@desmog.com reviewed US tax records which show Bill Gates’ charity has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by Danish academic and climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

Some personal news: This week I was awarded the Geological Society of America Public Service award for all my work communicating climate science to the public. I received this beautiful award (they know their audience, geologists love rocks!)

For those interested, I’ll giving a departmental colloquium on “Nine months in the federal assault on climate science” on 10/29 at 11:30am EDT Register here:

Southern Ocean evidence for recurring West Antarctic Ice Sheet destabilization during Marine Isotope Stage 11 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌊🌊JOB ALERT!! Are you an ice sheet modeler looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding? Come join our research team at University of Wisconsin-Madison to study the physical and human dynamics of sea-level rise. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...

This is great news - Congratulations to Ángel! Also great to see not one, but TWO UW-Madison people in this year's MacArthur Class of Fellows. (Sébastien Phillipe in Nuclear Engineering being the other one).

New paper out by graduate student Andy Jones on California glaciers. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

EPA orders some scientists to stop publishing research, employees say - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

🚨🚨 If I could just summarize 1 sentence from the new National Academy of Sciences study on climate, boldface, flashing red, it would be: "the evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused GHGs is beyond scientific dispute." BEYOND SCIENTIFIC DISPUTE 🚨🚨

apparently the DOE Climate Working Group has registered this website: ClimateWorkingGroup.com. Here it is, full of information just as interesting and relevant as the report itself.

"The Environmental Defense Fund and the Union of Concerned Scientists have sued DOE over [the group's] formation, claiming the agency violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act in setting up the group." Reporting by @scottpwaldman.bsky.social subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out. Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.

Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.

This is false.

IPCC projections in the mid-1990s of global sea-level change over the next 30 years were remarkably robust - important for confidence in future projections. The largest disparities were due to underestimated dynamic mass loss of ice sheets agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

„Such censorship of scientists has been attempted by failed governments of the past such as Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and early communist China, always with disastrous consequences for their citizens.“ Watching MAGA-US sleepwalking into disaster. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Rightwing populists don’t like the results of science (e.g., #globalwarming is caused by burning fossil fuels), so they try to discredit science and scientists. Then they falsely claim there is a lack of public trust in science. They really think they can easily fool you with this nonsense. 🙄

“The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday suspended around 30 employees after those workers wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had gutted the nation’s ability to handle hurricanes, floods and other extreme weather disasters.”

A disaster for ocean and climate research is unfolding before our eyes. #NOAA 🌊 "The White House Office of Management and Budget is pulling back $239 million in funds Congress already provided. The biggest hits fall on climate and ocean research." oceanpolicy.substack.com/p/roundup-un...

NCAR strategic plan mentions climate change zero times. h/t Kevin Trenberth, who also pointed out that there is a unit in NCAR called Climate and Global Dynamics Division d3opzdukpbxlns.cloudfront.net/34fc0287-fec...

"Strategic harassment" on researchers playing out here: Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

A new two party system: the cooled vs. the cooked. Great piece by @jeffgoodell.bsky.social in the NYT on how extreme heat is impacting us.

Hurricane Erin achieved something most storms do not this weekend. "Extreme Rapid Intensification". Did climate change play a part? Science says, yes. In 12 hours winds increased by ~65 mph. Only 3 other storms have done that and Erin was the earliest & only August storm to do so. 1/

The recent DOE climate science report misrepresents the work of many researchers. Carbon Brief asked those cited to review the parts of the report where their work was used, and we collectively found 100+ misleading or false statements: interactive.carbonbr...

With all the surprises Antarctica is throwing at us, now is the time to accelerate our science, not slow down. Some of the major Antarctic nations have reduced their research by 20-30% including the US and Australia, with more to come as funding ends. 1/2 theconversation.com/antarctic-re...

Great summary of our recent paper on sea level rise during a past warm period and what it means for our future. Thanks, @climateages.bsky.social , for featuring our work.

Throughout the year, about 200 million tons of it is transported across the Atlantic – that’s the weight of 33 million African elephants! www.wfla.com/weather/afri...

🌡️🧊 The West Antarctic Ice Sheet may already be in overshoot. A new study shows it could collapse irreversibly with just 0.25 °C more ocean warming – raising global sea levels by around 4 meters. The next few years are critical. polarjournal.net/west-antarct...

If we limit warming to the Paris Climate Agreement of 1.5ºC, then we don't have to worry about dangerous levels of sea-level rise, right? Actually, no. Our research suggests that this is too warm. 🧵 1/n phys.org/news/2025-05...

1/2 Was struck by certain statements in opening session of One Ocean Science Congress here in France, e.g.: “Science MUST impact politics, especially when politics is NOT driven by policy.” “The restriction & removal of key scientific datasets is a threat to GLOBAL science.”

How do cuts to the National Weather Service impact hurricane forecasts? Watch this riveting, straightforward explainer from the great @johnmoralestv.bsky.social

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

More of this please. And remember there’s plenty of room!

There is three decades of research showing that domestic violence increases during recovery and it has largely been ignored. I always list it as one of the many reasons it’s so urgent to reform our recovery system.

“It’s a recipe for disaster.” Must read.

Briefly wandered over to The Other Place to gauge the response to the NASA budget devastation to encounter a bunch of gleeful 'we spend too much money, so this is great.' TO BE, ONCE AGAIN, PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE BUDGET REQUEST MOVES ALL THIS MONEY TO DEFENSE. IT SPENDS IT. NO MONEY IS SAVED.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

A fantastic opportunity for an open-ended senior post in sea level science in Liverpool. These do not come up very often! Closing date 19th June. @noc.ac.uk 🌊 careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/seni...

26e. Back to NSF, we are all becoming either AI geoscientists, critical mineral geoscientists, or natural hazard geoscientists now. A bunch of climate work can be done under this umbrella, but a lot less funds overall.

The destruction of the village of Blatten in Switzerland by a melting glacier, is a stark reminder of the immediate perils of global warming. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... Well done to the geologists and local authorities for evacuating the village in good time and avoiding a tragedy.

Our opening is about to close while we read applications, but here's another catastrophe R&D role with a great team at Trans Re, with Maryam Haji who runs one of the sharpest shops in reinsurance.

Climate research folks, do consider the Climate and Cryosphere Open Science Conference in Wellington, New Zealand, 9-12 Feb 2026. Southern Summer talking about climate and ice. Abstract submission closes on 31 July 2025. With a bonus @scar-antarctic.bsky.social INSTANT meeting alongside it.

Can't wait to read this one! Congratulations, Kate.

Regardless of which policy is adopted, none of us can escape the fact that climate change is profoundly impacting us all - and will continue to do so. Here is another case in point with respect to coral reefs: www.theinvadingsea.com/2025/05/22/f...

Woah, rare to see this kind of language in Nature 👀 “We show that +1.5 °C is far too high and that current climate conditions…could trigger rapid ice sheet retreat and high rates of Sea Level Rise... that would stretch the limits of adaptation” and could have “catastrophic consequences for humanity”

I just left a comment here - you should too!

Sea level rise will cause ‘catastrophic inland migration’, scientists warn

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C above the preindustrial baseline will not be enough to stop sea levels from rising by several metres over the coming centuries, according to a review of all the latest evidence.

This paper also a good example of why I called my book The Water Will Come instead of, say, The Water Might Come or The Water Will Come Unless We All Get Lucky.