Colin Evans

Trump administration plans to break up largest federal climate research center Russ Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said the National Science Foundation "will be breaking up" the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado.

“NCAR has played a greater role in advancing weather prediction & atmospheric modeling than perhaps any other single entity in the world,” says @weatherwest.bsky.social

Dismantling NCAR would be “like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.” KH

"And then the temperature started going down like a rock."

The current administration has claimed renewables are making the grid less reliable. If that were the case, I'd expect states adding the most renewables over the past decade to have the largest increase in outages.

However, the opposite seems to be true!

But Zeldy says greenhouse gasses aren't dangerous.

Sea Level Mis-information from DOE Here in the USA, the Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a report titled “A Critical Review of the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.” It is a product of the &#8…

Is sea level around the US accelerating? If you actually do the analysis, instead of just repeating talking points from decades ago, the answer is yes.
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How the DOE and EPA used and misused my research Elevating contrarian views while burying the actual science

On The Climate Brink, Zeke Hausfather explains how the recent DOE climate report, written by climate contrarians, misrepresents his work.

www.theclimatebrink....

Executive summary: 24-hour extremes, in frequency and amount of rain, are increasing more than at the hourly scale, but this begins to break down regionally when more stringent definitions of extremes are used.

We looked at changes to extreme precip events across the eastern US. While it should come as no surprise that they are increasing in both frequency and total amount of rainfall, we wanted to look at how these are changing across a spectrum of extremes and at different time scales.

A Comparison of the Rates of Change Associated With Hourly and 24‐Hour Precipitation Extremes Across the Eastern United States Median hourly precipitation exceedances are more frequent across 127 eastern United States stations from 1950 to 2023 24-hr extreme precipitation events have shown more significant frequency incr...

New work in Water Resources Research by me and Art DeGaetano.
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I can’t find a better word than devastating for what’s happening to the next generation of scientists and early career researchers (soft money, lack of tenure)

Every day brings something new, and the real funding fall-out (I think) is to come as existing grants run out. Recovery could take decades

Question from a livestream viewer: “How many lives are collectively impacted by [NOAA's] monitoring and rapid response work.”

John Cortinas: “I don’t have any exact numbers, but I would probably start by saying the entire population of the United States…"

The Weather & Climate Livestream Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.

Calling all US meteorologists and climate scientists! Starting May 28th, we will be holding a marathon livestream to share our work with the public and show why the services we provide should not be cut. Learn more & sign up to speak here (and please share!)

Yeahhh, nah.

Can confirm that Atlas 14 data, which is critical to my extreme precipitation work, is currently down. I do not know why.

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 🧵

How the dismantling of NOAA threatens the Keeling Curve How the Trump administration's dismantling of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration threatens the Keeling Curve, an iconic measure used in climate change research. As explained by the so...

What's at stake for the #KeelingCurve if NOAA gets dismantled. A take in @thebulletin.org from Ralph Keeling and Eric Morgan of @scrippsocean.bsky.social: thebulletin.org/2025/05/how-...

Trump Budget Request Shrinks Federal Science Agencies On Friday, 2 May, President Trump released a “skinny” version of his fiscal year (FY) 2026 budget request. This skinny budget outlines the President’s budget priorities, including cuts and increases i...

Looking for a detailed breakdown of how federal science agencies fare in President Trump's FY 2026 budget request?

Check out this break down from @agu.org's Science Policy team. thebridge.agu.org/2025/05/05/t...

Scientific societies to do climate assessment after Trump administration dismissed authors Two groups join forces for peer-reviewed research after key contributors on Congress-mandated report dismissed

Update: “Two major US scientific societies have announced they will join forces to produce peer-reviewed research on the climate crisis’s impact days after Donald Trump’s administration dismissed contributors to a key Congress-mandated report on climate crisis preparedness.”

Scientists say NOAA cuts by Trump undermine improvements in hurricane forecasts The Trump administration is targeting top climate and weather labs for cuts. Insiders worry about the impact on research and NOAA's ability to forecast severe weather like hurricanes and tornadoes.

The Trump administration is targeting top climate and weather labs for cuts. Insiders worry about the impact on research and NOAA's ability to forecast severe weather like hurricanes and tornadoes.

Can we have just one day of peace?

GOOD NEWS - "Thank you to everyone who expressed their strong support for the Regional Climate Center program. Our funding has been restored by NOAA and the Department of Commerce." www.ncei.noaa.gov/regional/reg...

What an unmitigated disaster this is

Excellent blog post from my friend and former lab-mate @marc-alessi.bsky.social

5 Reasons NOAA and NASA Cuts Will Be Disastrous for Everyone in the US The Trump Administration plan to cut research on climate change and extreme weather events, including tornadoes and hurricanes, puts us in peril.

We are witnessing the dismantling of NOAA--the United States' best defense against extreme weather, the climate crisis, and, simply, the prediction of day-to-day weather--in real time. This will damage the scientific infrastructure in the US for decades. blog.ucs.org/marc-alessi/...

Wouldn't want to be working for a Regional Climate Center right now...oh, shit.

NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency

BREAKING:The National Science Foundation (NSF) has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop at the agency this week. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

The thing about tools like cli-MATE and ACIS is not that the data won't exist (not yet at least). It's that they make getting the information you want so...efficient.

Can I write some code to do the same task? Sure, but not everyone can, and why should we need to when a great tool already exists?

Yep, I still don't think people realize how dire the situation actually is internally...

Scoop: NOAA operations impaired by Commerce chief's approval mandate A review requirement is creating difficulties at the top weather and climate agency, sources said.

NEW: NOAA operations slowed by mandate for Commerce Secretary to approve ALL contracts/contract extensions above $100,000. This nearly led to a significant deterioration of Nat'l Weather Service operations last night. www.axios.com/2025/04/01/n...