The astonishing ice ablation rates recorded in Aug. 2024 (highest value for Aug. and 2nd absolute highest value after July 2022) translated into absurd loss at high elevation Here at 3700 m north-facing on Aig. du Midi: 130 cm in 50 days! 😳😱🔥 Pic Xavier Cailhol

Close enough, I'm currently at ETH Zurich

I'm so glad I dedicated my life to studying "weird" science. youtu.be/-L6W9dJEqko?...

JD Vance, Tim Walz address Helene, climate change, energy during VP debate

YouTube video by CBS News

All residents of the Panhandle, Big Bend & FL West Coast down to Tampa Bay should use this time being sure they have the hurricane supplies they need just in case Soon to be #Helene will likely be an extremely intense hurricane with landfall Thursday. Wherever it hits, it will be bad. Stay tuned!

The forecast for soon-to-be #Helene is officially scary. Somewhere between Tallahassee to Tampa could be experiencing category 4/5 conditions this Thursday. Of course the storm track will be more certain once the storm forms. Excessive ocean heat content will support rapid intensification.

Fascinating to see the impact of the northern shift of the ITCZ. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024...

Why parts of the Sahara desert are turning green this month

In North Africa, some of the driest places on Earth have seen five times their average September rainfall.

Bruce Springsteen 😗

Just a reminder that the Euro is forecasting over 100 mm of rain between now and Monday over parts of the Sahara Desert. The average annual rainfall in some of these regions is around 25 mm.

A lot of what I see reported as climate solutions will do absolutely nothing for climate. We know what works right now (top 5: wind, solar, energy efficiency, stop deforestation, cut CH₄ emissions).

The MICI hypothesis always suffered from a lack of real-world observations. This just makes our terrible, really bad situation just slightly less bad. Thwaites Glacier is certainly not stable and still subject to marine ice sheet instability www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet may not be vulnerable to marine ice cliff instability during the 21st century

The most extreme projections of ice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet are less likely than previously thought.