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26d. Also eliminate NOAA office of oceanic and atmospheric research

Tom Di Liberto@tdiliberto.bsky.social

Trump's Budget is out. For NOAA, it's exactly what the previous passback document showed. Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

26e. Back to NSF, we are all becoming either AI geoscientists, critical mineral geoscientists, or natural hazard geoscientists now. A bunch of climate work can be done under this umbrella, but a lot less funds overall.

26f. NASA cuts would slash missions, severely impacting JPL and Goddard Space Flight Center

Paul Voosen@voosen.me

Breaking from @science.org: The Trump administration wants to kill off a host of active and healthy NASA climate and planetary spacecraft. It would be a "leaner, more focused" agency, they say -- and one far less capable of studying the Earth and exploring space.

science.orgDozens of active and planned NASA spacecraft killed in Trump budget requestProposal would end nearly all new major science missions

26g. DOE budget slashes Biological & Environmental Research by almost 60%, focused particularly on “environmental system sciences, atmospheric system research, earth system modeling, data management, and the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement”

26h. Got out of order here…

Bob Kopp@bobkopp.net

26g. NSF funds that support the US Global Change Research Program - down 96%

27. Expected shutdown of climate.gov (reporting by @ericholthaus.com June 11, 2025)

theguardian.comMajor US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff firedExclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content

28. USGS budget cuts threaten state geological surveys (Reporting June 20, 2025)

nytimes.comThere Might Not Be a Map for That: Budget Cuts Threaten Geological Surveys

Update to #27. RIP Climate.gov (June 24, 2025)

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29. National Science Foundation targeted for eviction (reported June 24, 2025 with announcement expected June 25, 2025)

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

30. Globalchange.gov will transfer from the interagency US Global Change Research Program (currently unstaffed) to NASA on July 1; fate unknown but climate.gov precedent not looking great

globalchange.govU.S. Global Change Research Program | GlobalChange.gov

31. NSIDC discontinuing sea ice data based on the DOD Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder because of DOD discontinuation of processing (June 30, 2025)

Zack Labe@zacklabe.com

Awful. More horrible science news "The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing & delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025."

31 (cont). This discontinuation also impacts other areas, like hurricane monitoring

Michael Lowry@michaelrlowry.bsky.social

A huge blow was dealt to hurricane forecasters this week as a critical tool was abruptly terminated by the Department of Defense and NOAA. The immediate discontinuation of data from three weather satellites will severely impact hurricane forecasts this season and beyond. More ⬇️

michaelrlowry.substack.comCritical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly TerminatedU.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts

Update to 30. RIP globalchange.gov, June 30, 2025. I am not sure how old the site was, but it was first archived by @archive.org on August 15, 2000. (Note that this is all of the US Global Change Research Program website, not only the National Climate Assessments)

Emily Atkin@emorwee.bsky.social

BREAKING: A source tells me that the Trump administration has shut down public access to every single National Climate Assessment, the Congressionally-mandated quadrennial report assessing how climate change is affecting the U.S. This is what you get when you try to access them online

Update to 30 (cont). Here’s a recent snapshot of globalchange.gov: globalchange.govarchive.us And for kicks, here’s the earliest snapshot: web.archive.org/web/20000815...

32. Furloughing of NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoc fellows and hiatus on new fellowships (July 9, 2025)

nytimes.comRecipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave

Jessica Tierney@leafwax.bsky.social

As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc

cpaess.ucar.eduNOAA Climate & Global Change (C&GC) Postdoctoral Program | Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System ScienceNOAA Climate & Global Change (C&GC) Postdoctoral Program | Cooperative Progra...

Update to 4. Remaining State Dept Office of Global Change staff dismissed (July 11, 2025)

wapo.stThe State Department fires remaining employees who worked on climate changeThe firings of nearly a dozen people in the State Department’s Office of Global Change include the last U.S. climate negotiators.

33. Suspension of NOAA’s Atlas 15 projections of future precipitation (July 16, 2025)

Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱@donboesch.bsky.social

Purposefully drowning. Gift link: wapo.st/4eSHe8F

wapo.stNOAA was developing a tool to help communities prepare for future rainfall. Trump officials stopped it.The tool would have projected how climate change could affect rainfall frequency and intensity in communities across the nation.

Update to 30. NASA says it won't host National Climate Assessment reports previously hosted on globalchange.gov (July 14, 2025) (missed this earlier)

nytimes.comNASA Website Will Not Provide Previous National Climate Reports

34. RIF of EPA Office of Research and Development (July 17, 2025)

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social

goddammit

epa.govEPA Announces Reduction in Force, Reorganization Efforts to Save Taxpayers Nearly Three-Quarters of a Billion Dollars | US EPAU.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a reduction in force (RIF) today as the agency continues its comprehensive restructuring efforts. With organizational improvements, EPA is deliveri...

Update to 33. Nevermind. NOAA reverses course on Atlas 15.

cnn.comTrump admin to proceed with groundbreaking flash flood risk database, reversing course after media reports | CNNThe Trump administration has changed course and is moving ahead with work to develop a new database that would provide Americans with precise estimates of their flash flood risk in a warming world.

35. EPA preparing to revoke endangerment finding, in spite of all evidence that climate change does indeed endanger human welfare (July 23, 2025)

Elizabeth Kolbert@elizkolbert.bsky.social

Trump administration is going to go after the "endangerment finding" that's the basis of pretty much all federal climate regulation. A huge gift to the fossil fuel industry and a "screw you" to the world.

nytimes.comE.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

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36. DOE managed to find the five credentialed scientists who’ve made their recent careers as professional climate skeptics to write the scientific underpinnings of the proposed endangerment repeal (July 29, 2025)

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37. In the endangerment finding repeal proposed rule, EPA seems to be laying the groundwork for removing the National Academies as the exemplar of high-quality peer review (July 29, 2025)

Bob Kopp@bobkopp.net

Beyond the obvious science denial, here's a subtle attack on the processes of scientific integrity in the endangerment repeal notice of proposed rulemaking.

Update to 31. A reprieve for the satellite data the DOD was providing to NOAA, it seems.

John Morales@johnmoralestv.bsky.social

My first-to-report post has been independently confirmed by @michaelrlowry.bsky.social with my NOAA source. See NOAA's official statement on the matter. Result is that the SSMIS microwave scans critical for monitoring tropical cyclones will remain online. Partial but big, big relief 😮‍💨

38. Planning for termination of Orbiting Carbon Observatories (August 4, 2025)

NPR@npr.org

The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

n.prWhy a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purposeThe Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.