Polar marine scientist. UK Science Lead in Science Coordination Office of International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration. Views are my own.
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Rob Larter
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El Niño is here, which means it's time for me to dust off and refine my old collection of ENSO-related climate visualizations. Check out how much sea surface temperatures have already warmed this year across the equatorial tropical Pacific. Wow!
Data from psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...
If you commemorate the Space X IPO by reading one article on Elon Musk today, make it this one from @edwardluce.bsky.social. It is a timely and hard-hitting reminder that the world's first trillionaire is also one of its very worst people. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
432 PPT. You read that right.
scripps.ucsd.edu/news/annual-...
There is something magical about the juxtaposition of ice and the ocean. Unfortunately though, warming and changes in ocean circulation are increasingly turning this association into an unhealthy one for the ice.
🧵🧪🌊 Today is #WorldOceansDay. My favourite parts of the ocean are those adjacent to Antarctica, Greenland and other locations where ice flows into the sea.
Photo shows the vessel Bark Europa, taken during the voyage to the Antarctic Peninsula I joined earlier this year.
