Turns out that when the federal government becomes an existential threat to your institution, the number and frequency of townhall meetings rises dramatically.
24.02.2026 17:58
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Turns out that when the federal government becomes an existential threat to your institution, the number and frequency of townhall meetings rises dramatically.
A major insurance industry professional organization submitted a letter in support of the Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research, calling it crucial infrastructure for understanding weather & climate risk, and saying dismantling it threatens US insurance coverage. tinyurl.com/4aaxh22d
You may find this map shocking. The crazy imbalance even surprised me!
It’s the ratio of record highs vs record lows in each city since 2020. That’s right, in Miami there have been 115 daily record highs, but only 1 record morning low! Phoenix: 138 to 0!… 1/
On a busy day for science policy, it looks like oversight and operations of NCAR’s supercomputing center are transitioning to a third-party operator. www.nsf.gov/news/transit...
Lean more about the costs of dismantling NCAR with this opinion from @carlonimbus.bsky.social.
NSF has announced that they will officially transfer @ncar-ucar.bsky.social supercomputer to a third-party manager.
www.nsf.gov/news/transit...
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
OMFG.
Enough is enough. It must stop.
oh, what a surprising finding. 🤦♂️
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
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Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
If a license plate doesn’t match the car it’s on, I would imagine the car should be impounded. Right? @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social
Go away, Susan Collins. We need NCAR to remain
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
Jerome Powell makes it clear:
The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President.
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
variety.com/2026/tv/news...
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
Our guide to approaching (and starting!) conversations about NCAR and the importance of weather and climate science. #SaveNCAR
There aren't a lot of resources for what people can do to prevent the destruction of NCAR, so I made this:
#NCAR #climate #climatescience #weather #meteorology #activism #myresources
The word “climate” goes back at least to the 14th century, with fairly modern connotations by the 16th century. I vote we keep the word, and use it when appropriate. www.etymonline.com/word/climate
This post has been edited to add a link and context around new reporting from NOTUS (bsky.app/profile/anna...) that suggests the NCAR closure is related to a personal spat between Trump and Colorado's governor, which if true is shocking in its context.
