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Climate.us @climate.us · 15d

🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨

They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us

Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏

This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.

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Colin Raymond @regclimo.bsky.social · Sep 3

The year 2025 and this podcast's title have partly converged, but other social, technological, etc. trends also feature prominently. As always, the new season contemplates topics that feel fresh and necessary, aiming to come to some fuller understanding. At the least, this helps preserve sanity.

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Colin Raymond @regclimo.bsky.social · Sep 3

A new season of Climate Quandaries is out! Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7FF7raV..., Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c.... Many thanks to excellent guests @jonathanrbuzan.bsky.social, Corey Lesk, @nicolamaher.bsky.social, @climatehuman.bsky.social

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · Aug 27

Multiple model ensembles are already suggesting a broad region of record mid-tropospheric ridging over the far NE Pacific and Washington/British Columbia, with possible record-breaking late-season warmth in the same region. That's a very strong signal ~1 week out. #WAwx #ORwx #BCwx

Current snapshot from NAEFS Situational Awareness Tool depicting a high likelihood of record-breaking 200mb ridge magnitude near British Columbia in a week.

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · Aug 15

Summer heat across the Eastern U.S. is off the charts in a new "stickiness" measurement that combines heat and humidity—and it isn’t over yet.

🔗: on.wsj.com/3Uwf7D1

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Colin Raymond @regclimo.bsky.social · Aug 14

2024 was another boom year for humid heat, esp. in East/South Asia. Hats off to Kate Willett and all for packing much info and definitional complexity into the kind of thing one could read over breakfast -- if one likes to start the day with multi-panel figures and intricately abbreviated variables.

Colin Raymond @regclimo.bsky.social · Aug 14

This has been my second year contributing to the "Humid-Heat Extremes Over Land" section of the venerable AMS State of the Climate report. (It starts on the 48th page.) ametsoc.net/sotc2024/02G...

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Compound Risks Workshop 2025 @cccriskworkshop25.bsky.social · Aug 7

Engrossing meeting of the minds at the workshop this week. Nine creative yet plausible storylines were developed and a whole range of new cxns made. Thanks again to all who attended, and especially those who made it happen. We're excited to see what this format & these ideas can catalyze!

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Colin Raymond @regclimo.bsky.social · Jul 23

This is a perceptive question, which I forwarded along to Adrienne. Lmk if we didn't use the right email for you

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Jul 9

There is a new CLIVAR working group focused on climate risk (I'm one of the organizers). We are having our first public webinar tomorrow 7/10 at 1 pm ET. We have some FANTASTIC speakers including @kellyhereid.bsky.social, @climatefran.bsky.social, and Zong-Liang Yang.

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Sara Santamaria-Aguilar @sarastmariaa.bsky.social · Jul 2

Working on climate-related disasters or multi-hazard risks? Submit your abstract to NH012 – Compound, Consecutive, and Cascading Events: Challenges for Risk Assessment and Management at #AGU25!
@regclimo.bsky.social @monahemmati.bsky.social @kyoungchoi.bsky.social @pravinm.bsky.social

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Colin Raymond @regclimo.bsky.social · Jul 1

...with profound implications for results (in both current and future climates) if left unaccounted for. More details in the paper: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025....

“Which Projections Do I Use?” Strategies for Climate Model Ensemble Subset Selection Based on Regional Stakeholder Needs

Within an ensemble, projected changes from individual downscaled models can differ dramatically pre and post downscaling Reliable interpretations require maximum retention of ensemble information...

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Colin Raymond @regclimo.bsky.social · Jul 1

It's often assumed that the best approach for climate applications is to select the best models, downscale them, and compute statistics of interest. In fact, in new work led by Adrienne Wootten, we find the downscaling process scrambles the meaning of 'best'...

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Colin Raymond @regclimo.bsky.social · Jun 20

Excited to check this out! There's a real unfilled niche here.

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Colin Raymond @regclimo.bsky.social · Jun 20

@ajezeq.bsky.social will give the next @riskkan.bsky.social Compound Events webinar Tues Jul 1 at 14UTC, speaking about attribution of extremes with special focus on compounding interactions. Great chance to hear about & discuss a truly cutting-edge area! columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/9537980484...

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Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick @sarahinscience.bsky.social · Jun 20

The first 3 eps of TOTALLY COOKED have landed!
Check it out for weather & climate in a factual, relatable & often humorous way.
Available below, & where you get your podcasts.
Like, follow & share.
Let's tackle the climate crisis together.
#totallycooked
www.21centuryweather.org.au/engage/total...

Totally Cooked: The Weather & Climate Podcast

The climate is changing. So is the conversation. Totally Cooked is a podcast about weather, climate change, and what it all means for life on Earth.

www.21centuryweather.org.au

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · May 28

I strongly encourage folks to check out the rest of the event, which will feature dozens of speakers over a 5 day period. The line-up is genuinely impressive--a veritable who's who of the American #weather and #climate world in 2025--so I'll be watching! wclivestream.com/schedule

The Weather & Climate Livestream | Schedule

Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.

wclivestream.com

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · May 7

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

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Colin Raymond @regclimo.bsky.social · Apr 28

One week left to sign up for this summer's compound-event storyline workshop @cccriskworkshop25.bsky.social in Portland, OR! See cccriskworkshop2025.org for more info including the latest agenda & confirmed speakers

Compounding, cascading, and critical risks to U.S. infrastructure and security

a systems-focused compound-hazard workshop

cccriskworkshop2025.org

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · Apr 19

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨

We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!

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NSF Grant Termination Information Collection Form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.

We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks.

We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA

WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential.

These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84).

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · Apr 18

The American Meteorological Society has issued this dire warning of "disastrous consequences" for America's ability to predict lethal weather:

"The administration's 2026 budget... would close all of NOAA’s weather, climate, and ocean Laboratories."

www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

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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Colin Raymond @regclimo.bsky.social · Apr 12

We hope to inspire more thorough investigations, and awareness of how these elements all fit together, so that the impacts don't keep scaling up year by year with the intensity of the hazards.
@natrevearthenviron.nature.com

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Colin Raymond @regclimo.bsky.social · Apr 12

Quick-hitting global retrospective led by @zscheischlerjak.bsky.social on 2024's additions to the ranks of notable compound weather/climate events. We document a variety of severe impacts mostly involving heat and hydroclimatic extremes.
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Compound weather and climate events in 2024

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - 2024 saw multiple high-impact compound events. Record-breaking global temperatures combined with regional weather variability to create compound floods,...

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Colin Raymond @regclimo.bsky.social · Apr 10

Shorter than a blog write-up but longer than a Bluesky post, these annotations provide a glimpse into the research that others have been reflecting upon! H/t @afsribeiro.bsky.social & Louise Brett

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Colin Raymond @regclimo.bsky.social · Apr 10

Under the auspices of @compoundnet.bsky.social, I'm pleased to be coordinating the new "Recent Reads" series, in which prominent researchers describe a selection of recent papers that have affected their thinking about the direction or implications of compound-events work. wp.me/p9wIOV-Sy