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Chris ☈ozoff

@agitatedcu.bsky.social

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Cannot jump high, highly motivated by clouds, vector enthusiast, fan of wilderness. Erie, CO Current reading: "Gulag Archipelago" (Solzhenitsyn), "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics" (Griffiths and Schroeter), “Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” (McBride)

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 17h

NSSL's predicting an F5 in Sioux County, NE.

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 23h

It is hard to ignore the preternatural wind profiles up that way.

Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 4d

RFK Jr garbling the phrase "baby in her placenta" makes the phrase no less creepy. Nightmare fuel from the crypt.

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 5d

a man in a christmas elf costume is making a funny face and says nooooooo !!!

ALT: a man in a christmas elf costume is making a funny face and says nooooooo !!!

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 5d

All meteorologists can relate.

The Onion @theonion.com · 5d

Passenger Glued To Airplane Window Like It Fucking 1956 https://theonion.com/passenger-glued-to-airplane-window-like-it-fucking-1956-1832728158/

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 7d

Boxes also work on bobcats

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 11d

Great post!

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 12d

"Some have chosen to deride the increasingly evident signs of climate change, to ridicule those who speak of global warming, and even to blame the poor for the very thing that affects them the most."

BBC News - Pope Leo condemns climate change critics
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming

In his first major statement on climate change, the pontiff criticises those who minimise climate change.

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 12d

#catsofbluesky

Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 15d

The Hakeem Jeffries of football.

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 15d

Aspen season is the best season.

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 21d

Fantastic!

Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 23d

Just passed that area today as well on peak-to-peak hwy. Was a perfect day up there.

Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 24d

Thus, we lament the freely available and plentiful piles of climate denialist garbage for the average person, who is gated off from real and informative substance.

Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 25d

I’m not a big fan of the damage they do to our yard, and therefore often cheer on owls to have good meals (for the sake of a healthy ecosystem of course), but they are cute. Here’s a baby one found just now.

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NSF NCAR & UCAR @ncar-ucar.bsky.social · 25d

The Advanced Study Program’s Graduate Visitor Program Fellowship is accepting applications! This fellowship allows graduate students to work on their thesis, dissertation, or final project equivalent, with guidance from NSF NCAR scientists and engineers.

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 26d

Fall weather has arrived and this rainbow fills my current field of view (when not typing this into my phone). As grim as national politics are, I take solace in the beauty offered each day by our surrounding universe.

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 28d

As seen in SE South Dakota 19 years ago today.

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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · 29d

Join AMS during #PeerReviewWeek to thank AMS's Editor Award recipients and hear what they have to say about #PeerReview!

Learn more: https://bit.ly/48gR7vJ

A graphic with AMS and Peer Review Week logos.

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Dave Holder @wxlove.bsky.social · Sep 13

Ahhhhh tornado continues on the ground just north of the 4-corners! It would incredible to see this out in that amazing terrain!

This is from the Navajo Police Department FB page.

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · Sep 9

Let me know when you bring them along for an RMR Wednesday morning run.

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Falko Judt @cloudprophet.bsky.social · Sep 5

🌍 The MMM lab at @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is running experimental realtime forecasts with a global 3.75-km MPAS model.

Goal: Highlight the power of global km-scale models for weather prediction from local to planetary scales, incl. tropical cyclones.

👉 project.mmm.ucar.edu/real-time-fo...

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Sep 2

Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out.

Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.

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On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding. In response, over 85 scientists have come together to write a comprehensive review, which is

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Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · Aug 29

Gorgeous!

Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · Aug 28

As a Packers fan, the loss of Kenny Clark is sad (and a big loss in numerous ways) and two 1st rounds is a big gamble. Thus, I have mixed feelings. I guess sometimes you got to go all in.