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Paul Bierman
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Geoscientist, environmental historian, professor, author who cares deeply about our planet. Obsessed with snow, ice sheets, climate, and science as a way of knowing. Passionate about teaching, equality, and explaining Earth. https://www.paulbierman.net
self reflection perhaps? he doesn't look well...shaking?
RFK can diagnosis mitochondrial diseases by walking past them
February 7, 2026 at 2:04 PM
fascist press suppression plain and simple

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:38 PM
I took this photo 45 years ago...how could it be so relevant 5 decades later?

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January 28, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Cold blooded murder of an American citizen. These aren't police. These are an occupying force.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 9:45 PM
How can this be my country?
Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
January 24, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Gotta laugh...and we all need a laugh.

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God Punishes Trump by Turning US into Greenland open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
God Punishes Trump by Turning US into Greenland
The Almighty declared, “Prayers answered, jerkwad.”
open.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 6:55 PM
exactly...

Trump has no idea why the arctic matters to everyone on Earth or its real value

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@us.theconversation.com

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January 24, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Doing my best to speak up and take action while I still can.

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January 24, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Trump has no idea why the arctic matters to everyone on Earth.

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January 24, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Trump has no idea why the arctic matters to everyone on Earth. And those Nuuk penguins...priceless.

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January 24, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Trump has no idea why the arctic matters to everyone on Earth.

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#scicomm
#climate
#science

@us.theconversation.com

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January 24, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Trump has no idea why the arctic matters to everyone on Earth.

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#scicomm
#climate
#science

@us.theconversation.com

theconversation.com/what-a-us-mi...
January 24, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Trump has no idea why the arctic matters to everyone on Earth.

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#scicomm
#climate
#science

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January 24, 2026 at 3:45 PM
oh. that damn wiggly jet stream strikes again...this is one of the oldest climate denial tropes out there...weather isn't climate.

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This is apparently real. People who voted for him must've wanted someone stupider than they are. I'm sorry, but he's a " low-IQ individual," to quote the Low-IQ Individual in Chief.
January 24, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Thanks. Great producer. Pass it on.
January 24, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Greenland isn't something Trump can buy. It belongs to the Greenlandic people. Must read at
@grist.org

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grist.org/global-indig...
Greenland is a global model for Indigenous self-governance. Trump’s demands for the island threaten that.
Historians say underpinning Trump's talk of national security lies a longstanding pattern of American entitlement to Native land.
grist.org
January 24, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Trump the imperialist....treating countries like he treats women.

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'Greenland belongs to its people': The US scientists speaking out against Trump's imperial aggression
At least 225 US scientists who conduct research in Greenland have signed a Statement in Solidarity with Greenland this month.
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January 24, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Some hard truths about Greenland and climate change and Trump's nonsensical landgrab. My take on the last couple weeks of insanity.

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What a US military base lost under Greenland’s ice sheet reveals about the island’s real strategic importance
Listen to Paul Bierman, an expert on Greenland’s ice, talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of the island’s ice sheet.
theconversation.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:28 AM
and to think since 1941...we worked together
theconversation.com/us-military-...
January 14, 2026 at 7:12 PM
what a change from 70 years of history

theconversation.com/us-military-...
January 14, 2026 at 7:05 PM
January 14, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Agree....throwing away 80 years of cooperation. My thoughts.

theconversation.com/us-military-...
January 14, 2026 at 7:04 PM
but, but they are not easy to get at....ah Donald.

As it should be. The US has a long and sometimes sorid history in Greenland that I write about here: theconversation.com/us-military-...
January 14, 2026 at 6:56 PM