@ericsteig.bsky.social
Glaciologist and isotope geochemist. Research focus is the climate of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
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23.03.2025 17:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
after reading this, I subscribed to @theverge.com
we need to support outlets who are holding those in power to account
www.theverge.com/policy/63339...
Read this and weep. Use Google translate if you don't speak French. Short version is: French researcher not allowed to enter US because he had personal texts or emails criticizing Trump. This was equated with "terrorism" by the US officials.
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Skillful weather forecasting, along with the increased preparedness it allows, is a landmark achievement of not only the US but of the human race. There are few other fields in the sciences where skillful prediction has had such an immense impact on our society.
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
The New York Times reports that American business leaders are surprised Trump is following through on tariffs. But he's expressed his love of tariffs for the last 40 years!
I would dearly love to know: Are American business leaders greedy because they are stupid, or stupid because they are greedy?
🚨 HUGE news from Canada's tricouncils who are harmonizing their scholarship & fellowship programs, upping the total number (huzzah!), and critically, allowing foreigners to apply for doctoral and postdoc fellowships. Want to work with me? Get in touch! 🇨🇦🧪⚒️
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
Friendly reminder: if you are waiting on something from a US-based scientist/reviewer/editor, please realize that we're barely making it through each day putting out non-stop fires and trying not to collapse into tears. We're trying our best, but things will take longer right now. Give grace.
03.03.2025 19:22 — 👍 9117 🔁 1529 💬 212 📌 85
Pleased to announce the publication of the study led by Ben Hills on crystal fabric at Hercules Dome, Antarctica.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Yes, but you are not giong to pretend that eating organic granola will solve the problem.
28.02.2025 20:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Prediction: Other countries are going to require US citizens to have proof of various vaccinations which are currently not required because the US has previously been certified as a measles-free (meaning very very low incidence) country by the WHO. That certification will expire, and not be renewed.
28.02.2025 16:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"The US took nearly a century to craft its rich scientific ecosystem; if the unraveling that has taken place over the past month continues, Americans will feel the effects for decades to come."
www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
That's a wierd title. NOAA *scientists* most certainly would not have "refused to kink warming weather to climate change." Trump-appointed non-scientists, yeah, I'm sure they did refuse.
25.02.2025 20:43 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Trump administration's attacks on science are a national security threat.
25.02.2025 18:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"The federal civilian worker payroll totaled $271 billion in 2022. The annual cost of extending Trump's tax cuts that primarily benefited the rich? $400 billion. Keep this in mind as Trump and Elon lay off thousands of federal workers." -- former United States Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich.
16.02.2025 17:20 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Yes, yes it would. (The risk is, of course, that the Supreme Court would ulimately decide, and they sycophant are in the majority.)
16.02.2025 17:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Was that a *directive* or a suggestion?
12.02.2025 19:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Pity is the sentiment I feel most.
My anger is reserved for the folks (e.g. each and every Republican senator, including the “moderates”) who could have ended this madness four years ago, and still could.
Comparison of model-predicted and observed global surface temperatures by Zeke Hausfather
I've been encountering over the past few days the claim that the planet is warming twice as fast as predicted. This is entirely untruthful and unhelpful.
The planet is warming AS fast as predicted, which is cause enough for dramatic action.
The truth is bad enough!
Can refugees from the US, with 30+ years experience, apply?
04.02.2025 17:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Not to suggest that any of this is okay, but I think that accuracy about what is happening is criticially important.
03.02.2025 22:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Broader Impacts, including efforts at diversifying the scientific workforce, are part of US Law governing the NSF. (I just learned this today). However, I think we're just speculating about which words will cause "offsense", and that grants will be "canceled" if they have the wrong words.
03.02.2025 22:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🔥New paper alert! 🔥🧪❄️🥼
Ever wondered what to consider when drilling through an ice sheet into rock? We take you through how we chose a drill site in West #Antarctica using field observations, samples, radar survey, modelling & satellite imagery.
tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/... @bas.ac.uk
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It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives
31.01.2025 04:54 — 👍 37811 🔁 9960 💬 863 📌 356There are no "natural" disasters.
30.01.2025 22:53 — 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0Of course. But it doesn't change the fact that the way that corporations and educational institutions have approached "DEI" contributed in a non-neglibable way to Trump's win. Exclusionary and coercive politics under the guise of "expertise" doesn't work.
30.01.2025 13:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Important paper in Nature today about collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. There is a positive isotope anomaly at Skytrain Ice Rise during the last interglacial, consistent with what we found in our high-resolution water-isotope simulations when WAIS collapses.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is a "must read" essay, from @climatehuman.bsky.social (Peter Kalmus).
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...
Congratulations to my great friend Richard Alley, who was awarded the National Medal of Science today.
nationalmedals.org/stories/the-...
