Republicans deploy little-known law to open Minnesota wilderness to mining #Climate

“They (OMB under Vought's leadership_ absolutely impounded. He just lied to America.” Sen. @merkley.senate.gov (D-OR)

This is—and I cannot overstate this—A HORRIBLE IDEA Anyone who’s ever been there can tell you the Boundary Waters is a *national treasure* It is a rare, pristine, paradise of wilderness and mining will 💯 pollute and ruin that 😡

The Boundary Waters ...for a chilean mining corporation earthjustice.org/press/2026/s...

UCS just released a very nice and concise guide for how to stay safe in the public eye -- for scholars and researchers, but also for anyone else concerned about safety during autocratization: www.ucs.org/sites/de...

www.ft.com/content/47c7... As Trump scares off US scientists, China is racing ahead

Calling All GIS Educators: "The Guide" Is Here! www.esri.com/about/newsro... #gischat #geogchat #geogsky ⚒️ 🌎 🌍 🌏

Very cool @nationalacademies.org report release webinar relevant to the Palcolimate community on "Functions and Criteria for a New Center for Paleoenvironmental Records of Extreme Events". April 29. Sign up! www.nationalacademies.org/projects/DEL...

Also, the cuts to publication fees would likely have a significant negative impact on scientific societies, which probably not coincidentally are in some cases nexuses of opposition to the administration’s science defunding agenda.

I'm happy to report that the recent paper written by my former student Qin Qin Kong, part of his dissertation work WBGT, trying to develop a more solid theoretical understanding, is a Highly cited article in 2025. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/TUPBHE... The credit is all Qin's.

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

Dismantling NCAR would undermine US national security, properity and health. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtBW...

It's subtle but the lighting progressing from daytime to the artificially lit dark of night in 2 minutes and 23 seconds is part of the effect here. What a journey

Research by @lukeaparsons.bsky.social and colleagues @science.nature.org

Join me for a live virtual office hour on Tue Mar 10 at 3pm PT to discuss potential for a genuinely extreme, and potentially even historic, March heatwave in American Southwest (including CA) later this month. I'll talk dynamics, impacts & implications.

Are you a young academic working on climate and feel ready for a move? We are recruiting two Assistant/Associate Professors @granthamicl.bsky.social at Imperial College London @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social (1/6)

Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies. www.ft.com/content/ac77...

The DOGE attack on the humanities was even dumber and more destructive than I though. And I thought it was amazingly dumb and destructive. "A documentary about Jewish women’s slave labor during the Holocaust? The focus on gender risked 'contributing to D.E.I. by amplifying marginalized voices.'"

Meanwhile, Russia is helping Iran target US forces. Madness. It's honestly hard to comprehend the cascading bad decisions being made because of a crisis the USG created. thehill.com/policy/energ...

A year long investigation into the Hyperloop found … “The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing.” washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors. My report:

#BlackHistoryMonth Spotlight: Greg Jenkins is an AMS fellow and past recipient of the Charles E. Anderson Award. From mentoring the next generation of diverse scientists to advancing climate science on a global scale, his work continues to inspire. More about his journey: https://bit.ly/4kNQC0q

The US Justice Department withheld testimony that Donald Trump sexually abused a girl when she was 13 or 14 - according to a source who viewed unredacted Epstein files. This is the worst scandal in US history and should be the biggest news story on the planet right now. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

If you have personal testimonials about how @ncar-ucar.bsky.social has benefited your career, submit your story to @ametsoc.org via this web form. #SaveNCAR docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It is shocking how quickly one of the biggest benefits of U.S. higher education, the ability to recruit the best students from around the world, is eroding.

This is an interesting story @nytimes.com It was even more interesting when I broke it a week and a day ago in The Intercept which you did not cite or mention.

This kind of vagueness is the enemy of education. Am I supposed to avoid discussing climate change with my students in “Covering the Environment“ because it might be verboten? Is that the point? I’m really too old to be intimidated by crap like this. www.statesman.com/news/educati...

Here’s a shocking fact: they were lied to. MAHA Moms Turn Against Trump: ‘Women Feel Like They Were Lied To’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...

At a shrimp farm in Indiana, rising shipping costs are the biggest barrier to business - Marketplace apple.news/AoMhpcwJrRsa...

Tenure Track Assistant Professor and Curator of #Mollusca at the Natural History Museum Denmark, University of Copenhagen: employment.ku.dk/tenure-track...

BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days. Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work. Details on thehandbasket.co later today!

New paper out in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology: We used Cenozoic-spanning marine sediments to determine whether archived grain-size sorted sediments can be resurrected for biomarker analysis. Great to see my first piece of PhD work published, available #openaccess: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Great opportunity for grad students and postdocs interested in sea level science — WHOI Summer School, May 17-30

The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u... With @jennypickerill.bsky.social @peterhopkins.bsky.social Beth Greenhough & Jamie Woodward

Super excited to have this paper out!

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really good discussion on the anti science repeal of the endangerment finding & how this may lead to higher energy prices & more air pollution for us all

The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center was created to protect us against extreme weather and climate change. Now it's being transferred to an unknown "third party": www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/c... Tell Congress and the NSF to stop the transfer and #SaveNCAR wclivestream.com/act youtu.be/pT8dCoZgH_M

Last December, weather and climate scientists sat down with us to tell us why they loved the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and why it benefits us all. Last night, the NSF began dismantling it. Listen to what they have to say, and why it's urgent that we #SaveNCAR wclivestream.com/act

Excited to have this paper out showing a strong coupling between Central American tree-ring oxygen isotopes and ocean–atmosphere dynamics (interbasin SST gradients, ITCZ, CLLJ... ). Many thanks to all co-authors! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...

The American Academy of Actuaries warns that dismantling NCAR would degrade the catastrophe models insurers depend on to price climate risk—driving up premiums and threatening coverage availability nationwide. "Uncertainty carries a positive cost." www.riskmarketnews.com/trumps-clima...

. @robbieandrew.bsky.social has one with the SSPs at the Global Carbon Project robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/

“Epstein was at the center of all of this, which is how the elites operate… They're all hypocrites.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social asks Financial Times editor and columnist @edwardluce.bsky.social how many other governments were involved with Jeffrey Epstein. Watch: zeteo.com/p/epstein-fi...

Very big win here. A federal judge says it's just fine for funds and pension plans to boycott fossil fuels www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/c...

BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. (1/2 🧵)

good piece digging into the DOE's phony climate report, which is "starkly at odds with the vast majority of scientific evidence," explicitly dishonest, and clearly designed to justify otherwise-unjustifiable political goals: www.politico.com/interactives...

As Bannon’s plans make clear, Senator Dems need to prohibit ICE from suppressing the vote by placing ICE agents at polling places. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...