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Starlink

After many days of travel: inc four flights, 8 hours of 4x4 off roading, and a half day (and into the night) on horseback, we’ve reached the Dukha reindeer camp on the east taiga of Mongolia, just 10 miles from the Russian border. And they have starlink! 🙂

Official US economic statistics are no longer reliable and community efforts will be needed to replace them. Reply “YES” to this post if you have a job and “NO” if you don’t. Later on someone can count them.

Excited to be visiting a new (to me) part of the permafrost region this month, with friend/colleague Marina Tonkopeeva of the International Centre for Reindeer husbandry, new collaborators from the Dukha indigenous community, and local science experts. I wonder what maps will come of this trip?!

2 months down in Climatological Summer

At Blue Hill Observatory, last year was # 1 warmest at this point

This year, # 2

EPA attacks climate science. Here are the facts. The Trump administration's proposal to roll back the endangerment finding includes many misleading and inaccurate claims.

The Trump administration's climate science report is riddled with cherry-picked data, sweeping claims easily contradicted by a vast body of research and long-debunked climate denial tropes. @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social and I fact-check some claims here: www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

Late July's oppressive heat forecast isn't normal A punishing heat wave will bring hot temperatures to eastern US and linger for several days, underscoring how climate change heats things up.

"This is exactly what we expected to happen," Holmes said. "As the earth gets warmer, we see more extremes and it's the extremes that get us. They kill us. They make us sick."

Quotes from our President, Dr. Max Holmes in this USA Today piece from @dinahvp.bsky.social: share.google/MJOpg6JF39JG...

This #MapMonday from @maps-and-pepper.bsky.social shows the predicted return period of once-in-a-generation storms.

As climate change increases extreme weather events, we need to prepare with accurate risk information.

🌡️Have you been feeling the heat this week? Stay informed, hydrated, and safe!

Dangerously hot days are on the rise across the U.S. according to this map from @cmshintani.bsky.social. This week’s extreme temperatures are part of a larger trend of climate change.

This map from @cmshintani.bsky.social shows the permafrost extant across the boreal forest ecoregion.

Read more about the connection between boreal wildfires and permafrost at www.woodwellclimate.org/connection-b...

Fire suppression in the boreal: "There's too much fire now" - Woodwell Climate In boreal forests, which are experiencing intensifying fires, fire suppression offers a way to protect both people and carbon-rich permafrost

For Woodwell’s Dr. Kayla Mathes, community perspectives have driven home the need for fire suppression as a tool to protect people and climate.

Read her essay at www.woodwellclimate.org/fire-suppres...

@permafrostpathways.bsky.social

The Forest Service Claims It’s Fully Staffed for a Worsening Fire Season. Data Shows Thousands of Unfilled Jobs. DOGE cuts and voluntary resignations have severely hampered the agency as the nation enters the peak of fire season, with more than 1 million acres burning across 10 Western states.

"According to the internal national data, which has not been previously reported, more than 4,500 Forest Service firefighting jobs — as many as 27% — remained vacant as of July 17." by @abestreep.bsky.social @propublica.org #wildlandfire
www.propublica.org/article/fore...

This #MapMonday from @cmshintani.bsky.social shows the carbon stores in peatland soil across the boreal forest ecoregion.

Read more at www.woodwellclimate.org/connection-b...

After 7 Decades of Measurements From a Peak in Hawaii, Trump’s Budget Would End Them

Trump is closing all four climate observatory stations in Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Antartica. Because you can't have high CO2 levels if you don't *measure* CO2 levels.

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Excited to welcome the amazing Gina McCarthy to the Woodwell Center next week. As U.S. climate policy moves backward, her insight and expertise on how to move forward will be incredibly valuable. Register below to attend in-person or to watch online.

Heartbreaking

China's Clean Energy Boom Could Win the Race to Power the Future Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.

China is betting on the future of energy with renewables. The United States under Trump is betting on the past with oil and gas. It’s pretty clear who will win. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The first American ‘scientific refugees’ arrive in France Aix-Marseille University is wooing researchers who feel targeted by the Trump administration.

The president of Aix-Marseilles University is welcoming US scientific refugees.He "likened the situation to that of European academics who fled persecution by Nazi Germany both before and during World War II"

www.politico.eu/article/meet...

Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.

GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.

This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.

www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

Friends of NOAA Supporting the mission, products, and services of NOAA

Proud that the Woodwell Climate Research Center (@woodwellclimate.bsky.social) is a member of the Friends of NOAA coalition. Timely work to support an incredibly important agency - for climate, weather, and oceans. See the coalition's new website here:

friendsofnoaa.net

Unpacking the Recent Heat Wave with an animation of NOAA's Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (RTMA) data 🗺️
Stay cool this summer folks!

I love seeing adaptation and resilience action like this in other municipalities! The more local action we see, the better we will all be prepared. More than half of the world's population already lives in urban centres, and we also serve as emergency response hubs for rural climate disasters.

We’re proud to have worked in Chelsea, MA, to develop a granular climate risk assessment for local officials. This is a resilient community that is leading on adaptation strategies

New roof top exhaust fan being installed for our laboratory at the Woodwell Climate Research Center (@woodwellclimate.bsky.social)

Scientist at Plymouth conservation nonprofit dies in remote Alaska crash - The Boston Globe Shiloh Schulte, 46, held a doctorate degree and lived in Kennebunk, Maine, where he previously served on the town’s Select Board.

Excellent scientist and human being. Take a moment and read about Shiloh Schulte, who helped restore American Oystercatcher populations.

“When we commit to conservation, we can restore declining species.”

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/07/m...

Playing this social media game right by catching the Bugsy Siegel wave

Exclusive: FEMA staff confused after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources familiar with the situation.

(Reuters) - FEMA staff left baffled after the disaster agency's head said during a briefing that he hadn't been aware the US has a hurricane season. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/

The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies Tens of millions of dollars in NSF grants have been slashed, and scientists fear the US is about to lose a generation of climate researchers.

I dug into the NSF cuts & other ways that the Trump administration is shutting down climate science.

“Basically it’s a shit show,” Princeton’s Michael Oppenheimer says, “and how bad a shit show it is will depend a lot on what happens in the courts and Congress over the next few months.”

This is extraordinary. A database tracking legal decisions in cases where generative #AI produced hallucinated content; both fabricated citations and ficticious court rulings. 112 cases so far; 19 this month: www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...

Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

What's your alternative though? Serious question. Just try to mobilize more pro-decency, pro-democracy voters?

Fair point. There are a disturbing number people who are okay with it, and an even more disturbing number of people who love it. But I don't think those two groups add up to 50% of the electorate.