Notices by Ruth Mottram (ruth_mottram@fediscience.org), page 3

One more day until my Christmas holiday starts. There should be a word that combines the demotivation of knowing soon it won't matter with the desperation of finish stuff off before it doesn't...

Adding this one to my #dkmastodon list: a bot that posts citizen petitions to the Danish Parliament...

#mastodonDK

https://magnetic-ink.dk/objects/013d3bf0-f851-4c39-873d-6799353ed6a8

Fascinating + terrible: esp given artillery barrage that is Danish #NewYearsEve
#NYE

https://scholar.social/@animalculum/111563997249114537
@animalculum - Millions of #birds lose precious energy due to #fireworks on New Year's Eve
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-millions-birds-precious-energy-due.html
Fireworks disturbance across #bird communities https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fee.2694
"effects are strongest within first 5 km of fireworks, but up to 10 km, there are still an average of at least ten times as many birds flying as normal... researchers argue for large fireworks-free zones"

A little scared to ask but does anyone have similar statistics for European countries?
#HolocaustDenial?

https://mastodon.social/@ErikJonker/111549277723705965
@ErikJonker - Extremely scary...how some people in the US view the holocaust.

Loss and damage is one of those #Climate phrases that quickly loses power, like "collateral damage"
This week @thecontinent gives it new meaning with reporting from #Somalia where a drought that killed tens of thousands has been replaced by floods.
Relatedly, DRC will soon have what the continent calls (justifiably) 'An election in the most important country on the planet'

The fate of #rainforest #rareEarths for the #GreenTransition + 90 million Congolese people are at stake.
#TheContinent

An advert on the front page of @informeren that made me look twice. (For non-danish speakers the text reads "Give us a climate tax for Christmas" and 2 linked green circles in the logo are very like the logo for the danish land and food organisation - that lobbies on behalf of farmers and food producers and often against the interests of the climate, it is actually from the green youth movement who are campaigning for sustainable agriculture)
#ClimateDiary #Cop28 #denGrønneUngdomsBevægelse

I note that just now we #Scandinavians are the cool spot on the planet...

https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/111543785684937572
@EU_Commission - 2023 warmest year on record, six record breaking months.
November had, for the first time ever, two days with a global temperature 2ºC above
preindustrial levels.

It serves as a stark reminder that we need to work together to drastically reduce emissions.

This is why we're pushing for stronger climate ambition, finance, and global energy goals at #COP28
📷: @scottduncanwx

#EU

@inthehands great piece! Also in #climate context Kate Marvel argues we need courage, not hope in this brilliant piece:

https://onbeing.org/blog/kate-marvel-we-need-courage-not-hope-to-face-climate-change/

in the case of Israel/Palestine that's definitely true - but applies more to the politicians and diplomats who are going to have sort out the whole mess, but for the rest of us looking on, maybe the hope it can be resolved is sufficient to apply pressure to those who can do something?

Is #peace possible between #Israel and #Palestine? A compelling article in @TheEconomist argues it's not only possible but imperative ad offers some practical steps to get there. Perhaps idealistic, not to say utopian but at least someone is thinking about it which gives me hope.
🎁 Can be opened five times within seven days. Some highlights in the screenshots

Israel and Palestine: How peace is possible
https://econ.st/3uRqbBd

A possible explanation as to why I have been feeling so awful this week.
Influenza A+B, #Covid19 and RS virus all sharply increased this week in exactly the #Copenhagen region.

It's like an (in) holy trinity of viruses. Wonder which one(s) I've got.. 😷🤒😷🤒🤔😷

#Flu #Influenza #COVID19 #RSvirus #RespiratoryVirus

Interesting Swedish programme on #Rewilding - I tend to consider Sweden really wild (certainly compared to the rest of Europe) so it's interesting to see how wrong that impression kind of is and good to see how wild other parts of #Europe are, and some of the initiatives now running.
https://www.dr.dk/drtv/episode/en-vildere-verden_-fremgang-og-naturturisme_401336

Among other places, this national park in #Romania looks *incredible* and is now host to a large herd of European bison.

*Adds to holidays list

https://rewildingeurope.com/landscapes/southern-carpathians/

This is wild. Something I've occasionally thought about while doing fieldwork but never actually thought anyone would be crazy enough to do..

https://explorersweb.com/glacial-waterfall-kayaking/

Lots of anguish in various countries media about #PISA scores which seem to have slumped after the pandemic (though the economist rightly notes they were on a long slow decline before too).
What I really want to read though is a thorough statistical analysis - what do the numbers actually mean? What's the uncertainty range? What is the spread within the numbers? Is #PISA22 even measuring what we think it is + just how comparable across countries are the test conditions?
Any takers?

One of those stories in the FT that makes you wonder what on earth is wrong with some people... Do (some) investors not live on the same planet as the rest of us?

"Eighteen states have adopted some kind of anti-ESG legislation. Some of the laws ban “discrimination” against companies that sell #fossilfuel and #guns, others order state pension funds not to consider environmental and social factors while investing."

#divest

The real impact of the ESG backlash - https://on.ft.com/3Tg7rWh via @FT

Waiting at the hairdresser so time for one of my periodic #ClearTheTabs threads on random stuff I have open in my #Firefox...

First up a paper I think @DrEvanGowan shared on Palaeo #SeaLevels from Australia that appear to confirm the vulnerability of #Antarctica to loss under #ClimateChange 1/many

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adg3035

Next frankly astonishing study ( because I'd never thought about it before), reconstruction of during the last glacial found

"open ocean tidal energy was probably increased for most of this period, peaking during glacial maxima, and returning to near-present-day values during interglacials. Due to tidal resonance during glacial phases, small changes in bathymetry could have caused large changes in tidal amplitudes and dissipation"
Seriously check it out #SeaLevelRise

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023PA004727

And then on to a study of #GlobalWarming rates:
"the surface temperature increase through the recent La Nina influenced years (2022) is consistent with the 50-year trend of 0.18 °C/decade. ... However, we also find clear indications, in all observational series, of a step-up in warming rate since around 1990. CMIP6 models generally do not capture this observed combination of long-term warming rate and recent increase."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01061-4#Sec1

A (little) more light-hearted: Korean culture is hit right now and at the Venice Biënnale the Korean pavilion was a hit withthe game of together how, looking at how individual choices make a #ClimateChange impact.
I haven't played it,but it looks interesting...
Take a look at some of the real life characters they include (!)

https://korean-pavilion.or.kr/the-game-of-together-how/?ckattempt=2

And one for the #OpenScience community. 11 training strategies to make open reproducible #Science the norm..

I have to think hard about this to, because when it comes to #FAIRdata, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. At a recent ESA event I was challenged: how many #ClimateModels are fully #OA #OpenSource?

It's a good question. I have no idea. But it needs to be the way we do things. Worth a look...

https://elifesciences.org/articles/89736