Dr. Andrea Dutton

Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf heading for collapse. Monthly average velocities Jan 2025 to Feb 2026 derived from EU Copernicus Programme Sentinel-1 SAR data. Grounding lines in black and yellow from NASA MEaSUREs

So, any other news yesterday?
Anything important?

Citizen scientists discover a Great Barrier Reef coral giant ‘like a rolling meadow’ Volunteer group Citizens of the Reef made the find as part of the Great Reef Census

Citizen scientists discover a Great Barrier Reef coral giant ‘like a rolling meadow’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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🌊🧪I am honored to be the 2026 recipient of the Selby Fellowship, awarded by the Australian Academy of Science. Looking forward to speaking to (& with!) the public about climate change, sea level rise & coral reefs, drawing upon my field work in AU & around the world science.org.au/news-events/...

Here’s mine: not really sure how to interpret it though.

‘The biggest transformation in a century’: how California remade itself as a clean energy powerhouse The Golden State’s clean energy use hit new highs in 2025. As the Trump administration abandons US climate initiatives, can California fill the void?

Worth repeating: In 2025, California met 67% or more of its energy needs with clean energy on 90% of days. What state wouldn’t want these bragging rights?

Wonderful news, wonderful book, written by a wonderful person.

Sinking skyscrapers? As buildings got bigger in Sunny Isles, so did engineering concerns At least a handful of towers have sunk as much as two to three times more than expected, the Miami Herald found in a months-long analysis of dozens of engineering reports covering nearly every buildin...

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.

@desmog.com reviewed US tax records which show Bill Gates’ charity has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by Danish academic and climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

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🌊 Science in Service: Andrea Dutton on Advocacy & Public Engagement YouTube video by Targeted Film

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiVO...

Many thanks to the wonderful Jean Bahr who nominated me for this award. And many thanks to all of you out there who are champions of climate communication. Our job will never be done, but we have strength in numbers and in some really amazingly talented people doing this work.

I really appreciate the recognition for this work that I find incredibly rewarding, but can also be depressing, challenging, and elicits comments/emails/letters from people who are - let's say - not fans. At least for the moment, I feel both seen and appreciated.

Award made of rocks with plaque reading: "Presented to Andrea Dutton 2025 GSA Public Service Award in honor of Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker"

Picture of Andrea Dutton smiling and holding her (heavy) award made of rocks.

Some personal news: This week I was awarded the Geological Society of America Public Service award for all my work communicating climate science to the public. I received this beautiful award (they know their audience, geologists love rocks!)

In a nutshell: there is debate, the 6-9 m number may be too high (but also may not be). Not all field sites agree. Certainly higher than present - how many meters higher depends on some assumptions about GIA parameterization and potential effects of dynamic topography. More work on this forthcoming!

Warming of +1.5 °C is too high for polar ice sheets - Communications Earth & Environment Warming of +1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels is too high for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and even the current climate forcing of +1.2 °C is likely to lead to several meters of sea-level ...

See the summary provided in this recent publication: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

For those interested, I’ll giving a departmental colloquium on “Nine months in the federal assault on climate science” on 10/29 at 11:30am EDT

Register here:

Southern Ocean evidence for recurring West Antarctic Ice Sheet destabilization during Marine Isotope Stage 11 - Nature Communications Recurring deep ocean oxygen minimum events occur in the Pacific Southern Ocean during the warm climate interval Marine Isotope Stage 11. They are linked with perturbed Antarctic Bottom Water formation...

Southern Ocean evidence for recurring West Antarctic Ice Sheet destabilization during Marine Isotope Stage 11

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Job ad for postdoctoral research in ice sheet modeling | Andrea Dutton 🌊 🌊 JOB ALERT!! Looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding?? Looking to live in a city that is routinely ranked as one of the best cities to live in across the entire U.S.? Come jo...

🌊🌊JOB ALERT!! Are you an ice sheet modeler looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding? Come join our research team at University of Wisconsin-Madison to study the physical and human dynamics of sea-level rise. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...

This is great news - Congratulations to Ángel! Also great to see not one, but TWO UW-Madison people in this year's MacArthur Class of Fellows. (Sébastien Phillipe in Nuclear Engineering being the other one).

New paper out by graduate student Andy Jones on California glaciers. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".

Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

EPA orders some scientists to stop publishing research, employees say - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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If I could just summarize 1 sentence from the new National Academy of Sciences study on climate, boldface, flashing red, it would be:

"the evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused GHGs is beyond scientific dispute."

BEYOND SCIENTIFIC DISPUTE
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Yup- saw that too

it shows a 404 page not found error

apparently the DOE Climate Working Group has registered this website: ClimateWorkingGroup.com.

Here it is, full of information just as interesting and relevant as the report itself.

E&E News: Disbanded DOE climate group vows to continue work Facing legal challenges, the department dissolved the group whose members wrote a report critical of mainstream climate science.

"The Environmental Defense Fund and the Union of Concerned Scientists have sued DOE over [the group's] formation, claiming the agency violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act in setting up the group." Reporting by @scottpwaldman.bsky.social subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...