The federal government is setting itself up to be on the wrong end of the biggest lawsuit in history.

NCAR represents what is possible when a nation chooses to invest in science as a public good, writes @carlonimbus.bsky.social of @ucs.org. #SaveNCAR eos.org/opinions/wha...

We knew the NSF letter about NCAR would come. I think this is an occasion that will require great coordination and strategical thinking. UCAR should respond as a block, coordinating a response across universities (especially in the South, and large public universities that use NCAR data a lot)

I would strongly encourage those who value the scientific & societal legacies of NCAR to offer feedback by March 13. I would expect, under present circumstances, perspectives from industry partners will be especially critical, though everyone's voice is of course important.

This week, the Trump Administration announced it's decision to withdraw from international organizations and treaties that support global cooperation on climate and environmental issues, a huge setback for global science. Read AGU's full statement: news.agu.org/press-releas...

The federal govt may be burning global cooperation on climate science to the ground, but we can and are pushing back where we can. We have more than 70 US scientists currently on IPCC reports, with more to be selected this month for CDR methods report. The USAA-IPCC coalition is up for this fight.

So this is how they’ve chosen to mark the one year anniversary of the Los Angeles fires.

The deadline for DOE's SULI (Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship) summer 2026 program is in TWO DAYS: science.osti.gov/wdts/suli/Ke... Are you an undergraduate interested in STEM? Apply!

The expected 2.5 ft above normal high tide on Saturday morning hasn't been seen since 1998 https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/2007014464575660329

The Storytelling We Need to Rebuild Belief in Government www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/22/t...

Please read www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

Bravo to the #AGU25 protestor out in front of the entrance to the convention center this am

NCAR’s Mesa Lab is literally a science castle dedicated to understanding our planet in an open and collaborative way, and leading the world in that effort. We cannot let this happen.

The beautiful idea of NCAR, to improve understanding of our planet through a cooperative, shared and open intellectual team effort, is literally what has got me out of bed every morning for nearly two decades. This cannot, CANNOT be allowed to happen. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

A deeply dangerous — and blatantly retaliatory action against Colorado — by the Trump administration. NCAR is one of the most renowned scientific facilities in the WORLD — where scientists perform cutting-edge research everyday. We will fight this reckless directive with every legal tool we have.

They’re stealing from us. They are stealing from us and we have to put a stop to this. This cannot stand.

This wouldn't just be a national tragedy but a global one. Just mind-boggling vandalism.

This 15-story data tower in the heart of the Amazon collects vital climate data that is shared with Americans in California and across the country. The Trump Administration can ignore reality and worsen the climate crisis, but California will never stop fighting for our future.

1/2 We just published the Global Carbon Budget 2025, with a mix of bad news (CO2 emissions continue to grow) and encouraging news (35 countries saw emissions decline over the past decade while growing their economies). Read the highlights in a short article: theconversation.com/the-worlds-c...

How can we explore the future of the world's forests? Understanding the demography of their trees is key. In We took the new gen of global demographic vegetation models and held their roots to the observations. Thanks @annemarie-es.bsky.social for leading! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus. It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions. Thank you, Governor!

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

Mr. Bob is a true local hero of street safety, and it is so infuriating that he was attacked in this latest instance of senseless car violence. I really hope he makes a full recovery.

Our finalised paper on flat10MIP is finally up in GMD! This is the experimental protocol which allows for a simple, emissions-driven evaluation of TCRE, ZEC and climate reversibility in CMIP7. Thanks so much to all who ran these simulations as a proof of concept! gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...

I'm happy to share a paper in Science Advances that makes the case for a weak land carbon sink, drawing upon JPL and Chloris biomass time series. To close the budget with a net land sink of 0.8 Pg C/y from 2000-2019, we propose increases in the ocean sink and decreases in fossil fuel emissions.

Really excited to see the flat10MIP paper out! Since the preprint, we've added this new figure, showing the ESM ensemble of warming—normalized by the warming at year 100, to remove the uncertainty due to differing TCRE across models—versus cumulative CO2 emissions in the esm-flat10-cdr experiment.

The #IPCC has announced the authors selected for its Seventh Assessment Report. 664 experts from 111 countries have been invited to participate as Coordinating Lead Authors, Lead Authors, & Review Editors. 🌍 51% from developing countries 🚺 46% women 🔗 bit.ly/AR7AuthorsPR

This is such a loss. I've served on the selection committee for this program for the past three years, because it has funded so many incredible people doing such important research over the years. It should be expanding to meet the new challenges of climate change, but instead is totally defunded.

As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc

If they close all these research labs, you can't just undo it four years later. Decades of expertise and tons of specialized equipment will be scattered to the wind. Rebuilding would take ages.

The Senate version of GOP's budget bill dropped in the middle of the night. Astonishingly, it got EVEN WORSE. It raises energy costs, kills $100s of billions of investment in manufacturing, makes grids less reliable, increases pollution & constrains our ability to compete w/China on AI. Loser stuff.

In case you’re interested in what’s targeted for termination in the Department of Energy budget, it looks like it is the entire environmental half of Biological and Environmental Research:

This is a seismic gut punch to the weather enterprise. It is impossible to overstate how important @unidata.bsky.social is in implementing many datasets/libraries (LDM, netCDF, THREDDS, metPy) we currently use in meteorological research & operations. www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...

These ‘let’s attract the hot-shot researchers’ calls ring very hollow to me. Climate science is a team sport. It takes a whole set of skills. We need to be thinking about how to keep critical -teams- integrated. Nabbing hero-model scientist types is not going to retain institutional expertise.

AGU has filed a new lawsuit to prevent the Administration’s dismantling of U.S. scientific agencies. We’re proud to take this stand with our plaintiffs’ coalition for our federal workforce. buff.ly/3U56ooz

Foundation-funded postdoc funding opportunity to work in WA state! Interested in applying to work with me on climate on land or global carbon cycle dynamics? Reach out! Info sessions in May and June, due date June 26. www.wrfseattle.org/grants/wrf-p...

The State Department is eliminating the office that oversees global climate negotiations, in another effort to gut U.S. climate action. One official described the move as “just strategically fucking dumb.” www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

NASA Is Terminating The GISS Lease In Five Weeks nasawatch.com/personnel-ne... "NASA’s lease of Columbia University’s Armstrong Hall in New York City, home to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, will end effective May 31, 2025."

The land grant university system, the research university innovation engine, the national lab system, America perfected these. They are as American as apple pie. We don’t have a king. These are America’s Crown Jewels.

Saw Kraftwerk play at the Berkeley Greek Theater last night, which happens to be right in front of the @nersc.bsky.social computers, on which I happen to have some global carbon cycle simulations running at the moment. Fun intersection of different computer worlds!

A record increase in atmospheric CO2 according to data released by NOAA gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/..., much higher than projected in the Global Carbon Budget essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/.... This occurred in the presence of an El Niño (red bars, data also from NOAA!). What does this mean? 1/

🚨Calling U.S.-based climate experts! The newly formed U.S. Academic Alliance for the @ipcc.bsky.social is now accepting nominations for the Seventh Assessment Report.🌍 Join a global network of scientists shaping the future of climate action. Apply by April 4: buff.ly/hDrBH1F #IPCC #AGU

Very excited to share a new initiative to ensure US climate scientists will be nominated to IPCC AR7 cycle. The new U.S. Academic Alliance for the IPCC (USAA-IPCC) has opened a call for nominations, hosted by AGU: www.agu.org/ipcc-nominat... We encourage eligible scientists to apply by April 4th!

My latest: The mass firings at NOAA can feel abstract. Here's what was lost at one research center -- the birthplace of climate modeling. Fired staff became U.S. citizens to pursue these dream jobs, only to have their dreams upended.

🧵 Yesterday I shared my views on how disordered discourse has captured the US state and the risk of that happening elsewhere, but I don’t want to leave you hanging without proposing a solution.

*Three more* NorESM-centric positions (1 permanent, 2 fixed-term) available at MetNo (Oslo). Come and join our community modeling team! :D www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

🚨 Now CCN-official 🚨 Trump issues stop-work-order to NASA chief scientist #KateCalvin, who is also co-chair of the IPCC's working group in charge of the next assessment on climate change mitigation. This is brutal, on so many levels. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/21/c...

A source involved in @ipcc.bsky.social told me it's "bizarre, sad, depressing" Biden admin pushed to have a big role in the next IPCC report. NASA Chief Scientist was co-chairing a working group. I'm told EU could take on some of the role but "it's looking really worrying" bsky.app/profile/aaro...

Scoop w/ @mariacurie.bsky.social : U.S. to pull delegation from UN climate science meeting (IPCC Plenary in China next week) www.axios.com/2025/02/20/u...