"Americans cannot trust the federal government’s health advice" www.statnews.com/2025/09/23/t...

interesting - More extreme Indian monsoon rainfall in El Niño summers www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Trump directives have undermined a 75-year history of independence and threaten the agency’s vaunted track record for excellence. https://scim.ag/3VryMEP

New online! Models translate lake mud into useful climate variables

Sorry, but disagree with @hausfath.bsky.social here. You open Pandora's box, you ain't closing it again. We've already seen with Paris that well intentioned international agreements do not translate into physical reality and SRM governance is a much harder problem. Zero is the only safe level. /1

So this is really, really not good. “Pentagon officials sat down with a group of European diplomats in late August and delivered a stern message: The U.S. planned to cut off some security assistance to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, all NATO members bordering Russia.”

Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

ECS <2 is absurd in the year of our lord 2025. The data used in Sherwood et al is now almost a decade old (not to mention Lewis and Curry 2014). Even ignoring pattern effects, we’re now already at ~1.5C with less than 2xCO2 and an even larger energy imbalance. No way Effective ECS is <2.

A new report from the National Academies finds that excessive regulations and time-consuming administrative tasks are burdening the U.S. scientific enterprise. Learn more in an editorial from @ScienceMagazine: buff.ly/xNcOzje

Since the deadline update last week there's not been any change to the GRFP website. And even if it's opened tomorrow, students will have a bit over a month instead of the usual 90 days.

Betteridge's law at work "Do Climate Models Support Claims of Volcanic Global Catastrophes?" agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Our paper is out today in @aguadvances.bsky.social 🥳! My coauthors and I use a simulation spanning the Last Interglacial (~130,000 - ~115,000 years ago) to show how changes in Earth's orbit impact atmospheric river behavior and the ensuing impacts on the Greenland ice sheet. 🧪🥼⚒️❄️ 🧵

📣 Postdoc opportunity alert! Join our dynamic community of Earth, environmental, and climate scientists as LDEO postdoctoral fellow. Principal criteria: scientific excellence + clear plan to investigate problems at forefront of Earth science. ➡️ Apply by Nov 7: lamont.columbia.edu/about/postdo...

With Rice University, a new project called the SCI-SWIM will help our Community Earth System Model trace where water comes from by focusing on stable water isotopes that give clues to the origins of water, from ice sheets to the ocean and everything in between. news.ucar.edu/133039/new-m...

Wrote a long story for @quantamagazine.bsky.social about our best understanding of climate change over the entire half-billion-year-plus age of animals www.quantamagazine.org/climate-extr...

The Case for a National Disaster Research Strategy issues.org/national-dis...

Hot Drought of Summer 2023 in Southwestern North America agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

The National Academies' response to the EPA's proposed removal of the endangerment finding is out today. It does not mince words about the effect of GHGs on the climate. Kudos to the authors. Key paragraph below; you can read the whole thing here: nas.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?...

New paper out today in GRL: Drying of the Panama Canal in a Warming Climate (shorturl.at/TJ3aj) Main finding: Low water levels in Gatun Lake (main reservoir for Panama Canal) become more frequent and severe in a warming climate, particularly under higher emissions pathways

Strengthened Pacific zonal SST gradients can arise from a number of asymmetric and/or spatially varying features - ocean heat flux, radiative forcing, surface radiative feedback, surface-air relative humidity contrast. or a more zonally asymmetric wind speed journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs

New Paper Alert! "Changing Climate, Changing Fire: Understanding Ecosystem-Specific Fire–Climate Dynamics in Arizona and New Mexico" - Read the latest CLIMAS blog to learn more about this recent publication:

Changing Climate, Changing Fire: Understanding Ecosystem-Specific Fire–Climate Dynamics in Arizona and New Mexico journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

In the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, we are hiring an Assistant Professor in Atmosphere and/or Ocean Physics. No deadline stated, but review will begin soon, so please do not delay. apply.interfolio.com/173819

We're hiring! We have an open search for an Assistant Professor in physics of the ocean and/or atmosphere in Columbia's Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Please circulate this information to good candidates, and apply yourself if you are one! Ad & link to apply: apply.interfolio.com/173819

Adverse Climate: Addressing Inclusion and Diversity Issues in the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment and beyond https://doi.org/10.31223/X59X6S

🚨Job Alert 🚨 The Department of #Geology at the University of Otago in #NewZealand invites applications for a faculty position (Lecturer – equivalent to Assistant Professor in North American academic systems) in Earth sciences or adjacent field. ⚒️🧪 #Geosciences otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

Estimating the Pattern Effect Using Regularized Linear Regression journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Thrilled to share my first thesis article in GRL! We reconstructed 131 years of Eastern Amazon wet-season rainfall using C. odorata tree-ring oxygen isotopes. This work offers a paleoclimatic perspective that is crucial for understanding the Amazon’s hydrological cycle. dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Our paper "Sensitivity to Data Choice for Index‐Based Flood Insurance" is now published in Earth’s Future! We show that the data chosen to trigger index‑based flood insurance payouts can change everything. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ClimateResilience #FloodInsurance

New paper led by Alex Saunders (University of Arizona) shows index insurance outcomes can be sensitive to choice of metric and dataset - important insights for those using index insurance as a means to reduce vulnerability agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Who is keeping a list of Universities that have fired faculty? You know, to assure people know what they are getting into if they go there.

Clemson students called on their professors to be fired for political speech they didn't like. The legislature threatened to defund the university if it didn't comply. The professors were fired. Chairman Mao approves. www.thestate.com/news/politic...

Estimating the Pattern Effect Using Regularized Linear Regression journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Our new paper, “Adverse Climate,” reveals how systemic barriers limit Global South, POC, & women’s voices in #IPCC AR6. As a Global South woman of color & AR7 CLA, I’m proud to lead this call for #ClimateEquity. Read it: doi.org/10.31223/X59... FAQs in comment 👇🏽 #DEIinScience #ClimateJustice

Congratulations to Zilu Meng and coauthors - this work definitely advances last millennium data assimilation - looking forward to digger deeper into this journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

I reported years ago on professors who received death threats thanks to Charlie Kirk's Watchlist. They feared for their families' safety. www.npr.org/sections/ed/...

🚨🚨🚨 In the worst tradition of the McCarthy-era anti-communist House Un-American Activities Committee, the GOP House Oversight Committee has just launch a massive, grotesque, ad hominem, partisan assault on the US National Academy of Sciences. oversight.house.gov/wp-content/u...

Duffy says today's announcement is consistent with "the president's vision and mission of continuing science to support human exploration beyond Earth." Fact check: this administration has proposed canceling Mars sample return.

Excited to join the University of Washington's Program on Climate Change for a few days at their annual Summer Institute at beautiful Friday Harbor! pcc.uw.edu/events/pcc-s...

A fire raging through the Sierra National Forest has burned through part of a grove of giant sequoias. @lilaseidman.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/... @latimes.com

📆Mark your calendars for this #webinar with two invited speakers, James Rae & Jessica Tierney, on Wednesday, 10 September 2025. They will explore how past natural variations in climate and atmospheric #greenhouse #gases can help estimate Earth’s #climate #sensitivity. 👉Register here: egu.eu/7UKU6T

We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

How Pacific SSTs changes under future warming an important determinant of how much Central America dries in the future agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

"The things that you took for granted, there was bipartisan support to keep certain things in the U.S. running as they have been more or less for the past 70 years because the system worked. That’s not a safe assumption anymore."

Our op-ed in the Santa Fe New Mexican today highlights the potential losses from closure of the nine US Forest Service Regional Offices, namely local leadership knowledge and capacity, experienced people, and priceless documentary records: www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_v...