Smiff
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Views are my own and not representative of my agency. Climate scientists and journalists are my heroes and rock stars.
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This is theoretical but the possiblity is there, so no arguments from you guys lol.
March 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
This is theoretical but the possiblity is there, so no arguments from you guys lol.
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Our agency is being directed to rename AWIPS/GFE maps to "Gulf of America" per Trump’s EO. Let’s be clear: U.S. maritime jurisdiction stops at 12 nm, no further.
This is a distraction and a waste of federal worker time while real issues go ignored. It’s the Gulf of Mexico, btw.
#GulfOfMexico
This is a distraction and a waste of federal worker time while real issues go ignored. It’s the Gulf of Mexico, btw.
#GulfOfMexico
February 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Our agency is being directed to rename AWIPS/GFE maps to "Gulf of America" per Trump’s EO. Let’s be clear: U.S. maritime jurisdiction stops at 12 nm, no further.
This is a distraction and a waste of federal worker time while real issues go ignored. It’s the Gulf of Mexico, btw.
#GulfOfMexico
This is a distraction and a waste of federal worker time while real issues go ignored. It’s the Gulf of Mexico, btw.
#GulfOfMexico
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BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun.
The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.
The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.
February 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun.
The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.
The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.
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This is exhausting. 16 Dems vote to confirm the nomination of Dan Driscoll (JD Vance's college buddy) to Secretary of the Army.
February 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This is exhausting. 16 Dems vote to confirm the nomination of Dan Driscoll (JD Vance's college buddy) to Secretary of the Army.
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It's hard to admit that you were wrong. It isn't hard to admit that you were lied to and you want to make things better. We must unite against the common enemy that seeks to profit off of our demise.
February 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
It's hard to admit that you were wrong. It isn't hard to admit that you were lied to and you want to make things better. We must unite against the common enemy that seeks to profit off of our demise.
I was on a call today at work and heard there are firefighting crews and equipment from Alberta, British Columbia, and Quebec assisting California. The fact that this country wants to put tariffs on Canada, one of our longest standing allies is simply asinine.
January 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I was on a call today at work and heard there are firefighting crews and equipment from Alberta, British Columbia, and Quebec assisting California. The fact that this country wants to put tariffs on Canada, one of our longest standing allies is simply asinine.
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Trump just withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.
The US now joins Iran, Libya, and Yemen as the only countries in the world not in the agreement.
The US now joins Iran, Libya, and Yemen as the only countries in the world not in the agreement.
January 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Trump just withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.
The US now joins Iran, Libya, and Yemen as the only countries in the world not in the agreement.
The US now joins Iran, Libya, and Yemen as the only countries in the world not in the agreement.
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Criswell: Firefighter for 12 years, Desert Storm veteran, head of NYC emergency management, confirmed to lead FEMA unanimously
Clyde: gun shop owner who sued IRS, rode that fight to Congress in 2020 in a blood-red Georgia district
One of them has a career based on identity politics, all right.
Clyde: gun shop owner who sued IRS, rode that fight to Congress in 2020 in a blood-red Georgia district
One of them has a career based on identity politics, all right.
Rep. Andrew Clyde refers to FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell as a "DEI hire"
(she's a woman)
(she's a woman)
January 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Criswell: Firefighter for 12 years, Desert Storm veteran, head of NYC emergency management, confirmed to lead FEMA unanimously
Clyde: gun shop owner who sued IRS, rode that fight to Congress in 2020 in a blood-red Georgia district
One of them has a career based on identity politics, all right.
Clyde: gun shop owner who sued IRS, rode that fight to Congress in 2020 in a blood-red Georgia district
One of them has a career based on identity politics, all right.
Mars is next to the moon!
January 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Mars is next to the moon!
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One thing I learned researching my book is that China's climate legislation requires there to be climate-change courses in secondary and undergraduate education.
It also institutes and funds departments of climate change and "ecological civilization" studies in all Chinese universities.
It also institutes and funds departments of climate change and "ecological civilization" studies in all Chinese universities.
I want to pause here and acknowledge the colossal and accelerating contribution that Chinese researchers are making in the fields of climate and sustainability. This is chronically overlooked in the Anglosphere. Easily half of the most significant papers I've read recently were by Chinese authors.
"We show that 31–67% and 51–91% of the planetary boundary breaching responsibility could be attributed to the global top 10% and top 20% of consumers, respectively."
Any economic agenda, even the "abundance" agenda, must deal with this scientific finding, no?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Any economic agenda, even the "abundance" agenda, must deal with this scientific finding, no?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 14, 2024 at 3:51 PM
One thing I learned researching my book is that China's climate legislation requires there to be climate-change courses in secondary and undergraduate education.
It also institutes and funds departments of climate change and "ecological civilization" studies in all Chinese universities.
It also institutes and funds departments of climate change and "ecological civilization" studies in all Chinese universities.
Ohio river not looking good with no potential rainfall in the next 28. Anyone think this recession will cause the saltwater wedge to overtop the sill?
October 15, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Ohio river not looking good with no potential rainfall in the next 28. Anyone think this recession will cause the saltwater wedge to overtop the sill?
Probably a loaded and vague question but I’m gonna shoot my shot - any emergency managers (or really anyone remotely associated with the EM world) use artificial intelligence for data mining or report writing? Or anything at all? Still pretty new at this and I am not sure what’s out there.
October 7, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Probably a loaded and vague question but I’m gonna shoot my shot - any emergency managers (or really anyone remotely associated with the EM world) use artificial intelligence for data mining or report writing? Or anything at all? Still pretty new at this and I am not sure what’s out there.
Jesus Christ, nobody is having late term abortions…that’s called birth
October 2, 2024 at 1:54 AM
Jesus Christ, nobody is having late term abortions…that’s called birth
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My paper that is coming out soon* is about why massive climate events in the 'First World' still won't lead to mitigation action.
The colonial, masculine fantasy of invulnerability is too definitive.
*accepted 11 weeks ago and counting.
The colonial, masculine fantasy of invulnerability is too definitive.
*accepted 11 weeks ago and counting.
September 30, 2024 at 6:32 AM
My paper that is coming out soon* is about why massive climate events in the 'First World' still won't lead to mitigation action.
The colonial, masculine fantasy of invulnerability is too definitive.
*accepted 11 weeks ago and counting.
The colonial, masculine fantasy of invulnerability is too definitive.
*accepted 11 weeks ago and counting.
Friends don’t let friends fall to дезинформация
September 20, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Friends don’t let friends fall to дезинформация
So this saltwater intrusion coming up the Mississippi concerns me. No signs of slowing down and it looks to be a dry fall in the Ohio river valley.
September 18, 2024 at 8:22 PM
So this saltwater intrusion coming up the Mississippi concerns me. No signs of slowing down and it looks to be a dry fall in the Ohio river valley.