Largest *increase* in net CO₂ emissions was last year. 3.5ppm over 2023. More human-caused emissions, carbon sinks failing (both land & ocean), & wildfires fueled by extreme heat. CO₂ is now over 423 ppm. wmo.int/media/news/c...

Great #NoKings rally on Boston Common right now! It's huge, the weather is gorgeous,and the energy is fantastic. This IS what democracy looks like!

Check out a new thing I made: globe-viz.oberbrunner.com. As a #sciviz and #climate guy I wanted to show what's happening to ocean temps. Please share!

What times we live in, when even David Brooks says "Will enough Americans rise up to reverse the tide of populist authoritarianism? The Filipinos did it under Marcos. One morning the autocrats woke up and were no longer in control; the marchers were. That needs to happen here." tinyurl.com/uvdtxne9

MIT President Sally Kornbluth just issued a statement to the campus community saying NO to Trump’s authoritarian compact “And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”

MIT rejects "the Compact" orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

One of the greatest errors in K-12 education, in my opinion, is prioritizing trigonometry and calculus over statistics. Yes, trig and calc are important for many professions. Statistics are important for literacy.

Some good news 🧪⚛️

‘It’s a warning, set to a dance beat’: Jon Batiste on his new song urging climate action 20 years after Katrina #Climate

My latest just out in VACCINE @sciencedirect.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This interesting article highlights how #climatechange presents both opportunities and challenges. In Australia, community batteries store solar energy, while grazing under solar panels improves the wool of merino sheep, demonstrating synergies between agriculture and green energy. 1/3 🧪 #science

The wildfires that raged across Greece, Turkey and Cyprus this summer were 22% more intense and 10 times more likely than they would have been in a world without climate change, according to scientists at @wwattribution.bsky.social FREE link via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

India installs 18 GW of solar in H1 2025 www.pv-magazine.com/2025/08/27/i... - very good news from #India for solar PV ... and much more demand ahead www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Notoriously-not-green operator of New England’s electric grid warns that the trumps move to halt an (already 80% completed) offshore #renewable #wind farm *will reduce reliability of the grid* 🤔 “Delaying the project will increase risks” it said: thehill.com/policy/energ...

The well known MIT study (mlq.ai/media/quarte...) saying 95% of enterprise AI projects fail actually says this: "While official enterprise initiatives remain stuck, employees are already crossing it through personal AI tools (90%). This shadow AI often delivers better ROI than formal initiatives..."

Great piece. I am increasingly seeing these types of restrictions hampering green tech as a consumer rights issue. "You’ve got a right to the sunshine that falls on your home, whether you’re a renter with a balcony or a homeowner. Free the electron!"

Both the frequency and severity of extreme weather disasters are increasing around the world, as climate changes. Which country is most at risk? The US, the same country that stopped tracking their billion-plus dollar weather and climate disasters this year. Figures by @climatecentral.org

Claude Desktop and Code are failing for everyone using MCP servers due to a critical back-end bug. github.com/anthropics/c... How quickly we come to depend on these tools!

Using a Venn diagram gets to the heart of the issues regarding cities and urbanism. You can't have all three at once, and the optimum solution is more density to provide services without jacking up taxes.

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it will shut down its Office of Research and Development and eliminate thousands of agency jobs. According to the agency, this office has long served as the scientific backbone of its efforts to protect both public health and the environment.

Breaking News: The EPA said it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of scientists, after denying that it intended to do so.

And if you or someone you know needs help, here’s how to reach The Trevor Project directly: 📞 1-866-488-7386 📱 Text ‘START’ to 678-678 #TrevorProject #LGBTQYouth

#GoodTrouble in Boston just now.

TODAY: We’re honoring the late Rep. John Lewis by taking to the streets, courthouses and community spaces to carry forward his fight for justice, voting rights and dignity for all. Find a Good Trouble Lives On event near you to march in peace and act in power: goodtroubleliveson.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Fascinating and important for our future: the European Space Agency ESA plans to monitor changes in the Atlantic Ocean Circulation #AMOC from satellite with a new gravity mission. That is important since the AMOC may be approaching a dangerous #tippingpoint. 🌊 www.esa.int/Applications...

After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.

When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.

The Trump regime definitely doesn’t want you to download this app that lets you report and track ICE sightings.

android. www.stopice.net

My preferred way to resolve the debate about whether human-caused global warming is accelerating is to stop causing global warming

Check out this little web app I made for fun: deep-timeline.oberbrunner.com. It lets you visualize world events through deep time. It uses logarithmic scaling, so you can see how the present (a day, a week, a year) smoothly fades into the very deepest past. Part of my work with #LongNowBoston.

Fuck all of this shit. #Veterans #VA #DougCollins www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Models with low estimates of climate sensitivity fail to match satellite measurements of Earth's growing energy imbalance, making higher climate sensitivity seem more likely. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Department of Health and Human Services is ending a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Modern to develop an mRNA vaccine for flu strains with pandemic potential, including bird flu.

A federal court has struck down almost all of Trump's tariffs. Administration officials quickly challenged the ruling’s legitimacy, but the argument for judicial overreach here is "especially weak," Conor Friedersdorf writes:

Check out this little web app I made for fun: deep-timeline.oberbrunner.com. It lets you visualize world events through deep time. It uses logarithmic scaling, so you can see how the present (a day, a week, a year) smoothly fades into the very deepest past. Part of my work with #LongNowBoston.

Now that AI LLMs can use tools via MCP, how long before LLMs get wrapped in tools so other AIs can talk to them? An AI agent could end up talking to itself via a long game of telephone.

I'm sure there won't be any spyware or passive bugs on it. Not that our decimated cybersecurity forces could find anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...

This is not good at all. It'll have significant impact on all kinds of science and discovery. Unidata provides open-source science software as well as vital climate datasets. NSF funding "pause" affects lots of other NSF science as well.

I keep checking, but there's no end in sight for the heat wave in India. Reminiscent of the opening scene in "The Ministry for the Future," this is just brutal, deadly heat and humidity.

When the president of #MIT emails alumni asking them to rise up against the government and take action, that's new. That is big. We stand with Harvard. mit.imodules.com/controls/ema...

A professor at M.I.T. discusses how Xi Jinping is likely to respond to the U.S. tariffs and why the standoff won’t weaken the Chinese Communist Party’s grip on power.

MIT following Harvard's lead here

Any self-optimizing system will evolve to exploit bugs in the underlying environment's fitness function, from companies exploiting regulatory loopholes to politicians exploiting reliance on norms to AIs mis-aligning with cultural values.

How many lifetimes' worth of work is being destroyed by all this? And to what end?? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Was not expecting to open the main CBC page this morning and see this! In today’s climate, I feel our message is even more relevant than even just a few months ago when the interview was recorded. www.cbc.ca @christelvaneck.bsky.social @lydiamessling.bsky.social

Morning Jazz Afro Blue. Another Robert Glasper collabo with Esperanza Spalding on vocals and my girl Terri Lyne Carrington on drums. #Jazzsky youtu.be/MQX1VA1KPJU?...

This new White House executive order says that the US Attorney General is going to prevent states from implementing democratically passed laws regarding climate change and clean energy. It scarcely needs stating at this point that this is wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional. Dictator shit.