Today is the official launch of this year's @unep.org #EmissionsGap report.

It's title says it all

OFF TARGET

that's true for progress, NDCs and implementation

60 yrs ago today (Nov 5, 1965), the 1st US government report to warn about climate change was published.
"Restoring the Quality of Our Environment" included warning of C02 build-up and sea-level rise/melting ice-caps.

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I normally am a cheerful optimist, but I am just at a loss about what to even say to young scientists right now. Devastating overview of the cuts: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A new paper out by Nimmakanti Mahendra and a bunch of us. .Stagnation of Atmospheric Circulation Leads to Historically Prolonged Extreme Rainfall Event Over Northwestern India in August 2024. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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If you take the time to read the whole Gates memo (which I did), the bulk of the content was mostly solid and encouraging. Really!

It was the FRAME that was off--very off, from the first line.

And when your framing is off, then how you make decisions and set priorities is off. THAT'S the problem.

led by my good friend vimal mishra and with many other excellent collaborators, this Open-Access paper just came out on "Migrant Laborers in India Face Increased Heat Stress Driven by Climate Warming and ENSO Variability" agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

“Experts say they saw no major problems with NOAA’s hurricane forecasting ability… critical ahead of Melissa’s landfall in Jamaica as a violent storm that is not expected to strike the U.S. Many NOAA employees are considered essential, which means they are working during the shutdown without pay.”

For all Trump’s bluster, the courts are turning out to be a serious obstacle to his fascist ambitions. Jay Kuo explains how the judiciary keeps kneecapping him at every turn. And Jordan Gonsalves looks at MAGA’s meltdown over Bad Bunny—and what it says about their culture war collapse.

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"Such is their fear of jail, bankruptcy or reprisal, that most people I spoke to insisted on anonymity. This was in spite of the fact that many of the same people said Trump would only be restrained by powerful voices standing up to him." My Weekend FT essay. Please read it. on.ft.com/4hqblpr

New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.

I'm happy to report a new paper on how the menagerie of different heat stress metrics in use differs when calculated with ERA5 output. We find differences largely attributable to different weightings of humidity in the metric. More work to be done. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/GJQTZX...

Real-world engineering, logistical, and political constraints of SAI—a method proposed to mitigate global warming—could make it far riskier and more expensive than expected, finds a new study by Columbia's Miranda Hack, @vfmcneill.bsky.social, @steingart.bsky.social, @gwagner.com. Via @gizmodo.com.

The primary advantage of using Signal over WhatsApp is that Signal does not store metadata. Just sayin'.

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Meanwhile... Claude.ai is throwing shade at my collaborators. One of many. One of many.

We didn't do any such thing (as I'm sure you all know). We developed new AI methods for weather and worked to understand how/why AI for weather is trustworthy. What part of that is "climate hysteria"?

"...Trump administration has promised to invest billions in AI initiatives. In response to an inquiry about why this program was cut, the Office of Management and Budget said in a statement that the program, quote, "wasted taxpayer funds to place climate change hysteria in AI models,"
WHAT?

nice article by @scottpwaldman.bsky.social about the DOE Climate Working Group and their associations with conservative groups that are working to overturn the Endangerment Finding. The claim that they're just "doing the science" is increasingly unsupportable.
www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

University of Arizona also rejects the Trump administration's "Compact" 💪

president.arizona.edu/news/update-...

UVA is the first public, and Southern, institution to publicly turn down the administration's “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” #resist
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

📘 Climate Change on the Battlefield

Join CSR for a virtual talk about CCS Director @erinsikorsky.bsky.social's new book, “Climate Change on the Battlefield,” which offers a comparative look at how global militaries are responding to #climatechange.

📅 Wed, Nov. 5 | 9:30am ET
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The costs of Trump’s campaign to censor climate sciences on.ft.com/4nZI1II

"M.I.T. became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump administration’s higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment." Bravo.