Chris Colose
ccolose.bsky.social
Chris Colose
@ccolose.bsky.social
Climate scientist. Interested in past, present, and future Earth and planetary climates.
The bar for non-peaceful protest is extremely high, one I have never thought to advocate for in the U.S. in my lifetime. I believe we have crept up on that bar, as state sanctioned domestic terrorism has been unleashed in an indirect declaration of civil war by the administration.
January 13, 2026 at 10:01 PM
I don’t know why anyone is worried about not giving weight to lives in pollution policy, when we’re going to win over protein.
January 12, 2026 at 11:54 PM
January 12, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears:

archive.is/ur35j
January 9, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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So a CBS Evening News reporter actually did a pretty solid breakdown of the ICE murder video, talking to a former agent who details all the ways Ross messed up. And yet: It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already youtu.be/6ywLEESFDu0?...
Retired ICE agent breaks down deadly Minneapolis shooting
YouTube video by CBS Evening News
youtu.be
January 9, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Just another one of those hard to focus days....
January 8, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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Breaking:

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe.
January 8, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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It was a murder. A murderer decided he wanted to murder someone today and then did. There is no ambiguity or whataboutism; case law is clear that someone not a danger to others that is running away cannot be shot at. You do not have to be prosecutor or lawyer to recognize and understand this.
January 7, 2026 at 8:31 PM
ICE is now executing people for driving away. Phase 2 is here.
January 7, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Learning a bit about orbital simulations. I'm using the REBOUND package and get pretty close to the Laskar solution of Earth's eccentricity evolution for the next 1 million years (including the 8 solar system planets and Pluto), but without relativistic effects. 1/2
January 2, 2026 at 1:59 AM
December 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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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
I’d say sad but basically treason.
December 17, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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This is the only parody song about geophysical fluid dynamics you’ll ever need:

urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Call Me Charney: A GFD Parody
This was so fun to make!! #lamontdoherty #lamont #atmosphere #science #charney #GFS #vallis #geostrophic #quasigeostrophic #hydrostatic #rossby
urldefense.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Indeed, I'd still like to meet a clever climate skeptic.
i know science is currently getting its ass kicked by lies but it also really bothers me that the bullshit is so much more boring than the truth
December 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Order of magnitudes matter. For example this is what happens when you zap stuffing for 20:00 instead of 2:00. #happythanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
When you have an interesting planet to look at in the exoplanet catalog but the catalog reversed the mass and radius information of the host star (relative to the original publication) and it’s no longer interesting…
November 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Somewhere floating in space is Russell’s syringe, waiting one day millennia from now to jab Starman in Elon’s orbiting car.
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Not even a year in and we’re on the “kill my political opponents” stage.
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
How to start papers:
November 19, 2025 at 5:15 AM
High ocean heat lies below the ocean?
not sure this is the right way to phrase it, WaPo
Gift link: www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM