“Unfortunately there is still a surprising amount of work to do just to convince men in senior scientific positions that these barriers exist at all.” (not just men!) statnews.com/2024/10/11/n...#WomeninScience#WomeninSTEM#Nobel 1/

Men won all the science Nobels this year. There's an even bigger problem

The Nobel's gender gap reflects larger barriers faced by women in science

Please read this excellent article from @amywestervelt.bsky.social on tone-policing climate communication.

JMjmijin.bsky.socialOct 14, 2024 6:41pm

This line from the @amywestervelt.bsky.social 's excellent newsletter is so so relevant rn: how small the climate movement has become, how homogeneous its leadership, and how much it is coalescing around the ideas that have dominated it for decades and...sorry to break it to you, have not worked.

De-fund the Tone Police

When the stakes are high—a U.S. descent into fascism, genocide in Gaza, the scepter of World War III, extreme storms and fires, and a tight window closing on our ability to avoid more and worse of the...

Meteorologist John Morales: There’s rapid intensification, there’s extreme rapid intensification—and then there’s Hurricane Milton. Read the new interview by @jessimckenzi.bsky.social:

Meteorologist John Morales: There’s rapid intensification, there’s extreme rapid intensification—and then there’s Hurricane Milton

From extremely damaging wind gusts to a deadly storm surge of up to 15 feet to heavy inland precipitation and flash flooding, Hurricane Milton poses numerous risks to life and property.

On one side, category 5 hurricane Milton and on the other, wildfire smoke from the west. Credit: CIRA

One of the biggest challenges for emergency management is that people don’t know what emergency management is! To try and help address this I wrote a book for the general public to help explain the system — including the problems with it.

Climate change was a key driver of Hurricane Helene, and is for Milton, and was for all other recent hurricanes - the US needs to prepare for previously unimaginable disasters (not just storm-related). New @wwattribution.bsky.socialwww.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

Mooi, maar triest, verhaal over de smeltende ijskap op Groenland en klimaat kantelpunten www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

When the Arctic Melts

What the fate of Greenland means for the rest of the Earth.

It's official: Hurricane Milton's pressure fell to 897 mb at the NHC's 8pm advisory, making it the fifth-strongest hurricane ever observed in the Atlantic in terms of air pressure. Wilma (2005) – 882 mb Gilbert (1988) – 888 mb Labor Day (1935) – 892 mb Rita (2005) – 895 mb Milton (2024) – 897 mb⚠️

NWS Tampa makes it pretty clear in their latest forecast discussion:

Afgelopen zaterdag stond er een prachtig stuk over het veldwerk in ons onderzoek naar de Atlantische Oceaan stroming in de NRC www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/... 🌊

Dagenlang geen signaal. Alleen de dolfijnen geven antwoord

Klimaatonderzoek: Een internationale expeditie deed onderzoek naar een machtige zeestroom diep in de Atlantische Oceaan. Redacteur Laura Bergshoef voer vier weken mee. Het is proberen grip te krijgen ...