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Paul Beckwith @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social · 15h

My new video…
Subpolar Gyre Branch of AMOC Ocean Circulation System may be on the Verge of Collapsing
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#climate #ClimateActionNow #weather #Atlantic #0ceans #ocean #globalwarming #weather

Subpolar Gyre Branch of AMOC Ocean Circulation System may be on the Verge of Collapse

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Paul Beckwith @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social · 1d

My new video…
Speaking Science Truth in a Fractured World: What Works and What Doesn’t Work
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#misinformation #disinformation #lies #fallacies #truth #fake #human #tribal #psychology #science #communication

Speaking Science Truth in a Fractured World: What Works and What Doesn’t…

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Paul Beckwith @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social · 4d

Global Warming Changes to the Pacific Oceans “Gulf Stream Equivalent” known as the Kuroshio Current
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#climate #oceans #ocean #climateTech #ClimateRefugees #globalwarming #weather

Global Warming Changes to the Pacific Oceans “Gulf Stream Equivalent” known as the Kuroshio Current

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Alex Eve @amjeve.bsky.social · 8d

An incredibly important article and increasingly relevant in modern political climates. Thank you to @rogerslabucd.bsky.social and colleagues for writing this for @dev-journal.bsky.social

"Speaking up can feel like walking a tightrope strung between conflict and silence."

#TruthMatters

Speaking science in a fractured world: making truth land when facts alone cannot

ABSTRACT. Scientific misinformation is a defining challenge of our time. As public trust in science declines and falsehoods spread faster than facts, the scientific community must rethink its role in ...

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IPSO - International Programme on the State of the Ocean @oceanipso.bsky.social · 8d

Simulations covering 800,000 years show that a slight deep-ocean warming can trigger West #Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse, raising sea level by about 4 metres.

Today’s temperatures are already at this threshold. Future irreversible ice sheet loss may occur with little/no further climate warming.

Antarctic Ice Sheet tipping in the last 800,000 years warns of future ice loss - Communications Earth & Environment

The Antarctic Ice Sheet exhibits hysteresis and irreversible ice loss, with West Antarctic collapse contributing over 4 m of sea-level rise even under minimal additional warming, according to 800,000-...

www.nature.com

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Prof Paul Williams @profpaul.bsky.social · 8d

Our new study published this month finds that climate change will tend to create more noise around airports across Europe.

The lift generated by a departing aircraft is less in warmer air, reducing climb angles by up to 7.5%.

Study: doi.org/10.3390/aero...

www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

UK airports are set to get NOISIER due to climate change, experts warn

If you live near an airport, it might be wise to invest in a decent pair of earplugs - because the noise of departing aircraft is set to get even worse.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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ziming.bsky.social @ziming.bsky.social · 7d

🔥 We just simulated wildfire-induced thunderstorms (pyroCbs) in a global Earth system model for the first time! doi.org/10.1029/2024...
#wildfires #pyroCb #ClimateAction #ClimateWeekNYC

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jentihom.bsky.social @jentihom.bsky.social · 7d

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2nd time in few weeks storms mix in Atlantic
Is the temp and current change that much?
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Paul Beckwith @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social · 7d

My new video…
Our Planet’s Vital Signs are Flashing Red: Planetary Health Check 2025
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#climate #ClimateEmergency #climatefinance #climateweek #climatechange #planet #Earth #weather

Our Planet’s Vital Signs are Flashing Red: Planetary Health Check 2025

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 9d

The Siberian Tundra Is Exploding
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/c...

"Spontaneous gas explosions appear to be increasing in northern Russia because of climate change" and local geology

paper:
Formation of giant Siberian gas emission craters (GECs)
Hellevang+
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

The Siberian Tundra Is Exploding. New Research Helps Explain Why.

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Paul Beckwith @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social · 9d

My new video…
What we know about Atmospheric Rivers: the latest peer-reviewed science…
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#climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #weather #storms #science #physics

What we know about Atmospheric Rivers: the latest peer-reviewed science…

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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 12d

What Is An Atmospheric River – And Why Are They Causing Changes In The Weather?

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What Is An Atmospheric River – And Why Are They Causing Changes In The Weather?

They giveth, and they taketh away.

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fathommm.bsky.social @fathommm.bsky.social · 11d

A leisurely stroll through the tipping points of collapse.

But hey, the cars look more and more futuristic.

Paul Beckwith @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social · 11d

My new video…

Beckwith Ranting and Raving while Walking the Walk on Global Abrupt Climate System Chaos…
youtu.be/ID_GweFJtME?si… #climatet#climateweeke#weathere#climatesciencec#sciencece

Beckwith Ranting and Raving while Walking the Walk on Global Abrupt Climate System Chaos. Enjoy!!

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Paul Beckwith @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social · 11d

My new video…

Beckwith Ranting and Raving while Walking the Walk on Global Abrupt Climate System Chaos…
youtu.be/ID_GweFJtME?si… #climatet#climateweeke#weathere#climatesciencec#sciencece

Beckwith Ranting and Raving while Walking the Walk on Global Abrupt Climate System Chaos. Enjoy!!

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Paul Beckwith @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social · 15d

Ever Wonder Why Burnt Popcorn, Cigarette or Foul Bathroom Smells Can Linger Inside your home for hours to even days?

You will be surprised…

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#aqi #airquality #pollution #contaminants #smells #odours #health #medical #human #toxicology #toxicity

Ever Wonder Why Burnt Popcorn, Cigarette or Foul Bathroom Smells Can Linger for Hours to even Days?

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 16d

An unusual & ambiguous iron rod in the #Viking “Pagan Lady” grave on St. Patrick's Isle, Peel (IOM) has been interpreted as both a roasting spit & a sorcerer’s staff. A goose wing was laid over it. The woman's grave goods included an unusual bead necklace, knives & a down pillow.
#Archaeobirds🏺

A visual interpretation of the "Pagan Lady" Viking Grave on Peel island. The woman lies in the earth in pit lined with flat stones. She wears a brown shift and her grave goods include a fabric headband, a bead necklace, a leather puch around her neck, a belt with two knives, and an iron rod with a goose wing laid on top. In this interpretation, the iron rod seems to been seen as a staff, which could indicate the practice of Old Norse seiðr - magic or shamanism. The woman's head rests on a pillow, which the excavation showed to contain downy feathers. Drawing by Mirosław Kuźma. © Leszek Gardeła and Mirosław Kuźma. In Viking Myths and Rituals on the Isle of Man. Edited by Leszek Gardeła and Carolyne Larrington. University of Notttingham 2014. Available: https://languagesmythsfinds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/lmf1.pdf

An excavation plan of the Viking Pagan Lady lintel grave on Peel Island, Isle of Man. From page 67 of David Freke 2002 - Excavations on St. Patrick's Isle, Peel, Isle of Man 1982-88: Prehistoric, Viking, Medieval and Later. Liverpool University Press.

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Dustin Poppendieck @poppendieck.bsky.social · 15d

Chemicals "stick" to surfaces in houses, to a greater degree than some might expect. This is why you smell the popcorn you burnt long after you might expect it to vent from the house.

(Full disclosure I am a co-author on this paper)...

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

VOC injection into a house reveals large surface reservoir sizes in an indoor environment | PNAS

The total partitioning capacity of indoor surface reservoirs determines the mechanism by which humans receive nondietary exposure to organic contam...

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 15d

Hours of daylight throughout the year in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 15d

How do we get the Trump Admin to interpret this as the US LOSING to China? And: Is the former the only way to get the Trump Admin to act on climate?

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Paul Beckwith @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social · 16d

My new video…
Global Water Weirding, Wilding, & Whiplashing: New Water Report by World Meteorological Organization

I chat about the intensification of the water cycle due to accelerated warming…
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#climate #weather #water #storms #ClimateEmergency

Global Water Weirding, Wilding, & Whiplashing: New Water Report by World Meteorological Organization

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Paul Beckwith @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social · 20d

My new video…

I chat about the World’s Highest and Lowest Elevation Automatic Weather Stations Around the Planet…

From the peak of Mt. Everest (“roof of the planet”) to the basement (coastline of the Dead Sea)…

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#climate #weather

World’s Highest and Lowest Weather Stations Around the Planet

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Paul Beckwith @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social · 21d

My new video…
Unprecedented: Monsoon Winds Breached Himalayan Mountains Bringing Rain .land Snow to the Tibetan Plateau
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#climate #ClimateEducation #weather #Monsoon2025 #monsoon #Tibet #Nepal #India #Bhutan #storms #Everest #mountains #Himalayas

Unprecedented: Monsoon Winds Breached Himalayan Mountains Bringing Rain and Snow to Tibetan Plateau

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Paul Beckwith @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social · 21d

Why was this US military plane circling over #Ottawa today?

Why are there no identifiable markings on this aircraft?

Flight path on link below.

USAF Boeing E3 Sentry (AWACS) from Bangor, Maine.

www.flightradar24.com/EMBER40/3c3d...

#LPC #NDP @ElizabethMay @CharlieAngusNDP

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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 23d

Mostly cyanobacteria:

"chlorophyll increase was seven times greater after 1966 than before"

Sediment core analysis

Widespread 20th-century increases in Canadian lake primary production and the roles of climate warming, solar irradiance and human impacts www.nature.com/articles/s43...

#earth

Graph with biomass increases - from the 2000s it went sharply upward.

Single regions - some went straight up after the 2000s - very bad sign!

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IPSO - International Programme on the State of the Ocean @oceanipso.bsky.social · 22d

Understanding the dominant processes driving the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) variability across timescales is investigated in this study, as concerns grow over potential AMOC weakening under global warming.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025GL115150

How Does a Stable AMOC Influence the Regional Climate of the North Atlantic?

Sloshing component is crucial in shaping the impact of Atlantic overturning on upper-ocean heat content variability A strengthening overturning circulation may reduce upper-ocean heat content in ...

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