Giving thanks is a complicated proposition in this [climate | societal | political | cultural | authoritarian | disinformation | techbroligarch | choose your adventure] moment. And... gratitude is powerful. Here's what I'm working with. How about you?

Who’s surprised? #DHS Sec. #KristiNoem changes draft FEMA review council report. Former #FEMA head Cameron Hamilton asks blunt Q. “What degree of confidence do you have that the report that you submit to DHS will be what is submitted to the president?” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Jamaica as a powerful Category 5 hurricane with 185 mph sustained winds. It will tie the strongest hurricane to make landfall in Atlantic recorded history based on central pressure. Follow the latest forecast here: www.hurricanes.gov

Hurricane Melissa is the kind of rapidly-intensifying, terrifyingly powerful storm our overheated oceans and atmosphere can now produce. My team crowd-sourced these observations on the climate connections and the implications for people in harm's way. blog.ucs.org/erika-spange...

At a time when the US slides dangerously into authoritarianism, people "must reject the use of the vast resources of the country to threaten or carry out military assaults on sovereign nations, and instead demand their use for the life-saving work of humanitarian aid in the wake of a disaster."

We are on the verge of a major humanitarian disaster for Jamaica and southern Haiti. Melissa is expected to rapidly intensify into a category 4 hurricane while moving slowly along the Jamaican coast…. www.hurricanes.gov

Danger is brewing this week in the Caribbean, and it’s not just the Trump Administration's sinking of boats. In his latest blog, @decletbarreto.bsky.social calls for US climate and humanitarian aid, rather than military aggression, as Tropical Storm Melissa forms in the Caribbean: bit.ly/477G0o8

Climate change won’t stop for a government shutdown. We’re following a developing late-season heatwave in the Midwest and Northeastern US. Temperatures are expected to be over 20F above normal today through early next week.

🧵 #DangerSeason 8/7 Beware the air. This week, some of the worst air quality (AQ) conditions on Earth enveloped US cities, particularly in the Midwest and Northeast. The wildfires burning now aren’t the same fires that burned 30 years ago, and we know who to blame: the fossil fuel industry.

Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker

🧵7/31 in #DangerSeason: Staying safe under a #HeatDome while watching the craven and shameless efforts of the Trump administration. The con: #ClimateChange isn't a danger. Let's roll back the #EndangermentFinding. Believe your own experience, not their gaslighting. And act accordingly.

#KillerHeat is... killing us🌡️ 💀. The ocean is losing its cool🌊🥵. We're making a U-turn away from solutions. (!!!). BUT heat responds quickly to reduced emissions if we #ActOnClimate. #DangerSeason is baking us. And this could be the coolest summer for the rest of our lives. This is #ClimateChange

This week in #DangerSeason: #KillerHeat, back in a big way; people get it: this is #ClimateChange; a counterintuitive factor fuels #FlashFloods; the Trump administration's policy whiplash widens. Want to push back? Join our action hour. 🔗⬇️ bit.ly/3Uu8Oji

This week in #DangerSeason: #Climate extremes collide with Administration cuts; 💧multiple #FlashFlood records broken; 🔥wildfires make for bad air quality; 🥵 hot all over; ⛽SHOCKER - #FossilFuel industry doesn’t want their share of blame or costs. 🔗 bit.ly/46hUuBQ

This week in Danger Season had more than its share of terrible news AND some reasons for guarded optimism. In our #DangerSeason Weekly Outlook we capture both.

I wrote a (long) thing about this knife's edge moment. There is nothing inevitable about this authoritarian takeover, but we have to show up to not give up the ship.

We are witnessing the dismantling of NOAA--the United States' best defense against extreme weather, the climate crisis, and, simply, the prediction of day-to-day weather--in real time. This will damage the scientific infrastructure in the US for decades. blog.ucs.org/marc-alessi/...

We don’t feel much like a “climate” movement right now and that’s as it should be, too many urgent fronts to fight on. But we’re still here. And this assault on climate science needs the greatest response we can marshal. Thanks @marc-alessi.bsky.social & Rachel Cleetus blog.ucs.org/erika-spange...

The Trump admin plans to gut climate research at NOAA & NASA, following #Project2025 agenda. Proposed cuts include NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Division, all 16 cooperative institutes, 10 labs, 6 climate centers, NASA’s Goddard Space Institute budget, and $70M in grants—plus mass firings.

The Trump Administration and DOGE have announced the cancellation of 1 in 10 Federal leases country-wide, including the lease for NOAA's Center for Weather and Climate Prediction. www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...