Bob Kopp
@bobkopp.net
#Climate & sea level science + policy. Rutgers University. All views my own. www.bobkopp.net
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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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On #christmas, redouble your commitment to get a great Democratic turnout in #election2026 to help blunt the coal trolls. This is an actual Energy Dept tweet. #nokings #climate
December 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
On #christmas, redouble your commitment to get a great Democratic turnout in #election2026 to help blunt the coal trolls. This is an actual Energy Dept tweet. #nokings #climate
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Read this. Merry Christmas indeed
December 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Read this. Merry Christmas indeed
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “Marginal Returns to Public Universities,” by Jack Mountjoy: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Marginal Returns to Public Universities
Abstract. This paper studies the returns to enrolling in American public universities by comparing the long-term outcomes of barely admitted versus barely
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December 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Marginal Returns to Public Universities,” by Jack Mountjoy: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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This is all because of this exact, crappy near the poles map projection, isn't it?
Greenland Envoy Gov. Jeff Landry: "Look, the United States has always been a welcoming party. We don't go in there trying to conquer anybody and trying to take over anybody's country. We say, 'Listen. We represent liberty. We represented economic strength. We represent protection.'"
December 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is all because of this exact, crappy near the poles map projection, isn't it?
At least about 15% of the students in my course used Grammarly, which used to be a grammar checker and now uses a LLM, and which Rutgers site licenses, on some of the written assignments.
December 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
At least about 15% of the students in my course used Grammarly, which used to be a grammar checker and now uses a LLM, and which Rutgers site licenses, on some of the written assignments.
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Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
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"[The ADL's] approach to Mayor-elect Mamdani is disingenuous, counterproductive, and ultimately harmful to the cause of addressing antisemitism."
A new letter from T'ruah, @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social, @partners4israel.bsky.social, and Israelis for Peace.
Read: buff.ly/rLKpd6v
A new letter from T'ruah, @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social, @partners4israel.bsky.social, and Israelis for Peace.
Read: buff.ly/rLKpd6v
truah.org
December 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"[The ADL's] approach to Mayor-elect Mamdani is disingenuous, counterproductive, and ultimately harmful to the cause of addressing antisemitism."
A new letter from T'ruah, @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social, @partners4israel.bsky.social, and Israelis for Peace.
Read: buff.ly/rLKpd6v
A new letter from T'ruah, @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social, @partners4israel.bsky.social, and Israelis for Peace.
Read: buff.ly/rLKpd6v
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The Trump admin has started to realize batteries are an important general purpose technology. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/c...
December 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The Trump admin has started to realize batteries are an important general purpose technology. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/c...
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A federal judge this month blocked the Trump admin from dismantling FEMA’s BRIC program, potentially saving millions in grant dollars for NJ storm protection projects.
But when, or if, that money actually comes through is still unclear. @njspotlightnews.org
www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/12/will...
But when, or if, that money actually comes through is still unclear. @njspotlightnews.org
www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/12/will...
Will NJ towns get disputed federal funds to prep for weather disasters? | NJ Spotlight News
Judge blocks Trump administration from cutting funding but its future remains unclear
www.njspotlightnews.org
December 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A federal judge this month blocked the Trump admin from dismantling FEMA’s BRIC program, potentially saving millions in grant dollars for NJ storm protection projects.
But when, or if, that money actually comes through is still unclear. @njspotlightnews.org
www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/12/will...
But when, or if, that money actually comes through is still unclear. @njspotlightnews.org
www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/12/will...
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Registration is now open for experts interested in reviewing the first draft of the IPCC Methodology Report on Inventories for Short-lived Climate Forcers!
Register here 🔗 https://apps.ipcc.ch/comments/slcf/ until midnight CET on 13 February 2026.
Read more 🔗 https://bit.ly/SLCFfod
Register here 🔗 https://apps.ipcc.ch/comments/slcf/ until midnight CET on 13 February 2026.
Read more 🔗 https://bit.ly/SLCFfod
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Registration is now open for experts interested in reviewing the first draft of the IPCC Methodology Report on Inventories for Short-lived Climate Forcers!
Register here 🔗 https://apps.ipcc.ch/comments/slcf/ until midnight CET on 13 February 2026.
Read more 🔗 https://bit.ly/SLCFfod
Register here 🔗 https://apps.ipcc.ch/comments/slcf/ until midnight CET on 13 February 2026.
Read more 🔗 https://bit.ly/SLCFfod
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Unsurprising but devastating: plans for a zombified NCA6 to be written by a handful of climate contrarians & Grok.
A slap in the face to the American public, and to the hundreds of scientists who'd volunteered to spend the next several years carefully doing this the right way, for the public good.
A slap in the face to the American public, and to the hundreds of scientists who'd volunteered to spend the next several years carefully doing this the right way, for the public good.
I look forward to the legally required, transparent peer review process required by the US Global Change Research Act and the Information Quality Act. I always thought they would try to do a NCA with Judith Curry, five old men and a LLM.
It’s the gold standard of US climate research. Contrarians could write the next one.
Researchers who have downplayed the threat of global warming have been asked to author the next National Climate Assessment.
www.eenews.net
December 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Unsurprising but devastating: plans for a zombified NCA6 to be written by a handful of climate contrarians & Grok.
A slap in the face to the American public, and to the hundreds of scientists who'd volunteered to spend the next several years carefully doing this the right way, for the public good.
A slap in the face to the American public, and to the hundreds of scientists who'd volunteered to spend the next several years carefully doing this the right way, for the public good.
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Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.
December 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.
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Yeah, that is not, in fact, a National Climate Assessment.
December 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Yeah, that is not, in fact, a National Climate Assessment.
I look forward to the legally required, transparent peer review process required by the US Global Change Research Act and the Information Quality Act. I always thought they would try to do a NCA with Judith Curry, five old men and a LLM.
It’s the gold standard of US climate research. Contrarians could write the next one.
Researchers who have downplayed the threat of global warming have been asked to author the next National Climate Assessment.
www.eenews.net
December 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I look forward to the legally required, transparent peer review process required by the US Global Change Research Act and the Information Quality Act. I always thought they would try to do a NCA with Judith Curry, five old men and a LLM.
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Towers, who is not a social scientist,
does not have a PhD, and has never been involved in “doctoral education”, wants to remake a storied center of graduate social research into a Silicon Valley Ideology trade school staffed with adjuncts and devoid of research or researchers
does not have a PhD, and has never been involved in “doctoral education”, wants to remake a storied center of graduate social research into a Silicon Valley Ideology trade school staffed with adjuncts and devoid of research or researchers
“Prez Towers, a former execu dean at Parsons, said he believed the plan would lead to more innovations in the social sciences. He said he wanted to bring in more cultural and intellectual leaders from NYC to serve as part-time instructors + to reimagine doctoral education to make it more relevant…”
December 20, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Towers, who is not a social scientist,
does not have a PhD, and has never been involved in “doctoral education”, wants to remake a storied center of graduate social research into a Silicon Valley Ideology trade school staffed with adjuncts and devoid of research or researchers
does not have a PhD, and has never been involved in “doctoral education”, wants to remake a storied center of graduate social research into a Silicon Valley Ideology trade school staffed with adjuncts and devoid of research or researchers
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Some reflections after returning back from a conference at which I and 20,000 colleagues learned that the Trump administration intends to dismantle #NCAR. This outrage should not happen. deepconvection.substack.com/p/save-ncar
Save NCAR
Field notes from New Orleans, where I and 20,000 colleagues learned that Trump intends to destroy the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
deepconvection.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Some reflections after returning back from a conference at which I and 20,000 colleagues learned that the Trump administration intends to dismantle #NCAR. This outrage should not happen. deepconvection.substack.com/p/save-ncar
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Stop burning fossil fuels.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
December 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Stop burning fossil fuels.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
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NCAR is a unique & valuable asset - far more than a climate model, or observations, or technology, or training ground, or gathering space. It covers weather, space weather, data, climate, paleo-climate, and everything in-between. It's building is an icon, but it's iconic status goes far beyond that.
December 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
NCAR is a unique & valuable asset - far more than a climate model, or observations, or technology, or training ground, or gathering space. It covers weather, space weather, data, climate, paleo-climate, and everything in-between. It's building is an icon, but it's iconic status goes far beyond that.
I don’t understand what people love about Trump’s border security, but perhaps people should be working to ensure Customs & Border Patrol gets called out by name and doesn’t just get lumped in with ICE when engaged in brutality
New Fox News poll shows Trump's approval on:
Border Security: +2
Crime and public safety: -5
Immigration: -10
Foreign Policy: -15
Economy: -22
Healthcare: -25
Spending: -25
Tariffs: -28
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Border Security: +2
Crime and public safety: -5
Immigration: -10
Foreign Policy: -15
Economy: -22
Healthcare: -25
Spending: -25
Tariffs: -28
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December 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I don’t understand what people love about Trump’s border security, but perhaps people should be working to ensure Customs & Border Patrol gets called out by name and doesn’t just get lumped in with ICE when engaged in brutality
I’m sure Jonathan Greenblatt is on top of it. He was nominated in June, after all.
December 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I’m sure Jonathan Greenblatt is on top of it. He was nominated in June, after all.
I would struggle to trust academics who unselfconsciously employ a corporate branding label used for everything from linear regression to Gaussian process models to domain-appropriate deep learning models to synthetic media generation machines
I would struggle to trust an academic who doesn‘t know how to
use AI tools.
Which is not the same as not being critical.
use AI tools.
Which is not the same as not being critical.
December 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I would struggle to trust academics who unselfconsciously employ a corporate branding label used for everything from linear regression to Gaussian process models to domain-appropriate deep learning models to synthetic media generation machines