Steven J. Davis

E.P.A. to Stop Updating Popular Database After Lead Scientist Criticized Trump

Excited to help continue support for this open source model and dataset at Stanford in collaboration with Wes Ingwersen and Watershed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/c...

Have spent most of July in the U.K., soaking up history, natural beauty, scientific ideas (and a fair amount of weak & warm beer). Back home tomorrow.

Submit an abstract to our @agu.org session GC077 by July 30th!

Geophysical Constraints of Climate Solutions:

-clean energy tech
-adaptation solutions
-resilient energy transitions

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@lfreese.bsky.social
@stevenjdavis.bsky.social
@michaeldavidson.bsky.social

Psyched to have this formalized! We’re recruiting motivated students and postdocs who like to think big.

Ignoring news and spending cocktail hour with a Naked and Famous (but subbed out my precious Chartreuse with Maine-made Handshake digestif)

Trump administration fires staff for flagship U.S. climate assessment Move could open the door to using high-profile report to attack climate science

@science.org confirms that yesterday the Trump admin wiped out the technical staff of the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the Global Change Research Program. When USGCRP's acting director, who is on a time-limited contract, leaves, it will leave the congressionally mandated office empty.

I think the void is actually hearing my screams and mocking me

Decarbonization can improve energy security - Nature Climate Change Moving towards net-zero carbon emissions reduces reliance on fossil fuels but requires geographically concentrated materials for clean energy technologies. Now research finds countries can reduce emer...

New piece from me published in Nature Climate Change: Decarbonization can improve energy security, robust trade and a circular economy increases energy security, and critical minerals are not like oil. 🔌💡

Journal link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Open access link: rdcu.be/eg3lR

Trade risks to energy security in net-zero emissions energy scenarios Nature Climate Change - Trade risks associated with fossil fuels and critical materials matter for energy security, and will evolve with the low-carbon transition. Here the researchers find that...

Ironically, our new paper on trade risks of net-zero energy systems, ~2 years in the making, has landed on the same day as the U.S. imposes sweeping tariffs on many of its trading partners.

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Nice sunset walk at the Dish yesterday. Nature’s first green is gold!

You don’t have the cards, lady.

Really sorry to hear this, Zack. Let me know if you need a rec letter, because I have lots of great things to say.

True today, but not at net-zero.

Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed Samples from Bennu contain the chemical building blocks of life — but with a twist.

14 amino acids (left- and right-handed)! Ammonia! Formaldehyde!

We are but stardust: mundane and transcendent.

My gosh, what a time to be alive!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A path to US Tribal energy sovereignty

Our new perspective in @science.org imagines a role for Tribal energy resources that is mutually beneficial to U.S. energy security and Tribe’s economic prosperity. With my brilliant colleague @mbazilian.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How long has 350.org been a thing?

Building materials could store more than 16 billion tonnes of CO2 annually Achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions likely entails not only lowering emissions but also deploying carbon dioxide (CO2) removal technologies. We explored the annual potential to store CO2 in building materials. We found that fully replacing ...

Replacing conventional building materials with materials modified to store carbon dioxide could move the planet closer to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study in Science.

Built to remove carbon Building materials could facilitate long-term removal of atmospheric carbon dioxide

Grateful to industry guru @chrisbataille.bsky.social for a great related perspective: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Building materials could store more than 16 billion tonnes of CO2 annually Achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions likely entails not only lowering emissions but also deploying carbon dioxide (CO2) removal technologies. We explored the annual potential to store CO2 in bu...

Our analysis out today in @science.org and led by Elisabeth Van Roijen (of NREL and formerly @ucdavis.bsky.social) shows that building materials--and especially concrete--are an enormous potential reservoir to store carbon (we think >16 Gt CO2 / yr). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Post-storm sunrise on the shores of Lake Tahoe this past Saturday.

Wow, that one looks terrific! Enjoy.

Next up? a.co/d/cDq9hWj

Some of the Christmas cookies our family made this year!

Nice view from the Marin Headlands after this morning’s storm cleared!

Awesome, congrats Halley!

I’ve been enjoying Landman too, and was disappointed by that bullshit rant. They apparently don’t want facts getting in the way of a good story. Payback on energy or emissions of a new wind turbine is usually within months. www.ourenergypolicy.org/wp-content/u...

Hanging out in the Pacific NW for Thanksgiving and captured a nice little microcosm yesterday.