Bor-Ting Jong

The IRI DL is a uniquely valuable resource for NOAA (and more) climate data. Over the last 27 years it had a huge impact (positive!) on my career. So long, and thanks for all the fish!

Droughts cause a wide range of impacts - this image shows a dry riverbed in France.

Looking for a #PhD in #ClimateExtremes?
We are advertising a project attributing causes of recent #droughts using counter-factual storylines.
Based in #Edinburgh, working with Andrew Schurer, me, @gabihegerl.bsky.social, & @edhawkins.org
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Last days to register 📣 Join us for this 2nd Workshop on #RossbyWaves, compound extremes & their impacts!

📅 19–21 January 2026
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🎙️ Dim Coumou, EXPECT researcher, will be a keynote speaker!

🔗 Register & submit your abstract by 31 October: sites.google.com/view/dynamic...

Map showing the U.S. 2025 Billion-Dollar Weather & Climate Disasters and highlights wildfires and severe weather so far through June 2025. Graphic is produced by Climate Central.

📣 The "U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters" data is back today through @climatecentral.org! And more soon!

➡️ Explore our new interactive website at www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv..., which is now updated through the first half of 2025 & totaling over $101 billion from 14 events.

Hello Bluesky!
We’re the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Here you can follow our interdisciplinary research on land use, climate change, biodiversity, and sustainability, as well as project updates and events.
Excited to share and connect here!💚🌎🌱

Researchers Are Resurrecting Billion-Dollar Disaster Tool Trump Killed Nonprofit Climate Central has hired the scientist behind a key database of costly weather disasters to rebuild it.

Scoop: The U.S. billion-dollar disaster database is set to return this fall over at @climatecentral.org. They've hired the former NOAA scientist who ran the project for 10+ years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

‘A Serious Misuse of My Research’: Climate Scientists Say New Trump Energy Report Botches Their Work “Our work has no relevance,” an astrobiologist whose research was cited in the administration’s climate change report said.

🚨 At least 10 scientists, all cited in the Trump admin's new climate change report, told me that the report completely mischaracterizes their research.

I also found five citations with significant errors, and a paragraph missing an important citation.

universities have not yet been hit hard by the budget cuts because we're still running on grants awarded during the last administration. this really shows how badly universities will be hurt, starting next year, when grants start ending and there's nothing to replace them.

Screenshot showing a variability of different climate-related graphics for different United States climate change indicators

I'd like to introduce a new page on my website: U.S. climate indicator visuals (zacklabe.com/united-state...).

I only have a few basic variables so far, but I will be expanding this summer to add a range of metrics (e.g., ecological). I welcome suggestions! Hope this is useful, especially nowadays.

Hi Karin, thank you! Hope to see you soon 😀

I had a wonderful 10-years in the US, but looking forward to new adventures. I hope to continue to collaborate with scientists in the US and expand my connections in Europe as well! Big thank you to all of the support from my family, friends, and colleagues 🙂

I can't believe it's been two months. Somehow I forgot to share, I started as an assistant professor at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social working on climate extremes and connection to changes in the carbon cycle. I'm excited about the new opportunity to work on interdisciplinary science and teams.

NOAA ends extreme weather database that tracked cost of disasters since 1980 | CNN Its discontinuation is another Trump-administration blow to the public’s view into how fossil fuel pollution is changing the world around them and making extreme weather more costly.

NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...

I keep saying this... both operationally and in research, the situation is still much worse than most people seem to realize or want to accept.

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

Welp…NSF will now suspend the awarding of new and existing research grants until further notice.

Major European institutes join race to save US science data As the administration of US President Donald Trump slashes budgets, crucial data sets on climate and other subjects could disappear.

Pangaea plans to fully incorporate the NOAA data into its own archive, which will ensure that scientists globally have access in future www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm looking forward to attending @egu.eu next week! I'll be presenting about the response of regional extreme rainfall in the Northeast US to rapid climate mitigation efforts. This is the last project I did at Princeton & NOAA GFDL. Hope to meet many new and familiar friends and colleagues! #EGU25

Stand Up for NOAA Research – The Time to Act is Now The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research, the scientific backbone that keeps weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective. This would have disastrous consequences.

Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC

'Five-alarm fire': Read the Trump proposal that could decimate climate research NOAA grants provide funding to nine cooperative institutions in California. Several branches of the agency could lose hundreds of millions of dollars.

NEW: The Trump administration proposes nearly $1.7 billion in cuts to NOAA that, if passed, could decimate weather and climate research, including funding to nine California institutions.

The @sfchronicle.com has obtained a White House document detailing the proposed budget cuts. Read it here:

🚨 We must make it absolutely clear, to anyone who will listen, that this is unacceptable. You can't just censor life-saving and cost-saving research because the results are politically inconvenient for your wealthy donors!

Yep, I still don't think people realize how dire the situation actually is internally...

NOAA just fired us, again 🤡

Retroactive to February 🤡

Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...

It has been hard to follow the developments in US (climate) science- thinking of the people affected and the science missed out on.

The latest cuts end the NOAA GFDL/PrincetonUni program I personally worked in. It was fundamental in my career, breaks my heart 💔🌎.
www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...

There have been many things going on in the US, but this has been by far the most difficult one to process personally, as someone who was a CIMES postdoc/scholar for 3.5 years — especially the scientifically incorrect reasons stated in the press release …

We have a new preprint out, which looks at the nonlinear response of summertime heat extremes across the United States in a collection of overshoot scenarios using the 50-km GFDL SPEAR Large Ensemble: doi.org/10.31223/X5T... #OpenAccess

Takeaway story: Mitigating earlier has even greater benefits!

Feels like we're doing something really wrong if we need a World Water Day but here we are.

Here’s a reminder that 2.2 billion people have no access to safe water and half the world doesn’t have basic sanitation but yet rich countries flush their toilets with clean drinking water.

NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions

Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.

"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"

The Arctic through the lens of data visualization The Arctic through the lens of data visualization - Download as a PDF or view online for free

I'd like to share another science presentation, which I gave to a class visiting GFDL almost exactly 24 hours before being fired in the NOAA mass layoffs.

Unfortunately, the animations do not work in this format though: www.slideshare.net/slideshow/th.... This one has more of an Arctic focus.

The U.S. Weather Enterprise: A National Treasure at Risk The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

Here is the correct link to the full statement: bit.ly/3XqJs7L

🚨 #NOAA is essential for weather forecasting, climate research, and public safety.

AGU stands with the scientific community in urging Congress to protect and strengthen NOAA, not dismantle it.

Our economy, environment, and safety depend on it.