The Trump administration’s aggressive push for deep-sea mining is rapidly shaping up to be the defining ocean policy issue of this second term. I put a little primer over at LinkedIn, but here's a thread so you don't have to click through. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... 🧵 1/4
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Why didn’t the Inflation Reduction Act survive? I spoke to @agazmararian.bsky.social, the coauthor of a buzzy new paper on the subject, about why the law failed to create a coalition to protect it — and what that means for future US climate policy. heatmap.news/podcast/shif...
🚨JOB ALERT🚨
Heya friends -- I'm looking for a postdoc! This time we're looking at the ethics of technology deployment for climate change mitigation. Full description in the link!
Quick details: CVs and cover letters to me by 1 April; $75k/year for up to 21 months; remote within the US is ok.
Antarctic minerals in a warming world
Climate change will expose new ice-free areas of Antarctica. Now a study explores how climate change might spur the first ‘gold rush’ on the unexploited continent.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Tried power mapping with my big lecture class and was pleased with the way it went. The assignment is here if you're interested in the logistics of it. docs.google.com/presentation...
“Cheap failure is no good for anybody” is likely to enter my permanent lexicon.
New perspective article on climate solutions by @hmcjeon.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Scientists have long predicted ecosystems would shift in response to warming, with some species moving out and others moving in. But a major new study has found the rate of turnover is declining, suggesting nature may be losing its ability to self-repair.
I don’t know what mysterious spark Frankenformed into @theneedling.com when it got sprayed off the gum wall, but I am glad it attained sentience and decided to haunt us. This magnificent many-headed monster has a Venmo and a patreon: love it with me.
thanks to @volts.wtf for having me on to talk about coordinating and planning fossil phase out to build a better and actually decarbonized world. there‘s a lot we can do if we imagine a people-centered, service oriented future — and a LOT we miss if we don’t.
The social cost of carbon tells policymakers how much climate change is costing humanity. But until now, calculations disregarded the ocean almost entirely.
Image of an apple watch tied to a prototype wave buoy floating in water. The buoy is actually a pool chlorinator.
What can you do with all the sensors on your smartwatch? Here are some ideas to get you started.
- Build a Wave Buoy
- Measure Tidal Inundation
- Deploy as a stream gauge
- Classify road quality while bicycling
and 10 additional projects below.
www.tiniscientific.com/field-projects
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some Zen to the feed
One scientist talking to two others. "These days. If you're not a mad scientist, you're not paying attention."
Me. I'm a mad scientist.
(Paul Noth cartoons)
At the price of 1 apple watch + 99¢ for the app, this is an order of magnitude less than commercial instruments.
🗣️"That the majority research publications have authors in Low and Middle-Income Countries is unprecedented."
#AcademicSky #ResearchPolicy
wow! kipnuk is voting to relocate their village
alaska doesn’t have reservations, but the native village of kipnuk is a federally recognized tribe
could you imagine your tribe having to vote on relocating to a safer area because of climate change? dozens of alaskan tribes have/will have to soon
The Beginning Comes After the End Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century. In this sequel to her enduring bestseller Hope in the Dark, Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the forces seeking to turn back the clock on history, change is not a possibility; it is an inevitability. The changes amount to nothing less than dismantling an old civilization and building a new one, whose newness is often the return of the old ways and wisdoms. In this rising worldview, interconnection is a core idea and value. But because the transformation is obscured within a longer arc of history, its scale is seldom recognized. While the white nationalist and authoritarian backlash drives individualism and isolation, this new world embraces antiracism, feminism, a more expansive understanding of gender, environmental thinking, scientific breakthroughs, and Indigenous and non-Western ideas, pointing toward a more interconnected, relational world.
I wrote a book! It's trickling out, already in some bookstores. And I'm doing a bunch of events for it (see below). More info on book in alt text.
#RECCAP2 paper alert, Jemma Wadham led the polar chapter, summarizing knowns and (large) unknowns of carbon stocks and fluxes from ice sheets to land fringes, fjords, 🌊 oceans and sediments.🧪 Excellent reference starting point for future work.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
@awi.de
”The planet’s energy balance is drifting further out of alignment, ocean warming is now accelerating, and the land’s capacity to absorb carbon is declining, along with other troubling trends.”
#ClimateHeating
www.esa.int/Applications...
The American Academy of Actuaries warns that dismantling NCAR would degrade the catastrophe models insurers depend on to price climate risk—driving up premiums and threatening coverage availability nationwide.
"Uncertainty carries a positive cost."
www.riskmarketnews.com/trumps-clima...
And these kids decided, on their own, to play a benefit show for families impacted by the surge. At that first show they had hoped to raise a couple thousand dollars. Their families and friends came to Minneapolis and packed the house. They ended up raising over 10 grand. (3/?)
Pile of colorful stickers, some of which I have carefully hoarded for longer than the adhesive is probably good for
Still doing it
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
But wait, there's more
go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
Follow these awesome women ocean scientists, many of whom I'm proud to call colleagues and delighted to call friends.
🧪🦑🌍🐟
go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo
My latest at Quitting Carbon: Congress rejected the White House’s budget, maintaining funding for important energy programs this year. But are agencies adequately staffed to get the money out the door, and will Russ Vought allow the money to be spent? www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/congress-rej... 🔌💡
Public power growing in Florida, it's more likely than you think
www.tampabay.com/news/environ...
The EPA's decision to quit regulating emissions might be symbolic, but what it symbolizes if scary: a government that puts antiquated ideology and corporate profits over the health and welfare of its people
Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
