I was saddened to learn of the death of Raul Pacheco-Vega earlier this week. I’ve known Raul for a very long time. I’ve written something for my website. Read here: jovanevery.co.uk/in-memoriam-...

Last week, moves from the White House showed how great threats to science and democracy are. This week, we're making moves to fight back in bigger ways. If ever there was a time for scientists to step into our power, it is now. Join us as we launch Science Rising: blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

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It's hurricane season and @noaa.gov predicts 8-14 named storms, with 3-6 likely to become hurricanes and the potential for 1-3 major hurricanes. Senior Climate Resilience Policy Analyst Shana Udvardy asks whether FEMA is ready, given administration’s relentless attacks on the agency. #ClimateChange

"As summers grow hotter and energy costs continue to rise, the question of what people can afford (often referred to as energy affordability) is becoming increasingly connected to how they experience heat—and, in some cases, whether they can stay safe through it."

Tomorrow, @noaa.gov releases its 2026 Atlantic hurricane season outlook, which officially covers June 1 to November 30.

New job posting to join our team for an early career scientist(s) interested in the intersection of wildfire, electricity, insurance and resilience policy. If this sounds like you, please apply! If not, please share with your contacts. careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/electri...

Hot, sweaty, exciting - and increasingly deadly. Climate change will be an unwelcome but very present player in the upcoming FIFA World Cup in North America - especially in the fan zones. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

or you could instead read the superior piece on the same subject that came out two months ago from @dylanbaddour.bsky.social

in case you're wondering about how to write a story about the oil industry destroying a town's water supply, both by using all the water and by causing fossil-fueled drought, WITHOUT mentioning oil or climate change, @lmcgaughy.bsky.social at @nytimes.com has a master class

It's May, the start of what @ucs.org calls Danger Season, a 6-month period when extreme heat, drought, wildfire weather, and flooding storms hit hard and are made fiercer due to a heating climate. #DangerSeason

If his job was to represent the rest of South Carolina, he would be Senator Clyburn.

Chris Hayes: “They want a new Jim Crow. They’re very explicit about it. They’re hard at work trying to make it happen, and now they have a blessing from the Supreme Court.”

“As of April, the fuel load on the landscape looks like what one would expect for May and June” www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Members of the US Congress have signaled that they will again reject the Trump administration’s proposal to slash science spending. But the bill they advanced today still calls for substantial cuts to budgets at agencies such as the NSF. go.nature.com/48AkE33

The scale of the terminations exceeds anything that happened during the first Trump administration.

Last week's Friday afternoon massacre of the NSB was among the highest profile terminations by the Trump administration, but it was far from the first. Reporting from @alexwitze.bsky.social, @maxkozlov.bsky.social, Rich Monastersky & me on the unprecedented toll to science advisory committees:

Are you feeling demoralized by the emotional weight of the climate crisis, government inaction or disparagement of science, and other national and global upheaval and injustice? You’re invited to join us for “From Moral Injury to Moral Alignment”, an interactive online group meeting...

Read a new blog from UCS expert Dr. Delta Merner to learn about an important scientific field. Attribution research investigates changes in weather, asking whether climate change has made an event more likely/severe. It also explores how emissions from specific sectors have altered climate events.

My story on the NSB terminations:

In her latest blog post, UCS’s president and CEO addresses this latest interference with independent science.

“This unseemly political maneuver must be seen for what it is: An attempt to silence independent scientists, shut down evidence-based decision making, and keep the public in the dark,” writes Dr. Gretchen Goldman.

This weekend news broke that President Trump has fired members of the National Science Board (NSB), which oversees the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). This independent governing body has advised U.S. presidents and Congress on scientific policies for more than 75 years.

We could just ... not let them do this.

UCS’s Rachel Cleetus joined @eesionline.org’s podcast, The Climate Conversation, to discuss the risks posed by the upcoming summer months of Danger Season and what lawmakers must do to protect us as climate change intensifies. “We shouldn’t wait for a disaster to strike to act." #EarthDay:

Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day. climateintegrity.org/news/view/br...

US elites decided, like a school of fish, that climate concern is old, boring, "woke," square, not hip & popular any more. As usual, it was based almost entirely on internal elite dynamics. It had nothing to do with the actual public, which is more concerned than ever.

The AI boom is fueling a literal and metaphorical power grab by tech billionaires—and forcing a reckoning.

Talking weather and climate with with Daniel Swain, @ucanr.edu climate scientist: A conversation regarding the record-smashing warm month of March for the western U.S. and what it means for the region going forward.

Scientists are hitting the campaign trail in record numbers, @nature.com reports. eos.org/research-and...

Today Rep. Hageman introduced a bill seeking to grant sweeping immunity to the fossil fuel industry against legal and financial accountability for climate change damages. This disastrous bill "would twist the knife of the climate crisis that is already directly harming people across the country."

Take action and tell your members of Congress to hold #FossilFuel giants accountable:

Big Oil companies are going all-out to avoid taking responsibility for the harm caused to communities and for driving the climate crisis. They are using an age-old strategy: delay, distort, and deny. But we won’t let them off the hook.

Tax breaks for data centers in North Carolina keep as much as $57 million each year out of state and local government coffers, state figures show, an amount that could balloon to billions of dollars if all the proposed projects are built. From our colleagues at @insideclimatenews.org:

Big Oil's lies have stolen a generation’s worth of time that we could have used to transition away from fossil fuels to cleaner, safer, less volatile energy sources. It’s time for accountability.

I hate when fantasy films I made a long time ago begin to come true in real life.

In his first 100 days, Zohran Mamdani has: -Delivered millions in restitution for workers cheated by gig companies -Cracked down on predatory landlords -Launched the first stage of a universal childcare program -Fixed thousands of potholes in NYC streets This is what leadership looks like.

Former NASA climate scientist, now Senior Scientist at Project Drawdown, Dr. Kate Marvel, has a fantastic piece in the New York Times today. This is a must-read if you care about science, the planet, and the future. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

" In the first three months of this year, oil CEOs sold $1.4 billion worth of their own stock—the fastest pace of selling in 15 years. At a dozen companies, the selling broke all-time records" heated.world/p/chevrons-c...

Happy to contribute to this article about the EPA’s climate meeting and the administrator’s understanding of science: insideclimatenews.org/news/0804202...

"Data centers are also exempted from paying state sales taxes on the cost of electricity, which is notable given the enormous energy demand of the facilities." All for between 2500 and 5000 jobs in a state with 31.7 million people.

This doesn’t seem hyperbolic now

“This is a surrender to wealthy special interests and an affront to the public good. Utah’s new law prioritizes profits for the biggest polluters over communities already suffering from climate impacts and constituents should be outraged.” - UCS' Dr. Delta Merner.

Not heated rivalry 💀

A midweek storm brought light rain to Sacramento and a modest burst of snow to the Sierra, but not enough to undo a historically hot March.

Step 1 to selling off public assets: