Indonesisches Bergwiesel

Photo of the a large group of GISS employees/colleagues in front of Toms Restaurant with a prominent street sign saying "112th St" taken from the middle of Broadway. Credit: Tricia Baron.

Last day at the GISS building (Wed. May 28th). 🥲

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

Covering the entire Common Era up to the present using only reanalyses. Shown is the mean of 2,000 ensemble members from the Last Millennium Reanalysis, which provides annually resolved reconstructions of the Common Era.

ERA5 covers the period from 1940 to 2024.

When scientists and weather forecasters are targeted, everyone loses A National Weather Service with insufficient data and an exhausted and demoralized staff will struggle to keep up with the documented increases in climate-fueled weather extremes.

A National Weather Service with insufficient data and an exhausted and demoralized staff will struggle to keep up with the documented increases in climate-fueled weather extremes.

"When scientists and weather forecasters are targeted, everyone loses," by @johnmoralestv.bsky.social.

Harvard University Sues Trump Administration Harvard’s lawsuit comes after the administration sought to force the university to comply with a list of demands by cutting billions in federal funding the school receives.

LET'S GO!!!

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

The turnout in small towns across the country has been incredible drawing crowds of thousands. We’re already seeing over one million in attendance nationwide, and events are still underway. Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Ohio all had especially surprising showings.

Covid.gov now points to a ‘lab leak’ conspiracy website The Trump administration continues pushing the lab leak theory.

Covid.gov now points to a ‘lab leak’ conspiracy website

A man in tactical gear and a baseball hat is taking an axe to a car window. He looks like he’s smiling.

This picture may haunt me to the end of my days.

It is an ICE agent taking an axe to the car window of an immigrant in New Bedford, MA. Not far from where I sit now. An immigrant with no criminal record was abducted by this smiling man.

An axe taken to a car window and to our democracy. 1/
#MomSky

State Terror A brief guide for Americans

Tim Snyder: "The president defied a SCOTUS ruling to return a man who was mistakenly sent to a gulag in another country, celebrated the suffering of this innocent person, and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps." snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

In the MAGA imagination, America is simultaneously threatened by outsiders – immigrants, invaders who are “poisoning the blood” of the nation, as Trump has put it – and by the “enemy within.” The core promise of Trumpism is to purge those inherently connected “threats.”

Utterly terrifying.

This is a big deal, mainly because it is a very thorough piece of work, but also because the sensitivity of ice sheet models are still highly dependent on important details of the topography and conditions at the bottom of the ice sheet that remain highly uncertain.

Does Tesla build golf carts or what is he going to do with it?

Temperature anomalies of the troposphere and lower to mid stratosphere relative to a 1961 - 1990 baseline, updated to February 2025.

This is key: Focusing on Trump's "contradictions" tends to perpetuate the idea that he doesn't have any actual convictions. It's true he doesn't care about specific policy positions.

But underneath that "flexibility" lies a very consistent worldview of grievance, domination, and hierarchies.

On the 6th the error code said something like "embargoed content", but since yesterday I get the same error like you.

This sometimes happens on release day, but is usually resolved within hours.

US cuts off intelligence sharing with Ukraine Fresh blow to embattled government in Kyiv as Trump administration shifts on conflict

The question we must now ask: How much damage does the US want to do to Ukrainians?
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Firings of probationary workers at NOAA thoughout the agency -- climate offices, yes, but also meteorologists at the National Weather Service.

Layoffs hit federal climate, weather agency NOAA The cuts could affect NOAA's weather forecasts, climate research and other functions.

New: Layoffs underway of probationary employees at @noaa.gov Unclear so far how many were exempted for public safety reasons at the Nat'l Weather Service, NOAA Satellites and other units. www.axios.com/2025/02/27/l...

A sea level update.

Of course it’s a coup Miss the obvious, lose your republic

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

I have asked Deepseek about the legality of Musk's actions.

It's a decent summary.

First priority of fascists: destroy science and independent thought.
They are not wasting time.

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

LA is in a high fire risk region & fire weather conditions are complex. So we @wwattribution.bsky.social looked at many lines of evidence. All show: our burning of fossil fuels increased the likelihood of such extreme fire weather conditions www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

Atlantic overturning inferred from air-sea heat fluxes indicates no decline since the 1960s - Nature Communications The AMOC is crucial for the global ocean overturning circulation and controls the climate around the North Atlantic. Here, the authors use 24 Earth System Models from the CMIP6 to demonstrate tha...

Has the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) weakened over the last decades? In our new study, we combine state-of-the-art CMIP6 models and observation-based estimates of the air-sea heat flux in the North Atlantic to show that the AMOC has not declined since the 1960s! 🌊

Thank you. Odd interpretation given that you use climate models to validate the proxy you're using.

What is the most common misinterpretation you see on X?

2024 Hindsight To no-one's surprise 2024 was the warmest year on record - and by quite a clear margin. Another year, another data point. Unlike the previous year, 2024 was anticipated to be a record breaker...

RealClimate: 2024 Hindsight www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...