Scoop: The U.S. billion-dollar disaster database is set to return this fall over at @climatecentral.org. They've hired the former NOAA scientist who ran the project for 10+ years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🚨 At least 10 scientists, all cited in the Trump admin's new climate change report, told me that the report completely mischaracterizes their research. I also found five citations with significant errors, and a paragraph missing an important citation.

universities have not yet been hit hard by the budget cuts because we're still running on grants awarded during the last administration. this really shows how badly universities will be hurt, starting next year, when grants start ending and there's nothing to replace them.

I'd like to introduce a new page on my website: U.S. climate indicator visuals (zacklabe.com/united-state...). I only have a few basic variables so far, but I will be expanding this summer to add a range of metrics (e.g., ecological). I welcome suggestions! Hope this is useful, especially nowadays.

I can't believe it's been two months. Somehow I forgot to share, I started as an assistant professor at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social working on climate extremes and connection to changes in the carbon cycle. I'm excited about the new opportunity to work on interdisciplinary science and teams.

NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...

I keep saying this... both operationally and in research, the situation is still much worse than most people seem to realize or want to accept.

Welp…NSF will now suspend the awarding of new and existing research grants until further notice.

Pangaea plans to fully incorporate the NOAA data into its own archive, which will ensure that scientists globally have access in future www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm looking forward to attending @egu.eu next week! I'll be presenting about the response of regional extreme rainfall in the Northeast US to rapid climate mitigation efforts. This is the last project I did at Princeton & NOAA GFDL. Hope to meet many new and familiar friends and colleagues! #EGU25

The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research, the scientific backbone that keeps weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective. This would have disastrous consequences. Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC

NEW: The Trump administration proposes nearly $1.7 billion in cuts to NOAA that, if passed, could decimate weather and climate research, including funding to nine California institutions. The @sfchronicle.com has obtained a White House document detailing the proposed budget cuts. Read it here:

🚨 We must make it absolutely clear, to anyone who will listen, that this is unacceptable. You can't just censor life-saving and cost-saving research because the results are politically inconvenient for your wealthy donors!

Yep, I still don't think people realize how dire the situation actually is internally...

NOAA just fired us, again 🤡 Retroactive to February 🤡

It has been hard to follow the developments in US (climate) science- thinking of the people affected and the science missed out on. The latest cuts end the NOAA GFDL/PrincetonUni program I personally worked in. It was fundamental in my career, breaks my heart 💔🌎. www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...

There have been many things going on in the US, but this has been by far the most difficult one to process personally, as someone who was a CIMES postdoc/scholar for 3.5 years — especially the scientifically incorrect reasons stated in the press release …

We have a new preprint out, which looks at the nonlinear response of summertime heat extremes across the United States in a collection of overshoot scenarios using the 50-km GFDL SPEAR Large Ensemble: doi.org/10.31223/X5T... #OpenAccess Takeaway story: Mitigating earlier has even greater benefits!

Feels like we're doing something really wrong if we need a World Water Day but here we are. Here’s a reminder that 2.2 billion people have no access to safe water and half the world doesn’t have basic sanitation but yet rich countries flush their toilets with clean drinking water.

Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week. "...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"

I'd like to share another science presentation, which I gave to a class visiting GFDL almost exactly 24 hours before being fired in the NOAA mass layoffs. Unfortunately, the animations do not work in this format though: www.slideshare.net/slideshow/th.... This one has more of an Arctic focus.

Here is the correct link to the full statement: bit.ly/3XqJs7L

🚨 #NOAA is essential for weather forecasting, climate research, and public safety. AGU stands with the scientific community in urging Congress to protect and strengthen NOAA, not dismantle it. Our economy, environment, and safety depend on it.

It should go without saying* that firing the people you've most recently hired is bonehead move for any organization. Almost by definition, they are the people who you need for your new approaches, products and problems. Bird flu? ✔️ AI/ML? ✔️ Next-gen weather models? ✔️ *it did not go w/o saying.

Something that deserves recognition: At federal labs such as NOAA’s NSSL, ESRL, or EMC, most employees are first hired on as contractors through a company or cooperative institute. After several years, many get “promoted” by being hired as Feds. These are the “probationary employees” getting fired

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats. After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

Slashing federal funding for scientific research will have catastrophic impacts far beyond the laboratories where government research funds are spent. "How the Trump administration could end a century of American scientific dominance," by @adamsobel.bsky.social.

Our latest work on increases in extreme rainfall over the Northeast US has been published in AGU Earth's Future: doi.org/10.1029/2023... We examine the causes of this extreme rainfall change in both current & future climates, based on the latest high-resolution (25km) GFDL climate model (SPEAR_HI)