💡 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...

HECK YEAH LIMNOLOGY (this is a great piece about lake science, read it)

I'm super happy to announce that the great Sarah Feakins will be taking over as Editor-in-Chief of Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. My term is ending at the end of this year. It's been a terrific adventure since I started in January 2020. eos.org/editors-vox/...

FINALLY action from Congress to save Goddard Space Flight Center: @lofgren.house.gov belatedly demands a halt to the destruction that began on September 24th

Today is the official launch of this year's @unep.org #EmissionsGap report. It's title says it all OFF TARGET that's true for progress, NDCs and implementation

60 yrs ago today (Nov 5, 1965), the 1st US government report to warn about climate change was published. "Restoring the Quality of Our Environment" included warning of C02 build-up and sea-level rise/melting ice-caps. allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/04/6... 1/n

I normally am a cheerful optimist, but I am just at a loss about what to even say to young scientists right now. Devastating overview of the cuts: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A new paper out by Nimmakanti Mahendra and a bunch of us. .Stagnation of Atmospheric Circulation Leads to Historically Prolonged Extreme Rainfall Event Over Northwestern India in August 2024. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

We're hiring! I'm recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate in climate & paleoclimate modeling of the tropical Americas. Come obsess over the tropical rain belt with me! :) Please share w/folks who may be interested. Ad here: wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

If you take the time to read the whole Gates memo (which I did), the bulk of the content was mostly solid and encouraging. Really! It was the FRAME that was off--very off, from the first line. And when your framing is off, then how you make decisions and set priorities is off. THAT'S the problem.

led by my good friend vimal mishra and with many other excellent collaborators, this Open-Access paper just came out on "Migrant Laborers in India Face Increased Heat Stress Driven by Climate Warming and ENSO Variability" agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

“Experts say they saw no major problems with NOAA’s hurricane forecasting ability… critical ahead of Melissa’s landfall in Jamaica as a violent storm that is not expected to strike the U.S. Many NOAA employees are considered essential, which means they are working during the shutdown without pay.”

For all Trump’s bluster, the courts are turning out to be a serious obstacle to his fascist ambitions. Jay Kuo explains how the judiciary keeps kneecapping him at every turn. And Jordan Gonsalves looks at MAGA’s meltdown over Bad Bunny—and what it says about their culture war collapse.

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"Such is their fear of jail, bankruptcy or reprisal, that most people I spoke to insisted on anonymity. This was in spite of the fact that many of the same people said Trump would only be restrained by powerful voices standing up to him." My Weekend FT essay. Please read it. on.ft.com/4hqblpr

New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.

I'm happy to report a new paper on how the menagerie of different heat stress metrics in use differs when calculated with ERA5 output. We find differences largely attributable to different weightings of humidity in the metric. More work to be done. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/GJQTZX...

Real-world engineering, logistical, and political constraints of SAI—a method proposed to mitigate global warming—could make it far riskier and more expensive than expected, finds a new study by Columbia's Miranda Hack, @vfmcneill.bsky.social, @steingart.bsky.social, @gwagner.com. Via @gizmodo.com.

The primary advantage of using Signal over WhatsApp is that Signal does not store metadata. Just sayin'. www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

We are Climate.us, a nonprofit successor to Climate(.)gov. Our goal is to build an enduring, independent, and scientifically rigorous platform that the world can rely on for climate communication, education, and engagement. Stay up to date: Climate.us/#updates#updates

Meanwhile... Claude.ai is throwing shade at my collaborators. One of many. One of many.

We didn't do any such thing (as I'm sure you all know). We developed new AI methods for weather and worked to understand how/why AI for weather is trustworthy. What part of that is "climate hysteria"?

"...Trump administration has promised to invest billions in AI initiatives. In response to an inquiry about why this program was cut, the Office of Management and Budget said in a statement that the program, quote, "wasted taxpayer funds to place climate change hysteria in AI models," WHAT?

nice article by @scottpwaldman.bsky.social about the DOE Climate Working Group and their associations with conservative groups that are working to overturn the Endangerment Finding. The claim that they're just "doing the science" is increasingly unsupportable. www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

University of Arizona also rejects the Trump administration's "Compact" 💪 president.arizona.edu/news/update-...

UVA is the first public, and Southern, institution to publicly turn down the administration's “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” #resist www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

📘 Climate Change on the Battlefield Join CSR for a virtual talk about CCS Director @erinsikorsky.bsky.social's new book, “Climate Change on the Battlefield,” which offers a comparative look at how global militaries are responding to #climatechange. 📅 Wed, Nov. 5 | 9:30am ET ⬇️ RSVP and learn more:

The costs of Trump’s campaign to censor climate sciences on.ft.com/4nZI1II

"M.I.T. became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump administration’s higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment." Bravo.

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

Thanks so much @costasamaras.com for participating in today’s AI & Environment panel hosted by @uvaenvironment.bsky.social it was a great event with other panelists from @uvaenvisci.bsky.social and UVA @weldoncoopercenter.bsky.social

Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science The most excellent @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and @michaelemann.bsky.social have a new book! PBS @pbsnews.org Newshour www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZq7...

This is apparently what ChatGPT hears when I talk (this is from a transcription).

Workers keep dying from heat. Data from inside their bodies shows why. - The Washington Post. apple.news/AgzyHXvVjTEW...

on.ft.com/46EDjIX Europe’s bill for extreme weather damage more than doubles this decade

on.ft.com/4pLezaD Solar shines in the rush for power in Africa’s largest petrostate

FACT CHECK: AP's director of climate news breaks down Trump's remarks at the UN on climate change apnews.com/article/clim...

Delighted the reviews are good. Congratulations @alexwinter.com, and to Mr. Reeves! deadline.com/2025/09/wait...

"Some say we can ‘solar-engineer’ ourselves out of the climate crisis. Don’t buy it" [even if it's being sold by the #NewYorkTimes] | My evergreen @theguardian.com commentary with Ray Pierrehumbert: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Proud to share our paper: Drought intensity shapes soil legacy effects on grassland plant and soil microbial communities and their responses to future drought, out now in @globalchangebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... (1/n)

A beautiful and useful piece. theconversation.com/5-forecasts-...

Failing to address climate change is very expensive.