New paper! We show that you can use existing climate model experiments to separate aerosol-induced temperature changes from OECD and non-OECD emissions. We find distinct patterns for each, with differences in seasonality. We then show the implications for future temperature change
shorturl.at/63WA1

There are more reporting surface weather stations in the country of Germany than across all of Africa, leaving many African communities without accurate forecasts. eos.org/features/bui...

The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.

www.propublica.org/article/nih-...

There are days in life that shake you.

I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵

The FBI is moving to criminalize community climate workgroups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the EPA under the Biden administration, claiming they engaged in a conspiracy to defraud the United States by writing successful funding proposals.

We have a new paper out today about the statistical estimation of climate impacts and how that process intersects with the physical climate! We start from surface measurements and move all the way to the estimation of adaptation to new climates.
More detail below!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I’m pleased to see that this trend originated in the same place I went birding this morning (in Davis), but here’s a big bright authoritative sign with a little drab defiant bird

100k people tried to snag just 1,500 electric bicycle incentive vouchers in California. They were gone in a minute.

People clearly want alternatives to cars. Let's give them more of these incentives everywhere.

Read in @planetizen.bsky.social | www.planetizen.com/news/2024/12...

Today I had the very excellent experience of providing testimony to the Illinois Pollution Control Board (IPCB). The Board is considering the adoption of 3 pollution mitigation policies, each of which focuses on EV adoption as a means of reducing air pollutants and their hazardous health effects. 🧵

Yes, I realize that my usual temperature anomaly scale is less than ideal for visualization purposes in this image here. But that's also because the #Arctic was absurdly warm compared to the 1981-2010 climatological average in October 2024.

Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.

Started this starter pack with energy justice & climate justice folks. Let me know who I should add to it. go.bsky.app/HXiuKJ5
(P.S. yes this is my way of finding my friends that migrated to bluer skies)

@costasamaras.com @menrywy.bsky.social @leahstokes.bsky.social @sidersadapts.bsky.social

This is from February of this year. And from what I’ve read it’s gotten worse since then. We’re in the purple. Sources below.

Tough day teaching about election implications for climate action. But the glass-half-full interpretation is that a lot of mitigation actually happens at the local and state levels. In San Diego, city policy alone makes up over half of planned mitigation, not to mention state.

SpaceX launch as seen from Scripps 🚀

This has been my experience with other things like the IRA. The assumption is still that the US is doing nothing - the news has not reached younger people at all. I even surprise them by saying US emissions are going down - the assumption is we’re still soaring up

Open access in Nature today, work led by @bbastien.bsky.social quantifies the market and non-market welfare impacts of climate change effects on terrestrial vegetation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

At #AGU23 this week. Come check out my talk on aerosols in climate policy on Mon at 10:40am or my poster on the role of physical science in statistical climate impact models on Thurs afternoon. Also free to reach out if you want to chat!