Today would be a great day for CNAS, CSIS, Brookings, Atlantic Council, RAND, IDA, CNA, & every veterans’ advocacy group to say an attack on NATO over Greenland would be a crime under US and international law and it would shatter American military capacity for generations. They won’t say a word.

Meanwhile…

The bar for non-peaceful protest is extremely high, one I have never thought to advocate for in the U.S. in my lifetime. I believe we have crept up on that bar, as state sanctioned domestic terrorism has been unleashed in an indirect declaration of civil war by the administration.

I don’t know why anyone is worried about not giving weight to lives in pollution policy, when we’re going to win over protein.

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

So a CBS Evening News reporter actually did a pretty solid breakdown of the ICE murder video, talking to a former agent who details all the ways Ross messed up. And yet: It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already youtu.be/6ywLEESFDu0?...

Just another one of those hard to focus days....

Breaking: MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe.

It was a murder. A murderer decided he wanted to murder someone today and then did. There is no ambiguity or whataboutism; case law is clear that someone not a danger to others that is running away cannot be shot at. You do not have to be prosecutor or lawyer to recognize and understand this.

ICE is now executing people for driving away. Phase 2 is here.

Learning a bit about orbital simulations. I'm using the REBOUND package and get pretty close to the Laskar solution of Earth's eccentricity evolution for the next 1 million years (including the 8 solar system planets and Pluto), but without relativistic effects. 1/2

NCAR is a unique & valuable asset - far more than a climate model, or observations, or technology, or training ground, or gathering space. It covers weather, space weather, data, climate, paleo-climate, and everything in-between. It's building is an icon, but it's iconic status goes far beyond that.

I’d say sad but basically treason.

This is the only parody song about geophysical fluid dynamics you’ll ever need: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

The Dependence of Earth Milankovitch Cycles on Martian Mass astrobiology.com/2025/12/the-... #astrobiology #earth #Mars #climate

Indeed, I'd still like to meet a clever climate skeptic.

Order of magnitudes matter. For example this is what happens when you zap stuffing for 20:00 instead of 2:00. #happythanksgiving

When you have an interesting planet to look at in the exoplanet catalog but the catalog reversed the mass and radius information of the host star (relative to the original publication) and it’s no longer interesting…

Somewhere floating in space is Russell’s syringe, waiting one day millennia from now to jab Starman in Elon’s orbiting car.

Not even a year in and we’re on the “kill my political opponents” stage.

How to start papers:

High ocean heat lies below the ocean?

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.