Tom Maycock

My slides with the title Principles for Ethical AI Include Energy and Climate. Left side show the icons from the AI Bill of Rights. Right side bullets are: Doesn’t raise people’s energy bills Adds more clean power to the grid than it uses Invests in distribution system infrastructure Increases reliability, flexibility, and resilience Open data and rising efficiency targets Doesn’t add local pollution and is net-zero emissions Develops clean data center community benefits agreements

My colleagues at the White House developed an AI Bill of Rights in 2022, shown on the left, which outlined principles to protect people and communities. A lot of the work I’m doing now is defining my principles and analysis for a climate amendment to the AI Bill of Rights, as shown on the right.

There are any number of legitimate reasons to use the passive voice, including not knowing who did the action you’re describing, or the whom is more interesting/germane than the who.

Exonerating the Gestapo is not one of those legitimate reasons.

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Project Drawdown has always been the world’s leading guide to science-based climate solutions 🌏.

With the new Drawdown Explorer, we’re moving beyond describing solutions → to spotlighting breakthrough strategies for accelerating climate action.

As we mark the first anniversary of Hurricane Helene's destructive arrival in western North Carolina, we are pleased to share a series of videos on Helene by NCICS' Dr. Carl Schreck.

With the Trump Administration about to roll its ugly occupation into Chicago, I wanted to write a little lyrical love letter to the city. dansinker.com/posts/202…

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

We made it through break-up rumors, the Super Bowl, and now an engagement. What didn’t make it? The National Climate Assessment website.

The #IPCC has announced the authors selected for its Seventh Assessment Report.

664 experts from 111 countries have been invited to participate as Coordinating Lead Authors, Lead Authors, & Review Editors.

🌍 51% from developing countries
🚺 46% women

🔗 bit.ly/AR7AuthorsPR

A photo of Lejeune High School football players practicing on a sunny day. (Photo by Sgt. Bryan Peterson/Marine Corps Installations East)

The heat is on this week, and that means more stress during outdoor activities. Together with @ncstate-ncics.bsky.social, we're looking at what historical trends and recent extremes in Wet Bulb Globe Temperatures tell us about heat risk in North Carolina. #ncwx

📰: climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2025/07...

A New Approach to Measuring Extreme Heat :: North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies By Mark Essig A black globe thermometer (center) and a humidity and temperature probe (left) at the NC State Climate Office’s ECONet station at Jockeys Ridge State Park. Photo courtesy of the North…

Wet-bulb globe temperature offers the best metric for heat stress but requires specialized instruments. NCICS’s Kyle Wodzicki and colleagues offer a fresh approach—and find alarming evidence of extreme heat trends in the Southeast US. @ncsco.bsky.social @kathiedello.bsky.social bit.ly/ncicswbgt2025

Motherfucking wind farms…

What's heating up in Alberta Innovation in Alberta, Canadian wildfire season, and why smaller countries matter when it comes to climate change

Alberta may be known for its oil and gas, but it’s also home to some inspiring climate leadership. From award-winning innovation to climate equity efforts and the very real impacts of a warming world, here’s some of what I saw and learned while I was there on one of my bundled trips last month.

🧵 What makes fossil fuel emissions "abated"?

Our 🛑 new paper 🛑 in Energy and Climate Change tackles this crucial but dangerously vague concept....

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"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

June 21 is Show Your Stripes Day—a time to spark conversation about how our world is warming.

This video shows how @noaa.gov temperature data for the U.S. is turned into the iconic stripes visualizations you may see shared today and tomorrow.
@edhawkins.org

How Trump Blew Up Northwestern’s Business Model The federal government froze the university’s research funding. It hasn’t offered the school a way to get it back.

This is a good piece (gift link) on how the federal government ghosting Northwestern on congressionally-appropriated funding for three months is affecting the university...and will affect medical research more broadly.

Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

This is a hell of a thing to read.

Helene’s Unheard Warnings As Hurricane Helene barreled toward Yancey County in North Carolina, communities along the Cane River in the Black Mountains were particularly vulnerable. But there were no evacuation orders, and few ...

NEW: As Hurricane Helene barreled toward Yancey County in North Carolina, communities along the Cane River in the Black Mountains were particularly vulnerable.

But there were no evacuation orders, and few grasped what was coming.

By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social and @cgaribay.bsky.social

A line graph illustrating the relationship between cumulative CO₂ emissions and global surface temperature increase. The title reads: “Every tonne of CO₂ emissions adds to global warming.” A subtitle states: “Global surface temperature increase since 1850–1900 (°C) as a function of cumulative CO₂ emissions (GtCO₂).” Y-axis (vertical): Labeled “Find out” on the left side (as a humorous annotation), with the actual scale running from 0°C to 3°C, representing the temperature increase. X-axis (horizontal): Labeled “Fuck around” at the bottom (as a humorous annotation), with a scale ranging from 0 to 4500 GtCO₂, indicating cumulative CO₂ emissions since 1850. A black jagged line represents historical global warming data, rising steadily from near 0°C to about 1.1°C as cumulative emissions reach approximately 2500 GtCO₂. The graph highlights a near-linear relationship between cumulative CO₂ emissions and global temperature increase, as stated in a text box within the plot area. Five colored shaded regions (with corresponding trend lines) represent different future emission scenarios (until 2050): SSP1-1.9 (light blue) SSP1-2.6 (blue) SSP2-4.5 (orange) SSP3-7.0 (red-orange) SSP5-8.5 (red) These scenario pathways show increasing temperature outcomes with higher emissions, with SSP1-1.9 leading to the lowest warming and SSP5-8.5 to the highest. The graph replaces conventional axis labels with the meme-inspired phrases “Fuck around” (X-axis) and “Find out” (Y-axis), emphasizing the consequence of emissions on global warming.

Here's a figure from IPCC AR6 Summary for Policymakers showing the linear relationship between fucking around and finding out.

Every tonne of CO₂ we add to the atmosphere makes things worse for us and all other living things.

NASA Office Above ‘Seinfeld’ Diner Is a Target of Trump Budget Shrinkage

The people telling you climate change isn’t real would also like you to believe that paying rent on an empty building saves money
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/n...

Kate Marvel & Friends: Feeling Climate Change Tickets for Kate Marvel & Friends: Feeling Climate Change in New York from NYPL. The climate scientist is joined by a group of special guests to share insights, data, and stories that reflect how it f...

In NYC June 16? You’re invited to my book launch!!! It’s at the beautiful New York Public Library and it’s free and I can’t wait to see you there
www.nypl.org/events/progr...

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

feels like this was the music they should've used to announce him

Extreme Weather and Lessons for More Resilient Communities: Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate 2025 Spring Meeting Register for this event from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Ken Kunkel of NCICS will discuss extreme rainfall and flooding from Hurricane Helene on Tuesday May 6 at the spring meeting of the @nationalacademies.org Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate. Details and registration links at: events.nationalacademies.org/44902_05-202...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

CIG Update: Federal Funding Uncertainty & Potential Program Impacts | Climate Impacts Group Dear supporters of the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group, We appreciate the role each of you has played in our collective efforts to help make communities, Washington state, and the Pacif...

An update from the UW Climate Impacts Group on what proposed cuts to NOAA and USGS would mean for our work supporting climate resilience in the Northwest.

At stake: both the NW Climate Adaptation Science Center and the NW Climate Resilience Collaborative (a NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership).

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...

This is the 30th anniversary of the OKC Bombing. Please let me share a perspective on it. It starts with an Oklahoma geography lesson. 1/n

Stand Up for NOAA Research – The Time to Act is Now The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research, the scientific backbone that keeps weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective. This would have disastrous consequences.

Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC