Larry Horowitz
Larry Horowitz
@larryhorowitz.bsky.social
Atmospheric chemist at NOAA GFDL
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Terrible Friday news dump.The wealth of expertise. The decades of scientific progress. The emerging and urgent challenges we were focused on tackling. It is all so short-sided and cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc
NOAA Climate & Global Change (C&GC) Postdoctoral Program | Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System ScienceNOAA Climate & Global Change (C&GC) Postdoctoral Program | Cooperative Progra...
cpaess.ucar.edu
July 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Proposed NOAA budget would shutter Boulder’s world-class climate research laboratories www.cpr.org/2025/07/01/p... via @sambrasch.bsky.social
Proposed NOAA budget would shutter Boulder’s world-class climate research laboratories
The plan follows through on Project 2025, which called to radically shrink the agency’s research arm.
www.cpr.org
July 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Trump's Budget is out. For NOAA, it's exactly what the previous passback document showed.
Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality.

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May 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Trying to recruit a PhD student or a postdoc working on aerosol chemistry/physics. Please spread the word.
May 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Just eleven days left until our 💯-hour livestream! We're halfway to our speaker sign up goal, so if you're a meteorologist or climate scientist who's ever been US govt funded, come share your work with the public, and show them why our science is worth saving. Sign up today! wclivestream.com
The Weather & Climate Livestream
Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.
wclivestream.com
May 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Some highlights from the schedule include:

Wed. May 28th:

3-5pm ET/12-2pm PT
Live from the last hours in the NASA GISS lab w/ @drkatemarvel.bsky.social

6:30-11pm ET/3:30-8pm PT
Keynotes:
Ben Santer
Bernadette Woods Placky
Kerry Emanuel
@andrewdessler.com
Ralph Keeling
May 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.
Lawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrested
Ruth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago
www.theguardian.com
May 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
NASA Office Above ‘Seinfeld’ Diner Is a Target of Trump Budget Shrinkage www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/n...
NASA Office Above ‘Seinfeld’ Diner Is a Target of Trump Budget Shrinkage
www.nytimes.com
May 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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The people telling you climate change isn’t real would also like you to believe that paying rent on an empty building saves money
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/n...
NASA Office Above ‘Seinfeld’ Diner Is a Target of Trump Budget Shrinkage
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Please pass to NYC friends and colleagues - Tuesday May 20 12-4 pm sidewalk "open house" at NASA's fabled - and soon DOGE-shuttered Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Staff stress this is NOT a protest; it's a celebration of climate and space science. #standupforscience2025 More on FB below 🌎🧪 1/2
May 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Hurricane season is only a few weeks away. Coming off a 2024 season that brought Helene and Milton, my Sunday essay on what NOAA provides the nation during a typical season. I couldn't cover everything, but I hope this helps the public understand their value.
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
6 Reasons NOAA Matters As Hurricane Season Approaches
The Atlantic hurricane season is a few weeks away. Here are 6 things that NOAA provides the nation as the ominous storm season looms.
www.forbes.com
May 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Article II, Section 1, Clause 8 Presidential Oath of Office

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
May 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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They simply want to cancel an entire field of science because they don't like the answers it has come up with. It's like the burning of the library of Alexandria. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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
April 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Take the time to leave a public comment. Political appointees should not drive science forward...evidence should.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
April 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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NASA Is Terminating The GISS Lease In Five Weeks
nasawatch.com/personnel-ne...

"NASA’s lease of Columbia University’s Armstrong Hall in New York City, home to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, will end effective May 31, 2025."
NASA Is Terminating The GISS Lease In Five Weeks
This was just sent to all NASA Goddard and GISS employees by Makenzie Lystrup
nasawatch.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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NEW: Just sent this letter to Trump’s @CommerceGov Secretary demanding an immediate stop to staffing cuts, funding freezes, and program terminations at @NOAA. Hurricane season starts on June 1. There’s no time to waste!
April 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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“The administration intends to make significant cuts to education, grants, research and climate-related programs in NOAA, the plan says, which the administration believes
‘are misaligned with the ... expressed will of the American people.’"

The American people:
April 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Trump is destroying US weather forecasting and research because he dislikes the word "climate":

"While the phrase 'climate change' refers to manmade influence on climate via planet-warming pollution, 'climate' in NOAA parlance is simply weather observed over time..."

www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...
Trump’s budget plan eviscerates weather and climate research, and it could be enacted immediately | CNN
The cuts could cripple US industries — including agriculture — that depend on free, accurate weather and climate data and expert analysis. It could also halt research on deadly weather, including seve...
www.cnn.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM