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Gavin Schmidt

@climateofgavin.bsky.social

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Climate scientist, juggler. Bikes etc. Blogging at https://www.realclimate.org - data visualization, explainers, and debunking.

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Gavin A. Schmidt is a British climatologist, climate modeler and Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, and co-founder of the climate science blog RealClimate. .. more

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 14h

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 15h

The risks come not from Super Intelligence, just from Regular Stupidity.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Ben H. Ansell, Rebecca Solnit , and 27 more Anna O. Law, Ben H. Ansell, Rebecca Solnit, Matthew Bunn, Joe R. Feagin, Peter Thorne, Gavin A. Schmidt, Joshua S. Weitz, John R. Hutchinson, Patrick Dunleavy, Steve Peers, John McLaren, Andreas Ortmann, Simon Wren‐Lewis, Robert C. Richards, Melanie C. Green, Aaron Sojourner, W. Andy Knight, Gerald Friedman, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Robert B. Reich, Jason Lyall, Michael Müller, Gary Sheffield, Nicole Guenther Discenza, Magda Teter, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Colin Woodard, Timothy D. McBride, David Darmofal

Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 16h

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Ben H. Ansell, Gavin A. Schmidt , and 4 more Lisa W. Fazio, Ben H. Ansell, Gavin A. Schmidt, Bryan D. Jones, Silvia Secchi, Scott A. Imberman, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 1d

IRS executive Kathleen Walters was asked to break the law by the Trump administration, and refused.

Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 1d

We had a paper looking at hi-res regional models of snowfall and while you see a decline overall, there is an increase in impactful snowfalls in some places along the eastern seaboard and lake event snow.

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

Changing Nature of High‐Impact Snowfall Events in Eastern North America

Mean annual snowfall is projected to decrease across most of eastern North America as the Earth continues to warm The most intense high-impact snowfall events currently observed will continue to ...

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 1d

it’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend

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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 1d

Whether you cover sports, health, crime, or culture, climate change is shaping your beat.

Join our free training on February 19 to learn how to make the climate connection in your reporting.

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Covering Climate Across Beats — Covering Climate Now

Climate change touches every corner of our lives. From the food we eat to the sports we play, from the economy to public health, and from education to infrastructure. Yet, too often, the climate…

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Reposted by Michael E. Mann, Brian J. Enquist, Stephan Lewandowsky , and 4 more Michael E. Mann, Brian J. Enquist, Stephan Lewandowsky, Peter Thorne, Gavin A. Schmidt, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Christina Pagel

Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 2d

"A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming."

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A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules

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Reposted by Marc Lynch, Kim L. Scheppele, Ben H. Ansell , and 41 more Marc Lynch, Kim L. Scheppele, Ben H. Ansell, Elizabeth Saunders, Mark Bray, Will Jennings, Gavin A. Schmidt, Neil Pederson, Scott L. Greer, John Horgan, Steve Peers, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Juan Cole, Michael Kevane, Trevon D. Logan, Smith, Melanie C. Green, Rebecca Tushnet, David R. Miller, Andrew Jacobs, Samantha Brennan, Michael D. McDonald, Erol Akçay, Anne Norton, Michael Jones‐Correa, David Bartram, Ann Bartow, Nelson Flores, Andrew Rudalevige, Nathan Richardson, Christina Pagel, Stephen A. Meserve, Olivier Mannoni, Magda Teter, Manisha Sinha, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Aviel Roshwald, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Colin Woodard, Timothy D. McBride, Pierre-Yves Baudot, Elise Thomas, Jesse R. Lasky

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

www.nytimes.com

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Dana Goldstein @danagoldstein.bsky.social · 3d

My new story, a deep dive on what it can mean to protest in America today. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...

She Fought a Book Ban. She May Never Teach Again.

www.nytimes.com

Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 3d

Likewise!

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 3d

Today's @nytimes.com dialogue with Ross Douthat & Jay Bhattacharya is tough sledding. I wrote a book on how silent transmission made COVID harder to stop and drove misleading narratives. The interview continues to mislead as a means to seize more power.

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Asymptomatic: The Silent Spread of COVID-19 and the Future of Pandemics

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Lara Williams @lararhiannon.bsky.social · 3d

Don't burn Coalie! Coalie deserves LIFE, protect Coalie from being burnt at all costs! grist.org/culture/trum...

Why the government is trying to make coal cute

Trump said that coal needed better public relations. Then Coalie, the mascot of an obscure federal office, showed up.

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 3d

There are real serious potentially life or death consequences to AI hallucination in legal, including law enforcement, or medical settings. It is madness to allow this technology into such high stakes environments.

Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 4d

Will this file be maintained as well? Currently it only goes to the end of 2024. I find it easier to download one summary file rather than individual months one at a time... Thx.

downloads.psl.noaa.gov/Datasets/noa...

downloads.psl.noaa.gov

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 4d

Take four minutes out of your day.

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 4d

Pretty sure you’re anti-climate change (in our present moment of course).

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 4d

New planet just dropped and it

1) is almost exactly Earth-sized

2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year.

3) orbits a star that is not a 💢temperamental little shit M-dwarf 💢but is instead a 🧡 good orange boi 🧡

Me for @science.org based on results presented at #RockyWorlds4: 🔭🧪

Earth-size planet spotted with yearlong orbit

Long-overlooked Kepler signal discovered by citizen scientists reveals promising world worth a closer look

www.science.org

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Lisa W. Fazio, Jason Mittell , and 27 more Anne Applebaum, Lisa W. Fazio, Jason Mittell, Marco Festa‐Bianchet, David M. Farrell, Brendan Nyhan, Gavin A. Schmidt, Tom Clark, Steve Peers, David Rothschild, Amir Attaran, Martin Tomko, Peter Campbell, Edgar Morgenroth, Daniel W. Drezner, Smith, David R. Miller, R. M. Wilson, Patrick Svensson, Suzanne de Cheveigné, Anne Norton, Zen Faulkes, Lisa Diedrich, Daniel Kuehn, David L. Anderson, Greg Linden, Gerardo Martí, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Fiona Armstrong, David Darmofal

Eileen Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 4d

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

Cumulative US measles cases
As of January 27, there have been more cases than there were by the same week last year.
Fairly horizontal lines for 2023 and 2024, a steep diagonal line for 2025, and a vertical line for ytd 2026.
2026
478 cases
2025
2253 cases
2024
283 cases
2023
63 cases
Note: Data updated on January 27, 2026, at 3 p.m. ET.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Johns Hopkins University, Center for Outbreak Response Innovation Graphic: Alex Leeds Matthews and Matt Stiles, CNN

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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 4d

Sales of EVs surpass petrol cars in the EU for the first time. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 #TheFutureIsEletric www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...

Analysis: EVs just outsold petrol cars in EU for first time ever - Carbon Brief

Sales of battery electric vehicles (EVs) overtook petrol cars in the EU for the first time in December 2025.

www.carbonbrief.org

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Katharine Hayhoe, Valerie M. Delmotte , and 4 more Meredith Broussard, Katharine Hayhoe, Valerie M. Delmotte, Brigitte Nerlich, John Kennedy, Gavin A. Schmidt, Ed Hawkins

Visualising Climate @visualisingclimate.com · 4d

Join us in Bologna, Italy, 4–6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate — the first global conference fully dedicated to climate data visualization and its power to transform public understanding of a changing planet. Come see the data.
visualisingclimate.org
#VisualisingClimate2026 #DataVis #ClimateCrisis

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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 4d

More hallucinated case citations:

www.law360.com/corporate/ar...

Reposted by Valerie M. Delmotte, Sonia I. Seneviratne, John Kennedy , and 8 more Valerie M. Delmotte, Sonia I. Seneviratne, John Kennedy, Gavin A. Schmidt, Richard Betts, Erich Fischer, Ed Hawkins, Jan S. Fuglestvedt, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Victor Galaz, Andy Reisinger

Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 4d

New discussion paper just dropped that’s taken shall we say a little work to get this far … essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es... please be kind. Not on an at all sensitive topic in the slightest.

How well can we quantify when 1.5 °C of global warming has been exceeded?

Abstract. Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement agreed to limit the long-term increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C and pursue efforts to keep temperatures below 1.5 °C relative to p...

essd.copernicus.org

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Transportation Alternatives @transalt.org · 5d

The City is hiring emergency snow shovelers. Pay starts at $19.14 per hour and increases to $28.71 per hour after the first 40 hours worked in a week: www.nyc.gov/site/dsny/ca...

Emergency Snow Shovelers - DSNY

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 5d

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Gavin A. Schmidt, Matthias Cuntz , and 2 more Peter Thorne, Gavin A. Schmidt, Matthias Cuntz, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Wolfgang Huber

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5d

They're also removing the remaining glaciers from Glacier National Park.

National park signs related to Native Americans, climate change to be removed

Among the national parks targeted in the new removal orders are some of the country’s most iconic: Grand Canyon, Glacier, Big Bend and Zion.

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Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Nandita Sharma, Kimberly A. Prather , and 10 more Kim L. Scheppele, Nandita Sharma, Kimberly A. Prather, Gavin A. Schmidt, Guy Grossman, Ameet Sarpatwari, Aaron Sojourner, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Michael H. Whitworth, Michael D. McDonald, Cynthia Miller‐Idriss, Andrew Rudalevige, Karen O’Leary

Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 5d

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

Reposted by Gavin A. Schmidt, Matthias Cuntz

Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 5d

Always the minimalist.

Note on Philip Glass stationery: “After thoughtful consideration, I have decided to withdraw my Symphony #15 ‘Lincoln’ from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Symphony #15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony. Therefore, I feel an obligation to withdraw this Symphony premiere from the Kennedy Center user its current leadership.” Followed by a handwritten signature and the printed name “Philip Glass.”

Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Brian J. Enquist, Ben Bond‐Lamberty , and 4 more Scott C. Doney, Brian J. Enquist, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Gavin A. Schmidt, Matthias Cuntz, Rosie A. Fisher, Peter Jacobs

Eos @eos.org · 5d

NCAR represents what is possible when a nation chooses to invest in science as a public good, writes @carlonimbus.bsky.social of @ucs.org. #SaveNCAR eos.org/opinions/wha...