Andra Garner

The fix is in Judy Curry unwittingly spills the beans

On The Climate Brink: More about the DOE Climate Working Group report.

The Fix Is In: Without independent review editors, their “peer review” process is a sham. Science and humanity deserves better.

Energy Production and Consumption Explore data on how energy production and use varies across the world.

Some energy/climate math for the late night crowd:

Total Absorbed Solar Energy: 240 W/m2
Total human primary energy use in 2024: 186kTWh
(from ourworldindata.org/energy-produ...)

Converting: 186*10^15/5.1x10^14/3600= 0.1 W/m2

=> total energy from solar is 2400 times what we use.

Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out.

Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.

The merchants of doubt are back But this time, it's the U.S. government pushing doubt

On The Climate Brink, I write about the DOE report and our response.

Some of my personal thoughts on the DOE report and the need for this response:

Glad to have been able to take part in this important effort, and to work with colleagues to provide a response to the DOE Climate Working Group report's sea level and tropical cyclone sections, in particular. Many thanks to @andrewdessler.com and @bobkopp.net for helping to organize this effort!

Climate.gov will re-launch under new URL thanks to a secret team of web ninjas | CNN A small group of writers and researchers are launching an ambitious effort to preserve key climate data that the Trump administration has taken offline, including the climate.gov website.

New nonprofit climate group forms, aims to resurrect climate.gov, National Climate Assessment and other lost data www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...

This radar loop of Hurricane #Katrina in 2005 spans August 28 at noon (CDT) through the morning of the 29th at 8:54am when communication with the radar was lost.

Proud to have helped out with this enormous effort.

Say it louder for the people in the back: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."

This helps lend confidence to our climate modeling capabilities—which have improved dramatically over that same 30 year time span!

Really nice piece in @agu.org's Earth's Future a few days ago, showing excellent agreement between satellite observations of sea level in recent decades and the sea level projections from the IPCC's Second Assessment report 30 years ago.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Keeping an eye on Typhoon Kajiki as it brings impacts to an area that we found faces increasing Typhoon hazards as storm tracks change in a warmer climate (part of our 2024 manuscript in @natureportfolio.nature.com's npj Climate and Atmospheric Science): share.google/SrSMsDA1fBxI...

🛑 Last Chance To Submit an Abstract for #OSM26🛑

The global conference for ocean sciences and the ocean-related community taking place 22-27 Feb 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Celebrate the power of collective discovery by showcasing your work in a world stage.

➡️Submit by 20 Aug: buff.ly/vBlrVDV

The only hurricanes in the satellite era with pressures as low as Erin's but below Category 3 winds are Maria (2017), Irma (2017), Sandy (2012), Igor (2010), and Gloria (1985). Erin in ultra-elite company as far as large, powerful hurricanes go. Spectacular sight on satellite.

The center of #HurricaneErin might not make landfall in the US, but its size, strength, and proximity to the coast mean it will still have impacts, including dangerous rip currents along most of the East coast for the next few days. Heed warnings at your local beaches if you're headed to the shore!

Trump team readies more attacks on mainstream climate science The plans include a public debate on global warming. Scientists say that falsely implies the major tenets of climate research are unsettled.

Public debate on global warming? Sweet. Let’s also debate the Ptolemaic model of the heavens.

Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.

Abstracts for the 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow, Scotland are due this Wednesday, 8/20. If you're a coastal climate scientist, we hope you'll consider submitting an abstract to our session on Dynamic Coastlines!

Hurricane Erin becomes ‘catastrophic’ Category 5 hurricane, tracking north of Bahamas The first hurricane of the 2025 season has intensified into a Category 5 storm and will turn north just before the U.S. east coast next week. Forecasters are also tracking a new system in the weste…

Erin is now a monster 160 mph cat 5 Atlantic hurricane:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/16/h...

Tropical Storm #Erin is still chugging westward & remains small, but convection (thunderstorms) is getting stronger near its center shown by colder cloud tops. Overnight, it can be easier for a storm's convection to take off.

NOAA GOES-19 1-minute meso sector infrared imagery from the past 6 hours:

Today's daily dose of dystopian nonsense...

Sea Level Mis-information from DOE Here in the USA, the Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a report titled “A Critical Review of the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.” It is a product of the &#8…

That's just one of many instances of distortion and misinformation in the US Department of Energy "Critical Review on the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions".
Which in fact is a fossil fuel propaganda scam.
Let's hope Americans are not that easily fooled.
tamino.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/s...

Reposting--there are just over two weeks left to submit your Ocean Sciences Meeting abstracts. If you're a coastal climate scientist, we hope you'll join us in Scotland for a discussion of "Dynamic Coastlines"!

“Who discovered that climate naturally changes and what are they saying now?”

Should always be the follow-up question to this bullshit. We’ve altered the climate ourselves more in the past 20 years than nature has in the past tens of thousands of years

What an embarrassing country

Totally agree. Climate change isn’t causing big subduction earthquakes. But it is raising baseline sea levels along our coasts, and that makes the impacts of those earthquakes and tsunamis worse when they do happen.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

U.S. Tsunami Warning Centers

TSUNAMI WARNING 3: See tsunami.gov for alert areas. M8.7 080mi SE Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka 1625PDT Jul 29

Live updates: Tsunami alerts issued for U.S. West Coast, Hawaii and Japan after 8.8-magnitude quake The strongest earthquake of the year erupted off Russia’s Kamchatka region, triggering tsunami warnings for Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Japan, Russia and the U.S. West Coast.

For live updates on the massive earthquake (mag 8.8) near Russia and the tsunami sweeping the Pacific Ocean, follow this @washingtonpost link: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

The U.S. has led the world in science since the mid-20th century for two reasons: funding & welcoming students and researchers from around the world. The Trump administration is destroying both advantages (1/2)