Steve Easterbrook

Photo of damaged books on a wooden table. The titles of two books are visible: "Climate Trauma: Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Fiction", and "The Collapse of Complex Societies"

Cleaning up today, after our offices were flooded. I'll file this photo under #irony

I've seen a few people post on Mastodon about how they would love a model railway, but can't, cos of space limitations. What if I was to tell you that you can enjoy model railways, even if you live in a tiny apartment.

This is a thread about standards and community.

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I'm deeply saddened to learn today that the Trump administration has announced plans to shut down NCAR, one of the world's leading centres for atmospheric research. For those not familiar with NCAR, I've posted an extract about NCAR's work from my book on climate modelling […]

Carney’s pipeline deal contradicts everything he knows about climate change
#ClimateChange #Canada #MarkCarney #Alberta #Oil
https://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/2025/12/carneys-pipeline-deal-contradicts-everything-he-knows-about-climate-change/

Kennedy’s latest attack on vaccine science is as dangerous as it is cynical
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5459677-kennedy-bullying-vaccine-research/

@steve How did you know what I studied?!?!

@edwiebe Ah, don't be such a physicist. See the note at the end of my blog post on precisely this point! https://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/2012/01/how-much-extra-energy-are-we-adding-to-the-earth-system/

As I'm giving a talk tonight on causes and consequences of #ClimateChange, I just redid a calculation I first did in 2012:
The Earth is currently warming at the rate of 380TW (terawatts). Humanity as a whole consumes about 15TW of energy.
So we're warming the planet about 25 times faster than […]

I'm convinced two-factor authentication is a huge prank played on people with #ADHD

What do you mean the code has expired? Again!?!

Holy crap

The #Trump's admin has fired ALL of the authors of the US govt's signature study that informs federal & local govts on how to prepare for #ClimateChange impacts, acc/to an email sent to them on Monday.

The dismissal of nearly 400 contributors to the 6th National #Climate Assessment […]

While Annie studied maths at Perdue,
Her cat needed something to do.
So she spent the whole week,
Teaching it mathematical Greek,
But the cat only learned to say μ.

Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-seeks-end-climate-research-premier-u-s-climate-agency

Replacing gas vehicles with electric cars could prevent new cases of childhood asthma Electric vehicles sold in the last decade are already having a measurable impact on childhood asthma rates in the U.S.

Replacing gas vehicles with electric cars could prevent new cases of childhood asthma https://theconversation.com/replacing-gas-vehicles-with-electric-cars-could-prevent-new-cases-of-childhood-asthma-252244

Nearly at the end of my course Confronting the Climate Crisis. Looks like most of the students liked my weekly quizzes!
#ClimateChange

“‘We’re like sitting ducks’: the right’s ‘war on woke’ has a well-tested playbook to take down academics”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/chris-rufo-jo-boaler-academics-woke

This is a cartogram map of the United States depicting land use by different categories. The map distorts state shapes to represent proportional land usage. Key land use types include cow pasture/range (covering much of the central U.S.), private and federal timberland in the Pacific Northwest, corporate timberland in the Southeast, and urban housing/commercial areas in the Northeast. Other categories include agriculture (livestock feed, wheat exports, ethanol/biodiesel, cotton), protected lands (national parks, federal wilderness, state parks), and infrastructure (railroads, airports, highways). Additional specialized land uses include wildfires, golf courses, Christmas tree farms, and maple syrup production.

I think about this map a lot.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/

This is phenomenal news. Brandon is a science leader from NSF who brings a perspective infused with experience, wisdom, and expertise.

Climate Data Practices: A Research Approach for HCI and Climate Justice | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction This paper introduces climate data practices as a conceptual lens for HCI research and design toward social and environmental justice. We offer a working definition of this approach, which we locate at the intersection of critical data studies and ...

Interested in the social and political contexts in which people make use of climate data? Our new paper, "Climate Data Practices: A Research Approach for HCI and Climate Justice" is out!
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3719346
#ClimateChange #ClimateData #ClimateJustice

A bunch of former colleagues got fired today and to a person, they are some of the hardest working most professional folks I've ever worked with in my entire life. They weren't partisan, they worked for everybody & worked tirelessly for the country. We as a nation are poorer without their service.

You know why we Germans are so pedantic about data protection? Someone around 90 years ago went through all records available, selected people with certain criteria, with the help of IBM, and then killed them all.

We don't want to be on any list.

And now the US Gov and Musk is trying to get […]

Toronto forging ahead with new bike lanes despite provincial crackdown City staff are proposing over 12 kilometres of new bike lanes, including in Bloordale, Cabbagetown, the Annex and the Junction Triangle

“Toronto’s bike-lane expansion program is going full steam ahead despite the Doug Ford provincial government’s legislation limiting the city’s powers.

According to a new proposal, city staff are recommending a $28.5-million project to build over 12 kilometres of new bike lanes.”

Good. Keep going.

Transforming US agriculture for carbon removal with enhanced weathering - Nature A state-level analysis of the impact of enhanced weathering deployment on carbon sequestration on agricultural land suggests that enhanced weathering could help the USA meet net-zero 2050 goals.

"Finally, we emphasize that efforts to remove atmospheric carbon by means of any CDR technology will ultimately be futile for addressing the climate crisis without urgent and drastic emissions reductions and a transition to clean energy."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08429-2

Breaking news: Russia denies planning to buy back Alaska, a spokesperson for Putin said "we have already bought the whole of Trump's administration, why would we pay extra for Alaska?" Massive if true...

“‘We’re like sitting ducks’: the right’s ‘war on woke’ has a well-tested playbook to take down academics”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/chris-rufo-jo-boaler-academics-woke

"Why should a country bear the costs of reducing #emissions when the benefits are shared globally? This column re-evaluates this view in light of new climate damage estimates based on global temperature variation, showing that the economic case for unilateral decarbonisation is far stronger […]

It's really hard to concentrate on climate science when our colleagues are getting fired and everyone's funding is being threatened. Maybe that's the goal.

Public notice:

If you want to read a research article, please don't pay for the paper on the publisher's website. All that money goes to the publisher, we don't get any of it. Instead, contact us. We'll be happy to send you the paper :-).

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.