The relative index only brings it down a smidge. The vast majority are historic. Only 1 of the ensemble plumes fails to reach historic.
It’s remarkable.
We have a new paper out on the value of reversible carbon storage in a zero-emissions world, led by Allegra Mayer and with Dr. Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Jerome Dumortier, and Eric Slessarev! We try and answer the question of when it makes sense to "rent" vs "buy" CDR: pubs.acs.org/doi/10....
Similarly, durable replacement don't emerge whole cloth out of the ether; near-term investments in durable CDR are needed alongside reversible CDR to help scale the technology and drive down costs.
How waves, ponds and green algae are accelerating sea ice melt in Antarctica
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The equatorial Pacific continued to warm in May 2026 as El Niño takes hold. Elsewhere, several notable bands of anomalously warm sea surface temperatures persisted across the extratropical Pacific and Atlantic, including a long-lived marine heatwave off Mexico.
Data: NOAA OISSTv2.1 (monthly mean) 🌊
Papua New Guinea has detailed its plans to protect approximately 200,000 km² of Pacific Ocean waters from fishing and all other destructive human activity.
Papua New Guinea sits within the Coral Triangle, the global epicentre of marine biodiversity.
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/papua-n...
Sea-surface temperature across El Nino region 3.4 heading into unknown territory
We don't know where this will end up
I'm afraid that this is why the US administration wants to shut down ocean observations: they don't want the people to know what is happening in our oceans, as it does not fit their ideology and the interests of their fossil fuel industry funders.
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Do our politicians act like they are properly aware that their actions today are changing climate on Earth for thousands of years to come?
Do they have sleepless nights and intensive exchange with experts over this huge responsibility?
If you want more amazing stories like this, go read The Light Eaters by @zoeschlanger.bsky.social. It's a fascinating and fun read about the wondrous world of plants around us. I can not recommend this book highly enough.