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I think this story is a really good example for people to look at when it comes to understanding bias at NYT. It's not that the reporter, Dana Rubinstein, says anything outright false. But the framing, word choices, etc., add up to an unprofessional and biased account.
Fig. 3: Critical temperature thresholds for Antarctic ice basins. Bottom panel: burning embers show—for each of the 18 Antarctic ice basins—the percentage of long-term (equilibrium) sea-level relevant ice volume loss compared with the respective initial ice volume, at different levels of global warming (in °C above pre-industrial temperature levels, interpolated between full degrees). White diamonds mark the one-degree temperature interval of the strongest decline (ice loss per degree of warming, see also Fig. 2). In some basins, two critical temperatures yielding peak volume loss are found—this can be interpreted as the respective basin having two tipping points. Top panel: sea-level potential for each basin, given by the initial modelled sea-level relevant ice volume in metres sea-level equivalent.
Mapping tipping risks from Antarctic ice basins under global warming
Winkelmann+
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
"A first threshold, potentially as low as 1–2 °C above pre-industrial levels, triggers the long-term collapse of ~40% of marine ice volume in West Antarctica"
My latest for @science.org on the fraught future of NCAR as NSF's deadline nears. It can still go so many ways.
Graphic with busy car congested road. Text says car dependency is the opposite of freedom. Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices. Ad is from the Urban Truth Collective.
How about those gas prices? Brutal, huh?
You know what really costs us all a lot?
Car dependency.
#UrbanTruth
A new report from @climatecentral.org is out today on U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters in 2025: www.climatecentral.org/report/us-bi...
There's also a preview on some upcoming analysis and product enhancements coming to this disaster-cost research in 2026 📈
Heating oil prices in the UK have trebled in a week. 2 million homes, no price cap protection, no warning.
Heat pumps + solar are multiple times more efficient, don’t require an oil tank and oil deliveries and are an insurance against such frightening price spikes.
Emissions (grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour) from North Sea gas vs LNG imports. Source: Carbon Brief analysis
Factcheck: North Sea gas is not ‘four times cleaner’ than LNG imports | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org #CBarchive
Read here: buff.ly/IoMIeUt
Map of North America with Canada in blue (cold) and USA in red (warm). Colours refer to departures from the long-term climate average.
Wyld and super rare zonal winter / spring division (in terms of temperature anomaly) - coincidentally following geographical borders (by and large).
www.karstenhaustein.com/climate
Hi everyone.
If every single one of you seeing this post considered clicking “follow” on our new account/movement, @urbantruth.bsky.social, our work would start regularly reaching a BIG audience, and that’s KEY to us having the REAL IMPACT we hope this initiative will have.
Thanks for considering!
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
The Vegas Loop carried 16,400 passengers per day during the expo.
For context, London’s Elizabeth Line carries ~800,000 per day.
Even Victorian steam trains in 1860s London moved 3–4× more people per hour than Elon.
In case you didn’t already know: cars in tunnels aren’t the future of transit…
Mein Beitrag für den @klimareporter.bsky.social mag nicht überall auf freudige Zustimmung stoßen. Aber dafür ist er auch nicht geschrieben.
Er soll vielmehr eine neue Dynamik in eine Bewegung bringen, in der sich zur Zeit nicht mehr viel bewegt.
Das Ziel: Zurück zur Wirkung! Aber lest selbst.
exakt. Nennt sich 'asymmetric norm enforcement'. Wir müssen vielmehr über politische Psychologie reden.
And here is my take (amongst others): www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/studi... (paywalled)
hint ;) archive.ph
Here is what the journal Nature has to say about our paper on the increasing rate of #globalwarming:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Große Liebe an alle, die sich die Mühe geben, komplexe Gedankengänge oder Konzepte visuell verständlich umzusetzen. Habe gerade diese tolle Website gefunden und will euch das nicht vorenthalten: biocubes.net
Falls man sich je gefragt hat, wie die Masse an Plastik im Vergleich zu anderem aussieht.
a picture of a huge, low, heavy cloud of black oil over Tehran
This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2
Number of heatwave days per summer identified based on the criterion of at least 3 consecutive days with SAT exceeding the 90th percentile over at least 30% of Western Europe, coloured by the corresponding RMM-VAE regime
New paper out in @ioppublishing.bsky.social :
One specific southerly-flow regime accounts for the vast majority of heatwave days in Western Europe. Also, 70% of the observed ‘excess’ warming (relative to global mean) is attributed to an increase in this ... (1/2)
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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.
Big dawg El Niño coming this summer and fall! This is a bit science-y… but easy. So follow along. You are looking at a vertical cross section of the tropical Pacific Ocean at the Equator with depth downward deep into the ocean. Left side is west near Asia. Right side is east near South America 1/
A multiple-satellite study of Antarctica’s grounding line area show a loss of 12,820 km2 over the last 30 years. Grounding lines are the contact points where continental ice sheets anchor to the seabed, slowing their flow into the oceans.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#Antarctica #sealevelrise
PLEASE HELP US SHARE THIS: “We’ve let the lies be far too successful, and that’s significantly hurt our cities. No more.”
It’s our blunt NEW @usa.streetsblog.org op-ed sharing why we’ve created @urbantruth.bsky.social. SPOILER: We need to call out the lies and tell the truth much more persuasively!
Important results! Tyre abrasion increases various health risks. The catch: EVs are not going to change that! Speed restrictions and prioritisation of active modes of mobility do!
NEW: “We’ve let the lies be far too successful, & that’s significantly hurt our cities. No more.”
@grantennis.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social & I have a blunt new @usa.streetsblog.org op-ed telling the story of why we’ve created @urbantruth.bsky.social.
Please help share it! @nyc.streetsblog.org
Before (2022) / After (2026) the recent pedestrianization and greening of Rue de Gravelle in the 12th arrondissement of Paris
Happening in 30 minutes! Should be a very interesting conversation, esp with @ninalakhani.bsky.social there. (and no, no one is saying that emissions are more important than lives, that's a false dichotomy).
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Line graph time series of February Arctic sea ice extent for every year from 1850 through 2026. Two datasets are compared in this time series. The Walsh et al. 2019 reconstruction is shown with a solid blue line. The NSIDC Sea Ice Index v3 is shown with a dashed red line only for the satellite era. There is large interannual variability and a long-term decreasing trend over the last few decades.
February #Arctic sea ice extent since the year 1850 - comparison now updated through 2026. Climate change leads to declines in ice during all months of the year, not just around the minimum.
I have a couple of other sea ice reconstructions on my website too: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%
Neue Vogelschlag-Meldeapp in Leipzig:
„Die Daten dienen als Grundlage, um ein erhöhtes Vogelschlagrisiko an Gebäuden nachzuweisen. So können Immobilienbesitzer Schutzmaßnahmen zum Vogelschutz einrichten, Behörden hilft es, diese anzuordnen.“
