I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline.
“Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet.
Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming.
Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”
Happy World Ocean Day!
The ocean is the heart of our life support system, without which we’d all be dead. It’s taken up >90% of the heat from global warming and 30% of our CO₂ emissions. In return, we give it 11 million tonnes of plastic annually, which animals ingest and also become entangled in.
We need ~30 years of data from the AMOC to be able to finally determine if it's actually collapsing. We're at 20 years of data. Removing this now means we can't definitively determine a potential AMOC collapse that could result in substantial climate disruptions.
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🧪❄️🌊 I chatted with Patrick Pester at @livescience.com about the impending demise of the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf, future change to Thwaites Glacier itself and the implications for sea-level rise.
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#Antarctica #sealevel #ThwaitesGlacier
The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade
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On a day that many might be headed to the beach, take a moment to consider some of the widespread impacts of all of that plastic, and the ongoing efforts to clean it up.
1/ The sustainability transition doesn’t just advance from the top down and the bottom up – change also happens in the middle, and that’s where most of us can make a real difference
Quick thread on a great new paper showing how *everyone* has an influential role to play
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Katharine Hayhoe
David Ho
Alejandra Caraballo
The idea that only nuclear or gas can provide "firm power" -- the last line of defense against the relentless advance of clean energy -- is going the way of the dodo.
There are no arguments left. The only reason to fight progress now is corruption & raw political power.
A major US deep-ocean monitoring network is being scaled back. “Ongoing monitoring of the ocean is critical, especially now. Concern in the oceanography community about major ocean current changes ahead is large,” says PIKs @rahmstorf.bsky.social.
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Hur många svenska politiker agerar i enlighet med kunskapen att våra handlingar nu får effekter över tusentals år? Om vi fortsätter som idag kommer global temperatur bli +3-4 grader år 3000 och ungefär dubbelt så högt i Sverige. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Corrected the headline image for you @irishtimes.com
📷 Patient with heat illness receiving combined emergency cooling methods. Gaudio and Grissom (2016) Cooling methods in heat stroke. The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 50(4): Fig. 3
Researchers have warned that the Thwaites Glacier, one of the largest glaciers in the world, is about to lose its eastern ice shelf. We spoke to marine geophysicist Robert Larter about what this means...
Grouping wind, solar, and batteries together can already be more affordable than building a coal or gas plant in prime locations, new report finds.
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The Trump administration will dismantle a $368 million monitoring system that provides critical data on the world’s oceans, sparking alarm among scientists
The Anthropocene's enormous consequences are of long-term nature, the slow pace of recovery currently under-appreciated among the public The smallest unavoidable residual emissions (e.g., from fo...
Here is a more fitting illustration of a heatwave: Patient treated for heat stroke using combined cooling methods (ice, water spray, and compressed air). Pic by Flavio Gaudio (2015).
Dr Charlie Gardner
Scientists have reached a consensus that human behavior is a big driver of climate change—but Americans aren't buying it.
