This amount would fund the US National Science Foundation for a decade. 🧪
Pentagon seeks $80 billion from Congress for Iran war
The Pentagon has told lawmakers it needs roughly $80 billion, mostly to cover the cost of the war in Iran.
apnews.com
Michael Griffiths
@cavemangriff.bsky.social
Professor | Husband+father | Spelunker | Environmental justice advocate | Climate Scientist seeking a deeper understanding of how Earth’s natural systems behave on various timescales and how this knowledge can better inform the future. mickgriffiths.com
On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...
Sigh. Shutting down the National Center for Atmospheric Research will make the world a more dangerous place for all of us.
Colorado senators’ bid to save NCAR funding fails as U.S. Senate passes spending bills
“In the face of unrelenting political attacks from President Trump, we are standing together to protect institutions like NCAR that are vital to our state and our economy,” Sen. John Hickenlo…
denverpost.com
Read this from Ben Santer (very famous climate scientist for those who don’t know) about what NCAR means and what dismantling it will do.
Threatening NCAR, Trump administration seeks to extinguish a beacon of climate science
The Trump administration’s world view is that the US doesn’t need a climate science brain trust because it doesn’t like what the brains say.
thebulletin.org
🚨 New manuscript! 🚨 We use speleothem calcium isotopes and Mg/Ca to reconstruct rainfall amount. Turns out central Vietnam was 50 % drier during the LGM 🤯. Climate models agree but most underestimate rainfall change. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Quantifying changes in central Vietnam rainfall amount since the Late Pleistocene
Paleorecords of the Southeast Asian autumn monsoon indicate that global sea-level change drove abrupt shifts in rainfall, yet the magnitude of these c…
sciencedirect.com
New #ScienceCommunication website blog from me. Here, I look at another recent #megalodon study - one that used zinc isotopes & found that the giant shark wasn't just a whale killer; but probably ate whatever it wanted. Give a read here: www.drjackacooper.com/writing/mega... 🦈
Megalodon and its relatives were super-predators that ate whatever they wanted — Dr. Jack A. Cooper
The iconic megalodon shark is generally pictured as having been a specialised whale killer. Now, a new study finds that megalodon and its closest relative Otodus chubutensis weren’t picky eaters. Inst...
drjackacooper.com
1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
whitehouse.gov
From ancient rainfall to roaming hominins — we’re connecting proxy records, climate models, and evolutionary stories. Join us at AGU 2025 to rethink how climate shaped human history. #Paleoclimate #ProxyVsModel #HumanEvolution #30thJuly
The most recent U.S. ambassador to Viktor Orban’s Hungary: “After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence.”
Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
nytimes.com
I was also a Fellow. This program brought me from my home country of Australia, providing me resources+networks that paved my career path to becoming a full professor in a US institution. Having now worked with many undergrad/grad/postdocs, I have witnessed CGC benefits to society at large.
Jessica Tierney@leafwax.bsky.social · last yr.As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc
🧵 PBS and NPR have 45 days to salvage their federal funding — starting now. Trump's unusual "rescission" request has been sent to Congress, starting a 45-day clock for Congress to either approve or ignore the proposal.
Trump asked Congress to claw back funding for PBS and NPR. What now? | CNN Business
America’s two big public broadcasters, PBS and NPR, have 45 days to salvage their federal funding — starting now.
cnn.com
What is Past is Prologue: #Paleoclimate constraints on #ECS #ClimateSensitivity #GreenhouseGas sensitivity of Earth's #Climate First of 3 papers this summer. Next two will rule out some ECS using Data Assimilation of past climate archives essopenarchive.org/users/921675... @ccolose.bsky.social
On the Sensitivity of Climate Sensitivity in a coupled climate model
• Cloud feedbacks, particularly the cloud shortwave radiation term, dominate the climate sensitivity of GISS-E2.1-G. • We have set the stage to eliminate some of the climate sensitivity and model para...
essopenarchive.org
We have a new paper now online in the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences with a group of amazing ECR coauthors reviewing methods and applications of (offline) paleoclimate data assimilation and looking toward the future www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Advances in Paleoclimate Data Assimilation | Annual Reviews
Reconstructions of past climates in both time and space provide important insight into the range and rate of change within the climate system. However, producing a coherent global picture of past clim...
annualreviews.org
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
The near miss on a tarmac in Chicago is small part of a much, much bigger problem. Here's what's happening: youtube.com/shorts/d4fz3...
The near miss on a tarmac in Chicago is small part of a much, much bigger problem.
YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff
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A show of support to the scientists and staff at NOAA. This is among the best collection of scientists in the world who provide an invaluable public service via data and forecasting. Their work proves essential for daily operations of the military to commerce to the rest of the private sector.
It's been such a crazy week, I haven't had time to post about it yet...but yeah, we have a new paper out 🎉 in @aguadvances.bsky.social about the Pliocene - the last time Earth experienced CO2 level like we have now. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Pliocene Warmth and Patterns of Climate Change Inferred From Paleoclimate Data Assimilation
Pliocene sea-surface temperature (SST) data are assimilated with model simulations from pliocene modeling intercomparison project phase 2 (PlioMIP2) and Community Earth System Model (CESM) The mi...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
washingtonpost.com