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To clarify-Racist old white men.

Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.

www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

A wide-eyed black cat peers out from a lamplit window into the night after hearing a sudden 'snap!' and the rustling of leaves in the garden. What was that?! Where is it? The cat desperately wants to go outside and find out!

“The Yearning for Adventure”

Available as a giclée fine art print in my Etsy shop

Find it here:
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Layoffs and potential closures of key facilities raise worries about NOAA's future The Trump administration may end leases for some of NOAA's offices while the agency terminates several advisory committees at the important weather and climate agency.

How about letting the Weather Prediction Center and Climate Prediction Center do their jobs?
www.npr.org/2025/03/06/n....

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did J6

If you’re connected with NOAA’s GLERL, or other Great Lakes teams affected by federal cuts + shifts, I’d love to hear from you.

I’m a ProPublica reporter in Michigan with a longtime interest in water.

Background: www.propublica.org/people/anna-... and www.annaclark.net

Signal: annaleighclark.14

🚨 February 2025 #Arctic sea ice extent was the lowest on record...

This was 1,550,000 km² below the 1981-2010 average. February ice extent is decreasing at about 2.73% per decade. Data: @nsidc.bsky.social (nsidc.org/data/seaice_...).

Trump officials signal potential changes at NOAA, the weather and climate agency Federal workers at the home agency for the National Weather Service are concerned about a potential overhaul by Trump officials focused on cutting government costs.

www.npr.org/2025/02/15/n...

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“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

NOAA’s vast public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV – a private company alone couldn’t match it NOAA operates fleets of satellites, sensors on airplanes and ocean-going buoys, as well as radar, providing the data used by weather forecasters nationwide – and freely available to anyone.

theconversation.com/noaas-vast-p...

Maddow: If you don't have Bluesky yet, I recommend it. It is a social media network that doesn't make me want to stab myself in the eye with a rusty fork

No, the department named after a crypto scam should probably not shut down the national weather service...

Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment Extreme heat is increasing in magnitude and frequency, threatening human health. This Review assesses mortality risk associated with extreme heat, revealing that human thermal tolerances (that is, unc...

🔥🌡 Extreme heat is getting deadlier

Since 2000, over 260,000 deaths have been linked to extreme heat.

If global warming hits 2°C, areas where heat surpasses human survival limits will triple

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

#ClimateChange #ExtremeHeat #SciComm 🧪

Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.

Energy & Environment

Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs

National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday. 🧪

www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

iStock image of a groundhog, not the famed Punxsutawney Phil.

Infographic showing an illustrated groundhog with a table showing the spring predictions made by “Punxsutawney Phil” versus U.S. temperature departures from average from the NOAA U.S. Climate report from 2014-2024. Credit: NOAA/NCEI.

Are we in for a long winter, or is spring just around the corner?

Find out what the nation’s favorite groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, “predicts”:

noaa.gov/news/groundhog-day-2025-will-winter-linger-or-will-spring-prevail

#GroundhogDay @nws.noaa.gov

Map of how the northern hemispheric showing how an intensification of the polar vortex can impact atmospheric circulation

Map of how the northern hemispheric showing how an intensification of the polar vortex can impact temperature

The polar vortex is often associated with cold air outbreaks & while disruptions of the polar vortex winds do increase the odds of cold air outbreaks, it's not a guarantee.

Read on to learn about the less-hyped side of the polar vortex: www.climate.gov/news-feature...

EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review

Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh

A list of the most effective ways an individual can catalyze change at the scale we need to effectively tackle climate change, based on social science.

I’m a scientist who studies how climate change impacts our lives and the places we love.

Most of us are worried, but many feel stuck on what to do. If that's the way you feel, check out this list below!

We can’t fix it alone, but I know we can together. 💚

Please do your best to stop the purge of our expert civil sevants! We need NOAA/NWS, EPA etc!

A black and white photo of two “tomboyish” looking women with their arms slung around each other, one of them holding a kitten. They're outside and wearing work clothes.

Two cool ladies (roommates??) and a small pal. Photo from my collection, ca. 1930s.