The website for AGU26 abstract submissions is not good.

Write a horror story for academics in two words: It’s August.

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

Is there a good list of NYC climate week side events out there? I've seen this www.climateweeknyc.org/the-hub-live but it seems..... incomplete? #climatesky #energysky

next NYT take: we shouldn't worry about floods because the US is on average 2,500 feet above sea level

Madison Condon@madisoncondon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

whether or not data center water use will be a problem depends on where the data center is, that is how water works

In which I yell at my favorite journal and its thoughtful, talented collection of researchers that we really need to take fossil phase-out seriously as a line of inquiry, and that we would not stand for the level of talking around it as a solution in other settings with very obvious problems:

The state of energy transition research and the need for fossil phase-out: evidence from Environmental Research Letters

The state of energy transition research and the need for fossil phase-out: evidence from Environmental Research Letters, Grubert, Emily

iopscience.iop.org

I’d like to thank @theguardian.com and @npr.org for appropriately saying that the wildfires and flooding in TX are made worse by climate change

It's an @alicefraser.bsky.social bit, but essay format

Kevin J. Kircher@kevinjkircher.com · 3w ago

This essay is SO GOOD. As someone who grew up making homes in sci-fi and fantasy worlds (and still does!), it has been so revealing to watch tech billionaire creeps appropriate the trappings of those worlds while willfully ignoring the deeper stories about freedom and power that their creators told.

Is EPA Airnow not showing smoke plumes anymore? fire.airnow.gov#4.76/43.49/-...

🚨reporters working on stories about the NAS extreme event attribution report 🚨 DO NOT FRAME ANY STORY AS "CAN WE BELIEVE EXTREME EVENT ATTRIBUTION RESEARCH?" THE ACTUAL STORY IS: FOSSIL-FUEL INTERESTS ARE WETTING THEIR PANTS ABOUT THIS AND WILL DO ANYTHING TO TRY TO STOP IT.

“DAC at the scale needed is mostly a fantasy” It is VERY USEFUL for scientists to say this out loud, as much as possible, since blind faith in carbon removal is one of the baseless ideologies justifying the continuation of fossil-fuel use among global policymakers.

ClimateBook@climatebook.bsky.social · 3w ago

DAC at the scale needed is mostly a fantasy. It might have some marginal use in sopping up the last dregs of CO2 emissions (if that), but the main job is still to get emissions down by at least 90%. But however expensive it turns out to be, it should be the fossil fuel companies that pay for DAC,

One of the least terrible parts of coming back from vacation mode is a month of @volts.wtf to catch up on

Irony is dead

Check out this sword stuck in a stone!!

just read another article about how AI can save you time to do "deeper thinking" instead of writing and omfg my dudes, the writing *is* the thinking

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

Sentient prion Russ Voght wants to destroy US science. Submit your comment on the proposed rules by July 13 👇 www.standupforscience.net

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

Science activists and allies mobilizing to save science, health and democracy itself from the Trump administration's dismantlement and privatization.

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I'd like to shout out my haters who were irritated when I kept bringing up that maybe the Biden EPA should not just assume that no regulation was required for new coal plants because no one would ever build one

Joshua Basseches@joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Both proposed plants would feed data centers that have yet to be built, and the funding pales in comparison to the cost of new plants." The forces that drove coal's decline are larger than the president can control, but that doesn't stop him from trying: www.eenews.net/articles/new...

Once again, the administration claiming that it wants to de-politicize science is injecting politics into it at every opportunity that it can. This isn't about "gold standard science." It's about *control.*

Scientific American@sciam.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The long-anticipated “Schedule F” order strips job protections meant to safeguard federal employees from political interference

Lovely. And one of my first papers was about the full cost of coal. nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

NYAS Publications

Each stage in the life cycle of coal—extraction, transport, processing, and combustion—generates a waste stream and carries multiple hazards for health and the environment. These costs are external t...

nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2mo ago

President Donald Trump is preparing to use Cold War-era authorities to dole hundreds of millions of federal dollars to support coal-fired electricity as well as US exports of the fossil fuel

This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com

Cyclists Break Far Fewer Road Rules Than Motorists, Finds New Video Study

Busting the myth of the "scofflaw cyclist" Danish Road Directorate studies reveal that while 66% of motorists routinely break road traffic laws only 5% of cyclists do so. Law breaking by cyclists is h...

forbes.com

@nathanpboston.bsky.social is now @volts.wtf famous!

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2mo ago

"A new peer-reviewed analysis, which tested 197 homes across Massachusetts and Rhode Island, found that 93% of homes served by gas had consistently elevated indoor methane levels compared to all-electric homes." Quit poisoning your family: go electric!

Great WaPo article on the **10,000** huge diesel generators at Virginia's data centers permitted to emit 13,000 tons of NOx. The article is based on data crunched here at Sierra Club (1/9) @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

As data centers boom, Virginians breathe the exhaust of 10,000 diesel generators

Pollution from Virginia's many data centers could cause respiratory symptoms and deaths in the region, analysis of state permits and corporate disclosures shows.

washingtonpost.com

Wow if only there was some kind of federal agency that could fund scientific research on pharmaceuticals and other aspects of health www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/b...

China’s Rise in Drug Development Looms Over U.S.

nytimes.com

It’s bizarre being a policy-oriented researcher in an environment where evidence and public opinion are basically irrelevant to what happens. We’re not informing policy any more, friends; we have to make politics.

hi bluesky scientists can you point me to literature comparing observed local temp and precip extremes to climate modeled?

What strategies have been effective at recognizing flexibility in datacenter load, and translating that into equitably distributed benefits/savings for those customers, utilities, and the other customers? Essentially, how are the ideas from the paper by Tyler Norris et al being applied?

Still remember the crushing moment as a young researcher when I realised that proving something through evidence had damn near no impact on social policy unless it was politically useful to believe it.

www.nature.com/articles/d41... Isn't there a movie series and a book about this, and how it goes poorly?

Climate scientists do this too, “erring on the side of least drama.” Ironically, overly cautious statements by scientists reduce people’s trust in the scientists, which is exactly what the scientists are attempting to avoid. Rx: Say it plainly. @naomioreskes.bsky.social @mason4c.bsky.social

The Burden of Caution

When scientific humility becomes public confusion

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