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Andra Garner @andrajgarner.bsky.social · 1d

Typhoon Halong has illustrated this week just how catastrophic such a shift in storm tracks can be, with devastating flooding in communities like Kipnuk after the storm made landfall in western Alaska.

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One killed, dozens rescued after storm slams western Alaska as search for missing continues | CNN

Rescuers in western Alaska are working to find missing residents and help the more than 1,000 people displaced after ferocious, hurricane-force wind gusts from what once was Typhoon Halong tore throug...

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Andra Garner @andrajgarner.bsky.social · 1d

One of the findings from our 2024 manuscript assessing changes in tropical cyclone tracks near Southeast Asia was that, in a warmer climate, it becomes more common for these kinds of storms to impact Alaskan coastlines: share.google/pko58Q42M0lZ...

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Sep 4

On The Climate Brink: More about the DOE Climate Working Group report.

The Fix Is In: Without independent review editors, their “peer review” process is a sham. Science and humanity deserves better.

The fix is in

Judy Curry unwittingly spills the beans

www.theclimatebrink.com

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · Sep 3

Some energy/climate math for the late night crowd:

Total Absorbed Solar Energy: 240 W/m2
Total human primary energy use in 2024: 186kTWh
(from ourworldindata.org/energy-produ...)

Converting: 186*10^15/5.1x10^14/3600= 0.1 W/m2

=> total energy from solar is 2400 times what we use.

Energy Production and Consumption

Explore data on how energy production and use varies across the world.

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Sep 2

Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out.

Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.

DOEresponseSite

On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding. In response, over 85 scientists have come together to write a comprehensive review, which is

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Sep 2

On The Climate Brink, I write about the DOE report and our response.

The merchants of doubt are back

But this time, it's the U.S. government pushing doubt

www.theclimatebrink.com

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Andra Garner @andrajgarner.bsky.social · Sep 2

Some of my personal thoughts on the DOE report and the need for this response:

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Andra Garner @andrajgarner.bsky.social · Sep 2

Glad to have been able to take part in this important effort, and to work with colleagues to provide a response to the DOE Climate Working Group report's sea level and tropical cyclone sections, in particular. Many thanks to @andrewdessler.com and @bobkopp.net for helping to organize this effort!

Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · Sep 2

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

DOEresponseSite

On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding...

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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · Aug 28

New nonprofit climate group forms, aims to resurrect climate.gov, National Climate Assessment and other lost data www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...

Climate.gov will re-launch under new URL thanks to a secret team of web ninjas | CNN

A small group of writers and researchers are launching an ambitious effort to preserve key climate data that the Trump administration has taken offline, including the climate.gov website.

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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · Aug 28

This radar loop of Hurricane #Katrina in 2005 spans August 28 at noon (CDT) through the morning of the 29th at 8:54am when communication with the radar was lost.

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Andra Garner @andrajgarner.bsky.social · Aug 28

Proud to have helped out with this enormous effort.

Say it louder for the people in the back: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."

Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Aug 28

Our comment on the DOE CWG report is done. It tips the scales at 439 pages, approx. 3x longer than the DOE report.
This is related to Brandolini's law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

Example: refuting one sentence.

DOE CWG STATEMENT (second paragraph of section 2.1.1, page 3): “Piao et al. (2020) noted
that greening was even observable in the Arctic.”
COMMENT: This statement implies that the Arctic greening signal was caused by elevated CO2
,
however that is not the scientific consensus. Piao et al. (2020) attribute the greening trend in the
Arctic predominantly to growing season length driven by warmer temperatures (see also Y.
Zhang et al., 2022). Piao et al. (2020) also note that this positive impact of increasing
temperatures appears to have weakened over the past four decades, “suggesting a possible
saturation of future greening in response to warmer temperature” (see also comment on
greenness trends related to Section 2.1.1, first sentence of Page 4). It is also important to put
Arctic greening more broadly into the context of the carbon cycle and other impacts. While
above-ground plants may have displayed more leaf area over the past decades, rising
temperatures also thaw permafrost and drive accelerated decomposition in highly carbon rich
soils (Turetsky et al., 2020), a process which is expected to accelerate as climate continues to
warm (Miner et al., 2022). Thus even with Arctic greening, high latitude terrestrial systems may
become net carbon sources to the atmosphere, causing an amplifying feedback (Braghiere et
al., 2023). Other risks to the Arctic linked to higher CO2

levels and rising temperatures are not
mentioned in this report (Virkkala et al., 2025). The Arctic is warming at a rate of 2 to 3 times the
global average, leading to thawing of permanently frozen soils (permafrost), with downstream
impacts including loss of structural support for buildings and subsidence, threatening
communities, roads, runways, and other assets across Alaska (Manos et al., 2025; University of
Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Northern Engineering US Army Corps of Engineers Alaska District
& Laboratory, 2019).

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Andra Garner @andrajgarner.bsky.social · Aug 28

This helps lend confidence to our climate modeling capabilities—which have improved dramatically over that same 30 year time span!

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Andra Garner @andrajgarner.bsky.social · Aug 28

Really nice piece in @agu.org's Earth's Future a few days ago, showing excellent agreement between satellite observations of sea level in recent decades and the sea level projections from the IPCC's Second Assessment report 30 years ago.
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Andra Garner @andrajgarner.bsky.social · Aug 25

Keeping an eye on Typhoon Kajiki as it brings impacts to an area that we found faces increasing Typhoon hazards as storm tracks change in a warmer climate (part of our 2024 manuscript in @natureportfolio.nature.com's npj Climate and Atmospheric Science): share.google/SrSMsDA1fBxI...

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · Aug 20

🛑 Last Chance To Submit an Abstract for #OSM26🛑

The global conference for ocean sciences and the ocean-related community taking place 22-27 Feb 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Celebrate the power of collective discovery by showcasing your work in a world stage.

➡️Submit by 20 Aug: buff.ly/vBlrVDV

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Michael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.social · Aug 20

The only hurricanes in the satellite era with pressures as low as Erin's but below Category 3 winds are Maria (2017), Irma (2017), Sandy (2012), Igor (2010), and Gloria (1985). Erin in ultra-elite company as far as large, powerful hurricanes go. Spectacular sight on satellite.

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Andra Garner @andrajgarner.bsky.social · Aug 20

The center of #HurricaneErin might not make landfall in the US, but its size, strength, and proximity to the coast mean it will still have impacts, including dangerous rip currents along most of the East coast for the next few days. Heed warnings at your local beaches if you're headed to the shore!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Aug 19

Public debate on global warming? Sweet. Let’s also debate the Ptolemaic model of the heavens.

Trump team readies more attacks on mainstream climate science

The plans include a public debate on global warming. Scientists say that falsely implies the major tenets of climate research are unsettled.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Aug 18

Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.

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Andra Garner @andrajgarner.bsky.social · Aug 18

Abstracts for the 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow, Scotland are due this Wednesday, 8/20. If you're a coastal climate scientist, we hope you'll consider submitting an abstract to our session on Dynamic Coastlines!

Andra Garner @andrajgarner.bsky.social · Jul 10

Calling all coastal climate scientists—if you'll be attending the 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting, we hope you'll consider submitting an abstract to our session on Dynamic Coastlines! We welcome studies of past, present, or future #CoastalChange. Abstracts are due 8/20
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Dynamic Coastlines amidst Changing Sea Levels: Advancements in Understanding the Impacts of Climate Change on Coastal Hazards

Changes along our coastlines threaten growing populations, economic resources, infrastructure investments, and natural ecosystem functioning. Coastal communities and environments are subject to hazard...

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · Aug 16

Erin is now a monster 160 mph cat 5 Atlantic hurricane:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/16/h...

Hurricane Erin becomes ‘catastrophic’ Category 5 hurricane, tracking north of Bahamas

The first hurricane of the 2025 season has intensified into a Category 5 storm and will turn north just before the U.S. east coast next week. Forecasters are also tracking a new system in the weste…

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Kim Wood @drkimwood.bsky.social · Aug 14

Tropical Storm #Erin is still chugging westward & remains small, but convection (thunderstorms) is getting stronger near its center shown by colder cloud tops. Overnight, it can be easier for a storm's convection to take off.

NOAA GOES-19 1-minute meso sector infrared imagery from the past 6 hours:

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Aug 12

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Andra Garner @andrajgarner.bsky.social · Aug 7

Today's daily dose of dystopian nonsense...

Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · Aug 7

This follows a report released under the auspices of DOE & written by 5 climate change contrarians that contradicts the scientific consensus on climate change. It played a role in the EPA's pulling of the endangerment finding. Via @ellanilsen.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/c...

Energy chief suggests Trump administration is altering previously published climate reports | CNN

Wright said the Trump administration is updating the National Climate Assessments that have been previously published, which the administration recently removed from government websites.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Aug 3

That's just one of many instances of distortion and misinformation in the US Department of Energy "Critical Review on the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions".
Which in fact is a fossil fuel propaganda scam.
Let's hope Americans are not that easily fooled.
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Sea Level Mis-information from DOE

Here in the USA, the Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a report titled “A Critical Review of the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.” It is a product of the &#8…

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