Andrew Freedman

A leading Democrat in the Senate just released an important report documenting how NASA has been working to implement the president's proposed budget, not Congressionally approved funds, in slashing missions. Read more ⬇️

And with the 15z advisories -- #Hurricane #Imdelda & #Humberto are just 479 miles apart.

This might be the closest two simultaneous hurricanes have ever been in the Atlantic basin in the satellite era (since ~1975).

Close enough for their outer sfc circulations to interact as well.

Trump is handing out public land and millions of dollars to revive big coal, sending advocates reeling | CNN While the Trump administration wages war against clean energy, it is now vowing to lease millions of acres of public lands at a discount and spend hundreds of millions of dollars to prop up the most p...

"Beautiful clean coal" really feeling the love from the Trump admin this wk, w/ 13.1 million acres of public lands opened to mining and $625 million to keep power plants open. It'll be interesting to see if these measures are enough to make coal competitive. www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/c...

What happens if a hurricane makes landfall while the government is shut down | CNN Tropical Storm Imelda swirling off the Southeast coast is a stark reminder that the potential government shutdown looms during the middle of the Atlantic hurricane season.

With two tropical cyclones currently spinning off the Southeast Coast, it's worth asking, what happens if a hurricane hits the US during a gov't shutdown? Details here about how NOAA and FEMA may fare... www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/w...

Goals are to cut emissions from peak year (likely 2025) of 7-10% by 2035. The renewables goals are eye-popping though, especially compared to the capacity in other countries like the US.

China commits to cutting up to 10% of its climate pollution, short of the goal other countries sought of it | CNN The goal, announced via video by Chinese President Xi Jinping, falls far short of the 30% cuts the Biden administration had been pressing for.

China commits to new emissions reduction goals, but they're far short of where other countries & activists had hoped. In making the announcement, President Xi Jinping seemingly dinged the US' focus on fossil fuels... www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/c...

Think of it as detectives gathering evidence at a crime scene.

How to track the super polluters next door | CNN A new tool allows people in the world’s largest metros to track their air pollution exposure and who’s doing the polluting.

Innovative new "plume" maps from @climatetrace.org show you how to identify and track emissions from the polluters you're exposed to. www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/c...

Where ‘day-zero droughts’ could happen as soon as this decade | CNN Many parts of world face are predicted to endure periods of unprecedented extreme water scarcity, which could happen as soon as this decade in certain hotspots.

Startling new study on water resources finds that "Day Zero" droughts can be anticipated within this decade in certain hotspots, incl. North America. www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/c... Via @laurapaddison.bsky.social

In 2021, the blob -- aka marine heat wave in the Pacific -- killed over a billion sea creatures. www.scientificamerican.com/article/paci....

Map showing sea surface temperature anomalies across the North Pacific Ocean Basin as of Sept. 18, 2025.

The Pacific "blob" is back, except this time it stretches across the entire North Pacific Ocean Basin. This is altering weather patterns, led to Japan's hottest summer on record, and could affect your winter weather too. Also hit hard is marine life. www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/c...

Record wildfire smoke kills more people each year than car crashes. It’s about to get worse. The past six summers have been the smokiest on record. New research shows that smoke could become the costliest consequence of climate change for Americans.

It's not your imagination: Wildfire smoke in the U.S. has dramatically worsened since 2019. According to a new study, it's already killing 41,000 people a year - and it's poised to get much worse.

new from me @johnmuyskens.bsky.social and @sadbumblebee.buzz

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Trump admin escalates space race with China, banning visa-holding scientists from working at NASA | CNN NASA has banned Chinese citizens with US visas from participating in agency programs — a dramatic escalation in the space race between China and the United States.

NEW: NASA has banned scientists from China with US visas from working at the space agency, cutting access to facilities, supercomputers, conference calls etc. W/ @jackiewattles.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/s...

Trump administration dissolves climate contrarian group that authored controversial report | CNN The group’s end can be traced to a lawsuit alleging the group’s formation violated federal law in several ways.

In case you haven't seen, DOE did confirm the disbanding with CNN. The report is not being withdrawn at this point, though. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/c...

Trump administration dissolves climate contrarian group that authored controversial report | CNN The group’s end can be traced to a lawsuit alleging the group’s formation violated federal law in several ways.

NEW: Trump administration dissolves group that authored controversial report sowing doubt in the severity of climate change. BUT the report the working group produced is not being withdrawn. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/c...

Scientists trace heat waves back to individual fossil fuel companies, with potentially sweeping courtroom implications | CNN For the first time, scientists have quantified the causal links between worsening heat waves and global warming pollution from individual fossil fuel and cement companies, pushing the boundaries of ex...

Groundbreaking climate study ties individual fossil fuel companies to extreme heat events, a potential game-changer for climate lawsuits. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/c...

Trump Is Dismantling Climate Science at a Dangerous Pace The White House has blocked efforts to measure, respond to and fight global warming. That puts all Americans at risk.

The Trump administration, from the CDC to EPA to NOAA, is going to war with established climate science.

I, along w/@blkahn.bsky.social @eroston.bsky.social, try to capture the big picture of what's already happened & what's at stake.

Gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

EPA moves to suspend >100 employees w/out pay who signed a letter criticizing the agency's actions under current leadership for "conduct unbecoming of a federal employee." www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/c...

Are you in DC on Saturday? Stop by the Library of Congress National Book Festival and say hi! www.loc.gov/events/2025-...

This is AI2ES, my AI institute. No way around it other than to say this is really awful. We are doing so many amazing things! We want to keep doing amazing things but without this level of funding, we will not be able to do so.

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

For example, the comments fault the report for failing to note the acceleration in sea level rise, and for faulting climate models when in fact they have matched up well with reality www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/c... 4/4

The comments, which amount to a peer review of a scientific assessment that itself did NOT undergo peer review, notes “pervasive problems with misrepresentation and selective citation of the scientific literature” 3/

The comments criticize the report for containing errors, having a high rate of self-citations, ignoring relevant studies with contrary findings, and “cherry-picking of data, and faulty or absent statistics” 2/

More than 85 climate scientists filed >400 pages of public comments today pushing back against the findings of the DOE’s Climate Working Group Report. A 🧵

This is a really nice piece by Scientific American's Andrea Thompson on the progress we've made improving hurricane forecasting. It's hard to understand why something that's had bipartisan support for decades, and is demonstratively cost-effective, is about to be thrown under the bus.

There’s a new world order in the Atlantic Ocean, and Hurricane Erin gave us a frightening peek | CNN When Hurricane Erin explosively intensified in the Atlantic, the alarming part wasn’t solely how dangerous it had become as a Category 5 monster: It was also just how typical such an ultra-rapid rate ...

I spoke with some of the top experts on how climate change is affecting Atlantic hurricanes, specifically when it comes to rapid intensification. It was... unsettling. Here's the story that resulted: www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/c...

Climate.gov will re-launch under new URL thanks to a secret team of web ninjas | CNN A small group of writers and researchers are launching an ambitious effort to preserve key climate data that the Trump administration has taken offline, including the climate.gov website.

New nonprofit climate group forms, aims to resurrect climate.gov, National Climate Assessment and other lost data www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...

Trump administration pushes ahead with NOAA climate and weather cuts Despite congressional resistance, agency aims to cut research spending now

Important story from @voosen.me on FY'25 cuts to NOAA's climate, weather research programs that bring spending below what Congress authorized. Hints at the bigger research cuts to come in FY'26. www.science.org/content/arti...

Emerging evidence of abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment - Nature Abrupt changes are developing across Antarctica’s ice, ocean and biological systems; some of these changes are intensifying faster than equivalent Arctic changes, potentially irreversibly, and their i...

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