Jason Kaiser

Tomer always makes the best visualizations, but this is up there with the best... an incredible overview of #Melissa's remarkable evolution over the past 5 days.

Having been involved with this report for the past 5 years, overall takeaways IMO are:

- Good news: we know (in great detail) the things the 🌎 needs to do to stay w/in 1.5°C!
- Good news: we are doing many of the things!
- Bad news: we’re not doing ANY of the things at the necessary speed or scale!

“Millions of Americans are coming out today not because they hate America. We’re here because we love America.” #NoKings

#trumpiscooked #nokings #communityresistance

Organizers have reported 7 million attendees at the No Kings events and we’re happy to confirm 7 million and counting! More events are still happening across the country today, so we’ll need additional time to fully certify the final numbers.

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive

And do it often.

Nearly 135 GW now on OVATION as -Bz conditions continue! We could see the auroral oval keep expanding over mid-latitudes and views may dramatically improve during the next substorm expansion. Monitor resources like GOES Mag and webcams now:
go.theauroraguy.com/webcams
go.theauroraguy.com/goesmag

The auroral oval is expanding as we see more Bz south, but the next substorm will cause some nice views. We already saw one substorm, the next one is on the way. Monitor resources like webcams and magnetometers to time it right.
go.theauroraguy.com/webcams
go.theauroraguy.com/goesmag

“Here Comes the Sun”: Bill McKibben on Renewable Energy, “Sun Day” & the “Last Chance” for Climate As the Trump administration grows increasingly hostile to renewable energy, we speak with acclaimed environmentalist Bill McKibben about his new book, Here Comes the Sun, in which he lays out a hopefu...

With "extraordinary amounts of clean energy surging into the world’s energy system," the world has a chance to avert the worst of the climate crisis, says Bill McKibben. But so far, it's China taking the lead on the green transition as the U.S. doubles down on fossil fuels.

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.

Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.

Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.

It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?

I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire

Gift 🔗

Tens of thousands of protesters gather in Foley Square, NYC for Good Trouble Lives On protest. There are many signs and American flags.

Protesters kneel and sit in the streets outside of 26 Federal Plaza with large posters of people who have been taken by ICE. One person kneeling has their fist raised high in the air.

Protesters kneel and sit outside of 26 Federal Plaza. One person in a “No Kings in America” T-shirt stands, staring at the ground in a moment of silence.

People place flowers in the gated fence that surrounds 26 Federal Plaza.

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets today in NYC.

After marching, we surrounded 26 Federal Plaza—the building where ICE is kidnapping people and tearing families apart.

We sat in solidarity with those taken, and left flowers for those lost.

For what comes next go to GoodTroubleNYC.com

A recent study found that for every $1 invested in the National Weather Service, it produces $73 in value to Americans.

Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Facts

Opinion | How Far Can We Degrade Our Hurricane Forecasting Before People End Up Dead?

It's been death by a million papercuts to U.S. weather forecasts by the Trump administration, but yesterday's detailed 2026 budget feels like a deathblow. In today's @nytimes.com I ask: How far can we degrade our hurricane forecasting before people end up dead?

Signed! Join me in this quick and easy action to #StandUpForScience

Sign now and amplify!

One NOAA: Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts We're about to learn how much we've depended on the seamless functionality of NOAA.

“Each part of NOAA plays a role in monitoring, understanding, and predicting how the environment in which we live, work, and play is doing, and how it affects each of us.” Dismantling NOAA would be bad for weather forecasting, bad for our economy, and bad for public health.

NBC News updated story about NWS staffing issues and service reductions, including comments from respected former director of the NWS during modernization, Joe Friday. Glad to see that the points I made in my Substack article seem to align with his perspective. substack.com/@balancedwea...

NOAA Regional Climate Centers’ contracts are lapsing, and they are shutting down. The administration wants Congress to eliminate the NOAA office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, which supports thousands of employees and university research. It’s up to you to advocate against these cuts!

PBS and NPR are in a once-in-a-generation funding fight. They might well lose | CNN Business America’s two biggest public broadcasters, PBS and NPR, are facing an up-or-down vote over their federal funding for the first time in decades.

America's two biggest public broadcasters, PBS and NPR, are facing an up-or-down vote over their federal funding for the first time in decades. I spoke with some local station leaders about what it means 🧵 www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/m...

Lowlights:

* Only 1 per day hand-edited forecasts
* Permanent 1 per day balloon launches if 25%+ vacancy at office
* No balloon launches if an office goes to 3 shifts/day
* Reduced shifts
* Combining offices

The world's example for weather services is being destroyed.

Orange background with the text "Defend Academic Freedom" and a photo of Harvard University.

Take Action NOW to defend academic freedom and higher education. Say no to politics in our research. Sign our Open Letter below in support of institutions that are speaking out, and calling for others to join.

⬇️

sciforgood.org/support-academic-freedom/

#scienceforgood #defendresearch

Basic Netflix—$100/year
Spotify Premium—$150/year
Xbox Game Pass—$180/year

NOAA—$21/year for the average US taxpayer

White House outlines plan to gut NOAA, smother climate research The agency’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research would be “eliminated as a line office,” according to a memo from the Office of Management and Budget.

🚨 The White House has outlined a plan to dismantle NOAA—the U.S.'s top climate and weather agency—and strip it of its climate research mission.

Instead, NOAA will be forced to help boost U.S. fossil fuel production.

Here's what you need to know. 🧵

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

From April 2-9, NWS Forecast Offices issued:

• 1046 Severe T-Storm Warnings
• 485 Tornado Warnings
• 313 Flash Flood Warnings

This is the third most Severe T-Storm + Tornado Warnings issued through April 9 on record

2025 leads with the number of Valid Time Event Coding (VTEC) products to date

TODAY WE MOBILIZED OVER 3 MILLION PEOPLE ACROSS THE NATION!!!

This movement has entered the next chapter: the people will mobilize again, and again, until we make a difference.

It only takes 3.5% of the population in a sustained resistance in order to make a difference.

#50501movement

A note about what is going on. No NOAA sites are going dark right now, but NOAA has until July 31st to move the websites in question to a different host platform.

And who knows if there is funding for that or what the options are. We are nowhere near out of the woods.

Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article) Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security

I'm just going to leave this here. #Helene