It now costs more to cause climate change than to prevent it

Mike Levin@mikelevin.org · last mo.

The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built. Think about that. At a time when electricity demand is rising,

On Svalbard Exp403 scientists just had the rare chance to observe the sources & processes of ice-rafted debris found in our drill cores. IRD = rocks broken off by glaciers on land, rafted out at sea on icebergs, & dropped on the seafloor. It's an important indicator of past climate dynamics.

Our very first GCR user spotlight features Anuska Pudasaini, a PhD Candidate at the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Houston. Anuska analyzed grain sizes of Antarctic sediments using our Bettersizer S3 Plus Particle Size and Shape Analyzer. #GCR #NSFfunded

Fire update: thanks to heroic efforts by contractors & USF CMS ops staff, my group got most of our samples. Yesterday books emerged. Waiting for space allocations for prep labs & offices. Instruments & buildings will take longer; advocating for mobile labs in short to mid term. Funding still needed.

It's not just the sun's rays; the wind is doing some big work, too. 💨Did you know, Texas LED the nation for wind generation in 2025 at 129,458 GWh? ❗That outpaced the #2 producing state, Iowa, by ~86k GWh ☀️Texas was #2 for solar generation at 64,073 GWh 📊 www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

Shel Winkley@shelwinkleywx.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🔆 How important is solar power to Texas? For the first time, solar has surpassed coal as an electricity source for Texans. Per the U.S. Energy Information Administration: 40% of all U.S. solar capacity added this year is expected to be in Texas. The future is bright in the Lone Star State☀️

In April, researchers from across Europe and beyond met in Granada for the IODP Expedition 401 post-cruise meeting. Scientists shared post-cruise research results, providing new insights on how the Atlantic and Mediterranean exchanged water during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. (cont. in thread)

As many know, there was a massive fire at USF CMS. The building held offices, labs, equipment, etc and is a total loss. We are most concerned about the finanpcial losses of our students. Please consider donating to the official go fund me supporting our graduate students.

Donate to USF Marine Science: Fire Recovery Support, organized by Bella Iannotta

On Saturday, May 2nd the University of South Florida Marine Science Lab (MSL)… Bella Iannotta needs your support for USF Marine Science: Fire Recovery Support

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Fire is out at the USF St Petersburg College of Marine Science - happily nobody was injured, but it doesn’t look good for the building

It was a great science meeting!

U.S. Scientific Ocean Drilling@us-sciod.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Scientists from IODP Exp. 401 gathered in Granada, Spain for a post-cruise meeting to share results and discuss future work. Exp. 401, Mediterranean–Atlantic Gateway Exchange, aimed to understand the causes and impacts of the Messinian Salinity Crisis. 📷 Carlos Alvarez Zarikian

New report! Advancing Future Ocean Drilling in the United States (FOCUS) was a community effort to identify priorities for US SciOD in the first phase of post-IODP drilling, with an emphasis on needs for new expeditions. Read the report at usoceandiscovery.org/focus. Thanks to all who participated!

This Saturday, SODCO will be participating in the American Museum of Natural History EarthFest. If you're in NYC, check it out! We'll be in the Hall of Ocean Life with a giant inflatable model of the JOIDES Resolution, ready to chat about SciOD! EarthFest details: www.amnh.org/calendar/earthfest

As a fire scientist, I am devastated for my many good friends and colleagues who will be affected by the mass closure of so many research stations and offices. Many will leave the agency. USFS has pioneered so much foundational fire science. The consequences of this will be catastrophic.

Welcome to the GCR! We serve the global scientific community by preserving scientific ocean drilling sub-seafloor samples, facilitating cutting-edge research through access to geologic samples and world class laboratory facilities, and training the next generation of geoscientists. #GCR #NSFfunded

Check out our International Ocean Discovery Program Data Report from Site U1521 in the Ross Sea, published today! Thanks to my coauthors including A. Shevenell, D. Kulhanek, C. Prunella, and the Exp 374 Scientists for their efforts towards this 🎉 🇦🇶 🚢 publications.iodp.org/proceedings/...

Love how this image captures the mission's "For All Humanity" motto. There are no borders in space! But to get oriented a bit better, here is a version I annotated. Still can't wrap my head around how amazing this picture, the Artemis crew took, is.

Dr. Thomas Ronge@thomasronge.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New 🌎 just dropped! Just look how thin and fragile our atmosphere is! And also the aurora! Amazing. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

🌊 "Antarctica is not just some distant, irrelevant, frozen continent; it is a critical element that is deeply intertwined with all of us and will profoundly shape the future destiny of human society"—Yu Wang, PhD student @utas.edu.au @imas-utas.bsky.social ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/zoom-rotate-...

Zoom, rotate, peel: Visualising ice sheets at your fingertips - AAPP

A new interactive three-dimensional mapping tool for ice and oceans in Greenland and Antarctica

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🚢 After 55 days in the Southern Ocean, the COOKIES voyage to the Cook Ice Shelf marine region has returned with something rare: a glimpse into Antarctica’s past – and clues to its future. Learn more ▶️ antarctic.org.au/cookies-blog...

COOKIES Blog #14 – COOKIES wrap up: 55 Days in the Southern Ocean - ACEAS

Fifty-five days in the Southern Ocean is long enough to lose track of which day it is, but not long enough to lose your sense of awe. Departing on 2 January 2026, the Cook Ice Ecosystems and Sediments...

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#savencar

The Weather & Climate Livestream@wclivestream.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center was created to protect us against extreme weather and climate change. Now it's being transferred to an unknown "third party": www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/c... Tell Congress and the NSF to stop the transfer and #SaveNCAR wclivestream.com/act youtu.be/pT8dCoZgH_M

Texas A&M’s Melting Point: Five presidents in five years. High-profile firings and cancellations. Crackdowns on dissent. Inside state leaders’ efforts to remake one of our finest institutions. archive.ph/q0wgP

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

New Year, New Us. Looks like our new Scientific Ocean Drilling branding is up. You can still find us at our usual spot on @tamu.bsky.social’s West Campus.

🚨POSTDOC JOB ALERT🚨 We have an exciting opportunity for a 2 year postdoc on remote sensing of icebergs and marine terminating glaciers. See the link below for more info! Please spread widely, and feel free to email me with any Q's :) tinyurl.com/2jjcmea9

Speaking of the GCR, if you want to spend a week there to learn about scientific ocean drilling, analytical techniques, work with legacy cores, etc. apply here by Feb 15th, 2026 gcr.tamu.edu/outreach/upc...

Dr. Thomas Ronge@thomasronge.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Recently @pbs.org visited our Vault, aka the Gulf Coast Repository at @tamu.bsky.social where a core drilled at ground zero of the dinosaur impact is stored. The GCR also houses records of the planet’s climate, plate tectonics, volcanic eruptions, and so so much more. youtu.be/IYb3duBY_IE?...

A new field of “soilsmology” :)

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 8mo ago

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🌊 Our latest study reconstructs the tropical Indian Ocean during the mid-Pliocene - a past warm world with CO2 similar to today. A reminder that future oceans may reorganise in ways that reshape ecosystems and the carbon cycle. IODP EXP361 cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

Photic zone niche partitioning, stratification, and carbon cycling in the tropical Indian Ocean during the Piacenzian

Abstract. The mid-Piacenzian Warm Period (mPWP; ∼ 3.264–3.025 Ma) marks the most recent episode of sustained global warmth, characterised by atmospheric carbon dioxide (pCO2) levels similar to those o...

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We invite applications for two graduate students to investigate Antarctic ice sheet instability during past warm interglacials using marine sediments. Please share with students who may be interested to join our group at USF! Contact me for details; deadline 15 Dec. www.usf.edu/marine-scien...

Not under her own power anymore, the vessel that revealed more about our planet than most others, the legendary JOIDES Resolution is being towed to a pre-cleaning yard in Lyngdal, Norway. First pic I've seen of her since stepping off in August 24. Still looking great 🫡💔 www.fvn.no/magasin/i/8q...

New publication!! Featuring some of the most gorgeous rocks I’ve ever cored, tremendous work by an international, interdisciplinary team, and interesting implications for marine CDR. Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News & views: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A geological carbon cycle sink hosted by ocean crust talus breccias - Nature Geoscience

Mass-wasting deposits that accumulated against mid-ocean ridge faults have high porosity in which calcium carbonate precipitated, storing seawater carbon dioxide, as revealed by cores of a 61-million-...

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New data alert 🚨📣: Updated Coastline and Rock Outcrop of Antarctica released as part of the @scar-antarctic.bsky.social Antarctic Digital Database. With big improvements to date formats, coastline positions and more accurate rock outcrop! 📍View and download via the map viewer add.scar.org.