California Water Research

I'm honestly sick.

Decades and decades of lifesaving work being torn apart.

Trump’s emergency water order responsible for water dump from Tulare County lakes – SJV Water The sudden announcement Thursday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that Kaweah and Success lakes would immediately begin dumping water was in response Trump’s emergency water order responsible for w...

If the reports are correct, Trump will release from these reservoirs, 32,000 acre-ft (~10 billion gals) will be lost. Some will evaporate, some will seep into groundwater. Farmers who had rights to that water are now unlikely to have physical or legal access to it.
sjvwater.org/trumps-emerg...

FBI agents who worked on January 6 and Trump investigations are expected to be fired Friday | CNN Politics The Trump administration is set to expand a purge of career law enforcement officials, with dozens of FBI agents who investigated January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack and Trump-related investigations as...

This is how banana republics work: “Interim leaders at the Justice Department have spent the past week drawing up lists of people whose work at the bureau has earned disfavor with Trump for a variety of reasons.” www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/p...

There's a lot of confusion (no surprise in the early hours) around the devastating Learjet medevac flight crash and explosion in North Philadelphia. Here's the official word from the company running the flight. Six aboard including a pediatric patient....

Acting on Trump's order, federal officials opened up two California dams The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just opened up two California dams. A spokesperson says the flows are 'controlled' and being coordinated with local officials.

"I think it’s very strange and it’s disturbing that, after decades of careful local, state and federal coordination, some federal agencies are starting to unilaterally manipulate California’s water supply." @petergleick.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

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they just fired the law and policy section at ENRD

from a very reliable friend who thinks this is pretty reliable information about Environment and Natural Resources Division at DoJ:

Must've talked to hundreds of federal officials this week. One motivating factor in them reaching out, I'm told, is feeling like Congress is useless

The End of Term Archive team @eotarchive.org crawled millions of federal webpages! If you are worried about a page going down or changing information on it, you can check to see if it is saved in the Internet Archive's @waybackmachine.bsky.social. 1/2

Screenshot about rapid and unprecedented changes, including the highest levels of greenhouse gases in at least 800,00 years, rate of sea level in the 20th century was faster than any other century in at least 3000 years, global temperature has increased faster in the past 50 years than at anytime in the last 2000 years, and the current drought in the western US is now the most severe drought in at least 1200 years.

The 5th National Climate Assessment has been released today! Dive in to better understand the impacts of our changing climate across the United States: nca2023.globalchange.gov

"With each additional increment of warming, the consequences of climate change increase." 🧪⚒️

Why your weather forecasts may soon become more accurate Google has produced a weather forecasting model using artificial intelligence with better accuracy, faster speed and lower costs, study finds.

This Is promising! “GraphCast” can make a 10-day forecast in less than a minute; traditional models take hours on a supercomputers. GraphCast was about 10 percent more accurate than the European model on more than 90 percent of the weather variables evaluated. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023...

Arctic: Sea-Ice Thickness/Volume My visualizations: Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration...

My Arctic sea-ice thickness graphics are updated for October 2023, including for this year's annual minimum volume: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... ⚒️