Chad Thackeray

Analysis: The US government has declared war on the very idea of climate change | CNN Politics Americans are used to whiplash in their climate policy. The US has been in and out and in and out again of the key Paris climate agreement over the past four presidencies.

“In his second administration, President Donald Trump is not just approaching climate science with skepticism. Instead, his administration is moving to destroy the methods by which his or any future administration can respond to climate change.“

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

Here it is. Looks like 280 grants, since a number were already expired. Total for $189 million, with about half of it spent and half yet to be spent. grant-witness.us/nsf-data.html

Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

Multiple scientists cited in the DOE report downplaying the severity of climate change said their work was misrepresented. @mollytaft.com has the scoop on just how exactly data from nine of them was cherrypicked and twisted

EPA attacks climate science. Here are the facts. The Trump administration's proposal to roll back the endangerment finding includes many misleading and inaccurate claims.

The Trump administration's climate science report is riddled with cherry-picked data, sweeping claims easily contradicted by a vast body of research and long-debunked climate denial tropes. @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social and I fact-check some claims here: www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

Why is the EPA administrator saying CO2 is "essential for life?" @eroston.bsky.social and I put together a glossary of the administration's climate language and the strategies behind the words

E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm

Well tonight’s Friday government news dump is horribly depressing- EPA to eliminate their entire research branch (ORD). I’ve been on ORD’s science advisory board the last few years and they do amazing work across climate, air, water and other issue. This sucks www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

Stumbled across this textbook from 1980 today. It’s remarkable how accurate the first sentence remains today.

After 7 Decades of Measurements From a Peak in Hawaii, Trump’s Budget Would End Them

NOAA's network of climate monitoring stations and sample collectors is the backbone of tracking global climate change.

Trump's proposed budget would shut it down.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/c...

U.S. socked with 15 billion-dollar weather disasters during the 1st half of 2025 » Yale Climate Connections Four of the top 20 costliest weather disasters have occurred in the last year.

Now that NOAA is no longer tracking billion-dollar weather disasters, rely on insurance broker Gallagher Re, who just released their list for the first half of 2025. So far, we are near the 10-year average. The CA wildfires ($65 billion) were the 8th-costliest weather disaster in world history.

NASA Website Will Not Provide Previous National Climate Reports

Today NASA backtracked on its statement earlier this month that the National Climate Assessments would be hosted on their website.

“NASA has no legal obligations to host globalchange.gov’s data,” a spokeswoman said today. “We never did and will not host the data.”www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/c...re

US senators poised to reject Trump’s proposed massive science cuts Committee gives first hint that policymakers might preserve, rather than slash, funding for US National Science Foundation and other agencies.

The Senate Committee on Appropriations gave the first signs Congress will push back on Trump's proposed budget cuts to science and instead keep funding flat, though an unrelated issue (the location of the FBI headquarters) stalled any vote today.

@alexwitze.bsky.social and I report:

As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc

“Everyone wants more warning time, and that’s why we’re working to upgrade the technology that’s been neglected for far too long to make sure families have as much advance notice as possible,” Noem said. The reality: Closing NOAA labs like NSSL, critical for flash flood forecasts & research.

It's been a bit since I've done a meteorological deep dive, but the devastating flash #flood in central Texas this July 4th/5th deserve a closer look. #TXwx

Yes remnants of #Barry were involved helping enhance moisture. A remnant MCV from Mexico on 3 July also played a role.

Full evolution below ⤵️

Live Updates: Frantic Search for the Missing After At Least 13 Killed in Texas Flood The authorities confirmed that 20 girls were still missing as a result of the flooding along the Guadalupe River, but the full scope of the disaster was not clear.

At least 13 people were killed after flooding in Central Texas, and 20 girls from a summer camp are missing, the authorities said. Follow live updates. https://trib.al/467OvF5

EPA places 139 on leave over letter bashing Trump policies EPA said it has The Environmental Protection Agency has a "zero-tolerance policy" for those "unlawfully undermining" Trump's agenda.

The EPA said today it's placed 139 employees on leave after they signed a "declaration of dissent" accusing the agency of "unraveling" health and environmental protections for political reasons.

White House works to ground NASA science missions before Congress can act “We would be turning off some fabulous missions that are doing extremely well.”…

NASA appears to be pressuring mission leaders to think of the White House's FY26 budget proposal as an operating plan (i.e., work to close out missions even though Congress hasn't decided on the budget yet): arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

An error message reads: Safari can't find the server "nca2023.globalchange.gov"

BREAKING: A source tells me that the Trump administration has shut down public access to every single National Climate Assessment, the Congressionally-mandated quadrennial report assessing how climate change is affecting the U.S.

This is what you get when you try to access them online

NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward.

I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.

Critical hurricane forecast tool abruptly terminated On Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it would immediately stop ingesting, processing, and transmitting data essential to most hurricane forecasts.

For anyone near a hurricane-prone area, this is alarmingly bad news.
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And this affects NOT just sea ice data... bsky.app/profile/pppa...

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.

NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

A view from high ground looking downhill over forest land toward a body of water dotted with islands. Text reads: Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests. Photo credit: Christopher Miller for The New York Times

The Trump administration said on Monday that it would open up 58 million acres of back country in national forests to road construction and development, removing protections that had been in place for a quarter century. https://trib.al/VQXR96o

Post from X from @elonmusk that reads: "The far left is murderously violent" and quotes a post from @insatiablelevine that is quoted in the next screenshot.

Post from @insatiablelevine on X that reads: The left kills the CEO of United Healthcare Kills two Israeli ambassadors staffers Attempts twice to assassinate the President Doxes and attempts to murder federal ICE agents and Police - all week And now kills a MN state rep and her husband and injures a Senator and his wife The left has become a full blown domestic terrorist organization.

If you want an example of the failings of Community Notes, look no further than Musk spreading misinfo in the hours after the Minnesota shooting.

The shooter has now been IDed as a Trump supporter.

There is no community note on Musk or the original post he quotes.

How Trump’s assault on science is blinding America to climate change Through budget cuts and layoffs, the administration has begun to cripple the government's ability to research global warming.

Trump claims climate change is a “hoax.” Now, his administration is silencing government research that proves him wrong. Climate-monitoring spacecraft will be shut down, thousands of scientists have been dismissed, invaluable data eliminated. The assault has just begun www.eenews.net/articles/how...

Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content

Climate.gov, a major US government website supporting public education on climate science, will likely shut down after almost all of its staff were fired. What would be worse is if the website were co-opted to publish climate denial content.

White House looks to freeze more agency funds — and expand executive power The latest move targets more than $30 billion in spending at EPA, the National Science Foundation and other agencies.

NEW: The White House is quietly ordering agencies to freeze billions of dollars in additional funding for the EPA, Interior, Ag, National Science Foundation and more as part of a strategy to make cuts to education, climate, etc permanent and weaken role of Congress. www.eenews.net/articles/whi...

Eight US states seek to outlaw chemtrails – even though they aren’t real States introduce chemtrail-coded legislation as conspiracy theories take root in some US chambers

When bonkers becomes political norm, this...👇

8 US states seek to outlaw chemtrails – even though they aren’t real www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Despite the outlandishness of the belief & complete absence of evidence," 10% believe “completely true” & 20%-30% think “somewhat true”