John Doherty
@johndoherty.bsky.social
Earth, Ocean, and Climate. Science, Law, and Policy. | Born at 357 ppm CO₂ | High Fantasy Nerd | Opinions are my own
I put together some of my thoughts on the ongoing attacks to NOAA and climate science that make us all less safe. I hope you consider reading:
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Lower Standards at NOAA Threaten People, Places, and Public Trust in Science | Environmental Law Institute
What is “gold-standard science?” According to an Executive Order published on May 23 meant to guide federal scientific endeavors, it has several characteristics such as being “collaborative and interd...
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July 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I put together some of my thoughts on the ongoing attacks to NOAA and climate science that make us all less safe. I hope you consider reading:
www.eli.org/vibrant-envi...
www.eli.org/vibrant-envi...
Fascinating analysis here!
🚨 How do exposure to extreme weather events and the subjective attribution of these events to climate change relate to climate policy support across the world? 🔥🌎
Find out more in our OA article published in Nature Climate Change 👇 1/7 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Find out more in our OA article published in Nature Climate Change 👇 1/7 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world - Nature Climate Change
Literature produced inconsistent findings regarding the links between extreme weather events and climate policy support across regions, populations and events. This global study offers a holistic asse...
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July 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Fascinating analysis here!
This is just so messed up in so many ways, legal not least among them.
BREAKING: Reuters has published video images of Marines carrying out the first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles
June 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
This is just so messed up in so many ways, legal not least among them.
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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
April 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
“She Inspired Laws to Hold the Fossil Fuel Industry Accountable. Now She’s a Target.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/c...
She Inspired Laws to Hold the Fossil Fuel Industry Accountable. Now She’s a Target.
A conservative group is suing for emails of a law professor who helped create legislation to force oil, gas and coal companies to pay for climate damage.
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March 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
“She Inspired Laws to Hold the Fossil Fuel Industry Accountable. Now She’s a Target.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/c...
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The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
February 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
New publication out in the Environmental Law Reporter led by Prakriti Shah, where we speculate that it is likely that India's judiciary will see an uptick in climate-related litigation and argue that proactive preparation via education will be essential for judges: www.elr.info/articles/elr...
Assessing and Advancing the Climate Capability of India's Judiciary | Environmental Law Reporter®
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January 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
New publication out in the Environmental Law Reporter led by Prakriti Shah, where we speculate that it is likely that India's judiciary will see an uptick in climate-related litigation and argue that proactive preparation via education will be essential for judges: www.elr.info/articles/elr...
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NEW: Mass heat mortality events are coming. In our new preprint, we project tens of thousands of deaths per week in Europe, if the weather patterns that produced heat waves historically happen again at future -- or even current -- global temperatures.
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eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
January 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
NEW: Mass heat mortality events are coming. In our new preprint, we project tens of thousands of deaths per week in Europe, if the weather patterns that produced heat waves historically happen again at future -- or even current -- global temperatures.
eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
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This is so spot on. As a climate scientist and public intellectual, I see or experience these often
December 10, 2024 at 12:57 PM
This is so spot on. As a climate scientist and public intellectual, I see or experience these often
It was a pleasure to discuss the future of science policy on AGUTV at #AGU24!
Watch as Dr. @johndoherty.bsky.social, Science & Policy Analyst at the Environmental Law Institute, shares how Earth & space sciences can influence global decision-making & strengthen climate change policies while fostering diversity in the scientific community. @agu.org #AGU24 youtu.be/Un00IDELf4w
At the Intersection of Science and Policy with John Doherty
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December 11, 2024 at 1:07 PM
It was a pleasure to discuss the future of science policy on AGUTV at #AGU24!
Insightful perspective by @bobkopp.net and coauthors on tipping points and the communication of them:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
‘Tipping points’ confuse and can distract from urgent climate action - Nature Climate Change
The tipping points framing is widely used in climate discussions but receives mixed feedback. This Perspective critiques it for oversimplifying the complexities of natural and social systems and faili...
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December 6, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Insightful perspective by @bobkopp.net and coauthors on tipping points and the communication of them:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What it looks like when you go from paleoceanography to environmental law & policy research. I, for one, am excited to learn more about biogeochemical courts!
November 26, 2024 at 1:51 PM
What it looks like when you go from paleoceanography to environmental law & policy research. I, for one, am excited to learn more about biogeochemical courts!
Fascinating new synthesis of extreme event attribution research from @carbonbrief.org . Two things are clear: 1) for the vast majority of analyses, scientists have detected a role of climate change in the event, and 2) there is a clear bias in analyses for the global north.
tinyurl.com/5a4at653
tinyurl.com/5a4at653
Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world - Carbon Brief
Attribution studies calculate whether, and by how much, climate change affected the intensity, frequency or impact of extremes – Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has...
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November 18, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Fascinating new synthesis of extreme event attribution research from @carbonbrief.org . Two things are clear: 1) for the vast majority of analyses, scientists have detected a role of climate change in the event, and 2) there is a clear bias in analyses for the global north.
tinyurl.com/5a4at653
tinyurl.com/5a4at653
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1. It’s that time of the year. The WMO State of the Climate Update was released today(ish), taking momentary stock of where the climate is. So, some climate nuggets. 🧵
November 12, 2024 at 12:19 PM
1. It’s that time of the year. The WMO State of the Climate Update was released today(ish), taking momentary stock of where the climate is. So, some climate nuggets. 🧵
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New rapid attribution by Mike Wehner and colleagues at LBL shows that climate change increased Hurricane Helene's rainfall by up to 50% in some parts of Georgia and the Carolinas, and made the event up to 20x more likely.
Read: drive.google.com/file/d/14oq6...
Read: drive.google.com/file/d/14oq6...
October 1, 2024 at 3:16 PM
New rapid attribution by Mike Wehner and colleagues at LBL shows that climate change increased Hurricane Helene's rainfall by up to 50% in some parts of Georgia and the Carolinas, and made the event up to 20x more likely.
Read: drive.google.com/file/d/14oq6...
Read: drive.google.com/file/d/14oq6...
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NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information website is down, as is their database of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters.
Why? Likely because NCEI is based in Asheville NC.
Climate-fueled unnatural disasters spare no-one and nothing.
www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billi...
Why? Likely because NCEI is based in Asheville NC.
Climate-fueled unnatural disasters spare no-one and nothing.
www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billi...
September 29, 2024 at 11:19 PM
NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information website is down, as is their database of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters.
Why? Likely because NCEI is based in Asheville NC.
Climate-fueled unnatural disasters spare no-one and nothing.
www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billi...
Why? Likely because NCEI is based in Asheville NC.
Climate-fueled unnatural disasters spare no-one and nothing.
www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billi...
Curious about the landmark settlement of Hawaii’s youth-led constitutional climate case and the role that science played in arriving at it? Check out this new blog from my colleague, Dara Albrecht!
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Landmark Climate Settlement Highlights Relevance of Climate Science for Judges | Environmental Law Institute
On June 20, 2024, four days before the case was set to go to trial, Hawaiʻi’s First Circuit Court approved a landmark settlement that resolved claims brought by thirteen Hawaiʻian youth plaintiffs aga...
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September 19, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Curious about the landmark settlement of Hawaii’s youth-led constitutional climate case and the role that science played in arriving at it? Check out this new blog from my colleague, Dara Albrecht!
www.eli.org/vibrant-envi...
www.eli.org/vibrant-envi...
Happy #ShowYourStripes Day! We are certainly feeling that dark red in DC this week with the ongoing heatwave. See your region’s stripes at showyourstripes.info, courtesy of @edhawkins.bsky.social .
Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
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June 21, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Happy #ShowYourStripes Day! We are certainly feeling that dark red in DC this week with the ongoing heatwave. See your region’s stripes at showyourstripes.info, courtesy of @edhawkins.bsky.social .
Pleased to share our new article, "Weathering the Storm of Global Climate Litigation: Enabling Judges to Make Sense of Science!" Here, we explore the role of science in informing climate change litigation in a few high-profile cases from around the world.
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www.law.georgetown.edu/internationa...
Weathering the Storm of Global Climate Litigation: Enabling Judges to Make Sense of Science
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March 18, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Pleased to share our new article, "Weathering the Storm of Global Climate Litigation: Enabling Judges to Make Sense of Science!" Here, we explore the role of science in informing climate change litigation in a few high-profile cases from around the world.
www.law.georgetown.edu/internationa...
www.law.georgetown.edu/internationa...
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Climate impacts for the average citizen of a low-income country at 1.5°C of global warming will not be felt by ~40% of people living in high-income nations until >3°C of global warming. 😩 #ClimateInjustice
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July 29, 2023 at 4:54 PM
Climate impacts for the average citizen of a low-income country at 1.5°C of global warming will not be felt by ~40% of people living in high-income nations until >3°C of global warming. 😩 #ClimateInjustice
h/t @eroston.bsky.social
h/t @eroston.bsky.social