Excellent video - watch! Al Gore speaks at COP30 in Brazil.

Hurricane forecasting has doubled in accuracy during the past 15 years thanks mostly to NOAA researchers at the Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory in Miami. Guess which scientific lab the new Trump budget is going to zero out entirely. And not just this lab but *all* NOAA labs.

Climate.gov is the main source of timely climate-related information for the public. It will stop publishing new information because the Trump administration laid off everyone who worked on it.

In the long run, this is actually going to be the important news of the day--co2 in the atmosphere passes another grim milestone

Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

Dr. Carla Hayden has served as Librarian of Congress with honor and distinction, bringing our prized institution to new heights.   Trump’s outrageous, politically-motivated move to fire her is despicable. The Library of Congress belongs to the American people — NOT to Trump.

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb.)

My guess is that Mark Carney will turn out to be the most important energy and climate leader in the world billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-world-...

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

I feel like we need to form a League of Relatively Normal People, and our agenda should be things like: --Canada's cool, leave them be --Lot of smart people at universities, that's a plus --We're scared of getting cancer, so let's research it --Fewer floods and wildfires would be nice

Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."

Accelerating global sea level rise (1900-2024)

It's been one week since my dear cousin Pableaux Johnson passed away suddenly. Our family is astounded and deeply moved by the hundreds and hundreds of tributes we have seen. He was a true community builder. We needed more of that in the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/d...