Celeste Labedz

How the DOE and EPA used and misused my research Elevating contrarian views while burying the actual science

On The Climate Brink, Zeke Hausfather explains how the recent DOE climate report, written by climate contrarians, misrepresents his work.

www.theclimatebrink....

Cheyenne to host data center using more electricity than all state homes A massive AI data center proposed near Cheyenne, Wyoming, would use more electricity than all homes in the state combined. Mayor Patrick Collins calls it a

Honestly what is even the point of individual effort on climate anymore? I can conserve all I want but these fuckwads come in and open an AI (that nobody needs) data center that will use more power than the entire state put together.

www.ksl.com/article/5135...

YouTube video by NOAAPMEL Kamchatka Tsunami, July 29, 2025 tsunami propagation

Here is @noaa.gov's model of the tsunami propagation from the people at PMEL, initiated with the earthquake location and then calibrated by the DART buoy observations. There is a wealth of great information at their website (link in thread). (1/6) ⚒️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOtJ...

Those of us who do study the 90s can point to the fact that anti-affirmative action backlash was a studied project of the right that got laundered by venues like the NYT just as anti-trans stuff is today, eg:

www.sup.org/books/sociol...

I am begging journalists to stop platforming him. These objects are SO EXCITING and there are people doing really good science on them and he is not one of them.

YouTube video by NOVA PBS Official The Next Big Earthquake Could Sink Parts of the Pacific Northwest | NOVA | PBS

New documentary short just dropped!

@pbs.org updated their video about a Cascadia subduction (not seduction) zone earthquake and tsunami with new research from @diatomdura.bsky.social and team!

youtu.be/OQNoO1Ua-q0

A graphic of a book. The cover is a deep red and had a good line illustration of an erupting volcano.

It's about time I announced a project that I've been working on in the last year... I wrote a book!

'Volcanoes: 10 things you should know' published by @orionbooks.bsky.social Seven Dials will be out in September. It's available to pre-order now. Links: linktr.ee/volcanologist

As a Jew, I am SO ANGRY that the feds are pretending they care about me, as a pretense to extort universities.

Nobody hired Colin Wright because he was an insufferable prick doing bad science. No need to dive deeper than that.

The heterodox grift fits him like a glove, though.

Did you feel the M4.4 earthquake near Muscoy, CA, a few minutes ago? The ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system was activated. ShakeAlert estimated the magnitude at M4.7, which meets the criteria for issuing alerts to cell phones in the area near the earthquake.

A screenshot of a website with resources for how to protect yourself from smoky air

If you, like me, are living inside of a campfire today, we've got you covered at the @climateconnections.bsky.social extreme weather hub.

🔗 yaleclimateconnections.org/climate-chan...

This channel has increased the rate at which I say the word "felon" by about 1000%.

Crescent city river gauge record

Just to illustrate how long waves from a #tsunami can keep going, this is a tide gauge record from Crescent City CA (known for its sensitivity to tsunami waves due to bathymetric and resonance effects) showing significant wave activity still continues 24+ hours after their first arrival. 🧪⚒️

Readers, if you don't know, course evals are often a nightmare for women & faculty of color. I've had friends & colleagues report students commenting on their appearance, using racial slurs, & making all sorts of misogynistic comments.
white male = genius, non-white/female = pushing an agenda.

Returning science to the status quo is inadequate. They’ll print the harms of funding cuts while it gets clicks, but if their wealth is on the line, they’ll mangle our work as badly as RFK Jr does.

This is what “depoliticized” science looks like. We should politicize science as much as possible.

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

NEW: You may wonder why Japan’s 2011 mag-9.1 quake created a colossal tsunami that killed 18,000 people, while today’s mag-8.8 quake made a big, but not catastrophic, tsunami.

For @sciam.bsky.social, I explore why. (Hint: it’s because the 2011 quake was SO much stronger.)

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...

Bar graph showing the percentage for each magnitude that was described in the post

Within the next week:
🔹99% chance of magnitude 6+ aftershocks
🔹59% chance of one or more magnitude 7+ aftershocks
🔹2% chance that this earthquake becomes a foreshock to a larger earthquake (magnitude 8.8 or greater) in the next week, such an earthquake is possible but with a low probability. 2/

Totally agree. Climate change isn’t causing big subduction earthquakes. But it is raising baseline sea levels along our coasts, and that makes the impacts of those earthquakes and tsunamis worse when they do happen.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spot on! And another addition: communities whose emergency resources are already strained by climate-related natural hazards are less able to handle the effects of earthquakes when they do happen.

Why do some earthquakes generate tsunamis while others don’t? Find out in this short video. 🧪

Another year, another reminder of the GOAT of girl talk.

If I recall correctly, the term "ring of fire" for the Pacific was coined BEFORE geologists even knew what subduction was! 😆

Reminder that the 'ring of fire' isn't a real thing, old oceanic plates just subduct and that's also like half the planet right there

Tested is amazing! I learned so much and it was very engaging!

After a major earthquake, surface seismic waves orbit the planet Earth. Their passage can be recorded by broadband seismometers, such as this station from the @geo3bcn-csic.bsky.social EPYSIM project

This is like the 3rd academic I've seen this happen to in the last week

Federally funded science AND emergency management! When it comes to tsunami response, state science and emergency management partners work hand in hand to ensure the public gets the right information. Defunding either leaves a critical gap in tsunami expertise that could cost lives.