Andrew Freedman
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Climate journalist focused on extreme weather, climate, the energy transition @cnn. Priors: Axios, WaPo | Alum: The Fletcher School, Columbia Climate & Society | Tips: andrew.freedman@axios.com | afreedman@protonmail.com | Signal: @afreedmanclimate.03
An unusually early sudden stratospheric warming event is likely to send the polar vortex on the move. Questions exist re: how this will affect US weather, but odds for colder, snowier weather are ticking up esp. in Central/Eastern US www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/w...
The polar vortex is about to bring a wild weather pattern change | CNN
Over the next 10 days, scientists say, changes in the stratosphere will upend weather patterns and set the stage for a cold, snowy December across parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
An unusually early sudden stratospheric warming event is likely to send the polar vortex on the move. Questions exist re: how this will affect US weather, but odds for colder, snowier weather are ticking up esp. in Central/Eastern US www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/w...
This is fascinating -- Iceland formally labels the potential collapse of the AMOC a national security threat. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This is fascinating -- Iceland formally labels the potential collapse of the AMOC a national security threat. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
This is not weather or climate content, but ya gotta eat, right? My wife, Olga, helped spearhead this dive into Thanksgivings past in order to plan the best possible meal for the holiday this year. It's neat, full of little mysteries. www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/11...
These Thanksgiving recipes are modern takes on retro favorites
We combed through the Post archives for Thanksgiving recipes that stood the test of time.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This is not weather or climate content, but ya gotta eat, right? My wife, Olga, helped spearhead this dive into Thanksgivings past in order to plan the best possible meal for the holiday this year. It's neat, full of little mysteries. www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/11...
A sobering take on what a slew of new reports say about how the world will look under 2-3°C+ of warming. W/ @laurapaddison.bsky.social & insights from @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, @kimcobb.bsky.social, @weatherwest.bsky.social & others. www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/c... (For CNN subscribers.)
New reports paint picture of an ‘extremely dangerous’ future with warming expected to blow past key limit | CNN
Melting ice sheets. Massive flooding. Dead coral reefs. Humanity is careening toward an untenable future as global temperatures rise, scientists warn
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November 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A sobering take on what a slew of new reports say about how the world will look under 2-3°C+ of warming. W/ @laurapaddison.bsky.social & insights from @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, @kimcobb.bsky.social, @weatherwest.bsky.social & others. www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/c... (For CNN subscribers.)
An important new story on the quiet gutting of one of NASA's most important laboratory campuses, during the federal shutdown. Via @ellanilsen.bsky.social & @jackiewattles.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...
Workers fear NASA is quietly gutting the iconic home of Hubble and Webb. The agency says it’s strategically closing buildings | CNN
Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
An important new story on the quiet gutting of one of NASA's most important laboratory campuses, during the federal shutdown. Via @ellanilsen.bsky.social & @jackiewattles.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...
Here's the least surprising but still important climate headline of the day. Finally, the UN makes it official about the 1.5-degree target: www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/c...
World will overshoot 1.5 degree climate goal, UN says | CNN
The world has failed to meet its main climate change target and will likely breach this threshold in the next decade, the United Nations’ Environment Programme said Tuesday.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Here's the least surprising but still important climate headline of the day. Finally, the UN makes it official about the 1.5-degree target: www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/c...
Despite not sending a high-level delegation to the COP30 Climate Summit in Brazil, the presence of the US will still be felt by negotiators there. The US will be the elephant in the room, and could seek to disrupt the talks from afar, depending on how they're trending... www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/c...
How the US could shape the COP30 climate summit without even being there | CNN
The Trump administration does not intend to send a high-level delegation to the COP30 climate summit in Brazil — or possibly any delegation at all. But that doesn’t mean the country’s influence won’t ...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Despite not sending a high-level delegation to the COP30 Climate Summit in Brazil, the presence of the US will still be felt by negotiators there. The US will be the elephant in the room, and could seek to disrupt the talks from afar, depending on how they're trending... www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/c...
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We have not done any polling on the NJ Gov, Virginia Gov or NYC mayoral races. Our poll out today is national.
November 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
We have not done any polling on the NJ Gov, Virginia Gov or NYC mayoral races. Our poll out today is national.
Innovative and visually striking story from @washingtonpost.com on trends toward increasing heavy downpours around the world. Worth a read. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...
Deadly rivers in the sky
A new Washington Post investigation reveals where climate change has supercharged the movement of moisture through the skies.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Innovative and visually striking story from @washingtonpost.com on trends toward increasing heavy downpours around the world. Worth a read. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...
Melissa was one of the strongest storms on record. NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters flew into it without pay.
Crews are asked “To be fully mentally present, especially in this environment, and it’s hard to do that when you know you can’t potentially make ends meet.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/w...
Crews are asked “To be fully mentally present, especially in this environment, and it’s hard to do that when you know you can’t potentially make ends meet.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/w...
Melissa was one of the strongest storms on record. NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters flew into it without pay | CNN
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hurricane Hunters have spent the past week diving into the eye of Melissa — a storm of historic ferocity — to gather life-saving data. But the gov...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Melissa was one of the strongest storms on record. NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters flew into it without pay.
Crews are asked “To be fully mentally present, especially in this environment, and it’s hard to do that when you know you can’t potentially make ends meet.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/w...
Crews are asked “To be fully mentally present, especially in this environment, and it’s hard to do that when you know you can’t potentially make ends meet.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/w...
The National Hurricane Center's forecasts for Hurricane Melissa have been unusually accurate so far, despite NOAA cuts in personnel and budget. Here are some stats: www.cnn.com/weather/live...
National Hurricane Center's forecasts for Melissa have been unusually accurate
Melissa is an “extremely dangerous” Category 3 hurricane plowing through Cuba after the storm made a historic landfall in Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history. Follow for liv...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The National Hurricane Center's forecasts for Hurricane Melissa have been unusually accurate so far, despite NOAA cuts in personnel and budget. Here are some stats: www.cnn.com/weather/live...
I spent much of Tuesday talking to some of the top hurricane experts in the country about how climate change helped turn Hurricane Melissa into such a beast of a storm. Here's what they told me: www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/c...
Why Hurricane Melissa turned into a supercharged monster | CNN
Hotter-than-average Caribbean water made Hurricane Melissa stronger and wetter. Its part of a trend that scientists link back to climate change.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I spent much of Tuesday talking to some of the top hurricane experts in the country about how climate change helped turn Hurricane Melissa into such a beast of a storm. Here's what they told me: www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/c...
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A display of pure power from Hurricane Melissa today.
Remarkable satellite imagery.
Remarkable satellite imagery.
October 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
A display of pure power from Hurricane Melissa today.
Remarkable satellite imagery.
Remarkable satellite imagery.
The billion-dollar disasters database is back, except not at NOAA anymore. It shows 2025 has had the most expensive first six months to any year on record since 1980, largely due to the LA wildfires. www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/c...
The federal government used to keep track of extreme weather disasters. Now it’s up to a nonprofit | CNN
The Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Database, which the Trump administration ”retired” in May, has relaunched outside of the government — and found the most expensive half-year on record.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The billion-dollar disasters database is back, except not at NOAA anymore. It shows 2025 has had the most expensive first six months to any year on record since 1980, largely due to the LA wildfires. www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/c...
NEW: A significant gap in weather balloon coverage in western Alaska, caused by Trump admin cuts to NOAA/NWS, may have hurt the forecast accuracy for the deadly storm there over the weekend. www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...
Predictions for deadly Alaska storm may have suffered due to DOGE cuts | CNN
The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’...
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October 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
NEW: A significant gap in weather balloon coverage in western Alaska, caused by Trump admin cuts to NOAA/NWS, may have hurt the forecast accuracy for the deadly storm there over the weekend. www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...
The North Pacific "blob" of unusually warm waters is the blob to end all blobs, and will have some sort of an influence on the upcoming US winter weather. So too will La Niña, which NOAA officially declared today. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/w...
October 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The North Pacific "blob" of unusually warm waters is the blob to end all blobs, and will have some sort of an influence on the upcoming US winter weather. So too will La Niña, which NOAA officially declared today. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/w...
La Niña is officially back per NOAA, and it is likely to persist through the winter. BUT it has competition for influencing the upcoming winter across the U.S.: The giant N. Pacific “Blob” of bathtub-like warm water. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/w...
October 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
La Niña is officially back per NOAA, and it is likely to persist through the winter. BUT it has competition for influencing the upcoming winter across the U.S.: The giant N. Pacific “Blob” of bathtub-like warm water. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/w...
About that EF5 tornado drought... it, um, well, ended. www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/w...
First EF5 tornado to strike the US in over a decade just confirmed by experts | CNN
The most rare and extreme form of tornado struck eastern North Dakota in June, but experts just determined how strong it really was.
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October 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
About that EF5 tornado drought... it, um, well, ended. www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/w...
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A leading Democrat in the Senate just released an important report documenting how NASA has been working to implement the president's proposed budget, not Congressionally approved funds, in slashing missions. Read more ⬇️
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), top Democrat on Senate Commerce Cmte, is out with a Democratic staff report: "The Destruction of NASA's Mission: Whistleblowers Reveal OMB's Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency."
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September 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
A leading Democrat in the Senate just released an important report documenting how NASA has been working to implement the president's proposed budget, not Congressionally approved funds, in slashing missions. Read more ⬇️
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And with the 15z advisories -- #Hurricane #Imdelda & #Humberto are just 479 miles apart.
This might be the closest two simultaneous hurricanes have ever been in the Atlantic basin in the satellite era (since ~1975).
Close enough for their outer sfc circulations to interact as well.
This might be the closest two simultaneous hurricanes have ever been in the Atlantic basin in the satellite era (since ~1975).
Close enough for their outer sfc circulations to interact as well.
September 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
And with the 15z advisories -- #Hurricane #Imdelda & #Humberto are just 479 miles apart.
This might be the closest two simultaneous hurricanes have ever been in the Atlantic basin in the satellite era (since ~1975).
Close enough for their outer sfc circulations to interact as well.
This might be the closest two simultaneous hurricanes have ever been in the Atlantic basin in the satellite era (since ~1975).
Close enough for their outer sfc circulations to interact as well.
"Beautiful clean coal" really feeling the love from the Trump admin this wk, w/ 13.1 million acres of public lands opened to mining and $625 million to keep power plants open. It'll be interesting to see if these measures are enough to make coal competitive. www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/c...
Trump is handing out public land and millions of dollars to revive big coal, sending advocates reeling | CNN
While the Trump administration wages war against clean energy, it is now vowing to lease millions of acres of public lands at a discount and spend hundreds of millions of dollars to prop up the most p...
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September 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"Beautiful clean coal" really feeling the love from the Trump admin this wk, w/ 13.1 million acres of public lands opened to mining and $625 million to keep power plants open. It'll be interesting to see if these measures are enough to make coal competitive. www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/c...
With two tropical cyclones currently spinning off the Southeast Coast, it's worth asking, what happens if a hurricane hits the US during a gov't shutdown? Details here about how NOAA and FEMA may fare... www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/w...
What happens if a hurricane makes landfall while the government is shut down | CNN
Tropical Storm Imelda swirling off the Southeast coast is a stark reminder that the potential government shutdown looms during the middle of the Atlantic hurricane season.
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September 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
With two tropical cyclones currently spinning off the Southeast Coast, it's worth asking, what happens if a hurricane hits the US during a gov't shutdown? Details here about how NOAA and FEMA may fare... www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/w...
China commits to new emissions reduction goals, but they're far short of where other countries & activists had hoped. In making the announcement, President Xi Jinping seemingly dinged the US' focus on fossil fuels... www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/c...
China commits to cutting up to 10% of its climate pollution, short of the goal other countries sought of it | CNN
The goal, announced via video by Chinese President Xi Jinping, falls far short of the 30% cuts the Biden administration had been pressing for.
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September 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
China commits to new emissions reduction goals, but they're far short of where other countries & activists had hoped. In making the announcement, President Xi Jinping seemingly dinged the US' focus on fossil fuels... www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/c...
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Think of it as detectives gathering evidence at a crime scene.
Innovative new "plume" maps from @climatetrace.org show you how to identify and track emissions from the polluters you're exposed to. www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/c...
How to track the super polluters next door | CNN
A new tool allows people in the world’s largest metros to track their air pollution exposure and who’s doing the polluting.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Think of it as detectives gathering evidence at a crime scene.
Innovative new "plume" maps from @climatetrace.org show you how to identify and track emissions from the polluters you're exposed to. www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/c...
How to track the super polluters next door | CNN
A new tool allows people in the world’s largest metros to track their air pollution exposure and who’s doing the polluting.
www.cnn.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Innovative new "plume" maps from @climatetrace.org show you how to identify and track emissions from the polluters you're exposed to. www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/c...