Notices by Ruth Mottram (ruth_mottram@fediscience.org)

Anyone else on pixelfed.eu having problems connecting? Or just me?

On subject of #Antarctica, today our #HorizonEurope project @OceanIceEU welcomes a new partner: National Antarctic Science Center of #Ukraine join us thanks to the #EU widening access programme.
They will deploy new instruments in the oceans around the continent, closing the gap in observations and making us a truly circum-Antarctic project as well as running advanced state-of-the-art models of under ice shelf melting.
Welcome 🇺🇦 friends 🤗🇦🇶

Details here soon no doubt: https://ocean-ice.eu/

For these and other gems, you should really be following our #HorizonEurope project @PolarRES #FF!
https://fediscience.org/@PolarRES/112139576745552404
PolarRES - 💧Did you know that due to sea water freezing, #Antarctica almost doubles in size each winter?

📉Sadly, findings from @Dr_Gilbz show that Antarctic sea ice extent fell to record lows in 2023

📃Read the full article here: https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wea.4518
@bas_news #WorldWaterDay #H2020

"Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory
Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed."

Good piece in Nature this week by Gavin Schmidt covers the extremely anomalous temperatures in 2023, well before El Nino got started as well as the loss of #Antarctic #SeaIce and aerosols...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00816-z

@atomicpoet What happened? 😱

This is a little depressing but I think probably correct insight..

🎁You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire.

Europe’s new-look winter: floods, high sea levels and melting glaciers
https://econ.st/431ALmb

TFW: I got on this train with 2018 emails in my inbox, intending to clear them out in the course of a 5 hour return trip. 2 horus later I have dealt with loads of them, but now have 2019 emails in my inbox....

#Help #Emails #LifeOfAScientist

About that ozone hole..

Doesn't seem to be healing very fast - not due to #CFCs necessarily but a quick of the #Climate system means a colder #Stratosphere - which is delaying things.
Really good piece from my colleagues at DMI on it (in danish but DeepL works really well for translation):
#OzoneHole #OzoneLayer #Ozone #Antarctica
https://www.dmi.dk/nyheder/2024/ozonhullets-lange-helingsproces

It matters where the water comes from.

Why does the loss of ice in Antarctica affect Northern Europe more than melt in Greenland?

Apparently, many people are confused about how global and local sea level rise are not the same so I wrote a brief blog post to try and explain it.

Posting again for the European morning crowd..

#ClimateDiary #SeaLevelRise #ClimateChange
#Antarctica #Greenland #iceSheet

http://sternaparadisaea.net/2024/02/28/local-sea-level-rise-a-question-of-gravity/

Nice piece, it's a difficult balance for scientists we are supposed to write impersonally, but does language we employ blunt message?
https://spore.social/@rewildingmag/112007046787772384
@rewildingmag - "Our words have a power that many of us are not yet using. They can paint the natural world as sensing, singing, worthy of life; and they can remind us that we are animals within it, grateful recipients of its gifts, who can offer something in return."
#rewilding #language #nature #ecology
https://atmos.earth/why-we-need-new-words-to-describe-the-natural-world/

What fantastic memories this map must encapsulate....

https://pubeurope.com/@europesays/112007373492456878
europesays@pubeurope.com - https://www.europesays.com/1077573/ Geologically correct map of Scotland. 30 years of collecting! #Scotland #UnitedKingdom

Sigh.
https://mastodon.social/@Datagraver/112005295416647427
Datagraver@mastodon.social - New record set for the global sea surface temperature yesterday.
#climate

Warning: this thread from the absolutely brilliant @vagina_museum is not for the faint-hearted, or those expecting a baby, but it's a useful reminder, for those of us in the privileged world, just how dangerous childbirth is. And how far we've come with modern medicine. And how much we should support #MaternalCare in the rest of the world

Read on. But be prepared.

https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/111974866514233597

For, reasons, I installed and opened Instagram for the first time in years..

*Uninstalls Instagram*

"he dwells among Russia’s ancient princes + tsars, measures his efforts in centuries + sees it as a historic mission not only to restore their lost empire but to overthrow the social order that emerged after WW2 in the West + spread eastwards after the fall of the Berlin wall. He wants to defeat the very sense of individual will that #Navalny embodied. And he will not stop"

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Vladimir Putin has been fighting not just #Ukraine, but his own people
https://econ.st/3OR1FY2

Excellent briefing in @TheEconomist on Europe's defence conundrums.

For those who speak Danish, may I also recommend #KrigensLogik - an excellent in-depth exploration of some of the same issues by @anderspuck
Alongside what can only be described as the hideous logic of war. (I've just got to the nuclear chapter)

#Ukraine #EU #Defence #NATO #PaxAmericana

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Can Europe defend itself without America?
https://econ.st/3wtwtYh

Presumably this is the floating sauna that made that daring rescue of Tesla driver + passenger the other week?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/01/floating-sauna-rescues-motorists-whose-tesla-plunged-into-oslo-fjord

#Oslo #Norge #Norway

Sitting on the Oslo metro T-bane with my #LangrendSki alongside about 30 other people all taking #PublicTransport to the nearest #Skitrails

This might be the most #Scandinavian I've ever felt.

#crossCountrySki #NordicSkiing #Oslo #Norway

A survey in European countries showed 69% of people would be willing to give up 1% of their income each month to fight #ClimateChange - but most people believe they are in a minority who would.
How to do climate policy in the age of the green backlash - https://on.ft.com/3urWMxH via @FT

The questions that a good journalist who wanted to make Putin uncomfortable would ask.

Admirably demonstrating the value of being on top of your subject by @anderspuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aR8FJ9hlTw