Cameron Beccario

#TaraPolarStation : la dérive a commencé ! ❄️
Prisonnière des glaces depuis le 8 juillet, la station entame sa #dérive à travers l’océan #Arctique. L’équipage découvre les réactions du navire dans cet environnement unique.
🚢 Cette aventure scientifique hors norme ne fait que commencer.
📸 Maéva Bardy

I recommend checking out the profiles and records of the people that went through this program while you still can:

cpo.noaa.gov/fellowships/

They are a testament to how a small amount of federal funding can seed a tremendous increase in knowledge and understanding.

You think that vast armed force is going to be used just for immigration?

I doubt it. Watch for ICE duties to expand duties and for ICE to follow the pattern of militarization of police. Also watch it used as secret police against anything anti-ICE.

The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡

"Build as much clean energy as possible as fast as possible" should be our No. 1 national priority in the coming decade. All our national resources should be bent to the task. The president should talk about it every week in a national address. It should be the moon shot X100.

the shift This A.I. Company Wants to Take Your Job Mechanize, a San Francisco start-up, is building artificial intelligence tools to automate white-collar jobs “as fast as possible.”

Mechanize’s founders gave a presentation about automating all labor at the Interval at Long Now cocktail bar in San Francisco last week.CreditCredit...Manuel Orbegozo for The New York Times

The founders of Mechanize believe they can eventually automate most white-collar jobs.

EXTREMELY ANNOYING

The climate movement spent millions of $ over decades focusing on just transition, helping displaced workers, yet climate action still gets broadly criticised as causing 'job losses'

Tech bros pop up saying "I WANT TO DESTROYJOBS ASAP" and get a glowing write-up in the NYT

🤨🧐🆒🗑️

four images of my cat resting on a bookshelf with a blank stare. each photo zooms in more.

I'm no expert, but I believe these are primarily agricultural burns.

We at NSF Unidata are pleased to announce that we have now received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the next year of our five-year award. This allows us to end the current furlough of our staff and resume our operations. buff.ly/GafcZts

How Japan ignored climate critics and built a global natural gas empire
🇯🇵❤️🚢

Every six hours, somewhere in the world, an LNG shipment controlled by a Japanese company leaves a port. However, these tankers are only the tip of the iceberg

A thread 🧵

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations

Due to the current gap in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program is pausing most operations effective 12 May 2025. Nearly all staff will be furloughed until funds from our existing NSF grant become available. For more information, see buff.ly/d2TC1Oy

ah I see it's "photo of people enjoying sunshine to illustrate mass heatwave deaths" season again.

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no problem! let me know if you encounter the issue again so we can investigate.

screenshot of buttons with arrow icons and a tooltip saying "+1 hour"

Hi Jack. The time advancement hasn't changed. It has been 5 min and 1 hr since launch of the Aurora overlay. Can you show me what you are seeing?

Good things will still happen

It's been a rough week for the NOAA family, including feds, contractors, and scientists across this country / world. I need to say something very important.

It is my motivation to get you the weather, water and climate data you need, regardless of what has, or will happen to us.

Protecting American Energy From State Overreach By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

This new White House executive order says that the US Attorney General is going to prevent states from implementing democratically passed laws regarding climate change and clean energy. It scarcely needs stating at this point that this is wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional. Dictator shit.

NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite now operational, providing critical new data to forecasters Satellite covering GOES-East orbit

NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite officially began operations as GOES East

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Learn More:
www.noaa.gov/news-release...

NOAA research websites slated to go dark get reprieve with contract extension NOAA is under a mandate to slash its IT costs.

"There will be no interruption in service. All NOAA Research sites will remain online," a NOAA spokesperson told Axios Friday afternoon. www.axios.com/2025/04/04/n...

Kindleberger's spiral coming to mind

A screenshot of a text conversation discussing chaotic and troubling conditions at NOAA, expressing concerns about the administration's lack of care and the need for legislative attention.

My friend from the NOAA lab that brings you the Keeling Curve wants that world to know that things are horrible inside NOAA.

Riker with a scruffy beard looking terrified on the communicator

FaceTiming anyone in America these days

NOAA’s office of Oceanic Atmospheric Research has had IT and other support contracts canceled in the last day or so that will fundamentally affect its operation. One source there said “It will seriously hurt our ability to improve weather forecasting and climate projections.”

What a heartbreaking photograph - the impact of satellite constellations on the night sky.

Taken above the Pinnacles in Nambung National Park, Western Australia.

Credit: Joshua Rozells

Make no mistake about it, if those numbers are even close to true, there is no way all of the weather forecast offices can exist as they do now. A full-on attack on public weather services.

If a car lost 25% of its parts, it doesn't slow down. It just doesn't work.

woah...