José Luis Casamor

@batidivulga.bsky.social

A broad geologist walking along the seashore. Lecturer in Marine Geosciences at @ub.edu ⚒️ 🌊 🌍 ❄️🌡️ 🧪

Anthropogenic Global Warming, Landslides, & Avalanches 🧵 “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that warming temperatures have destabilised mountain climates, leading to more avalanches, melting glaciers and more intense storms.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldvi...

Avalanches are becoming more common, thanks to climate change, researchers say

Was the Italian ski resort disaster the result of weak snow packs?

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❄ November 2025: Arctic sea ice extent ranked second-lowest for November in the 47-year satellite record at 12% below average. Antarctic extent was the fourth-lowest for the month, 7% below average. Find out more ⬇️

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🌊 🐚What can seashells tell us? A new article in The Conversation co-authored by Tom Frazer, professor and dean of the College of Marine Science, explores how seashells can act as a historical record of seagrass health. theconversation.com/seashells-fr...

Seashells from centuries ago show that seagrass meadows on Florida’s Nature Coast are thriving

Scientists are using mollusk shells to evaluate the health of Florida’s seagrass ecosystems.

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🌊 ‘Reverse weathering’, authigenic clay formation in marine sediments, may be far faster than thought Fe(II)-bearing smectite and mica formed in just 40 days from diatom silica, showing rapid feedbacks on ocean chemistry www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Rapid transformation of biogenic silica to authigenic clay: Mechanisms and geochemical constraints

Biogenic silica transforms to authigenic clay within 40 days, which is more responsive reverse weathering than previously assumed.

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Global mean sea surface temperature anomalies (departure from average) so far this year ➡️ 2nd highest on record 🌊 Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 averaged over January to September.

Green line graph time series of average sea surface temperature anomalies for each January to September period from 1900 through 2025. There is large interannual variability, but an overall long-term increasing trend. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1981-2010 baseline.

🌊 Ocean warming threatens the viability of 60% of Antarctic ice shelves If global temps stay <2 °C, nearly all 64 ice shelves survive by 2300. But above ~4.5 °C, ocean melt causes 38 shelves to collapse by 2300, risking up to 10 m sea level rise. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ocean warming threatens the viability of 60% of Antarctic ice shelves - Nature

The viability of Antarctic ice shelves under low rates and high rates of global warming is modelled to estimate when it will become unfeasible for the ice shelves to maintain their present-day shape.

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🌊 Inevitable global coral reef decline under climate change-induced thermal stresses New study identifies a critical threshold: 7.9% annual bleaching triggers major reef degradation. Even best-case climate scenarios show widespread losses by 2100. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Inevitable global coral reef decline under climate change-induced thermal stresses - Communications Earth & Environment

Coral reef ecosystems will undergo significant degradation if annual bleaching rate exceeds 7.9%, according to combined historical field observations and future climate simulations.

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