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A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules

It’s always good when the courts recognize what every single other person in the universe understands about the DOE CWG.

A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/c...

The future of NCAR remains highly uncertain » Yale Climate Connections Members of the American Meteorological Society were briefed Wednesday about ongoing developments on the future of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which the White House has said it will b...

The dissolution of NCAR remains a very real possibility, as discussed at a town-hall meeting this week at #AMS2026. @climateconnections.bsky.social

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Breaking news: The #NCCR #CLIM+ on "Climate Extremes & Society" will be funded by the @snf-fns.ch in the coming 4 years! With 47 PIs, 20 institutions & 22 stakeholders from #health to #finance & #agriculture, it will unite climate expertise from both natural & social science!
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The United States Without Europe How a shattered NATO would undermine U.S. security.

The Trump administration's continued attacks on NATO may cause long term damage to U.S. security if allies downgrade their cooperation with the U.S. @j-dren.bsky.social and @atabatabai.bsky.social explain the benefits that NATO allies provide that would significantly harm U.S. security if lost.

Trump’s biggest climate rollback stalls over fears it will lose in court Trump officials have delayed finalizing the repeal of the agency’s “endangerment finding” over concerns the proposal is too weak to withstand a court challenge.

Article updates on the repeal of the endangerment finding for CO2. The administration is worried that their case is not strong enough to withstand legal challenges.

Gift link (courtesy of @donboesch.bsky.social): www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Minneapolis' Community-Driven Anti-ICE Organizing Is Showing The Way What Minneapolis activists have to teach us about organizing communities to resist ICE

ICE’s tactics have been terrifying and tragic, but Minneapolis is responding in incredible ways. Residents are organizing, feeding and housing their neighbors, and putting real social infrastructure in place. What’s taking shape isn’t just a reaction, it’s a blueprint for resistance.

The "LLM-as-Analyst" Trap: A Technical Deep-Dive into Agentic Data Systems Why the simplest agentic pattern is the most dangerous for factual data operations.

Great worked through case study in what can go wrong with agentic AI. appliedingenuity.substack.com/p/the-llm-as...

Defund Science, Distort Culture, Mock Education — The Atlantic It’s not just about cuts to research. It’s about power.

Defund Science, Distort Culture, Mock Education - The Atlantic apple.news/AXgo1ZHbKQhW...

Purdue blocks admission of many Chinese grad students in unwritten policy Faculty members say university is overreacting to pressure from the Trump administration and Congress

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Trump’s new ‘great game’: mining, mapping and mercantilism The contest for resources between the US and China will continue after the president is gone and affect us all

Trump’s new ‘great game’: mining, mapping and mercantilism. www.ft.com/content/0d2a...

YouTube video by Federal Reserve Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

This is what integrity looks like, in case you've forgotten. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...

‘Toughest conditions imaginable’: Victorians urged to shelter inside from heatwave as tropical cyclone heads for Queensland — Guardian US Heatwave warnings in place for nearly all states and territories as Sydney braces for 43C forecast on Saturday

‘Toughest conditions imaginable’: Victorians urged to shelter inside from heatwave as tropical cyclone heads for Queensland - The Guardian apple.news/A1-kmTFrXTMW...

'Atmospheric inversion' may help predict when a humid heat wave will break - Phys.org

Back when I had a PCJr it came with a cartridge slot and a floppy drive slot. You had to insert the filing assistant floppy in to do much of anything with directories and files. Also included is my ncsa Telnet disk from college ( so I could access the internet from my early Mac).

Old people IBM and Mac disks.

Clearing out old things

In the 1960s, Christopher Zeeman helped popularize catastrophe theory. It was all the rage; people called on it to describe everything from bridge collapses to prison riots to regime changes. The hype soon fizzled. But the underlying concepts didn’t. www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-of-...

Meet the man hunting the spies in your smartphone Ronald Deibert and his research group, the Citizen Lab, have rigorously worked to unveil alarming digital threats for the past two decades. Now, he warns, this kind of work is under threat.

MIT Technology Review profiles @rondeibert.bsky.social, who understood that civil society needed digital defense long before just about anyone else and has been doing it ever since.

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Driving discovery: UNSW receives $70m for two Centres of Excellence Two new national research centres will unite leading experts to tackle challenges in ocean sustainability and quantum computing – areas critical to Australia’s future prosperity.

Excited to be the new home for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Our Future Oceans, led by @profmattengland.bsky.social here at UNSW Science www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

From @AGU.org: Senators are working on legislation to save NCAR, but we need extra support for these 8 states. Your Senators in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming need to hear from you.

From wildfire warnings to flood forecasts, NCAR's research impacts everyone in America.

President Trump's attempt to dismantle it for political vengeance is beyond reckless.

We will fight against this dangerous scheme every step of the way.

Good. American excellence in science is the result of decades of federal investment in facilities and in training scientists. NCAR does not belong to the President. It belongs to all of us.

Awesome turnout in support of @ncar-ucar.bsky.social at #AGU25. Take a look at how many people use our products!

LA wildfires public health impacts:

What is the main finding?

Local residents experienced a 24% excess in pulmonary illness, a 46% excess in myocardial infarction, and a 118% excess in systemic illness requiring emergency medical attention.

In a large conference room full of people, the audience doesn't fit entirely in the frame of a photo. Nearly everyone pictured is standing.

At an @agu.org Town Hall today, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social President Antonio Busalacchi spoke to #AGU25 attendees about what's at stake if NCAR is dismantled.

One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood.

Read more here:

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Tweet from Really American stating that Senator Andy Kim questioned FCC Chair Brendan Carr, prompting Carr to admit his oath was to the Constitution, not the president. Below is a C-SPAN video still showing Kim speaking at a Senate oversight hearing.

Sen. Andy Kim is a force to be reckoned with.

What's NCAR? and 8 ways it has helped you

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@ncar-ral.bsky.social President Dr Antonio Busalacchi is giving an emergency press briefing at #AGU25

Says he has really seen outpouring support from community today at AGU

NCAR is the "jewel in the crown" of efforts to predict the Earth as a coupled system, he tells journalists

The U.S. Is on the Verge of Meteorological Malpractice The Trump administration says it will dismantle a premier climate center, while somehow keeping weather forecasting intact.

The U.S. Is on the Verge of Meteorological Malpractice www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

In this excerpt from my longer livestream, I discuss how the potentially devastating proposal to dismantle the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and halt its core climate and extreme weather/disaster-related research has its origins in the policy blueprint offered by "Project 2025. How is alarming proposal to dismantle climate & disaster research at NCAR connected to Project 2025?

Short clip from my rapid-response livestream yesterday regarding potentially devastating plans to dismantle NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and how it's directly connected to the policy blueprint known as "Project 2025." #SaveNCAR

Man this is such a good read. The entire purpose of power sector CCS is to sort of hover tantalisingly on the horizon but never actually materialise.

From my personal collection of planned projects (this isn't even 'projections' or scenarios - the future lines were all real projects!)