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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 21h

🌊🌊JOB ALERT!! Are you an ice sheet modeler looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding? Come join our research team at University of Wisconsin-Madison to study the physical and human dynamics of sea-level rise. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...

Job ad for postdoctoral research in ice sheet modeling | Andrea Dutton

🌊 🌊 JOB ALERT!! Looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding?? Looking to live in a city that is routinely ranked as one of the best cities to live in across the entire U.S.? Come jo...

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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 3d

This is great news - Congratulations to Ángel! Also great to see not one, but TWO UW-Madison people in this year's MacArthur Class of Fellows. (Sébastien Phillipe in Nuclear Engineering being the other one).

UW–Madison Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences @uwmad-aos.bsky.social · 3d

We are thrilled and proud to share that AOS prof Ángel F. Adames Corraliza has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow!

Congrats, Ángel! The department is ecstatic for you. In addition to the MacArthur announcement linked below, check out the UW–Madison news release here: go.wisc.edu/r0ff84

Ángel F. Adames Corraliza

Advancing understanding of the forces that drive tropical weather patterns.

www.macfound.org

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Shaun Marcott @shaunmarcott.bsky.social · 8d

New paper out by graduate student Andy Jones on California glaciers. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 18d

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".

Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 19d

EPA orders some scientists to stop publishing research, employees say - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say

Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 24d

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If I could just summarize 1 sentence from the new National Academy of Sciences study on climate, boldface, flashing red, it would be:

"the evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused GHGs is beyond scientific dispute."

BEYOND SCIENTIFIC DISPUTE
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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 21d

Yup- saw that too

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 22d

apparently the DOE Climate Working Group has registered this website: ClimateWorkingGroup.com.

Here it is, full of information just as interesting and relevant as the report itself.

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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 21d

"The Environmental Defense Fund and the Union of Concerned Scientists have sued DOE over [the group's] formation, claiming the agency violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act in setting up the group." Reporting by @scottpwaldman.bsky.social subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

E&E News: Disbanded DOE climate group vows to continue work

Facing legal challenges, the department dissolved the group whose members wrote a report critical of mainstream climate science.

subscriber.politicopro.com

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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 21d

Yikes

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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

sites.google.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Aug 30

Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions.

They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · Aug 30

The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind industry.
https://to.pbs.org/45HtATc

Trump administration cancels $679 million in funding for offshore wind projects

The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind ind...

www.pbs.org

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Aug 26

This is false.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 26

RFK Jr claims that windmills are "wiping out the whale population" in the Atlantic

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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · Aug 27

Can try this one for the webpage and then click on the report from there: ncar.ucar.edu/who-we-are/s...

NSF NCAR Strategic Plan 2025-2029 | National Center for Atmospheric Research

ncar.ucar.edu

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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · Aug 27

IPCC projections in the mid-1990s of global sea-level change over the next 30 years were remarkably robust - important for confidence in future projections.

The largest disparities were due to underestimated dynamic mass loss of ice sheets

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Evaluating IPCC Projections of Global Sea‐Level Change From the Pre‐Satellite Era

IPCC projections in the mid-1990s of global sea-level change over the next 30 years were remarkably robust The largest disparities between projections and observations were due to underestimated ...

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Aug 23

„Such censorship of scientists has been attempted by failed governments of the past such as Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and early communist China, always with disastrous consequences for their citizens.“
Watching MAGA-US sleepwalking into disaster.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

The Executive Order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” is Dangerous for America

This EO is an unconstitutional attempt to censor and punish U.S. scientists for publishing science that doesn't fit a political agenda This misleading and false misrepresentation of U.S. scientif...

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Aug 24

Rightwing populists don’t like the results of science (e.g., #globalwarming is caused by burning fossil fuels), so they try to discredit science and scientists. Then they falsely claim there is a lack of public trust in science.
They really think they can easily fool you with this nonsense. 🙄

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Aug 27

“The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday suspended around 30 employees after those workers wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had gutted the nation’s ability to handle hurricanes, floods and other extreme weather disasters.”

FEMA Suspends Staff Who Signed a Letter Criticizing Trump

www.nytimes.com

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Jean-Pierre Gattuso @jpgattuso.bsky.social · Aug 27

A disaster for ocean and climate research is unfolding before our eyes. #NOAA 🌊
"The White House Office of Management and Budget is pulling back $239 million in funds Congress already provided. The biggest hits fall on climate and ocean research."
oceanpolicy.substack.com/p/roundup-un...

Roundup: Unobligated but Not Unnoticed: OMB Pulls Back NOAA Funds

August 12-26, 2025

oceanpolicy.substack.com

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Aug 24

NCAR strategic plan mentions climate change zero times.

h/t Kevin Trenberth, who also pointed out that there is a unit in NCAR called Climate and Global Dynamics Division

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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · Aug 25

"Strategic harassment" on researchers playing out here: Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · Aug 20

A new two party system: the cooled vs. the cooked. Great piece by @jeffgoodell.bsky.social in the NYT on how extreme heat is impacting us.

Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · Aug 20

Photographing extreme heat is like photographing a ghost -- it's extremely difficult to capture in all its weirdness and power. But Tova Katzman did an incredible job here.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

Opinion | The New American Inequality: The Cooled vs. the Cooked

www.nytimes.com

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hurricane Erin achieved something most storms do not this weekend. "Extreme Rapid Intensification". Did climate change play a part? Science says, yes.
In 12 hours winds increased by ~65 mph. Only 3 other storms have done that and Erin was the earliest & only August storm to do so.
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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · Aug 14

The recent DOE climate science report misrepresents the work of many researchers. Carbon Brief asked those cited to review the parts of the report where their work was used, and we collectively found 100+ misleading or false statements: interactive.carbonbr...

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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · Aug 12

Union Station - a beautiful space. quick meal before boarding the train.

View of vaulted ceiling of union station with a meal in the foreground

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