“just strategically fucking dumb..." Nothing more to add here 🫤 www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Rubio eliminates office that oversees climate talks
The Office of Global Change was notified Thursday that it would be shuttered.
politico.com
Stefan Sobolowski
@stefansobo.bsky.social
Climate scientist; climate dynamics, impacts and climate/weather extremes; Associate professor, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Norway; Research Leader, the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research. Two flags 🇳🇴 🇺🇸
A colleague with good connections has shared that access to data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will be removed before Easter and their servers shut down. 🫤 Who knows how certain this is, but the precautionary principle should probably apply. 💽
A colleague with good connections has shared that access to data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will be removed before Easter and their servers shut down. 🫤 Who knows how certain this is, but the precautionary principle should probably apply. 💽
Coal! Beautiful, clean (cough, cough), coal! We need a new word for "so stupid it beggars belief". www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Trump issues executive order to block state climate crisis policies – US politics live
Move directs US attorney general to block laws addressing carbon emissions and comes hours after president issued orders to increase coal production
theguardian.com
Nice perspective from Dylan Matthews at Vox. The take home? Shocks to the system rarely work out well for people and communities. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The cruel irony of the coming tariff war
Tariffs aren’t helping globalization’s losers — they’re victimizing them again.
vox.com
Powerful statement from the #ColumbiaUniversity chapter of #AAUP. What is happening at my alma matter is heartbreaking. While I empathize with Columbia's leadership and the position they find themselves itself in, one cannot confront a challenge if one cannot, or will not, articulate the threat.
IPCC SR Cities first LAM, done and dusted. A much needed respite. Rejuvenating, respectful, inspiring. A inclusive space where disagreements were treated as opportunities to teach and learn rather than prelude to conflict. And this weird mascot thing. Points for whoever can guess what it is 😂 #IPCC
Starting things off positive. Kid2 was home “sick” 🙄 Pulled out mind storms and let him get to it. Sighs and groans of frustration soon gave way to oohs and ahhs of discovery. This is why I’m in science (generally) and climate science (specifically). It’s gonna be rough going. But we can do this!🤘🏼
