This month’s open thread on climate topics. Despite everything going on, please avoid generic political arguments – there are many other places on line for that. Impacts on climate science or actions from the layoffs in the US federal government are, however, very much on topic.
Columbia University is now dead.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1jnige9/columbia_university_alumni_renounce_their_degrees/?share_id=iZ6h-W_8qCV7S1Mz9AURw&utm_content=1&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=2
Such is the price of Capitulation.
“Jon A. Shields, a professor at Claremont McKenna College, has summarized the basic trend, finding that outside of economics, the percentages of conservatives in the social-science and humanities disciplines have dropped to the single digits.”
That is increasingly true for the hard sciences too.
There is something about learning that converts people to Liberal ideals and causes them to reject the dishonesty of conservatism.
Can you figure out what that is Mr. Williams?
I highly doubt it.
The monthly SAT anomaly back in January 2025 got the headline news treatment because it was ‘scorchyisimo!!’, the warmest January on record. This was mainly due to a year ago, the January 2024 coincided with a sizable downward wobble while Jan 2025 lacked any such downward wobble.
(ERA5 re-analysis numbers Jan24 +0.70ºC, Jan25 +0.79ºC)
February 2025 failed to achieve ‘scorchyisimo!!’ status as one of those downward wobbles appeared mid-month. And this was the lowest downward wobble seen since June 2023 when the full “bananas” temperatures of late 2023 were still yet to appear – June 2023 averaging +0.53ºC.
(Feb 24 +0.81ºC, Feb 25 +0,63ºC)
As we approach the end of March, another big downward wobble has just begun, so far managing a little lower than the February one. Prior to a week ago before this downward wobble began, the March 2025 anomaly was matching March 2024 and a further ‘scorchyisimo!!’ was looking very possible but now that is not on the cards.
(Mar 2024 +0.73ºC, Mar 2025 to-date +0.67ºC)
A graphic of these wobbles and monthly averages is posted (& being updated) HERE – First POSTED 17th March 2025. Note that while the downward wobble minimums are dropping towards pre-bananas levels, the wobble maximums are not showing a similar decline (yet?). And the Climate Pulse SST 60N-60S numbers are still stuck above +0.4ºC, when prior to the “bananas” an anomaly above +0.3ºC had only every appeared at the height of an El Niño.
Everything Trump touches dies. Everything DOGE touches will crumble into dust.
This assertion will be proved or disproved very shortly. In the meantime, I doubt if moderators need do more than laugh at the proponents of MAGA idiocy.