John Bird
@johnbird001.bsky.social
Ph.D. atmospheric scientist🌎, nuclear engineer☢, 📰 #antarctica South Pole Station 🐧 http://amzn.to/2klpv3b 🐧
Mitigation alone is no longer enough because, even if we stopped all emissions today, the carbon dioxide released to date would continue warming the planet for generations. www.nrdc.org/bio/jackie-w...
Ignorance Is Not an Option: Why NRDC Is Engaging on Solar Geoengineering
The climate crisis may be moving faster than our ability to respond. One controversial tool could potentially buy us time—if we’re ready.
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As a giant swell of warm water advances toward South America, air masses over the central and eastern equatorial Pacific begin to heat, causing convective air to rise, and over the Indian ocean, to sink: the pattern of El Niño's onset, as shown in the latest ECMWF forecast.
SpaceX Starship Flight 12 live launch updates: 1st Starship V3 launch scrubbed, may fly May 22
As of mid-2026, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is in a state of continued, long-term weakening due to climate change, with expert consensus shifting toward a higher risk of a potential, non-linear collapse by the end of the century. NASA.
Deep-diving robots help crack the mystery of Antarctica’s vanishing sea ice | grist.org/oceans/deep-...
Deep-diving robots help crack the mystery of Antarctica’s vanishing sea ice
Ten years ago, Antarctica's sea ice suddenly and dramatically declined. Scientists now blame a "very violent release" of deep, pent-up heat.
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Earth's shadow sweeps across the lunar disk during the March 3 total lunar eclipse. (Image credit: Photo by Ezra Acayan)
Antarctic minerals in a warming world Climate change will expose new ice-free areas of Antarctica. Now a study explores how climate change might spur the first ‘gold rush’ on the unexploited continent. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Antarctic minerals in a warming world - Nature Climate Change
Climate change will expose new ice-free areas of Antarctica. Now a study explores how climate change might spur the first ‘gold rush’ on the unexploited continent.
nature.com
Primordial magnetic fields could have accelerated the process of recombination—when electrons and protons combined to form atoms—changing the patterns in the cosmic microwave background. phys.org/news/2026-01...
As we breach 1.5 °C, we must replace temperature limits with clean-energy targets www.nature.com/articles/d41...
As we breach 1.5 °C, we must replace temperature limits with clean-energy targets
Actionable goals are needed to guide the world towards what needs to happen most quickly: shifting economies to clean energy sources.
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A new map has unmasked the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice in unprecedented detail, something scientists say could greatly enhance our understanding of the frozen white continent. They found evidence of thousands of previously undiscovered hills and ridges. bbc.com/news/article...
New map reveals landscape beneath Antarctica in unprecedented detail
Scientists believe the map could shed light on how Antarctica's vast ice sheet will respond to climate change.
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For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a star using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft. science.nasa.gov/missions/xri...
Deep-sea earthquakes fuel huge plankton blooms in Antarctica | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Deep-sea earthquakes fuel huge plankton blooms in Antarctica
Hydrothermal vents spurred by seismic activity feed vital nutrients to Antarctic microbes
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Warm, humid ‘atmospheric rivers’ threaten Antarctica | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Warm, humid ‘atmospheric rivers’ threaten Antarctica
Growing more common as climate warms, these once-rare events could ultimately accelerate ice loss
science.org
What our missing ocean float revealed about Antarctica’s melting glaciers theconversation.com/what-our-mis...
What our missing ocean float revealed about Antarctica’s melting glaciers
Our ocean float spent years adrift in the Antarctic ocean and beneath massive ice shelves. What it found will help us estimate global sea-level rise.
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Researchers have found 6 million-year-old ice in the Allan Hills region of Antarctica and say the oldest-of-its-kind sample offers an unprecedented view into Earth's ancient climate. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
The problem with ‘mega-COPs’: can a 50,000-person conference still tackle climate change? theconversation.com/the-problem-...
The problem with ‘mega-COPs’: can a 50,000-person conference still tackle climate change?
Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend the COP30 UN climate change conference in Brazil. Can they all be heard?
theconversation.com
Why China is leading perovskite solar commercialization cen.acs.org/business/ino...
Why China is leading perovskite solar commercialization
Existing solar industry and unique business environment enables fast, cheap scale-up
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Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a prime candidate for further research. www.wired.com/story/more-e...
More Evidence Emerges That One of Saturn’s Moons Could Harbor Life
Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a prime candidate for further research.
wired.com
The strongest gravitational wave signal yet. GW250114 was detected by both arms of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in Washington and Louisiana USA earlier this year.
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detect most massive black hole merger to date | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detect most massive black hole merger to date
Scientists have detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves, using the US National Science Foundation-funded (NSF) LIGO Hanford and Livingston Observator...
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BREAKING NEWS: NASA has found a potential sign of past life on Mars. www.nasa.gov/news-release...
NASA Says Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature Last Year - NASA
A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life. Taken
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New approach uses observed local supervoid to give expansion of the universe an extra push and solve the Hubble tension phys.org/news/2024-11... via @physorg_com
Perseid meteor shower 2025: When, where and how to see it www.space.com/32868-persei...
Perseid meteor shower 2025: When, where and how to see it
The Perseid meteor shower is one of the best shooting star displays of the year.
space.com
New Zealand Air Force Mounts Dangerous Rescue in Antarctica www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/w...
New Zealand Air Force Mounts Dangerous Rescue in Antarctica
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Scientists may have solved a chemistry mystery about Jupiter's ocean moon Europa. www.space.com/astronomy/ju...
On July 9, 2025, Earth spun faster than usual, enough to make the day 1.6 milliseconds shorter than the standard 24 hours. Add a leap day every 4 years, except: Years divisible by 100, unless they’re also divisible by 400, giving 365.2425 days/year, which is very close to the real 365.2422.
For the first time ever, MIRI on JWST discovered an exoplanet by directl imaging. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evidence for a sub-Jovian planet in the young TWA 7 disk - Nature
Using the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument, a study reports evidence for a direct detection of a cold, sub-Jupiter-mass planet in the disk of the star TWA 7.
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