Nathan Mueller

Do subsidies make meat much cheaper? A little, but not much. Certainly not enough to make them cheaper than meat substitutes.

You guys SUBSIDIES DON'T SHAPE OUR DIET. (mostly)

Subsidies generally FOLLOW farmer preferences, rather than create them. And farmers grow what people will buy.

Here's @hannahritchie.bsky.social on how subsidies affect me at prices:

hannahritchie.substack.com/p/meat-subsi...

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

Environmental Research: Food Systems @iopp-environment.bsky.social is now indexed in Scopus! 👩‍🌾
Huge thanks to our authors, reviewers, and editorial team – this will help food systems research reach an even wider audience.

Drawdown® Explorer We know what we need to do: stop climate change as quickly as possible. Now, with the Drawdown Explorer, we know how to do it.

Many people feel overwhelmed with the number of potential climate solutions, and are not quite sure what to focus on.

@projectdrawdown.bsky.social has always been at helping people navigate the minefield.

Their new explorer is really cool, and helps to make things clearer: drawdown.org/explorer

Not in Colorado (and for a while we couldn’t even schedule adult Covid vaccines!)

Selected Publications

Under-prediction of past high temperature extremes suggests climate models are underpredicting future high temperature extremes.

sustainablesolutions.stanford.edu/publications

New open-access paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

New research brief: drive.google.com/file/d/1tvJ5...

American climate solutions scientists? Want to move to a beautiful place, work with great people, and be based in Canada?

Here’s a good opportunity!

guess what Citibank is hiring a climate modeler and the qualifications are finally not econ

"Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in a quantitative field such as Hydrology/Meteorology, Statistics, Engineering or Mathematics. PhD is a plus."

www.indeed.com/q-citi-clima...

EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees.

The EPA has eliminated its research division, which for decades has provided the science behind regulations on clean air, clean water, and toxic chemicals.

The US can afford to monitor, research, and regulate the impacts of industries on human and environmental health. We are just choosing not to.

🙏

YouTube video by US CLIVAR Usable Climate Risk Science: Webinar One

for those who missed the CLIVAR climate risk webinar, it's now online. great talks by @kellyhereid.bsky.social, @climatefran.bsky.social, and Zong-Liang Yang.
youtu.be/sktn8mu98UQ?...

Wonderful, thanks!

Great lineup! Will this be recorded/posted?

There is a new CLIVAR working group focused on climate risk (I'm one of the organizers). We are having our first public webinar tomorrow 7/10 at 1 pm ET. We have some FANTASTIC speakers including @kellyhereid.bsky.social, @climatefran.bsky.social, and Zong-Liang Yang.

As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc

Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.”

In the US alone.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation.

Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:

1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

If you’re wondering if US climate researchers are freaking out, yeah they’re freaking out.

If anyone is looking for a podcast guest to explain how science funding works, hit me up

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue.

It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

Our opening is about to close while we read applications, but here's another catastrophe R&D role with a great team at Trans Re, with Maryam Haji who runs one of the sharpest shops in reinsurance.

Im here for the kochia posts! I don’t know if I dislike kochia or bindweed more.

Horsetooth Rock

Long’s Peak

Wildflowers

Wildflowers and lake

Feed cleanse: Colorado blue skies (and wildflowers)

Congrats Zack! They are lucky to have you!

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

Good cover @economist.com

UC Cooperative Extension Specialist - Computational Data Science for Agriculture and Natural Resource Technologies Located at the University of California, San Diego (25-17) University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources is hiring. Apply now!

I know a lot of folks are currently looking for jobs, so this is a timely new position w/@ucanr.bsky.social & UCSD! General role is environment-focused data science, but specific topical focus could be anything from sustainable ag to wildfire risk. More details: recruit.ucanr.edu/JP...

9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything

We wouldn't have some essential everyday things without federal funding for science.

The article includes this beautiful photo of the baby looking up at one of the doctors who saved his life. This extraordinary, life saving research is exactly how I want my tax dollars spent. “KJ is now well enough for the team to start planning to discharge him from the hospital and live at home”

Scientists have been publishing climate models since ~1970.

A good way to evaluate their skill is to compare what they expected to happen in the years after the model was published to observed climate changes.

It turns out most models were pretty spot-on: