Disaster risk & crisis management professor at AIM in Manila, hybrid warfare & disinfo researcher, purveyor of climate security and undesirable futures. RPG writer. Past lives in Alaska, Kosovo, Ukraine, Hungary, Ireland and elsewhere 🇨🇦
Chad Briggs
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We need ~30 years of data from the AMOC to be able to finally determine if it's actually collapsing. We're at 20 years of data. Removing this now means we can't definitively determine a potential AMOC collapse that could result in substantial climate disruptions.
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
Important new @brookings.edu research quantifying economic damages from the Trump ICE surge. Spending tens of billions of dollars to destroy lives, tear apart families and communities, and damage businesses and hurt the economy.
The Trump admin actively spending funds to silence climate monitoring - don't believe anyone who says this is "saving money" - and this will take a generation to put back into place
maritime-executive.com/article/trum...
OK guys, today stories are circulating (via professional societies) that the administration has leaked that they will retaliate against scientists who public comment.
a) you can comment anonymously
b) comments are protected speech
c) die on your feet or live on your knees
This is, by a mile, the most important thing you won't see in the news today.
It's terrifying for several reasons, but perhaps most of all because when added to fertilizer/oil issues, it could spell disaster for food production, esp. in the global south.
We have to change course now.
The ocean observatories help scientists, fishery managers, coastal hazard planners & the military plan & prepare: e.g. calculating fish harvest amounts or when a marine heatwave or giant wave action may be occurring. 🌎🧪
insideclimatenews.org/news/0906202...
New on Climate Genn: Professor Chad Briggs on cognitive warfare & The Gorgon Trap. 3 attacks combine to trap us in paralysis: white noise is a flood disinformation, black noise removes trust & pattern injection feeds us false narratives. The goal is cognitive paralysis.
https://youtu.be/A0KSzOodz-E
This one hits home to the Polar Programs community.... "NSF continues to offer fellowship opportunities ...in the fields of engineering, entrepreneurial research, mathematics and physical sciences. ..postdocs in biology are available only if they involve the use of artificial intelligence." 🧪🌎🇦🇶🌊
Off the scale corruption
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
A Russian drone struck Ukraine’s centralized spent nuclear fuel storage facility in the Chornobyl zone overnight, damaging a building and triggering a fire.
Ukrainian officials say the hit targeted critical nuclear infrastructure, calling it another deliberate strike on sensitive sites.
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The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade
Moving the objectives of Project 2025 one step closer to completion, the National Science Foundation is removing 900 ocean data collecting buoys that...
With its multi-billion-dollar fishing industry and vulnerable coastal communities, scientists say the federal government’s decision leaves Alaska flying blind.
A Russian drone hit a key nuclear infrastructure site in the Chornobyl zone, reigniting concerns over Moscow’s attacks on sensitive facilities.
euromaidanpress.com
Dr Andrew Mahon
The new ENSO Euro Plumes were released this morning. Hard to believe, but they are even stronger! Some members are even above 4°C! Remarkable.
To be helpful I added color bars to distinguish between strong vs historic events. Almost all members are historical!
Now here’s the relative… 1/2
We gotta at least try to do something about Russell Vought's Project 2025 OMB ruling:
New research from Marcela Escobari, Ian Seyal, and Paul Beach finds the 2025 ICE enforcement surge cost 668,000 jobs across U.S. cities—including an estimated 51,000–297,000 held by American-born workers.
Sometimes it feels like scientists in the US are trapped in a burning building and no one is even trying to put out the fire. So few people even seem to recognize that the fire is there.
