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Dr. Twila Moon
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Glaciologist & Deputy Lead Scientist @nsidc.bsky.social. Climate Science Engagement Lead @ciresceee.bsky.social. 2025 AGU Climate Comms Awardee. More at www.changingice.com. Views my own!
Reminder of recent report suggesting that as much as 22% of US congressional members do not accept the scientific reality of human-caused climate change. This is not how we lead for a better future. How will we change this?
www.americanprogress.org/article/clim...
Climate Deniers of the 119th Congress and the Second Trump Administration
A new CAP analysis finds that the federal government is rife with officials who deny climate change in leadership positions within the executive branch, presidential Cabinet, and Congress.
www.americanprogress.org
January 6, 2026 at 12:30 AM
E&E News @politico.com reporting that Trump has asked DOE climate deniers to write the next US National Climate Assessment. Prepare for false information and cherry-picked numbers that WILL NOT help to save lives, save money, or reduce risks.
www.eenews.net/articles/its...
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
January 6, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Reposted by Dr. Twila Moon
CIRES @nsidc.bsky.social researchers @drtwilamoon.bsky.social and Matt Druckenmiller presented these findings at#AGU25. Read the summary: buff.ly/PGBFfvU 📷 by Lianna Nixon @colorado.edu #arcticreportcard #arctic
Record heat, ice loss, and rust-stained rivers mark another year of Arctic change
The 20th Arctic Report Card highlights long-term trends and transformations in the region
buff.ly
December 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Reposted by Dr. Twila Moon
Finally out! The outcome of a virtual workshop in Feb 2024 with modelers and observationalists to put together data and protocols to include historical changes in ice sheet/ice shelf discharge in CMIP models. Hopefully not too late for some CMIP7 runs!

gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
Datasets and protocols for including anomalous freshwater from melting ice sheets in climate simulations
Abstract. Anomalous freshwater fluxes from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and ice shelves are impacting the surrounding oceans, and we need to be able to account for these effects in climate m...
gmd.copernicus.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Liking the coverage, disliking the cuts. 😠
October 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Thanks for highlighting this excellent article. Evan Howell did a super job talking to many glaciologists! 👏
October 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Reposted by Dr. Twila Moon
There are many uncertainties in this article except this one: "Worldwide, some 230 million people live less than a meter above sea level, and 1 billion people are within 10 meters of sea level." www.quantamagazine.org/how-soon-wil...
How Soon Will the Seas Rise? | Quanta Magazine
The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that will happen — and how fast — is anything but settled.
www.quantamagazine.org
October 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Reposted by Dr. Twila Moon
#ICYMI, last spring, @nsidc.bsky.social Deputy Lead Scientist @drtwilamoon.bsky.social expanded her role at CIRES as the institute's first-ever climate communications engagement lead. buff.ly/HSsheIy #engage #climate #science
CIRES' Twila Moon establishes new role in climate communications
CIRES researcher Twila Moon will train mid-career professionals in climate education workshops across the United States.
www.colorado.edu
October 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The US East Coast - one of the places that ice lost from Greenland ends up. Counterintuitively, places far from where land ice is lost are most impacted by the resulting sea level rise.

The drumbeat remains - mitigation + adaptation.
'Another unoccupied house collapsed into the ocean along North Carolina's Outer Banks on Saturday night. It's the 11th house to collapse since mid-September.

In total, 22 homes have collapsed into the ocean in the area since 2020.'

via AccuWeather [X] #ClimateCrisis #SeaLevel
October 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I think this might be as close as you can get to a taste of what For Winter was. It was such a fantastic film!
steveandrews.media/portfolio-fo...
For Winter: Mount Logan for National Geographic | Steve Andrews
A film documenting a record-breaking ice core sample from the summit plateau of Mount Logan. I was the sound mixer on this expedition in May 2022.
steveandrews.media
October 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
But doesn't look good to see these adding up...
bsky.app/profile/drtw...
The disappearance of the inspiring science adventure film "For Winter" was crushing. Read the article (shorturl.at/02nDR) and...
➡️ Follow and support the amazing Alison Criscitiello
➡️ Tell National Geographic Society this is not OK and recalibrate your relationship with them.
➡️ Tell others.
Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector
If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...
shorturl.at
October 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Reposted by Dr. Twila Moon
Global Warning now on Al Jazeera.

Episode 1 broadcast this week. Or you can stream it here.
👉 www.aljazeera.com/video/featur...
#Climate #ClimateCrisis hasn’t gone away.
October 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"climate and environment are no longer priorities"

What an abysmal statement when geography so fundamentally IS climate and environment. 😣
October 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The disappearance of the inspiring science adventure film "For Winter" was crushing. Read the article (shorturl.at/02nDR) and...
➡️ Follow and support the amazing Alison Criscitiello
➡️ Tell National Geographic Society this is not OK and recalibrate your relationship with them.
➡️ Tell others.
Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector
If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...
shorturl.at
October 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Reposted by Dr. Twila Moon
Climate change isn't a separate story -- it is part of the stories you are already telling.

🗓️Wednesday, October 22 | 2pm ET

Join for a conversation on how to make climate context seamless and engaging from on-air to social platforms.

🔗 climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Research, teach, or communicate about #Greenland science (in English, Danish, or Greenlandic)?

➡️ StoryMap about fjord bathymetry and ecosystem, environment, people connections. Including as Greenlanders respond to potential *lowering* local sea levels.
arcg.is/10DiuG2

@lamont.columbia.edu
Kalaallit Nunaat Qaffappoq (Greenland Rising)
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Pinngortitaleriffik (Greenland Institute of Natural Resources)
arcg.is
October 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Reposted by Dr. Twila Moon
When floodwaters hit remote Alaska villages, recovery isn’t as simple as fixing up a home in the Lower 48.

No roads. No hardware stores. Winter closing in.

Families are facing impossible choices after Typhoon #Halong.

buff.ly/OS40JJ3
#Indigenous
Typhoon leaves flooded Alaska villages facing a storm recovery far tougher than most Americans will ever experience
‘As the storm approached Alaska, everything went sideways,’ leaving people no time to evacuate and little time to prepare. An Alaska meteorologist explains what happened and the challenges ahead.
buff.ly
October 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
So excited!...

➡️ To get climate science foundations to professionals who need them. More about Engage Climate Science soon!

➡️ Set an example for scientist+communicator jobs. These should be all over research and academia. More please!

#science #climate
Scientist Twila Moon is the first-ever CIRES Climate Communications Engagement lead, part of the new Engage Climate Science Program within @cires.ceee.bsky.social. @drtwilamoon@bsky.social Read the story:https://buff.ly/GIXt0Xl
October 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Thanks! Delighted by the old twitter vibe already. 😁
October 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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@agu.org, the world's largest Earth and space science association, honors Jen Kay, Twila Moon, and Jennifer Balch with prestigious awards! Read: buff.ly/zYiL76Y .
October 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Reposted by Dr. Twila Moon
From E&E News by @Politico.com: "Shutdown, Trump budget threaten popular sea ice website." Millions of people a year visit the site run by the National Snow and Ice Data Center at @CIRES.colorado.edu. It tracks changes to the world’s melting polar regions. www.eenews.net/articles/shu...
Shutdown, Trump budget threaten popular sea ice website
Millions of people a year visit the site run by the National Snow and Ice Data Center. It tracks changes to the world’s melting polar regions.
www.eenews.net
October 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Website worth knowing: The Aspen Global Change Institute's User Guide to Climate Change Portals.

www.agci.org/projects/cli...

#climate #climateresources
Climate Portal Guide | Aspen Global Change Institute
www.agci.org
October 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
climateliteracy.earth
www.climateliteracy.earth
October 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Reposted by Dr. Twila Moon
Essentially reading if you want to understand the feedback loops accelerating the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, which is contributing to global sea level rise.

By Twila Moon, deputy lead scientist @nsidc.bsky.social & researcher at @cires.colorado.edu
March 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Reposted by Dr. Twila Moon
For so long, fossil fuel projects have said their contribution to climate change is "negligible".
Turns out that's wrong.
Our research in NPJ Climate Action proves it.
Every tonne of CO2 matters.
@21stcenturyweather.bsky.social
@minderoo.bsky.social
#climatechange
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making
www.nature.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM