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It’s so crazy that climate deniers think humans don’t cause climate change but volcanos eruptions do. The eruption of Mount St. Helens released ~10 Mt of CO₂ into the atmosphere. Human activities currently release that amount of CO₂ in ~2 hours.

submitted 330 days ago • 10 comments

Heat exposure on Western Australian coral reefs is literally off the charts. 24 Degree Heating Weeks now at Ningaloo - the highest ever recorded. 6-8 DHW is lethal for most branching corals. >20 is catastrophic. coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/vs/m...

submitted 38 days ago • 6 comments

Just a reminder that the protestations that the admin's activities have been illegal have proven true. As federal workers are reinstated - even if only before future legal RIFs - remember that this was a victory.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I think we need to talk about the abuse of the Presidential pardon. There are no consequences for the next 3 years at least.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I will not stand for this BS.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

It’s incredibly hard to see a national treasure like the NIH descend into the atrocious servitude of stripping out an image of one of their most successful Institute Directors in an effort to please the thinnest skinned President of all time.

submitted 43 days ago • 5 comments

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

submitted 43 days ago • 762 comments

This is notably insane because Columbia was est. in 1754, and UC Berkeley was est. in 1868. I mean, what the hell.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Just terribly sad and wasteful. The major investment in these labs has already been paid by the American people. What we see now are the returns.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Right? Schumer’s reasoning here makes no sense to me.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Senate Democrats watching scenes like this and thinking “how can we signal that we’re on the same side of this House Republican?”

submitted 45 days ago • 47 comments

My god. Are these… DINOs?

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

submitted 45 days ago • 1497 comments

It's hard to say this, but science (& research more generally) is just being stopped in the US right now. This is just one university, losing nearly a billion dollars in project funding pretty much overnight. That's people's jobs & the research that could save lives. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

submitted 46 days ago • 15 comments

This wild press release from the EPA is… something. www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

submitted 57 days ago • 426 comments

Please enjoy my last ever post at Climate.gov/ENSO Blog. This afternoon I was fired by the Trump Administration 15 days before my 2yr probationary period ended on March 13. I have worked at NOAA since 2010, and I'm so incredibly proud of the work I did. If anyone wants a quote, let me know.

submitted 59 days ago • 274 comments

This is a sad day in ocean and marine science. @noaa.gov

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

I am now hearing from multiple folks in the past two hours (including some who have personally been fired) that mass firings have now commenced within NOAA--including, yes, at the National Weather Service.

submitted 59 days ago • 131 comments

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

submitted 59 days ago • 923 comments

Donald Trump hates the ocean www.axios.com/2025/02/27/l...

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun. The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.

submitted 59 days ago • 227 comments

New: Layoffs underway of probationary employees at @noaa.gov Unclear so far how many were exempted for public safety reasons at the Nat'l Weather Service, NOAA Satellites and other units. www.axios.com/2025/02/27/l...

submitted 59 days ago • 14 comments

Are you affected by the @noaa.gov layoffs? I'm a longtime environment reporter interested in NOAA, EPA and USGS. Send me tips: lisasong.42 on Signal Here's what I cover and some examples of my work: www.propublica.org/people/lisa-...

submitted 59 days ago • 7 comments

Well. I think the Bluesky bots have arrived.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 60 days ago • 472 comments

It is really hard to watch people willfully tear down an infrastructure that allowed us to double lifespans, drastically reduce poverty, and become one of the richest countries in the world.

submitted 60 days ago • 180 comments

Maybe because we have no eggs to make the damn vaccine.

submitted 60 days ago • 12 comments

Should be front page news.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

These billionaires are only interested in extraction of wealth. The true tragedy of the commons is that the very few will horde at the expense of the many. The tragedy of the uncommons.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

I think the biggest lie being told right now is that one of the wealthiest countries in the world cannot afford to invest in science, education, and the environment.

submitted 67 days ago • 6 comments

The effects of the House’s proposed “Medicaid cuts to pay for tax cuts” in one graph: a 3.9% boost in income for the top 1% of households and a 7.4% reduction in income for the bottom fifth of households. In two words: class warfare. www.epi.org/blog/the-hou...

submitted 61 days ago • 31 comments