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Haley Crim
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Climate literacy + just transition @ MIT
Science and society @ AGU
Formerly @ NOAA Climate (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/climate-website-shut-down-noaa)
she/her, opinions mine
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November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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⚠️ When “technology will save us” becomes a climate risk!

A new paper from great colleagues takes a careful look at techno-optimism — the belief that technology will largely solve climate change — and what it means for real-world climate action.
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osf.io/preprints/ps...
November 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"

My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)

The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?

Because Greta is right ..
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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“The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion: The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.”

Via @amywestervelt.bsky.social in @thenation.com
The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion
The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.
www.thenation.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Now that #Melissa is behind us as a tropical system, we need to have an honest conversation about how the federal weather enterprise is still running because of volunteers & unpaid employees, and how this "shutdown" is not really a shutdown.
https://tinyurl.com/2wk36686
Federal weather enterprise rises to the occasion again with Melissa - thanks to volunteers and unpaid employees
When a federal government "shutdown" is not really a shutdown. And also looking at the continued longer term impacts of ongoing and threatened budget cuts.
tinyurl.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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"The NOAA aircraft left the storm early after
experiencing severe turbulence in the southwestern eyewall."

These men and women are not being paid due to the US government shutdown. Not to mention that according to AOML's director emeritus Robert Atlas, they are down 40-50% staff. #Melissa
October 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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All of the pilfering, vandalism, and outright death caused by DOGE cuts, and all of the thefts from the future by illegally stopping research grants, didn't save a penny, Trump spent the money and more on corruption and incompetent ICE goons.
Total federal spending is up +7% in 2025 over 2024 year-to-date to Oct 20.

The story that the fed govt is tightening its belt is contradicted by its own real-time expenditure data. Admin spectacularly hammering some things but raising spending elsewhere.

Was -7% just after Inauguration Day.
October 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Big news out of @climatecentral.org today! We've brought back NOAA's billion dollar disaster dataset!
Check out our interactive website and bookmark it because there's more to come!
www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
October 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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The US East Coast - one of the places that ice lost from Greenland ends up. Counterintuitively, places far from where land ice is lost are most impacted by the resulting sea level rise.

The drumbeat remains - mitigation + adaptation.
'Another unoccupied house collapsed into the ocean along North Carolina's Outer Banks on Saturday night. It's the 11th house to collapse since mid-September.

In total, 22 homes have collapsed into the ocean in the area since 2020.'

via AccuWeather [X] #ClimateCrisis #SeaLevel
October 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I've lost count of how many incredible shows I've been to at these venues - all thanks to the staff! IMP, do the right thing!

@930club.bsky.social @theatlantisdc.bsky.social @theanthemdc.bsky.social
y’all I’m going to be real, the workers at the biggest music venues in DC are trying to unionize

we need IMP the parent company to recognize voluntarily

that won’t happen without noise

please, bluesky, do what u do best

@930club.bsky.social
@theatlantisdc.bsky.social
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October 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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As Trump champions fossil fuels, the world is betting on renewable energy.

Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two new reports.

grist.org/internationa...

#Renewables #Energy #Climate #Solar #Wind #Batteries
As Trump champions fossil fuels, the world is betting on renewable energy
Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two reports published this week.
grist.org
October 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
October 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Climate(.)gov wasn't built in a day. It wasn't even built in a year. It is a big, complicated site that we don't just want to rebuild but also improve with Climate.us.

Realistically, this is going to take some time. However, we want to take a moment to remind people what it is that we...
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Climate.us
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
Climate.us
October 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Neil Jacobs, who first joined @noaa.gov during Trump’s first presidency, made waves for his ties to an incident in which the president shared a hurricane map altered with a marker. The meteorologist and atmospheric scientist is now the top official at the agency. 🧪

eos.org/research-and...
Sharpiegate Scientist Takes the Helm at NOAA - Eos
Meteorologist and atmospheric scientist Neil Jacobs was confirmed as the new leader of NOAA on Tuesday evening.
eos.org
October 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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The Senate has confirmed Trump's pick to run NOAA. Neil Jacobs will lead an agency that's lost ~2,000 staff in a year and could lose most of its research division.

I did a deep dive on why Jacobs wanted this job for @bloomberg.com. Here's what I learned (thread)

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Weather Boss During ‘Sharpiegate’ Nears Return to a Shrinking Agency
Trump’s appointee to run the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has vowed to support the president's massive cuts.
www.bloomberg.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Maryland communities are fighting to put Big Oil companies on trial to make them pay for the harm their climate deception has caused.

The Maryland Supreme Court will now decide if their cases can move forward.

Baltimore, Annapolis, and Anne Arundel County deserve their day in court. 👇
Maryland Supreme Court weighs future of local climate deception lawsuits | Center for Climate Integrity
Two other state supreme courts have already ruled in favor of communities on the issue currently before the Maryland Supreme Court.
climateintegrity.org
October 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Greta--always a hero, and always eager to get the focus where it belongs
www.teenvogue.com/story/greta-...
Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law
“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”
www.teenvogue.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Just seen the latest work from the Doughnut Economic Lab highlighting the huge inequalities between the richest and poorest nations and the accelerating planetary metacrisis we are in.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Thanks to @bberwyn.bsky.social for letting me vent about my experience with censorship of federal climate and climate justice information and the many places it's reappearing. If you like the work featured in the article, support @climate.us!
October 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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To all the fed employees potentially getting furloughed tonight, this sucks and I’m sorry even though I know a lot of you want the fight, so a tepid hell-yeah as well
October 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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This moment where everything is being broken is a moment about what we build to replace it, too.
October 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Reminder than if the government shuts down, "emergency employees," such as NWS meteorologists, are exempt from furloughs and expected to report to work unpaid. However, the White House is threatening RIFs across agencies and NOAA's shutdown plan has not yet been posted to the OPM website.
September 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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In the event of a shutdown, the Office of Management and Budget is recommending reductions in force (layoffs) for “all employees” in all “programs, projects, or activities” that are “not consistent with the President’s priorities.”

What does that mean for US Earth and climate science?
‘Wholesale destruction’: Government shutdown or not, critical science programs are at risk
The Trump administration has proposed devastating cuts to federal Earth and climate science programs, and a government shutdown could give them an opportunity to begin implementing those cuts.
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September 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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A leading Democrat in the Senate just released an important report documenting how NASA has been working to implement the president's proposed budget, not Congressionally approved funds, in slashing missions. Read more ⬇️
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), top Democrat on Senate Commerce Cmte, is out with a Democratic staff report: "The Destruction of NASA's Mission: Whistleblowers Reveal OMB's Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency."
www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
September 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM