Lisa Dilling

NSF has put out a “Dear Colleague Letter” asking how to dismantle NCAR, the premier public atmospheric sciences center in the US. We must reject the premise. As a dedicated center bringing together scientists across disciplines and across the world, NCAR science has saved lives for over 65 years.

The leadership of NSF, the US agency responsible for advancing basic science and discoveries has always been a nonpartisan scientist. The Congress and American people should resist any attempt to install party ideology in leading our nation’s leading scientific agency. It will weaken the US.

Trump's Climate Supercomputer Plans Threaten US Insurance Market: Actuaries A new letter from the American Academy of Actuaries draws a direct line between the planned dismantling of NCAR and higher homeowners insurance costs for US consumers.

Need more industries to speak up against the attacks on NCAR.

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We already have over 40 signatures from US researchers and professors supporting NSF-NCAR and telling NSF to maintain control of the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputer with NCAR! Do sign and share.

The more I look at industrial decarbonisation, the more I come to the point of view that we have overstated the role of molecules in the past and underestimated the role of electrons in the future.

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Can We Afford to Ignore Solar Geoengineering? Should Canada act now to build its SRM research capacity and leadership? How can we foster the local expertise and international partnerships we’ll need to control the technology should solar geoengineering become a reality?

Can Canada afford to ignore sunlight reflection methods (SRM)? I'm joining @ldilling.bsky.social from the @envdefensefund.bsky.social for a discussion hosted by the Transition Accelerator, a major Canadian NGO focused on the climate. June 10, 12pm ET.

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Agree with David completely. When I was a kid my brother and I thought we would start a business growing and selling something from our garden. We chose radishes. They grew well. But then, we had to try to sell radishes. I think our mom bought some out of pity.

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Come work with us at @ucl.ac.uk Institute for Sustainable Resources. Looking for a new lecturer in Environmental Policy.
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Please wish her well for me!

I’m so sorry. It’s literally senseless and such a waste, what is happening now.

I’m hitting “like” but it is the opposite. I’m so sorry to hear this. Your work on energy access is critical to all of us.

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Bar chart titled “NASA Cut Proposals” set against a starry background. Four bars show proposed budget cut percentages for different NASA programs: 68% for Astrophysics, 43% for Heliophysics, 30% for Planetary Science, and 53% for Earth Science. The chart highlights significant funding reductions across scientific fields.

NASA’s science programs are facing what experts are calling an “extinction-level event” under Trump’s proposed budget.
From climate monitoring to planetary research, entire fields of discovery are on the chopping block.

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I’m pretty sure all the astronomers already heard this bad news, but idk how many other folks know about this proposal—NASA science would be absolutely GUTTED if this passed. US astronomy & astrophysics would be dead. We can’t let this happen—tell your reps, & your friends!

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'It's a huge loss': Trump administration dismisses scientists preparing climate report More than 400 experts were starting to prepare the latest national climate assessment report. They all received an email from the Trump administration dismissing them.

"It’s a huge loss," says @costasamaras.com. "It’s a loss for taxpayers, it’s a loss for communities, it’s a loss for the environment. Not producing the report saves us basically nothing and costs us maybe everything." @hayleysmith.bsky.social @latimes.com www.latimes.com/environment/...

'It's a huge loss': Trump administration dismisses scientists preparing climate report More than 400 experts were starting to prepare the latest national climate assessment report. They all received an email from the Trump administration dismissing them.

More than 400 experts who had begun to write the latest National Climate Assessment report have been dismissed by the Trump administration, which says the report is being “reevaluated.” Scientists say it's a huge loss. @hayleysmith.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/... @latimes.com #climate

I’m so sorry. Talk about a waste—all that effort to not be able to finish and provide results.

The flooded River Avon on the road to Eckington bridge in January 2024. Credit: Martin Bache / Alamy Stock Photo

NEW – CCC: England’s approach to climate adaptation is ‘not working’ | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social

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Woah, congratulations @scottdoney.bsky.social ! And I can say I knew you when.. Hope you celebrate this week, so well-deserved!

For hundreds of years, humanity has relied on science to improve lives and build civilization. Science tests hypotheses, uses data, and follows a systematic method in pursuit of the truth. It’s not perfect of course. But destroying American science as we know it will only send us backward.

🙏 We need your help 🙏

The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.

We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:

NIH:
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And dismantling science throughout the federal government. It’s hard not to see this as an outright attack on knowledge. If we think science is expensive, we should see ignorance…

Podcast interview on our recent coastal lagoon research analyzing decades of water quality data to identify biogeochemical & climate change signals in Virginia Coastal Reserve LTER data
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First, @ldilling.bsky.social from @envdefensefund.bsky.social and Nana Ama Browne Klutse from the University of Ghana will discuss the importance of greater equity in research ⚖️
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Double fireside chat: environmentalism and equitable SRM research

24 days to go until #DGF2025...
How do environmentalists engage in SRM discussions to ensure a science-based, just, and equitable dialogue? Two fireside chats will explore this topic 👇
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🌊 We’re hiring! Postdoc researcher at NOC Southampton on awesome project investigating biogeochemical effects of glacial calving in Antarctica! Including spending time at the UK Antarctic base 🐧 🧊 careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

This is a five-alarm fire - it cannot be overstated how important institutions like the USGS Western Ecological Research Center are to landscape and resource management in California. Wetlands, wildfires, endangered species, hunting game, species, climate change… their work covers the gamut.

I’m so sorry, Shobita. This is important work.