Let’s save the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the prime climate research lab in the US. ✊

Let’s try to save the country’s prime climate research lab. ✊

After the #AMS2026 emergency town hall regarding NCAR, it is ***imperative*** that folks contact their senators and representatives. IN PARTICULAR: Maine: Susan Collins (Chair - Senate Approps.) Oklahoma: Tom Cole (Chair - House Approps.) Colorado: John Hickenlooper and Joe Neguse #SaveNCAR

I was sad to learn of Michael Parenti’s passing. He wrote an introduction for the 2008 issue of To Topos — a poetry journal I edited and produced. The special issue focused on the theme of Poverty and Poetry.

One shooter:

A reminder that The Trace has been tracking shootings connected to Trump's immigration crackdowns — Renee Good and Alex Pretti, unfortunately, are not alone: www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...

Check out the new version of my climate science textbook. Free, accessible and online. Let me know what you think. open.oregonstate.education/climatescien...

Corruption reigns: How Much Can One Man Make From Being President? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Surprise, surprise: ocean heat content breaks new record. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Interesting news report on research expedition to Thwaits glacier. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

1/ New Kiel Institute study on 2025 tariffs. The headline finding won't shock anyone who studied 2018-19 tariffs: near-complete pass-through to US importers. Foreign exporters absorbed ~4% of burden; Americans paid ~96%. www.kielinstitut.de/publications...

Last night's Aurora Borealis over Greenland.

Snowpack in Washington and Oregon is so bad that a normal February and March would result in a recovery to just the ~10th percentile of historical years. More in the CZ blog... theconvergencezone.com/2026/01/19/p...

A new preprint article based on the 20-year record of SCOTIA observing array indicates that the subpolar AMOC is holding steady: 🌊🧪 ocean2climate.org/2026/01/19/a...

2025 was second or third hottest year on record. www.oregonlive.com/weather/2026...

MLK on capitalism open.substack.com/pub/alisav/p...

Spot on.

ICYMI: I sat down with political scientist @samuel-bagg.bsky.social to discuss the crisis in our information environment and its roots in social identity.

Bossons Glacier 2022 | 2025 One of Europe's most impressive glaciated landscape is collapsing right before our eyes! 🧊🔥 Since 2022, the level of melting has reached unknown territories 📈 📷 Via Meteo Valle d'Aosta

I've asked Google AI "What is the best textbook on climate science?". Here's what it came up with: There's no single "best" climate science textbook, as it depends on your background, but top choices for a strong foundation include Marshall & Plumb's "Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics" for ...

- 1 day until we release the Global Climate Highlights 2025. Get ready to explore critical data on last year's global and regional temperatures, sea ice extent and more. #CopernicusClimate #CopernicusAtmosphere #GCH2025

Good discussion: Venezuela, Renee Good and Trump’s ‘Assault on Hope’ www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Quick reminder: Money invested in climate protection yields many times its value. 1€ = 4,80€ (see link). So if there are conservative (and even worse) parties that actively prevent this, the logical conclusion is that these parties are destroying prosperity. taz.de/Studie-von-O...

On Tue, Jan. 13 at 2pm PT, I'll offer an update re: ongoing efforts to save the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research from dismantling. In so doing, I'll also reflect on the growing inseparability of weather and climate science and prediction.

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

2025 was the hottest year on record for ocean heat content. Unfortunately, we now say this every year. 🥹 "In addition to setting a new record in 2025, the global ocean continues to show sustained and intensified warming." + #OpenAccess Study: doi.org/10.1007/s003... + Data: www.ocean.iap.ac.cn

The insanity gets worse by the day: Trump Pulls Out of Global Climate Agreement www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

New research led by @andreasschmittner.bsky.social @osuceoas.bsky.social simulates an AMOC collapse to learn how it could affect ocean carbon storage, isotopic signatures, and carbon cycling. #AGUPubs 🧪🌊 eos.org/research-spo...

A majority of Americans is alarmed or concerned about climate change. Yet the government does all it can to make it worse.

Make America Dirty Again. A Top Source of Lead Pollution Faced Tighter Rules. Then Trump Intervened. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/c...

Astonishing feat! US will break its record for the warmest Christmas by ~5°F! That’s remarkable. Anomalies are up to +40°F in the nation’s middle and as you can see the US has the warmest air - relative to average - in the World! H/T to @BenNollWeather

Guter Tag um an @hateaid.org zu spenden, habe das auch gerade schnell erledigt. hateaid.org

Bravo, indeed!

What’s next? I wouldn’t be surprised if he renames Washington DC to Trump DC. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...

US government supports hate speech and misinformation. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

US issues visa ban on former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton as well as Imran Ahmed, the British CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate; Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon of the German nonprofit HateAid; and Clare Melford, co-founder of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI).

Forecasts by Jim Hanson, who has a proven track record, suggest we’re about to cross the 1.5 deg C warming target. And what does the current US administration? Pump out carbon as fast as possible. Pure insanity. open.substack.com/pub/jimehans...

The stupidity has no limits: Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/c...

New AMS Statement: Dismantling NSF’s National Center for Atmospheric Research would weaken U.S. leadership in weather, water, and climate science, putting public safety at risk. For more than 60 years, NSF NCAR has improved forecasts and early warnings that save lives. More: https://bit.ly/4q6eChn

Scientists are supposed to be happy when their predictions are skillful, right? Why do I not feel happy?

The Trump administration wants to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). It continues its war against science and reason. Insanity. Hear what my colleague Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com has to say about it. www.npr.org/2025/12/18/n...

Job Alert jobs.lever.co/schmidt-enti...

„When we eliminate the strong biases that favor fossil fuels, renewables emerge as the clear winner.” www.forbes.com/sites/kensil...

„Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels.“ www.forbes.com/sites/kensil...

Pastor Jorge Bautista was telling a Border Patrol agent "we come in peace" when the agent fired toxic powder at him, leaving him struggling to breathe. “No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

New publication: how does a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) affect carbon and d13C cycles in the ocean? doi.org/10.1029/2025... doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Four out of five people around the world (80 percent) want more climate action from their country. climatepromise.undp.org/news-and-sto...

Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting. n.pr/49MFa1M