Stacy Porter

I mean let’s call it a carbon tariff. No one seems to know how those work anyway.

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...

Nat Geo would kill for legit science-driven adventure like they found in “For Winter,” over content less credibly grounded in pursuit of knowledge +humans pushing limits. Instead they’ve (Disney?) gotten cold feet & deeply disrespected my colleague Ali & her family. defector.com/why-did-nati...

Motherfucking wind farms…

And to cut to the chase, this M8.7 earthquake is *not likely at all* to have any impact on volcanic activity in Kamchatka or anywhere around the Pacific. Don't believe hype you might see claiming otherwise.

Due to mass confusion, clarifying again:

Tsunami Watch: Tsunami of indeterminate magnitude is possible; stand by.
Tsunami Advisory: Tsunami is likely *but will probably be small.* Evacuations unlikely.
Tsunami Warning: Tsunami is likely *and may be large.* Evacuations needed.

Overall I would prefer fewer horrors

How your research can survive a US federal grant termination Researchers in the United States are filing appeals, seeking court remedies, turning to philanthropy and starting GoFundMe campaigns.

This rollercoaster of a @nature.com story is out! I talked to > 20 researchers whose grants were terminated; several were reinstated recently. Most are competing for smaller pots of $ to keep research--often involving marginalized community groups--alive.

Advice: “If at all possible, push back.”

Gutted by this, but a silver lining is 10 months of Colbert with nothing to lose.

I heard from a TV show who is looking for a scientist in the DC area to come on to talk about severe weather. If that's you, send me email (adessler@tamu.edu).

another perfect Rolling Stone headline: MAN AFRAID TO RIDE SUBWAY NAMED HEAD OF NASA Trump tapped Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to lead the space program on an interim basis

Rolling Stone continues to teach a masterclass in headline writing www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave

Big up to @rdzombak.bsky.social for bringing eyes to this story. 🧪

So many people beyond my little cohort of fellows are impacted by slowdowns at NOAA. America is rapidly losing footing as a leader in climate science and we all are paying the cost.

I use Dr. Montano's book in my upper-level extreme weather course, and students find it very eye-opening. I highly recommend it!

Disasterology Audiobook on Libro.fm Part memoir, part expert analysis, Disasterology is a passionate and personal account of a country in crisis—one unprepared to deal with the disasters of today and those looming in our future.With tem...

The audiobook of Disasterology: Dispatches From The Frontlines of the Climate Crisis is on sale for only $6 if you've been meaning to listen to it! Thanks @tkovach.bsky.social for letting me know!

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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Women may be discouraged from becoming climate scientists if they perceive the field as male-biased, but little is known about gender in climate science. An analysis of over 400,000 publications shows that men and women in climate science have similar degrees of productivity, success, and connectedness with other scientists, and publish in high-prestige journals at similar rates. However, the analysis also shows that women have marginally shorter careers, which leads to cumulatively fewer publications. Scholars have long been concerned about gender representation in scientific research but there has been little work on gender differences in participation and performance in climate science, a field that engages with both male-majority disciplines (e.g., geosciences, engineering) and female-majority disciplines (e.g., life sciences, medical science). This has implications for both gender equity and viewpoint representation. Sampling over 400,000 publications and a similar number of authors, we examine gender differences in several scholarly outcomes including publication count, career survival, coauthor gender, journal status, and mean citation count. We find men and women are similarly productive, successful, and connected, though women have shorter research careers and thus fewer papers. We also find gender homophily effects in collaboration, but no evidence of gender bias in peer review.

"Women climate scientists are connected, productive, and successful but have shorter careers"
Accessible, though paywalled at doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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The National Climate Assessment, and all special reports and past assessments, are now offline. Federal climate science is being systematically erased.

might help:
1 calling your reps
2 organizing your community
3 joining a local direct-action group
4 attending protests
5 volunteering
6 canvassing

won't help:
7 yelling that we're doomed
8 bragging about how cynical you've always been
9 sneering at people doing 1-6

A comparison of what we see from geostationary infrared imagery vs. what we get when passive microwave imagery like what SSMIS provides is available.

This is Hurricane Otis in 2023 as it was gearing up for extremely rapid intensification prior to impacting Acapulco as a category 5 storm.

Watch: NSF staff protest the takeover of their building today by Gov. Youngkin and Trump's HUD, chanting "NSF! NSF!"

National Science Foundation Staff Booted From Headquarters - Eos Staff at the National Science Foundation (NSF) were notified on 25 June that the agency’s office space, located in Alexandria, Va., will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development (H...

I know there’s a lot of news right now but this is really crazy. They’re booting the National Science Foundation out of its newish building with no plans for where 1800 people are going to go.

This came up in my reels a few days ago & I haven't been able to stop thinking about it

The bees from My Girl have endorsed Cuomo

Video captured the moment a road buckled and sent a car flying as a heatwave impacted Missouri on Sunday.

A brown bulletin board featuring strips of blue, red, and white paper representing temperature anomalies.

One of my favorite activities with students is creating temperature stripes of daily temperature anomalies throughout the semester. I think it gives them a better sense of what climate stripes represent! #ShowYourStripes

CHAPTER 13 Downsizing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Valerie J. Karplus and Costa Samaras Carnegie Mellon University The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) plays a vital role in the United States' ability to anticipate and respond to short- and long-term threats to security, health, and resilience. NOAA is an agency within the Department of Commerce that tracks and predicts changes in weather, climate, coastal lands, and oceans, enabling actions that prevent damage to life and property. From avoiding deaths due to extreme weather, to averting collisions of objects in space, to informing decisions of farmers and fishers, NOAA offices constantly generate trusted, open information that has profound, tangible benefits for people and businesses. NOAA is facing the potential of losing more than 25% of its current $6 billion budget.' Without NOAA, the US economy will be no match for everyday events, and woefully unprepared for climate change. As one of the world's premier weather and climate change research agencies, NOAA provides data, tools, and information to help advance the scientific understanding of climate change and its impacts.? Essential weather data used widely across both the public and private sectors in the US originates with NOAA.' Helping the public and businesses understand how heat,* drought,' floods," sea level rise,' and other hazards are changing can allow communities to better prepare for climate change and manage impacts. However, risk from climate impacts is a combination of how hazards change, if people and infrastructure are in harm's way of these hazards, and how vulnerable these communities are to damages when extreme weather shows up. NOAA connects these concepts and serves as a critical climate resilience agency, enabling communities to assess climate risks and take action.® NOAA provides on-the-ground resources for communities to build up the local workforce and capacity

Here’s the first page of our new article on the value of NOAA to the United States, which starts on page ~175~ of this free PDF book.

In the business, posting a full page of text with refs and footnotes as part of a giant PDF is called a ~teaser~

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Hi, pardon me, hello: mass protest in the face of fascism is a great idea and in fact the only thing that works to actually combat it. anyone saying otherwise is an idiot. sorry, i cannot anymore with this shit. do the fucking reading!

This is infuriating! There are/were so many excellent teaching materials on their website.

Hell of a photo

Remember folks, women are too emotional to be president.