NOAA operations are slowed by mandate for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to approve ALL contracts/contract extensions above $100,000. This nearly led to a significant deterioration of National Weather Service operations last night.

This is NOT efficiency.

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/01/noaa-commerce-department-contracts-weather-climate

#NOAA #NWS #Wx #Trump #Musk #DOGE #Project2025 #Weather

The all-out war on science being waged by the Trump-Musk administration is hard to understand.

In early 2016, before #Trump won his first Republican presidential nomination, a prescient book by Shawn Otto described the three main components of this war on #science.

1) Industrial
2) Religious/Ideological
3) Identity Politics

Here's my review of Otto's seminal and still timely work:

https://denisgilbert.com/blog/f/war-on-science-book-review

Canada is getting a new Prime Minister.

Learn who Mark Carney is in this NPR article about him.

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/10/nx-s1-5323043/mark-carney-canada-prime-minister-bio

#Canada #MarkCarney

Two days ago, after subscribing to the Washington Post for seven years, I cancelled my subscription.

I considered cancelling when Jeff Bezos prevented the WaPo editorial team to endorse Kamala Harris for President last fall.

For me, what finally moved the needle beyond the "no repair zone" was Bezos's recent heavy-handed decision to control content in the Opinions columns. Speaking of which, this caused another resignation today...

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/10/nx-s1-5323136/washington-post-editor-ruth-marcus-resigns

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WaPo

@ECMWF's Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS) is now operational, issuing forecasts from a single model run.

https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/news/2025/ecmwfs-ai-forecasts-become-operational

Using the 2025-03-01 06:00 UTC AIFS Single forecast, here is the 2025-03-01 18:00 UTC (T+12h) forecast mean sea level pressure and 6-hour accumulated #precipitation (water equivalent) over Europe and North America.

#ecmwf #weather #wx #ai #europe #northamerica #canada #usa #mexico

@voooos wrote a science story about a research field trip on top of the Greenland ice sheet.

Oceanward ice flow at the ice core drilling site was found to be uniform from top to bottom, which was a major surprise and could have dire consequences for sea level rise.

https://www.science.org/content/article/hole-drilled-greenland-s-heart-reveals-ice-ready-slide-sea

#SeaLevelRise #Greenland #IceSheet #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

Yesterday, Rimouski was hit by a storm that left 50 cm of snow on the ground. Dalia saw it as an opportunity to show she has bouncing abilities that rival Disney's character Tigger. 😂

#snow #storm #dog #dogs #wx #weather

Happy Valentine's Day!

The heart-shaped Bonne projection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonne_projection

#Mapping #Maps #BonneProjection #Valentine #ValentinesDay

Animation of the storm surge associated with the storm currently moving across Eastern Canada.

#storm #stormsurge #canada #weather #wx

Physicist Sean Carroll describes the bad decisions of the Trump & Musk administration as they pertain to cuts to the National Science Foundation (NSF).

In doing so, @seanmcarroll gives a high-level overview of how science funding works, and what indirect costs are for, such as keeping the lights on and paying for other maintenance and administrative costs.

This is a critique that is done with elegance and open-mindedness.

#NSF #overhead #Musk #Trump

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025/02/12/bonus-cuts-to-science-funding-and-why-they-matter/