COMMENTARY: We should believe President Trump

28.10.2025

'If you've ever wondered what 185+mph winds sound like, here you are.

Category 5 hurricane Malissa is absolutely battering Jamaica at the moment.

Terrifying.'

via Met4CastUK [X] #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Melissa

Thanks to some vigilant friends out there, I have a nearly-complete 87-hour radar loop of #Melissa 's approach to #Jamaica. The loop abruptly ends when the radar is lost (either loss of communication with it or loss of the actual structure).
bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/radar/

Simply incredible imagery of Hurricane Melissa this morning as it approaches Jamaica.

...is there a weather peens account on this platform yet?

Science!!!

The Sacramento weather service office just sent an email detailing product changes amid "critically reduced staffing"
Highlights:
Phone lines no longer answered
Reduced staffing from 6pm to 6am
Forecast discussions issued only 1x/day
Limited social media posting
Advisories mainly issued by day shift

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression WASHINGTON—Warning that Americans should brace themselves for an economic “period of transition,” President Donald Trump told reporters Monday that a recession would be an unfortunate but necessary st...

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression

This gets my vote. Taskmaster is absolutely phenomenal and never fails to lighten my mood.

Not able to message from the looks of it, but I'm interested in helping.

Up-to-date NWS upper air network map

Weather balloon cuts at Omaha NE and Rapid City SD

Balloon launches suspended to once per day at six locations in the middle of the U.S.

NWS just announced a major reduction in upper-air (weather balloon) observations due to staffing shortages.

Omaha and Rapid City losing balloon launches altogether, with launches cut in half at 6 other sites.

Losing this many launches could affect severe weather forecasting and computer models.

NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes SILVER SPRING, MD—As mass firings of career experts and scientists continued to roil the federal government, officials confirmed Friday that cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...

NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

Me: BATMAN BEGINS is great, but I was amused by the writers’-fiat plot device that a place can be SO corrupt that some reasonably-organized foreign actor can just puppeteer it on a whim.

Me, 20 years later: fuck

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.

Smashed records.

Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

A universe in motion seen from the International Space Station during a night pass over Earth (view fullscreen).

physics of climate impacts 101:
- Stuff gets hot (worse heatwaves)
- Hot air holds more water vapor (heavier rainfall)
- Hot air is thirstier air (higher drought risk)
- Warm water is hurricane food (stronger storms)
- Hot water expands and hot ice melts (sea level rise)

Is this the Warrior Poet Society asshole? Not surprised a Christian Nationalist would be whining about bookstores.

Going to be keeping a close eye out for news on the Thwaites Glacier in the coming days... concerning if what I saw earlier is true. #DoomsdayGlacier

"We can't stop it anymore, but we owe it to our children to learn from it."

Kris Van Steenbergen referring to the dooms day glacier Thwaites.

40% of the worlds population
resides in coastal areas.

I'm thinking we should teach our children to swim? 😳

Childhood Vaccination Rates Were Falling Even Before the Rise of R.F.K. Jr. (Gift Article) The declines began with the pandemic, well before routine vaccines became part of the national political conversation.

The rise of anti-science is depressing and dangerous for everyone.

Gold Banner on Red Background: Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING! Nobody Asked For It; Everyone Hates It

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

Be darking up early

the aurora from space 🌌

The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky