With four months of data now in from ERA5, we see a roughly 66% chance that 2024 will surpass 2023 as the warmest year on record – and a >99% chance it will be one of the top-two warmest years. The current best-estimate is that 2024 will come it at just above 1.5C:
Professor to student: “no you may not have an extension on your assignment. You’ve known the deadline all semester” Professor to editor: “hi - I need a 3 week extension on that paper review. Sorry but I’ve been busy” 🧪 #academicsky
The Anthropocene is not an epoch − but the age of humans is most definitely underway 🌍🧪⚒️ theconversation.com/the-anthropo...
Scientists have been debating the start of the Anthropocene Epoch for 15 years. I was part of those discussions, and I agree with the vote rejecting it.
We have a preprint out and open for discussion on what drives decomposition in peatland ponds. We show that decomposition in ponds is mostly controlled by environmental conditions rather than litter quality - check it out 👇 egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
Tesla refused to negotiate with 130 workers in Sweden now a bunch of Scandinavian unions are like fuck Tesla. Postal union isn't delivering license plates. Trash union isn't picking up Tesla's garbage abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...
Tesla has found itself locked in an increasingly bitter dispute with union workers in Sweden and neighboring countries
I often see this comparison of glaciers on Svalbard posted without attribution. It’s from a whole series comparing photos taken by the Norwegian Polar Institute in 1928 and by Christian Åslund, a Stockholm-based photographer, in 2002. See the others here: www.christian.se/global-warmi...
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Capitalism's "solutions" to climate change are going to end up being just as bad as the problem they claim to solve. www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
Leaders of the Ogiek community say armed forest rangers are "pulling down houses with axes and hammers".
Wintery coring today in a lovely peatland to try to understand the dynamics of an isolated pitch pine population at the northernmost edge of its range. I may have lost a toe or two.
The director of the New York office of the UN’s human rights agency has resigned. “We are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the Organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it,” he wrote in a letter.