MARINE HEAT WAVES ACCELERATING RATE OF INCREASE
Marine heat waves have increased at an accelerating rate since 1960 with, a jump up from 2015. Surface area affected increased a dramatic 7.7-fold in 25 years.
New York Times, 17 June 2025
Above worst-case IPCC scenario

Trump is worried he’s going to lose in 2026.

So to shield himself from the voters, he told Texas Republicans to redraw our state’s political maps — in the middle of the decade — to manufacture 5 new seats and protect their majority in Congress.

It’s cheating. Plain and simple.

My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trump’s redistricting power grab.

Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first he’ll have to come through us.

It’s time to fight back.

Trump's Presidential Library is gonna be a windowless panel van

So when Jeffrey Epstein was asked if he ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18, he took the 5th. (and he added the 4th and 6th.)

He didn't say no.

This keeps getting better.

For a very weird definition of "better."

thecommoncoalition.com/wp-content/u...

Louisiana is latest state to redefine natural gas -- a planet-warming fossil fuel -- as green energy Louisiana is the latest state to redefine natural gas as green energy, even though it’s a fossil fuel that emits planet-warming greenhouse gases.

Your 'moment of kakistocracy' for today:

"Louisiana is the latest state to redefine natural gas as green energy under a new law the Republican governor signed this week, even though it’s a fossil fuel that emits planet-warming greenhouse gases."

apnews.com/article/loui...

Owl core

Ireland just became Europe’s newest coal-free country Ireland just shut down its last coal plant – part of a clean energy shift that’s making Europe coal-free, one country at a time.

Ireland joins the growing number of nations that are now coal free for electricity generation. 💪 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 electrek.co/2025/06/20/i...

Bar graph showing zonal mean surface air temperature anomalies for the period of March to May 2025. Most all latitude bands observed above average temperature anomalies, especially in the Northern Hemisphere.

Looking across each latitude band, nearly all areas averaged temperatures on the warmer side for the last three months combined. Unsurprisingly, some of these larger temperature departures were over the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.

Data from data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

Yassss! Go Team 💙

Home The critical annual update revealing the latest trends in global carbon emissions

The ocean takes up a quarter of our CO2-emissions. If that share declines as marine ecosystems become increasingly stressed by ocean heating and pollution, we are in trouble.
#WorldOceanDay
globalcarbonbudget.org

Now on Substack; a few subtle observations on the inevitable Trump - Musk meltdown. johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/ketamine-a...

Pharmacy benefit managers’ business practices have operated with little regulation, transparency, and accountability for far too long.

Illinois is putting an end to that and leading the nation in bringing transparency to PBM drug pricing.

Arte Johnson ain't claiming him! 😆

Mike Johnson never picks up his spine from Coat Check....

Paraphrasing Heather Cox Richardson:
The key to the rise of authoritarianism is the use of language and false history.
Once people internalize their leader's propaganda, it doesn't matter when pieces of it are proven to be lies, because it has become central to their identity.

Global map showing surface air temperature anomalies for the February 2025 to April 2025 period across the entire planet. Most all areas were warmer than average, especially in the Arctic. This data set is from NOAA's NOAAGlobalTempv6.0.0 using anomalies with a 1971-2000 climate baseline. Red is shown for warmer than average temperatures, and blue is shown for colder than average temperatures.

Reflecting on temperatures averaged over the last 3 months - what's it like in your area?

🟥 warmer than average
🟦 colder than average

Dataset (NOAAGlobalTempv6) described in doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...

@craigunger.bsky.social

Earth is heading for a second year above 1.5°C climate goal After record temperatures in 2024, climate scientists had expected this year to be cooler, but instead the planet seems to be heading for a second year above the 1.5°C climate goal

www.newscientist.com/article/2480...

Your 'bonus² moment of doom' for today: winning!

"the latest climate data reveals global temperatures remain extremely high, with 2025 on course to rival 2024 as the hottest year on record."

www.newscientist.com/article/2480...

Daphne's Leaves, Leaving Daphne
acrylic on canvas
24 x 36 inches
#artshare #art #blueskyart

Large volcanic eruptions have a major climate cooling effect. But the eruptions we've had in the past 170 years have been relatively mild compared to those in the more distant past.

Here are climate model simulations of major eruptions since 1750 using FaIR:

NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations

Due to the current gap in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program is pausing most operations effective 12 May 2025. Nearly all staff will be furloughed until funds from our existing NSF grant become available. For more information, see buff.ly/d2TC1Oy

NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations

This is a seismic gut punch to the weather enterprise.

It is impossible to overstate how important @unidata.bsky.social is in implementing many datasets/libraries (LDM, netCDF, THREDDS, metPy) we currently use in meteorological research & operations.

www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...

Good news: after being out for three weeks, the Ocean Heat Content data produced by @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social and hosted by @noaa.gov AOML are back online.
Keep your fingers crossed (and contact your representatives in Congress) that the data and people who maintain it all stick around. [1/2]

This photograph captures Sir David Attenborough seated outdoors on the rugged terrain of Skomer Island. Behind him, the ocean and coastal cliffs form a scenic backdrop under a clear sky. Sir David, dressed in a khaki jacket and light trousers, looks towards the camera with a gentle expression, exuding a sense of warmth, calm, and wisdom. Around him, puffins can be seen flying and perched on the rocky ground, illuminated in rays of golden sunlight as the sun sets behind the cliffs.

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉

Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.

You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.