The March summary for the Fort Collins weather station that our office maintains is chock-full of eye-popping stats. Highest single-month temperature anomaly in the 130+ year period of record, 8 days warmer than the previous March record, earliest 90° day on record by over a month, and more. #cowx

These are two of my favorite thinkers and people. Can’t wait to listen.

This is a graph of snowpack above Lake Powell using 104 snow measuring stations. It was 9 inches of water on March 7, now 6 inches. Other dry years shown.There is no historical analog to this.

Colorado has an idea what climate change will be costing the state by mid-century: "Climate trends like deepening drought and extreme heat could wind up costing Colorado up to $37 billon" www.skyhinews.com/news/climate...

NSF has put out a “Dear Colleague Letter” asking how to dismantle NCAR, the premier public atmospheric sciences center in the US. We must reject the premise. As a dedicated center bringing together scientists across disciplines and across the world, NCAR science has saved lives for over 65 years.

My Science Friday interview here. Starts at ~9 minutes in. www.sciencefriday.com/segments/low...

Here’s why: despite recent uptick in snowpack, snowpack near record low.

🤯🤯🤯 Full-on denial of reality. State capture by the fossil fuel lobby. The US descends into a banana republic. It would almost be funny if the consequences wouldn’t be so dire for billions of humans, if the courts don’t stop this folly soon. www.scientificamerican.com/article/epa-...

The American Geophysical Union unequivocally condemns this reckless and senseless decision. AGU is a global community supporting more than half a million advocates and professionals in the Earth and space sciences. fromtheprow.agu.org/agu-denounce...

Fearing that educated judges might rule on climate cases, Republican Attorneys General successfully bullied the The Federal Judicial Center (the education & research arm of the federal court system) into removing a chapter summarizing climate science from their scientific judicial reference manual.

Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...

We can actually predict polar vortex events now by monitoring Ted Cruz flight patterns

@AGU.ORG STATEMENT ON US WITHDRAWAL FROM CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AND TREATIES news.agu.org/press-releas...