Climate journalist focused on extreme weather, climate, the energy transition @cnn. Priors: Axios, WaPo | Alum: The Fletcher School, Columbia Climate & Society | Tips: [email protected] | [email protected] | Signal: @afreedmanclimate.03
Andrew Freedman
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Breaking: El Niño is officially here, and it could break records. NOAA is giving it a 63% chance of becoming one of the “largest El Niño events in the historical record going back to 1950.” www.cnn.com/2026/06/11/w...
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So, Reading University recorded 33.1°C today, which beats the previous all-UK May daily record.
Kew Gardens says, “hold my beer”, recording 35.1°C.
For the same weather patterns, these temperatures would have been low-30s in a past climate.
Burning fossil fuels has made these heatwaves hotter.
BREAKING: A federal court has blocked the National Science Foundation (NSF) from transferring a major supercomputer away from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Wyoming.
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Scientists are sounding the alarm about a new rule that would dramatically change how the federal gov't makes grant funding decisions. The rule is extraordinarily sweeping, and could have huge impacts on health and climate research. W/ @ellanilsen.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/c...
