A neat moment that occurred during my mini-vacation this last weekend was spotting this Sea Lion about 6 miles off the shore of Moss Landing in Monterey Bay. This was a fast moving Raft and the ID Brand only appeared in a single frame.

I was able to pass this info along to the wonderful Tony Orr at NOAA for their tracking program and was informed that this Seal Lion was born ~2024 on San Miguel Island.

#Photography #WildlifePhotography #SeaLion #Wildlife #MontereyBay #NOAA #ScienceIsCool

Tomorrow's News Today!

Tropical Storm Erin likely to become a classic, long-lived Atlantic hurricane
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #hurricane #noaa #GlobalWarming #climatechange #climatecrisis

yaleclimateconnections.org/202…

Florida’s Pine Flatwoods are a beautiful and serene landscape…but an absolute pain to hike in. They are definitely not welcoming to humans. But – when you have a nice boardwalk, they are a joy to walk through and observe.

Pine Flatwoods at the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve --> nateshivar.com/29396/pine-flat…

#Florida #GulfOfMexico #Nature #NOAA

I was looking through old photos and spotted this one I took at the Lake County Fairgrounds in Crown Point in 2019, looking across Fancher Lake to the historic grandstand and agricultural exhibition buildings.

Funding to help make Fancher Lake a nice place to visit was provided by NOAA and the Indiana DNR.

It's disheartening that the current government is defunding NOAA.

#photography #indiana #uspol #noaa #HoosierMast

Everybody's been saying that the only warning system left for #Texas is Ted Cruz fleeing the state, so there needs to be a new system based on that.

Here it is!

#NWS #NOAA

Kotproben von #Grönlandwalen liefern wichtige Hinweise auf steigende #Algentoxine im #arktischen Ozean.

Forschende verknüpfen diese mit wärmerem #Meerwasser, schmelzendem #Meereis und veränderten #Wetterbedingungen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen Auswirkungen auf marine #Nahrungsketten und die #Ernährungssicherheit indigener #Gemeinschaften.

ostsee-zeitung.de/wissen/klima…

#Klimawandel #Ozeane #Arktis #Oteanforschung #Meerestiere #NOAA #Alaska

Klimawandel im Arktischen Ozean: Gefährliche Algentoxine in Grönlandwalen

Manchmal kann die Arbeit von Forschern darin ...

^{Ostsee-Zeitung}

"The Guardian US reports that before his Grecian vacation last week, 'Cruz inserted language into the Republicans’ "big beautiful” reconciliation bill, before its signing by Donald Trump on Friday, that eliminates a $150m fund to “accelerate advances and improvements in research, observation systems, modeling, forecasting, assessments, and dissemination of information to the public” around weather forecasting.'”

#ClimateChange #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Trump #Texas
/17

"Every Republican member of the Texas congressional delegation supports Trump’s devastating cuts to the NWS and its parent agency, NOAA. Texas Senator Ted Cruz single-handedly made the cuts even worse."

~ Jennifer Schulze

#ClimateChange #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Trump #Texas
/16

jenniferschulze.substack.com/p…

Death on a Texas River

Journalists are piecing together what was -and wasn’t- done by Texas officials and the National Weather Service as the Guadalupe River roared over its banks.

^{Jennifer Schulze ([Indistinct Chatter] by @NewsJennifer)}

"Hundreds of FEMA workers were sent to North Carolina by the 46th president, rather more than the 86 47 had sent to Texas by Monday."

~ Doktor Zoom

#ClimateChange #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Trump #Texas
/15

wonkette.com/p/welcome-to-trum…

Welcome To Trump And Noem's Feral Emergency Management

Don't ask what the hell they're doing. They have no idea.

^{Doktor Zoom (Wonkette)}

"In a repulsive show of cowardice and buck-passing, Texas Governor Greg Abbott went on a bizarre tangent about how asking who’s to blame for the historic flood disaster that has killed at least 111 people was for 'losers' and compared the tragedy to…a football game."

~ Daily Dose of Democracy

#ClimateChange #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Trump #Texas #GregAbbott
/13

doseofdemocracy.com/greg-abbot…

Greg Abbott denigrates flood victims in vile outburst

Today's Action: Demand Congress punish Trump for his outrageous corruption!

^{Mark Charles Heidinger (@advocacy)}

"Then county commissioner Tom Moser told the reporters: 'It was probably just, I hate to say the word, priorities. Trying not to raise taxes.'”

#ClimateChange #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Trump #Texas
/8

"Scott Calvert, John West, Jim Carlton, and Joe Barrett of the Wall Street Journal reported that after a deadly flood in 1987, officials in Kerr County applied for a grant to install a flood warning system, but their application was denied. They considered installing one paid for by the county but decided against it."

#ClimateChange #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Trump #Texas
/7

"[Greg] Abbott’s defensive answer [when asked who's to blame for the Texas tragedy] reveals the dilemma MAGA Republicans find themselves in after the cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Weather Service that came before the Texas disaster."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#ClimateChange #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Trump #Texas
/6

heathercoxrichardson.substack.…

July 8, 2025

One hundred and eleven people are dead and more than 160 are still missing in Texas after Friday’s tragic flood.

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}

(continued from /4):

"and thus the suffering of the people affected by it — but to revoke funding for the very data collection and research that would help the country better understand and prepare for this moment."

#ClimateChange #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Trump #Texas
/5

"Fatalities in billion-dollar storms last year alone were nearly equal to the number of such deaths counted by the federal government in the 20 years between 1980 and 2000.

What is extraordinary is that at such a volatile moment, President Donald Trump’s administration would choose not just to minimize the climate danger —"

#ClimateChange #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Trump #Texas
/4

"In the United States, which prefers to measure its losses in dollars, the damage from major storms was more than $180 billion last year, nearly 10 times the average annual toll during the 1980s, after accounting for inflation. These storms have now cost Americans nearly $3 trillion. Meanwhile, the number of annual major disasters has grown sevenfold."

#ClimateChange #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Trump #Texas
/3

"That the United States once again is reeling from familiar but alarming headlines and body counts should not be a surprise by now. According to the World Meteorological Organization, the number of extreme weather disasters has jumped fivefold worldwide over the past 50 years, and the number of deaths has nearly tripled."

#ClimateChange #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Trump #Texas
/2

"The rapid onset of disruptive climate change — driven by the burning of oil, gasoline and coal — is making disasters like this one more common, more deadly and far more costly to Americans, even as the federal government is running away from the policies and research that might begin to address it."

~ Abrahm Lustgarten

#ClimateChange #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Trump #Texas
/1

propublica.org/article/texas-f…

Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of Climate Chaos to Come

Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.

^ProPublica

"Officials will continue to examine the crisis in Texas but, coming as it did after so many deep cuts to government, it has opened up questions about the public cost of those cuts. Project 2025 called for breaking up and downsizing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, claiming its six main offices—including the National Weather Service—"

#Trump #Texas #NWS #NOAA
/8

(continued from /8):

"'form a colossal operation that has become one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future U.S. prosperity,' by which it meant the fossil fuel industry."

#Trump #Texas #NWS #NOAA
/9

"CNN’s Andrew Freedman, Emma Tucker, and Mary Gilbert note that several NWS offices across the country are so understaffed they can no longer operate around the clock, and many are no longer able to launch the weather balloons that provide critical data."

#Trump #Texas #NWS #NOAA
/10

"All five living former directors of the NWS warned in May that the cuts '[leave] the nation’s official weather forecasting entity at a significant deficit…just as we head into the busiest time for severe storm predictions like tornadoes and hurricanes…. Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life.'"

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Texas #NWS #NOAA
/7

heathercoxrichardson.substack.…

July 6, 2025

At least 80 people are dead and more than 40 are still missing in Central Texas after almost a foot (30 centimeters) of rain caused flash floods overnight on Friday.

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}

"There’s a similar story at the NWS. Former NWS meteorologist Brian Lamarre explained to NPR in May that the NWS had 5,000-6,000 employees 30 years ago. That has gradually whittled down to 4,500 — and then another 550 were cut by DOGE or quit without being replaced. As a result, “for the first time in the history of the National Weather Service, the agency is below 4,000 people.”

#Trump #Texas #NWS #NOAA
/6

"Trump’s attack on forecasting capability is unprecedented and inexcusable. He fired 24,000 employees at NOAA (they were reinstated — then re-fired). The budget for 2026 cuts more than a quarter of the agency’s funding, including all of it for the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, which conducts weather and climate research."

~ Noah Berlatsky

#Trump #Texas #NWS #NOAA
/5

publicnotice.co/p/guadalupe-ri…

Trump gutted the weather service. Then Texas flooded.

It's a brutal reminder that in disasters, we need the federal government.

^{Noah Berlatsky (Public Notice)}

"Staffing data provided by the NWS’s labor union showed the San Angelo forecasting office currently has four vacancies out of 23 positions and San Antonio has six vacancies out of 26."

~ Paul Cobler

#Trump #Texas #NWS #NOAA
/4

texastribune.org/2025/07/05/te…

Was the Hill Country sufficiently warned about Texas flooding?

Water rose fast along the Guadalupe River, causing 68 deaths as of Sunday afternoon. Local officials said they couldn’t have seen it coming.

^{Paul Cobler (The Texas Tribune)}

"Today, about 40 percent of the 122 local forecasting offices of the NWS have significant staffing gaps. More than 10 percent of its 4,800 employees have left in recent months—either dismissed, retired, or bought out. Some of the usual predictive measures, such as the deployment of weather balloons and Doppler radar, many of whose experts and technicians have been fired or laid off, are now not available."

#Trump #Texas #NWS #NOAA
/3

This past May, Juliette Kayyem issued the following warning:

"Preparing for emergencies is always difficult; extreme climate events can overwhelm even the best-laid plans. But this challenge has been exacerbated by major staffing cuts imposed by Elon Musk’s and President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency."

#Trump #Texas #NWS #NOAA
/2

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

This Tornado Mayhem Is a Warning

As hurricane season looms, the effects of DOGE cuts on the U.S. forecasting and alert system are a new menace.

^{Juliette Kayyem (The Atlantic)}

"While Texas drowned, he danced.

With people still missing, he golfed.

He gutted the weather service. Slashed NOAA’s budget. As a result, the alerts came too late. 78 people died, including 28 children, with 41 more missing."

~ From Letters from God at Substack, in an email to subscribers

Either drastic cuts to NWS and NOAA budgets play a role — for weal or woe — in how those services function, or they don't. We can't have it both ways.

#Trump #Texas #NWS #NOAA
/1

Sensitive content Reveal/hide

Die US-Regierung unter #DonaldTrump plant laut Haushaltsentwurf die Schließung des Mauna Loa Observatoriums auf Hawaii – dem Ort, an dem seit 1958 die global führenden #CO2-Messungen durchgeführt werden.

Die berühmte #KeelingKurve dokumentiert dort den Anstieg der #Treibhausgase und gilt als eindeutiger Beleg für menschengemachten #Klimawandel.

Auch andere #Klimaforschungseinrichtungen bei #NOAA sollen gestrichen werden.

edition.cnn.com/2025/07/01/cli…

#Klimapolitik #MaunaLoa #Klimadaten #CO2Messung

NASA Wissenschaftler*innen sind gerade mitten in einem 100h Livestream, um gegen Trumps Zerstörung wichtiger wissenschaftlicher Zentren in den USA zu protestieren und deutlich zu machen, was damit alles weltweit nicht mehr möglich sein wird. Es lohnt, reinzuschauen:

m.youtube.com/@wclivestream/fe…

#makesiencegreatagain
#NASA #noaa #wedonthavetime #climatecrises #climatesience #livenow #truthmatters

The Weather & Climate Livestream

From May 28th to June 1st, join meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US for a 💯-hour livestream! We will share our science and show why America's forecasts are worth saving. [Photo: NOAA] Learn more at wclivestream.com

^YouTube

CNN: NOAA ends extreme weather database that has tracked cost of disasters since 1980 (paywall) cnn.com/2025/05/08/climate/noa…

#noaa #nws #weather #disasters

@Bundesregierung
Vor ca. zwei Wochen kommt ein Beitrag bei der @tagesschau, dass unsere Forschungseinrichtungen Daten aus den USA retten. Und vor allem die der #NOAA.
Und die neue Bundesregierung hält es nach nicht mal einem Tag für eine gute Idee den #Meeresbeauftragten zu entlassen?

Können Sie uns das erklären?

#WenigerTrumpWagen #unplugtrump #unplugmerz

@josh gonna wait for the hurricane season, when #FEMA is no longer there to help with the damage they couldn't prepare for, because #NOAA also demolished, see what creative rationalizations the #MAGAts come up with.

Gonna be fun.

Except, you know, not. 😑

Currently crying some tears of joy and of released pressure/stress:
One of the large repositories in Germany started safeguarding datasets from #NOAA, officially.
linkedin.com/posts/gloeckner_p…
(fulltext in reply)

pangaea.de/

This is the culmination of weeks of work 💖
#SafeguardingResearch

PANGAEA is actively working to rescue data from the United States. With… | Frank Oliver Glöckner | 13 comments

PANGAEA is actively working to rescue data from the United States. With the recent announcement that numerous datasets - such as those from NOAA - are scheduled for decommissioning in May, PANGAEA has opened its archive to help safeguard these valuab…

^{Frank Oliver Glöckner (www.linkedin.com)}

BREAKING NEWS

Trump regime plans to dismantle the research division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shut down all weather and climate labs, and eviscerate its budget along with several other NOAA offices
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #noaa #GlobalWarming #climatechange #climatecrisis

To understand the T**** Admin, #Republicans, and everything they are doing, one need only realize:

THEY. ARE. TRYING. TO. #PRIVATIZE. EVERYTHING.
(#Education, #HHS, #NIH, #FEMA, #NOAA...)

And if it costs those corporations money (like increasing wages), they block it. #ItsAllAboutTheBenjamins #DisasterPresidency #Privatization

Update April 5th:
We got everything we can.
The amount of help has been very awesome - we did good 💜

If you think you can help with more than a few TB and/or with additional contacts etc. pp.
Please write an email to contact@safeguar.de

We (@SafeguardingResearch) need urgent help with archiving websites & datasets from NOAA, specifically the stuff on Amazon Web Services (AWS):
forum.safeguar.de/t/noaa-all-s…

If you can contribute, please consider doing so.

#NOAA #SafeguardingResearch #Data #Weather

NOAA all services, specifically Amazon Web Servies (URGENT)

AWS Services for NOAA will be going offline as soon as tomorrow night. (april 4th) Things affected to include: Claimed: research.noaa.gov epic.noaa.gov adp.noaa.gov ci.noaa.gov oeab.noaa.gov orta.research.noaa.gov testbeds.noaa.gov qosap.

^{Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC) — Distributing Cultural Memory}

#Zeteo:
"
This Week in Democracy – Week 3: Shadow President Elon Musk in Full Control

Zeteo's new project to document the ongoing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism in the Trump second term.
"
zeteo.com/p/this-week-in-democ…

8.2.2025

#ACLU #authoritarianism #CIA #ConstitutionalEmergency #DEI #Democracy #DOGE #DOJ #EPA #FBI #FCC #Menschenfeindlichkeit #Musk #NARA #NCMEC #NOAA #Staatskrise #TheKennedyCenter #UNRWA #USA #USAID

This Week in Democracy – Week 3: Shadow President Elon Musk in Full Control

^{Team Zeteo (Zeteo)}

We've been collecting and mirroring what we can find of public data scrapes of data that has recently gone missing from federal sites or is likely to in the near future. The repos here include public data from CDC, NIH, and NOAA. Be warned that some of these repos are quite large!

git.lsit.ucsb.edu/publicdata

#datascience #cdc #nih #noaa

publicdata

Archives of Public Data Sets

^{Git for LSIT at UCSB}