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My friend & colleague Ben Santer Scientific American on a new play, #Kyoto, about how science won out over #climatedenial in 1997 & why it must do so again now to preserve a livable #climate. Trump is on the wrong side of #history. Vote accordingly. Prof Michael E. Mann scientificamerican.com/article/kyoto-…

For those who follow this, bad news for natural control agents. Parasitism of grasshoppers is very low this year, so far <1%, and zero for some species. In the southern Canadian Prairies 2% to 10% is typical. These are from July 28, N of Medicine Hat. (n=1000s) Global Locust Initiative

It strikes me that people simply do not know or understand what is happening (and will continue to happen) to this planet.

SMDH‼️ Ok, let’s educate. (Hi, I’m Hugh. Actual archaeologist. 20+ years fieldwork experience). This tweet shows old mate has never visited an archaeological excavation or even understands the basics. Everything is wrong. So let’s address. 1/

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Alright scientists your time has come. What's the coolest shit a 7 year old can look at under a dissection scope? My godson asked for "cool stuff for his microsope", and my man likes bugs. Gonna put together an observation kit. WHAT should go in that kit?

Let's check in and see how the global year-to-date average dewpoint is doing compared to all years since 1940. 💦

Texas Insurance Prices Skyrocketing with Weather Extremes thinc.blog/2024/08/11/tex…

Icky.

"For the first century of its existence, the US had completely open borders. Though it is now derided as a far-left fantasy, in the 18th and much of the 19th century, the idea of someone simply coming into a new country and starting a life there...was eminently normal."

Dan Ferris Marco Vermeij Steve Campbell People have shown why they are mistaken for years to decades. At some point stubbornness is actually fraud.

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This paper is really back-to-base for me -I first saw hints of this phenomenon in my PhD work, but it took another 20+ years & strong collaborations & students to better understand this first pressure-induced phase transformation in Si. doi.org/10.1063/5.0223…

A very large landslide has destroyed the Teesta V hydroelectric station in Sikkim, India, and blocked the river. This is doxwnstream of the #GLOF at South Lhonak Glacier in 2023, which destroyed the Teesta III dam. indiatoday.in/amp/india/vide…

„To argue that we can safely overshoot 1.5°C, or any amount of warming, is saying the quiet bit out loud: we simply don’t care about the increasing amount of suffering and deaths that will be caused while the recovery is worked on.“

Ammendment 28: The President, Vice President, members of the Senate and House of Representatives and Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts shall not be older than 75 years of age. Upon reaching that age their offices will be vacated.

The more we respond to stupid ideas on social media the more prominent they get. There’s an upside though. The more stupidity there is online, the more stupid LLMs become.

The paper describing the revamped CICERO Simple Climate Model (SCM) is now published: a new open-source version in Python as opposed to closed-source in Fortran. Feel free to use and contribute! gmd.copernicus.org/articles/17/65…

❗️ With data in through August 2024, the globe has now set atmospheric moisture records for 14 consecutive months, with the streak starting in July 2023... This has influenced an increase in the coverage of upper decile (top 10%) rainfall events. The increase in water vapor, a