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Important information if you’re wondering about the impacts from the bill currently under discussion in congress on science budgets.

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NASA is being told to cancel 19 active missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE hiring/retention budget going forward. I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.

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Hurricane forecasters rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. That data will no longer be available as of Monday, June 30. By @rhersher.bsky.social

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For context, the entire annual budget of the National Science Foundation is about $9 Billion. The government is proposing to cut NSF’s budget by >50%.

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This is an interesting thread. I’m not sure, however, how lawyers/law professors can continue to assure us that “x is absolutely unconstitutional!” after what the supreme court has done again and again on presidential immunity, personal freedoms, and voting rights.

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As we move into July and the peak melt season in the #Arctic, current ice extent levels remain the lowest on record for this time of year. Data here is from JAXA's Arctic Data archive System. More graphs at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

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The latest version of the Senate's BBB is a death sentence for US energy leadership and a giant gift to China. It eliminates tax cuts for solar that have been around since 2005, adds a new tax on solar after 2027, and creates a new direct subsidy for coal.

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I've added a new graphic to my climate indicators page, which shows the Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) used for monitoring El Niño/La Niña conditions. I will update it each month at zacklabe.com/climate-chan.... This graphic was thanks to a follower request. Feel free to provide suggestions any time!

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Stanford, one of the best universities in the world, is planning to lay off staff after the Trump regime unlawfully stripped it of hundreds of millions of dollars. Another headline of what is sure to be many like it stanforddaily.com/2025/06/27/s...

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A current Noaa scientist who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation said that the action to halt the DMSP, when taken in context with other recent moves by the Trump administration, amounted to “a systematic destruction of science”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Self-sabotaging our research infrastructure in the dumbest way possible.

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The new bill in Congress puts a new tax on wind and solar. They’re taxing clean energy to give your money to billionaires.

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Environmental groups filed a lawsuit to block the building of a migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades until it undergoes a stringent environmental review as required by law. If nothing else, billions of dollars have been spent on Everglades restoration and building this makes no sense.

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I spoke to @ericholthaus.com about the upcoming loss of the DMSP data, which will impact hurricane predictions and sea ice monitoring. People and research programs from the tropics to the poles will be impacted by this senseless shutdown.

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Recommended listen: Scientists at the University of Cambridge, including Prof Michael Meredith ( @oceanandice.bsky.social ), discussed on The Naked Scientists podcast how the latest polar science is tracking climate change’s impact in Antarctica.

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If you care about your privacy and security, listen to @meredithmeredith.bsky.social discuss the risk of AI “agents” being unleashed on our devices.

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Ryan’s statement makes clear that the fed government had threatened to withhold unrelated university funding & student visas in order to coerce his resignation All individual university leaders now have targets on their backs

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This paragraph of the article is correct, but note these are Department of Defense satellites and while the reporting is incomplete on this point, it appears that it’s DoD that’s cutting support for the data. Not NOAA, NWS or the other data “users”.

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A comparison of what we see from geostationary infrared imagery vs. what we get when passive microwave imagery like what SSMIS provides is available. This is Hurricane Otis in 2023 as it was gearing up for extremely rapid intensification prior to impacting Acapulco as a category 5 storm.

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What’s hard to understand is these are decades-long efforts to prove critical data (see table for one of these microwave sensors). Why stop these measurement with a few days notice? It makes no sense. (Source: remss.com/missions/ssmi/)

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Not only hurricane research but these satellites provide critical data to monitor sea ice in polar regions.

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Forecasters will imminently lose observations crucial for hurricane tracking and prediction, as data from three NOAA/DOD satellites will go unmonitored. The satellites aren't being decommissioned. The agencies will simply stop providing the satellites' data. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/c...

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I was adopted via closed adoption, born in North Carolina. It was closed so I have no knowledge of or access to my biological mother’s details. It also means my biological mother isn’t on my birth certificate. So if birthright citizenship becomes a patchwork right, what’s someone like me to do?

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This wacky SCOTUS opinion could be used against teaching any kind of science, history, or critical reasoning more generally, which might pose "a very real threat of undermining" religious beliefs. Even if it doesn't actually, there's the threat!

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Color is used in this graph to help reveal the obvious long-term declining trend in the average thickness of #Arctic sea ice. We need more resources and data to understand all of the consequences of Arctic change. Data is updated through end of May 2025. More graphics: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

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Additional detail here from @joshtpm.bsky.social about NSF getting kicked out of their headquarters. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/on-th... And credit to @markwarner.bsky.social for not letting this happen without pushback: www.alxnow.com/2025/06/26/s...

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Others have pointed this out too, but the cover of Harvard Magazine is so gratuitously frivolous and inappropriate. I’d cancel my subscription if there were such a thing.

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Yeap. There's more great climate science to be done, but we already have a firm scientific foundation for action. Now what we need is more smart people in all of these areas and more...

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Losing ~1/2 of microwave satellite data used for hurricane forecasting represents a significant danger to public safety, increasing the odds of a ‘sunrise surprise'--a realization from first-light visible images that a system has become much better organized overnight--something IR imagery can miss.

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Kids today wouldn’t understand, but in the mid 90s you’d be staring at this at least once a week.

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Reminder: The application deadline for the XIV ISAES SCAR Travel Awards is coming up soon! Submit your details by 30 June 2025: scar.org/scar-news/is...

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CBS news @cbsnews.com has a story on my paper on how climate change is making energy bills more expensive: How climate change is impacting home costs www.cbsnews.com/video/how-cl...

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It’s great to see judges confirming what we already knew, which is most of what they’ve done to decimate science has been unlawful

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These datasets are also critical for polar research and their discontinuation is a huge blow to our ability to understand what's happening in these fast-changing regions of our planet.

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Some personal reflections, at the end of a remarkable expedition... we've seen amazing things, and experienced Antarctica in the depths of its dark winter. We're returning home with an unparalleled dataset, and a deeper appreciation of this awe-inspiring place. www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/r...

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Important editorial in @nature.com. As I said a decade ago in an op-ed in the @nytimes.com (back when they were publishing stuff like that), "If You See Something, Say Something" (www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/o...) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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