Clouds affect photosynthesis: they reduce sunlight but also supply rain. So are clouds good or bad for plants? New paper shows that it depends on water availability. Clouds will shrink in the warming future. That makes vegetation decline in arid regions and increase in humid regions. rdcu.be/e3TmT
Need more industries to speak up against the attacks on NCAR.
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Note on Philip Glass stationery: “After thoughtful consideration, I have decided to withdraw my Symphony #15 ‘Lincoln’ from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Symphony #15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony. Therefore, I feel an obligation to withdraw this Symphony premiere from the Kennedy Center user its current leadership.” Followed by a handwritten signature and the printed name “Philip Glass.”
Always the minimalist.
My OpEd with @agu.org @eos.org on #SaveNCAR. Please check out what we can do together to speak on the value of this critical infrastructure, and what I believe is a source of American pride possible by over six decades of public investments. Let’s continue to invest in this important public good.
They're also removing the remaining glaciers from Glacier National Park.
New study provides the evidence for the pervasive presence of cryogenic vacuum distillation artefacts in leaf water and identifies deuterium exchange between organic matter and water as the primary underlying mechanism; @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
ICOS is pleased to announce that Dr Anna Virkkala is the first recipient of the Ingeborg Levin Early Career Scientist Award🎖️
Her research focuses on terrestrial carbon cycling, climate change, and Arctic ecosystems.
Read the story: icos-cp.eu/news-and-eve...
A new meditation app that embraces climate breakdown.
Breathe in profit. Breathe out responsibility.
If you’ve ever had problems with anxiety from being a fossil fuel executive, this is the app for you.
Brought to you by @olifro.st
All you need to know about Bill Gates' long-standing and misguided take on climate change.
'The solution to the climate crisis isn’t going to come from the fairy-dust-sprinkled flying unicorns that are the “benevolent plutocrats.” They don’t exist.'
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CBS NEWS headline: Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
CNN headline: Stranded and injured, he drank his own urine to survive in the wild. Here's how an American hiker made it home
The difference between the French and Americans in two headlines. 😆
Sorry @alecluhn.bsky.social
📣So happy to share the PhorEau model, combining models of forest dynamics, plant water relations, and process-based SDM = linking ecophysiology, ecology & biogeography 🌳📈💻
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➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC
Une France soi-disant sans immigrés mais surtout sans biodiversité, surement sans stratégie forestière climatique crédible, et pleine de pesticides. Le bonheur est pour demain...🤢 www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr
Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.
And you're cutting... the sleeper?
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L’effet Matilda n’est pas une fiction.
Il est inscrit dans l’histoire scientifique.
Il a éclipsé des femmes comme Marthe Gautier, née il y a cent ans, pionnière oubliée de la trisomie 21.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/1LI
@bioclimatology.bsky.social hosted a fascinating workshop on fluxes anywhere and anytime
thanks to all the old and new friends from across the German speaking parts of Europe for attending. here is a list of talks and speakers. and thanks to the Goettingen team for hosting
- Most offset programs overestimate their impact by a factor of 5, 10 or +
- Credit quality is a problem despite efforts to address additionality, leakage, double counting, injustice, verification and permanence
- Overcrediting an intractable problem
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Another two days of great talks and discussions at the Baldocchi Symposium in Göttingen. Lots of fun at the visits of our flux towers Reinshof and Hainich.
Thanks everyone for coming and making it a wonderful event.
First day of the Baldocchi Symposium in Göttingen. More than 40 scientists are discussing fluxes anywhere and anytime. Great atmosphere!
Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c
Setting aside the absolute scientific idiocy of the specifics here, reflect for just a moment on the fact that there's a list of "banned words" at all.
That's fascism and unAmerican.
"Energy Dept adds #climatechange and emissions to list of banned words"
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1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
@egu.eu community please consider signing this petition to try and save the nightjet to Vienna🚂 A peine lancés et déjà supprimés ? Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne, un voyage bas-carbone largement plébiscité par ses utilisateurs agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...
“We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces... This is the last thing we wanted.”
We have been forced to suspend our activities and leave Gaza City.
Just like me: I am also normally right about everything.
À l’AGNU, juste avant l’entrée de Trump, un discours anti-impérial a électrisé la salle : Lula a défendu la renaissance du multilatéralisme depuis un continent sans armes de destruction massive, bâti sur l’aspiration à la paix.
Nous le traduisons.
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Mentors matter—especially in challenging times.
The latest #EGU special issue Women in #Hydrology shines a light on women who’ve broken ground in hydrological sciences, & the mentees following their path.
Essential reads on equity, inclusion, & resilience.
Check 👇
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„Sadly, the U.S. itself must now be considered an authoritarian petrostate.“
And there is still too many folks gullible enough to fall for the disinformation of the fossil fuel industry.
ETH Zurich climate scientist @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social is the first Swiss citizen to receive the prestigious German Environmental Award bestowed by the German Federal Environmental Foundation.
Congratulations for receiving this award for outstanding research!
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