Gavin Schmidt

Indeed!

Anything the least bit sciencey gets no respect…

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.

He finally died.

I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

🐝 today had loads of missing perfectly normal words:
Manioc
Concomitant
Ammoniac
Monotonic
… 🤨

I really liked the adaptation of the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay at the Met yesterday. www.metopera.org/season/2025-...

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

Worst of the worst? No, this retired UK citizen who was in the US as a tourist had committed no crime, had no criminal record, not even a parking ticket. ICE and Trump are just our of control.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

They locked up a Colombian child coming to go to Disney World with her family.

What the hell are we doing? And why in the world would anyone come here for the World Cup/Olympics? www.miaminewtimes.com/news/immigra...

How solar and batteries help keep lights on during Texas winter storms The recent boom in renewables and storage in Texas means its grid is much better prepared for bad weather than it was when Winter Storm Uri hit five years…

Texas has quietly built a massive renewable energy and battery storage fleet. Its impact is clear in three years of winter storm stability, writes Tam Hunt:

The Colorado River Crisis is Here States fail to reach a deal; Lake Powell Deadpool appears imminent

Federal officials now project that Lake Powell will "most probably" drop below power pool level — meaning Glen Canyon Dam will no longer be able to generate hydropower — before the end of this year: www.landdesk.org/p/the-colora... via @landdesk.bsky.social

E.P.A. Faces First Lawsuit Over Its Killing of Major Climate Rule

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🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/c...

After my ICE arrest, I learned one crucial way to respond to trauma. We can all take part | Rümeysa Öztürk I was detained for co-writing a op-ed about Gaza as a student at Tufts. My experience has only made me feel more connected to others facing oppression

Read every word

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Big Tech Says Generative AI Will Save the Planet. It Doesn't Offer Much Proof A new report finds that of 154 specific claims about how AI will benefit the climate, just a quarter cited academic research. A third included no evidence at all.

when big tech companies say that AI will save the planet, what kinds of AI are they actually talking about — and what's their proof? i took a look at some great new research from @ketanjoshi.co and talked to other experts about how a lot of this talk is probably bullshit:

This whole fight over transgender stuff happening on X is so weird to me. The most notable thing about trans issues in the last 5 years has been the enormous, coordinated anti-trans activism campaign across the right, aided by moral cowards in the center.

But that campaign is *never mentioned*.

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Summer School in Sea Level Science - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution A 2026 Summer School in Sea Level Science (SSiSLS) for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and other early career scientists to be held at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole...

Great opportunity for grad students and postdocs interested in sea level science — WHOI Summer School, May 17-30

This is proooobably a long shot, but do I know anyone (or know someone who knows someone) working on machine learning for weather forecasting or adjacent research? 🧪

How has your country's climate changed over the past century? Find out here:

TEACHING CLIMATE On this channel you will find: Videos that debunk Human Induced Climate Change deniers. Videos that debunk climate action delayers. Videos that debunk misinformation from fossil fuel lobby groups. F...

If you enjoy seeing the debunking of climate change deniers and Trump's fossil fuel lobby groups then you might enjoy this channel www.youtube.com/@TheDisproof

It’s never been enough simply to make progress. Each generation has to work to reinforce the progress that has been made already and to fight against the shortsightedness of people who cannot look forward.

The peer review system is breaking down. Here’s how we can fix it Peer review is so integral to the scholarly system that research would grind to a halt without it.

Reading articles like this, it occurs to me that the more we try to fix problems caused by replacing social norms and relationships with financial incentives, by replacing social norms and relationships with financial incentives, the worse things will get.

theconversation.com/the-peer-rev...

Many governments did this for slavery. But it does have perverse incentives.

There is more to this story too. There were failures of communication, other flawed data which fooled people, and proof (from a submitted abstract) that the NASA team had noticed the hole before the Farman paper.

www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

YouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream We ❤️ NCAR - Let's Save It!

Last December, weather and climate scientists sat down with us to tell us why they loved the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and why it benefits us all. Last night, the NSF began dismantling it. Listen to what they have to say, and why it's urgent that we #SaveNCAR wclivestream.com/act

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where The Sun Goes At Night

Trump’s EPA can’t simply erase climate change — and we’ll all pay the price On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency reversed its “endangerment finding," which found that greenhouse gases are a threat to human health.

"Trump’s EPA can’t simply erase climate change — and we’ll all pay the price" | My op-ed with Bob Ward in @sfchronicle.com: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

“DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law” is excellent framing

Trump admin is pulling supercomputers out of key weather research center | CNN A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released Thursday by the National Science Foundation.

New: Trump admin moves to pull supercomputing center out of top weather and climate research center (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. Part of its effort to "break up" the lab. www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/w...

this is yet another example of DHS employees literally doing the kind of thing that would get your entire family bloodline erased in morality tales from medieval times, like, bread and salt shit