The genius businessman strikes again
Oil prices are soaring, thanks to the war that Trump started. However, today the U.S. Department of Justice sued California to try to block a program that would advance adoption of electric vehicles. EVs are the top way 🧵
here’s a crazy fact: more Americans have been killed in disputes over parking spots than on the NYC subway this year
Spot on, from @bakerdphd.bsky.social. Higher ed did NOT defend academic freedom in the McCarthy era, and most faculty were silent or indifferent.
And now?
“the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Fund, Inc., which was set to receive at least some of the settlement funding, was administratively dissolved in September by Florida officials after it did not submit a mandatory annual report” And poof! $63 million ‘disappears’
Bribery law is a joke.
Reminder for everyone to submit your response to the NSF DCL about NCAR by this Friday! Tell your friends. Also call your representatives while you’re at it 😅 agu.quorum.us/campaign/154...
I'm afraid I can't just sit here and say nothing when another law professor gives false testimony to Congress about the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Ilan Wurman has given false testimony to Congress, being fully on notice of the falsity. I do not think this is fairly debatable. 1.
Not going to get that from Matt!
It’s Matt Ridley, to save you some time. A man born into almost everything he’s done and caused the first bank run in the UK for a century as well as being clueless on climate change and COVID. Big Tufton St vibes though…
Beat rising gas prices with this one weird trick.
Are you a young academic working on climate and feel ready for a move? We are recruiting two Assistant/Associate Professors @granthamicl.bsky.social at Imperial College London @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social (1/6)
Join NASEM on the evening of March 17 for the 27th Annual Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture, featuring Dr. Larry Mayer (University of New Hampshire). Learn details of Dr. Mayer's talk, register, and tune into the livestream on the event webpage: www.nationalacademies.org/projects/DEL...
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
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indeed.
Odd article. Lots of sensible reasons for embracing EVs and reducing dependence on global oil markets, and then says not to talk about the 'toxic partisan politics of climate change'. Brain rot.
🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/o...
Maybe worth pointing out that people have wanted something like this for ages. For instance, it was the top recommendation from this workshop in 2008!
www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/gschmi...
This is going to be useful: The CMIP Rapid Evaluation Framework (REF) for derived data from the CMIP archives:
dashboard.climate-ref.org
Still working out the kinks and focused on CMIP6, but will expand for CMIP7.
#CMIP2026
i don't think that can be assessed with this set of models - most are concentration driven. But if your question is whether the rate of warming is a function of the emissions/year, then, sure. I imagine there are some papers on that (or there will be upcoming).
Is there an acceleration in global warming expected in the CMIP6 climate models? yes! But not as easy to detect in the real world.
(from www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...)
(see also: www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar... from 2024).
RealClimate: How robust is our accelerometer? www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
somewhat against my better judgement, I signed up for remote attendance for the #CMIP2026 conference starting in two hours (in Japan). It runs 8pm to 4am (NY time) for the next week. People trying to get anything from me over this period are going to be disappointed. 🤷
cmip2026.org
Model calibration - this is impossible at scale using previous methods. www.giss.nasa.gov/pubs/abs/el0...
He convinced himself that he did nothing wrong (it’s the kids that are confused!) and so he sees nothing wrong in repeating the ‘error’. He is who he is.
Heads up for those that celebrate: #NitrogenTuesday is on March 24th* this year.
Feel free to prep your Nitrogen-related science communication efforts! 🧪
*It is a floating feast always two Tuesday's before Good Friday.
Stand Up for Science NYC
Great speeches, inspired by all the young scientists who spoke out!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
John makes the key points. What happens going forward depends on *why* things have changed which is still unclear.
Excellent summary of where we are and where we might want to be.
March 7, 1980 – Carbon Balance in Northern Ecosystems and the Potential Effect of Carbon Dioxide Induced Climatic Change
allouryesterdays.info/2026/03/06/m...
Bosh.
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