Dr. A.R. Siders

Photo of Stacey Abrams with the quote: "This isn't about politics. It's about power. Yesterday's decision tells the GOP that if they are mean enough, cruel enough, and patient enough, we will give in."

well stated by @staceyabrams.com

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.

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.

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

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Also the first time I'd heard of the show "Families Like Ours" - which follows a family through the national evacuation of the entire country of Denmark en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familie...

Books recommended by our audience (fiction & non-fiction): The Changes (Cadman)
Fire Weather (Voillant)
New York 2140 (Robinson)
Next Great Migration (Shah)
American War
Parable of the Sower
The Water Knife
The Great Displacement
Water Always Wins
Blackfish City

A great session on the importance of history, narratives, imagination, and imaginaries at the #MR25 conference @columbiauniversity.bsky.social !

Five panelists sitting at the front of an auditorium with an audience watching them. A slide behind says what then becomes possible with a picture of a coast.

I love this slide at #CZC2025 - what then, becomes possible? Conversations about innovation, creativity, and challenging the status quo for #coasts and #adaptation

I love it! the use of liminal for the psych and social and physical is just wonderful

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Rubio eliminates office that oversees climate talks The Office of Global Change was notified Thursday that it would be shuttered.

Favorite quote: closing the State Dept Climate Office is “just strategically fucking dumb"

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

A pleasure to host Prof. Jim Wescoat from MIT and Mr. Ghammaz Hussain from Beaconhouse National University in Pakistan today - thanks to @sidersadapts.bsky.social for moderating the panel !

EPA moves to ditch finding that greenhouse gases cause harm The recommendation by Lee Zeldin, the agency's administrator, could upend existing and future regulations on climate change.

Trump's Environmental Protection Agency appointees will move to reverse its 2009 declaration that greenhouse gases endanger human health & welfare, a decision that underpins the agency's authority to regulate GHGs under the Clean Air Act www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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FEMA is losing scores of employees. That could slow disaster response. Cuts at the Federal Emergency Management Agency could affect people across the country who are struggling to rebuild and prepare for disasters.

"could"
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See? It's not all bad news...

also - home energy retrofits. These keep people warm / cool / safe and help keep down heating/cooling costs. Cancelling those grants hurts people directly.

Trump Ends Climate Work Inside Agency That Responds to Disasters A memo sent to leadership at the US Department of Homeland Security orders the elimination of climate-related activities.

SCOOP @bloomberg.com: Top officials at the US Department of Homeland Security received a memo from Sec. Kristi Noem on Friday ordering an immediate stop to work connected to climate change and the elimination of climate-related terms across the agency.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Join the Climate Storytellers’ Summit on Thursday, April 10 from 4-6pm which I will be moderating. Read more details here:

environment.princeton.edu/climate-stor...

Terms sized by frequency. Min 500 mentions. Imperfect effort to combine single and plural (e.g., scientist, scientists) + to remove stop words (e.g., and, so, the) + common words (e.g., intellectual merit, access, will).

I kept "novel" because its 985 occurrences amused me

a word cloud. the biggest words are: communities, students, and stem. a second tier of smaller words include: technology, education, engineering, evaluation, statutory, career, environment, teaching

"Woke DEI grants at #NSF". A word cloud of ~3,400 grant titles flagged by US Senate Committee Commerce, Science & Transportation as "questionable projects that promoted #DEI or advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda."

Database at:
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

Submissions are open for the 2025 Conference!

Interested in sharing your ideas through a workshop, presentation, or panel? Fill out the form (link below and in bio) to be considered. Let's see what we can create and share together!

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#solarpunk #solarpunkconference

A scoping review on climate change education The growing urgency of the climate crisis necessitates innovative educational approaches to equip people with the knowledge and skills to address climate challenges and be able to influence policy eff...

A new scoping review by Muccione et al. identifies key themes in climate education research, and calls for their integration into policy-relevant assessment reports

journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

The new White House has already deleted dozens of environmental justice websites and reports. Worry not, they’re all backed up on various independent university websites. eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker-type...

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@gruberte.bsky.social is an incredibly exciting interdisciplinary researcher! and an awesome human. go work with her!

Some really interesting thoughts about #adaptation coming up: "we're becoming numb to disasters... so we need to change the stories we tell to give people hope"; "we need to fight misinformation and scapegoating"; "insurance will be a key debate" "people are frustrated and angry". Give it a listen!

Have you played with EnRoads? It's a simulator, not a game, but I enjoy the way you can stack different approaches to see the effects - a very simple interface with lots of detail if you dig in
en-roads.climateinteractive.org

I targeted industrial ag for the biodiversity score and went for efficiencies in concrete, shipping, electrification etc early for the emissions reductions

I expected a cute little phone game about #climate and emissions reductions, and I was wrong. The sheer number of interconnected policies, infrastructure, research options and political allies / foes is daunting and impressive!

that title makes me think of this one:

Public will not have to change lives ‘radically’ for climate goal, MPs promised Lifestyle change, such as diet and travel, are not in the scope of the 2035 goal

LA is burning & our implicit political baseline is still that climate policies are acceptable if and only if they require zero sacrifice or even mild lifestyle change on anyone's part.

Building back better is hard because people also want build back fast and those don't always go hand in hand. btw just noticed your work - very cool! We're training cohorts of undergrads on EnRoads to do sci communication. Hoping they'll do the full ambassador route.