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Scientist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office. Climate, weather and volcanoes..... That about sums it up.....

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🌡Ce lundi, 106 stations en #Chine ont battu leurs records de températures minimales et maximales les plus élevées pour un mois d'août, dont 40 stations ont battu leur record absolu 🥵

Via compte X @yangyubin1998

04.08.2025 16:23 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Climate change impacts on crop yields - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment Warmer temperatures, increased CO2 concentrations and changing water availability affect cereal crop production. This Review examines changes in crop yield in response to these variables and discusses...

C4 plants are a different story, but there the benifits are only under drought stress
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

03.08.2025 15:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A recent review by experts on the effect on C3 plants states:
" It seems that within the three factors related to climate change investigated, the rise in atmospheric [CO2] is possibly the one more detrimental and difficult to face ..."
scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...

03.08.2025 15:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Among the authors there are no biologists or agricultural experts.
Yet they feel confident to claim that much of the knowledge on CO2 ferilization is wrong.
www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...

03.08.2025 15:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Closing the lab will lead to more damages due to extreme weather at a time when vulnerability due to as well as the cost of extremes are rising. This makes no sense, and if this decision stands it will become a major problem for the US in years to come

07.05.2025 19:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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The news that the US government intends to decimate GFDL for ideological reasons is scary. Weather facts are ideology independent. The weather doesn't care about your ideology, your belief system, - or even your existence. "It rains on the just as well as the unjust."

07.05.2025 19:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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As an investment for the US government GFDL has paid many times over, with increased scientific knowledge and products (weather and climate models) that improve safety of the public and the economy.

07.05.2025 19:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

4) Professionally this was a very exciting time and an incredible environment to work in. The lab was extremely focused and the science was pursued with an admirable integrity.

07.05.2025 19:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

3) Others at GFDL were focused on atmospheric models, on climate model development, and there was a group developing the US hurricane model, - to name a few projects. Since I left they also developed the FV3 core which is the basis of the US weather forecasting model (GFS).

07.05.2025 19:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

2) I worked in the Ocean group using the groups models to pursue questions in oceanography about the large scale structure of the ocean. These questions relate to climate system dynamics and are of relevance for the stability of AMOC, inter-hemispheric linkages and future climate on the planet.

07.05.2025 19:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

1) I was employed by Princeton University from 98 to 2000 working at GFDL, a NOAA lab. GFDL has been a world leader in Climate modelling since the 1960s and Suki Manabe who lead the developement of their Climate Model was awarded the 2021 Nobel in Physics in recognition of his pioneering work..

07.05.2025 19:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0
Redirecting...

This was a shortlived La Nina....
www.facebook.com/share/v/1ADR...

13.04.2025 11:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nice day in the mountains

15.03.2025 19:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Arctic seaice extent may have peaked. This would be an extremely low maximum. Let's wait for NSIDC statement.

03.03.2025 15:46 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Mér sýnist að útbreiðsla hafís á Norðurslóðum hafa náð hámarki. Þetta verður þá eitthvert lægsta hámark sem vitað er um síðan mælingar hófust. NSIDC (nsidc.org/sea-ice-today) gefur vonandi út yfirlýsingu fljótlega (þó aðförin að loftslagsrannsóknum vestanhafs geti hugsanlega tafið)

03.03.2025 15:42 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Elin few days ago on the BBC

01.03.2025 17:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Elín Hall frumflutti nýtt efni á ensku í stærsta útvarpsþætti Evrópu - RÚV.is Elín Hall kom fram fyrir hönd Rásar 2 í stærsta útvarpsþætti Evrópu, Europe's Biggest Gig, í vikunni. Þátturinn var sendur út á fimm ríkisútvarpsstöðvum í Evrópu.

www.ruv.is/frettir/menn...

01.03.2025 17:52 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ég held með sandsílinu!

27.01.2025 22:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

10 eruptions in Reykjanesskagi since March 2021. I have had to fly into 8 of them. This one is a medium size one for this sequence, not as big as the last two, but big enough.....

21.11.2024 14:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Night time work. ....

21.11.2024 14:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Later Is Too Late To Act On Climate Change
YouTube video by Science Moms Later Is Too Late To Act On Climate Change

Later is too late
youtu.be/tEU43KBH6U8?...

19.11.2024 08:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say Scientists say goal to keep world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is not going to happen despite talks at Cop29 in Baku

1.5 is dead. Long live 1.5.....
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

19.11.2024 08:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Weather deviations linked to undocumented migration and return between Mexico and the United States | PNAS As the world’s climate continues to change, human populations are exposed to increasingly severe and extreme weather conditions that can promote mi...

The US Mexico wall is focussing on the symptoms but not the cause....
"These findings underscore the importance of recognizing weather-driven mobility, which can increase with anthropogenic climate change."
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

17.11.2024 19:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0


Bæði þessi atriði skipta miklu fyrir loftslagsmarkmið. Án þess að tryggt sé að virkjun til orkuskipta rati í orkuskipti nást loftslagsmarkmið ekki. Án þess að réttindi almennings séu tryggð eru réttlát umskipti í hættu og þarmeð stuðningur við aðgerðir. Það fara 5% raforkunnar til almennings.

17.11.2024 13:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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„Hve­nær var þetta sam­tal við þjóðina tekið?“ spurði garðyrkjubóndinn - Vísir Í vikunni heimsótti ég garðyrkjubændur á Suðurlandi. Úti var dimmur nóvember og veturinn minnti á sig með ísköldum vindkviðum, en inni í gróðurhúsunum ríkti hlýja og birta. Þar var lífið fullt af litu...

www.visir.is/g/2024265086...

1. Engin trygging fyrir að innlend orka "sé nýtt í þágu almennings, frekar en að lúta markaðslögmálum" - Sambærileg óvissa veldur úlfúð í nágrannalöndum.
2. Engin trygging fyrir því að ný uppbygging "rati í þau verkefni sem sagt er að eigi að virkja fyrir."

17.11.2024 13:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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16.11.2024 17:46 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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