Localized entirely in my kitchen etc.

500 million years of rippled beach sand I've seen in my travels: Today in Maine, Colorado in the late Cretaceous, New York in the Cambrian, Wyoming in the early Triassic

Always found it interesting that when the average person thinks 'mass extinction event' they think asteroid ☄️ even though that was actually a weird one and the others were climatically driven from within Earth systems.

'Recency' bias I guess, lol

A really excellent lecture that I saw from a doorway to the lecture room because it was overflowing. I already knew about what could happen from palaeo records, but I'm now a lot more concerned we may be nearer to the tipping point than many people assume.

Nice to see space given to a deeply reported, long-form story that probes the political economy of why entertainment is so stale and derivative now, rather than the usual pop-psychology nonsense about nostalgia or whatever that implicates the audience

'The tropical Atlantic invasion will add to the ongoing Indo-Pacific invasion through the Suez Canal, irreversibly transforming the entire Mediterranean into a novel ecosystem unprecedented in human history.'

I, too, am ready to let off centuries of strain

Have to admit to having difficulty reconciling facts like these with the argument of that new Brett Christophers book that investors are wary of renewables because they're structurally unprofitable

In the yellow / red areas, adding trees (and their dark sunlight-absorbing leaves) will potentially add more energy to global warming than their carbon uptake is able to reduce it.

In other words, expanding forests in those areas would provide no global climate change benefit.

Really looking forward to this one

Seeing things like ancient deep-sea basins, and tropical carbonate platforms and reefs from a quarter-billion ago pop up in maps of oil wells will never get old to me

Given that entire economy premised on prediction that tomorrow will look something like today (insurance, mortgages, credit, bonds etc) the radical uncertainty in store from climate change still seems underrated as source of nonlinear, compounding, catastrophic risk to the system

This guy knows less than nothing. To pull on just one thread of this foolishness: 'We don't know where the carbon dioxide is from.' Hmm, for some reason the isotopic composition of atmospheric CO2 started looking a lot more like fossil carbon beginning in the 19th century.

'We need answers for why 2023 turned out to be the warmest year in possibly the past 100,000 years. And we need them quickly.'