Mitch Bushuk

Love this idea! A few that come to mind:
-Wet get wetter (Held and Soden 2006)
-Internal variability and large ensembles (maybe Deser 2012, or Kay 2015)
-Arctic amplification and local feedbacks (Pithan and Mauritsen 2014)

Screenshot that says "Sea Ice Today" and "Ice Sheets Today" Services Reduced. More information is stated: "Beginning October 15, 2025, NSIDC’s Sea Ice Today and Ice Sheets Today services will be reduced because of non-renewed funding. This means no new monthly and mid-month analysis posts for Sea Ice Today or regular posts for Ice Sheets Today, limited comparison tools, and reduced user support."

UGH! When will it end. 😭

"Effective October 15, 2025, due to non-renewed funding, NSIDC has suspended or reduced several Sea Ice Today tools and services."

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Image of the table of contents in "The future of sea ice" by Clare Eayrs and Zachary Labe, which was published in 2025. Abstract starts by saying: "Sea ice covers 15% of global oceans and regulates key exchanges between the ocean and atmosphere in polar regions. This review synthesizes advances in sea ice observations, modeling, and prediction. Arctic sea ice has declined in all seasons since satellite records began, with projections of ice-free summers before 2050 under high future greenhouse gas emissions"

We have a new book chapter out called "The future of sea ice" which I am excited to share: doi.org/10.1016/B978.... It reviews both the #Arctic and #Antarctic. If you are interested in it, don't hesitate to reach out 🙂

Great question! The SIPN team is actually meeting soon with ARCUS to discuss this exact point. We will make sure that all data and resources are preserved, but still need to decide where the website will actually live. We will miss ARCUS 😢

When Earth warms, the total rainfall increases.

Here we show that this change in rainfall is also sensitive to the *pattern* of warming, build a theory to explain why, and use it to explain why rainfall increases more in uniform warming exps than abrupt-4xCO2 :)

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‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels “There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.

"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

The latest summary from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)... 😔

"With budget cuts from NASA for Sea Ice Today, we will no longer write mid-month analyses in the months leading up to the Arctic sea ice minimum." - @nsidc.bsky.social

Just embarrassing TBH.

This is the ACTUAL message the the team at climate [dot] gov wanted to send out as their final post, before it was completely dehumanized.

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You know those “Antarctica Today” posts I’d put up for a while, showing surface melt extent accross Antarctica for every day of the melt season (Oct - April)?

They relied 100% on this data stream. Take it offline, that goes away completely.

Sea ice extent uses it too.

As of a few weeks ago, climate researchers thought they had at least until Sept before DOD cut off its passive microwave weather satellite data, used to track sea ice since the 1980s.

Now the cut off is coming in 5 days. Hope more reporters will cover now.

My recent story in @science.org:

this is not because the DMSP satellite has stopped working.

This is a devastating loss for polar science. Most folks who work on sea ice use these datasets on a daily basis. Hard to imagine life without them.

😓 These are the folks who provide satellite imagery, maps, and geospatial support to American scientists that operate in polar regions where most satellites don’t reach.

FOR DECADES they have done this, supporting critical work.

They have helped me many times. This is terrible. #WithoutNSF

A Robust Constraint on the Response of Convective Mass Fluxes to Warming Convective mass fluxes robustly decrease with warming, at around 3−5 $3-5$%K−1 ${\mathrm{K}}^{-1}$, when viewed in temperature coordinates The weakening in temperature coordinates is explained by...

Anyone interested in learning about a first principles, quantitative theory for convective mass flux in a warming world?

Read the paper and/or come to my EGU talk on Thursday! :)

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This is beyond abominable. I don't know what else to say.

White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

They simply want to cancel an entire field of science because they don't like the answers it has come up with. It's like the burning of the library of Alexandria. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Trump administration cancels top NASA climate lab’s lease at Columbia University | CNN The NASA lab tracks global climate conditions, serving as one of the main centers worldwide for this information.

The Trump administration has canceled the lease for NASA's top climate science modeling and monitoring lab, known as NASA GISS, at Columbia Univ. in NYC. The lab is going virtual as of May 31. (The lab is above the Seinfeld restaurant.) www.cnn.com/2025/04/24/c...

White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.

By @abrahm.bsky.social

NASA Is Terminating The GISS Lease In Five Weeks This was just sent to all NASA Goddard and GISS employees by Makenzie Lystrup

NASA Is Terminating The GISS Lease In Five Weeks
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"NASA’s lease of Columbia University’s Armstrong Hall in New York City, home to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, will end effective May 31, 2025."

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Oh no! Several of the Regional Climate Centers have had their funding lapse through DOC/NOAA. These institutes are critical for connecting weather and climate data and services to local communities across the United States.

Spread the word to drive attention and support!

NOAA Layoffs Have Hurricane Forecasters Worried While they’re confident in the accuracy of this year’s predictions, the future looks a lot murkier.

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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.

"To envision the disastrous impact of this plan, one only needs to see what NOAA research has provided to the U.S. taxpayer and imagine where we would be without it."

"Now is the time to reach out to your elected representatives."

"Stand Up for NOAA Research" - @nwas.org and @ametsoc.org statement

NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov

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

Thinking of you Zack. You deserve better. This is a massive loss for NOAA.

An ice-free day on the Arctic Ocean? It’s coming sooner than we realized, a CU researcher says The Arctic Ocean is one of the coldest regions on the globe. But a CU researcher says that some day soon, the Arctic will see its first day in which all of the sea ice has melted due to rising global ...

🔊 ALEXANDRA JAHN @seaiceclimate.bsky.social speaks with KUNC's Erin O'Toole about predicting when the 1st ice-free *day* on the Arctic Ocean might occur. Jahn & @clnhz.bsky.social found it could happen within 3-20 yrs, an ominous milestone

Listen to 9 min interview: www.kunc.org/podcast/inth...

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