Climate and weather scientists are joining the anti-Trump resistance in the most ‘scientist-iest’ way – CNN Climate

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Climate and weather scientists are joining the anti-Trump resistance in the most ‘scientist-iest’ way

By Andrew Freedman, Updated 19 hr ago

A meteorologist monitors weather activity on a computer screen in this file photo taken at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Center for Weather and Climate Prediction headquarters in College Park, Maryland.
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Forget marching in the streets with creative signs. For President Donald Trump’s second term, in the face of steep funding cuts for climate and weather research and forecasting, scientists have a new way of engaging the public: livestreamed presentations.

Editor’s Note: https://www.youtube.com/@wclivestream is where the presentations are live.

Starting Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET and lasting for 100 straight hours, climate and weather specialists will spend 15 minutes each talking about their work and why it is so valuable for the American people.

Their goal is to call attention to the impacts of cuts to federal agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA and the Department of Energy, along with the Trump administration’s withholding of research funding to academia.

The livestream marathon is billed as nonpartisan, according to Marc Alessi of the environmental group Union of Concerned Scientists, who is one of about a dozen organizers.

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#2025 #Academia #America #Books #CNN #CNNClimate #DepartmentOfEnergy #DonaldTrump #Health #History #Libraries #NASA #NOAA #Politics #Resistance #Science #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates #YouTube

Interlune makes progress on its plans to mine the moon
Seattle-based Interlune provided a triple-barreled update today on its progress toward mining helium-3 on the moon and returning that resource to Earth.

The startup joined Vermeer Corp., an industrial equipment manufacturer headquartered in Iowa, to unveil a full-scale prot
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/05/07/interlune-makes-progress-on-its-plans-to-mine-the-moon/
#GeekWire #DepartmentOfEnergy #Helium3 #Interlune #Mining #Moon #Space

“Staff at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Department of Energy division that guides public and private research and development involving renewable energy and energy efficiency, were blindsided with a round of layoffs on Monday morning.” 🤬

#Politics #USPolitics #ClimateCrisis #RenewableEnergy #NREL #LayoffsUnderTrump #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #FederalWorkersFired #DepartmentOfEnergy

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/donald-trump-doge-layoffs-national-renewable-energy-laboratory-nrel/

The secretary of #energy oversees 14,000 employees in the Department of Energy, advises the president on energy policy, and manages energy and nuclear weapons initiatives. Experts highlight the importance of this influential role.
https://buff.ly/3C9N2vM
#politics #energy #DepartmentOfEnergy #cabinet

#NuclearMadness #DepartmentOfEnergy (#DOE) #SMR.
Unleash the #NuclearGrifters! #GriftersGonnaGrift. #Granholm will be gone soon enough. @waltbaldwin

The first step is to get the #DepartmentofEnergy to be a Policy Leader and not a funding source for these #NuclearGrifters. Second is to get the #NRC to say NO to their applications for Safety and Security reasons. The third is to get the #Nuclear Non-proliferation bodies to halt the development and use of #HALEU fuels in #SMR platforms, especially when that fuel comes from Russia. There are more, but these will stop them in their tracks. @shansterable@c.im

U.S. Dept. of Energy tied to lease OK’d by Bloomington for parking garage office space

https://bsquarebulletin.com/2024/05/21/u-s-dept-of-energy-tied-to-lease-okd-by-bloomington-for-parking-garage-office-space/

@bloomington_in

#BloomingtonIN #Parking #Office #DepartmentOfEnergy #Improvement

Jack Smith "eviscerates" Donald Trump's security clearance claim

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-jack-smith-mar-lago-white-house-classified-documents-department-energy-1866788

#Newsweek #JackSmith #DonaldTrump #securityclearance #MarLago #DepartmentofEnergy #Politics #News

Zeno Power strikes a deal to recycle radioactive material
Zeno Power says it has gained access to radioactive material destined for its first full-scale radioisotope power systems under the terms of a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy.

The transfer of the material from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee b
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/01/26/zeno-power-strikes-a-deal-to-recycle-radioactive-material/
#GeekWire #DepartmentOfEnergy #Energy #Nuclear #Technology #ZenoPower

Keynote Speaker Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe ends the Conference with a great talk! Building a vibrant next-gen STEM workforce included in her keynote.
#NABG23 #NABG #NABG42 #blackingeology #BlackinGeoscience #departmentofenergy #OfficeofScience

#Funding #IRA #InflationReductionAct #HomeEnergyRebates #DOE #DepartmentofEnergy #Decarbonization #EnergyEfficiency #advocacy

“Surprisingly, about 40 minutes into the experiment, the damage reversed course. One end of the crack fused back together as if it was retracing its steps, leaving no trace of the former injury. Over time, the crack regrew along a different direction.

Hattar called it an “unprecedented insight.”

Boyce, who was aware of the theory, shared his findings with Demkowicz.

“I was very glad to hear it, of course,” Demkowicz said. The professor then recreated the experiment on a computer model, substantiating that the phenomenon witnessed at #Sandia was the same one he had theorized years earlier.

Their work was supported by the #DepartmentOfEnergy’s Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences; the National Nuclear Security Administration and the National Science Foundation.”

19/JUL/23 #uap / #MetaMaterial / #MaterialScience (Sandia Labs = 3 hr drive from #Roswell) <https://newsreleases.sandia.gov/healing_metals/>
source https://twitter.com/RobVena/status/1683440413649125376

US #DepartmentOfEnergy (#DOE) just invested $82 million in 19 innovative projects in 12 states to boost US #solar manufacturing and #recycling. The investment will help promote cheaper, more efficient #solarpanels and advance cadmium telluride and perovskite solar manufacturing. $30M is being awarded to projects that address emerging challenges for grid planning operators & engineers to plan the future of the #electric #powergrid and maintain its daily reliable operation
https://electrek.co/2023/04/20/us-solar-recycling-manufacturing/

#COVID #COVID19 #DOE I am not sure how the #DepartmentOfEnergy became a reputable source for determining the origin of world wide #Pandemic.

WAPO—The #departmentofenergy plans to announce Tuesday that #scientists have been able to produce a #fusion reaction that creates a net energy gain — a major milestone in the decades-long, multibillion-dollar quest to develop a #technology that provides unlimited, #cheap, clean #power.
The aim of #fusion #research is to replicate the #nuclear reaction through which #energy is created on the #sun.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/12/11/fusion-nuclear-energy-breakthrough/

The United States plans to add over 20 GW of battery storage in the next three years, the substantial majority of which will go to California and Tejas: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=54939

#batteries #batterystorage #energy #renewables #renewableenergy #suparnaray #unitedstates #us #usa #unitedstatesofamerica #doe #departmentofenergy #eia #energyinformationadministration #todayinenergy

If you want some more good news, a study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory finds multiple pathways by which the United States can achieve 100% renewable energy by 2035: https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/nrel-study-identifies-opportunities-and-challenges-achieving-us-transformational-goal

America has done some great things because (as John F. Kennedy put it) they were hard. I hope this is one of them.

#renewableenergy #green #greenenergy #appropriatetechnology #unitedstates #us #usa #nrel #doe #departmentofenergy #nationalrenewableenergylaboratory #decarbonization #2035 #hope

Introduction:

#guitar teacher since 1986. #musician

Lots of #bands you've never heard of, but some of my #guitar students you may have.

My #recording #daw of choice is #reaper #reaperdaw , that I've used since it's inception.

I have many #guitars and #amplifier s, the top of my quiver being a custom #Suhr and an early 70s 50 watt Marshall JMP.

My musical preferences varies from #pinkfloyd #allanholdsworth #Coltrane #Bach #70sRock #easylistening #ELO #Soundgarden #kingsx #Queen
#Carpenters #JimiHendrix #VanHalen #Vangelis #Albinone #Vivaldi #Debussy #STP #cocteautwins #Beatles #PaulMcCartney #PeterFrampton #JeffBeck #LedZeppelin #Rush #BillFrisell #BrianBladeFellowship #JeffBuckley #FionaApple #kdlang #BradMehldau #Bacharach #ThePolice #manyothers

The best sounding #surfsound is at #MyrtleBeach S. C..

I have been a big #Formula1 fan since the early 90s. Pro #LewisHamilton ftw, or #ChecoPerez, #LandoNorris, #McLaren. I drive a stick 2014 #Subaru #BRZ #FRS aka the best daily driver created.

Post-political, old-school left biased. I will not accede to any political party unless the platform is to ban lobbying and PACs; nothing ever changes until that happens. I am as jaded as it gets in politics, and you should be, too.

Staunchly pro #vaccination #vaccines #masks . I took preventative anti- #covid measures early January 2020. "This" could have been prevented, and is worse because of political pressure confirmation bias. #longcovid is real, and it's.... aggravating that 19th century anti-science propaganda flourishes in the 21st century.

Non-Kennedy #StarWars #StarTrek #BattlestarGalactica #2001:aSpaceOdyssey old school hard #scifi #LarryNiven #ArthurCClarke #Simak #FrankHerbert #Pournelle #Saberhagan #Asimov #FrederickPohl #HarlanEllison #Aldiss #StanislawLem #DamonKnight #DouglasAdams #JohnVarley #BenBova #PoulAnderson et al.

.... and Mastodon's character limit is this long? Hmmm.

#Photography I like to make intentionally blurry photos with #pinhole lenses, less blurry with my favorite luxury item my #Canon 70-200 F/2.8IS ii.

I reside in #NorthAugusta #SouthCarolina , which borders #Augusta #Georgia on the #SavannahRiver.

My wife is a #nuclear scientist at the #DepartmentofEnergy #DOE #SavannahRiverSite , I give #guitarlessons online via #Facetime , #Skype or #Zoom since the #pandemic (and have since closed my brick and mortar office of > 12 years). We have a super smart movie-dog cute #Goberian , but #GermanSheperds are wonderful.

Time to restring guitars, hope this works and doesn't inadvertently violate some arcane rule...?

📬 Bitcoin-Mining: US-Regierung erwägt Verbot von Proof of Work
#Kryptowährungen #bitcoinmining #CharlesHoskinson #DepartmentofEnergy #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #JoeBiden #OSTPBericht #ProofofWork https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/krypto/bitcoin-mining-us-regierung-erwaegt-verbot-von-proof-of-work-255513.html

Department of Energy offers $45M in funding for more efficient EV battery development

https://www.teslarati.com/department-of-energy-offers-45m-in-funding-for-more-efficient-ev-battery-development/

#DepartmentofEnergy #PresidentJoeBiden #ElectricVehicles #Featured #Tesla #News