Notices by Ruth Mottram (ruth_mottram@fediscience.org), page 2

What deep held flaw is built into the human psyche that we would prefer to consider the monstrous technologies of #geoengineering rather than cut any fossil fuel use?

#ClimateDiary

WMO president is on board with Antarctica, Greenland and sea level rise!

#ClimateScientists often underestimate the importance of the WMO - it's not as visible to us as IPCC say and the focus has long been on #WeatherForecasts but #ClimateScience is very much built on the infrastructure of #weather - the in-situ observations, the satellites and the numerical models originally developed for forecasting. #ClimateDiary

Kicking off the #WMO #polar and high mountain regions committee meeting in Oslo this morning. Long pre-meeting on #Antarctica yesterday to determine policy and strategy was pretty successful. Hoping it will get passed by full panel today.
WMO president Celeste Sauto giving us an online welcome.
#PHORS24 #ClimateDiary

TIL, thanks to this informative piece from @rahmstorf that you should definitely read, the Dutch national supercomputer is called Snellius
🤭😂🤭😂

(Snell means fast in Dutch)
#Snellius

https://fediscience.org/@rahmstorf/111903102428035801
rahmstorf - New study: the Atlantic overturning circulation AMOC “is on tipping course”.

The paper by Dutch colleagues adds more weight to recent warnings, such as the OECD Climate Tipping Points report of 2022 and the Global Tipping Points report published 2023.

https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2024/02/new-study-suggests-the-atlantic-overturning-circulation-amoc-is-on-tipping-course/

A message from an old media #TheEconomist to the new..

#SocialMedia #SocialNetwork
You've been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire.

The end of the social network
https://econ.st/42v6RGI

Imagine, DMI planned this even before COVID...

🤦♀️

https://mastodon.social/@xahteiwi/111839000628689289

This may explain why half of Danish state employees had no email access yesterday... 🙄
https://appdot.net/@mdhughes/111825533825017994
mdhughes@appdot.net - @thegibson

My favourite part of this quote about #ice is the reference.. 😁 #Frostodon #icetodon
https://fediscience.org/@agrinsted/111787871131891751
agrinsted - "ICE IS a remarkably strong solid. When its normalized strength (σs/μ) is compared with that of other solids at the same fraction of their melting point (T/TM), ice is found to be among the strongest and hardest.  " (ashby and frost, 1982)

Danes who are interested in origins of the modern population of #Denmark might find this paper in the collection especially interesting.

It seems that all those tall and blonde #vikings came from Asia about 5000 years ago and wiped out the local population.

(I might be exaggerating and simplifying a bit)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06862-3

https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/111742159309661655

Some fantastic new #icetodon #frostodon entries from #Finland. This is incredibly beautiful.
https://mastodontti.fi/@sara/111720484605514768
sara@mastodontti.fi - @kaarne @Ruth_Mottram Pyhäjärvi, 2 days ago :)

I asked, #mastodon answered...

https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/111705895236414782
Ruth_Mottram - Ok mastodon, (or at least the part of it currently going through a big freeze), show me your strange ice pictures, your weird ice spikes, needle ice, hair ice and frazil ice, your beautiful ice crystals.

Is #icetodon a thing yet? It should be. I'll start.
#NeedleIce in the park today.. typically forms.when ground is warm (above zero) and air temperature cold (well below zero).

#Ice #BigFreeze #StrangeIce #IceSpikes

Not exactly what I meant by show me your cool ice crystals... 😳🫣❄️🌨️
#icetodon #frostodon
https://mastodon.top/@CedricMas/111708693675856700
CedricMas@mastodon.top - #Ukraine 06/01 (3) À noter que plus au Nord, le froid dégrade la vie.
Des milliers de Russes se plaignent de l’absence de chauffage (photos à Moscou) comme des ruptures d’approvisionnement (rayons vides à Oulianovsk).

Essential reading as usual - nicely updated thoughts on what on earth is up with the (2023) #climate
#ClimateDiary

https://fediscience.org/@micefearboggis/111708589646451570
From @micefearboggis - New year, new thoughts on why 2023 was so warm globally?

No, but the confusion has been brought to an unusually high point of refinement.

https://diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2023/10/08/a-multitude-of-possibly-unsatisfying-answers/

Amazing. TIL that @arte the franco-german public service broadcaster in Europe has a completely open app showing their programmes. Here to celebrate is a beautiful short documentary about Eunice Newton Foote, including a re-enactment of her (now famous) experiments showing how #CarbonDioxide is a #GreenhouseGas.
(TIL also that #UncleSam was actually a real person)
#ClimateChange #eunicefoote #ArteTV

HT @u0421793
https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/107313-005-A/the-forgotten-breakthrough-of-a-female-scientist/

Decided to watch a #christmasfilm for #FamilyFilmEvening - unfortunately I let myself be persuaded to watch #HomeAlone2 - what an incredibly painful movie.
😬🫣😰

I recall enjoying the first one as an 10 (ish?) year old, so perhaps I've just moved out of the demographic or maybe it really is a truly terrible film concept?

Suggestions for a brain cleanse of a Christmas film please....?

"Today, rich countries have an opportunity to import youth, brains and dynamism. It may not last forever"

Interesting piece in the Economist on #migration. I don't agree with it all. But it's good to see people thinking practically instead of emotionally about it

You've been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire.

How to detoxify the politics of migration
https://econ.st/3RTtEXV

Tonight we expect #StormSurges in #WestDenmark and tomorrow eastern Jutland, the southern islands and North Zealand and especially in #Roskilde fjord

Important to follow local authorities instructions and check out #DMI's homepage for #SevereWeatherWarnings.

https://www.dmi.dk/varsler/

https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/111619500466191490

@HistoPol that's a great suggestion actually!

Most of the specialised computers/servers at work are named for DWEMs* (or pagan gods/goddesses), so at casual lunch conversation yesterday we brainstormed a few #WomenInSTEM names for the next generation of servers (we came up with Meitner, Hammer + Lehman, maybe Curie is too obvious) - but why stick with white women, what other more diverse candidates should we have for naming servers etc after? Would love some more suggestions to take to IT.
#EDI #Diversity

*(Dead, White, European Males).

I just found #Flipboard's #peertube channel.

This is an interesting interview with @BBC_News_Labs on how #BBC see the #Fediverse developments

@Flipboard

BBC’s Experiment in the Fediverse, with Senior Firestarter Ian Forrester
https://flipboard.video/videos/watch/2ce52ee8-fe4a-46c2-9b4c-a6e4b8637a77