Tony DelGenio
@tonydelgenio.bsky.social
Retired Earth climate and planetary scientist. Current New York Giants football writer for SB Nation Big Blue View. Oenophile. Whovian.
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
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If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
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Sauce Gardner, Quinnen Williams. Millionaires are fleeing Zohran’s New York after all
November 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Sauce Gardner, Quinnen Williams. Millionaires are fleeing Zohran’s New York after all
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October 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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“A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29%, their risk of hospitalizations by 39% & their risk of death by 64%”
Benefits were seen even if 0 risk factors
Benefits were seen even if 0 risk factors
Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity
"The new research also “calls into question the idea that younger individuals and those without risk factors don’t need the vaccine,” Viswanathan says."
"The new research also “calls into question the idea that younger individuals and those without risk factors don’t need the vaccine,” Viswanathan says."
Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows
A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination
www.scientificamerican.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
“A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29%, their risk of hospitalizations by 39% & their risk of death by 64%”
Benefits were seen even if 0 risk factors
Benefits were seen even if 0 risk factors
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Saturn, rising behind its largest moon Titan.
This scene is a composite of images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 31 March 2005. At the time, Cassini was 7,000 km from Titan and 1.2 million km from Saturn.
Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Ian Regan/Val Klavans
This scene is a composite of images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 31 March 2005. At the time, Cassini was 7,000 km from Titan and 1.2 million km from Saturn.
Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Ian Regan/Val Klavans
September 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Saturn, rising behind its largest moon Titan.
This scene is a composite of images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 31 March 2005. At the time, Cassini was 7,000 km from Titan and 1.2 million km from Saturn.
Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Ian Regan/Val Klavans
This scene is a composite of images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 31 March 2005. At the time, Cassini was 7,000 km from Titan and 1.2 million km from Saturn.
Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Ian Regan/Val Klavans
Good reading about all sorts of aspects of Earth's climate and climate change, as well as that of Venus: www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...
How We Came To Know Earth | Quanta Magazine
Climate science is the most significant scientific collaboration in history. This series from Quanta Magazine guides you through basic climate science — from quantum effects to ancient hothouses, from...
www.quantamagazine.org
September 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Good reading about all sorts of aspects of Earth's climate and climate change, as well as that of Venus: www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...
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If you roster:
Tucker Kraft
Mac Jones
Green Bay DST
…and DON’T change your team name to Kraft, Mac, and Cheese…are you even living?
Tucker Kraft
Mac Jones
Green Bay DST
…and DON’T change your team name to Kraft, Mac, and Cheese…are you even living?
September 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
If you roster:
Tucker Kraft
Mac Jones
Green Bay DST
…and DON’T change your team name to Kraft, Mac, and Cheese…are you even living?
Tucker Kraft
Mac Jones
Green Bay DST
…and DON’T change your team name to Kraft, Mac, and Cheese…are you even living?
Great to see this paper come out, a lot of work by many people went into the development of this model.
Our description paper of v2 of the planet version of the GISS model, led by Kostas Tsigaridis,
ROCKE-3D 2.0: an updated general circulation model for simulating the climates of rocky planets
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
ROCKE-3D 2.0: an updated general circulation model for simulating the climates of rocky planets
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
ROCKE-3D 2.0: an updated general circulation model for simulating the climates of rocky planets
Abstract. We present the second generation of ROCKE-3D (Resolving Orbital and Climate Keys of Earth and Extraterrestrial Environments with Dynamics), a generalized three-dimensional general circulatio...
gmd.copernicus.org
September 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Great to see this paper come out, a lot of work by many people went into the development of this model.
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BREAKING, from NY Playbook PM: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid vaccines to New Yorkers who request them.
September 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
BREAKING, from NY Playbook PM: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid vaccines to New Yorkers who request them.
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Thanks to the Guardian for covering our efforts.
Read more here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Follow us, support the mission, and help keep climate truth alive.
Read more here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Follow us, support the mission, and help keep climate truth alive.
August 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Thanks to the Guardian for covering our efforts.
Read more here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Follow us, support the mission, and help keep climate truth alive.
Read more here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Follow us, support the mission, and help keep climate truth alive.
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A really amazing image. It was theoretically expected that many gaps in protoplanetary disks are associated with planets, but imaging the planets in action is elusive. Note that there is still gas flowing through the gap, and accreting onto the star; the planet-disk interaction that makes the
A very hungry planet! 🪐
What appears to be a ripple in space is actually a newborn planet, eating its way through its dusty cradle around a younger version of our Sun 🌞
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2534a/
🔭 🧪 #exoplanets
📷 ESO/R. van Capelleveen et al.
What appears to be a ripple in space is actually a newborn planet, eating its way through its dusty cradle around a younger version of our Sun 🌞
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2534a/
🔭 🧪 #exoplanets
📷 ESO/R. van Capelleveen et al.
August 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A really amazing image. It was theoretically expected that many gaps in protoplanetary disks are associated with planets, but imaging the planets in action is elusive. Note that there is still gas flowing through the gap, and accreting onto the star; the planet-disk interaction that makes the
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This is a pretty amazing bit of history. I was unaware of Carl Borgmann previously. Note Manabe's pioneering work on CO2 and global warming came out 2 years later than this, so Borgmann was ahead of the game in realizing the growing importance of CO2. We had so much warning,
Aug 26, 1965 - “Climatic Change appears to be underway” – the commencement speech that should have rocked the world
Carl Borgmann at University of Tennessee;
"CO2... traps heat from the sun, and climatic change results – not overnight, but slowly and surely”
allouryesterdays.info/2025/08/25/c...
Carl Borgmann at University of Tennessee;
"CO2... traps heat from the sun, and climatic change results – not overnight, but slowly and surely”
allouryesterdays.info/2025/08/25/c...
“Climatic Change appears to be underway, in fact.” - the 1965 commencement speech that should have rocked the world. - All Our Yesterdays
Sixty years ago today, n Thursday August 26th 1965, Carl W. Borgmann stood in front of hundreds of young Americans in Knoxville. Borgmann, who was the director of the Ford Foundation’s Science and Eng...
allouryesterdays.info
August 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This is a pretty amazing bit of history. I was unaware of Carl Borgmann previously. Note Manabe's pioneering work on CO2 and global warming came out 2 years later than this, so Borgmann was ahead of the game in realizing the growing importance of CO2. We had so much warning,
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What did we learn from the #NYGiants' victory over Buffalo on Saturday? @tonydelgenio.bsky.social tells us. www.bigblueview.com/new-york-gia...
What did we learn from the Giants’ 34-25 victory over the Buffalo Bills?
Jaxson Dart looked like an NFL quarterback in his first action.
www.bigblueview.com
August 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
What did we learn from the #NYGiants' victory over Buffalo on Saturday? @tonydelgenio.bsky.social tells us. www.bigblueview.com/new-york-gia...
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Is sea level around the US accelerating? If you actually do the analysis, instead of just repeating talking points from decades ago, the answer is yes.
tamino.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/s...
tamino.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/s...
Sea Level Mis-information from DOE
Here in the USA, the Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a report titled “A Critical Review of the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.” It is a product of the …
tamino.wordpress.com
August 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Is sea level around the US accelerating? If you actually do the analysis, instead of just repeating talking points from decades ago, the answer is yes.
tamino.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/s...
tamino.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/s...
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I always find survey results like this staggering (almost to the point of unbelievability).
The US was spending around 1% of its federal budget on foreign aid.
The average guess among 1,000+ surveyed Americans was 26%.
15% thought it was over half of the budget (?!)
www.kff.org/global-healt...
The US was spending around 1% of its federal budget on foreign aid.
The average guess among 1,000+ surveyed Americans was 26%.
15% thought it was over half of the budget (?!)
www.kff.org/global-healt...
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I always find survey results like this staggering (almost to the point of unbelievability).
The US was spending around 1% of its federal budget on foreign aid.
The average guess among 1,000+ surveyed Americans was 26%.
15% thought it was over half of the budget (?!)
www.kff.org/global-healt...
The US was spending around 1% of its federal budget on foreign aid.
The average guess among 1,000+ surveyed Americans was 26%.
15% thought it was over half of the budget (?!)
www.kff.org/global-healt...
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On 14 July 2025, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration announced to have detected GW231123, a gravitational wave signal generated by the merger of the two most massive black holes ever observed.
With masses of approximately 100 and 140 times that of the Sun, these cosmic giants
🔭 🧪 #cosmology
On 14 July 2025, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration announced to have detected GW231123, a gravitational wave signal generated by the merger of the two most massive black holes ever observed.
With masses of approximately 100 and 140 times that of the Sun, these cosmic giants
🔭 🧪 #cosmology
July 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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On 14 July 2025, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration announced to have detected GW231123, a gravitational wave signal generated by the merger of the two most massive black holes ever observed.
With masses of approximately 100 and 140 times that of the Sun, these cosmic giants
🔭 🧪 #cosmology
On 14 July 2025, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration announced to have detected GW231123, a gravitational wave signal generated by the merger of the two most massive black holes ever observed.
With masses of approximately 100 and 140 times that of the Sun, these cosmic giants
🔭 🧪 #cosmology
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The frequency of the longest and most dangerous heatwaves is increasing as the planet warms
Hot air: the most extreme heatwaves are accelerating the fastest
Tropical regions where heatwaves are already common will be hardest hit by this trend.
www.nature.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:03 AM
The frequency of the longest and most dangerous heatwaves is increasing as the planet warms
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The National Climate Assessment may have been deleted but the planet keeps reminding us what it said
July 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The National Climate Assessment may have been deleted but the planet keeps reminding us what it said
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The 28th st station is built on top of an ancient stream that drains the slightly higher ground to the east. (1865 Viele map via davidrumsey.com)
July 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The 28th st station is built on top of an ancient stream that drains the slightly higher ground to the east. (1865 Viele map via davidrumsey.com)
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Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface.
See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3
See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3
July 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface.
See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3
See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3
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“We must pray for the conversion of many people, inside and outside of the Church, who still do not recognize the urgency of caring for our common home,” Pope Leo XIV said while celebrating a new formulary of the Mass “for the care of creation.”
Pope prays for conversion of those resisting climate action at new Mass - Catholic Standard
www.cathstan.org
July 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
“We must pray for the conversion of many people, inside and outside of the Church, who still do not recognize the urgency of caring for our common home,” Pope Leo XIV said while celebrating a new formulary of the Mass “for the care of creation.”
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NEW: Bishop Rojas of San Bernardino has dispensed his Diocese from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass due to ongoing ICE raids.
July 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
NEW: Bishop Rojas of San Bernardino has dispensed his Diocese from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass due to ongoing ICE raids.
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“Water is the messenger that’s delivering the bad news about climate change to your city, to your front door.”
Heavy rain in southern New Mexico on Tuesday afternoon caused catastrophic flash flooding, sweeping homes away and forcing water rescues, as well as closing roads. Three people had been admitted to the hospital and were in stable condition as of Tuesday evening. Read more: https://trib.al/woWOsV4
July 9, 2025 at 6:37 AM
“Water is the messenger that’s delivering the bad news about climate change to your city, to your front door.”