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Director, School of the Environment, University of Toronto. Professor of Computer Science. I study how climate models are built & tested + systems thinking for […] [bridged from https://fediscience.org/@steve on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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I think about this map a lot. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

This is phenomenal news. Brandon is a science leader from NSF who brings a perspective infused with experience, wisdom, and expertise.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Interested in the social and political contexts in which people make use of climate data? Our new paper, "Climate Data Practices: A Research Approach for HCI and Climate Justice" is out! https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3719346 #ClimateChange #ClimateData #ClimateJustice

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

A bunch of former colleagues got fired today and to a person, they are some of the hardest working most professional folks I've ever worked with in my entire life. They weren't partisan, they worked for everybody & worked tirelessly for the country. We as a nation are poorer without their service.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

You know why we Germans are so pedantic about data protection? Someone around 90 years ago went through all records available, selected people with certain criteria, with the help of IBM, and then killed them all. We don't want to be on any list. And now the US Gov and Musk is trying to get […]

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

“Toronto’s bike-lane expansion program is going full steam ahead despite the Doug Ford provincial government’s legislation limiting the city’s powers. According to a new proposal, city staff are recommending a $28.5-million project to build over 12 kilometres of new bike lanes.” Good. Keep going.

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

"Finally, we emphasize that efforts to remove atmospheric carbon by means of any CDR technology will ultimately be futile for addressing the climate crisis without urgent and drastic emissions reductions and a transition to clean energy." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08429-2

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking news: Russia denies planning to buy back Alaska, a spokesperson for Putin said "we have already bought the whole of Trump's administration, why would we pay extra for Alaska?" Massive if true...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

“‘We’re like sitting ducks’: the right’s ‘war on woke’ has a well-tested playbook to take down academics” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/chris-rufo-jo-boaler-academics-woke

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

"Why should a country bear the costs of reducing #emissions when the benefits are shared globally? This column re-evaluates this view in light of new climate damage estimates based on global temperature variation, showing that the economic case for unilateral decarbonisation is far stronger […]

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

It's really hard to concentrate on climate science when our colleagues are getting fired and everyone's funding is being threatened. Maybe that's the goal.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Public notice: If you want to read a research article, please don't pay for the paper on the publisher's website. All that money goes to the publisher, we don't get any of it. Instead, contact us. We'll be happy to send you the paper :-).

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

The NYT has published a useful graphic showing all the agencies with investigations into or regulatory battles with of Musk's companies that have seen staffing cuts, including the firing of top officials. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/politics/elon-musk-companies-conflicts.html

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

submitted 20 days ago • 18 comments

FML. NOAA is searching for terms like "climate," "methane," "nitrous oxide," "greenhouse gas," "climate science," "carbon," the "Paris Agreement." That's what my NOAA grants are focused on. https://www.axios.com/2025/02/09/noaa-search-grants-climate-change-terms

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Just updated my chart of Canada's various greenhouse gas #emissions reduction targets over the years. I've updated it to show the original (INDC = Initial Nationally Determined Contribution) and Canada's updated NDC announced in 2021, along with the federal […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

'Really bad, really quick': Firefighters said to be panicked as Trump policy kneecaps them - Raw Story https://www.rawstory.com/trump-federal-limit-firefighters-bad/

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Elon has now taken the department of education Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of […]

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

In the early 1970s, the CBC ran a competition to complete the phrase "As Canadian as..." The winning entry was: "As Canadian as possible under the circumstances" Seems very apt this week! #Canada #CanadianPolitics

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Say goodbye to the US as the best place in the world to be a scientist. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/white-house-budget-proposal-could-shatter-the-national-science-foundation/

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

By definition, numerical weather models require international data. The atmosphere knows no geopolitical boundaries: any model that begins and ends at its country’s border is unable to generate reliable predictions until after a weather system crosses its boundaries. Which defeats the purpose!

submitted 25 days ago • 60 comments

It's hard to convey how barrier breaking (and not in a good way) this directive is. Weather and climate is one of the most functioning parts of the UN. We have always collaborated internationally, simply because weather does not respect national borders. Even during the Cold War the US and […]

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

"In a radical break with tradition, the National Science Foundation (#NSF) this week began to search through billions of dollars of #grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald #Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from […]

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I'm four weeks into teaching a large introductory course on climate change, and this happens. My work seems more important than ever https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/trump-order-usda-websites-climate-crisis

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump’s data purge has begun https://www.theverge.com/news/604484/donald-trumps-data-purge-has-begun

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone know of any efforts to archive GOES satellite data outside the US, now that NOAA's funding is under threat? #GOES #NOAA #Data #DataRescue #EarthObservation

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

The angry response to the Bishop’s sermon is telling. They can't control our capacity for empathy, it's their kryptonite. It's a bucket of water on the wicked witch.

submitted 40 days ago • 188 comments

1/ #Harvard just adopted the #IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) definition of #antisemitism. https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harvard-settles-antisemitism-lawsuits If you're new to these definitional difficulties, there are many prominent and non-equivalent definitions […]

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

What nonsense is this??? "Put simply, net zero means cutting carbon emissions to a small amount of residual emissions that can be absorbed and durably stored by nature and other carbon dioxide removal measures, leaving zero in the atmosphere." - UN Net Zero Coalition website No! Wrong! Bad! […]

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

That weird feeling when your eyelashes freeze within a couple of minutes outside

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

If you work with a database and are asked to alter the table structure to comply in advance for citizenship or gender categorizations it's really important to NOT do it. "The governor is concerned about all this stuff they want us to update our record keeping so we store both gender AND […]

submitted 41 days ago • 14 comments

Yes! Six sets of #ClimateFresk cards just arrived. Game on! https://climatefresk.org/world/

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

This Hour has 22 Minutes nails it. #canpoli #cdnpoli #uspol

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Finally had a chance to visit #UofT’s new #geothermal plant. It’s the largest in Canada. Hundreds of pipes running 250m into the ground providing year round heating and cooling to 30 campus buildings. And you can peak in and see (a little bit of) it under Kings College circle

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Great news - my student Harshit Gujral had his paper accepted in Environmental Research. Basically, the work is the first to show a there is now a measurable reduction in incidents of childhood asthma in US States that have implemented a Zero-Emissions vehicle mandate. Here's the pre-print […]

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Its pretty stark just how much warmer 2023 and 2024 were globally than any prior year on record. For more details, see our Berkeley Earth global temperature report here: berkeleyearth.org/gl...

submitted 52 days ago • 5 comments

"Europe is sick with its own history. It fears me because I am the proof of its sins. It looks at me and sees the lands it pillaged, the people it enslaved, the blood it spilled. It calls me an invader to distract itself from the truth: I am here because it was there. My journey is not an act […]

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Pretty sure that in the coming days you will see a lot of pieces stating that the 1.5C is not a hard limit after which things fall apart. Indeed, but what this does mean is a moral failure on behalf of the ruling class to do anything about this, fast. It also means that it will be harder and […]

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

submitted 53 days ago • 430 comments

Congratulations world! We did it! 1.6C above pre-industrial, really solid effort there. I knew this from @CopernicusECMWF was coming out, but I'm not despairing, it's time time double down on the work. https://climate.copernicus.eu/global-climate-highlights-2024

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

An American story in two acts. #LosAngeles #PacificPalisades #SantaAnaFires #PropertyTaxes #Taxes

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

UCLA climate scientist... #Wildfires #GlobalWarming #SunsetFire

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

CNN published a satellite image acquired by the Maxar satellites at 10:45 a.m. PT on January 7. They used the short-wave infrared channels to see the fires through the smoke and clouds. It is a devastating view of almost every house burning over most of the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

submitted 54 days ago • 333 comments

I think @kathhayhoe's "friendly fire" statement about mastodon is one of the saddest and most depressing things I've heard in the last days (and I've heard a lot of sad and depressing things, both in the context of the overall world and of my private life). And yes, this is also often how it […]

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Launched my new course, ENV101: Confronting the Climate Crisis today. I began with a quick poll of attitudes in the class, then showed them these results from Yale's Six Americas study. What jumps out to me in the change when they re-did the study in 2023 is […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment