Graeme MacGilchrist

The ethical use case for SRM is one in which governance conditions fail to enable adequately rapid decarbonization, and then there is a revolutionary change in governance that allows effective and equitable management of SRM

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

remember when I said that I’ve always said I’ve been saying it for years

Fortunately the people proposing this disgusting treatment of immigrants and their families are currently in opposition not in government. Frankly I'm ashamed that even a minority-party elected politician of my country can dare say this out loud. Gross attitude to my friends and colleagues.

It is to the credit of UStA that they cover the surcharge for staff (PDRAs, faculty, fellows), though not currently for students, for whom it’s arguably even more of a burden and access issue. But that is surely a tenuous position in the currently HE financial climate.

I cannot stand the “critics say” framing. What on earth could you call the NHS surcharge — a fee for a service that you concurrently pay taxes for — other than double taxation? It is blatant to the point of absurdity. Dump it in the river.

Once more for the people in the back: you cannot ask people to pay many £1000s upfront for the *privilege* of *temporarily* coming to work and pay taxes in this country, give them nothing particularly unique in return, and expect that to be a sustainable situation.

The NHS health surcharge is a national embarrassment; and it would be if the affected group were not always perceived as “foreign”, and “privileged” to be here at all.

It says right from the start “you will be treated differently here”, and it shows our arse as a nation.

The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

We killed them all. Every last one of them. And now they will never be again.

They lived their Curlew lives, migrated, cared for their young, and had every right to be here - as much as ourselves. And they did us no harm.

And we killed them all.

This is absolutely staggering.

Had the same response to the Rumi quote!

Presumably there was a time when many more of our 2nd order relationships existed through our shared commitments (to religion, community, leisure)?

It’s an interesting side note that so many of our second order relationships are about consumption. Our modern lives are steeped in transactions — perhaps then it’s not surprising that, unexamined, these relationships are seen as nothing more than transactional.

4. We pay again and again for a failure to raise taxes. It’s a false economy, for which we suffer in multiple ways.
Fair Taxation Saves Us Money.

It just seems like, if we really wanted to, we could have solved mass poverty by now.

This, from John, is fantastic.

I never really caught that first wave of the internet, but I certainly lament the whirlpool it has become.

Southern Ocean CO2 outgassing and nutrient load reduced by a well-ventilated glacial North Pacific - Nature Communications A better-ventilated North Pacific could have reduced the carbon of water upwelled in the Southern Ocean, reducing outgassing and revealing a remote influence on Southern Ocean biogeochemistry in glaci...

Shankle et al. show how a better- #Ventilated #NorthPacific could have reduced the #ocean-carbon upwelled in the #SouthernOcean, reducing outgassing and revealing a remote influence on #SouthernOcean biogeochemistry in #GlacialTimes. #ice-ages @earthscista.bsky.social
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🗣️ Come one, come all!

Read about connections between North Pacific Ocean ventilation and Southern Ocean carbon release 🌊

This is the first publication from Maddie Shankle’s PhD thesis, with more exciting work to follow!

The weak land carbon sink hypothesis Satellite-derived time series of vegetation carbon do not support a strong Northern Hemisphere net land carbon sink.

Maybe the land carbon sink is weaker than we thought. Big implications: "A lower-than-expected land carbon sink would also imply that the land biosphere may be closer to transitioning from a net carbon sink to a net source than current models predict" Randerson et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Last week, our 4th year Environmental Earth Science students were at Loch Etive, getting hands-on experience collecting data for investigating water column profiles & overturning events. Led by Drs James Barnet & @gmacgilchrist.bsky.social & supported back in the lab by @oceanicandrea.bsky.social.

Members of SEES on the front steps of Bute, dazzled by the bright Scottish sun. Unless you were smart enough to wear sunglasses like Paul and Bob.

Meet the motley crew of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences – ready to kick off the new academic year! 🌍👋

Special mention to our Head of School, Prof. Rob Wilson, who is cleverly disguised a a responsible adult (the T-shirt says it all) 😅🤦‍♂

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Moral incoherence is the zeitgeist of our age.

flat10MIP: an emissions-driven experiment to diagnose the climate response to positive, zero and negative CO2 emissions Abstract. The proportionality between global mean temperature and cumulative emissions of CO2 predicted in Earth system models (ESMs) is the foundation of carbon budgeting frameworks. Deviations from ...

Our finalised paper on flat10MIP is finally up in GMD! This is the experimental protocol which allows for a simple, emissions-driven evaluation of TCRE, ZEC and climate reversibility in CMIP7. Thanks so much to all who ran these simulations as a proof of concept! gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...

Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history.

And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:

There is discussion in AR5 and AR6 about the difficulty in attributing changes in PDV and AMV *themselves* to anthropogenic forcing — ie no evidence that ant. forcing alters the variability. But that’s not what these quotes are discussing in the DOE chapter, which is about attribution of GMST trend.

I’ve not been able to find these quotes (or anything like them) anywhere in the reports, and they skew the IPCC framing considerably.

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Of course it’s possible that I’ve missed them, but I’ve searched extensively (including for every mention of internal/natural variability).

There are an abundance of things worthy of debate and discussion in climate science - you have championed many of them - but discussion surely needs to be conducted with agreement on what constitutes honest and rigorous scientific inquiry.

Disagree at what level? The DOE report fabricated IPCC quotes implying natural variability undermines attribution of anthropogenic (global mean) warming... It waves aside the pattern effect citing just two studies… These are not sources of disagreement, they are simply not serious scholarship.

We had a fantastic research 'away day' at East Sands in St Andrews, where we discussed the future of extreme temperatures as part of GLOBAL-EX project. A lunchtime swim + cheese toasties on the beach was an added bonus! @erc.europa.eu @ukri.org @earthscista.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social