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#Climateresearch

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Skeptical Science

We've done a slight tweak to our weekly new #ClimateResearch digests.

Information is necessary for making informed decisions whenever we have an opportunity, an example being the 2026 US midterm elections. Whether we're fans of ignorance or enlightenment, we can still weigh in and express our preferences.

So, as before we're selecting #OpenAccess notables as illustrations of the massive scope of the #ClimateChange we're triggered, hazards and impacts we've imposed on ourselves, and how we can improve our thinking to mitigate and cope with our self-inflicted disaster.

The tweak: -after- doing that selection we're checking funding sources and flagging research funded by the US federal government.

With the publishing pipeline being long, we still see output from US-funded researchers. We expect this to diminish over the next few months, and will be tracking that.

skepticalscience.com/new_resea

Screen capture of lead material in Skeptical Science New Research for Week #21, 2025. Text: "Open access notables Shifting Gears in a Shifting Climate: Birds Adjust Migration Speed in Response to Spring Vegetation Green-Up, Amaral et al., Diversity and Distributions Our results have direct implications for the conservation of migratory bird diversity in Eastern North America. While birds show some plasticity in adjusting migration pace, this flexibility has limits—particularly when green-up occurs unusually early. Coupled with the slow pace of climate change mitigation through policy and behaviour, migratory birds face constrained options. Mismatches between migration timing and peak resource availability at stopover and breeding sites may reduce reproductive success and survival (Youngflesh et al. 2023). Conservation efforts should therefore prioritise the protection and management of key stopover habitats that allow birds to adjust their pace en route and buffer against phenological mismatches (Mehlman et al. 2005). High-quality and abundant stopover sites can support timely arrivals at breeding grounds by providing birds with the resources needed to either resume migration quickly or pause until conditions are favourable. Funding for this project was provided by the National Science Foundation (grants EF 1703048 and EF 2033263 to D.A.W.M. and M.W.T.)."
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Doug Bostrom

#ClimateResearch, #ClimateMitigation and #ClimateAdaption are experiencing hurricane conditions in some parts of the world today (hello USA) but... play the long game. Here's a review and perspective with a touch of #LongNow thinking:

"All possible—but currently unknown—worlds in 2050, with a larger global population, unprecedented climate conditions with higher temperatures, more frequent extreme weather events, sea level rise, disrupted ecosystems, changes in habitability and increased climate-induced displacement and migration, and the emergence of new geopolitical tensions, will require limiting society’s vulnerability both through mitigation measures to minimize further warming and through the implementation of innovative adaptation initiatives. The development of a skillful climate information system, based on the most advanced Earth system science, will be required to inform decision-makers and the public around the world about the local and remote impacts of climate change, and guide them in optimizing their adaptation and mitigation agendas. This information will also help manage renewable resources in a warmer world and strengthen resilience to the expected interconnected impacts of climate change. "

frontiersin.org/journals/clima

FrontiersFrontiers | Climate science for 2050Knowledge of the functioning of the climate system, including the physical, dynamical and biogeochemical feedback processes expected to occur in response to ...
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Doug Bostrom

All for the chop. #PMEL is already sliced to rags.

We have to be dangerously ignorant, to satisfy certain peoples' needs.

"Reports from western U.S. firefighters that nighttime fire activity has been increasing during the spans of many of their careers have recently been confirmed by satellite measurements over the 2003–20 period. The hypothesis that increasing nighttime fire activity has been caused by increased nighttime vapor pressure deficit (VPD) is consistent with recent documentation of positive, 40-yr trends in nighttime VPD over the western United States...

This study investigates the extent to which each of these factors has been changing over recent decades and, thereby, may have contributed to the perceived changes in nighttime fire activity. Results quantify the extent to which the summer nighttime distributions of equilibrium dead woody fuel moisture content, planetary boundary layer height, and near-surface wind speed have changed over the western United States based on hourly ERA5 data, considering changes between the most recent decade and the 1980s and 1990s, when many present firefighters began their careers...

This work was supported through funding from the U.S. National Fire Plan with additional support for A. M. Chiodi by the Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Studies (CICOES) under NOAA Cooperative Agreement NA20OAR4320271, Contribution 2024-1376, and NOAA’s Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing (GOMO) Program (data.crossref.org/fundingdata/). This is NOAA PMEL Publication 5951."

#ClimateResearch
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MPI für Meteorologie

🌍🔬 What an exciting week! We're thrilled to host over 100 scientists at our institute for the Hamburg node of the WCRP Global Km-Scale #Hackathon — a world-spanning event to accelerate #ClimateResearch using regional & global climate simulations at unprecedented km-scale resolution!

The event is taking place simultaneously
📍 at 10 research institutions
🌎 on 5 continents
🕒 spanning 9 time zones
🚀 All working in sync to push climate science forward!
Learn more: mpimet.mpg.de/en/communication
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A group of scientists in front of the Geomatikum building in Hamburg waving their hands to a cheer.
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Doug Bostrom

Services rendered for only $75M in "contributions."

"Although the database purported to have "no focus on climate event attribution," its tracking appeared to conflict with Trump orders prohibiting DEI and undoing climate initiatives, alongside other crippling cuts to science. CNN dubbed the database's closure "another Trump-administration blow to the public’s view into how fossil fuel pollution is changing the world around them and making extreme weather more costly.""

#ClimateResearch

arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Ars Technica · Trump just made it much harder to track the nation’s worst weather disastersBy Ashley Belanger
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Doug Bostrom

Ignorant and thus blindsided. That's how we're supposed to live now and in the future, so that #FossilFuel revenue is preserved.

Silence is not protection. Disagree, loudly.

"...sponsored in part by the US Department of Energy's Office of Science as a part of the research in MultiSector Dynamics within the Earth and Environmental System Modeling program... Partial support for this work was also provided through NSF Award No. 2205239."

#ClimateResearch

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AI4PEX

AI4PEX @ #EGU25
We started the week in Vienna with talks on heatwaves, wildfires and extreme evaporation by Dominik Schumacher, Lars Nieradzki & Yannis Markonis. On Day 2 we dived deeper into ocean modeling with Hongmei Li and model evaluation using the ESMValTool by Valeriu Predoi.

#CINEA#ESM#ClimateResearch
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Doug Bostrom

Again, for only ~$75m of bribery by #FossilFuel industry.

"...there have always been figures at the periphery of the research community who have refused to accept the evidence for climate change and would happily contribute to a report that rejects mainstream science. It's entirely possible that we'll see these individuals step up to produce a radically different assessment than the one that had been in the works."

#ClimateResearch
#ClimatePolicy

arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Image of a neighborhood of single-family houses, with water infall the yards. A street sign with a speed limit on it is in the foreground, with its pole partly submerged.
Ars Technica · Trump’s National Climate Assessment: No funding and all authors cut looseBy John Timmer
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D-USYS ETH Zurich

🏂➡️🌍 From the slopes of the Winter Olympics to the forefront of climate research: Simona Meiler has been awarded one of the four Swiss Academy of Sciences’ Prix Schläfli for her research at @ethzurich into tropical cyclones. Congratulations! 🏅🌟

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scnat.chSimona Meiler pushes boundaries in climate risk sciencePrix Schläfli 2025 for Geosciences: Simona’s snowboarding career ended at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but since then, she has shown the same drive in her commitment to science. Simona Meiler has been awarded the Swiss Academy of Sciences’ Prix Schläfli in Geosciences for her research into tropical cyclones.
#PrixSchlaefli#Geosciences#ClimateResearch
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Doug Bostrom

If there's "winning" it looks more like this as opposed to choosing ignorance.

In reality we're not in a zero sum game but there's still plenty of opportunity to appear as a deeply stupid loser.

#ClimateResearch

"This study is funded by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (No. 42225107) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 42371028 and 42322110)."

nature.com/articles/s41467-025

NatureRapid flips between warm and cold extremes in a warming world - Nature CommunicationsRapid temperature flips between hot and cold extremes will become more frequent, more intense, and more rapid globally by the end of the twenty-first century, which is exacerbated in world’s breadbasket regions and low-income countries.
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