Dr. Andrea Dutton
@drandreadutton.bsky.social
Geologist. Obsessed w/ carbonates, isotopes, sea level & climate. Professor at Univ. Wisconsin-Madison. she/her
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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@desmog.com reviewed US tax records which show Bill Gates’ charity has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by Danish academic and climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:08 AM
@desmog.com reviewed US tax records which show Bill Gates’ charity has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by Danish academic and climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
Some personal news: This week I was awarded the Geological Society of America Public Service award for all my work communicating climate science to the public. I received this beautiful award (they know their audience, geologists love rocks!)
October 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Some personal news: This week I was awarded the Geological Society of America Public Service award for all my work communicating climate science to the public. I received this beautiful award (they know their audience, geologists love rocks!)
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For those interested, I’ll giving a departmental colloquium on “Nine months in the federal assault on climate science” on 10/29 at 11:30am EDT
Register here:
Register here:
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: EPS Colloquium 11:30am Oct 29 Robert Kopp Speaking. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Title: Nine months in the federal assault on climate science
Abstract: 2025 has witnessed rapid democratic backsliding in the United States, characterized by efforts by the federal executive to consol...
rutgers.zoom.us
October 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
For those interested, I’ll giving a departmental colloquium on “Nine months in the federal assault on climate science” on 10/29 at 11:30am EDT
Register here:
Register here:
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Southern Ocean evidence for recurring West Antarctic Ice Sheet destabilization during Marine Isotope Stage 11
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Southern Ocean evidence for recurring West Antarctic Ice Sheet destabilization during Marine Isotope Stage 11 - Nature Communications
Recurring deep ocean oxygen minimum events occur in the Pacific Southern Ocean during the warm climate interval Marine Isotope Stage 11. They are linked with perturbed Antarctic Bottom Water formation...
www.nature.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Southern Ocean evidence for recurring West Antarctic Ice Sheet destabilization during Marine Isotope Stage 11
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌊🌊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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October 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
🌊🌊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...
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).
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
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
October 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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).
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New paper out by graduate student Andy Jones on California glaciers. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 3, 2025 at 12:51 AM
New paper out by graduate student Andy Jones on California glaciers. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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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!
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!
September 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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!
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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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
September 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
EPA orders some scientists to stop publishing research, employees say - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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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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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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September 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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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
🚨🚨
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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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.
Here it is, full of information just as interesting and relevant as the report itself.
September 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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.
Here it is, full of information just as interesting and relevant as the report itself.
"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.
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September 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
"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...
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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.
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
September 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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.
Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.
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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.
They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
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
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
August 30, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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.
They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
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This is false.
RFK Jr claims that windmills are "wiping out the whale population" in the Atlantic
August 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This is false.
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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/...
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
August 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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/...
The largest disparities were due to underestimated dynamic mass loss of ice sheets
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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„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/...
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
August 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
„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/...
Watching MAGA-US sleepwalking into disaster.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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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. 🙄
They really think they can easily fool you with this nonsense. 🙄
August 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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. 🙄
They really think they can easily fool you with this nonsense. 🙄
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“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
August 27, 2025 at 5:56 AM
“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.”
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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...
"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
August 27, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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...
"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...
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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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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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August 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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
d3opzdukpbxlns.cloudfront.net/34fc0287-fec...
h/t Kevin Trenberth, who also pointed out that there is a unit in NCAR called Climate and Global Dynamics Division
d3opzdukpbxlns.cloudfront.net/34fc0287-fec...
"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
August 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"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...
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.
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
Opinion | The New American Inequality: The Cooled vs. the Cooked
www.nytimes.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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.
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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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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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August 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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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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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