'Atmospheric inversion' may help predict when a humid heat wave will break - Phys.org

Back when I had a PCJr it came with a cartridge slot and a floppy drive slot. You had to insert the filing assistant floppy in to do much of anything with directories and files. Also included is my ncsa Telnet disk from college ( so I could access the internet from my early Mac).

Clearing out old things

In the 1960s, Christopher Zeeman helped popularize catastrophe theory. It was all the rage; people called on it to describe everything from bridge collapses to prison riots to regime changes. The hype soon fizzled. But the underlying concepts didn’t. www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-of-...

MIT Technology Review profiles @rondeibert.bsky.social, who understood that civil society needed digital defense long before just about anyone else and has been doing it ever since. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/24/1...

Excited to be the new home for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Our Future Oceans, led by @profmattengland.bsky.social here at UNSW Science www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

From @AGU.org: Senators are working on legislation to save NCAR, but we need extra support for these 8 states. Your Senators in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming need to hear from you.

From wildfire warnings to flood forecasts, NCAR's research impacts everyone in America. President Trump's attempt to dismantle it for political vengeance is beyond reckless. We will fight against this dangerous scheme every step of the way.

Good. American excellence in science is the result of decades of federal investment in facilities and in training scientists. NCAR does not belong to the President. It belongs to all of us.

Awesome turnout in support of @ncar-ucar.bsky.social at #AGU25. Take a look at how many people use our products!

LA wildfires public health impacts: What is the main finding? Local residents experienced a 24% excess in pulmonary illness, a 46% excess in myocardial infarction, and a 118% excess in systemic illness requiring emergency medical attention.

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...

Sen. Andy Kim is a force to be reckoned with.

What's NCAR? and 8 ways it has helped you www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

@ncar-ral.bsky.social President Dr Antonio Busalacchi is giving an emergency press briefing at #AGU25 Says he has really seen outpouring support from community today at AGU NCAR is the "jewel in the crown" of efforts to predict the Earth as a coupled system, he tells journalists

The U.S. Is on the Verge of Meteorological Malpractice www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

Short clip from my rapid-response livestream yesterday regarding potentially devastating plans to dismantle NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and how it's directly connected to the policy blueprint known as "Project 2025." #SaveNCAR

Man this is such a good read. The entire purpose of power sector CCS is to sort of hover tantalisingly on the horizon but never actually materialise. From my personal collection of planned projects (this isn't even 'projections' or scenarios - the future lines were all real projects!)

Looking for climate experts at #AGU25 right now who can comment on these administration plans to break up UCAR. DMs open.

This is a terrible development. The Administration is destroying the scientific institutions that helped make America great. It will take years to rebuild from this.

Nice paper agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

NSF - Forced reorg - POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements) - Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …) I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing. “Details matter” 🙃

Important read. There's a lot of confusion and some hype in the carbon removal space. Also, in the “ocean based solutions” space. Folks need to be careful here.

Extreme heat doesn’t just feel exhausting — it ages your body. A new study shows repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking. Climate change is literally speeding up our biological clock. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.

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

Anyone who cares about Europe's future and loathes Putin should want this plan to succeed. It's the single most important decision Europe can take for its own defence and Ukraine's survival. America is lost. www.ft.com/content/3c23...

JOURNALIST REQUEST: I'm writing a story about how organizing/joining resistance movements can build community and fight loneliness, particularly in the US. If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail. Signal boosts appreciated!

My story on the USIP raid from March (helpful context for why Trump putting his name on the building today is so egregious):

this is a fascinating paper on how Tibetan Plateau 'darkening' can cause global circulation shifts as mediated by the Eastern equatorial Pacific. I wonder if this is a real contributor to EEP trend differences between observations and models. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door”

An excellent visualization of changes to NSF and NIH funding.

I'm happy to announce a new publication led by Haochi Wu, Qin Qin Kong, et al. An interesting result. Heat stress hurts photovoltaics. Not good news. Climate change will increase high-temperature risks, degradation, and costs of rooftop photovoltaics globally: Joule www.cell.com/joule/fullte...

Everyone should read this. by @tomellison123.bsky.social.

This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology. Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).

Just published. Miocene Ocean Gyre Circulation and Gateway Transports—MioMIP1 Ocean Intercomparison - Naik - 2025 - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

I hear that University of Miami is looking for a paleoceanography / paleoclimate scientist: careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1...

This is something to be thankful for.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

👏 “When it comes to climate change, the “end of the world” and “good for you” are “the two lowest-probability outcomes”. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

While the US stayed home from #COP30, one delegation is there in full force: Big Agriculture. According to a new investigation, more than 300 Big Ag lobbyists are taking part in the climate talks. By @rachelsherrington.bsky.social and @ninalakhani.bsky.social for @theguardian.com and @desmog.com

I'm often amazed by the prescience of the DNI Global Trends analysis. I'm also amazed that many people who should read it don't. The most recent 2040 report discussed 5 plausible scenarios. I'll cut and paste them below. Here's the document itself www.dni.gov/files/images...

Every summer since 1983, workers at Crater Lake National Park have gathered data about the lake’s famous clarity. The biologist Scott Girdner has led much of this work. When he retires, a hiring freeze will leave his position unfilled indefinitely. www.quantamagazine.org/mixing-is-th...

Tagging Sarah @sfeakins.bsky.social

💡 In a new piece on the Project Drawdown Insights hub, Heather McDiarmid, Ph.D. breaks down five reasons heat pumps are awesome for your comfort, your community, and the climate! 👉 Dive into the full article: https://bit.ly/4o9lFot

Direct air capture is not currently viable strategy. Likely increases carbon pollution (more carbon energy required to than saved). See @mzjacobson.bsky.social's work: news.stanford.edu/stories/2019... & Joe Romm's review for our center (@penncssm.bsky.social): bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/web.sas.upen...

ppgm: an R package for integrating neontological, palaeontological & climate data in a phylogenetic comparative framework onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #SVP2025 @alexh-palaeo.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social @tamueccb.bsky.social

This is the reconstruction that comes with our new Nature Communications Earth & Environment paper on Caribbean biogeography. With Leny Montheil, Mélody Philippon, Franck Audemard, Lydian Boschman, Richard Wessels, Sylvie Leroy et al #UtrechtPaleogeographicModel www.nature.com/articles/s43...

“It’s not the natural state of America that we are polarized about climate change. It’s artificial, created by the billions in spending by the fossil fuel industry “ defending its $700 billion in subsidies. “An industry will undertake all kinds of wickedness to defend a $700 billion subsidy”.

Incredible piece of data journalism here from @wsj.com. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...