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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 3d

Record warm ocean temperatures continued in September across the North Pacific Ocean, with a number of consequential impacts (including on downstream weather patterns).

This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every September from 1854-2025 using @noaa.gov ERSSTv5 data.

Green line graph time series of average sea surface temperature anomalies for each September from 1850 through 2025 for only the midlatitude region of the North Pacific Ocean. There is large interannual variability, but an overall long-term increasing trend. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1981-2010 baseline. 2025 is a record high.

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Aug 31

Two stories juxtaposed on the BBC website... sigh.

Anyone else spot the irony here?

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Hemant Khatri @hemant-khatri.bsky.social · Sep 1

I guess I was right to switch to @bsky.app from Twitter.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds

Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles ‘find substantially higher levels of interaction’ than on Elon Musk’s platform

www.theguardian.com

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · Aug 27

Heavy monsoon rains trigger flash floods across Pakistan and India, forcing mass evacuations and causing deaths.

Deadly Monsoon Rains Force Mass Evacuations in South Asia

Heavy monsoon rains have triggered flash floods across Pakistan and India, forcing mass evacuations and causing deaths.

bloom.bg

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National Oceanography Centre @noc.ac.uk · Jul 14

@metoffice.gov.uk ‘s 'State of the UK Climate' report is out today, with some key findings:

🌊UK sea level is rising faster than the global average
🌡️extremes are becoming the norm
🥇record breaking weather events are becoming more frequent
🔥the last 3 yrs have been in the UK's top 5 warmest on record

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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · Jul 7

The Secretary of Commerce's new policy requiring his personal review of all NOAA contracts over $100,000 is directly harming American science. 🧪

How do I know? Because this morning, twelve of America's rising leaders in climate science (including myself) were furloughed.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Jun 30

What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔

NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...

Termination of OAR’s Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (-$102,292, -204 FTE/ -216 Positions) –NOAA will continue to support high priority ocean and weather research programs in NOS and NWS.

In coordination with the requested terminations for Weather Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (see OAR-10) and Ocean Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (see OAR-19), NOAA will close the Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, FL; the Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) in College Park, MD, Idaho Falls, ID, and Oak Ridge, TN, as well as a nation-wide network of soil moisture sensors; the Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL) in Boulder, CO; the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, NJ; the Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) in Boulder, CO, Utqiaġvik, AK, Mauna Loa, HI, Hilo, HI, Big Island, HI, American Samoa, and the South Pole; the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, WA; and the Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) in Boulder, CO.

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · Jul 1

Excellent post by @dinahvp.bsky.social‬ on the plan to devastate NOAA research, with quotes from @franklinjamesl.bsky.social @wxmanms1.bsky.social. "Only a small fraction of NOAA Research would remain and be transferred to the NWS, including portions of the weather, tornado and technology research."

Dinah V. Pulver @dinahvp.bsky.social · Jul 1

NOAA budget package details plans to reduce spending, staff, climate research and shut down its labs and cooperative institutes with universities. #NOAA #climatechange www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

NOAA budget spells out plans to reduce spending and abandon climate research

A detailed expense budget for NOAA outlines plans to reduce spending and cut climate and atmospheric research.

www.usatoday.com

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Jun 25

Awful. More horrible science news

"The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing & delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025."

Screenshot from NSIDC that says: "Dear Colleague:

The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing and delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025. The SSMIS data are used as input for the following NSIDC DAAC-produced data sets, which will therefore stop processing no later than 30 June 2025:"

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jun 25

I know there’s a lot of news right now but this is really crazy. They’re booting the National Science Foundation out of its newish building with no plans for where 1800 people are going to go.

National Science Foundation Staff Booted From Headquarters - Eos

Staff at the National Science Foundation (NSF) were notified on 25 June that the agency’s office space, located in Alexandria, Va., will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development (H...

eos.org

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Hemant Khatri @hemant-khatri.bsky.social · Jun 4

Great initiative by Bill Gates. The global economic uncertainty and wars are hitting poor countries the most. Hope this initiative would provide the required investment.

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · Jun 2

Bill Gates: Microsoft founder to give most of $200bn fortune to Africa

The Microsoft founder urges young innovators to use Artificial Intelligence to improve health services.

www.bbc.com

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Dhruv Bhagtani @dhruv21.bsky.social · May 30

Excited to share new research in the Journal of Geophysical Research:Oceans with @andyhogg.bsky.social, @navidcy.bsky.social, Ryan Holmes, and @hemant-khatri.bsky.social on how the North Atlantic Oscillation impacts the basin's subtropical and subpolar gyres: doi.org/10.1029/2024... 🌊

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · May 22

Trump just revoked the ability for foreign students to enroll at Harvard. Every foreign student, which is in the thousands, enrolled for next year at Harvard will not be able to continue studying if this isn't challenged in court.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students

www.nytimes.com

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · May 12

Updated Climate Visuals

(1) Warming stripes for atmosphere and ocean
(2) Climate indicators (adding land humidity for 2024)
(3) UK climate indicators (adding some 2024 data)

ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · May 9

RIP American science: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions, layoff staff, and terminate more funded grants.

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

www.science.org

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Hemant Khatri @hemant-khatri.bsky.social · May 1

Interesting study showing economic losses due to emissions by individual fossil fuel companies.

Such studies aimed at quantifying economic losses and emissions by individual sectors, companies and countries are needed to determine accountability for global warming.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature

A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...

www.nature.com

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Apr 24

"The possible elimination of the lab, called GFDL, in concert with potential cuts to other NOAA operations, threatens irreparable harm not only to global understanding of climate change and long-range scenarios for the planet but to the country’s safety, competitiveness and national security."

White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On

Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

www.propublica.org

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Hemant Khatri @hemant-khatri.bsky.social · Apr 22

That's definitely on my reading list.

British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · Apr 22

Why is Antarctica so important?

Antarctica might feel very remote - until you look at the planet from a different perspective. It's actually central to our world's ocean currents.

🎁 Check the alt text to dig into this diagram

🌊 This is from a new book by BAS' @oceanandice.bsky.social (et al.)

The image shows a map of the world's currents, but looking at a projection of the world from the bottom of the globe, with Antarctica at its centre. The diagram shows all of the world's currents cycling through major oceans, all linked together by a central circular current that goes around the outside of the Antarctic continent.

"The Southern Ocean around Antarctica is central to global ocean circulation. It enables connectivity across the whole planet by linking the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean basins, and is the key site where waters are returned to the surface from depth and then converted into new water masses. The clockwise circulation of waters around Antarctica is the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the strongest ocean current system in the world."

(Figure 1.1 from "Antarctica and the Earth System", edited By Michael P. Meredith, Jess Melbourne-Thomas, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, Marilyn Raphael)

Hemant Khatri @hemant-khatri.bsky.social · Apr 18

Looks like Trump has vowed to destroy everything, including oceans, climate research, trade, freedom of speech.

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Apr 18

Trump Opens Marine National Monument to Commercial Fisheries www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/c... | I wish I could say this was unprecedented. But it’s happened once before in history- the last time Trump was President.

Sigh.

Trump Opens Marine National Monument to Commercial Fisheries

The president said the move was aimed at making the United States the world’s “dominant seafood leader.”

www.nytimes.com

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Apr 17

"To envision the disastrous impact of this plan, one only needs to see what NOAA research has provided to the U.S. taxpayer and imagine where we would be without it."

"Now is the time to reach out to your elected representatives."

"Stand Up for NOAA Research" - @nwas.org and @ametsoc.org statement

Stand Up for NOAA Research – The Time to Act is Now

The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

www.ametsoc.org

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Hemant Khatri @hemant-khatri.bsky.social · Apr 17

That's insane.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Apr 17

Holy shit.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has halted the awarding of previously approved proposals to ensure compliance with presidential directives following the arrival of DOGE at the science funding agency.

NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review

Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency

www.science.org

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Henri F. Drake @henrifdrake.bsky.social · Apr 16

It's even worse than removing the grant funding for university research (in groups like mine at UC Irvine). NOAA labs and cooperative institutes collect the climate data we use, develop the predictive weather and climate models, and train the students we hire.

This demolishes U.S. climate research.

Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · Apr 15

The proposed budget would “eliminate all funding for climate, weather, and ocean Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes.”

Much of the current federal research funding goes to grants for university funding at cooperative institutions, including nine campuses in California, including many UCs.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Apr 13

Critical yet often overlooked is that NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research maintains vital long-term monitoring programs like the CO₂ Keeling Curve that, while essential, often struggle for funding from agencies like NSF that prioritize hypothesis-driven research over sustained observation.