Wow—

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( #NOAA )called out a rapidly warming Arctic in December of last year.

“This year's report demonstrates the urgent need for adaptation as climate conditions quickly change.”

-and-

The arctic tundra is “now emitting more carbon that it stores... yet one more sign... of the consequences of inadequately reducing fossil fuel pollution.”

#climate #ClimateChange #USA #environment

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/2024-arctic-report-card-documents-rapid-dramatic-change

(I archived the main page so far.)

DOGE Is Making It Harder to Track Extreme Weather. What Could Go Wrong?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/opinion/weather-service-doge-cuts.html

"These cuts threaten your budget, too. #Insurance companies rely heavily on #data gathered by #NOAA and the #US Geological Survey to assess wildfire, flood, wind and other risks. Some firms are warning that any interruption in data availability could drive insurance premiums for customers even higher."

#ElonMusk #Musk #Doge #Trump #GOP #USPol #Weather #Climate #News #US #USA

Who DOGE Hurts: Gutting NOAA
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/who-doge-hurts-gutting-noaa

"the #NOAA was preparing to lay off more than 1,000 workers...

People who live in #hurricane & #tornado country keep their “NOAA #weather radios” handy...

In theory, it sounds like one more bad thing to worry about. In practice, it’s much worse. We’ve just had a demonstration of precisely how effective NOAA is & what we stand to lose without it."

#Musk #Doge #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #Politics #Disasters #Climate #News #US #USA

da bin ich nicht so sicher. Der Mann ist ideologisch so verblendet, daß er sogar NOAA drastisch reduziert hat und damit die Warnungen vor extremen Wetterereignissen stark gefährdet.
#Trump #photovoltaik #noaa

Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Could Kill Your Dog

The ax has come down on the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Admn, and that could have unexpectedly deadly consequences for your #pets—not to mention your own #health.
https://newrepublic.com/article/192346/musk-doge-noaa-water-safety-algae

"Microcystin has been known to kill #dogs, #birds, & #livestock & cause nausea, diarrhea, & vomiting in people...

Thursday, the head of that [water safety monitoring] team was fired, alongside 100s of other #NOAA employees."

#Musk #Doge #Coup #Trump #News #USA

As I kid I dreamed of working as a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Alaska. Thanks to the timing of my birth, through good times and bad, I spent more than more than 30 years doing just that. Today, hundreds of similar dreams were shattered. To all of you, I am so sorry. #NOAA #Alaska

“Three years ago, SpaceX lost 40 satellites due to their ignorance of space weather implications and upper atmosphere density impacts. They immediately came to NOAA and said, ‘hey, help us out’,” Spinrad said, calling it “an object lesson there for Elon Musk himself” on the agency’s value.

#NOAA

https://apnews.com/article/noaa-doge-federal-cuts-musk-weather-danger-6f60e7c511989aeff8930ae87c9a5ee8

Alt National Park Service
NOAA is an absolute mess, and it’ll be worse tomorrow. Please help us. There have already been over 1,000 terminations. It’s not just layoffs—Elon Musk and his staffers are trying to completely dismantle us. Today, there were tons of firings, and more are coming tomorrow.
Union and lawyers are helping. America, please spread the word and call Congress.
#AltNPS #Coup #NOAA #CallYourRepresentative

Feel free to add.
"Things that will happen if Trump/Musk destroy #NOAA and the National Weather Service (#NWS)."
Planes won't fly.
Your weather app won't work or be accurate.
No #hurricane, tsunami, or #flood forecasts or warnings.
No #water information for farmers.
No data from earth observing #satellites
No #climate information
Higher insurance rates for disasters

Update. "Science at Risk: Protect #NOAA"
https://secure.ucsusa.org/a/2025-protect-noaa-science-aaas

I just signed this open letter from @ucsusa and hope you will too.

"Scientists and other experts: Add your name to this open letter calling on Congress and the #Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed, and that the independent, trusted science the agency produces is protected."

#Climate #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics

Update. "The #Trump administration and Elon #Musk are reportedly taking aim at #NOAA, the agency responsible for the National Weather Service and many other crucial functions."
https://www.fastcompany.com/91274927/trump-wants-to-dismantle-the-agency-that-provides-weather-forecasts-it-will-make-your-life-worse

"#Project2025 specifically noted NOAA as a target, as well. The Heritage Foundation’s 900-page right-wing playbook called the agency “one of the main drivers of the #climate change alarm industry” and recommended it be “dismantled and many of its functions eliminated” and instead #privatized. It’s not clear what that would look like, though experts have said it isn’t a good idea—and that private weather companies wouldn’t even want that change because they’d have to bear the cost of collecting weather data that’s currently given to them for free."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Update. "Staffers with Elon #Musk’s [#DOGE] entered the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (#NOAA)…today, inciting concerns of downsizing at the agency."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/doge-noaa-headquarters

What's the #Trump or #Trumpist interest here?

1. "#Project2025…called for the agency to be 'broken up and downsized', claiming the agency is 'harmful to US prosperity' for its role in #climate science."

2. Andrew Rosenberg, a former NOAA official, "noted it had been a longtime goal of corporations that rely on NOAA data to prevent the agency from making the data public, instead of giving it directly to private corporations that create products based on it, such as weather forecasting services."

PS: Rosenberg is right. During the GWBush admin, Senator #RickSantorum (R-PA) repeatedly tried to take down NOAA's open weather data, to benefit AccuWeather, the for-profit weather forecaster in his state. I wrote about it often at the time and may have to dig out and reup those old pieces.

#OpenData #USPol #USPolitics

Republicans in Revolt as Elon Musk’s DOGE Continues Takeover

Republicans in #Congress are getting pissed as #DOGE keeps wreaking havoc.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191690/republicans-congress-revolt-elon-musk-doge

"Infighting is brewing among the GOP’s congressional ranks, as Elon Musk’s takeover of the #government and sweeping federal employee #purge begins to hit #red states.

...agencies like #USAID, the #FAA, and #NOAA —agencies that many #Republicans actually like & support—have been crippled."

#Musk #Trump #Coup #GOP #Politics #News #USA

we are closing in on home - unfortunately wallowing in 4 m swell from a couple of directions and fog but at least getting further north each day... #TAN2502 #Antarctica (noting that the image I casually grab a section of has #NOAA marked at the bottom 😟 )

We've had science talks all the way back interspersed with other fun stuff - tonite was quiz night. My contribution were questions on #TeTiriti and #SplitEnz (mindful that 70% of the team of from not NZ 😉 )

Elon Musk's #DOGE has worked quickly to cut federal agencies. Here's a list of what's been targeted so far.
https://www.businessinsider.com/federal-agencies-musk-doge-targeted-list-2025-2

#NASA

Dept of #Education

US Agency for International Development ( #USAID)

Federal Aviation Administration ( #FAA)

#Treasury Dept

Federal Emergency Management Agency ( #FEMA)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( #NOAA)

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ( #CFPB)

the federal workforce

and #DEI initiatives.

#Musk #Coup #Government #News #US

#NOAA, #USAID, #CDC und die National Institutes of Health (NIH), standen im #Project2025 auf der Streich-/Gängelungsliste. Trump setzt die Pläne aus diesem Papier, von dem er sich im Wahlkampf unglaubwürdig zu distanzieren versuchte, eins zu eins um. https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/angriffe-auf-wissenschaft-wo-donald-trump-und-elon-musk-europa-nuetzen-koennten-a-737d2505-dfc7-436f-a983-de064cafcfdb
2/4

#Zeteo:
"
This Week in Democracy – Week 3: Shadow President Elon Musk in Full Control

Zeteo's new project to document the ongoing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism in the Trump second term.
"
https://zeteo.com/p/this-week-in-democracy-week-3-musk-trump-usaid-fbi-doe

8.2.2025

#ACLU #authoritarianism #CIA #ConstitutionalEmergency #DEI #Democracy #DOGE #DOJ #EPA #FBI #FCC #Menschenfeindlichkeit #Musk #NARA #NCMEC #NOAA #Staatskrise #TheKennedyCenter #UNRWA #USA #USAID

“The US National weather Service, housed within NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.”
-D Swain

#NOAA #NationalWeatherService #DOGE #TrumpMusk #USPol

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

#climatechange #ClimateCrisis #NOAA

Email leaked to Ken Klippenstein telling NOAA employees that their course material can’t contain ANY of the following words in order to remain complaint with Trump’s executive order on DEI.

The party than ran on freedom and speech and avoiding censorship now actively censoring people.

Every word breaks my heart… but I want to pause on the inclusion of “empathy”.

The fact that they can’t use the word empathy is a perfect encapsulation of this whole administration.

#uspoli #noaa #trump #dei #deia #censorship# #fascism #freedomofspeech #inclusion

Fuels and Fire Behavior Advisory
Southern California Geographic Area Coordination Center
January 16-30, 2025

“The resultant level of fuel volatility would be notable in summer months, and is extraordinary for January.”

Open PDF file: (2 pages)
https://www.nifc.gov/sites/default/files/NICC/2-Predictive%20Services/Fuels-Fire%20Danger/Fuels-Fire-Behavior-Advisory_OSC_20250116.pdf
#CAfire #CAwx #LAFires #CalFire #CalOES #NOAA

#Arctic #tundra is now emitting more #carbon than it absorbs, US agency says

Drastic shift driven by frequent #wildfires, pushing surface air #temperatures to second-warmest on record since 1900

by Dharna Noor, Tue 10 December

"The Arctic tundra is undergoing a dramatic transformation, driven by frequent wildfires that are turning it into a net source of carbon dioxide emissions after millennia of acting as a carbon sink, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (#Noaa) said on Tuesday.

"This drastic shift is detailed in Noaa’s 2024 Arctic Report Card, which revealed that annual surface air temperatures in the Arctic this year were the second-warmest on record since 1900.

“'Our observations now show that the Arctic tundra, which is experiencing warming and increased wildfire, is now emitting more carbon than it stores, which will worsen climate change impacts,' said Rick Spinrad, a Noaa administrator.

"The report, led by scientists from the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Falmouth, Massachusetts, found that the Arctic is warming faster than the global average for the 11th year in a row.

"Currently, it is warming at up to four times the global rate, the authors found.

"Climate warming has dual effects on the Arctic. While it stimulates plant productivity and growth, which remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, it also leads to increased surface air temperatures that cause permafrost to thaw.

"When permafrost thaws, carbon trapped in the frozen soil is decomposed by microbes and released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide and methane, two potent greenhouse gases.

"'We need accurate, holistic and comprehensive knowledge of how climate changes will affect the amount of carbon the Arctic is taking up and storing, and how much it’s releasing back into the atmosphere, in order to effectively address this crisis,' said Dr Sue Natali, a scientist at the Woodwell Center who contributed to the research. 'This report represents a critical step toward quantifying these emissions at scale.'

"Human-caused climate change is also intensifying high-latitude wildfires, which have increased in burned area, intensity and associated carbon emissions.

"Wildfires not only combust vegetation and soil organic matter, releasing carbon into the atmosphere, but they also strip away insulating soil layers, accelerating long-term permafrost thaw and its associated carbon emissions.

"'In recent years, we’ve seen how increasing fire activity from climate change threatens both communities and the carbon stored in permafrost, but now we’re beginning to be able to measure the cumulative impact to the atmosphere, and it’s significant,' said Dr Brendan Rogers, Woodwell Climate scientist and report contributor."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/10/arctic-tundra-carbon-shift?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#GlobalWarming #GlobalBurning #2024ArcticReportCard #ArcticWarming #Tundra #PermafrostThaw #GreenhouseGases #Methane #Microbes #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

BREAKING OZONE NEWS!

2024 Antarctic ozone hole ranks 7th-smallest since recovery began

Ozone layer could ‘fully recover’ by 2066
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #ozone #Breaking #BreakingNews
#noaa

https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/2024-antarctic-ozone-hole-ranks-7th-smallest-since-recovery-began