June-July2025 temperature rank compared to all June-July periods since 1895.

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.

GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.

This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.

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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 🧵

Woo-boy. Four executive orders about coal and the power sector. Do they actually do anything? A quick look:

Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data)

• about 570,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 970,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,540,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,920,000 km² below the 1980s mean

Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🧪⚒️🌊

#WorldHeritage glaciers are retreating at an alarming rate, losing an average of 58 billion tonnes of ice every year.

Urgent action is needed to protect these irreplaceable ecosystems.

21 March is #WorldGlaciersDay: www.un-glaciers.org/en/world-day... #IYGP #Glaciers2025

The clear signs of human-induced climate change reached new heights in 2024, which was likely the first calendar year to be more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial era. This is the warmest year in the 175-year observational record. Worth reading this report.

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So its only MARCH and this administration has. 1. Had multiple plane accidents. 2. Measle outbreaks. 3. Redacted Epstein records. 4. Attempt to deport ACTUAL citizens to include NATIVE Americans. AND began the worse economic COLLAPSE in many years. So are you..........

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

As clean energy faces its biggest test yet, @jigarshahdc.bsky.social, @cleangridview.bsky.social, and @stephenlacey.bsky.social are reuniting for their newest project: Open Circuit. 🧵 (1/5)

Arctic sea ice extent shrinking in mid-winter, reaches lowest area on record for this time of the year.

We say that people don't notice constitutional regime collapse because it comes on too slowly but I'm not sure how much faster it could be happening; we are literally at concentration camps on day 9.

Faced with constraints on how quickly they can connect to the grid, data centers are looking at direct gas deliveries and on-site generation to meet their power needs. Our inability to grow the grid and connect clean energy is having some pretty significant consequences: heated.world/p/ai-is-guzz...

This blog post from @aukehoekstra.bsky.social is from June, but I just read it. If you want a bit of (well-evidenced) optimism that ridiculously cheap batteries are coming, and that they will make the energy transition easier (and better) than many of us think, give this a read.

The results from BloombergNEF's 2024 lithium-ion battery price survey are out. Lithium-ion battery pack prices dropped 20% from 2023 to a record low of $115 per kilowatt-hour. This is the largest decline observed in our survey since 2017. 🧵⬇️