Tessa Hill

DOE climate report response form We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.

🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨

Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.

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on TikTok or Insta? you know the “I have one daughter” meme is spreading fast. This meme represents every situation where someone tries to explain something factual and is gaslit or ignored.

Who is going to make the climate change communication version!? I’m not tech savvy enough to do it…

Historical model biases in monthly high temperature anomalies indicate under-estimation of future temperature extremes - Communications Earth & Environment Models tend to underestimate mean monthly maximum temperature anomalies by 2-3% and extreme anomalies by 11-12% over the period 1980 and 2023, which could lead to temperatures 3 °C to 5 °C higher than...

Climate models have underestimated the departure of high temperature extremes from monthly means.

If we assume these model biases persist in future projections, then the climate models are also likely underestimating the magnitude of future high temperature extremes.

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They should include shots from the good old days like this one too! 1926 near Birmingham, UK. The good old days! Why not burn it - ahem HER - for residential cooking and heating while we are at it?

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Contrarian climate assessment from U.S. government draws swift pushback Researchers say DOE report cherry-picks data to downplay threat of greenhouse gases

Contrarian climate assessment from U.S. government draws swift pushback | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

nice article from @voosen.me

After a 25-hour workday, I'm finally home from this #tsunami response! I have many thoughts to share soon, but most of them come down to "hey, maybe we shouldn't defund the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program, which funds the vast majority of state-level tsunami work in the US!"

Great thread @christinatoms.bsky.social ! 🌊

A tsunami warning is in effect for portions of the North Coast to the Oregon border with a tsunami advisory active from the Bay Area south to Southern California. Anticipated wave heights have been reduced slightly near Crescent city but peak impacts still expected around coastal harbors and Inlets

Really couldn’t say it any better 👇🏼

All of these cuts from NASA to NIH to NSF and beyond will haunt us for years. Just throwing away decades of investment in science and all of the information and benefits we've accrued in this time.

Devastating for US Antarctic researchers. US abdicating multiple global leadership roles in marine science. USAP people, we need a professional lobbyist-large sections of both senate and house bills dedicated to drilling and nothing about the NBP. Community led push needed and a comms strategy.

🌊❄️🧪 🇦🇶 Please share:

We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October.

If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)

Mapping Federal Funding Cuts to U.S. Colleges and Universities American science and innovation should not be subject to the political winds of the day. Find out how the Trump administration’s grant terminations are affecting your school, your community, and your ...

Mapping Federal Funding Cuts to U.S. Colleges and Universities - Center for American Progress www.americanprogress.org/article/mapp...

A. It was George W. Bush's Republican EPA Secretary Christine Todd Whitman who first declared CO2 a pollutant to be regulated under the Clean Air Act.
B. Lee Zeldin parrots discredited fossil fuel industry climate denier talking points: granthaminstitute.com/2015/10/19/c...

He helped Microsoft build AI to help the climate. Then Microsoft sold it to Big Oil. A former Microsoft project manager reveals how the tech giant is using AI to help Big Oil drill—and how he and his partner are now pushing for change.

NEW: A former Microsoft AI engineer says the company's "AI for sustainability" claims are BS, a distraction from their hyper-polluting AI contracts with oil companies.

“From what I saw," he said, "I believe that finding and extracting more oil is one of the biggest use cases of AI today."

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...

A pair of the largest Violet Sea snail (Janthina globosa) shells that I've seen 😍
Beauties 🐌
County Clare, Ireland.

At any rate…. I’m familiar with most of these but I have to finish up reading some of the newer ones and design class discussion questions. Any exciting oceanography books on your summer reading list? (/end)

California Against the Sea From a celebrated environmental journalist, the riveting exploration of sea level rise along the West Coast through human stories and ecological dramas.

And finally, of course I’d love to include writing by @rosannaxia.bsky.social so I might add California Against the Sea in there as well… www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/cali... (8/n)

Reefs of Time How fossilized reefs hold clues to the survival of corals in the Anthropocene

Another one I’m considering adding is by Lisa Gardiner: Reefs of Time, which would give my “paleo” and reef minded students something exciting to read. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... (7/n)

What the Wild Sea Can Be 2024 sees the release of What the Wild Sea Can Be. This book was sparked by a question I found myself being asked often, during radio interviews and by audience members at public talks: Am I hopeful f...

And… I think I’m offering an additional @helenscales.bsky.social book this year - What the Wild Sea Can Be. Currently reading this and designing discussion questions. helenscales.com/portfolio/wh... (6/n)

The Brilliant Abyss “A manifesto for change as much as it is a description of an ecological crisis.” New Republic. “Carefully conceived and luminously written” Tim Flannery, New Statesman. “Stylish, eloquent . . . Enthra...

I always feature at least one book by @helenscales.bsky.social! This year I’ll for sure offer The Brilliant Abyss. Students interested in the deep sea get a “deep dive” with this one. helenscales.com/portfolio/th... (5/n)

Another book choice is one I know well 😉, @ateverydepth.bsky.social, written by Eric Simons and I. It’s fun to be able to answer student questions about the book writing process! www.ateverydepth.com (4/n)

The Sea Is My Country The first full-scale history of the Makah people of the Pacific Northwest, whose culture and identity are closely bound to the sea For the Makahs, a tribal n...

Next up is Reid’s The Sea Is My Country, an in depth, extensively researched and documented discussion of Indigenous connection to the sea. Students love this one. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... (3/n)

Starting off the list is a student favorite, written by @drewharvell.bsky.social : Ocean Outbreak. Students love this year after year, and it generates great class discussions. drewharvell.com/ocean-outbre... (2/n)

Finalizing my book list for my summer biological oceanography class at Bodega Marine Lab 🧪 📚 🌊. In addition to standard course materials, students choose 1 book from this list to read, and meet in book groups! Here’s my current list, including beloved student favorites and some new additions. (1/n)

I feel this so deeply. Being immersed in the joy that my kids bring into our house is a large part of how I’ve survived the last 6 months. And I have one leaving this fall, so I’m really counting those blessings now.

Any favorite short stories with an environmental bent?

I'm working on syllabi for a couple classes that include a science communication component, but I don't read much short fiction! Hoping to have students read a relevant short story or two.

Sigh.

Bolder efforts needed to save Northwest's endangered orcas, report finds Efforts to save the Northwest’s endangered orcas are not working on either side of the U.S.-Canada border, according to an international panel of scientists.

“Whatever it is we're doing, collectively, cumulatively, is not enough. The population is still declining,” Williams said. “The whales need more salmon and less noise, and we need to somehow reduce the impact of toxic chemicals on the whales’ health and reproduction.”