Important updates from @agu.org for those attending #AGU25 in New Orleans as the city is invaded by federal paramilitaries in operation “Catahoula Crunch”

Come join the conversation on social and behavioral sciences, climate literacy, and workforce development at #AGU25!

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

This is such a great visualization of the carbon cycle and of how humanity has completely altered it within a geological instant, by @rarohde.bsky.social:

LA wildfire survivors want to rebuild all-electric homes for safer, healthier living — but a utility is using customer funds to incentivize gas appliances instead. "This jeopardizes public health, safety, and our climate goals."

There is near-zero public policy discussion about "why AI?" and "for who"? In the US, it's "how fast can we build warehouses and gas plants?" Read this piece.

While the administration has said it is cutting “woke programs” that “poison the minds of Americans", it actually funded fewer grants in every area of science and medicine. “They brought everything to a stop,” said Sarah Kobrin, a branch chief at the N.I.H.’s National Cancer Institute

It’s not too late to tap federal tax credits to make clean and energy-efficient home improvements! Let @alisontakemura.bsky.social be your guide.

⚠️ When “technology will save us” becomes a climate risk! A new paper from great colleagues takes a careful look at techno-optimism — the belief that technology will largely solve climate change — and what it means for real-world climate action. (1/4)👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?" My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.) The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope? Because Greta is right ..

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

“The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion: The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.” Via @amywestervelt.bsky.social in @thenation.com

Now that #Melissa is behind us as a tropical system, we need to have an honest conversation about how the federal weather enterprise is still running because of volunteers & unpaid employees, and how this "shutdown" is not really a shutdown. https://tinyurl.com/2wk36686

"The NOAA aircraft left the storm early after experiencing severe turbulence in the southwestern eyewall." These men and women are not being paid due to the US government shutdown. Not to mention that according to AOML's director emeritus Robert Atlas, they are down 40-50% staff. #Melissa

All of the pilfering, vandalism, and outright death caused by DOGE cuts, and all of the thefts from the future by illegally stopping research grants, didn't save a penny, Trump spent the money and more on corruption and incompetent ICE goons.

Big news out of @climatecentral.org today! We've brought back NOAA's billion dollar disaster dataset! Check out our interactive website and bookmark it because there's more to come! www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

The US East Coast - one of the places that ice lost from Greenland ends up. Counterintuitively, places far from where land ice is lost are most impacted by the resulting sea level rise. The drumbeat remains - mitigation + adaptation.

I've lost count of how many incredible shows I've been to at these venues - all thanks to the staff! IMP, do the right thing! @930club.bsky.social @theatlantisdc.bsky.social @theanthemdc.bsky.social

As Trump champions fossil fuels, the world is betting on renewable energy. Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two new reports. grist.org/internationa... #Renewables #Energy #Climate #Solar #Wind #Batteries

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Climate(.)gov wasn't built in a day. It wasn't even built in a year. It is a big, complicated site that we don't just want to rebuild but also improve with Climate.us. Realistically, this is going to take some time. However, we want to take a moment to remind people what it is that we... (1/3)

Neil Jacobs, who first joined @noaa.gov during Trump’s first presidency, made waves for his ties to an incident in which the president shared a hurricane map altered with a marker. The meteorologist and atmospheric scientist is now the top official at the agency. 🧪 eos.org/research-and...

The Senate has confirmed Trump's pick to run NOAA. Neil Jacobs will lead an agency that's lost ~2,000 staff in a year and could lose most of its research division. I did a deep dive on why Jacobs wanted this job for @bloomberg.com. Here's what I learned (thread) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Maryland communities are fighting to put Big Oil companies on trial to make them pay for the harm their climate deception has caused. The Maryland Supreme Court will now decide if their cases can move forward. Baltimore, Annapolis, and Anne Arundel County deserve their day in court. 👇

Greta--always a hero, and always eager to get the focus where it belongs www.teenvogue.com/story/greta-...

Just seen the latest work from the Doughnut Economic Lab highlighting the huge inequalities between the richest and poorest nations and the accelerating planetary metacrisis we are in. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks to @bberwyn.bsky.social for letting me vent about my experience with censorship of federal climate and climate justice information and the many places it's reappearing. If you like the work featured in the article, support @climate.us!

To all the fed employees potentially getting furloughed tonight, this sucks and I’m sorry even though I know a lot of you want the fight, so a tepid hell-yeah as well

This moment where everything is being broken is a moment about what we build to replace it, too.

Reminder than if the government shuts down, "emergency employees," such as NWS meteorologists, are exempt from furloughs and expected to report to work unpaid. However, the White House is threatening RIFs across agencies and NOAA's shutdown plan has not yet been posted to the OPM website.

In the event of a shutdown, the Office of Management and Budget is recommending reductions in force (layoffs) for “all employees” in all “programs, projects, or activities” that are “not consistent with the President’s priorities.” What does that mean for US Earth and climate science?

A leading Democrat in the Senate just released an important report documenting how NASA has been working to implement the president's proposed budget, not Congressionally approved funds, in slashing missions. Read more ⬇️

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

📢 Submissions are now open for the U.S. Climate Collection, a joint @theAGU + @ametsoc initiative. This special collection will publish U.S.-focused climate assessment science that’s free to read, ensuring rigorous, accessible science informs decisions for years to come. 🔗 buff.ly/1tHUSLC

"I will not give them what they want. I will not just leave. I’m going to make it as difficult as possible for these fuckheads.” WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as DOGE tore through their offices.

One might think the only Jewish head of state in North America - and also the most popular Jewish head of state in the world - recognizing a Palestinian embassador and calling on Israel to end its genocide might you know, be news

Fossil-fueled warming once again killed tens of thousands in Europe this summer. Scientists the rising heat and death tolls show the limits of adaptation.

this is a wild take coming from a college president that arrested and expelled peaceful protestors of genocide. i guess barnard only welcomes “difficult speakers” if they’re fascists www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Today the United Nations commission that I lead is publishing its legal analysis of Israel’s conduct in the Gaza Strip,” Navi Pillay writes in a guest essay. “Our conclusion is stark: Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.”

Sun Sep 21, kick of #ClimateWeekNYC #ColumbiaClimateWeek with 5th BIPOC Climate Justice Summit: Power Shift hosted by HBCU Green Fund, Donors of Color Network, ACE Observatory, Columbia Climate School Environmental & Climate Justice Project, Barnard College: www.climate.columbia.edu/events/bipoc...

Exciting news update! We’ve begun the process of cloning and migrating the NCA5 website to a new home & hope to make it public-facing in the next few weeks. Your continued support sharing our campaign and donating will allow us to invest in the tools needed to secure these resources long term.

Federal incentives for energy efficient home upgrades are expiring in just a few months. @rewiringamerica.bsky.social wants to make sure everyone can tap in before it’s too late.

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It has always been about "putting women in their place" - out of the workforce, out of education, back into homes and under the control of men. A woman's right to choose starts with her own body and continues into her own finances, careers, education. Eroding one opens the door to steal others.

BAM! From my colleague @joshettinger.bsky.social: I hope our research encourages policy officials to be braver and pursue more ambitious climate policies. They have more public support than they may realise.”

Great article in the NYTimes about our comment to the DOE about their climate report. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/c...

The EPA fired five agency employees who signed a June declaration decrying moves that contradict science and undermine public health, alongside four more served removal notices

“This is information that the taxpayers have already paid for,” said @relindsey.bsky.social. “This administration is trying to hide it and take it away from us. It’s an abuse of government. It’s a waste of resources. People should be indignant.” Meet @climate.us: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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