I'm not sure many folks realize just how persistent the warming from CO2 is. Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!

Whoa. GORGEOUS new image from JWST 🔭 dropped today: "what appears to be a craggy, starlit mountaintop kissed by wispy clouds is actually a cosmic dust-scape being sculpted by the scorching radiation and punishing winds of massive newborn stars" (!) More info at: webbtelescope.org/contents/new...

New paper estimates the capacity of underground CO2 storage to be just 1290–2710Gt of CO2 www.nature.com/articles/s41... That's not as much as it sounds - only 30-60 yrs of current emissions, that's all - we couldn't even pay back our CO2 debt this way, never mind keep burning fossil fuels with CCS

yes sure, but let @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social remind you that it's really more about POLES AND WIRES heatmap.news/energy/why-i...

Our new paper with Mengyang Zhou, Elizabeth Yankovsky, and Dustin Carroll is out as a preprint: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... "Substantial inter-model variation in OAE efficiency between the CESM2/MARBL and ECCO-Darwin ocean biogeochemistry models"

This would more or less halt the ability of scientists and academics from visiting the US to give talks, attend meetings and workshops, collaborate with peers on research and I think that is the primary point. 🧪

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

The largest photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, assembled from Hubble observations, took more than 10 years of data collecting and was created from more than 600 snapshots! ➡️ And it's available for download in really large sizes: go.nasa.gov/44Uvyhc 🔭 🧪

below is something i still truly cannot believe!

“It’s called the Great Leap Forward. We’re going to be leaping, and we’ll be leaping forward very strongly. People are saying they’ve never seen leaping like this before.”

This from a senior U.S. government official reads like a translation of a statement by a Soviet apparatchik from the 1930s, or a Maoist one from the 1960s.

Archivstreifzug–bis heute haben meine Stifte knapp 1.000 Kommentare zum Themenkomplex menschgemachte Klimakatastrophe gezeichnet. Natürlich wussten wir was wir anrichten. Aber wir dachten, wenn wir es nicht wissen wollen, werde es schon nicht so schlimm. Und da stehen wir nun. Zeichnung von 2019.

An astonishing figure in this piece: Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing. This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers. That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.

You think that vast armed force is going to be used just for immigration? I doubt it. Watch for ICE duties to expand duties and for ICE to follow the pattern of militarization of police. Also watch it used as secret police against anything anti-ICE.

The #3 app in Apple’s US App Store is one that allows anonymous reports of ICE agent sightings. techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/i...

this is.... not a place where anyone should be laughing, smiling, celebrating.

It's not hyperbole to say that Pakistan is on track to leapfrog traditional power grids and jump straight to loosely-connected (and when needed, off-grid) distributed solar + battery systems. It's like developing countries leapfrogging land-lines and moving straight to cell phones. It's incredible.

I mean, we've all poked fun at Nature papers before, but "junk science" is just wildly inaccurate. It's genuinely in the "where do I even start debunking this falsehood, it is so ridiculous".

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth. www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

“In the fields, I would say 70% of the workers are gone...If 70% of your workforce doesn’t show up, 70% of your crop doesn’t get picked...Most Americans don’t want to do this work. Most farmers here are barely breaking even. I fear this has created a tipping point where many will go bust.”

Out of the 356 drugs that were approved by the FDA from 2010-2019, NIH funding contributed to 354 of them, totaling $187 billion, only 2 were privately funded. From the NYTimes www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Just horrible stuff, brought to you by horrible human beings:

turns out climate change will cost dramatically more than economists predicted, and the cost of addressing it is actually negative. oops! prospect.org/environment/...

This is going to be escalated to much higher levels, possibly even Miller himself. The ICE grunts are dumb and violent but even they know that physically attacking Catholic priests in public, in a courthouse, on camera, is above their pay grade.

You can see the ICE agents in their minivans then the LAPD cars in the back appearing to block the Dodger Stadium parking lot entrance. When I asked an LAPD officer if they are blocking ICE from entering the parking lot she said “put it this way. The Dodgers don’t want them coming in.”

Fuck ICE. Impede them at every opportunity. Mock them. Bully them. I really want America to remember its rebel spirit, which has somehow been soured & twisted in recent years to aim at... HR departments & Ivy League schools. Those are not the oppressors! The guys with the guns are the oppressors!

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

Even the most conservative estimates of turnout (4-6 million) make No Kings the largest protest in American history www.thedailybeast.com/data-guru-g-...

"I remind those in MAGA world. . . when there are no new medicines to fight your resistant infections, when there are no new biomedical devices, & your life span is shorter. . . you were responsible for the calamity that you brought to this nation." -M. Hadjiargyrou www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/o...

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

The combined 2024 budgets of NSF, NIH, and NASA were around $80 billion, or 100x this package. It makes sense for other countries to try to capitalize on the idiocy that has captured our government, but it's important to remember the sheer scale and irreplaceability of the US research enterprise.

SCOOP — ICE employees received an email yesterday telling them the agency's warrantless arrest policy had been rescinded. It's likely part of the Trump administration's efforts to further loosen enforcement restrictions to meet the new quota of 3,000 immigration arrests per day. My report:

A police chief saying he expects to be arrested and jailed by the federal government for how he chooses to do his official job—esp when it seems to be in the context of NOT interfering w ppl using their constitutional rights—feels like a really bad thing.

Those who hope to balance the federal budget without raising taxes need to contend with the fact that you could abolish the ENTIRE federal government except for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the defense department and we would still be running a deficit. Cutting waste ain't gonna cut it

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

I just published an explainer on aerosols and their role in the climate that I've been working on for the past few months! It includes both how aerosols work, how emissions have changed, and how thats driven recent warming: www.carbonbrief.org/...

To recap: There are 10,000+ PFAS. Some are toxic. They're here forever. They pollute water, air, soils, animals and you. Some linked to diseases inc cancers. So when scientists warn against moves to redefine them, we'd better hope people are listening: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

incredible protest in france today to protest israel's seizing of the freedom flotilla with french member of the EU parliament rima hassan, greta thunberg and 10 others on board i didn't see much coverage on this protest at all on US media seems like macron was forced into making a statement too ✊🏻

Three men sit in a cell in El Salvador. The first asks the second why he has been imprisoned. He replies, "Because I criticized Elon Musk." The first man responds, "But I am here for praising Musk!" They ask the third man who has been sitting quietly in the back. He answers, "I AM Elon Musk".

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Science has been the engine of US prosperity since the 1940s. This is now under threat, with massive cuts proposed to the National Science Foundation, NASA, NIH, and other major funding agencies, as my colleague Andrew Dessler notes: www.theclimatebrink....

For four decades, ecologists Daniel Janzen & Winnie Hallwachs have routinely set up light traps in a protected Costa Rican rainforest to attract moths & other insects. Same sheet, same lights, same spot, same time of year. This is 1984 (L) vs 2019 (R) From: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How a diagnostic blood test for a mutation is "practice changing" for a type of breast cancer gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/h... @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

“What this means is that China is going to take over RNA therapeutics and RNA research and the United States is going to fall behind... I don’t know if we’re ever going to be able to catch up.” www.statnews.com/2025/06/02/m... via @statnews.com

For the first time the world is generating more electricity from nuclear fusion than fission! Now we just need nuclear (both direct and indirect) to surpass fossil fuels.