Andrew Freedman
Climate journalist focused on extreme weather, climate, the energy transition @cnn. Priors: Axios, WaPo | Alum: The Fletcher School, Columbia Climate & Society | Tips: andrew.freedman@axios.com | afreedman@protonmail.com | Signal: @afreedmanclimate.03
- Reposted by Andrew Freedman“This is a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
- Reposted by Andrew FreedmanIf you are able, The Post's union has started a layoff fund for those fired by the world's fourth-richest man today. gofund.me/a310d0286
- The latest on the weekend storm threat, from a team effort at CNN Weather. TL;DR: The snow threat is real for this weekend, details not yet clear, but if you live anywhere from the coastal Carolinas to Boston, you should be paying attention to forecasts the next few days www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/w...
- Just gonna drop this here after that POTUS social post. On the topic of the cold and winter storm's relationship to global warming: www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/c...
- How is this winter storm and brutal cold blast even possible in a warming climate? Paradoxically, the ingredients for this event may be more likely at least in part due to climate change... www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/c...
- Reposted by Andrew FreedmanThe heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of: - Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute - operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history - Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
- A funny thing has happened on the way to Trump's gutting of America's climate and weather research budgets (NOAA/NASA)... Congress is about to say no. www.cnn.com/2026/01/14/c...
- Much of the West is experiencing a snow drought, with record warmth as well. “This is up there with some of the worst [winters], if not the worst.” www.cnn.com/2026/01/09/c...
- Nature, or rather, climate experts, always find a way. The billion dollar disasters report that the Trump admin tried to squash is now out via Climate Central. www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/c...
- Trump moves to pull the US from bedrock climate treaty, UN IPCC and other int'l orgs & UN agencies. In doing so, the US becomes the only country to withdraw from this particular climate agreement dating back to 1992 (UNFCCC). www.cnn.com/2026/01/07/c...
- The timing matters a lot on this effort to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research. New reporting -- www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/c...
- Perspective on the news about the Trump administration seeking to break up the NSF NCAR - The National Center for Atmospheric Research from the ground at the AGU meeting. www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/c...
- The National Weather Service is hiring again, but very slowly, causing many forecast offices to continue to cope with staff shortages. www.cnn.com/2025/12/09/w...
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- Thanks in part to a polar vortex disruption, December is likely to feature waves of unusually cold weather across the Central and Eastern US + other parts of the midlatitudes, experts say. Details on the next Arctic blast: www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/w...
- A deep dive into the superior performance of the Google DeepMind ensemble model this past Atlantic hurricane season, and what it portends for hurricane forecasting. www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/c...
- "Climate risk data didn’t suddenly become inconvenient; it became harder to ignore in a stressed market.” On Zillow's decision to remove extreme weather risk info from home listings, and pressure on other sites to do the same, via @ellanilsen.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/c...
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- An unusually early sudden stratospheric warming event is likely to send the polar vortex on the move. Questions exist re: how this will affect US weather, but odds for colder, snowier weather are ticking up esp. in Central/Eastern US www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/w...
- This is fascinating -- Iceland formally labels the potential collapse of the AMOC a national security threat. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
- This is not weather or climate content, but ya gotta eat, right? My wife, Olga, helped spearhead this dive into Thanksgivings past in order to plan the best possible meal for the holiday this year. It's neat, full of little mysteries. www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/11...
- A sobering take on what a slew of new reports say about how the world will look under 2-3°C+ of warming. W/ @laurapaddison.bsky.social & insights from @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, @kimcobb.bsky.social, @weatherwest.bsky.social & others. www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/c... (For CNN subscribers.)
- An important new story on the quiet gutting of one of NASA's most important laboratory campuses, during the federal shutdown. Via @ellanilsen.bsky.social & @jackiewattles.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...
- Here's the least surprising but still important climate headline of the day. Finally, the UN makes it official about the 1.5-degree target: www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/c...
- Despite not sending a high-level delegation to the COP30 Climate Summit in Brazil, the presence of the US will still be felt by negotiators there. The US will be the elephant in the room, and could seek to disrupt the talks from afar, depending on how they're trending... www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/c...
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- Innovative and visually striking story from @washingtonpost.com on trends toward increasing heavy downpours around the world. Worth a read. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...
- Melissa was one of the strongest storms on record. NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters flew into it without pay. Crews are asked “To be fully mentally present, especially in this environment, and it’s hard to do that when you know you can’t potentially make ends meet.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/w...
- The National Hurricane Center's forecasts for Hurricane Melissa have been unusually accurate so far, despite NOAA cuts in personnel and budget. Here are some stats: www.cnn.com/weather/live...
- I spent much of Tuesday talking to some of the top hurricane experts in the country about how climate change helped turn Hurricane Melissa into such a beast of a storm. Here's what they told me: www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/c...
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- The billion-dollar disasters database is back, except not at NOAA anymore. It shows 2025 has had the most expensive first six months to any year on record since 1980, largely due to the LA wildfires. www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/c...
- NEW: A significant gap in weather balloon coverage in western Alaska, caused by Trump admin cuts to NOAA/NWS, may have hurt the forecast accuracy for the deadly storm there over the weekend. www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...
- The North Pacific "blob" of unusually warm waters is the blob to end all blobs, and will have some sort of an influence on the upcoming US winter weather. So too will La Niña, which NOAA officially declared today. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/w...
- La Niña is officially back per NOAA, and it is likely to persist through the winter. BUT it has competition for influencing the upcoming winter across the U.S.: The giant N. Pacific “Blob” of bathtub-like warm water. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/w...
- About that EF5 tornado drought... it, um, well, ended. www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/w...
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- "Beautiful clean coal" really feeling the love from the Trump admin this wk, w/ 13.1 million acres of public lands opened to mining and $625 million to keep power plants open. It'll be interesting to see if these measures are enough to make coal competitive. www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/c...
- With two tropical cyclones currently spinning off the Southeast Coast, it's worth asking, what happens if a hurricane hits the US during a gov't shutdown? Details here about how NOAA and FEMA may fare... www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/w...
- China commits to new emissions reduction goals, but they're far short of where other countries & activists had hoped. In making the announcement, President Xi Jinping seemingly dinged the US' focus on fossil fuels... www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/c...
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- Innovative new "plume" maps from @climatetrace.org show you how to identify and track emissions from the polluters you're exposed to. www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/c...
- Startling new study on water resources finds that "Day Zero" droughts can be anticipated within this decade in certain hotspots, incl. North America. www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/c... Via @laurapaddison.bsky.social
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- The Pacific "blob" is back, except this time it stretches across the entire North Pacific Ocean Basin. This is altering weather patterns, led to Japan's hottest summer on record, and could affect your winter weather too. Also hit hard is marine life. www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/c...
- Reposted by Andrew FreedmanIt's not your imagination: Wildfire smoke in the U.S. has dramatically worsened since 2019. According to a new study, it's already killing 41,000 people a year - and it's poised to get much worse. new from me @johnmuyskens.bsky.social and @sadbumblebee.buzz www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- NEW: NASA has banned scientists from China with US visas from working at the space agency, cutting access to facilities, supercomputers, conference calls etc. W/ @jackiewattles.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/s...
- NEW: Trump administration dissolves group that authored controversial report sowing doubt in the severity of climate change. BUT the report the working group produced is not being withdrawn. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/c...
- Groundbreaking climate study ties individual fossil fuel companies to extreme heat events, a potential game-changer for climate lawsuits. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/c...
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- EPA moves to suspend >100 employees w/out pay who signed a letter criticizing the agency's actions under current leadership for "conduct unbecoming of a federal employee." www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/c...
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- More than 85 climate scientists filed >400 pages of public comments today pushing back against the findings of the DOE’s Climate Working Group Report. A 🧵
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- I spoke with some of the top experts on how climate change is affecting Atlantic hurricanes, specifically when it comes to rapid intensification. It was... unsettling. Here's the story that resulted: www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/c...
- New nonprofit climate group forms, aims to resurrect climate.gov, National Climate Assessment and other lost data www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...
- Important story from @voosen.me on FY'25 cuts to NOAA's climate, weather research programs that bring spending below what Congress authorized. Hints at the bigger research cuts to come in FY'26. www.science.org/content/arti...
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