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Gavin Schmidt
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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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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 9h
Jerome Powell makes it clear:

The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President.

www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
Good evening. On Friday, the Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testi
www.federalreserve.gov

Reposted by Gavin A. Schmidt, Magda Teter

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NPR @npr.org · 1d
A recent Israeli decision to bar Doctors Without Borders and other aid groups means international staff and aid can no longer enter Gaza or the West Bank. Local staff must rely on dwindling supplies and no international expertise. n.pr/49f75Xo
Inside a Gaza medical clinic at risk of shutting down after an Israeli ban
A recent Israeli decision to bar Doctors Without Borders and other aid groups means international staff and aid can no longer enter Gaza or the West Bank. Local staff must rely on dwindling supplies and no international expertise.
n.pr

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Gavin A. Schmidt, Jonathan M. Gilligan , and 5 more

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🏳️‍⚧️ Tár-Tár Binks @josie.zone · 2d
Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears:

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First, I want to extend my gratitude to all the people who have reached out from across the country and around the world to support our family. This kindness of strangers is the most fitting tribute because if you ever encountered my wife, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, you know that above all else, she was kind, In fact, kindness radiated out of her. Renee sparkled. She literally sparkled. I mean, she didn't wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time. You might think it was just my love talking but her family said the same thing. Renee was made of sunshine, Renee lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it Where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow Renee was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole. Like people have done across place and time, we moved to make a better life for ourselves. We chose Minnesota to make our home. Our whole extended road trip here, we held hands in the car while our son drew all over the windows to pass the time and the miles, What we found when we got here was a vibrant and welcoming community, we made friends and spread joy: And while any place we were together was home, there was a strong shared sense here in Minneapolis that we were looking out for each other. Here, I had finally found peace and safe harbor. That has been taken from me forever. We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day. She is pure love. She is pure joy. She is pure sunshine On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns. Renee leaves behind three extraordinary children; the youngest is just six years old and already lost his father. I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him. That the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way. We thank you for the privacy you are granting our family as we grieve. We thank you for ensuring that Renee's legacy is one of kindness and love. We honor her memory by living her values: rejecting hate and choosing compassion, turning away from fear and pursuing peace, refusing division and knowing we must come together to build a world where we all come home safe to the people we love. E

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 2d
But even if they had stayed, those voices would have no reach at all there.

Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Gavin A. Schmidt

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Climate.us @climate.us · 2d
Art x Climate is an integral part of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), restored by Climate.us.
One of the featured artworks is “Drift Ice” by Deborah Pressman. Year and Medium: 2020, ink, oil sticks on paper
How to depict glaciers and ice floes? I form large pieces of paper into topographic representations of landscapes. The tactile features of the work change the perception of the image from flat representation to a semi-sculptural form. The polar regions are the most fragile and consequential for climate change and so far from population centers. Creating images that viewers can almost touch, that gives them a sense of the land, might help to foster shared responsibility for these fragile, vital areas.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d
‘A colossal own goal’: Trump’s exit from global climate treaties will have little effect outside US
‘A colossal own goal’: Trump’s exit from global climate treaties will have little effect outside US
For much of the last 30 years, the rest of the world has been forced to persevere with climate action in the face of US intransigence
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Anna O. Law, Lisa W. Fazio , and 11 more

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.

Reposted by Peter A. Stott, A. E. Dessler, Gavin A. Schmidt , and 1 more

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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 3d
As a climate scientist, I know heatwaves in Australia will only get worse. We need to start preparing now | Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick #Climate
As a climate scientist, I know heatwaves in Australia will only get worse. We need to start preparing now | Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
During black summer, my daughters were too young to know what was happening. Now, amid another Australian heatwave, they deserve answers
www.theguardian.com

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Susie & Midge w/ an extra Smidge @midgeandsusie.bsky.social · 3d
Make sure everyone knows who he is.

www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis
Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.
www.startribune.com

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 3d
any chance you'll fix the $ year? (i.e. keep it at 2020 US $ for instance?) - this would deal with the retroactive addition of older events as the $ devalues.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 3d
After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up.

Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.

More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
A map of the US with each 2025 billion-plus dollar weather and climate disaster geo-located on it. Source: Climate Central

Reposted by Gavin A. Schmidt

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 3d
Bluesky a vérifié un nombre substantiel de comptes gouvernementaux français depuis ce matin

Je me demande si c'est suite à une demande du gouvernement, et si c'est effectivement le cas, est-ce que l'État a (enfin) décidé de devenir plus actif sur Bluesky ?

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, Timon McPhearson, Gavin A. Schmidt

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3d
"Because the U.S. entered the UNFCCC with advice and consent of the Senate in 1992, it’s our legal view that it also must be exited using the same process in reciprocation... Letting this lawless move stand could shut the U.S. out of climate diplomacy forever"
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Trump withdrawal from bedrock UN climate treaty raises legal questions
Trump said that the U.S. would withdraw from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.
www.reuters.com

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The Verge @theverge.com · 3d
Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them
Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them
Bose speakers un-bricked
buff.ly

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 3d
sorry - I'm too literal to be on social media it seems...

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 3d
don't think so. It was the Paris Agreement that they gave notice to last year. UNFCCC and IPCC is new.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 3d
Bluesky community! This is my official NYC mayor account. I’ll be posting updates on what’s happening at City Hall and how we’re delivering for New Yorkers. It’s great to be here.

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Gavin A. Schmidt, Joseph Schafer , and 6 more

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 4d
I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said.

That is called murder when they do that.

Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 4d
if any crave redress of injustice, they should exhibit their petitions in the street

Reposted by Peter Thorne

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 4d
Eppure si riscalde

🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/c...
Trump Pulls Out of Global Climate Treaty
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Stephan Lewandowsky, Peter Thorne , and 15 more

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911 "They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 4d
The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.

(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d
New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance.
Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...
Life Under a Clicktatorship
What happens to government when everything is content?
donmoynihan.substack.com

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 5d
It takes a village…
96485.bsky.social Sarah Hansen @96485.bsky.social · 5d
Found this little guy in the street a few weeks ago- posted signs but the rain washed away our #.

A week later a kid recognized him as their class ‘pet’ & another family who lost him (& frantically looking) wrote their # in our sign.

PS the pig was also found. All is right again in stuffie land.💕
A weathered paper signed on a post showing a hedgehog photo and a handwritten “If found please call” The sweet little hedgehog nestled into a paper bag holding a note A note with hedgehog paw prints across the top and a photo of a hedgehog in the bottom that reads “Dear Class, Wow, what a busy two week’s I have had! I walked so many hedgehog miles then a 5th grade girl found me a took good care of me - she even gave me a bath and introduced me two her two stuffed hedgehogs who were very, very kind. It was a lovely adventure where I made new friends and told them all about my friends in your class but I am so, so happy to be home with you now.” A post with a pig in one photograph and a hedgehog in the other saying” lost and found stuffed animals: Well, looking for a beloved piggy, we found a hedgehog on Lennox(between 111 and)-please let us know if you’ve seen aSPAM written on her foot or lost a hedgehog. Thanks!”

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 5d
#stampsubskeet
A stamp from the Danish West Indies (which became the US Virgin Islands in 1917). As part of the deal, the US agreed that Denmark would retain sovereignty over Greenland.

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 5d
Israel Tells Doctors Without Borders to End Its Work in Gaza www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/w...
Israel Tells Doctors Without Borders to End Its Work in Gaza
www.nytimes.com

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MartinD @dalskov.bsky.social · 5d
In 1916, the United States signed a document stating that Greenland was Danish. Here is the document

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Sarah Hansen @96485.bsky.social · 5d
Found this little guy in the street a few weeks ago- posted signs but the rain washed away our #.

A week later a kid recognized him as their class ‘pet’ & another family who lost him (& frantically looking) wrote their # in our sign.

PS the pig was also found. All is right again in stuffie land.💕
A weathered paper signed on a post showing a hedgehog photo and a handwritten “If found please call” The sweet little hedgehog nestled into a paper bag holding a note A note with hedgehog paw prints across the top and a photo of a hedgehog in the bottom that reads “Dear Class, Wow, what a busy two week’s I have had! I walked so many hedgehog miles then a 5th grade girl found me a took good care of me - she even gave me a bath and introduced me two her two stuffed hedgehogs who were very, very kind. It was a lovely adventure where I made new friends and told them all about my friends in your class but I am so, so happy to be home with you now.” A post with a pig in one photograph and a hedgehog in the other saying” lost and found stuffed animals: Well, looking for a beloved piggy, we found a hedgehog on Lennox(between 111 and)-please let us know if you’ve seen aSPAM written on her foot or lost a hedgehog. Thanks!”

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AAUP Texas A&M-College Station Chapter @tamu-aaup.bsky.social · 5d
From an email to one of our faculty members....

Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 5d
Was the small background based on quasi 1850 conditions or an average of the 19th C or similar? (The point being we aren’t going to start in 1750, but we’d like to minimize the impact).