An important new story on the quiet gutting of one of NASA's most important laboratory campuses, during the federal shutdown. Via @ellanilsen.bsky.social & @jackiewattles.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...

Here's the least surprising but still important climate headline of the day. Finally, the UN makes it official about the 1.5-degree target: www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/c...

Despite not sending a high-level delegation to the COP30 Climate Summit in Brazil, the presence of the US will still be felt by negotiators there. The US will be the elephant in the room, and could seek to disrupt the talks from afar, depending on how they're trending... www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/c...

We have not done any polling on the NJ Gov, Virginia Gov or NYC mayoral races. Our poll out today is national.

Innovative and visually striking story from @washingtonpost.com on trends toward increasing heavy downpours around the world. Worth a read. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...

Melissa was one of the strongest storms on record. NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters flew into it without pay. Crews are asked “To be fully mentally present, especially in this environment, and it’s hard to do that when you know you can’t potentially make ends meet.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/w...

The National Hurricane Center's forecasts for Hurricane Melissa have been unusually accurate so far, despite NOAA cuts in personnel and budget. Here are some stats: www.cnn.com/weather/live...

I spent much of Tuesday talking to some of the top hurricane experts in the country about how climate change helped turn Hurricane Melissa into such a beast of a storm. Here's what they told me: www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/c...

A display of pure power from Hurricane Melissa today. Remarkable satellite imagery.

The billion-dollar disasters database is back, except not at NOAA anymore. It shows 2025 has had the most expensive first six months to any year on record since 1980, largely due to the LA wildfires. www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/c...

NEW: A significant gap in weather balloon coverage in western Alaska, caused by Trump admin cuts to NOAA/NWS, may have hurt the forecast accuracy for the deadly storm there over the weekend. www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...

The North Pacific "blob" of unusually warm waters is the blob to end all blobs, and will have some sort of an influence on the upcoming US winter weather. So too will La Niña, which NOAA officially declared today. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/w...

La Niña is officially back per NOAA, and it is likely to persist through the winter. BUT it has competition for influencing the upcoming winter across the U.S.: The giant N. Pacific “Blob” of bathtub-like warm water. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/w...

About that EF5 tornado drought... it, um, well, ended. www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/w...

A leading Democrat in the Senate just released an important report documenting how NASA has been working to implement the president's proposed budget, not Congressionally approved funds, in slashing missions. Read more ⬇️

And with the 15z advisories -- #Hurricane #Imdelda & #Humberto are just 479 miles apart. This might be the closest two simultaneous hurricanes have ever been in the Atlantic basin in the satellite era (since ~1975). Close enough for their outer sfc circulations to interact as well.

"Beautiful clean coal" really feeling the love from the Trump admin this wk, w/ 13.1 million acres of public lands opened to mining and $625 million to keep power plants open. It'll be interesting to see if these measures are enough to make coal competitive. www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/c...

With two tropical cyclones currently spinning off the Southeast Coast, it's worth asking, what happens if a hurricane hits the US during a gov't shutdown? Details here about how NOAA and FEMA may fare... www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/w...

China commits to new emissions reduction goals, but they're far short of where other countries & activists had hoped. In making the announcement, President Xi Jinping seemingly dinged the US' focus on fossil fuels... www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/c...

Think of it as detectives gathering evidence at a crime scene.

Innovative new "plume" maps from @climatetrace.org show you how to identify and track emissions from the polluters you're exposed to. www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/c...

Startling new study on water resources finds that "Day Zero" droughts can be anticipated within this decade in certain hotspots, incl. North America. www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/c... Via @laurapaddison.bsky.social

In 2021, the blob -- aka marine heat wave in the Pacific -- killed over a billion sea creatures. www.scientificamerican.com/article/paci....

The Pacific "blob" is back, except this time it stretches across the entire North Pacific Ocean Basin. This is altering weather patterns, led to Japan's hottest summer on record, and could affect your winter weather too. Also hit hard is marine life. www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/c...

It's not your imagination: Wildfire smoke in the U.S. has dramatically worsened since 2019. According to a new study, it's already killing 41,000 people a year - and it's poised to get much worse. new from me @johnmuyskens.bsky.social and @sadbumblebee.buzz www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

NEW: NASA has banned scientists from China with US visas from working at the space agency, cutting access to facilities, supercomputers, conference calls etc. W/ @jackiewattles.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/s...

NEW: Trump administration dissolves group that authored controversial report sowing doubt in the severity of climate change. BUT the report the working group produced is not being withdrawn. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/c...

Groundbreaking climate study ties individual fossil fuel companies to extreme heat events, a potential game-changer for climate lawsuits. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/c...

The Trump administration, from the CDC to EPA to NOAA, is going to war with established climate science. I, along w/@blkahn.bsky.social @eroston.bsky.social, try to capture the big picture of what's already happened & what's at stake. Gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

EPA moves to suspend >100 employees w/out pay who signed a letter criticizing the agency's actions under current leadership for "conduct unbecoming of a federal employee." www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/c...

Are you in DC on Saturday? Stop by the Library of Congress National Book Festival and say hi! www.loc.gov/events/2025-...

This is AI2ES, my AI institute. No way around it other than to say this is really awful. We are doing so many amazing things! We want to keep doing amazing things but without this level of funding, we will not be able to do so.

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

More than 85 climate scientists filed >400 pages of public comments today pushing back against the findings of the DOE’s Climate Working Group Report. A 🧵

This is a really nice piece by Scientific American's Andrea Thompson on the progress we've made improving hurricane forecasting. It's hard to understand why something that's had bipartisan support for decades, and is demonstratively cost-effective, is about to be thrown under the bus.

I spoke with some of the top experts on how climate change is affecting Atlantic hurricanes, specifically when it comes to rapid intensification. It was... unsettling. Here's the story that resulted: www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/c...

New nonprofit climate group forms, aims to resurrect climate.gov, National Climate Assessment and other lost data www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...

Important story from @voosen.me on FY'25 cuts to NOAA's climate, weather research programs that bring spending below what Congress authorized. Hints at the bigger research cuts to come in FY'26. www.science.org/content/arti...

SCOOP: Trump administration slashes scope of next-generation US weather satellites, eliminating air quality and ocean observing sensors. (1/3)

Now that WILDER WEATHER is in the wild, I have a tiny favor to ask. If you've read it, could you give it a review? Quick tips in this article!

NEW: This summer has featured extreme heat in some of the typically coldest parts of the world. In other words, in a warming world there's no such thing as a "Coolcation" anymore. (For CNN subscribers): www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/c...

🔴⚠️🔥🇪🇸🇵🇹🌡Alarming conditions for several #wildfires affecting Spain and Portugal since days.The latest meteosat-12 📸 in early August 15 shows a giant smoke plume flying over France as well as violent fires in the iberian peninsula. #climateemergency

The unexpected links between greenhouse gases, global warming and the vulnerability of satellites to powerful solar storms. www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/c...

Climate change may alter the susceptibility of critical satellite networks to solar storms in coming decades, a new study finds. www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/c...

"The destruction of the satellites — which will be abandoned and allowed to eventually burn up in a fiery descent into Earth’s atmosphere — marks the latest step by the Trump administration to scale back federal climate science." www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/c...

Remarkably, NASA is looking for partners (wealthy individuals, philanthropic orgs, companies etc.) to keep crucial climate satellite missions like the Orbiting Carbon Observatory going. Whether they make such a deal before $$ runs out remains to be seen... www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/c...

The Trump administration is planning to terminate the missions of some of the U.S.' premier climate and Earth-observing satellites, possibly starting as soon as Oct. depending on congressional budget negotiations (1/3)

NEW: Mainstream climate scientists are organizing to push back against the climate contrarian report the Trump admin published last week out of DOE. (1/3)

Energy Secretary Chris Wright says Trump admin is altering previous National Climate Assessments. These were produced by hundreds of climate scientists and mandated by Congress. (1/2)