is it possible that heat pumps can extract energy from the air even when it’s freezing cold outside? It’s because there’s energy in the air down to -273C which is absolute zero.

Check out the ⚡️power⚡️of the ice that covered North America: fingernails on the continental chalkboard!

#fieldphotofriday Late Holocene moraines and outwash of the Tänshı̨̄/Kaskawulsh #Glacier, Kluahe Nat’l Park, Yukon, Canada. Photographed May 2023, during our @UMaine #Sea2Sky class.

1,000,000+ years of history in the ice! Tremendously exciting. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thanks to #TheCoolDown for writing about our new paper on permafrost subsidence compounding climate hazards along Arctic coastlines! www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/com... @pnas.org

Catching up on reading & came across this fab paper by @rogercreel.bsky.social showing that SLR + permafrost thaw substantially increases Arctic erosion 40-65% infrastructure and 10-20% oilfield infrastructure in Alaskan Arctic Coastal Plain potentially at risk by 2100 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Important piece by @grosseguido.bsky.social et al. on permafrost subsidence -- great work! See also doi.org/10.1073/pnas... for how subsidence + other hazards transform the Arctic coastal zone 🌊

This is an incredible piece of important work! #sealevel #coastalchange #Antarctica #World

The reality is that the last 10 years are globally both the warmest in the Observational record and almost certainly the warmest since the peak of the last interglacial period, more than 125,000 years ago.

It was another stunning year for global climate and weather extremes. As data is processed and released in the first two weeks of January, you are going to be hearing all about these new historical records. Apologies for my many graphs in advance! 😬 Spiral below produced by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5190