Gavin Schmidt
Climate scientist, juggler. Bikes etc. Blogging at https://www.realclimate.org - data visualization, explainers, and debunking.
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtJFC folks drinking raw milk is Russian roulette except only one chamber is empty. You might as well drink wood alcohol. DON'T DO IT.
- “Health officials in New Mexico are warning against consuming raw dairy products after a newborn baby in the state died from a listeria infection that they say was likely contracted when the baby's mother drank raw milk during pregnancy.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Gavin Schmidt“Any single vaccine” is the key phrasing here. And it’s deliberate. See, Bhattacharya cannot acknowledge the truth that vaccines do not cause autism—indeed the idea that they do is based on fraudulent research—without alienating his anti-vax friends with whom he made a devil’s bargain for power.
- Swirling ice on the Hudson (moving upstream with the tide).
- Compare and contrast with the ice depicted in Washington Crossing the Delaware (painted in Germany some 80 years after the event).
- This is a great ‘experiment of opportunity’ to get a closer look at what happens when satellites reenter the atmosphere. Lots of unknowns!
- Fun fact: we recently moved two satellites to meet a plane. Why? For valuable scientific data on atmospheric reentries. Find out more about the why & how 👉 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtThe authors "estimate that by 2025, the Brexit process had reduced UK GDP per capita by 6 to 8 percent, investment by 12 to 18 percent, employment by 3 to 4 percent, and productivity by 3 to 4 percent. These effects grew gradually over time." www.nber.org/202602/diges... What a total disaster... 🇪🇺🇬🇧
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtWoman with legal status taken from her family home in St Paul by ICE, flown to Texas, held for two weeks before being ordered released by a judge. She lost her job. She's afraid to go outside because agents keep coming to her home. www.kare11.com/article/news...
- Great visuals. Tough story. Tricky science. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/c...
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtWith cold outbreaks sweeping parts of the US, some have argued that climate change is to blame. But the proposed mechanism remains quite controversial in the scientific community, and the number of extreme cold events have been decreasing almost everywhere: www.theclimatebrink....
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtRecent assessments have found the last glacial maximum implies a climate sensitivity of 2.4C (1.4C to 5.0C): www.science.org/doi/... And the Pliocene implies a sensitivity of 3.1C (2.3C to 4.7C): www.pnas.org/doi/10.... Paleoclimate evidence generally provides the strongest constraint on high ECS.
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtInternal emails show Department of Energy's debunked climate science report was reviewed by scientists internally, who found it "biased," "misleading," and "hypocritical." Contrarian authors tailored their work to ensure it focused on weakening climate regulations. www.eenews.net/articles/doe...
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtI'm starting to understand in a very visceral way why unpopular rulers had all of their things smashed and names stricken from historical records.
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtI was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtThe risks come not from Super Intelligence, just from Regular Stupidity.
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtIRS executive Kathleen Walters was asked to break the law by the Trump administration, and refused.
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtYesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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- Reposted by Gavin Schmidtit’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend
- Reposted by Gavin Schmidt"A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming." Gift link.
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtA Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtToday's @nytimes.com dialogue with Ross Douthat & Jay Bhattacharya is tough sledding. I wrote a book on how silent transmission made COVID harder to stop and drove misleading narratives. The interview continues to mislead as a means to seize more power. a 🧵 www.amazon.com/Asymptomatic...
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtMy new story, a deep dive on what it can mean to protest in America today. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtUtterly damning evidence of what happens to junior people in any field if they use AI. You cannot learn or build expertise if you use this tool. It’s just not possible and you will do nothing but make yourself expendable if you become reliant on it.
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtThere are real serious potentially life or death consequences to AI hallucination in legal, including law enforcement, or medical settings. It is madness to allow this technology into such high stakes environments.
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtSales of EVs surpass petrol cars in the EU for the first time. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 #TheFutureIsEletric www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...
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- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtI wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtTake four minutes out of your day.
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtNew planet just dropped and it 1) is almost exactly Earth-sized 2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year. 3) orbits a star that is not a 💢temperamental little shit M-dwarf 💢but is instead a 🧡 good orange boi 🧡 Me for @science.org based on results presented at #RockyWorlds4: 🔭🧪
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtJoin us in Bologna, Italy, 4–6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate — the first global conference fully dedicated to climate data visualization and its power to transform public understanding of a changing planet. Come see the data. visualisingclimate.org #VisualisingClimate2026 #DataVis #ClimateCrisis
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtRoutine reminder that there is no treatment for measles. But vaccination is 97% effective at preventing measles infection.
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtVideo from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
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- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtI just posted the second in my Endangerment substack series: thesaraphreport.substack.com/p/did-epa-ge...
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtThey're also removing the remaining glaciers from Glacier National Park.
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtAfter being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtNCAR represents what is possible when a nation chooses to invest in science as a public good, writes @carlonimbus.bsky.social of @ucs.org. #SaveNCAR eos.org/opinions/wha...
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtAttention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtAlex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
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- Reposted by Gavin Schmidt"There are no limits to the defiance of the United Nations & international law...After having been stormed and demolished by the Israeli authorities, the UNRWA Headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem has now been set on fire." - UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtFrom Angry Catfish, independent bicycle shop in Minneapolis
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtBreaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
- Reposted by Gavin Schmidt"Oh my gosh, it was so nice to see you! Have a lovely day, fuck ICE!" "Oh you too hon! Stay safe in that traffic, fuck ICE!' - two older Minnesota ladies, bidding farewell after the protest
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtSame thing happened when Renee Nicole Good was murdered. Not a peep. I put together a small feed of trending posts, to see what's really going on. bsky.app/profile/numb...
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Here is the newly-unsealed State Department memo confirming -- finally -- that the detention of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk was based on an op-ed. No antisemitic activity. No support of terrorism. An op-ed in a student newspaper. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... - Reposted by Gavin SchmidtI think if anyone were serious about climate philanthropy they would just buy this building and hire every single NCAR employee and call it a day
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtIf ICE truly were targeting "the worst of the worst" and not, you know, deliberately brutalizing innocent families with children, they'd rush to correct all the stories like this one, apologizing and insisting it's not what they're really doing. They don't because this is deliberate. This is it.
- Reposted by Gavin SchmidtLet America Be America Again - by Langston Hughes poets.org/poem/let-ame...
- Reposted by Gavin Schmidt"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.
