Rienk Smittenberg

Stop emissions, stop warming: A climate reality check Why future warming isn't as "locked in" as you might think

On The Climate Brink: Stop emissions, stop warming: A climate reality check

This is a crucial point because it determines how much warming is already "locked in" and effectively unavoidable.

The answer is very little warming is locked in.

Also, this is our 100th post!

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Assistant Professor in Biodiversity (up to three positions) Assistant Professor in Biodiversity at the Department for Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, the Department of Environmental Science, the Department of Geological Sciences, the Department of Phy...

Tenure track positions! The department of Geological Sciences at Stockholm University is part of a consortium that seeks applications for a three lecturerships biodiversity, including that in deep time - in the field of Molecular Paleontology. More info:
www.scilifelab.se/career/assis...

Kneejerk response, then overcorrection: what the aftermath of the Amsterdam violence should teach us | Rachel Shabi Assumptions were made about clashes between Maccabi Tel Aviv fans and Amsterdam locals – and the far right took advantage, says author Rachel Shabi

"And so the far right’s supposed concern about antisemitism is rerouted into using the power of the state to deprive another racialised other of citizenship."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Part-Time Climate Scientist A humble steam engineer put humans in the driver’s seat.

On a Wednesday in February 1938, Guy Stewart Callendar stood before a group of leading scientists, members of the United Kingdom’s Royal Meteorological Society. He had a bold idea to share:

Humans’ burning of fuel was making the planet warmer.

nautil.us/the-part-tim...

Visiting my former colleagues at Stockjolm University and the annual Event of the @bolincentre.bsky.social

Profoundly dark but dramatically true and remarkably written piece by @michaelemann.bsky.social

Are extreme rainfall events more frequent in a warmer world? at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Are extreme rainfall events more frequent in a warmer world? at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com

And one more - ever wanted to know what the weather was like during the PETM? then this project with @climategordon.bsky.social is one for you! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I finally received the digital 'offprint' of my encyclopedia chapter 'Biomarker indicators of Past Climate'. It will be officially published in 2025. Paywalled, I am afraid, so much for visibility. Won't do this again. The accepted version is on Research Gate and EarthArxiv: doi.org/10.31223/X54...

Screenshot of the following text: Lipid biomarkers: novel applications, calibrations and tools for environmental studies Lipid biomarkers are valuable tools for reconstructing a variety of environmental processes in modern and (geological) past settings. We seek studies that develop new lipid biomarkers and methods for applying biomarkers to modern settings and the geologic past to reconstruct environmental parameters such as temperature, precipitation, biogeochemical cycles, anthropogenic activities, and vegetation. These can be studies on the biosynthesis and phylogeny of source organisms, transport and diagenesis, calibrations to environmental parameters, proxy interpretation and applications to reconstruct past environmental conditions.

Call for abstracts #EGU25 on developing new biomarkers! #EGUbiomarker. Abstract submission is now open! Organized by Jingjing Guo, @hallbergpetter.bsky.social, Nora Richter, Addison Rice and myself. tinyurl.com/4422wwr7

Expression of Interest - Submitting to AGC Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry is a Diamond Open Access Journal (Free to read - Free to publish) that aims to publish innovative and globally relevant articles in Geochemistry and Cosmoch...

AGC is planning to open for submission in January 2025!

In order to plan our initial workload, please register your interest in submitting your work to AGC using this form:
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note that registering interest is not a pre-requisite for submission.

I’m surprised people are surprised. Isn’t it a well known fact that aviation fuel is not taxed bc of international agreements. One of the many hidden subsidies to fossil fuels.

And - new on Bluesky - @hallbergpetter.bsky.social

Done the same.

with @ninadavtian.bsky.social @freddyschenk.bsky.social

3/ Our results give also insight towards interpretation of speleothem isotope records.

/2 microbial GDGTs (not used for temperature this time!), molecular markers for biomass burning, and climate modeling, allowing to disentangle the influence of mean annual precipitation and its seasonality. Orbital forcing is clear driver.

Disentangling seasonal and annual precipitation signals in the tropics over the Holocene: Insights from δD, alkanes and GDGTs Rainfall seasonality in the tropics has a substantial impact on both ecosystems and human livelihoods. Yet, reconstructions of past rainfall variabili…

1/ Article alert! 🎺 The latest article from the PhD project of Petter Hällberg is now online! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We used the distribution of long chain alkanes, their hydrogen isotopic compositions, in combination with with insights gained from...

Rock organic carbon oxidation CO2 release offsets silicate weathering sink - Nature Silicate weathering of uplifted rock depletes atmospheric CO2, but oxidation of revealed rock organic carbon supplies CO2, offsetting depletion to a degree dependent on regional geological history.

Comes on top of a paper 1 year ago suggesting organic carbon weathering offsets silicate weathering. So we now would appear to have mountain building as a source of CO2 not a sink. Im not sure that's tenable.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Geomitigation of Greenhouse Gases The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (www.eaps.ethz.ch) at ETH Zurich invites applications for the above-mentioned position. The study and development of methods to enhance…

We've created a new faculty position at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at @ethzurich.bsky.social and invite applications for the position of Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Geomitigation of Greenhouse Gases.

Further information and application:

How effective are policies in reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture? All countries now have policies, but not all work as intended. Some drive trade-offs or lead to spillover impacts elsewhere, but there are many examples of successful stories.

Very interesting reading on agriculture and emissions. Your diet (meat/vegetable) is much importart than eating locally. Changing to organic farming needs to be done carefully to avoid unwanted side effects. ourworldindata.org/effective-po...

Under the sea: Running Tide’s ill-fated adventure in ocean carbon… The startup made a big splash, then ran aground this summer. Its story has a lot to teach us about trying to geoengineer our way out of climate change.

This is a great @canarymediainc.bsky.social deep dive into what went wrong at Running Tide (with a kind call out to my earlier reporting): www.canarymedia.com/articles/car...

Phantastic Job! A truly impressive paper was published this week with a new reconstruction of global temperatures over the last ~500 million years. There is something tremendously satisfying about seeing a proj...

Slightly more thoughts on this at RealClimate:

www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

A 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature A long-term record of global mean surface temperature (GMST) provides critical insight into the dynamical limits of Earth’s climate and the complex feedbacks between temperature and the broader Earth ...

Congratulations to Emily Judd and the entire Phantastic DA team on this temperature reconstruction

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

China’s Batteries Are Now Cheap Enough to Power Huge Shifts We no longer need to model for when cell prices drop far enough to decarbonize road transport. That day is here.

This will be an interesting day to reflect on in the future.

"Battery cells at $50/kWh means the technology to decarbonize most of road transport globally is already here, as opposed to in some future scenario."

EVs are cheaper than ICE now. Today.

A long time ago I could vote online (Dutch parliament) but that was later changed back to snail-mail voting..

Foto der Frankfurter Rundschau „Unser Wohlstand wird nicht durch Migration bedroht, sondern durch den Klimawandel" Das Hochwasser in Europa steigt und steigt. Extremwetter werden wir immer öfter erleben - wenn nicht endlich gehandelt wird. Ein Leitartikel von Sereina Donatsch

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#Hochwasser
#Klimawandel #Klimakrise #Klimakatastrophe

Academic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation Academic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation On September 12, 2024, Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel at Justice Catalyst Law filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against six commercial publishers of aca...

Apparently some lawyers found an elephant in the room and decided to take a wide ranging US antitrust suit against the main academic publishers?! www.lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/ac...

The UAE is hosting the world’s biggest annual climate summit. It’s also planning a massive fossi... As the UAE prepares for the crucial talks, its national energy company is planning to produce more oil than Shell and BP by 2030

There’s no scenario in which rich countries buying land in developing countries to offset the rich countries’ carbon emissions is a good thing.

Just wait till they do this for engineered CO₂ removal (CDR) like direct air capture (DAC).

Yes indeed. Only foreigners do that. The philosophy is that a) helmet wearing discourages biking, b) if required by law, would simply be ignored and difficult to enforce. Moreover, bike paths are mostly separated from car traffic and car drivers are also bicyclist. Lastly, no hills.

Achieving prosperity for planet and people requires fair resource sharing and addressing inequality: New Earth Commission study 09/12/2024 - It remains possible for all humans to escape poverty and be safe from harm caused by Earth system change, but urgent global transformations are needed, shows new research co-authored by J...

"Justice is essential for planet & people", says PIKs Johan Rockström on new paper by the Earth Commission. It underscores risks of Earth system decline & the need for fair resource distribution. The poorest are most at risk, but everyone is increasingly affected.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...