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Cutting federal funding for scientific research could cause long-term economic damage, equivalent to a major recession. A 25% reduction in public support for research and development results in a 3.8% drop in economic output. A 50% reduction lowers GDP by ~7.6%, and a 75% cut reduces it by ~11.3%.

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New on the Sumner Files: Arto Lindsay! From DNA to Ambitious Lovers & Lounge Lizards to solo projects & producing many other great artists, Arto has had an amazing career. It was an honor & pleasure to talk with him about Sumner & his art & their relationship. deep-convection.org/2025/04/30/t...

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They simply want to cancel an entire field of science because they don't like the answers it has come up with. It's like the burning of the library of Alexandria. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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This is beyond abominable. I don't know what else to say.

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For a break from the news, we have a new episode of The Sumner Files, with David Reed! He's a renowned painter, who was friends and roommates with Sumner for around ten years, starting in the 60s when both were students of Milton Resnick at the NY Studio School. bit.ly/4cVWS2t

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The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research, the scientific backbone that keeps weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective. This would have disastrous consequences. Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC

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In this story, @gabriellecanon.bsky.social talks to two former Assistant Administrators (i.e., directors) of NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) — Craig McLean and Rick Spinrad — who affirm that eliminating OAR would be disastrous and make both the US and the world less safe.

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Critical yet often overlooked is that NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research maintains vital long-term monitoring programs like the CO₂ Keeling Curve that, while essential, often struggle for funding from agencies like NSF that prioritize hypothesis-driven research over sustained observation.

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On Mon 4/14 @ 4pm PT, I will have a special live session to discuss the rapidly unfolding, chaotic, & apparently intensifying actual & proposed cuts to NOAA & NASA that threaten to decimate weather & climate science & prediction in the U.S. See you then. youtube.com/live/mbt...

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Please call your reps. This is way beyond any debate about action on climate - rather, this would blind our nation so that we don't even know or understand what is happening in our atmosphere and oceans.

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I'm so excited to announce the latest episode of The Sumner Files, featuring the legend: Lydia Lunch! We talked about Sumner, she pushed me to do more with this project than I had planned, and I listened and I'm doing it! It was truly an honor and a pleasure. deep-convection.org/2025/04/02/t...

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I think I understand why Columbia leadership did what they did. I'm still profoundly sad, angry, and ashamed that they did it. It's a dark day for my university, and for the USA.

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It was a profound honor to talk with the legend @lydia.lunch.official on her podcast with Tim Dahl. I first heard Lydia's name from my uncle Sumner Crane when I was ten years old, and she's still going strong. We talked about Sumner, climate and politics. lydianspin.libsyn.com/episode-296-...

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Indeed, how to live a life or exist as a human on this earth is really what this project is about. I'm so glad that comes across. Thank you @agroclim.bsky.social for getting it, and for the endorsement. Working on this project is helping to keep me sane atm.

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Just out: episode 2 of the Sumner Files, featuring the amazing Julia Gorton! What an honor and a pleasure to talk with Julia about her experiences downtown in the 70s and her friendship with Sumner. Her photos are among the most compelling documents of the scene. deep-convection.org/2025/03/19/t...

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“There are 13 million legal foreign residents (green card holders) in the US. If the administration can deport Khalil, it means those 13 million people must live in fear if they dare speak up or publish something that runs afoul of government views.” journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fac...

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Thanks to the RAA for speaking up for NOAA.

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Just out: the first proper episode of the Sumner Files, with the amazing Mark Cunningham! We talk about Mars from start to end, John Gavanti, and his whole trajectory before and after that, up to his current projects. What an honor and a pleasure for me. deep-convection.org/2025/03/05/t...

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WHERE WILL YOU BE IN 4 DAYS? Stand Up for Science with us on March 7th, in DC & Nationwide! ☀️🌎🧪

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New on our podcast site: the first of a new series, The Sumner Files, that I'm doing on my uncle, the artist and musician Sumner Crane (1946-2003). This is episode zero, where I explain what it's about and why I'm doing it. deep-convection.org/2025/02/18/t... #sumnercrane #mars #nowave

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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

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People may not understand just how important federal science research funding is to the prosperity of the nation. I tried to explain it, because it's under unprecedented and direct assault.

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If you'll still be at #AMS2025 on Thursday morning, consider coming by the "Forum on Climate Linked Economics" session at 10:45 in room 205, where I'll be giving a 30 minute invited talk on financial considerations for various NY decision making. 💵 & 🌩️ = 🤔. @adamsobel.bsky.social is right after!

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Center of current NHC cone puts Milton's center south of Tampa Bay at landfall. If so, that could make it "just" a huge disaster, instead of an unprecedented worst-case scenario for Florida. But landfall further north, funneling the surge into the Bay, is still well within the realm of possibility.

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An update, for those who have listened to our podcast and may be wondering why we haven't put out any new episodes in a long time. I've been working on something else. It doesn't exist yet but I am now ready to name the subject matter publicly... bit.ly/4dAlHzm

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Great interview with Justin Mankin on the America Adapts podcast, sparked by his NYT op-ed earlier on public vs. private climate data. & Thanks Justin for the in-depth shout-out to me and the 2022 AGU Charney lecture! www.americaadapts.org/episodes/lif...

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A long-ish op-ed style piece from me in Nature, in which I consider the question "how doomed are we?" tl;dr: it's an existential, philosophical, and personal question. It sometimes gets posed as if it were a scientific one, but it mostly isn't. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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The people have a right to climate data. Outstanding op-ed by Justin Mankin. Couldn't have said it better, agree with everything. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/20/o...

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To close out season 4 of our podcast: Frank Marks! If you want to know where the science behind hurricane forecasts comes from, there's no one better. And he's flown through more than 100 of them. What an amazing career! It was an honor and a pleasure. deep-convection.org/2024/01/15/e...

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New on our podcast: Bjorn Stevens! Bjorn is such a huge leader in climate science, but also an old friend, and most importantly a fun person to talk with. We talked about eve4climate.org among many other things. Check it out! deep-convection.org/2023/12/18/e...

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On our podcast this week: Ask Adam Anything! I collected listener questions a few weeks ago and then answered some. (We will do it again probably so I will get to more of them!) They're about science, careers, politics, life... deep-convection.org/2023/12/05/a...

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New on our podcast: an episode with no guest! Just me. It's "About Deep Convection" - how the podcast got started, how and why we do it, and who is involved. It's an experiment, for our regular audience. Let us know if it works! (The AMA will come later.) deep-convection.org/2023/11/21/a...

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