The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis. The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall. 1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.

My talk at Marist University on #earthday will start by contrasting Trump's dismantling of environmental protections with Republican Richard Nixon's actions, starting with his 1/22/1970 SOTU (exactly 3 months before the first #EarthDay) laying out the clear logic for protecting air, water

It’s an absolute pleasure and gift to be back at the West Point Foundry Preserve in Cold Spring ahead of my #EarthDay talk at Marist University . Grateful to Scenic Hudson and NY State Parks. And Cornell Lab for Merlin.

So excited to have Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ visiting Marist University on #EarthDay to tell our students about his experiences reporting on #climatechange & the importance of #SciComm to build conversation & community to tackle global challenges.

Happy #EarthDay 🌎 From studying the atmosphere to exploring the depths of the sea, every day is Earth Day to us here at NOAA Research. We hope you get to enjoy some time outside today! To learn about NOAA Research and how we study our planet, check out: research.noaa.gov

Since the dawn of the industrial revolution, a couple of hundred years ago, greenhouse gas forcing - mainly from burning fossil fuels - has more than doubled. Meaning that the ability of the atmosphere to trap heat has significantly increased. Thanks Leon Simons (looking up) for the graphic!

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WOW! ~391,137 ha of 🌽⛽ is ideal for conversion to 🌞panels (3.2% of the land for 🌽⛽). Converting this to solar could yield the same amount of energy as ALL 🌽⛽annually in US. This would increase %🌞 energy in US energy mix from 3.9 to 13% anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/new-st…

What gives me hope? When clean energy alleviates poverty, leaders speak up for justice, and people realize they’re not alone in caring about climate. Read more: talkingclimate.ca/p/break-the-cl…

430.55 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 05-May-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

In late April, hundreds of volunteer scientists and experts across the country were told by the Trump administration that they were no longer needed to compile the next national climate assessment, a flagship report mandated by Congress to periodically catalog the ways climate

BREAKING: Just minutes before midnight, Senate Republicans have released the full text of their proposed "Big Beautiful Bill" version. 940 pages. I'm digging in . Here's text: budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/… Here's one-pager: budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…

The Senate is about to vote on a bill that would raise electricity prices in every single state. It would cut off America's fastest growing sources of new electricity at a time when we need it most. Some states would see their bills go up by 20%+ as a result of this bill.

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including the Mauna Loa site, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.

Legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared from the federal websites built to display them, making it harder to learn what to expect from a warming world. See which ones the Trump administration pulled. apnews.com/article/climat…

I’m a plant ecologist who has used labeled stable isotopes to understand ecosystem nutrient cycling. This is a really cool study that uses them to understand cancer…wow!

A new report by the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences concludes that the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding was accurate, has stood the test of time, and is now reinforced by even stronger evidence: nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/29239/…