This is bad. Some thoughts from a TAMU faculty member. gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

I've been on the road so I'm behind the times—but if you wanted to destroy US science, I can think of no more expedient action. Blatant unconstitutionality aside, fuck this backwards forwards and sideways. www.science.org/content/article/u-s-congress-considers-sweeping-ban-chinese-collaborations

The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.

This is bad. Some thoughts from a TAMU faculty member. gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

Two important things to note about this welcome sign of progress: (1) Refering to Fig, 2 in the study, in the 2.6C scenario we are (apparently) tracking, the CO2 emissions in 2100 are still around 35 GtCO2 per year, and there will be additional warming during the tine it takes to get that to zero...

With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels. 10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C 20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.

Jeffries: "It's unbelievable that for 7 plus weeks Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has been denied the ability to serve more than 800,000 people in Arizona because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program."

Our comment to the DOE about the Climate Working Group, submitted Aug. 31, is still not posted.

Texas A&M panel: Firing violated professor’s academic freedom - @texastribune.org share.google/Q5UVRMb2CCd5...

Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.

Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You

"[China] understood climate change as a severe threat but also as an enormous industrial opportunity. If the world needed to transition away from fossil fuels and towards clean energy, China resolved to be the supplier of the enabling goods and technologies." e360.yale.edu/features/chi...

Breaking: Texas A&M Board of Regents bars faculty from teaching anything other than eugenics and football. #Satire

Electrification could now reach 75% of all energy demand, as the road-transport and heating sectors rapidly electrify 🔥🚗 These two sectors account for 50% of global energy use and are now ready to switch from fossil molecules to clean electrons. https://loom.ly/BwyhReA

Joe Rogan has one of the world's most popular podcasts. Unfortunately, like nearly all of the most popular online shows, his tends to spread climate misinformation. For @climateconnections.bsky.social I scrutinize his recent episode with octogenarian climate contrarians Lindzen & Happer 🧵 (1/11)

As a metaphor of the world today, a little too on the nose.

As a metaphor of the world today, a little too on the nose.

Dana Nuccitelli (@dananuccitelli.bsky.social) debunks nineteen climate myths propagated by "two octogenarian fringe climate contrarians" on Joe Rogan's podcast.

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Nice article from @apnews.com about how climate change boosted Hurricane Melissa's destructive winds and rain, analysis finds apnews.com/article/hurr...

@desmog.com reviewed US tax records which show Bill Gates’ charity has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by Danish academic and climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

Andrew Gettelman giving the @tamuatmo.bsky.social Dept seminar. He talking about AI in an Earth System model. Lots of interesting results.

“This case, ladies and gentleman of the jury, is about a sandwich.” Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.

these people obviously have not read the Gates memo

Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything

College Station is crime-ridden hell hole. Thanks, Biden. The perps better not relax: "This case remains under investigation."

I spent 11 great years at NASA Goddard. There are a lot of tremendously talented people there who push back the frontiers of knowledge every day. Closing/shrinking Goddard is a real tragedy, but it's part of an ongoing effort that will make the U.S. a laggard in science and technology.

I took a recording of a few of my lectures, transcribed them, and told NotebookLM to convert it into a video. It's pretty good. youtu.be/22ysrqtmrf4

time to add a new mute word

I have a @nytimes.com op-ed today on managing power demand growth. Central point: load growth is an opportunity to *offset* upward rate pressure (and avoid gas overbuild), if we plan the system to make fuller use of infrastructure we’ve already paid for. 🔌💡 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

I just recorded a short video--essentially an updated version of my social media threads--on the Bill Gates climate memo. Despite agreeing with some points therein, I still think its framing is fundamentally flawed and thus also its key conclusions.

On The Climate Brink, a great post from Zeke Hausfather about how CO2 and CH4 warm the climate differently. These key differences tend to get glossed over in any discussion.

We've got you 👍

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

The Hallowe'en Slimate Gnashboard: the most terrifying dashboard you will see tonight or any night. Enter at your peril. www.jkclimate.fr/Halloween/da...

come on, autocorrect, what is this madness?

Been reflecting on this today. There's an important lesson about chasing fame: it's temporary and fleeting. Focus on doing what's right instead — you'll have a clearer conscience and sleep better at night.

As part of @technologyreview.com's big new package on conspiracy theories, I went long on weather modification — what's possible, what's not, what's happening and where, and why people will probably always find ways to blame weather disasters on shady forces:

So … vaccines prevent autism?

I asked my class of 20 undergrads if any of them knew who this guy was? ZERO did. I was using his "known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns" to motivate a discussion or risk and uncertainty. It is a great line.

IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.

Climate change is amplifying “hydroclimate whiplash”—the dramatic swings between drought, floods & wildfires. Join climate scientist Daniel Swain (@weatherwest.bsky.social) on Nov 5 for a Distinctive Voices talk on the science & impacts of these extremes. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-ch...

I don't think enough people have read this -- IMO all of #ClimateSky, #GreenSky, and #EnergySky should, and if they have students should assign it to their students -- so I'm reposting.

Great to have @andrewilwilliams.bsky.social give the ATMO @tamuatmo.bsky.social Dept. seminar. Fantastic talk!

Thrilled to work with @wxmanms1.bsky.social, whose Substack I've read and admired for some time, on this piece on #Melissa www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Fall has finally arrived in College Station. About time.

"I feel compelled to make people realize that this is not going away, that this is going to continue to happen over and over again, and that we need to harden ourselves in every possible way and adapt to these increasing disasters." —part of yesterday's #Melissa coverage on @nbcmiami.com