Wait so the Dems are going to get a “future vote?” timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/us-...

Have you heard about this? "As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash." h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com

Authoriatrians usually don't care about the citizens apnews.com/article/snap...

Exactly! Which makes the real climate shift way scarier. Like shown by the data from svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/

Early stages of the Kessler Syndrome

Indeed, and what's more, the entire "we want debate" charade is just that...none of these people will talk with anyone who knows what they're talking about.

Cool use of a clumped isotopologue in wood! - Isotopic evidence for elevated photorespiration during the last glacial period www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Took a while to rule out Colonel Mustard

Reminder that we still need scientists despite AI tools, mad almost-trillionaires, and other ideological wars.

The new UNEP report is out with the latest estimates of 2100 warming outcomes under current policies, NDCs, and net-zero targets. Here is how it compares to both the IPCC scenarios and other estimates (CAT and IEA, who will release their own updates soon!).

Maybe it is a lost battle after all, if after the first modeling in the 1960s, or Hansen's testimony in the 1980s, or six iterations of IPCC reports, "it's not the apocalypse" is seen as a coherent standard or a worthy point of attention. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...

My new essay on the future of life in space just appeared in Noema magazine! Kudos to Satwika Kresna for the lovely artwork.

A personal reflection on the destructive erosion of ethics, norms and respect for law at NASA: 🧪🔭 🧵

From Paul Krugman paulkrugman.substack.com/p/too-cruel-...

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

“.. You’ve got to really hate Halloween ‒ and children ‒ to pull that kind of crap.” @usatoday.com @rexhuppke.bsky.social www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

How about the winner gets 120% of previous year federal funds? www.ibtimes.co.uk/3i-atlas-ala...

For the record, I don't think it likely that global warming alone could cause extinction of the human species, unless we got to the levels of CO2 that caused the End-Permian mass extinction -- and that would require tapping into a lot of low grade fossil carbon that is currently

I think most people would trade 0.1 deg for ending world diseases in this made up zero sum world. That’s not how problem solving actually works. abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...

As if SRM wasn’t bad enough, what could go wrong with any random private company deploying their own favorite black box geoengineering method, eventually all at the same time in geo-competition?

Stupid is as stupid does: AI2ES, an NSF research institute to explore the use of artificial intelligence in the earth sciences, was terminated by OMB because it “wasted taxpayer funds to place climate change hysteria in AI models.” Alan's take: "it strikes me as completely insane."

Learned today you can put “-ai” after a google search for no AI result.

Will they ever get someone new? I’m a few minutes in and it’s the usual nonsense, but surprised that Lindzen doesn’t even know that the no-feedback climate sensitivity is over a degree, not 0.5 degrees.

This is unforgivable -- innocent, helpless families being tortured and torn apart for the entertainment of a decadent, bloodthirsty domestic audience. I feel sick being part of it.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

It’s great to see hopeful progress in Israel-Palestine and hostage releases. And no, Twitter, that does not make Trump a god. It’s the first week of scarce details and an uncertain future.

It’s just a clown show of traitors.

Just went to look something up. My mistake.

Hey kids, this is the new scientific method.

I give it about two months before drone strikes on American citizens is celebrated.

Updated a classic.

Koonin spending an entire WSJ column criticizing @nationalacademies.org’s report for not being a review of his DOE climate contrarian report when (1) to my knowledge, the Academies have never reviewed a gov’t report without being asked (though such an independent review, or comparable, is necessary…

The acting administrator of NASA in 2025

As we enter the second week of the Republican shutdown of the government, we shouldn't be cowed by Trump's threats to use the shutdown as an excuse to dismantle parts of the government he dislikes. He's shown that he needs no excuse to do that. He's been doing it all along, legal or not, and

Happy Monday, there’s no government and the second civil war is beginning.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

The fascism and Project 2025 game is now wide out in the open as was transparent to anyone playing attention.

A great primate has left our habitat. Jane Goodall -hero of our biosphere. A peak experience was reading from Earth in Human Hands for her and her board. She was kind, humble, great hugger, inspiring, brilliant. Let’s try to live her vision of a world where we care properly for all living creatures.

With Trump's "enemy within" language, they are about a month away from just being able to do whatever they want and skip the whole DEI/foreign invaders/whatever talking points.

Did our president just declare war on us? 🥺

Fascinating line in new Hülse & Ridgwell paper about how our gigantic pulse of CO2 into the atmosphere--after tens of thousands of years of warming--could kick off an overcorrection of organic carbon burial in the oceans and hasten the descent into an ice age www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Just wait until the termination shock in stratification after discontinuing SRM for a century (I wonder to what extent this happens in abrupt 2x/4xCO2 vs. transient runs)

“The Destruction of NASA’s Mission” Whistleblowers reveal OMB’s Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency New from Committee on Commerce, Science, Transportation Ranking Member Maria Cantwell. NOTE: This is indeed what I have seen going on inside NASA. 🧪🔭 www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

So I guess in this regime (theres an “f” word they are telling us we aren’t allowed to use) global greening is no longer mentionable? subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

This is a good intro but the popular notion that diatomics can’t be good greenhouse gases applies to a molecule in isolation, not at high enough pressures where collisions can absorb radiation and excite into higher rotation states. H2 is the most important greenhouse gas in the whole Universe.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

On The Climate Brink, Kevin Trenberth writes about the undeniable science of extreme weather

This is the fishiest shit I've ever seen. We're supposed to believe the shooter wrote "Anti-ICE" in pen on a bullet and then shot detainees but not ICE officers?