Eric Maugendre about carbon
@maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
Data scientist; researching climate forcing. I calculate how to avoid much carbon emissions Banner is a directed acyclic graph. Avatar shows a white man in a heatwave. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mas.to/@maugendre, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Here is a thread on climate modelling. 🧵 A climate model is an abstract description of climate using mathematical concepts or computer language. It is used to simulate climate dynamics and interactions of components and drivers of climate (such as the greenhouse […] [Original post on mas.to]
Mining always generates mountains of spoil. That's why mineral extraction needs stringent caps. A reminder of how mining typically ignores the safety and well-being of local people. 60 years on: The Aberfan disaster through the eyes of those who survived - BBC News […]
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This wasn't the first illegal Google project in Finland, they've broken preservation laws at their existing data center site as well. It's an intentional bet that sanctions will be minimal, and environmental assessments come back easier for a site which no longer has any environmental values to […]
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Indigenous cultural practices are a climate solution, report finds (via Grist.org): http://dlvr.it/TTBm8w
In the below fields, #adaptability may already be baked in, if the system has absorbed other contexts: • Staff have a life apart from being managed. • Animals, trees, ecosystems retain lessons from history. • The machine model with many features will promptly react to disruption. Here is a nice […]
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Passive rewilding refers to *actively unmanaged* environments that are allowed to regain natural dominance, typically after their abandonment. 🧵 Sometimes referred to as "natural regeneration", it differs from other forms of rewilding in that direct human […] [Original post on social.coop]
Agricultural production this summer was very difficult. The next crops may not be expected in Europe. Why is that? 🧵
Agricultural production this summer was very difficult. The next crops may not be expected in Europe. Why is that? 🧵
Mr. Sponge City, Kongjian Yu, made cities porous to soften floods & droughts: https://rdcu.be/d5ouG We lost Kongjian last year in a tragic accident. But his vision lives on. "The water cycle is a key climate stabilizer but overlooked by policymakers. Restoring wetlands, floodplains, forests […]
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Fundamental is growth. Not economic growth but vegetal growth. Almost all life on Earth relies directly or indirectly on plant growth. Here is a thread on the degradation of vegetal growth 🧵 #soil #photosynthesis #degradation #ecology #anomalies #carbon #carbonSinks #drought #droughts #growth
The paper's reframe is the key point: seaweed forests are shifting from sink to source 1,000-10,000x faster than restoration can offset. That makes protection of existing forests a carbon priority, not a future sequestration play.
"Seaweed carbon removal cannot keep up with climate-driven loss" https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003949 Losses outpace restoration by a factor of at least a thousand. A research question that used to be "How much can seaweed sequester?" has become "How […]
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Publication day! Our finalised paper on melange processes at Greenland glacier fronts and what it means for calving glacier stability is finally out... http://sternaparadisaea.net/2026/09/09/a-jumble-of-broken-ice-and-what-it-means-for-greenlands-calving-glaciers/
Interview with a Nepali climate negotiator about: • how the government is handling rescue and relief in the aftermath of the disastrous flooding • the kinds of international support it seeks, including from the climate loss and damage fund. https://drilled.media/news/nepal-floods #attribution […]
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“An icefall and landslide can be seen.” “An ice and debris lake formed and then burst." "Satellite images obtained from Chinese authorities show the blockage occurred about 20 kilometres upstream of the Miteri Bridge before a sudden surge swept downstream." […]
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The explanation is allowed to stick. Permission is not necessary. #Drought #attribution: "Anthropogenic climate change has driven large decreases in water supply (snowpack and streamflow) and increases in water demand (irrigation demand), with roughly half attributable to the Carbon Majors […]
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Accepting a hypothesis depends on the importance of being mistaken. It can be considered a judgment with ethics attached. Without accounting for multiple values and preferences in policy design, scientific insights risk becoming politicized, potentially reinforcing dominant parties’ interests in […]
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There are "multifaceted reasons for our collective failure to bend the global emissions curve. However, a common thread that emerges across the reviewed literature is the central role of power, manifest in many forms, from a dogmatic political-economic hegemony and influential vested interests […]
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A status on land use change worldwide: "The area used for growing crops grew significantly from 2001 to 2024. Temporary crops (such as wheat, rice and maize) increased by 104 million ha, or 11 percent, reaching 1 081 million ha. Permanent crops (such as cocoa, oil palm and coffee) grew by 59 […]
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Det sista gröna i betet håller på att torka bort nu. Blir till att ge lammen ensilage eller tidigarelägga slakten. Mkt jobb och förlorade intäkter. Fortsätter torkan kan klövern dö bort och då blir det stora problem även nästa år. Och då är detta ingenting mot vad som drabbar bönderna i Sydeuropa.
"The worst-case scenarios in the IPCC report project temperatures by the 22nd century that last prevailed in the Early Eocene, reversing 50 million years of cooler climates in the space of two centuries. […] The rise of large-scale, urbanized agrarian societies […] [Original post on social.coop]
The EU's adaptation framework offers an illusion of preparation. Laying out plans for a 3°C drift average does not make it survivable. But it makes it seem so. 🧵 Europe is not even preparing for what happened recently! In the pine plantations west of Bordeaux, firefighters met the first […]
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"Water, food and a decent temperature range are needed for our survival. […] We can act consequently." http://data.yt/kit/water-food-and-temperature.html Would you know a person born around 1950 and who would have lived in NYC in the late 1970's? I am looking […] [Original post on social.coop]
How can academic publishing manage the growing influx, as AI speeds up writing, without resorting to credentialism & gatekeeping? I guess we'll find out.
Charles West@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3mo ago"In the first quarter of 2026, journals using the ScholarOne Manuscripts platform recorded a 33 percent rise in submissions". Interesting times. www.academicjobs.com/higher-educa...
A report found $2.3 billion in development bank funding supported factory farming in 2023. Factory farming contributes to methane emissions, deforestation and biodiversity loss, yet projects are being funded by banks like the World Bank’s IFC. by Frida Garza: grist.org/article/worl...
The World Bank has a factory-farm climate problem
Development banks sent $2.3 billion to industrial animal agriculture in 2023.
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Climate forcing: some activities force the climate. The missing words in the climate conversation are not human-caused or climate change, but forcing and attribution to fossil fuels, mining, bovine husbandry, tree plantations, etc. In the same vein, here is an article by Hayley Fowler and Ed […]
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I am starting a thread on global land loss 🧵 #sediments #mining #climate #rivers #deforestation #soil #carbon #causality #land #footprint #dataViz
Care for viability or sustainability serves society. Ecosystems suffer from tree plantations managed without respect for local conditions, but on expectation of "Return On Investment". Tree plantations often provide efficient #wildfire fuel. Here is the example of a nation built on extraction:
Extinction or adaptation? The plague of wildfires in Chile is a warning for our future
Retracing Darwin’s journey through South America, I had an ominous premonition about environmental crisis
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