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Gavin A. Schmidt is a British climatologist, climate modeler and Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)… more

Gavin A. Schmidt
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bobkopp.net
Koonin spending an entire WSJ column criticizing @nationalacademies.org’s report for not being a review of his DOE climate contrarian report when (1) to my knowledge, the Academies have never reviewed a gov’t report without being asked (though such an independent review, or comparable, is necessary…
Opinion | Another Tale of Climate Change Bias
The government should stop funding the National Academies’ climate studies until they shed the political conformity.
www.wsj.com
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climateofgavin.bsky.social
Love this place.
Barosaurus and ceiling.
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robsonfletcher.com
Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.
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Reposted by: Gavin A. Schmidt, Dorothy Bishop, Brendan Nyhan , and 1 more

mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Thanks, New Yorker
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rosalafersousa.bsky.social
Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.

He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.
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Reposted by: Gavin A. Schmidt, Greg Linden

theplanetaryguy.bsky.social
See that small, moving splotch?

That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter.

A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS

last Friday
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climateofgavin.bsky.social
Indeed

Reposted by: Gavin A. Schmidt, Joe R. Feagin, Scott L. Greer , and 2 more

sbagen.bsky.social
Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.
atrupar.com
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h
Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"
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climateofgavin.bsky.social
This is pretty grossly misleading. 90-95% of this footprint is associated w/life cycle emissions of manufacturing - and almost nothing from the use of the inhalers (see the Supp Info linked below). Should manufacturing in general reduce it's emissions? Sure, but that isn't specific to asthmatics.
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Reposted by: Gavin A. Schmidt, Marc Lynch

jswatz.bsky.social
“Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world,” writes @sivav.bsky.social in this brilliantly belittling essay. newrepublic.com/article/2013...
Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down
How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education
newrepublic.com
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theguardian.com
US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps | Jan-Werner Müller
US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps | Jan-Werner Müller
The administration is trying to make nine universities an offer they seemingly cannot refuse
www.theguardian.com
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Reposted by: Gavin A. Schmidt, Manisha Sinha, Nathan P. Kalmoe , and 1 more

gregggonsalves.bsky.social
And now @acls1919.bsky.social speaks out. Just. Say. No. To Trump's compact on higher ed. It's extortion plain and simple. www.acls.org/news/acls-st...
ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that p...
www.acls.org
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Reposted by: Gavin A. Schmidt, Shannon Vallor, Michael Larkin

clemens.vasters.com
Techmeme front page:
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climateofgavin.bsky.social
A month long trip…
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climateofgavin.bsky.social
Nice!
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climateofgavin.bsky.social
Entry into the carry-s%%t Olympics…
A heavily laden e-cargo bike on a ferry. Island in the distance.
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Reposted by: Gavin A. Schmidt, Steve Peers

vermontgmg.bsky.social
You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.
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climateofgavin.bsky.social
We’ve done ~10,000 miles on ours over the last 6 years. Absolutely game changing.
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dougmcneall.bsky.social
This is the moment we passed 5555 miles on the @ternbicycles.com GSD. It’s been critical infrastructure for us for just over 3 years.
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climateofgavin.bsky.social
The 1.5ºC scenarios need ~8 GtCO2e by 2050, and more if there is overshoot. If actual potential is on the low side, there is a huge gap.
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climateofgavin.bsky.social
Still wouldn't have been a prediction that any of these things are viable. It's basically just a residual that they could have called anything.
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climateofgavin.bsky.social
I think this is backwards. Projections are tasked w/coming up with pathways that meet a temperature target given various constraints. They find a huge amount of BECCS would be required to meet those targets (given imposed constraints). They are not predictions that this amount of BECCS is viable.
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Reposted by: Gavin A. Schmidt, Anna O. Law, Marc Lynch , and 17 more

andrewjweinstein.com
ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
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Reposted by: Gavin A. Schmidt, Scott L. Greer, Rosemary A. Joyce

juliusgoat.bsky.social
I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something
On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.
www.the-reframe.com
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Reposted by: Gavin A. Schmidt, Anne Applebaum, Michael Cox , and 40 more

kojamf.bsky.social
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Unless I’m misreading, this short statement actually seems equivocal or at best a placeholder. It does not say they are refusing, and to the contrary seems to hold the door open.
Dear Dartmouth community. As many of you know, Dartmouth was one of nine universities asked by the White House to give feedback by Oct. 20 on a draft of its "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." SHARE THIS f x» I am deeply committed to Dartmouth's academic mission and values and will always defend our fierce independence. You have often heard me say that higher education is not perfect and that we can do better. At the same time, we will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves. Best, Sian Leah Beilock President
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Reposted by: Gavin A. Schmidt, Kim L. Scheppele, Eric Goldman , and 2 more

bradheath.bsky.social
DHS says an operation last week in which agents raided a Chicago apartment building, rappelled in from helicopters, broke down doors and detained numerous residents, resulted in the arrest of two suspected gang members.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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climateofgavin.bsky.social
Interesting opinion piece from @adamfrank4.bsky.social on trying to link ‘manosphere’ virtues to real science. Unusually, the comments are also worth perusing!

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...
Opinion | Why Young Men Are Losing Faith in Science
www.nytimes.com
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climateofgavin.bsky.social
It's irrelevant. The report used impacts tied to global warming levels (1.5ºC, 2ºC, 3ºC). Since SSP245 doesn't reach 3ºC in most models, they used higher scenarios to estimate 3ºC impacts. But the specific trajectory in any scenario that goes to (and beyond) 3ºC (to first order) just doesn't matter.
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Reposted by: Gavin A. Schmidt, Sabine Pahl

newyorker.com
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons
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