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AP Environmental Science. Earth Space. CHS. Views are of my own volition. Change the World! 43°26'33.2"S 170°10'21.4"E

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

The area near the #Galapagos Islands are impressively hot. About 6-10F above normal. Obviously this has very negative implications for wildlife on/around the islands and the coastal communities / fisherman in Ecuador, Peru, etc...

[Ben Bradley @BenBradleyTV]

Significant damage in Merrillville, Indiana including at Andrean High School.

Photos courtesy: Jerry Smith. @WGNNews

[Ben Noll @BenNollWeather]

These are the rare "interstate-induced clouds" that formed over Houston's highways on Tuesday morning, wowing meteorologists.

As roads warmed faster than the surrounding land after sunrise, very humid air above them rose, cooled and quickly condensed into rows of cumulus clouds.

[CNN @CNN]

Key Biden-era regulations designed to protect the nation’s drinking water from the most dangerous cancer-causing per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, have been removed by the Trump administration. https://t.co/yCfj23xnfH

[Matt Burgess @matthewgburgess]

- RCP8.5 is indeed dead and that's a good thing for climate science.

- Technological improvements, and to some extent climate policies, have made RCP8.5 even less plausible, but it was always implausible, for reasons we knew (thanks to @jritch) for a decade and have been widely known since 2020.

- Climate impact research continued to heavily rely on RCP8.5 for years after we knew better, and there are still too many papers making it into top journals with headline findings based on RCP8.5/SSP5-8.5 (or, worse, SSP3-8.5). Reviewers and editors are not pushing back hard enough.

- Many journalists and policymakers have stuck their heads in the sand about RCP8.5 and continue to do so. But there have also been some notable exceptions. E.g., @dwallacewells was one of the first to cover the changing scenario understanding, something I've always admired him for.

- The scientific community *is* gradually correcting course, as evidenced by RCP8.5 being discontinued for AR7, and by all the papers and other materials that led them to that decision.

- Climate change is real and IPCC's Working Group I reports (The Physical Science Basis) are solid. Their conclusions have high overlap with the DOE CWG report, as @RogerPielkeJr has noted.

- Large majorities of Americans want the President and Congress to do more to address global warming, according to consistent polling for the past two election cycles at least.

- There are some bastions of alarmism/bias within climate change academia, but they are largely *not* in the federal civil service. In my experience, most federal climate scientists are hard-working, rigorous (mostly physical) scientists who take their Hatch Act responsibilities for non-partisanship seriously. Gutting NOAA and other federal science is bad for the country (as @RyanWeather and others have argued) and won't save us from alarmism.

- A great way to get to the bottom of how deep the RCP8.5 effect on climate impact science goes and create a more balanced picture would be to convene a new National Climate Assessment, with a broad and viewpoint-diverse author team.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

“GOOD RIDDANCE! After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that “Climate Change” is going to destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!” - President DONALD J. TRUMP 🇺🇸

[Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 @aaron_renn]

Looking at Carmel-Clay Schools in the NYT database, it's achievement levels are almost fully recovered from Covid (only 0.1 grade levels lower in math, for example). We appear to be the best performing district in Indiana.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity

HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

[Ben Noll @BenNollWeather]

New NMME modeling shows the *strongest El Niño on record* unfolding from October 2026 through at least January 2027.

Sea temperatures in the central equatorial Pacific are forecast to soar 3.1˚C above average, reaching a peak in November.

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

Sir David Attenborough saw Australia's Great Barrier Reef and said, "it was like a cemetery because all the corals had died. They died because of a rise in temperature and acidity.” https://t.co/eYJO96LQQV

[Jim Inskeep @carmelathletics]

Congratulations to all of our Greyhounds nominated for the Indianapolis Star High School Sports Awards!

[Scientific American @sciam]

The data comes from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Mauna Loa Observatory, which may soon be shut down due to proposed government budget cuts
https://t.co/AZSuaM8u7j

[ABC News @ABC]

Nearly half of Americans — roughly 152.3 million people — now live in places with unhealthy levels of ozone or particle pollution, two of the most dangerous air pollutants. https://t.co/TX3WD3MCEr

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This should be a bigger story. 

Scientists are more concerned than ever that a critical Atlantic current will collapse soon and wreak havoc on North America and Europe. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, is a massive conveyor belt of ocean currents that transports water from the tropics to the Atlantic. 

Without it, severe weather would impact both regions at potentially devastating rates.

These scientists aren't just warning us about an environmental issue—they're sounding the alarm about a climate threat that could fundamentally rewrite how future generations survive on our planet.
https://t.co/q9ANe0kzv2

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

ZERO cases of cervical cancer diagnosed in women under age 25 in Australia 🇦🇺

None . Nada . Zip.

For the first time since records began!

How did this happen?

One word

VACCINES!!!!!

[IndyStar @indystar]

Eli Lilly and Indiana are partnering to explore and deploy nuclear energy options to Indiana's grid. https://t.co/ESEgJJkin3

[Al Gore @algore]

This is a typical day's worth of particulate pollution from major facilities in my hometown of Nashville, TN.

This tool from @ClimateTRACE is nominated for Best Data Visualization by @TheWebbyAwards.

Vote for Climate TRACE today & check out air pollution sources in your city!

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

A rare Super El Niño is developing! But what is that and what does it mean? Here’s a quick, simple breakdown of how El Niño works and the big global and Florida impacts expected in summer, fall and winter. #elnino #florida

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“It's not ours; it's just our turn,” says rancher David Mannix, who considers himself a steward of the land in western Montana. His family has occupied the same plot since 1882. https://t.co/XVx1c2D6tu

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

One untapped resource to meet the rising need for rare earth elements: recycling what's already been used. https://t.co/gesPBS73mx