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Interesting study of eastern Joshua tree mycorrhizal associations from trees near the Dome Fire burn in Mojave National Preserve, with sampling stratified by season
#ecology #mutualism #JoshuaTree …

As world heats up, U.N. cools itself the cool way: with water
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/05/13/climate-change/un-water-cooling-pipes/
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As world heats up, U.N. cools itself the cool way — with water
As more and more people want to stay cool in a planet that is steadily heating up, energy experts point to this kind of water-based system as a good alternative.

Atmosphärische Flüsse über der #Antarktis könnten sich bis 2100 verdoppeln, mit 2,5-mal mehr #Niederschlag als heute.
Der Grund ist steigende #Luftfeuchtigkeit durch die

Rising atmospheric moisture escalates the future impact of atmospheric rivers in the Antarctic climate system - Communications Earth & Environment
Antarctic atmospheric rivers are projected to double in frequency and cause 2.5 times more precipitation by 2066–2100 due to rising atmospheric moisture, according to large ensemble climate simulations that highlight the sensitivity of future atmospheric rivers to the detection threshold.

Hey everyone!
What do you think about Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg heading to Gaza with the Freedom Flotilla to deliver humanitarian aid and challenge the blockade?
I’m honestly mixed on it, and I would love to hear your thoughts.
#GretaThunberg #GretaTintinEleonoraErnmanThunberg

Bonne nouvelle : les émissions de gaz Š effet de serre de la Chine ont effectivement baissé, alors la demande d'énergie a augmenté.
https://www.vox.com/climate/414297/china-carbon-emissions-climate-change-clean-energy-tariffs

Interesting piece on the #Arctic #SeaIce and it's (improving) representation in global climate models by Gavin Schmidt over on @realclimate, I'm not entirely sure all of the improvement is for the right reasons, there are probably compensating biases, it would be interesting to see if the models get the regional signal correct in different parts of the Arctic, but overall I agree with this piece, there have been some big steps forward in global models, the regional level is often not very well represented though.
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/05/predicted-arctic-sea-ice-trends-over-time/

Organized by my colleagues -
Join #climate and #weather scientists for a century of talks - no really , 100 hours of livestream.
Starting Wednesday May 28 at 1 p EST
https://wclivestream.com/watch
https://bsky.app/profile/wclivestream.bsky.social

“The Miyawaki forests aren’t going to solve all our problems,” she says. “It’s not a magic wand, but it will solve one of the thousands of problems we have. We need a system of solutions, and this is one of them.”
https://engl…

Miyawaki in Nezahualcóyotl: The Japanese method of creating forests comes to Mexico
The municipality, adjacent to Mexico City and surrounded by concrete, suffers from the heat island effect. The community came to the rescue with this accelerated tree planting method

Computer scientist Greg Nelson and I presented "Following AI's Footsteps from School to Society" at the 2025 UMaine Faculty Institute https://mycampus.maine.edu/web/uc-faculty-portal/faculty-institute-2025 including the IMPACT RISK framew…

#PleaseBoost #Poll
Do you feel informed about climate risks and adaptation to climate change?
#ClimateChangeAdaptation

"The UK wildfire warning system as climate change drives hot temperatures"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange

The UK wildfire warning system as climate change drives hot temperatures
As climate change continues climate's like the UK's have begun to change with wildfires starting to increase due to the drier weather

Ich hoffe, @… kann uns beruhigen https://www.ft.com/content/9d2319b1-ce8f-4466-895c-a5e26495a023

How climate change triggered a landslide tsunami
#FederatedMemory

Transparent and heat-insulation bionic hydrogel-based smart window system for long-term cooling and waste heat collection
Qianwang Ye, Hanqing Dai, Yukun Yan, Liwei Wang, Xinlin Du, Yimeng Wang, Zhile Han, Wanlu Zhang, Ruiqian Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23213

Transparent and heat-insulation bionic hydrogel-based smart window system for long-term cooling and waste heat collection
With the energy crisis and climate warming, the position of a new generation of smart windows is becoming increasingly important, and materials or systems that can have high blocking of near-infrared (NIR) and ultraviolet (UV) and high transmittance of visible light (VIS) are needed. Currently, it is difficult for smart heat-insulation materials to achieve high transmittance of VIS, good UV isolation, outstanding cooling and thermal insulation, and excellent waste heat collection. Here, we desi…

It's not protesting, it is just communicating #climate and #weather science for 100 straight hours. 👏🤓🥼
#uspol #science

To dig slightly deeper here, I think that there's a feedback loop between "fall in love/wait for your perfect match (and by the way girls the only career you should aspire to is the literally unattainable 'princess'" Disney stuff and this "my characters are complex I'm so sophisticated; they suffer but it's not intolerable and their lives are good enough despite the imperfections" crap that gets praised as so evocative of the human condition. In fact, I think it merely evokes the condition of its authors & fans who were poisoned by the Disney in their youth and who have remained bad as relationships ever since, though this is not exactly their fault. In any case, their white middle-aged wisdom-shaped-but-quite bitter and intricately-constructed-so-it's-hard-to-see-the-really-untrue-character-facets work ends up keeping their audience within the "romance is luck" cult by way of reassuring them that a middling romance with lots of doubt and complications is "just life" even though the author doesn't actually have any broader perspective on what life is than anyone else.
This has turned into a bit of a rant, but I think I'll just add that reading Mama by Nikkya Hargrove just before Dream State helped immensely to see how the distant & awkward parent-child relationships of the latter are not a product of human nature but instead of white western culture & capitalism.
(The defeatism about climate change is a whole nother dimension of wrong about Dream State, by that's a separate rant.)

What Trump says: Climate change is BS. It's not going to happen. Forget about it.
What Trump means: Climate change is BS. It's not going to happen in my lifetime. Forget about it. Because I will have...
#trump #politics

“Apocalypse forces us to radically change. But by facing the future with optimism instead of doom, we can transform ourselves into the kinds of people-the kinds of communities—who can survive.”
https://slate.com/technology/2025/05/h

Andrew Sheer is currently spinning a conspiracy theory that “ties” Carney while in the UK to lobbying for “rules" to "force" aviation companies to use "non-conventional" fuel and then “he invests in that company and makes millions”.
And that, folks, is how the Conservatives are going to tie "New World Order" conspiracies to any kind of climate action, even very weak action like Sustainable Airline Fuel.
God I hate this guy's gross smile.
#canPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency
#CanPoli #CdnPoli

DOGE's push from tape archives to cloud-based "permanent modern digital records" (not a thing) opens the door to increased software obsolescence, hacking, and climate impact. Greater transparency? Maybe—or these wannabe nerds just plan to surveil and monetize govt data

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04146 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXi…

Nonlocally coupled moisture model for convective self-aggregation
Clouds play a central role in climate physics by interacting with precipitation, radiation, and circulation. Despite being a fundamental issue in convective organization, the self-aggregation of clouds lacks a theoretical explanation due to its complexity. In this study, we introduce an idealized mathematical model where the system's state is represented solely by the vertically integrated water vapor content of atmospheric columns under the weak temperature gradient approximation. By analyzing…

What Trump says: Climate change is BS. It's not going to happen. Forget about it.
What Trump means: Climate change is BS. It's not going to happen in my lifetime. Forget about it. Because I will have...
#trump #politics

Sorry to see the FEMA head fired. He’s right, eliminating FEMA is a terrible idea. Just canceling “non-disaster” funding will harm Americans and not really save money. Each dollar spent in preparedness saves $6-13 in post-disaster recovery, depending on how it is measured. Well, if there were no disasters, we’d save money, but pretending climate change isn’t real won’t help there either. By the way, states already do a ton of disaster preparedness and management—FEMA is the central standardi…

#gsa #nyc #columbia #climate
The original Charney Report that says doubling CO2 will yield 1.5-4.5 degrees C temperature change (
#NOAA 's #GFDL and #NASA 's #GISS - incidentally, gfdl was also in the news yesterday
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-noaa-budget-cuts-climate-change-modeling-princeton-gfdl
" The gutting of NOAA was outlined earlier this month in a leaked memo from the Office of Management and Budget that detailed steep reductions at the Department of Commerce, which houses the science agency. ... NOAA’s overall funding would be slashed by 27%…
most significant target is the office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research ⎯ a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling, including the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory ⎯ which would be cut by 74%. “At this funding level, OAR is eliminated as a line office,” the memo stated.”

“An assessment of updated National Climate and Energy Plans (NECPs) shows the EU is on course to achieve a 54 per cent emissions reduction by 2030 - just one per cent shy of its legally binding 55 per cent target.”
Fun fact, if Canada joined the EU it would probably hurt it from an emissions reduction perspective because Oil and Gas.
“It attributed the progress towards the 2030 goal to action in the energy sector, with renewables covering 24 per cent of energy consumption in the EU in 2023. Most member states are now aligned with the target of reaching a share of 42.5 per cent by 2030, according to the Commission.”
Weird how they don’t mention LNG as being a reason why Europe has been able to meet its goals. Almost like renewables are essentially the only way to decarbonize the industry, just like the scientists say it is.
“States have a legal obligation to deliver climate action, and the Commission has a clear responsibility to uphold and enforce EU law in response.”
Imagine Danielle Smith whining about unfair laws…
Wonder how much #bclmg Europe will be asking for…
#bcpoli #abpoli #climateAction #ClimateChange #climateEmergency #canpoli #cdnpoli
https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/05/28/eu-on-track-to-meet-2030-emissions-goal-thanks-to-strong-progress-on-renewables?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

#NewPaper out: Anne Reichmuth , Kühn I, Schmidt A, Doktor D (2025) Forested Natura 2000 sites under climate change: effects of tree species distribution shifts. Web Ecology 25: 59–89.
We have modelled and analysed the effect of possible tree species distribution shift in Norway spruce (Picea abies), European beech (Fagus sylvatica), and two oak species (Quercus petraea and Quercus robur), considered jointly on forested Natura 2000 sites, an EU-wide conservation area network. The modelling procedure was performed using 3 to 4 bio-climatic variables derived from 26 variables of the EURO-CORDEX Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) climate simulations for the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) 2.6, 4.5, and 8.5 until 2098. Our results reveal a severe decline in Picea within Natura 2000 sites in central Europe and lower elevations and confirm a strong shift towards higher elevations and latitudes. This amounts to an 18 % absolute mean change (−18 % mean loss, 15 % mean gain). Quercus sp. reveal similar results, with 23 % absolute mean change (−23 % loss, 24 % gain) at Natura 2000 sites, whereas Fagus remains stable throughout the model results with 8 % absolute mean change (−7 % loss, 9 % gain). As ecosystems of any type are highly dynamic, climate change can lead to additional severe pressure on statically defined conservation goals and associated management activities.
#biodiversity #ecology #ClimateChange #conservation

#gsa has told #nasa to vacate it’s only office in #nyc
#columbia and nasa with about 2/3 of the 120 people in the building being researchers employed by Columbia. This lab could not exist at all outside of nyc.
This lab, along with #gfdl in Princeton NJ were the first to come up with how sensitive the #climate is to inputs of CO2 in the 1979 Charney report.
We still make estimates of future climate change today.

MEGA! Make Earth Great Again!
#ClimateChange #climate #ClimateCrisis #environment

MEGA! Make Earth Great Again!
#ClimateChange #climate #ClimateCrisis #environment