Copernicus (the European data platform) is now increasingly used even by NOAA scientists in the US because our aging climate data infrastructure is underfunded and often supported by a shockingly small number of people. We wrote about this for BAMS recently journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Our data systems for both science and operational applications rely on a shockingly large number of underfunded single points of failure that are ... starting to fail. We wrote about this for climate forecasts in BAMS: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

I would go as far as to say that it doesn't make sense to decouple the concepts of development, sustainability, and deforestation. We need agricultural solutions that preserve natural resources and are resilient to climate extremes. Any other kind of development is myopic and will be costly

Hi just so I'm clear. I wrote "donate to food banks" and do "food runs for mutual aid" because they are different things! Food banks want your money! they can do more with your money than with stuff. Mutual aid groups often want stuff! Mine has a food fridge!

well said expatriarch.substack.com/p/usaid-is-u...

For @climateconnections.bsky.social today, with the help of @bobkopp.net & @andrewdessler.com's team of 85 climate scientists and the National Academies, I fact checked the EPA/DOE's claim that carbon pollution is good for food production. Spoiler alert: it's not. Article and 🧵 (1/9):

Ultra-processed foods are the nutritional bogeyman du jour. it's time for a more nuanced conversation, @kevinh-phd.bsky.social and I argue @newscientist.com www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

"Either food systems remain engines of ecological collapse & inequality, or they become the foundation for a healthy, just and sustainable future, feeding 9.6 billion people nutritiously by 2050. It falls on those in the world’s wealthy countries to do the most to change their consumption patterns"

A La Niña Advisory has been issued, meaning that La Niña conditions have been observed in the tropical Pacific Ocean. (1/3)

EAT-Lancet 2.0 report is out today, updating the influential 2019 report. On my first read it seems to bring further data/evidence to support the big solutions for food/climate/nature: 1) improve productivity & env performance of agriculture, 2) reduce food loss/waste, 3) healthy/sustainable diets.

Yet another Nat Cat job? Actually, we're searching for TWO experts, specialized in tropical cyclones or earthquakes. US or UK, remote work definitely an option. Great job for an ECR physical scientist looking to join the insurance/reinsurance industry! eedu.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

It’s funny to hear Trump aides accuse wind and solar farms of overusing land, because the corn ethanol they love uses 100X as much land per unit of energy. Land is great at growing food and storing carbon; it sucks at growing fuel.

Today marks day 1 of public hearings on the EPA’s reconsideration of the endangerment finding, a 2009 declaration that greenhouse gases threaten public health. Follow along with us👇🧵

On most of the world’s land, solar can generate 100x more energy per acre vs biofuels A solar powered EV can go 300x as many miles as a biofuel powered vechicle per acre #EnergySky

"Rates of depression and anxiety were higher than in a survey done in 2022, amid ongoing concerns about the lack of permanent job prospects". When anxiety and depression is higher than the pandemic years, that is a bad sign. We continue to exploit and undervalue PhD students and postdocs.

New research: our team looked at all the ways to reduce emissions from manure management in the US. While biogas digesters receive the most funding, other options like solid-liquid separation, acidification, and aeration are more promising & cost-effective. These emissions are also undercounted.

More journalists should be asking why they put Steve Volz, the head of NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service (NOAA/NESDIS), on indefinite administrative leave.

In our annual career issue, we take inspiration from the stories of 12 Earth and space scientists. eos.org/agu-news/whe... Read more in our August issue, out now: bit.ly/Eos-Aug2025

The Trump administration is set to incinerate nearly 500 tonnes of emergency food, enough to feed 1.5 million children for a week. Despite repeated requests from USAID staff to distribute the food intended for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, they did not receive approval.

People disagree about nearly everything in the climate space. EXCEPT BIOFUELS. Absolutely everybody thinks using corn & soy for fuel is a terrible idea - except the people who stand to gain from it, and the people who want those folks' votes. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Another day has passed and nothing from the acting head of FEMA in a disaster that killed 100+ people and I haven’t seen any journalists ask the administration where he is…??? Knowing who is currently leading FEMA strikes me as something the public has a vital interest in…

⚒️ Article: Accelerating increase in the duration of heat waves under global warming www.nature.com/articles/s41... @davidneelin.bsky.social

The proposed NOAA budget for 2026 contains the literal line: Total, Climate Research: $0 www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

For perspective: a recent study suggested that economic savings from just a *single* well-predicted hurricane, thanks to NOAA research advancements, are on order of *$5 billion.* That exceeds NOAA's *entire proposed annual operating budget.* So much for government efficiency.

It's surreal to sit on a call with NOAA cooperative institute employees actively forecasting hazards that may affect the US while the US Senate effective terminates those employees and their work. The American public does not yet realize the devastation inflicted on our scientific institutions

This budget justification is devastating to oceanic and atmospheric research.

“In the fields, I would say 70% of the workers are gone,” she said in an interview. “If 70% of your workforce doesn’t show up, 70% of your crop doesn’t get picked and can go bad in one day. Most Americans don’t want to do this work. Most farmers here are barely breaking even.”

"Our estimates show that, unless the abrupt funding cuts announced and implemented in the first half of 2025 are reversed, a staggering number of avoidable deaths could occur by 2030," the study said.

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk. “When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.” The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children. Don’t ever forget.

Really important. "The withdrawal of incentives is one thing. A targeted federal tax that could increase development costs by up to 20% that is levied over longstanding supply chain relationships that will take not years but rather decades to rebuild is another."

This is so good - How much higher will your energy bill be if the Trump Budget Bill passes? Find out here (and only accounts for some of the ways that your energy bill will rise as a result of the bill): www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/c...

This is a choice. This is not an intractable problem or an unforeseeable disaster. we are *choosing* to let food for the hungry rot in a warehouse.

The graph speaks for itself In which I argue that while the graph might speak for itself, it ain't saying much. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/t...

Good news! #USAID FEWS NET is back up fews.net The continuous monitoring of acute food insecurity is critical if we are to understand the stability of food systems in our ever more turbulent world. Increasingly frequent conflict, climate, and price shocks make FEWS NET more important than ever

Across the US climate change is breaking our infrastructure, which was designed for a cooler climate with less intense precipitation. Adapting to the new, rapidly warming, world will both be costly and difficult as roads and bridges must now be designed for ever intensifying heatwaves and downpours

A new observational benchmark for equatorial upwelling @usclivar.bsky.social Research Highlight Our general tendency to underestimate equatorial upwelling may offer a clue into the disagreement between historical trends and climate model simulations of Pacific SSTs. usclivar.org/research-hig...

Out today in Nature, our paper on the drivers of the record 2023 summer heating of the North Atlantic. Temperatures warmed to record levels in just a few months. The impacts on climate & ecosystems were severe. A thread on how this work came about and what we found.👇👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 NCI-powered research reveals what drove 2023’s record North Atlantic marine heatwave 🌊☀️ Scientists used ACCESS-NRI ocean models, run on NCI’s supercomputer & data systems, to uncover the role of record-low winds & shallow ocean layers. 📘 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #HPC #NCIresources

www.youtube.com/live/CcWR6Cd... 100 hours, starts NOW!

Good news!! They have extended the public comment period until June 7th! So you still have time to submit!! The proposed rule could have huge negative impacts for the federal government, particularly the more technical agencies.

New: Not only would Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” ban gender-affirming care via Medicaid, it would ban insurance under the Obamacare exchanges from covering it as an essential health benefit www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Waste, fraud and abuse. "Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people for a month are mouldering in warehouses around the world because of U.S. aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to five people familiar with the situation."

Very timely: new Q1 2025 Clean Investment Monitor out today www.cleaninvestmentmonitor.org/reports/q1-2... Shows a cool half a trillion dollars in announced projects and more than 100,000 jobs across 2,217 facilities currently threatened by potential IRA repeal.

Make no mistake: the House budget bill, as currently written, is effectively a full repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act clean energy measures. This renders all IRA tax credits as-good-as-dead. Goodbye nuclear industry. Goodbye US manufacturing investments. Hello higher energy prices.

"The entire 2.1 million population of Gaza is facing prolonged food shortages, with nearly half a million people in a catastrophic situation of hunger, acute malnutrition, starvation, illness and death." "This is one of the world’s worst hunger crises, unfolding in real time."

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

Funding opportunity: The Washington Research Foundation is accepting applications for postdoctoral fellowships with "potential for real-world impact in natural sciences" through June 26. Fellowships must be completed at an eligible WA institution - UW is one! www.wrfseattle.org/grants/wrf-p...