The Delhi police is doing what it does best. Brutally 'clearing' away popular protests.
Shiva Muruganandham
@murushiv.bsky.social
studying ice. some words. PhD candidate @ GeorgiaTech mshivaprakash.com
Interesting and a little counterintuitive: shallow coastal urban flooding is exacerbated by paved surfaces, sure, but severe flooding mostly from inflow from surrounding rural areas to flattest, lowest spot in local topography: the urban area! Xu GRL agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Significant Rural Contributions to Severe Coastal Urban Flooding Through Flow Connectivity
Multi-scale Earth system modeling framework can capture compound flooding dynamics at actionable scales (i.e., 30 m) Severe urban flooding zone is significantly controlled by topographic factors ...
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I really like this because it also helps people become more familiar with how our climate future works. There's no science crystal ball, but we sure do know a lot and people can plan and act using that information. Insight instead of certainty.
CIRES@cires.colorado.edu · 4w agoWhat if the future of weather forecasting isn't about finding one "right" answer? A new CIRES and @noaa.gov forecasting experiment found that explaining why a forecast is uncertain — and when confidence will improve — helps people make better decisions.
a glut of awesome-ml lists and too few for awesome-glaciology on the hub of the git
"...preindustrial glacier geometries simply cannot exist in their modern valley environments." 👀
Melaine Le Roy@subfossilguy.bsky.social · last mo.Robust attribution of global industrial-era glacier mass loss to anthropogenic climate change 🧊🔥 'Our central estimates are that the magnitude of the anthropogenic warming over the industrial era ranges from 91–98 % of the observed, depending on region' egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
"The next breakthrough in flood risk management will not come from a satellite with a higher resolution sensor, or a neural network with a lower RMSE, or a simulation that runs ten times faster. It..." a good reminder from @niklasjordan.com: risk-and-haz.offprint.app/a/3mozncdvl7...
Stop Building Better Flood Models: Why the Last Mile Matters More Than the Last Decimal
Europe's flood data is good enough. Getting it to the right people isn't.
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The enraged bellow of the 21st century Polyphemus:
Erik Hane@erikhane.bsky.social · 2mo agoI would like for no-reply to stop emailing me
Now all done but the synthesis! Thanks to the ~110 scientists and practitioners, not to mention @agu.org and our local volunteers, for a great three days in Montreal!
Bob Kopp@bobkopp.net · 2mo agoArriving in Montreal for the @agu.org Chapman Conference on Updating Usable Projections of Future Sea Level — already ran into about half a dozen colleagues before getting to my hotel!
Late to this, but - very good (and entertaining!) read from @frank.computer on the Tufte school of data viz. Friends who like to agonize over whether each gridline has earned its ink will relate:
Minimalism and the absurdity of the data-to-ink-ratio
How much minimalism is too much minimalism? I explore this question and propose the most minimalist, highest scoring data-to-ink ratio on a visualization ever made as a thought piece. Why? Well novice...
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Tracing the collapse of a giant ancient Himalayan glacier. Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh, Eastern Himalaya. Be10 dating shows pulses of glacier retreat over the past 60,000 years. www.nature.com/articles/d44...
Tracing the collapse of a giant ancient Himalayan glacier
A new study challenges the notion that heavy rainfall can shield glaciers from decline.
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I stumbled on Terry Pratchett as a teenager working in a library - couldn't figure out why I had to shelve those books constantly, read one, figured it out. Decades later and he holds up great. The watch books pulled me in first, nowadays bopping my way around the witches.
I Am Begging You to Read Terry Pratchett
One of England’s funniest writers is in danger of being lost to history.
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"This stance is based on an implicit belief that Indians are somehow more ‘adapted’ to air pollution. Such arguments are pervasive and have gained legitimacy from the political denial of the air pollution problem" ☠️ excellent reporting from @rishpardikar.bsky.social on the clean air crisis:
Rishika Pardikar@rishpardikar.bsky.social · 3mo agoEXCLUSIVE: Indian politicians have denied the severity of the air pollution crisis for decades. Internal documents reveal how this denial has shaped — and constrained — policymaking. Story of the long overdue update of National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) drilled.media/news/air-pol...
Excited to share our latest work, published today in Eos! The U.S. has led and helped to fund about a third of all global sea level projections ever produced. Now, attacks on science in the U.S. have left the field at a precipice.
Eos@eos.org · 3mo agoU.S. scientists and federal funding have been key contributors to global scientific sea level projection research. Those roles are now threatened, write @andrajgarner.bsky.social, @bobkopp.net, @gggarner121.bsky.social, Aimée B. A. Slangen, and Benjamin P. Horton. eos.org/opinions/the...
snagged a signed copy of @matratype.bsky.social's fantastic collection on street type design earlier this month and paired it with a gorgeous journey into drishti iconography from TN. Both already well-thumbed escapes into everyday art from this horrid heat 👁️
Blaft Publications@blaft.bsky.social · 4mo agoINDIA STREET LETTERING by @matratype.bsky.social: thrilling readers and type enthusiasts from Mexico to Germany to Nagaland to Hong Kong! (We've mailed copies of this book to more states and countries than any of our previous titles. Fun! We're working on a map) www.blaft.com/products/ind...
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3/ We analyzed 18 major Antarctic ice drainage basins using the ice-sheet model #PISM, gradually increasing global mean temperature to map their long-term response. Result: different regions respond very differently to warming.
Geoscience needs to lean harder into the Lovecraftian. An ever-changing, self consuming world dominated by unimaginably long cycles culminating in pulses of flood basalts or punctuated by collision with massive rocks from space that nearly wipe out all life....
Kyle Swanson, MD, FAANS, FCNS@kiswanson.medsky.social · 9mo ago
What humans do to change climate matters much, much more than natural climate variations in determining future ice loss from Greenland 👉 Read about the results of the Greenland Ice Sheet Large Ensemble (GrISLENS) Project in our paper out now in The Cryosphere doi.org/10.5194/tc-1...
The Greenland Ice Sheet Large Ensemble (GrISLENS): simulating the future of Greenland under climate variability
Abstract. The Greenland ice sheet has lost ice at an increasing pace over recent decades, driven by a combination of human-caused climate change and internal variability in the climate system. In proj...
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If extreme weather had a capital, it would be Mumbai. We’ve got it all: floods, sea-level rise, cyclones, heat islands. Mumbaikars are sick of being called resilient and being caught off-guard. But forecasting the monsoon is fraught, more so with climate change. My dispatch for @carbonbrief.org👇🏽
Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · last yr.💡 Spotlight | This week, Carbon Brief visits Mumbai’s official monsoon monitoring centre and “war room” to examine how the city is responding to its earliest downpour on record. Read spotlight here: buff.ly/MXgAwGC
⏰ New study shows ambitious mitigation (1.5°C) saves 2X as much ice globally (53% left) than our current pathway, which will destroy >75% glacier ice once it fully adjusts to a warmer climate Every fraction of °C counts! +0.1°C warmer = 2% more glacier mass lost www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌊🧪
“My house is one of many that burned down. This event, for me, has destroyed any boundary between my work as a climate scientist and the rest of my life.” Read more from NASA JPL scientist Ben Hamlington:
Altadena Wildfires
My house in Altadena burned down in the wildfires on Wednesday. It all happened quickly.
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physics of climate impacts 101: - Stuff gets hot (worse heatwaves) - Hot air holds more water vapor (heavier rainfall) - Hot air is thirstier air (higher drought risk) - Warm water is hurricane food (stronger storms) - Hot water expands and hot ice melts (sea level rise)
have starter packs just unanimously won out over feeds? does anyone know how one can use a starter pack as a feed on here? 👀
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