another morning when it’s an existentially shameful thing to be an american huh

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

this new years eve I'm reminded of an old Soviet toast: Here's to another average year - worse than the one before it, but better than the one ahead

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

whatever 2026 holds i don't think anything next year will be funnier than Chicago Pope. 2025 was overall a huge stinker but Chicago Pope was an all time great B-plot

Best books I read in 2025: - Priestdaddy - Young Men and Fire - Atmosphere - Sword at Sunset

🚨☀️ICYMI: Our paper, now out in PNAS, revisited the 2003 heat wave in France, showing a much larger role for climate change than previously understood: 6,000 deaths in one month directly caused by fossil fuels. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our paper exploring the drivers of the November 2023 “Taylor Swift” heatwave in Rio de Janeiro is officially out in WCD! Take a read to learn more about the causes of this record-breaking heatwave and Rio’s emerging risk for extreme heat: wcd.copernicus.org/articles/6/1...

🚨☀️ICYMI: Our paper, now out in PNAS, revisited the 2003 heat wave in France, showing a much larger role for climate change than previously understood: 6,000 deaths in one month directly caused by fossil fuels. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn

AGU has a Congressional email and call script up on NCAR:

Seen at #AGU2025 in New Orleans

Based on what I have been hearing about the NCAR situation, no one knew anything until the USA Today article came out. That means there isn’t much actual organization inside the administration to pull this off and a chance to fight back. Call your congresspeople today! Especially republicans.

🚨☀️🔥 NEW: In August 2003, Europe was struck by a catastrophic heat wave. What can we learn from this event today? Using new machine learning and econometric tools, we show in PNAS that climate change contributed to 6,000 out of 15,000 deaths in France… (1/2) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

Time to repurpose #AGU25 as a mass mobilization in support of NCAR, NSF, NOAA, NASA, USGS, DOE BER, and the Congressional power of the purse.

AGU gonna be Stonewall 2 tomorrow

For those who want a figure! "... before 2003, sequencing a hot day after another hot day can nearly double the mortality effect of that hot day ... the compounding model yields an [Aug. 2003] death toll that is closer to the total ... than the standard model ..."

🚨☀️🔥 NEW: In August 2003, Europe was struck by a catastrophic heat wave. What can we learn from this event today? Using new machine learning and econometric tools, we show in PNAS that climate change contributed to 6,000 out of 15,000 deaths in France… (1/2) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The thing you need to understand about the Right is that they are absolutely fine just plain burning down higher education if taking it over ideologically doesn’t work. They’re perfectly happy reducing it to ashes.

these guys don't have the juice. they're gonna lose. believe your eyes

which is why every time you socialize instead of giving in to scrolling alone on your couch you are helping defeat the republican project of making everyone as lonely and afraid of everything as they are. defeat fascism, have a coffee date with a friend

*US SEIZES OIL TANKER OFF THE COAST OF VENEZUELA

Excited to be giving two invited presentations on the influence of monsoon systems on extreme (humid) heat at this year's #AGU25! Stop by NH44B-02 Thursday afternoon and A51H-01 Friday morning to learn more and chat!

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

Next week at #AGU25. GC14C-06, Monday at 5:10.

Shameful response by UC Berkeley administration. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

🎉🧪 Some rare GOOD news (🙃): the National Defense Authorization Act language that's just been released seems to have eliminated the "SAFE Research Act," which would have barred any scientist from federal funding if they had Chinese collaborations in the last 5 years rules.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

in conclusion: business hates university because businesses are failures and the library will endure forever

Another thing @agu.org could do is highly visible trainings for attendees on civil liberties and immigrant rights by groups like @aclu.org and @aila.org (whose resources they are already sharing), and promoting the work of their litigation partners like @democracyforward.org and @aaup.org

Hey @agu.org what's your plan for this? The statement on the meeting website is... vague www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...

The AEA has imposed a lifetime ban on Lawrence H. Summers’ membership and participation in AEA activities. See the full statement here. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...

External to what?

A study in Nature Climate Change quantifies the potential for extreme heat events in Europe to generate mass mortality and projects tens of thousands of excess deaths. go.nature.com/483zJc3 🧪

Jared Harris, who I fully acknowledge is one of the best character actors ever, doing a weird voice: Boo! Get off my screen Lady who plays camina drummer doing a weird voice: I Would Brave Machine Gun Fire to Show Her a Single Spreadsheet

“While Shelby County has recorded the dirtiest air in Tennessee for many years — half the state’s admissions for childhood asthma come from there — local residents say the arrival of Colossus has made things worse.”

And one more other thing I’m seeing now, that Northwestern unsurprisingly didn’t mention in its statement, effectively banning gender affirming care at NU school of medicine

The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.

sunshine: comes from heaven, bright, warm, gives life too all oil: a disgusting and poisonous black ichor that has to be sucked from the bowels of the earth, literally made of death

The Trump regime wants to make us less healthy and more dead.

The Republicans are standing up to the power of Big Emergency Brake www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Dartmouth is hiring climate science postdocs through the prestigious Provost's Fellowship! Info: apply.interfolio.com/178090 Applications are due February 15, 2026. Come join our collaborative and supportive climate community! Reach out to me ([email protected]) with questions.

This is a remarkable paper on the climate-induced heatwave death in Europe and how they will increase in a warming world. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wrote about how climate change is bad www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

As international climate negotiations avoid direct confrontation with carbon power once again, a reminder that major fossil fuel companies can be traced to trillions of dollars in damages from extreme heat globally. rdcu.be/ei0T5