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Trump officials shut off funding for climate adaptation centers A third of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Climate Adaptation Science Centers are expected to drastically wind down and possibly close after Sept. 30.

Despite broad political support, one third of the nation's Climate Adaptation Science Centers will wind down in coming days due to lack of funds.

The Northeast, South Central, and Pacific Islands will be left without actionable science on drought, floods, wildfire, sea level rise and other hazards.

Climate.gov will re-launch under new URL thanks to a secret team of web ninjas | CNN A small group of writers and researchers are launching an ambitious effort to preserve key climate data that the Trump administration has taken offline, including the climate.gov website.

New nonprofit climate group forms, aims to resurrect climate.gov, National Climate Assessment and other lost data www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...

Three of nine regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CASCs) across the country will shut down by October if OMB continues to withhold funds to renew their 5-year cooperative agreements - which includes funds already appropriated to the CASCs by Congress for Fiscal Year 2025.

The American Meteorological Society's formal response to "foundationally flawed" DOE mis/disinformation report on #ClimateChange is excellent & timely. Frankly, I have been more impressed w/@ametsoc.org's ability to effectively meet the moment this year than other scientific professional societies.

Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation Experts say the report being used to justify the mass rollback of climate regulations has many claims based on long-debunked research

Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation. Experts say the report being used to justify the mass rollback of climate regulations has many claims based on long-debunked research.
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Text from the 1990 global change research act (see link above).

The US Global Change Research Program's website, including all its sub-domains that host the National Climate Assessments and related reports, is now offline.

The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15639576; Smith et al., 2025a) to produce updated estimates for key indicators of the state of the climate system: net emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, the Earth's energy imbalance, surface temperature changes, warming attributed to human activities, the remaining carbon budget, and estimates of global temperature extremes. This year, we additionally include indicators for sea-level rise and land precipitation change. We follow methods as closely as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One report. The indicators show that human activities are increasing the Earth's energy imbalance and driving faster sea-level rise compared to the AR6 assessment. For the 2015–2024 decade average, observed warming relative to 1850–1900 was 1.24 [1.11 to 1.35] °C, of which 1.22 [1.0 to 1.5] °C was human-induced. The 2024-observed best estimate of global surface temperature (1.52 °C) is well above the best estimate of human-caused warming (1.36 °C). However, the 2024 observed warming can still be regarded as a typical year, considering the human-induced warming level and the state of internal variability associated with the phase of El Niño and Atlantic variability. Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate that is unprecedented in the instrumental record, reaching 0.27 [0.2–0.4] °C per decade over 2015–2024. This high rate of warming is caused by a combination of greenhouse gas emissions being at an all-time high of 53.6±5.2 Gt CO2e yr−1 over the last decade (2014–2023), as well as reductions in the strength of aerosol cooling. Despite this, there is evidence that the rate of increase in CO2 emissions over the last decade has slowed compared to the 2000s, and depending on societal choices, a continued series of these annual updates over the critical 2020s decade could track decreases or increases in the rate of the climatic changes presented here.

Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim:

⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C
⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade
⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance
⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2

essd.copernicus.org/...

a close up of a man 's face with the words you can 't handle the truth Alt: a close up of a man 's face with the words you can 't handle the truth

PS. If you don’t know me, you may wonder why so many social media algorithms are biased against me.

There is one simple reason: I am a climate scientist. That’s it.

I don’t get political, I never insult people, I don’t bait or troll.

I just tell the truth. And sadly, for many …

White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

And, last but not least, Trump’s proposed budget shuts down the world’s leading computer models of climate change. “We’ll go back to the technical and proficiency levels we had in the 1950s,” said a former NOAA official. 10/10
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Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...

Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability. Twenty years after this question was first posed, new study details the scientific and legal implications of an ‘end-to-end’ attribution that links fossil fuel producers to specific damages from warming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

White House ends funding for key US climate body: ‘No coming back from this’ Nasa cuts contract that convened USGCRP, which released assessments impacting environmental decision-making

“White House ends funding for key US climate body: ‘No coming back from this’ ” by Dharna Noor and @gabriellecanon.bsky.social for @theguardian.com:

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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...

Sadly, climate-related risks will not vanish if they are denied. With the deliberate choice to undermine climate science, knowledge production and science-based university programs, people will be less informed, less prepared.

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Trump moves to close government lab that tracks planet-warming pollution The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.

New: A NOAA lab in Hawaii that is connected to the longest-running observation of global greenhouse gas concentrations is slated for closure in August, according to a list of lease terminations Democratic members of Congress shared with @washingtonpost.com.

Oregon will continue ‘climate action’ despite EPA rollbacks, governor says Oregon is one of a number of states that regulates greenhouse gas emissions and provides incentives for renewable energy.

“There is no turning back,” Kotek said in a statement. “I guarantee that climate action will continue in Oregon, and that we will continue developing innovative solutions to confront the climate crisis and build a brighter future.”

Cover of the journal Conservation Biology. Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana) off the coast of Carmel, California (USA).

Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur - the world’s smallest primate.

Conservation Biology and Conservation Science and Practice are now on Bluesky! Give them a follow:
@conbiology.bsky.social and @conservationsp.bsky.social

Trump’s Agenda Is Undermining American Science Research funded by the federal government has found useful expression in many of the defining technologies of our time. This Administration threatens that progress.

"But what Trump is doing is not reform, it is subversion. And it could not come at a worse time."
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social @newyorker.com

AGU has joined a lawsuit challenging the firing of probationary employees at federal agencies.

These actions weaken science, harm public health & the environment, and threaten national security. 🧵 #StandWithScience

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.

Statement: the American Meteorological Organization:
"Recent terminations within the government workforce for science are likely to cause irreparable harm & have far-reaching consequences for public safety, economic well-being, & the United States’ global leadership."
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48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science 48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.

It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

New statement by @scbnorthamerica.bsky.social supporting US scientists targeted by recent Trump administration actions conbio-northamericansection.informz.net/InformzDataS...

AGU stands with federal scientists. Read more on fromtheprow.agu.org/standing-tog...

Noaa imposes limits on scientists, sparking concerns over global forecasts ‘Crackdown on climate’ predicted as oversight enacted over agency staffers’ email and meetings with foreign nationals

The National Weather Service is quite literally one of the best values per tax dollar in the entire federal government.

For every dollar invested in the NWS, it produces $73 in value to the American people (and more to the world through free data access).
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Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. (Gift Article) The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”

Finally an article covering what happened to the assessment and the resistance that is growing to move forward! Viva La NNA1!

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In other words, likely the vast majority of grants supported by NOAA.

Trump killed a major report on nature. They're trying to publish It anyway.
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‘Despair is not an option’ — how scientists can help protect federal research Government scientists in the US must be clear-eyed and continue to serve the public.

This is an existential moment for federal scientists and other public servants as they face pressures to resign. We must do everything we can to safeguard the federal science enterprise. Thoughts and recommendations from me out in @nature.com today: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Will @agu.org, @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social, other scientific societies speak out on the new administration's attacks on federal scientists, science funding & scientific integrity? @katharinehayhoe.com & others, how can we encourage such groups not to be as cowed as many universities etc seem?

A graphic from the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers. Figure SPM.2 The framework of transformative change for a just and sustainable world. Section A indicates views, structures and practices (the inner golden spirals) being strongly shaped by the underlying causes of biodiversity loss and nature’s decline (solid grey ring). Section B shows shifts in views, structures and practices breaking the influence of the underlying causes when they are guided by the four key principles of transformative change (blue ring). Section C illustrates a just and sustainable world, with prevailing views, structures, and practices aligned with the principles of transformative change. This framework can be used by different actor groups to help identify where and how they can promote, accelerate and scale the process of transformative change towards a just and sustainable world.

The @ipbes.bsky.social #TransformativeChange Assessment Report examines fundamental changes required for a future where people live in harmony with nature.🌍🧪

Explore the framework for change in this graphic ⤵️

Learn more: www.ipbes.net/transformati...

Making Sense of It All Hi! I’m Liz Neeley and I’m glad you’re here. Making Sense of It All is an outlet for my work at Liminal, which focuses on sensemaking in a noisy and complicated world. I built Liminal as an antidote t...

Each week, we are collecting, reading, vetting & tagging all the links, news & rumors you’re seeing whiz past you online. We are also talking to dozens of researchers & PIs about their firsthand experiences.

Every Friday, I debrief you over a drink at
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Watchdog Groups Anticipate ‘an All-Out War on Science and Scientists’ by the Trump Administration - Inside Climate News Some federal websites, including the White House’s, have already deleted climate information, including reports on resilience and adaptation vital to U.S. communities.

"Our international partners want to know that our agreements and policies have endurance and won’t just change suddenly because of politics," climate scientist @davidho.bsky.social told @bberwyn.bsky.social of @insideclimatenews.org

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