James Temple
Climate and energy editor, Reno bureau chief, MIT Technology Review. Ski bum.
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- Scientists are striving to improve snowpack water forecasts across the American West, as Trump administration cuts jeopardize long-running snow survey, monitoring & modeling programs.
- I followed around a couple @driscience.bsky.social climate scientists on skis at Heavenly, and got to call it a workday.
- Reposted by James TempleGOP proposes surrendering future to China www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/c...
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- Reposted by James Temple"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
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- Reposted by James TempleThere are many horrible things in the Ways & Means draft, but let me alert you to this underappreciated horror: They want to expand the Treasury Secretary's power to unilaterally designate nonprofits as "terrorist supporting organizations."
- Reposted by James TempleHere is a rundown of exactly how the GOP proposal would change every clean energy tax credit. While it looks like a bunch of nips and tucks, it's probably more akin to a full repeal. More analysis from us to come. heatmap.news/politics/way...
- Reposted by James TempleEffectively a full repeal of the largest climate bill in history. There’s no strategy for America’s future. We all get sicker and pay more in energy bills and suffer climate disasters, while some rich folks pay less in taxes. That’s it. Disgraceful.
- The House Republican's budget bill is starting to drop. It extends trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy while effectively crippling US manufacturing & energy industries and raising energy costs. It's effectively full repeal of the IRA. Here's tax portion waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/u... 🔌💡
- Reposted by James TempleHouse Republicans tonight proposed blanket rescissions of funding that is still available from Biden's Inflation Reduction Act for cleaning up ports, trucking, schools, and manufacturing, for investments in new businesses, air monitoring, and environmental justice communities.
- The latest semi-annual NYT version of this piece.
- Reposted by James TempleFBI was stopping by the homes of climate change scientists and protesters in Boston yesterday. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
- Reno: It’s fresh
- Happy to see a @russellbrandom.bsky.social byline in TR today.
- Reposted by James TempleAfter serving as Director of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and VP of Caltech for three years, I have decided to step down, effective June 1. Though not an easy decision, I strongly believe it is the right one for me, my family, and the Lab. www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/dave-ga...
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- MIT, Princeton + other research institutes are punching back: www.masslive.com/news/2025/05...
- Reposted by James TempleI've always been open about my belief that having +research on SRM is good, so to me the ARIA program is very welcome. Most of the funded research is about expanding our understanding of potential outcomes through modeling, obs and engagement. Yes, there are some outdoor scientific experiments:
- Reposted by James TempleTo fast-track recovery after wildfires ravaged Los Angeles County in January, Mayor Karen Bass issued an executive order exempting replacement structures from the city's all-electric building requirement. A new report argues that’s the wrong approach:
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- Reposted by James TempleOne of the things I learned writing a book about global trade is that thing you got delivered next day started its journey *months* ago in China or SE Asia. A few months from now you will see an explosion of stories about empty shelves. It’s going to blow people’s minds.
- This new Julien Baker + TORRES album is gorgeous, easily my favorite album of the year so far.
- Reposted by James TempleI think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
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- Reposted by James Templeso this is that horse-race journalism we’ve heard so much about
- Reposted by James TempleVacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief Carbon Brief is offering an exciting opportunity for students, or recent graduates, to work with the team for three weeks this summer. Deadline: 02 June, 9AM BST Apply here ➡️ buff.ly/ypeV1mr
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- Reposted by James TempleThere’s some inaccurate NSF information spreading and causing extra panic. New increments on existing awards are paused. But: to the best of my knowledge, drawdown (reimbursement) on existing increments is not paused. ACMS is still accessible. Could change at any moment, though. Please share.
- Reposted by James TempleNEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...
- Reposted by James TempleLast week, the govt dismissed 400 researchers working on the US National Climate Assessment. I was one of them. Today, @agu.org & @ametsoc.org announced they are joining forces to sustain the momentum. It's not a replacement, it's a reminder that science is unstoppable. news.agu.org/press-releas...
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- Reposted by James Temple🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
- Reposted by James TempleThe reasons aren't always clear, but some reversals seem linked to lawsuits filed against the administration. That's according to data collected by @noamross.net, @anthonybarente.bsky.social & @scott-delaney.bsky.social, who says, “You can’t win if you don’t fight.” www.chronicle.com/article/thes...
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- Another banger of a piece from @eileenguo.bsky.social
- "You can’t be energy 'dominant' if you gut the energy sources that are projected to add 80% to 90% of new gigawatts to the U.S. grid between now and 2030." — Jennifer Granholm
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- Reposted by James TempleOverheard: “William Henry Harrison had a better first 100 days, and he spent 70 of them dead.”
- Reposted by James TempleWe Now Know How AI ‘Thinks’—and It’s Barely Thinking at All Maybe you've heard that AIs are "black boxes" But a growing body of research keeps arriving at the same conclusion: Today's AIs all work in surprisingly similar -- and simplistic -- ways 1/2 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...
- Reposted by James TempleI have a new essay out in a collection by @rooseveltinstitute.org. If we want clean energy industrial strategy, we have to deliver for everybody. We need to approach decarbonization as the biggest megaproject in world history, & ensure it gets done on time. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/buildin...
- NEW: Americans need a government that delivers stability and security—not chaos. Our new essay collection brings together great minds to imagine how democracy can better deliver the economy Americans need and want. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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- Reposted by James TempleNEW: Per multiple sources, the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors has been entirely disbanded.
- Reposted by James TempleAGU has filed a new lawsuit to prevent the Administration’s dismantling of U.S. scientific agencies. We’re proud to take this stand with our plaintiffs’ coalition for our federal workforce. buff.ly/3U56ooz
- Reposted by James TempleIt's possible Spain's blackout is related to lack of spinning reserves and inertia, but the cause is not yet known. Those claiming otherwise are pushing speculation as fact and shamefully using a crisis to advance their priors. 🔌💡
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- Reposted by James TempleEXCLUSIVE: Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.
- @davidrotman.bsky.social digs into what tariffs will mean for manufacturing:
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- Reposted by James TempleLooking forward to reading Climate Injustice from @frediotto.bsky.social. Get your own copy here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/clim...
- Hey SF 👋, I’ll be talking about covering climate & clean tech in the Trump era at Climate Week, with @katherineblunt.bsky.social @jeffstjohn.bsky.social & Katie Fehrenbacher. Come check it out if you can.
- Reposted by James TempleNow it's nearly 270 university presidents who have signed onto this "unprecedented government overreach" public letter. It was less than 180 this morning. www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c... Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.
- Number is up just today, from 180 to around 240. University leaders, time to join in. www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
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- Reposted by James TempleIn case you were wondering how much the US solar installer industry relies on Southeast Asia...
- @caseycrownhart.bsky.social reports on the billions of dollars of climate tech projects that companies have halted since Trump took office. By way of comparison, it's "more than three times the total investments cancelled over the previous 30 months."
- Come for @vjeran.bsky.social's epic shot of the Mt. Rose Lakeview Snow Deck at 1:05, stick around for other sweet 360 footage.
- Reposted by James TempleWith the attacks on science and academia by the current administration, if those of us who have tenure don't speak up, it's really hard to continue justifying the tenure system based on academic freedom.
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