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Good points in this piece from Chris Rapley: "Not once in the history of human spaceflight has an astronaut been known to tamper with their life support system... Sabotage is unthinkable – socially intolerable... We are doing to our planetary life support what no astronaut has done to theirs. "

Why we need to treat Earth like a spaceship

Climate science is the anti-myth. Researchers have long noted that the human brain struggles with psychologically distant threats.

theconversation.com

Some science behind how ENSO (El Nino/ La Niña) works. The prevailing pattern in the Equatorial Pacific is Trade Winds blowing from east to west. That pushes warm surface water towards the West Pacific “warm pool” where the sea level is literally ~1.5 feet higher due to warm water piling up!… 1/

Twinning! Something important is going on this week that will have world-wide implications! Like an egg splitting in half, a tropical wave gives birth twin tropical #cyclones in the Equatorial Pacific. Notice how one spins clockwise I the Northern Hemisphere, the other counterclockwise SH… 1/

A critically endangered smalltooth sawfish cruised through a murky Coral City today (and might’ve bumped into Glenn Nevis in the process😅). How privileged we are to have a fish like this swimming through Miami waterways! When it comes to civic pride through biodiversity, Miami wins #coralcitycamera