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Chart showing the 1940-2024 temperature change averaged across all of Alaska. It's as if something has changed. 🤔

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Corrupt, gerrymandered government destroys outcomes, Exhibit 34: “Ohio continues to do terribly in nearly every way possible, according to the latest state rankings from the U.S. News & World Report.” t.co/pQcmTx7AnP

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

“No, I said YOU get your ass onto an assembly line to be a real man,” explained the manicured conservative. “I will keep my comfortable desk job, thank you very much, and demonstrate my masculinity by being a dick to people on the internet.”

submitted 77 days ago • 7 comments

In today's Berardelli Bonus...The ongoing flood event in the nation's middle is another example of a historic and very "rare" event. 1000 yr rain events are typically restricted to a very isolated area but @jjrenie.bsky.social map shows just how widespread it was. 1/

submitted 81 days ago • 7 comments

How many of the 12 calendar months show a warming trend over the last 75 years? For the vast majority of locations on Earth, the answer is all 12 months. 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 83 days ago • 9 comments

“There is no such thing as an ‘illegal immigrant’” My myth-busting piece for The Guardian today arguing that it is factually inaccurate & totally, utterly wrong to say that undocumented people are ‘illegal’ & are automatically ‘criminals’. I bring receipts:

submitted 87 days ago • 158 comments

We now have data for 2024, real wage growth was extraordinarily strong at the bottom end of the wage distribution www.epi.org/publication/...

submitted 96 days ago • 5 comments

The worlds oldest mountain weather monitoring station is in Germany at Hohenpeissenberg. It's records go back to the mid 1700s and an almost continuous record since the late 1700s. p.s. Yes, human induced climate change is real. Source: www.dwd.de/EN/research/...

submitted 112 days ago • 4 comments

Arctic 50-year average temperature change for winter, updated to include 2024-25. Warming in excess of 11ºC (!) in the Barents Sea and Svalbard areas due to mid-winter sea ice loss. No warming since the mid-1970s in eastern Siberia and parts of Greenland. Data from ERA5. #Arctic #ClimateChange

submitted 113 days ago • 3 comments

Pete Hegseth has ordered a massive review of DOD computer archives in an attempt to “align” the department with Trump’s directive to eliminate anything related to DEI. What are America's warfighters so afraid of? www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 113 days ago • 182 comments

The Dec-Feb 2024-25 period was the second warmest Dec-Feb on record. Just barely behind last year's value. A record low 15% of the globe was cooler than normal.

submitted 116 days ago • 7 comments

Only the best people.

submitted 119 days ago • 2059 comments

Something to bookmark: Potash is essential for modern agriculture. Eighty percent of the potash used on American farms comes from mines in Saskatchewan. {gift link}

submitted 119 days ago • 494 comments

I’ve displayed these flags together since the final week of February 2022 following Russia’s invasion. Today, my Ukrainian neighbor saw me outside and she gave me a hug with tears in her eyes. All I could do was apologize to her for what we all witnessed today.

submitted 120 days ago • 1 comment

In a world of filled with JD Vances, be a Zelensky.

submitted 120 days ago • 47 comments

Local NWS Anchorage meteorologist just made it past his 1-year probationary period. Still fired.

submitted 121 days ago • 18 comments

The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach. www.tsunami.gov

submitted 121 days ago • 270 comments

As I kid I wanted to work as a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Alaska. Thanks to the timing of my birth, through good times and bad, I spent more than more than 30 years doing just that. Today, hundreds of similar dreams were shattered. To all of you, I am so sorry. #NOAA #Alaska

submitted 121 days ago • 9 comments

This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

submitted 121 days ago • 1564 comments

Folks are getting worked up about my recent claim that U.S. National Weather Service costs $3-4 per person/year. Well, some math: NWS budget of ~$1.3 billion, ~160 million tax returns, & ~345 million Americans means ~$8/taxpayer, or (indeed) ~$3.75/person. That's...quite a deal.

submitted 140 days ago • 13 comments

An unvaccinated child died of measles in the Texas outbreak. Measles kills 1 in every 1,000 people in developed nations, more where healthcare is scarce. The measles vaccine has never caused a death. It ALSO prevents deaths from measles. Anti-vaccine lies are killing children. 1/

submitted 122 days ago • 6 comments

I shared this note with the owner of the Washington Post this morning.

submitted 122 days ago • 1134 comments

FWIW, some ideas about how the potential loss of U.S. climate/environmental data might impact near-real time Arctic climate science. Latest post from the Alaska and Arctic Climate Newsletter. alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/arctic-cli... #akwx #Arctic #Climate

submitted 126 days ago • 3 comments

All politics is economics. If the Supreme Court Citizens United decision grants more political power to those with more money, then to defeat them, it is essential that we target the sources of their wealth. Yes, that means you should sell your Tesla and get off X. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

submitted 126 days ago • 24 comments

Such hostile nonsense from Americans in power just now. I wish we would listen to people who have suffered for reporting the truth, like Stanislav Aseyev, combat veteran and survivor of a Russian torture camp.

submitted 127 days ago • 50 comments

What have we become?

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

submitted 135 days ago • 605 comments

Another example of the value of investing in biomedical research www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments