Claire Zarakas

I'd love to talk to prospective postdocs who are thinking about the role of land in the climate system about applying! If that's you please reach out!

The high-resolution simulations in the MESACLIP dataset include such features as snow cover on land and sea surface temperatures in the oceans. Photo credit: NCAR.

A team of scientists from @tamu.bsky.social and NCAR (@ncar-ucar.bsky.social) has created an unprecedented set of high-resolution Earth system simulations that is freely available to the scientific community.

Learn more about the MESACLIP project: https://bit.ly/4rBK9bg

Let’s reframe the CDR policy conversation – CarbonPlan CDR policies must align with a coherent vision of a net-negative world.

Our new report, written in collaboration with the Carbon Removal Standards Initiative, presents a framework for policymakers to connect the dots between future net negativity and the practical decisions that underpin public investments in early-stage technologies.

carbonplan.org/blog/cdr-pol...

Project Drawdown launches Climate Science Serving America Fellowship to support scientists working in the public good Fellowship seeks early- to mid-career researchers based in America who are committed to science and public expertise

FELLOWSHIP! We’re proud to announce the launch of the Climate Science Serving America fellowship, open to early- and mid-career scientists & engineers who work on climate solutions.

Full salary, benefits, and a research stipend. Remote anywhere in the United States.

drawdown.org/news/project...

It has warmed my hearth to see we have reached over 200 signatures here :) Thank you to everyone who has put their name down. As this is picking up steam, together with other initiatives, and with some UCAR representatives, we're trying to make sure this reaches the general public, congress & NSF.

This New Wildfire Risk Model Has No Secrets CarbonPlan has a new tool to measure climate risk that comes with full transparency.

I wrote about the first 100% transparent climate risk tool. You can look up your home's wildfire risk, w/ all underlying data, methods, and code available to dl. The hope is to get this info out of black box models and invite public/scientific scrutiny and collaboration. heatmap.news/adaptation/c...

This New Wildfire Risk Model Has No Secrets CarbonPlan has a new tool to measure climate risk that comes with full transparency.

Climate risk modeling is notoriously fraught, but @carbonplan.org is trying anyway — and showing its work.

Here's @emilypont.bsky.social with the story:

heatmap.news/adaptation/c...

Very excited to see this out in the world, modeling what it looks like to develop fully open-source climate risk tools

Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.

I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated.

www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

The need to consistently account for time in CDR – CarbonPlan We collaborated on a new preprint that establishes clearer language for talking about temporal lags in CDR, and shows how ignoring them can drive near-term warming.

Most carbon removal projects don’t pull CO₂ from the atmosphere instantly — there are temporal lags. We contributed to a new preprint showing why accounting for lags matters for both near-term warming and long-term temperature stabilization. 1/2

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Consistent temporal accounting supports credible CDR use – CDRXIV Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is increasingly used to support national targets and corporate net-zero commitments, yet the timing of atmospheric drawdown remains poorly represented in carbon accounting...

Consistent temporal accounting supports credible CDR use. cdrxiv.org/preprint/302

#SaveNCAR Update: CO Senators aren't backing down on NCAR protections, so now is the time to call your representatives and force the amendment to a vote: wclivestream.com/act/

Yay!! I'm excited to see what you find!

Why Billionaire Wendy Schmidt Is ‘Doubling Down’ On Climate Science In The Age Of Trump How billionaire Wendy Schmidt became a crucial funder of science and climate research amid political rollbacks—backing ocean discovery, data access, and storytelling.

Philanthropy is vital in advancing the science needed to address global challenges. Our co-founder @wendyschmidt.bsky.social is an inspiring example. Thank you for your unwavering support for science @schmidtocean.bsky.social @schmidtsciences.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/elisab...

Record wildfire smoke kills more people each year than car crashes. It’s about to get worse. The past six summers have been the smokiest on record. New research shows that smoke could become the costliest consequence of climate change for Americans.

It's not your imagination: Wildfire smoke in the U.S. has dramatically worsened since 2019. According to a new study, it's already killing 41,000 people a year - and it's poised to get much worse.

new from me @johnmuyskens.bsky.social and @sadbumblebee.buzz

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Our paper "Sensitivity to Data Choice for Index‐Based Flood Insurance" is now published in Earth’s Future!

We show that the data chosen to trigger index‑based flood insurance payouts can change everything.

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#ClimateResilience #FloodInsurance

I'm happy to share a paper in Science Advances that makes the case for a weak land carbon sink, drawing upon JPL and Chloris biomass time series. To close the budget with a net land sink of 0.8 Pg C/y from 2000-2019, we propose increases in the ocean sink and decreases in fossil fuel emissions.

Right then...

A quick review of the DOE's new 'critical review' of climate science. Whether it's worth a formal community response - I'm still not sure, but here's my first thoughts

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Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

A synthetic paper about fast vs. slow responses of ecological systems to changing climate, explaining how and why those responses can shift (even in sign) over time. Examples across scales and subdiscplines (population genetics, ecosystem ecology). besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨Calling U.S.-based climate experts! The newly formed U.S. Academic Alliance for the @ipcc.bsky.social is now accepting nominations for the Seventh Assessment Report.🌍

Join a global network of scientists shaping the future of climate action.

Apply by April 4: buff.ly/hDrBH1F

#IPCC #AGU

My hard copies of the BCI book have arrived! 98 chapters of plant and ecosystem science. "All" I need now is a comfy chair, a pot of tea, and no distractions for a week.
Downloadable here: smithsonian.figshare.com/articles/boo...

Thanks for thinking of me @kdorheim.bsky.social! I'll sign up 😁

“What is CDR?” is the wrong question – CarbonPlan We summarize the ongoing debate around what “counts” as CDR, highlighting the trade-offs of each proposed definition. We suggest an alternative set of questions that can provide a more meaningful guid...

There’s an ongoing debate over what should “count” as CO₂ removal. In a new commentary with @hausfath.bsky.social, we break down key points of contention, proposed definitions, and why no definition offers a perfect path forward. (1/5)

carbonplan.org/research/def...

"Others found the financial enticements to leave insulting. 'I don’t work here for the fucking money,' said one longtime agency employee who works on air pollution. 'I work here because I believe in it, and I want to serve the public.'"

GHG emissions from the German LULUCF sector have gone from around neutral to a large source!

The change is almost entirely in forest land.

"Due to the years of drought, around two million hectares of trees have been damaged and some have died completely."
www.thuenen.de/en/thuenen-t...

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The extent of Storm #Eowyn’s impact on forests cannot be seen properly from the ground. This drone footage taken today above a stand I visited in Meath shows how wind hardened trees around the edge remain standing while the centre has been flattened.

it's down for planned maintenance until monday

New data added to the Compliance Users tool – CarbonPlan We updated the Compliance Users tool to include the latest available cap-and-trade program data about who used which offsets during the program’s fourth compliance period.

We maintain a tool that shows how companies use offsets to comply with California’s cap-and-trade program. The tool is now updated with the latest available data, providing a complete picture of offset use in the first decade of the program — from 2013 through 2023. 🧪

carbonplan.org/blog/complia...

One challenge of using National Forest Inventory data for GHG estimates of forest carbon uptake is that only a share of the inventory plots are sampled each year, meaning the last 5 years or so is a guestimate.

In Sweden, it looks like forest uptake has stabilised, but...

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