NEW: The Trump admin has informed NOAA that two buildings that are critical for weather forecasting will have their leases canceled. If this comes to pass, it's a really big deal. Includes weather fcst nerve center in College Park, Md.:
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Andrew Freedman
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- I didn't think the satellite images of the West Coast fires could get more jaw-dropping and alarming. I was wrong. The smoke has been wrapped at least 1,000 miles west into a cyclone, and also is wafting far southeast, over Ariz.
- "In essence, Exxon didn’t just know, they knew precisely" how much the Earth would warm in the 20th and 21st centuries, decades ago. Interesting new study out today:
- This is a really chilling moment from a science standpoint, with Trump having just pushed an unproven #covid treatment and Fauci, the top infectious disease expert in the US, getting muzzled on live TV. Was clear Trump didn’t want to be contradicted.Replying to @atrupar"I answered this 15 times. You don't have to answer." -- Trump prevents Dr Fauci from answering a question about hydroxychloroquine
00:00 - It's hard to describe the sadness I feel over the Nat Geo layoffs, and the coming loss of the magazine at news stands. It was the magazine that helped convinced me to become a journalist, nurtured my interest in weather and climate... 1/
- NEW: The NWS receives permission to hire up to 450 meteorologists/hydrologists/radar technicians after DOGE-related cuts. Agency also given a public safety exemption from federal hiring freeze. (1/2)
- SCOOP: Trump administration slashes scope of next-generation US weather satellites, eliminating air quality and ocean observing sensors. (1/3)
- This isn't getting enough attention quite yet: For the first time, the @IPCC_CH has published an interactive climate atlas where you can explore your region's potential climate future. It's not comforting, but is impressive work. interactive-atlas.ipcc.ch
- Per White House pool, @Pontifex gave Trump a personally signed copy of his climate change encyclical today.
- SCOOP: Two senior NOAA officials were just placed on leave. Both led ‘Sharpiegate’ inquiry
- Having a President threaten to withhold FEMA recovery funds from the deadliest wildfire in Calif. history, along with other major blazes there, is astonishing. axios.com/trump-tweets-c…
- Record-breaking heat wave continues in Texas, potentially into July. This isn't a dry heat, either, truly brutal conditions with heat indices >125°F at times. axios.com/2023/06/21/tex…
- NEW: This hurricane season, forecasters will go without a key tool as NOAA won't have a fleet of drone ships to use for intercepting nature's fiercest Atlantic tempests. (1/2)
- A groundbreaking new study finds the signal - or "fingerprint" - of human-caused global warming was likely detectable by 1885, earlier than previously thought. (1/2)
