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Barry Jones had been thinking about climate change since the 1960s.
But as he would discover, foresight rarely aligns with political incentives.
“I would say to Bob Hawke: ‘Look, we’ve got to take the issue of climate change seriously’,” he recalls.
“And he’d say, ‘but when’s the impact going to be seen at its worst?’
“And you think, well, it might be another 25 years
and he’d reply:
‘Well, you come back to me sometime later, before the 25 years is up, …

The man who knew too much: Barry Jones on Albo, Putin and the end of the line
At 93, the Labor legend and former science minister is eyeing the “exit ramp”. But he isn’t going quietly, taking aim at Anthony Albanese’s lack of courage on reform and a political system that has lost its way.

The preprint of the paper is here btw: #MachineLearning methods to emulate #Greenland ice sheet melt via European Weather Cloud computing
https://europeanweather.cloud/use-cases/machine-learning-emulation-accelerate-climate-science

Interesting #science and #engineering solutions in Colombia
"The pioneering technologies range from low-cost solar water heaters to a children's see-saw that doubles as a water pump, from edible forest gardening to biofuel. Some were inspired by traditional methods used by local indig…

'One of the harshest places on Earth': The 1960s green 'Utopia' that tried to reinvent the world
In an extreme environmental and political climate in remote Colombia, one maverick village has relied on homegrown inventions to survive.

Event With Links to Oil Industry Teaches Judges "Healthy Skepticism" of Climate Science (Abrahm Lustgarten/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-science-oil-gas-fossil-fuel-judges-jim-jordan
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p38#a260502p38

The U.S. Forest Service is closing 57 of its 77 research facilities in 31 states
under a reorganization plan announced this week,
threatening science that looked at how wildfires, drought, pests and global warming are putting pressure on forests.
The agency plans to consolidate its research division into a centralized office in Fort Collins, Colo.,
and move field researchers to locations in nearby states.
But employees said they feared the move would lead many s…

Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk
Scientists say their work on fires and climate change could be lost as the agency moves its headquarters to Utah from Washington and shuts 57 research stations.

Women's work songs as a record of environmental change - research by Reetika Revathy Subramanium.
https://theconversation.com/what-womens-work-songs-reveal-about-the-changing-climate-280964
Wonderfully wide comparison - all ac…

US Government Is Accelerating Coral Reef Collapse, Scientists Warn – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/trump-policies-climate-coral-reefs-collapse-science/

Toxins plus climate harms likely cause of reduced fertility, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/26/toxic-exposure-climate-crisis-study?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Toxins plus climate harms likely cause of reduced fertility, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/26/toxic-exposure-climate-crisis-study?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Proud PhD supervisor moment: @… have nice write up to Elke Schlager's brilliant work, (now a preprint in @…) on how we can use #MachineLearning methods to emulate #Greenland ice sheet melt via European Weather Cloud computing
https://europeanweather.cloud/use-cases/machine-learning-emulation-accelerate-climate-science

Top climate scientist leaves NASA, because telling the truth there has become difficult. Sad.
Looking forward to hear from you in a new position, Kate!
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/climate/kate-marvel-nasa-resign.html

Kate Marvel, Prominent Climate Scientist, Resigns From NASA
Kate Marvel, a well-known author, joins an estimated 95,000 people who have left federal science agencies since President Trump returned to the White House.

African climate science policy has a serious blind spot: The slowing Atlantic circulation #Africa

African climate science policy has a serious blind spot: The slowing Atlantic circulation
The climate fiction movie The Day After Tomorrow, released in 2004, popularized the devastating effects of sudden climate change on Earth. The plot dramatizes the consequences of a shut-down in an ocean current, and features the Northern Hemisphere plunging, within a few weeks, into an ice age.

I guess fossil fuel companies follow tobacco industry playbook: first deny and discredit the science, later deny responsibility. It'll work until a big case is won and a precedent it established. But by then most of the current management will be retired, so sadly it'll likely pay off...

"Americans Believe in Science, Just Not Its Findings"
Also over a decade old. I wonder if it will ever change.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/americans-believe-in-science-just-not-its-findings/3…

Die Klimaforscherin Kate Marvel hat ihren Posten bei der US-Raumfahrtbehörde #NASA aufgegeben und begründet dies mit politischen Eingriffen in die #Klimaforschung.
Seit dem Amtsantritt von Präsident #Trump

Kate Marvel, Prominent Climate Scientist, Resigns From NASA
Kate Marvel, a well-known author, joins an estimated 95,000 people who have left federal science agencies since President Trump returned to the White House.

According to reporting by Bloomberg, about half of the data centers slated to open in the US in 2026 will either face delays or outright cancellations.
The publication interviewed analysts at market intelligence company Sightline Climate, which in research first flagged by Ed Zitron last week noted that 12 gigawatts worth of power-consuming data centers are set to open in the US this year.
But here’s the catch:
they say only a third of those are actually under construction r…

Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed
The vast majority of data centers scheduled for completion over the next few years have yet to even break ground.

How the Trump Administration Ended Independent Science at the E.P.A. (Lisa Friedman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/climate/epa-science-trump-cuts.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260427/p77#a260427p77

Earth on Track to Become Uninhabitable, Scientists Say
https://futurism.com/science-energy/earth-uninhabitable-climate-change

Earth on Track to Become Uninhabitable, Scientists Say
The planet is close to entering a death-spiral that could bring about a worst-case-scenario known as "hothouse Earth."

Science That's Actually Interesting
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On Tuesday famed climate scientist Kate Marvel joined the more than 10,000 people with PhDs in science, engineering and mathematics who, according to Science, are reported to have left the U.S. federal workforce since
Donald Trump took office in January.
Marvel resigned from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Sciences (GISS), where she studied climate change and its effects on Earth’s systems. In her resignation letter, she wrote that “the decision to leave was not an easy one.”…

Top climate scientist Kate Marvel just resigned from NASA. Here's why
Climate scientist Kate Marvel talked to Scientific American about her decision to leave NASA amid federal government turmoil and funding challenges

Philip Ball:
"There’s a broader issue at stake here too that pertains to the place of AI in scientific research. Too often now, we hear claims of how AI will replace human scientists and, in doing so, will solve our most pressing problems: curing all disease, solving climate change, figuring out how to conduct nuclear fusion. Such claims are never supported by experts in those fields—and that’s not because they want to convince us that they are indispensable after all. Rather, it i…

AlphaGenome: On the Promise and Limits of AI in Science
PHILIP BALL | According to the old story, we once thought that all this other DNA was just “junk,” a term coined in this context in the 1970s. It was accumulated over the course of evolution, for example by viruses inserting their genetic material into ours, and it did nothing useful but just cluttered up our genome the way all our old detritus of a lifetime clutters up our attic.

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
A recent review in #Science highlights knowledge gaps of the "calcifying plankton" role for biogenic carbon removal in #climate models. Coccolithophores (algae), f…

"Even if warming is limited to 2°C, wildfires, storms and beetles may boost Europe forest loss"
#Europe #Nature #Climate

Even if warming is limited to 2°C, wildfires, storms and beetles may boost Europe forest loss
Forest damage in Europe caused by wildfires, storms and bark beetle outbreaks is projected to increase compared to recent decades under all analyzed climate scenarios, according to a new international study, published in Science, with contributions from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

"Inside a jubilant DC conference where ‘the climate deniers are in charge now’"
#Accusations&Confessions: "Zeldin said, a “cabal” of elites promoted climate science to further their agenda."

"Inside a jubilant DC conference where ‘the climate deniers are in charge now’"
#Accusations&Confessions: "Zeldin said, a “cabal” of elites promoted climate science to further their agenda."

National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info
State attorneys general won’t get climate chapter removed from a legal manual
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/national-academies-of-sciences-r…

National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info
State attorneys general won't get climate chapter removed from a legal manual.

EPA to repeal its own conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the planet and threaten health (Evan Bush/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/epa-to-repeal-endangerment-finding-climate-change-emissions-rcna258250
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p169#a260210p169

Trump administration is erasing history and science at national parks, lawsuit argues
Conservation and historical groups sued Tuesday,
challenging Trump administration orders removing exhibits on slavery, civil rights, Indigenous history and climate science from national parks.
A federal judge ordered restoration of an exhibit about enslaved people at George Washington’s Philadelphia home,
comparing the censorship to Orwell’s dystopian “1984.”
The removals exte…

Trump administration is erasing history and science at national parks, lawsuit argues
A lawsuit filed in Boston says orders by President Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum have forced park service staff to remove or censor exhibits that share factually accurate and relevant U.S. history and scientific knowledge, including about slavery and climate change.

RE: https://mastodon.energy/@Sustainable2050/116421829038049972
"The comfort of uncertainty" 🎯
Valid in general for the way the world has treated results from climate science. Used by some fossil fuel companies and the likes of Russi…

Under pressure from Republican state attorneys general, the agency that advises
the U.S. Supreme Court and federal judges on scientific and technical matters has
withdrawn the entirety of its content on climate change from a new judicial reference manual.
The move by the Federal Judicial Center leaves judges without any official support on how to weigh evidence about basic weather and climate changes
-- just as numerous climate cases make their way through state and f…

Under GOP Pressure, Federal Agency Pulls Climate Change Chapter From Official Manual for U.S. Judges
The “Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence” — updated for the first time in 15 years — eliminates some 90 pages about climate science and comes just as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts.

WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change (Matthew Daly/Associated Press)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/watch-live-trump-zeldin-to-announce-end-of-scientific-basis-for-u-s-action-on-climate-change
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p88#a260212p88

"Reversing biodiversity loss by 2030 is critical to avoid disastrous effects on human well-being, researchers warn"
#Biodiversity #Environment

Reversing biodiversity loss by 2030 is critical to avoid disastrous effects on human well-being, researchers warn
Halting and reversing the global decline in biodiversity is now urgent to avoid destabilizing Earth's vital systems that support human well-being. That's the stark message of a new paper published today in Frontiers in Science. The authors warn that without protecting remaining intact biomes and ecosystems, climate and development goals will be impossible to achieve.

Reversing biodiversity loss by 2030 is critical to avoid disastrous effects on human well-being, researchers warn https://phys.org/news/2026-04-reversing-biodiversity-loss-critical-disastrous.html

Reversing biodiversity loss by 2030 is critical to avoid disastrous effects on human well-being, researchers warn
Halting and reversing the global decline in biodiversity is now urgent to avoid destabilizing Earth's vital systems that support human well-being. That's the stark message of a new paper published today in Frontiers in Science. The authors warn that without protecting remaining intact biomes and ecosystems, climate and development goals will be impossible to achieve.

Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab (Eric Niiler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/climate/ncar-breakup-plan-nasa-noaa.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260313/p78#a260313p78

How to make health systems climate-resilient? I am pleased to announce:
Climate-Resilient Health Systems for Sustained Value Chains, Healthcare Access and Services
#health systems can be made climate resilient, with two novel conceptual frameworks on
• sustained access to #healthcare
• maintaining healthcare provision
for identifying failures & guiding #adaptation.
#ClimateChangeAdaptation #PublicHealth #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Research #Science

"Crocuses are blooming early – here’s what this means for nature"
#Nature #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange

Crocuses are blooming early – here’s what this means for nature
The hard science behind these dainty flowers.

Northern hemisphere snow cover is shrinking—new analysis tracks how fast #environment

Northern hemisphere snow cover is shrinking—new analysis tracks how fast
Faculty at Mississippi State University are continuing work at the intersection of mathematics, statistics, and climate science with the publication of a new study examining regional snow cover trends across the Northern Hemisphere. The results suggest shrinking snow coverage as well as seasonal shifts for when the wintry layer comes and goes. The study, "Regional Analysis of Snow Presence Trends in the Northern Hemisphere," was published in January in the Journal of Hydrometeorology.

"Dozens of British businesses pledge to set science-based emissions targets"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Emissions #Climate

RE: #Arctic #Antarctic #Polar #ClimateScience #ClimateModelling #EarthObservation #Climate #IceSheets #SeaIce #Permafrost

How to make health systems climate-resilient? I am pleased to announce the first of two reports:
Healthcare System-of-Systems Vulnerability
#HealthSystems #Health #Healthcare #ClimateChangeAdaptation #PublicHealth #ClimateChage #ClimateCrisis #SocialRiskManagement #Research #Science #Adaptation