Daniel J. Vecellio
@sciencedjv.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. I research climate and human health interactions with a focus on extreme heat. Penn State Forever.
2025: Pretty good (personally, at least) until the whole breaking my ankle thing. As I watch the London NYE festivities since I won't be awake at midnight here, I'm going to say farewell to social media until 2027 to try and become a better, deeper version of myself. Be good and do good, everyone.
Global CO2 from fossil fuels is projected to hit a record 38.1B metric tons in 2025, up 1.1%. Increases in the U.S., India and China, plus a 6.8% jump in aviation, outpace clean energy gains. Researchers warn that staying below 1.5°C is no longer plausible.
Record fossil fuel emissions in 2025 despite renewables buildout, report says
Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion are projected to reach a record 38.1 billion metric tons in 2025, an increase of 1.1% from 2024, according to the 2025 Global Carbon…
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I'm the Indianapolis Colts' quarterback?
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 8mo ago2 years ago the Colts used a top-5 pick on a QB whose scouting profile was "the greatest athlete you on the planet, throws the ball one billion mph with no accuracy" but to unlock their offense they actually needed a middle-aged man who audibly goes "humph" when he sits down in his favorite chair
Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.
Bob Kopp@bobkopp.net · 8mo agoI look forward to the legally required, transparent peer review process required by the US Global Change Research Act and the Information Quality Act. I always thought they would try to do a NCA with Judith Curry, five old men and a LLM.
New AMS Statement: Dismantling NSF’s National Center for Atmospheric Research would weaken U.S. leadership in weather, water, and climate science, putting public safety at risk. For more than 60 years, NSF NCAR has improved forecasts and early warnings that save lives. More: https://bit.ly/4q6eChn
Before the 1990s, plane crashes caused by microbursts used to kill planeloads of people fairly regularly. Dr. Ted Fujita and NCAR scientists figured out how to detect microbursts and warn pilots about them. Since then? Zero airliner crashes from microbursts.
USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 8mo agoExclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Air and road travel are safer, hurricanes, thunderstorms, and wildfires are better predicted, students, early career scientists, and teachers are trained, and the public learns more about STEM because of NCAR. We’ve spent decades preaching STEM and we’re destroying it all in less than a year.
USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 8mo agoExclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
NCAR is a unique & valuable asset - far more than a climate model, or observations, or technology, or training ground, or gathering space. It covers weather, space weather, data, climate, paleo-climate, and everything in-between. It's building is an icon, but it's iconic status goes far beyond that.
Imagine confessing you let a car’s OS turn you into a toddler.
Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 8mo agotesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore
No! First NYC bar I ever frequented. $3 Rolling Rocks were a godsend for broke college kids hanging out in Manhattan.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 8mo agoGhouls!
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 8mo agoJimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?" Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Solidarity with faculty from my alma mater.
Stephen Caruso@stephenjcaruso.bsky.social · 8mo agoNews: Penn State University's faculty -- including full and part time professors at the main and satellite campuses -- have filed for a union election with the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board with SEIU Local 668, setting up the state's largest union election in decades.
Additionally, it appears that all of EPA's previously extensive "indicators of climate change" pages have been scrubbed entirely. The pages no longer exist; there are numerous dead links on the current/live EPA site, and no indication they have been moved to a new URL.
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
Thanking god for throwing balls into a large Dr. Pepper can in order to not go bankrupt to attend an institution of higher learning. America, baby!
This is what happens when you make decisions based on numbers in a spreadsheet while ignoring anyone or anything that could provide any context to them. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Insane. Can I take Geology 101 and reject the final exam with "God made the world in 7 days" and get a good grade? Same thing. If I took a religious studies course on Christianity and submit a citation-free essay ignoring the question, just asserting "Jesus is a false prophet", I'd expect to fail
gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 8mo agoOU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
bums me out kinda bad that all the cool life-saving shit ai was always supposed to do, working through immense amounts of data incredibly fast to tailored ends, has to have a disclaimer slapped on it like "no not the plagiarism machine that urges you to commit suicide" now
NPR@npr.org · 8mo agoMeteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting. n.pr/49MFa1M
Beer talk: This year's BCBS Chocolate Praline Stout might be the best boozy dessert stout I've ever had. It's what watching the snow fall while watching It's a Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve night tastes like.
Another potential Penn State head coach hire is off the board.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 8mo agoBRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
A good night to be a Penn State fan in the state of Nebraska.
Truly wild that I am in complete alignment with the leader of the Roman Catholic Church on something
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham@paulgp.com · 9mo agoThis Pope guy has some bangers
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone. Killing IMLS could have killed ILL. This is great news. 📚
Colleen T@librarycolleen.bsky.social · 9mo agoCourt permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
