Tom Di Liberto
@tdiliberto.bsky.social
Climate scientist and science communicator who dabbles in comedy.
Creator of NOAA's Teek and Tom cartoon series focused on weather, climate and ocean science.
If in Washington DC, come check out my science improv troupe at Washington Improv theater
Creator of NOAA's Teek and Tom cartoon series focused on weather, climate and ocean science.
If in Washington DC, come check out my science improv troupe at Washington Improv theater
It's been ~250 days since I was fired. Just gives me the warm fuzzies that the courts had to force DOC and NOAA to say that I obviously wasn't fired based on my personal performance.
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It's been ~250 days since I was fired. Just gives me the warm fuzzies that the courts had to force DOC and NOAA to say that I obviously wasn't fired based on my personal performance.
"An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft has found that
Melissa is strengthening..." This is an absolutely terrifying update so close to landfall. Melissa now at 180mph winds and 896mb central pressure.
www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh...
Melissa is strengthening..." This is an absolutely terrifying update so close to landfall. Melissa now at 180mph winds and 896mb central pressure.
www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh...
October 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft has found that
Melissa is strengthening..." This is an absolutely terrifying update so close to landfall. Melissa now at 180mph winds and 896mb central pressure.
www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh...
Melissa is strengthening..." This is an absolutely terrifying update so close to landfall. Melissa now at 180mph winds and 896mb central pressure.
www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh...
From NOAA
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/new-england-...
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/new-england-...
August 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
From NOAA
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/new-england-...
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/new-england-...
And now check out this banner. "Gold Standard" means rejecting fundamental science.
June 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
And now check out this banner. "Gold Standard" means rejecting fundamental science.
Trump's Budget is out. For NOAA, it's exactly what the previous passback document showed.
Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality.
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality.
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
May 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Trump's Budget is out. For NOAA, it's exactly what the previous passback document showed.
Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality.
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality.
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Next week during Capitol Hill Ocean Week (CHOW), I'll be joining a bunch of much more interesting people on a Climate Empowerment panel put on by Sustainable Ocean Alliance DMV & US Early Career Ocean Professionals. Join us!
Info ⬇️
June 3, 6:30-8pm
Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-climat...
Info ⬇️
June 3, 6:30-8pm
Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-climat...
May 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Next week during Capitol Hill Ocean Week (CHOW), I'll be joining a bunch of much more interesting people on a Climate Empowerment panel put on by Sustainable Ocean Alliance DMV & US Early Career Ocean Professionals. Join us!
Info ⬇️
June 3, 6:30-8pm
Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-climat...
Info ⬇️
June 3, 6:30-8pm
Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-climat...
Wow this is amazing! Teek and Tom Explore Planet Earth, the cartoon series I co-wrote and starred in for NOAA won 4 Telly awards including 2 of the coveted Gold Tellys (NOAA"s first ever Gold!) for voiceover and sound design.
www.tellyawards.com/winners/2025...
www.tellyawards.com/winners/2025...
May 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Wow this is amazing! Teek and Tom Explore Planet Earth, the cartoon series I co-wrote and starred in for NOAA won 4 Telly awards including 2 of the coveted Gold Tellys (NOAA"s first ever Gold!) for voiceover and sound design.
www.tellyawards.com/winners/2025...
www.tellyawards.com/winners/2025...
Let's just take a look at what's happening today in eastern Kentucky in Jackson, KY WFO's area. Oh flash flood warnings, severe thunderstorm warnings and watches.
After the region already experienced horrible flash flooding earlier this year.
After the region already experienced horrible flash flooding earlier this year.
May 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Let's just take a look at what's happening today in eastern Kentucky in Jackson, KY WFO's area. Oh flash flood warnings, severe thunderstorm warnings and watches.
After the region already experienced horrible flash flooding earlier this year.
After the region already experienced horrible flash flooding earlier this year.
Just received this lovely note from the Dept. of Commerce. Always great hearing DOC say "Look we're forced to do this and say you weren't fired for performance issues and part of a government wide mass termination. But don't worry we think that's wrong and we're gonna fight it tooth and nail."
May 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Just received this lovely note from the Dept. of Commerce. Always great hearing DOC say "Look we're forced to do this and say you weren't fired for performance issues and part of a government wide mass termination. But don't worry we think that's wrong and we're gonna fight it tooth and nail."
Not a great day for no weather balloon launches in Albany, NY and Gray, Maine. But hey, who needs those woke weather observations.
May 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Not a great day for no weather balloon launches in Albany, NY and Gray, Maine. But hey, who needs those woke weather observations.
This is tonight! Please watchto support all of us illegally fired feds, and hear stories about the damage this all will do.
May 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This is tonight! Please watchto support all of us illegally fired feds, and hear stories about the damage this all will do.
My out of office reply I set up when I got fired from NOAA on February 27 is somehow now re-working. It had stopped working in March.
I figured what better way to let people know I was no longer around and why.
I figured what better way to let people know I was no longer around and why.
April 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
My out of office reply I set up when I got fired from NOAA on February 27 is somehow now re-working. It had stopped working in March.
I figured what better way to let people know I was no longer around and why.
I figured what better way to let people know I was no longer around and why.
If plants take in atmospheric CO2, they sure as heck release CO2 when they burn. And in 2024, things burned. 2 examples: Huge wildfires in Canada and the Amazon also contributed to the record growth in CO2 last year. 6/7
www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
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April 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
If plants take in atmospheric CO2, they sure as heck release CO2 when they burn. And in 2024, things burned. 2 examples: Huge wildfires in Canada and the Amazon also contributed to the record growth in CO2 last year. 6/7
www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
apnews.com/article/amaz...
www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
apnews.com/article/amaz...
In 2024, the year started with the tropical Pacific Ocean in an El Nino phase. El Nino can shift atmospheric patterns and rainfall/temperature patterns across the world, and boost global temps.
Drought influenced by El Nino leads to less plant growth, which means less plants to take in CO2. 5/7
Drought influenced by El Nino leads to less plant growth, which means less plants to take in CO2. 5/7
April 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
In 2024, the year started with the tropical Pacific Ocean in an El Nino phase. El Nino can shift atmospheric patterns and rainfall/temperature patterns across the world, and boost global temps.
Drought influenced by El Nino leads to less plant growth, which means less plants to take in CO2. 5/7
Drought influenced by El Nino leads to less plant growth, which means less plants to take in CO2. 5/7
Global ocean temperatures were also stupid warm in 2024, the hottest year on record. Temperatures in 2024 and 2023 were ridiculously warmer than any other year.
Warmer oceans take in less CO2, which leaves more CO2 in the atmosphere.
Why are our oceans warming? Human-caused climate change. 4/7
Warmer oceans take in less CO2, which leaves more CO2 in the atmosphere.
Why are our oceans warming? Human-caused climate change. 4/7
April 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Global ocean temperatures were also stupid warm in 2024, the hottest year on record. Temperatures in 2024 and 2023 were ridiculously warmer than any other year.
Warmer oceans take in less CO2, which leaves more CO2 in the atmosphere.
Why are our oceans warming? Human-caused climate change. 4/7
Warmer oceans take in less CO2, which leaves more CO2 in the atmosphere.
Why are our oceans warming? Human-caused climate change. 4/7
You might be thinking, "Tom, 3.75 ppm means nothing to me. What does that actually mean?" Here's some context:
A growth of CO2 of 3.75ppm from January 2024 to December 2024 was the largest annual increase on record and 25% larger than the previous record set in 2015. 2/7
A growth of CO2 of 3.75ppm from January 2024 to December 2024 was the largest annual increase on record and 25% larger than the previous record set in 2015. 2/7
April 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
You might be thinking, "Tom, 3.75 ppm means nothing to me. What does that actually mean?" Here's some context:
A growth of CO2 of 3.75ppm from January 2024 to December 2024 was the largest annual increase on record and 25% larger than the previous record set in 2015. 2/7
A growth of CO2 of 3.75ppm from January 2024 to December 2024 was the largest annual increase on record and 25% larger than the previous record set in 2015. 2/7
In absence of a story from NOAA on 2024 Greenhouse Gas numbers, I figured I'd try to add some context.
Carbon dioxide, CO2, grew by 3.75 ppm during 2024 with an average concentration of 422.7 parts per million.
That trend line is up and up and up and up. 1/7
gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
Carbon dioxide, CO2, grew by 3.75 ppm during 2024 with an average concentration of 422.7 parts per million.
That trend line is up and up and up and up. 1/7
gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
April 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
In absence of a story from NOAA on 2024 Greenhouse Gas numbers, I figured I'd try to add some context.
Carbon dioxide, CO2, grew by 3.75 ppm during 2024 with an average concentration of 422.7 parts per million.
That trend line is up and up and up and up. 1/7
gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
Carbon dioxide, CO2, grew by 3.75 ppm during 2024 with an average concentration of 422.7 parts per million.
That trend line is up and up and up and up. 1/7
gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
Earlier in April, NOAA released the global concentration of CO2 for 2024 which was 422.7 ppm.
CO2 concentrations grew by 3.7 ppm which was far and away the biggest increase on record.
Why? Well, usually there is a story at NOAA that explains...Not this year though.
gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
CO2 concentrations grew by 3.7 ppm which was far and away the biggest increase on record.
Why? Well, usually there is a story at NOAA that explains...Not this year though.
gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
April 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Earlier in April, NOAA released the global concentration of CO2 for 2024 which was 422.7 ppm.
CO2 concentrations grew by 3.7 ppm which was far and away the biggest increase on record.
Why? Well, usually there is a story at NOAA that explains...Not this year though.
gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
CO2 concentrations grew by 3.7 ppm which was far and away the biggest increase on record.
Why? Well, usually there is a story at NOAA that explains...Not this year though.
gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
I missed this bonkers news release from NOAA on a proposed rescission of the 'harm' definition in the Endangered Species Act. It fawningly quotes a Scalia dissent from 1995.
Besides the Scalia lovefest, I know Trump folks wrote this because it's horribly written.
www.noaa.gov/news-release...
Besides the Scalia lovefest, I know Trump folks wrote this because it's horribly written.
www.noaa.gov/news-release...
April 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I missed this bonkers news release from NOAA on a proposed rescission of the 'harm' definition in the Endangered Species Act. It fawningly quotes a Scalia dissent from 1995.
Besides the Scalia lovefest, I know Trump folks wrote this because it's horribly written.
www.noaa.gov/news-release...
Besides the Scalia lovefest, I know Trump folks wrote this because it's horribly written.
www.noaa.gov/news-release...
Whelp, officially re-fired again. The roller coaster continues
April 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Whelp, officially re-fired again. The roller coaster continues
Honored to be on CNN this morning with @audiecornish.bsky.social talking about the horrible severe weather outbreak, how important NOAA is for forecasting these events and why these illegal firings at NOAA make us less safe.
March 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Honored to be on CNN this morning with @audiecornish.bsky.social talking about the horrible severe weather outbreak, how important NOAA is for forecasting these events and why these illegal firings at NOAA make us less safe.
I was attacked by Town Hall today and was curious where this idea that the cartoon I made at NOAA cost $3 million (it very obviously didn't). And lo and behold, the dumbest man ever named chief scientist of NOAA.
March 6, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I was attacked by Town Hall today and was curious where this idea that the cartoon I made at NOAA cost $3 million (it very obviously didn't). And lo and behold, the dumbest man ever named chief scientist of NOAA.
Check out the external affairs page at NOAA right now. That's right. Everyone at NOAA external affairs was fired.
www.noaa.gov/external-aff...
www.noaa.gov/external-aff...
March 1, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Check out the external affairs page at NOAA right now. That's right. Everyone at NOAA external affairs was fired.
www.noaa.gov/external-aff...
www.noaa.gov/external-aff...
Look ma! I made it! Teek and Tom Explore Planet Earth is about how the ocean, weather and climate are connected. To tell that story, climate change has to be included otherwise it wouldn't be truthful. Of course, this is about the level of analysis I'd expect from this guy.
February 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Look ma! I made it! Teek and Tom Explore Planet Earth is about how the ocean, weather and climate are connected. To tell that story, climate change has to be included otherwise it wouldn't be truthful. Of course, this is about the level of analysis I'd expect from this guy.
Heads up: Over the next 36 hours, NOAA is forecasting a MODERATE to HIGH risk of respiratory irritation from red tide at some beaches in Collier, Lee and Sarasota counties. For latest updates at individual beaches, see NOAA NCCOS:
coastalscience.noaa.gov/science-area...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/science-area...
January 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Heads up: Over the next 36 hours, NOAA is forecasting a MODERATE to HIGH risk of respiratory irritation from red tide at some beaches in Collier, Lee and Sarasota counties. For latest updates at individual beaches, see NOAA NCCOS:
coastalscience.noaa.gov/science-area...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/science-area...