California Water Research
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Independent research and analysis of accelerating climate change in the west and impacts on California water. Floods, droughts, extreme heat.
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I'm honestly sick.
Decades and decades of lifesaving work being torn apart.
Decades and decades of lifesaving work being torn apart.
Now that DOGE has entered FEMA, I’d like to say something about the importance of alerts and warnings. FEMA has a group called IPAWS, the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System, which is responsible for making sure you get warnings though all sorts of devices, basically for free. 1/
February 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I'm honestly sick.
Decades and decades of lifesaving work being torn apart.
Decades and decades of lifesaving work being torn apart.
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If the reports are correct, Trump will release from these reservoirs, 32,000 acre-ft (~10 billion gals) will be lost. Some will evaporate, some will seep into groundwater. Farmers who had rights to that water are now unlikely to have physical or legal access to it.
sjvwater.org/trumps-emerg...
sjvwater.org/trumps-emerg...
Trump’s emergency water order responsible for water dump from Tulare County lakes – SJV Water
The sudden announcement Thursday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that Kaweah and Success lakes would immediately begin dumping water was in response Trump’s emergency water order responsible for w...
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February 1, 2025 at 6:11 AM
If the reports are correct, Trump will release from these reservoirs, 32,000 acre-ft (~10 billion gals) will be lost. Some will evaporate, some will seep into groundwater. Farmers who had rights to that water are now unlikely to have physical or legal access to it.
sjvwater.org/trumps-emerg...
sjvwater.org/trumps-emerg...
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This is how banana republics work: “Interim leaders at the Justice Department have spent the past week drawing up lists of people whose work at the bureau has earned disfavor with Trump for a variety of reasons.” www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/p...
FBI agents who worked on January 6 and Trump investigations are expected to be fired Friday | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is set to expand a purge of career law enforcement officials, with dozens of FBI agents who investigated January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack and Trump-related investigations as...
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February 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This is how banana republics work: “Interim leaders at the Justice Department have spent the past week drawing up lists of people whose work at the bureau has earned disfavor with Trump for a variety of reasons.” www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/p...
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There's a lot of confusion (no surprise in the early hours) around the devastating Learjet medevac flight crash and explosion in North Philadelphia. Here's the official word from the company running the flight. Six aboard including a pediatric patient....
Six aboard according to Jet Rescue Air Ambulance. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Absolutely devastating tragedy.
February 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
There's a lot of confusion (no surprise in the early hours) around the devastating Learjet medevac flight crash and explosion in North Philadelphia. Here's the official word from the company running the flight. Six aboard including a pediatric patient....
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"I think it’s very strange and it’s disturbing that, after decades of careful local, state and federal coordination, some federal agencies are starting to unilaterally manipulate California’s water supply." @petergleick.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...
Acting on Trump's order, federal officials opened up two California dams
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just opened up two California dams. A spokesperson says the flows are 'controlled' and being coordinated with local officials.
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February 1, 2025 at 1:02 AM
"I think it’s very strange and it’s disturbing that, after decades of careful local, state and federal coordination, some federal agencies are starting to unilaterally manipulate California’s water supply." @petergleick.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...
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from a very reliable friend who thinks this is pretty reliable information about Environment and Natural Resources Division at DoJ:
January 31, 2025 at 10:15 PM
from a very reliable friend who thinks this is pretty reliable information about Environment and Natural Resources Division at DoJ:
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Must've talked to hundreds of federal officials this week. One motivating factor in them reaching out, I'm told, is feeling like Congress is useless
January 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Must've talked to hundreds of federal officials this week. One motivating factor in them reaching out, I'm told, is feeling like Congress is useless
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The End of Term Archive team @eotarchive.org crawled millions of federal webpages! If you are worried about a page going down or changing information on it, you can check to see if it is saved in the Internet Archive's @waybackmachine.bsky.social. 1/2
January 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The End of Term Archive team @eotarchive.org crawled millions of federal webpages! If you are worried about a page going down or changing information on it, you can check to see if it is saved in the Internet Archive's @waybackmachine.bsky.social. 1/2
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The 5th National Climate Assessment has been released today! Dive in to better understand the impacts of our changing climate across the United States: nca2023.globalchange.gov
"With each additional increment of warming, the consequences of climate change increase." 🧪⚒️
"With each additional increment of warming, the consequences of climate change increase." 🧪⚒️
November 14, 2023 at 1:02 PM
The 5th National Climate Assessment has been released today! Dive in to better understand the impacts of our changing climate across the United States: nca2023.globalchange.gov
"With each additional increment of warming, the consequences of climate change increase." 🧪⚒️
"With each additional increment of warming, the consequences of climate change increase." 🧪⚒️
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This Is promising! “GraphCast” can make a 10-day forecast in less than a minute; traditional models take hours on a supercomputers. GraphCast was about 10 percent more accurate than the European model on more than 90 percent of the weather variables evaluated. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023...
Why your weather forecasts may soon become more accurate
Google has produced a weather forecasting model using artificial intelligence with better accuracy, faster speed and lower costs, study finds.
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November 14, 2023 at 6:10 PM
This Is promising! “GraphCast” can make a 10-day forecast in less than a minute; traditional models take hours on a supercomputers. GraphCast was about 10 percent more accurate than the European model on more than 90 percent of the weather variables evaluated. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023...
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My Arctic sea-ice thickness graphics are updated for October 2023, including for this year's annual minimum volume: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... ⚒️
Arctic: Sea-Ice Thickness/Volume
My visualizations: Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration...
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November 11, 2023 at 9:29 PM
My Arctic sea-ice thickness graphics are updated for October 2023, including for this year's annual minimum volume: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... ⚒️