Paul Bierman

Paul Bierman

@paul-bierman.bsky.social

Geoscientist, environmental historian, professor, author who cares deeply about our planet. Obsessed with snow, ice sheets, climate, and science as a way of knowing. Passionate about teaching, equality, and explaining Earth. https://www.paulbierman.net

6,738 Followers 3,174 Following 1,635 Posts Joined Feb 2025
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Questions Raised Over Local and State Police Actions at ICE Raid | Seven Days ICE was roundly criticized for its conduct in South Burlington this week. Some are also questioning what Burlington and state police did on the scene.

Not what I pay taxes for. Sad to see Vermonters attacking Vermonters.

www.sevendaysvt.com/news/questio...

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Chaos Breaks Out at Scene of ICE Arrests in South Burlington | Seven Days Federal agents surrounded a home in which a man they sought had allegedly taken cover after fleeing a car crash. People responded to protect the man.

ICE has come to Vermont just as our ice is melting. But WTF are our State Police helping them? Awful. We are better than this.
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In situ cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al reveal the complex exposure and erosion history of the landscape once covered by the Quebec-Labrador Ice Dome Abstract. The rate at which ice sheets erode rock and produce sediment is poorly known. Here, we use paired cosmogenic nuclides in both deglacial and modern sediment to understand better the efficacy ...

Guess what. Glaciers aren't as good at eroding the landscape as we might have thought. New paper with collaborators from Quebec, France, and across the US. Internationalism lives on at least in science!

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In situ cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al reveal the complex exposure and erosion history of the landscape once covered by the Quebec-Labrador Ice Dome Abstract. The rate at which ice sheets erode rock and produce sediment is poorly known. Here, we use paired cosmogenic nuclides in both deglacial and modern sediment to understand better the efficacy ...

Hard to think about science and ice sheets when our president is waging a war of choice but new paper out from our group on glacial erosion in eastern Canada.

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Earth’s Climate May Go from Greenhouse to Hothouse - Eos Uncertainty in climate models could mean Earth systems are perilously close to their tipping points, scientists warn.

Makes changing US energy policy under Trump all the more risky.

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1 month ago

self reflection perhaps? he doesn't look well...shaking?

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'ICE Out' Rally Draws Huge Crowd in Burlington | Seven Days “If we want to stop ICE’s reign of terror, we need to shut it down!” one speaker said outside of City Hall on Church Street, where protesters waved signs and chanted on Friday.

www.sevendaysvt.com/news/ice-out...

Vermont stands up

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Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest

fascist press suppression plain and simple

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

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I took this photo 45 years ago...how could it be so relevant 5 decades later?

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Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis

Cold blooded murder of an American citizen. These aren't police. These are an occupying force.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

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1 month ago

How can this be my country?

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God Punishes Trump by Turning US into Greenland The Almighty declared, “Prayers answered, jerkwad.”

Gotta laugh...and we all need a laugh.

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God Punishes Trump by Turning US into Greenland open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

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1 month ago

exactly...

Trump has no idea why the arctic matters to everyone on Earth or its real value

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Doing my best to speak up and take action while I still can.

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Trump has no idea why the arctic matters to everyone on Earth.

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#scicomm
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1 month ago

Trump has no idea why the arctic matters to everyone on Earth. And those Nuuk penguins...priceless.

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1 month ago

Trump has no idea why the arctic matters to everyone on Earth.

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#scicomm
#climate
#science

@us.theconversation.com

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Trump has no idea why the arctic matters to everyone on Earth.

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#scicomm
#climate
#science

@us.theconversation.com

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Trump has no idea why the arctic matters to everyone on Earth.

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#scicomm
#climate
#science

@us.theconversation.com

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1 month ago

oh. that damn wiggly jet stream strikes again...this is one of the oldest climate denial tropes out there...weather isn't climate.

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1 month ago

Thanks. Great producer. Pass it on.

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What a US military base lost under Greenland’s ice sheet reveals about the island’s real strategic importance Listen to Paul Bierman, an expert on Greenland’s ice, talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of the island’s ice sheet.

Trump's got it all wrong.

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Greenland is a global model for Indigenous self-governance. Trump’s demands for the island threaten that. Historians say underpinning Trump's talk of national security lies a longstanding pattern of American entitlement to Native land.

Greenland isn't something Trump can buy. It belongs to the Greenlandic people. Must read at
@grist.org

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'Greenland belongs to its people': The US scientists speaking out against Trump's imperial aggression At least 225 US scientists who conduct research in Greenland have signed a Statement in Solidarity with Greenland this month.

Trump the imperialist....treating countries like he treats women.

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What a US military base lost under Greenland’s ice sheet reveals about the island’s real strategic importance Listen to Paul Bierman, an expert on Greenland’s ice, talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of the island’s ice sheet.

Some hard truths about Greenland and climate change and Trump's nonsensical landgrab. My take on the last couple weeks of insanity.

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2 months ago

and to think since 1941...we worked together
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what a change from 70 years of history

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2 months ago

here's the history: theconversation.com/us-military-...

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2 months ago

Agree....throwing away 80 years of cooperation. My thoughts.

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2 months ago

but, but they are not easy to get at....ah Donald.

As it should be. The US has a long and sometimes sorid history in Greenland that I write about here: theconversation.com/us-military-...

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