AGU has an easy-to-use toolkit set for public feedback to proposed government actions. Now is a great time to respond to NSF’s proposed shuttering of NCAR. agu.quorum.us/campaign/154...

Greg Pollock and I weigh in on the Trump Administration's omission of climate change from the latest National Defense Strategy and why it is important. GIFT LINK foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/29/n...

Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor. www.wired.com/story/data-c...

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I talked with Grist about what makes bsky strong makes the power grid brittle: our age grist.org/energy/winte...

Incredible self own for the US. The damage being done to the US scientific enterprise is generational. We will look back on this as a tipping point where the US chose all on its own to stop leading the world in science. www.science.org/content/arti...

TODAY at 4pm PT, I'm moderating a forum of leading candidates for California governor, all about climate change. Watch live here as we find out how Xavier Becerra, Katie Porter, Tom Steyer and Eric Swalwell stack up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsLc...

Link to interesting live stream and live commentary - asking point blank about the delta tunnels was A+ moderating and I hope our current GO was listening to these responses

"The best available science makes clear that major fossil fuel producers have contributed an outsized amount of carbon pollution to the atmosphere, and Climate Superfund bills are using that science to ensure polluters, not communities, shoulder the costs of this pollution and resulting damages."

Learn more about the science underlying climate superfund bills in this new blog from our colleague Dr. Carly Phillips. #MakePollutersPay

We were proud to join Mainers at the State House yesterday for the #MakePollutersPay Climate Impacts Live Gallery, featuring photos and art that illustrate the impact of the climate crisis on Maine communities, livelihoods, and environment. Constituents spoke in favor of the Climate Superfund Act.

NCAR represents what is possible when a nation chooses to invest in science as a public good, writes @carlonimbus.bsky.social of @ucs.org. #SaveNCAR eos.org/opinions/wha...

Looking forward to attending the @ametsoc.org meeting in Houston! Well depending on the winter storm... 😅 I’ll be sharing some of our work on using extreme event attribution information to support resilience planning (ams.confex.com/ams/106ANNUA...). If you are at #AMS2026, be sure to reach out!

And she's doing this from FEMA. Jesus.

Impossible to recount fully just how massive and immediate the firehose of bullshit was gizmodo.com/viral-image-...

Absolutely 100% guarantee a bunch of individuals and institutions (media outlets, denier groups, shitfluencer X-chuds, BTI-bros etc) 100% prepared to blame these blackouts on renewables within literally seconds of them happening. They're keen to repeat Texas 2021. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/24/w...

Good morning. There's a sewage geyser happening in the DC area, adding 40 million gallons of raw sewage to the Potomac every day. Deferred infrastructure maintenance is a huge issue nationwide. www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...

NSF just posted their Dear Colleague Letter regarding the restructuring of NCAR. www.nsf.gov/funding/info...

Today Michigan became the 11th state to sue the fossil fuel industry for climate deception, filing an antitrust suit in federal court against #BigOil companies ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, and Shell, and trade association American Petroleum Institute #BigOilLies #ClimateAccountability

Hoping to cast a wide net to find the right candidates for a Science Fellow (2 yr position) @ucs.org . Looking for PhD with expertise and interest in working on just land transitions and grid resilience, in California and beyond. job posting: apply.workable.com/j/41E7503CD5...

You can look for an action near you here: actionnetwork.org/event_campai... Even if you can't make it to an in-person event, please write to your state officials and let them know you support accountability for the fossil fuel industry: secure.ucs.org/a/2025-state... #ClimateAccountability

Join UCS & allies for next week's National #MakePollutersPay Week of Action! We'll rally to support measures like climate superfunds and climate liability laws that hold big polluters accountable for damages to our climate and our communities. Learn more in this video from @polluterspay.bsky.social

This year’s update of the Carbon Majors database, which tracks historical production data for 178 of the world's largest oil, gas, coal, and cement producers, is now available via @influencemap.bsky.social!

The Trump admin "has been forced to acknowledge its unlawful actions and release gov. documents related to this case, which will allow the public to see for itself how the DOE and EPA worked in concert to solicit a report with predetermined conclusions aimed at overturning the Endangerment Finding."

Winter Storm Fenn could knock out power for millions this weekend. Read this thread for emergency preparedness steps to take now and the longer-term solutions that can reduce the risks during future outages. 🧵⬇️

This means that Democrats need to take strong climate positions to turn out their base, and that doing so loses them no large share among moderate voters. Even leaving Trump's unpopularity aside, the advice to stop talking about climate is wrong. 2/2

This polling shows that A MAJORITY OF LIBERAL DEMOCRATS WILL NOT VOTE FOR SOMEONE WHO SUPPORTS THE EXPANSION OF FOSSIL FUELS, while a majority of mod Dems and Rs—as well as far right Rs—do not care enough for anti-fossil-fuel to be a decisive factor in their vote. Do you know what this means? 1/2

A&M leadership is not serving their students well. They should find another line of work.

Senator Susan Collins killed the amendment to protect the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) -- perhaps the world's premier research center for work on #weather, #climate, models, and remote sensing. Remember that.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

I talked with @wuwmradio.bsky.social about data centers and how they affect the environment: www.wuwm.com/what-are-dat...

⚖️ Are you working on topics that could be relevant for climate litigation? ➡️ Submit an abstract to our outreach session (which allows you to submit a second abstract) #EGU26 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up. Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes. More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

50. US withdraws from @ipcc.bsky.social, @ipbes.net, @irena-official.bsky.social, Intl Union for the Conservation of Nature, UN Energy, UN Oceans, UN Water, @ununiversity.bsky.social, UNFCCC, among others (Jan. 7, 2026)

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

“The shooting marks a dramatic escalation of the latest in a series of immigration enforcement operations in major American cities under the Trump administration. The killing of the Minneapolis motorist … was at least the fifth death linked to immigration crackdowns since 2024.”

On the "boots on the ground" question and Trump saying that it will mainly be about protecting oil operations. Given this framing, we should expect a massive payday for politically connected mercenary companies, who will use this to expand their private armies.

"‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock Intl Criminal Court judge out of daily life. Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards or access everyday services (Uber, Alexa, Ticketmaster...) in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary." www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

A thread of embedded videos!

Unsurprising but devastating: plans for a zombified NCA6 to be written by a handful of climate contrarians & Grok. A slap in the face to the American public, and to the hundreds of scientists who'd volunteered to spend the next several years carefully doing this the right way, for the public good.

"Rebuilding scientific institutions can be a very long process. Some institutions, such as JPL, NOAA, CDC, and NCAR, took decades to establish. They will need to train new researchers, and setting up a laboratory takes time—we're talking years." #SaveNCAR

"Attempting to erase a country’s scientific heritage, as the Trump administration is now trying to do, should be of concern to every US citizen. Because if climate science is viewed with disfavor today, other fields of scientific inquiry might be next in line for the chopping block."—Ben Santer.

"Deliberately dismantling an institution so central to weather forecasting and climate change prediction would not only undermine scientific research, it would leave people across the nation less prepared for the dangers of a warming world." Said @carlonimbus.bsky.social.

At an @agu.org Town Hall today, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social President Antonio Busalacchi spoke to #AGU25 attendees about what's at stake if NCAR is dismantled. One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood. Read more here: eos.org/research-and...

“The research done at NCAR is an investment by every single tax-paying citizen in the United States, and it benefits all of us,” said UCS's @marc-alessi.bsky.social. “We are able to predict the weather days in advance, giving warning for hurricanes, extreme precipitation events, and droughts.”

I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.

U.S. electricity prices rose 7.4% in just one year, and energy policy analysts expect them to keep climbing faster than inflation in 2026. Meanwhile, data centers powering AI could nearly triple their energy use by 2030. buff.ly/KE663ZA

The Trump Administration's plan to dismantle the @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is senseless & dangerous. It would weaken weather forecasting, climate research, & the science that keeps people safe. We urge that this plan be abandoned. Call Congress to #SaveNCAR today. buff.ly/7ka1BQA

Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social. The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #AGU25 #climate

NCAR and NSSL are on par, IMO. If either hadn’t existed in the last 50 years, dozens of tornado related deaths would be common any time a tornado struck a town.