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The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government. Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk

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The US won't have an official govt delegation at an upcoming, key UN climate science meeting next week. (Story led by @mccuri.bsky.social ) **Whether this signals a broader federal disengagement from int'l climate research is not yet clear... www.axios.com/2025/02/20/u...

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Scoop w/ @mccuri.bsky.social Scoop: U.S. to pull delegation from UN climate science meeting (IPCC Plenary in China next wk) www.axios.com/2025/02/20/u...

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Scoop w/ @mariacurie.bsky.social : U.S. to pull delegation from UN climate science meeting (IPCC Plenary in China next week) www.axios.com/2025/02/20/u...

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Our team's broad look at the past month's implications for U.S. climate policy. Led by my colleagues Ben Storrow and @chemnick.bsky.social www.eenews.net/articles/how...

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In a new letter, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash), ranking member on Senate Commerce Cmte, calls on Commerce Sec. Lutnick to exempt @NOAA & NWS employees involved in protecting public safety from probationary cuts & hiring freeze.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Hey @noaa @nasa and other federal science employees. I'm a climate/energy reporter at Axios, you can reach me securely via Signal at afreeedmanclimate.03

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Record-breaking Arctic blast sweeps frigid air south, all the way to the Gulf Coast. Temperatures already 50°F below average in northern Plains. Multiple factors are behind this event, notably Arctic blocking, an extremely negative AO, and stretched polar vortex. www.axios.com/2025/02/18/p...

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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...

submitted 7 days ago • 61 comments

Update as computer models trend colder, snowier with this polar vortex-related Arctic outbreak -- watching the cold, and then a more-likely-than-not East Coast storm www.axios.com/2025/02/14/c...

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Frigid weather coming to much of the US next week, potentially along with a major East Coast winter storm. www.axios.com/2025/02/14/c...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Important scoop from @jael.bsky.social on anti-wind power activists, @noaa.gov & whales. Yes, whales.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This coming Arctic outbreak is looking more serious by the day, as computer models trend colder with time. www.axios.com/2025/02/13/p...

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AMS joins numerous professional societies in a commitment to champion scientific integrity--including academic freedom, inclusion of diverse perspectives, and policies grounded in scientific evidence--and support scientists, scientific data, and science funding. Read more: unitedsciencealliance.org

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The @NOAA is in the process of updating its forecasts to reflect the Gulf of Mexico name change to Gulf of America. Hurricanes beyond the U.S. EEZ may be a bit more complex, though. www.axios.com/2025/02/13/n... [Screenshot of hurricanes.gov now]

submitted 10 days ago • 30 comments

I wrote this NASA page about wildfires and climate change, and I'm so excited it's finally live. It's a tireless effort to get big pages published at NASA - as it should be! How long will it remain up? Who knows. Check it out while you still can. 🧪 #climatesky science.nasa.gov/wildfires-an...

submitted 13 days ago • 31 comments

If you haven't yet read about the Trump executive order yesterday on DOGE and federal workforce cuts, it's a hugely consequential action worth knowing about. @becfalconer.bsky.social has details -- www.axios.com/2025/02/12/t...

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Earth may have already breached the long-term 1.5°C Paris target, two new studies show. But what does that mean, really? ""Rather than a numeric target, our goal should be stabilizing the climate as quickly as possible," says @andrewdessler.com More smart climate voices quoted in here ^

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NEW: @noaa.gov offices have been asked to search their grants for climate-related keywords, among other executive order-related terms. This could put climate grant-funding in the crosshairs if/once the judicial order holding the funding freeze back is lifted. www.axios.com/2025/02/09/n...

submitted 13 days ago • 25 comments

Just spoke (very briefly) to National Archives Director Colleen Shogan, who confirmed to me Trump fired her a few minutes ago: www.404media.co/trump-fires-...

submitted 15 days ago • 44 comments

Confirming @ellanilsen.bsky.social scoop and adding more details w/ @jamietarabay.bsky.social

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

I've been hungry for a clear story that comprehensively lays out the risks to government systems from DOGE. Here, @ibogost.bsky.social and @cwarzel.bsky.social speak to people with the right knowledge and provide a great, sense-making piece. Unfortunately, the sense that is made is... scary sense:

submitted 16 days ago • 14 comments

important reporting from @cwarzel.bsky.social and @ibogost.bsky.social on what DODGE's access to federal computing infrastructure may mean www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

If you are a federal employee working on climate, weather forecasting, satellites, ocean obs etc. I am at @afreedmanclimate.03 on Signal and would like to hear from you.

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DOE's general counsel and IT offices told DOE Sec. Chris Wright that giving DOGE rep Luke Farritor IT access was a "bad idea" bc he hadn’t had a standard background investigation needed to access the department’s system, per a source. Wright granted him access anyways. www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/c...

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NEW: DOGE searches IT databases for DEI information at top climate, oceans agency @noaa.gov www.axios.com/2025/02/05/d...

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NEW: Trump admin placing most USAID employees on administrative leave on Friday, recalling staff deployed overseas ASAP (a logistical nightmare). www.axios.com/2025/02/05/u...

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NEW: @noaa.gov story on Neil Jacobs' nomination updated to include reports of DOGE staff at NOAA HQ buildings in Silver Spring, MD today. www.axios.com/2025/02/04/t...

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

Scoop: Trump nominates Neil Jacobs to be @noaa administrator for his second term, per two sources familiar plus Congress.gov records. Jacobs was acting administrator during Trump's first term. www.axios.com/2025/02/04/t...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

So much news today, but if you have a couple min -- this story on climate change impacts on US insurance and real estate value is fascinating and timely post-Calif. fires. (One city on the list of top insurance price increase projections may surprise you.) www.axios.com/2025/02/03/c...

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

Here's some of the top contenders I'm hearing of for the role of @noaa.gov administrator, a position within the Commerce Department. www.axios.com/2025/01/30/n...

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

NOAA's future -- Trump nominee for Commerce Secretary disavows Project 2025's plan to break upp oceans, atmosphere agency. Also says he doesn't favor moving some functions to Interior, as rumored re: a possible Exec Order. www.axios.com/2025/01/30/t...

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From @afreedma.bsky.social: A move by Allen Media Group to centralize weather operations at the Weather Channel, rather than keeping meteorologists at its local stations, has met with fierce resistance from viewers. www.axios.com/2025/01/28/b...

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Interesting new extreme event attribution study on the devastating LA area fires. www.axios.com/2025/01/28/l...

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Trump/Vance form "review" panel to examine FEMA reform, which may include the option of dissolving the agency. Involvement of private sector on this board is interesting, as are the similarities b/w what the WH has been saying on this and Project 2025. www.axios.com/2025/01/27/t... 1/2

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

It's been freezing in the US this January, yet the globe continues to be record warm. www.axios.com/2025/01/24/j...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Photo gallery of historic snowstorm slamming New Orleans with blizzard-like conditions. Also known as the "Make everyone in the northern U.S. that has not had big January snow jealous" storm. www.axios.com/local/new-or...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

If you're looking for the text of the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement (which takes a yr. to be in effect, but the U.S. is treating as immediate): it is here. Also cuts off US funding to the UNFCCC and US int'l climate finance. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

In non-inauguration news... stand by for historic southern snow as Arctic blast envelops much of the Lower 48. www.axios.com/2025/01/20/p...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Areas which have seen snow today mostly to the west of the purple line on this temp map. Purple line will shift south and east late afternoon, allowing snow to expand but heaviest amounts will be in the northwest areas. More at cwg.live

submitted 35 days ago • 16 comments

NEW: TikTok says it will go dark on Sunday unless there’s more definitive action from Biden or Trump

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

Now that's a cold morning forecast by the NWS, for Monday Jan. 20 (MLK Jr. Day & Inauguration Day). Map of wind chills at 7 am via Pivotal Weather shows absolutely frigid conditions in the Plains and Midwest, with the cold seeping into other areas as well.

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The cold air outbreak headed for the U.S. is the real deal, though not quite as severe as 2014 for most. www.axios.com/2025/01/15/p... This may be a long duration event for millions, too.

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

New post on The Climate Brink from Zeke @hausfath.bsky.social about our climate future. With current policies, we’re on track for a bit less than 3C, with 2030 NDCs we’re on track for about 2.5C, and with net zero pledges we’re on track for a bit less than 2C. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/moving-awa...

submitted 39 days ago • 18 comments

NHC Director Mike Brennan: Helene the most significant mainland U.S. hurricane hit since Katrina in 2005. In addition to catastrophic rainfall flooding, Helene caused more wind fatalities than any tropical system since at least 1963. Almost all due to trees. #AMS2025

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I drive an 11-year old EV with a new battery, with a range of 475km. The old battery will soon be installed in my home, to power my home on cheaper and cleaner electricity. This is covered in a nice article by @neilmbriscoe.bsky.social for @irishtimes.com today www.irishtimes.com/motors/2025/...

submitted 40 days ago • 26 comments