Tom Di Liberto

Woo! Congrats!!

To put this data gap in Africa into perspective for those in the US, here's DRC, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia overlayed on the United States.

Moving north: Warmer waters expand populations of deep-water cartilaginous fishes into Arctic waters Continental shelf and deep ocean ecosystems are increasingly exposed to anthropogenic pressures including commercial fishing and climate change related environmental stressors. Among the most…

Moving north: Warmer waters expand populations of deep-water cartilaginous fishes into Arctic waters | PLOS One

Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

In my workshops I argue that stories are like hammers—we can use them to build houses or break kneecaps.

In new NYT profile @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social says,
“The idea that stories are these magical devices that will do all our work for us is, itself, a bad story.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

Do forecasts suggest we're heading into an El Nino later this year? Yup!

Would an El Nino mean a surge in global temperatures? Yeah, most likely (on a ~6ish month lag)

Is climate change boosting the forecast ONI (not the RONI)? Uh Huh

Is it too early to talk El Nino strength? IMO, yes.
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Seeing this ENSO forecast shared a bit. Let me put my ENSO hat on for a sec to say a couple things.
1. This uses a 1981-2010 climo which will boost the anomaly numbers.
2. This doesn't use the Relative Oceanic Nino index (RONI), which would slash these anomaly numbers by, my guess, 0.5C
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The discrepancy between water year to date precipitation and snowpack at California's snow-monitoring (SNOTEL) stations is remarkable. Just 40% of the precipitation remains locked up as snowpack, the second-lowest percentage since 1981, amid above-normal temps and rainy-dominated storms this winter.

I haven't looked at how the atmosphere averaged over winter was set up, but I'd imagine a big ridge of high pressure out West and a trough out East.

Now why would the West see such a huge area with record-breaking heat, while the East was only sorta cold?

🌎 🔥. Climate change shifting things up

This winter is such a great example of shifting baselines. As someone in the east, it was cold this winter. Full stop. But it "felt" even more frigid because we haven't had such cold recently.

It was cold but not historically so. But good heavens look at that record-breaking heat out West. 🔥

And yet another long standing weather and climate dataset to be terminated. While other reanalyses provide higher resolution data, none are available in as close to real-time (lag ~36 hours) as R1. #weather #climate @wxmanms1.bsky.social

Teek and Tom | Ocean Today Ocean Today’s Teek and Tom Explore Planet Earth is NOAA’s first ever animated series all About the ocean-weather-climate connection.

P.S. The only thing that's somehow left at NOAA is the cartoon I made!
Teek and Tom lives on!
oceantoday.noaa.gov/teekandtom/
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Not gone? Climate change. That's still around and getting worse.

But also not gone from that fight? Me

If the last year taught me anything, it's the power of people and community to fight for what's right.

Here's to a better year.

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It's a weird day. Today marks the one-year anniversary of my illegal firing from NOAA. And what a year it has been.

In the last year, I've seen pretty much my entire 15 year NOAA career attacked.

Bye Climate Prediction Center
Bye Climate.gov
Bye State Deptartment climate work

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Climate coverage is shrinking. We're expanding it. Announcing a new weekly video podcast!

the epidemic of men launching podcasts about nothing has gotten out of control

to combat this I am launching a podcast WITH A WOMAN (veteran climate journalist Tracy Wholf) to talk about stuff that actually matters (the planet being destroyed by the worst people alive)

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The southern region was impacted by an atmospheric river that gained additional moisture by passing over a marine heatwave in the Atlantic.

Our colleagues at @climatecentral.org found that this marine heatwave was made 10x more likely by climate change. 4/5

EN ESPAÑOL » Yale Climate Connections Yale Climate Connections En Español

We're proud to launch Yale Climate Connections' Spanish-language page—a place dedicated to sharing how climate change impacts politics, health, immigration, and our communities facing extreme events.

Here's the entire radar run of the February 22-23 2026 Blizzard, using @noaa.gov's MRMS dataset.

#snOMG @spann.bsky.social

Hang it in the louvre

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This storm is forecast for tomorrow night into Monday. And the range of snowfall totals for the DC area from @nws.noaa.gov is 0.5 to 10 inches. I don't think I can remember a winter storm this close to happening with such uncertainty.
www.weather.gov/lwx/winter

🍫 Human-caused warming is bringing more extreme heat to West Africa, which produces 70% of the world’s cocoa, the key ingredient in chocolate.

In growing regions of Côte d’Ivoire & Ghana (over half of global supply), heat above 90°F now occurs ~40 more days per year on average.

☕Climate change and coffee = Not great for coffee

Conveniently forgotten.

@ipcc.bsky.social AR6 SPM C.3 :

"Hard limits to adaptation have been reached in some ecosystems (high confidence). With increasing global warming, losses and damages will increase and additional human and natural systems will reach adaptation limits (high confidence)."

UCS Joins Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Unlawful Endangerment Finding Repeal UCS Joins Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Unlawful Endangerment Finding Repeal

Today, @ucs.org joins @earthjustice.org and others challenging the Trump Administration's Endangerment Finding repeal.

These moves abandon the EPA's mission to protect people’s health and its legal obligation under the Clean Air Act and they must be held to account. www.ucs.org/about/news/u...

Great to speak at the Price Forbes Aviation Forum in Bogota earlier this month. I discussed air turbulence and climate change. How bad can it get? Potentially quite bad, I think...

🌹Roses are red,
🌊The ocean is blue.
🌍Climate science matters,
💚And so do YOU.

Happy #ValentinesDay from Climate Central💙

Things are less than ideal right now. Here are some climate-themed valentines to, at least, maybe put a slight smile on your face.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

It's been hot across the West and cold across the East. Why? Join us for the next Monthly Climate Brief as we dig in. And stay for a live demo of a new Climate Central tool designed to help you understand and tell local climate stories.

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