Kevin Tungesvick
@quercus-shumardii.bsky.social
Botany, Ecology, Weather, and Climate
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January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
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It's like on the eve of WWII we decided to stop funding R&D into weapons systems to develop advanced aircraft, ships, and tanks. Climate change is going to kick our butts if we lose NCAR (and NOAA) at a time when climate change is increasing extreme weather events capable of crashing the economy.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 4:24 AM
It's like on the eve of WWII we decided to stop funding R&D into weapons systems to develop advanced aircraft, ships, and tanks. Climate change is going to kick our butts if we lose NCAR (and NOAA) at a time when climate change is increasing extreme weather events capable of crashing the economy.
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Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
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OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.
October 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.
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NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.
No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way
His assassination deserves full condemnation; his full impact should not be sidestepped.
www.motherjones.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡
June 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡
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President signs Exec Order to raise temperatures and sea levels, burn down homes, raise the price of food, make insurance unaffordable, make Earth unlivable. Oh, and poison your kid’s tuna fish sandwiches with mercury. #climatecrisis
Reinvigorating America's Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. In
www.whitehouse.gov
April 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
President signs Exec Order to raise temperatures and sea levels, burn down homes, raise the price of food, make insurance unaffordable, make Earth unlivable. Oh, and poison your kid’s tuna fish sandwiches with mercury. #climatecrisis
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Another example of the outstanding work of the folks at the NWS Storm Prediction Center!
The initial risk area was denoted on the Day 6 Severe Weather Outlook with continued messaging of a significant severe weather threat up to the event day
*Note: Reports are preliminary (likely more to come)
The initial risk area was denoted on the Day 6 Severe Weather Outlook with continued messaging of a significant severe weather threat up to the event day
*Note: Reports are preliminary (likely more to come)
March 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Another example of the outstanding work of the folks at the NWS Storm Prediction Center!
The initial risk area was denoted on the Day 6 Severe Weather Outlook with continued messaging of a significant severe weather threat up to the event day
*Note: Reports are preliminary (likely more to come)
The initial risk area was denoted on the Day 6 Severe Weather Outlook with continued messaging of a significant severe weather threat up to the event day
*Note: Reports are preliminary (likely more to come)
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It should go without saying* that firing the people you've most recently hired is bonehead move for any organization. Almost by definition, they are the people who you need for your new approaches, products and problems.
Bird flu? ✔️
AI/ML? ✔️
Next-gen weather models? ✔️
*it did not go w/o saying.
Bird flu? ✔️
AI/ML? ✔️
Next-gen weather models? ✔️
*it did not go w/o saying.
February 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
It should go without saying* that firing the people you've most recently hired is bonehead move for any organization. Almost by definition, they are the people who you need for your new approaches, products and problems.
Bird flu? ✔️
AI/ML? ✔️
Next-gen weather models? ✔️
*it did not go w/o saying.
Bird flu? ✔️
AI/ML? ✔️
Next-gen weather models? ✔️
*it did not go w/o saying.
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I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.
February 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats.
After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.
After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.
February 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats.
After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.
After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.
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An entire Trump Administration of the world's worst Affirmative Action hires compromising of thoroughly unqualified men, white mediocre men, kiss ups, toadies, bootlickers and cultists.
February 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
An entire Trump Administration of the world's worst Affirmative Action hires compromising of thoroughly unqualified men, white mediocre men, kiss ups, toadies, bootlickers and cultists.
This Thread.
The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
February 19, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This Thread.
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This is how almost everyone who works on climate feels almost all the time. 🤷♀️
February 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
This is how almost everyone who works on climate feels almost all the time. 🤷♀️
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The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
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I feel like we don't talk enough about how many lives have been saved by accurate, publicly available weather forecasts
February 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I feel like we don't talk enough about how many lives have been saved by accurate, publicly available weather forecasts
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An acre of land can power a car to go 13,000 miles per year using biofuel (corn ethanol), or 900,000 miles per year using solar.
February 4, 2025 at 4:56 AM
An acre of land can power a car to go 13,000 miles per year using biofuel (corn ethanol), or 900,000 miles per year using solar.
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It’s really fucking hard to forgive anyone who voted for this shit.
January 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
It’s really fucking hard to forgive anyone who voted for this shit.
A red-headed woodpecker from my suet feeder archive for #woodpeckerwednesday
January 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A red-headed woodpecker from my suet feeder archive for #woodpeckerwednesday
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Physics does not care about our politics, and ultimately the world will continue to warm until we get global emissions of CO2 to (net) zero.
January 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Physics does not care about our politics, and ultimately the world will continue to warm until we get global emissions of CO2 to (net) zero.
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One thing I have been thinking about lately is how we’re all here because of Ralph Nader
January 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
One thing I have been thinking about lately is how we’re all here because of Ralph Nader
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I know there’s a lot of Tesla hate here but the Model 3 is actually a sensibly sized car and I wish more cars in the US were that small.
January 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I know there’s a lot of Tesla hate here but the Model 3 is actually a sensibly sized car and I wish more cars in the US were that small.
An immature yellow-bellied sapsucker with a downy and a hairy woodpecker at my suet feeder for #WoodpeckerWednesday
January 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
An immature yellow-bellied sapsucker with a downy and a hairy woodpecker at my suet feeder for #WoodpeckerWednesday