The missing words in the climate conversation are not human-caused climate change, but fossil fuel emissions. By Hayley Fowler and myself: theconversation.com/was-this-hea...

‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question

Instead of asking whether climate change caused a heatwave, we should ask how much hotter it became because of fossil fuel emissions.

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In the Rocky Mountains, spring-fed streams and ponds have vanished, leaving patches of cracked mud. This year has been so extremely warm and arid that the mountains have remained largely snowless. The source of the Colorado River is drying up. @rgauth999.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

'This is terrifying': The Colorado River, a lifeline for seven states, is drying up at its source

The source of the Colorado River in the Rocky Mountains is drying up, threatening a critical water lifeline for about 35 million people and 5 million acres of farmland across the Southwest.

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For centuries, the farmer’s almanac gave people a way to ask simple questions about future climate: what should I expect, and how should I prepare? But what if you could build an almanac on real physics simulations and steer it to any scenario, extreme, or decade you care about?

What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.

Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS

the Bluesky design research team wants to talk with people who are interested in building communities. if that's you, submit this form! your voice will help shape what we build. docs.google.com/forms/d/1ej6...

Bluesky Communities Research 2026

Bluesky is conducting research to better understand how these groups form and grow on the platform, as well as what they need to thrive. We’re looking for active users to participate in a 45-minute 1:...

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Good thread about how the #green coalition has now added people who care about #affordability, the #economy #nationalsecurity, and sticking it to petro-dictators. #climatesolutions #climate #cleantech

Jonas Nahm@jonasnahm.com · 2mo ago

1/ The purpose of green industrial policy has inverted. It used to pay for a public good: clean energy that cost more, benefiting everyone. Now it captures advantages a country keeps for itself. That shift, from a shared cost to a prize seized, is the story of the transition.

🌎⚡ A frontier (1.5°, 15-day) ensemble weather forecast in ~3 seconds, from a probabilistic model you can train in ~1 day on a single H200 GPU?* Meet U-Cast, our new #ICML2026 paper. 🧵

Check out this thoughtful article about AI weather forecasting from @fastcompany.com! A privilege to be quoted alongside several colleagues whose work I admire and grateful to the authors for shining a light on some of NVIDIA's work in this space. www.fastcompany.com/91548095/ai-...

AI just changed everything about how we forecast the weather

Nvidia, Google, and a growing list of startups are using AI to make weather reports more accurate—and show the world how powerful the technology is.

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Really enjoyed talking to @drshepherd2013.bsky.social to discuss Earth system modeling, AI weather forecasting, and how GPUs are helping researchers model climate at greater scale and resolution. Check out this Weather Geeks podcast on where computing and climate science intersect! t.co/PD9IBJnn8E

The cuts are back, but so are we! If you're a US-based scientist working on weather & climate, then we need YOU to help make this event a success! Please sign up to speak at wclivestream.com/volunteer , and share with your colleagues!

The Weather & Climate Livestream@wclivestream.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 The Weather and Climate Livestream is back, June 1st - 3rd 2026!! We're streaming 50 hours for our future in the face of a new round of proposed budget cuts and attacks on science. Want to speak at the event? wclivestream.com/volunteer/

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

A toll on the Strait of Hormuz isn’t technically a carbon tax, but ... it still kind of is? @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social does the math of what Trump’s latest astounding act of climate policy means: heatmap.news/energy/trump...

Trump Finally Found a Carbon Tax He Can Love

A toll on oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz isn’t technically a carbon tax ... but it also isn’t not.

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I am getting a lot of questions about whether Trump's threats alone are illegal. The answer is yes. 1. First, Additional Protocol I states “Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.” (also DOD LOW Manual §5.2.2) 1/

They are complementary. There are essentially 0 drugs approved that didn't rely on NIH R&D. But NIH funding alone cannot deliver drugs, because NIH funding discovers new biology, but pharma R&D discovers the actual **drugs** (small molecule, monoclonal antibody) that modulates the biology.

i don't really know about other industries, but with software i have got to say that refusal to use ai at any place in development is acceptance of inability to compete. at the same time, refusal to maintain standards and quality through manual work is also acceptance of inability to compete.

Announcing a deal to pay $1 billion to stop two wind farms, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said: “The era of taxpayers subsidizing unreliable, unsecure energy is officially over.” Hours later, a massive American oil refinery accidentally exploded, spiking gas prices nationwide

What oil actually costs

The market price of oil has never reflected its true cost. This week made that impossible to ignore.

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The war in Iran has hit Americans at the pump. It’s another reason to turn to renewable energy. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The Iran War Is Another Reason to Quit Oil

What if the drone is to warfare as the solar panel is to energy?

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Honestly, this historic heat dome across the West is really hard to put into words for me. Temperatures over 110°F (43°C) in March, shattering all-time monthly records on multiple consecutive days, and not just by a little. ➡️ I can confirm this is human-caused climate change. polarwx.com/models/

Nature polled ~1,200 scientists and found 46% had a second income during their PhD. 59% said economic anxiety would push them toward a side hustle. Stipends in the US, UK, and Canada are at or below the poverty line in expensive cities www.nature.com/articles/d41...

ICML requires authors to serve as reviewers. Reviewers aren't supposed to use LLMs (with caveats 🧵). ICML used prompt injection to catch reviewers using LLMs. And now they have desk rejected the papers submitted by those reviewers. What a mess...

Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity. n.pr/4ul3y2p

Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them

Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity.

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As a rare climate scientist working in Silicon Valley, I've been drinking from the AI firehose a lot more than my peers. I thought it would be helpful to lay out my experiences of both the promise and pitfalls of using AI to accelerate scientific research:

The AI-Augmented Scientist

The promise and pitfalls of using AI tools to boost my capabilities as a scientist

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I am running a Climate Dynamics reading group for UCI graduate students this Spring and would like to propose a list of accessible papers on "big ideas" in climate dynamics from the 21st Century, prioritizing primary sources over review papers. Any suggestions of papers? (Self-promotion welcome!)

THIS THURSDAY: hear Noah Brenowitz (NVIDIA) at our next Spring'26 LEAP Lecture in #Climate #Data Science! 📅 3/5/26 🕛 12p EST 📍 via Zoom 💻 RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/1979676050... #LEAPEducation #AI #physics #openscience #scienceforgood #climatemodel #ESM #atmosphere @columbiaseas.bsky.social

In January, @anishathalye.bsky.social, @josejg.bsky.social, and I returned to @csail.mit.edu to teach Missing Semester, a class on topics we miss from most CS programs—tools and techniques that everyone should know, like Bash, Git, CI, and AI tools. Today, we’re releasing the course for free online!

The leaders of seven states failed to negotiate a deal to share the diminishing waters of the Colorado River by a Trump administration deadline, leaving the Southwest in a quagmire while the river’s depleted reservoirs continue to decline. www.latimes.com/environment/... @latimes.com

As a Colorado River deadline passes, reservoirs keep declining

Seven states have missed a federal deadline to reach a water deal on the Colorado River. They remain divided on how to cut water use.

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"The Trump administration and its well-funded allies in the fossil fuel industry are blocking our ability to put the cheapest, most reliable energy onto the grid." heatmap.news/ideas/trump-...

Trump’s Energy Policy Isn’t Just Dirty. It’s Expensive.

And it’s blocking America’s economic growth, argues a former White House climate advisor.

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The scientific understanding of human-driven climate change is much stronger today than it was in 2009 when the EPA first issued the endangerment finding. There is no scientific basis for the Trump administration's decision to repeal it

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Read chapter Front Matter: The scientific community has been studying the question of how human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases are affecting the cli...

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This is such a fascinating blog post and project!

hailey@hailey.at · 6mo ago

felt the need. i feel vastly under qualified to write something like this, but i also feel its especially important that we think about the way we use language