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Lovely story on the BBC about iceberg a23a, which has given us decades of fun but is now nearing its end…
Really enjoyed talking with Mark Poynting about this one-time behemoth.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
Academic writing: why use utilize when you can use use
Between 1992-2025, large areas of the grounding line of #Antarctic glaciers have retreated. The largest changes have occurred in W. Antarctica, where grounding lines have retreated 10-40+ km, driven by incursions of warm water masses along deep bathymetric troughs
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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Time series plot depicting predicted Nino 3.4 region ocean temperature anomalies from the latest (Mar 2026) ECMWF ensemble. It depicts an extremely rapid rise in such temperatures, from modest negative anomalies to strong positive anomalies, by mid-summer 2026--indicative of a transition from weak-moderate La Nina conditions to moderate-strong El Nino conditions over just a few months.
Whew.
All signs are increasingly pointing to a significant, if not strong to very strong, El Niño event. I'll have more to say in coming weeks & months, but for now I'll just say that this is increasingly likely to become a major regional-to-global climate driver in 2026-2027.
That's like a little over five Rhode Islands
Sigh.
This is the directorate that funds all of the earth, ocean & atmosphere research at NSF.
Antarctic land will rebound over thousands of years, so land area should change over time.
A net loss of livable land in the near-term cause a big portion of Antarctic land is already below sea level (👇) + Greenland ice sheet goes b4 Ant so more SLR + ocean expansion due to warm conditions + Earth's axial tilt means brutal polar winters (=not livable)
www.bas.ac.uk/news/new-map...
The fact that food waste is not a polarizing issue might be the reason for slow progress. Baffles my how much food people waste and how little they think about it ...
Tropopause height and wind speed from yesterday's Nor'easter.
Made with the free and open-source ParaView package. 🧪#SciArt #SciComm #Noreaster
Wow! 37.9” (96 cm) of snow has fallen in Providence, Rhode Island, pulverizing the previous all-time single-storm snowfall record by over 9”.
Photo of the sun shining on three plus feet of snow piled up on the deck after the blizzard
Blizzard of 2026, Rhode Island
...RECORD SNOWSTORM FOR PROVIDENCE RI...
AS OF 1 PM, THE SNOWFALL TOTAL AT RHODE ISLAND T.F. GREENE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WAS 32.8 INCHES. THIS BROKE THE RECORD FOR THE GREATEST SINGLE SNOWSTORM ON RECORD, WHICH WAS 28.6 INCHES SET DURING THE BLIZZARD OF `78, ON FEBRUARY 6-7, 1978.
The fundamental premise behind AI-enabled cheating is that coursework is merely busy work, because your'e just doing it for professors.
We would never say that showing up for football practice is merely busy work because you're just doing it for your coaches.
What if I want to do an assignment myself?
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The work is original? ....and that doesn't answer the question
Our new study in Science Advances: Extreme fire risk days are increasingly synchronizing globally. This trend strains firefighting cooperation and worsens regional air quality.
With @climate-guy.bsky.social @mattwjones.bsky.social @mojisadegh.bsky.social and Alison Cullen
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
A screenshot of the CRU-TS national time series dashboard
New dashboard to visualise CRU-TS country averages (i.e. CRU-CY) for temperature, precipitation, humidity and drought area (using our scPDSI indicator).
(It takes a little while to first load, but is quite responsive after that)
climate.uea.co/CRU-Timeseri...
"Initial indications are that the layers of sediment in the core span the past 23 million years" swais2c.aq/media/record...
This seems like a great moment to talk about the importance of science communication!
Science communication matters because it connects scientific research with people, giving folks information they need to make informed decisions about everything from health to hazards.
The story of the Italian cricket team is quite interesting...
The Dawlish - Teignmouth railway line feels like the absolute front line of climate adaptation in Britain (a test we are not passing so far).
And yet somehow, somehow, this article manages to go in-depth on the problems with the line without mentioning the climate once. The sea is literally higher!
Yes, it's been cold in the Northeast US, but really nothing out of the ordinary. Dec-Jan temperatures:👇
Our department - Environmental, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences at UML - is hiring a Visiting Lecturer! Please circulate.
This is intended to be a pathway to a permanent Teaching Faculty position (with demonstrated excellence in teaching and service).
careers.pageuppeople.com/822/lowell/e...
"finding underscores the role of internal climate variability in shaping Earth’s energy budget and its potential amplification under a warming climate."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fossil industry CEO says their GHG emissions don't cause climate change
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I believe forest management considers long-term projections ....forest migration and shifts can look very different depending on the scenario.
Working on a state assessment right now where I am providing projections for all scenarios, including 8.5. The tricky part is providing guidance. Inevitably, there are qs from those who've heard the 8.5-is-bollox argument. The question you pose is a good one to address that, thanks!
Sure but despite my reservations about providing localized info, temp projections for 2100 are going to be significantly different for 7.0 and 8.5, which then raises qs about their plausibility.
I wouldn't worry about this too much for local precip projections.
