It can take science orgs a bit of time after the end of the year to stitch together all the observations of global surface temperature into an annual picture. All 5 of the major datasets are now available, so we’ve put together the latest annual update. #ClimateFacts #ScienceMatters [1/8]

Even actuaries are concerned about insurance markets, and corrupt fossil fuel efforts to impede climate risk research. Consumers will pay.

when big tech companies say that AI will save the planet, what kinds of AI are they actually talking about — and what's their proof? i took a look at some great new research from @ketanjoshi.co and talked to other experts about how a lot of this talk is probably bullshit:

OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone.... Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!! ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>

American climate science is losing federal support right when we need it most. Project Drawdown is stepping up: launching the Climate Science Serving America Fellowship for early/mid-career PhD scientists to do good science that does good. 🗓️ Apply by April 17 👉 https://bit.ly/4kx2J1Q

Data from MethaneSAT, a satellite that measures and tracks methane emissions, suggests that methane emissions from oil and gas production are roughly 50% higher than company estimates.

“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

The scientific understanding of human-driven climate change is much stronger today than it was in 2009 when the EPA first issued the endangerment finding. There is no scientific basis for the Trump administration's decision to repeal it

More disturbing news today about the removal of scientific evidence from decision-making processes in our federal government. Censoring educational materials about the climate crisis will not make it go away - it will just make our public institutions less equipped to deal with it.

If you're a judge or work in law and still want to get up to speed on climate science and its legal implications, check out the excellent Climate Judiciary Project cjp.eli.org

I will eventually shut up about this but Bad Bunny’s use of the power lines is an outstanding example of how to communicate about climate and energy issues. Not about who is the smartest nerd in the room and spewing numbers but about people’s actual lives. Genius.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Commenting on energy injustice is now the floor for any halftime act.

Winter Olympics start tonight! I wrote about Jacquie Pierri, a women's hockey player who is also a sustainable energy engineer and vocal climate advocate when she's not winning championships around the world. Such a badass. You need to hear her story: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/jacquie-pi...

Riffing off Brendan's method of juxtaposition in this awesome report, I'd like to offer another comparison: Food assistance cuts versus new funding for DHS in the "Big Beautiful Bill" Republicans cut food assistance by $187 billion while providing $191 billion in funding for DHS

This needs to be at the top of every story about the ICE body-cam thing. They already have body cameras.

the additional money, split between four years (~$18.75 billion/year) is still in excess of annual military spending by most countries in the world

"ICE, CBP, and Border Patrol have proven themselves incapable of obeying the law, let alone enforcing it for others; unable to self-soothe, let alone keep the peace. ICE and its ilk are ... a problem with only one solution. They are malignant, they are worthless, and they should not exist."

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

WIRED has updated this guide in light of the protests happening in Minneapolis, NYC, and beyond.

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