This is a fantastic series on climate action by states. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/i...

Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects.

Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

Radiosondes on weather balloons are essential for collecting data from the upper atmosphere for accurate forecasting. Due to the mass firing at NOAA, the NWS doesn’t have enough people to launch balloons. 🎈

Accurate weather forecasts save lives.

See data here: www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/soundi...

“Every fishing town in Maine will be affected by this shutdown.”

Read and share the Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association’s statement on the abrupt defunding of the Maine Sea Grant: www.mainecoastfishermen.org/post/press-r...

I’m thinking we should spread this news about the firings at NOAA as far and wide as possible. Like cancer research, weather forecasting seems likely to be broadly popular across the political spectrum. apnews.com/article/nati...

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This week we have published a journal article and a brief report.

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To be clear: If there were to be large staffing reductions at NOAA and NWS—at appears is now indeed underway, with credible reports of larger further cuts on horizon—there will be people who die in extreme weather events & related disasters who would not have otherwise.
10/11

The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming.
1/11

From Climatic Change editors Michael Oppenheimer and Gary Yohe: “it will not take long for an entire generation of young scientists who want to make a difference to decide that there is no future in studying the climate…. humanity cannot afford this interruption.”

An important call from the editors of Climatic Change, Michael Oppenheimer and Gary Yohe, on supporting climate science while it’s under attack: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

‼️The US-based @ipcc.bsky.social technical support unit (TSU) for Working Group 3 Co-Chairs has been terminated, and the US won’t be attending next week’s IPCC meeting where the AR7 chapter outlines will be approved.

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