@ruthmottram.bsky.social
Climate scientist at DMI, Greenland, Antarctica, polar regions in general. Dipping a toe in yet another social media site. Mostly on mastodon though @ruth_mottram@fediscience.org Blogging at sternaparadisaea.net
Can anyone explain what this photo shows? It was taken from the air over Lockerbie yesterday
The larger white patches look very much like burnt areas that have snow on, though they are surprisingly regular. Complete guess though!
So it looks like some kind of land use pattern where snow is picking out one kind of field and not the intervening fields, perhaps because of . Though I admit the steeply sloping (?) region on the left is very mystifying.y guess would be alternate regions of either trees or burnt moorland for grouse
What do we risk when we undervalue the weather forecast? The dismantling of NCAR brought to mind this old #Radiolab piece on the Weather Report
Radiolab: The Weather Report
www.wnycstudios.org/story/weathe...
This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today.
You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov
Everything you ever wanted to know about electricity prices in the UK and further afield
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I'm not sure the one I mentioned is, but there are a whole bunch of them, also compared with dynamical models here: iri.columbia.edu/our-expertis...
And here is the link to the Climate Brink - why don't we have an edit button here!
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-el-nin...
Interestingly I think all the models here are classic numerical models, a Chinese deep learning model for forecasting ENSO also shows a strong El Nino (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).
2025 seems to offer a good test bed for the different forecasts.. #ML #AI
Really good piece from @hausfath.bsky.social about #ElNino on #TheClimateBrink.
We have been thinking a lot about this in the @esaclimate.bsky.social #PISCO project - there are important ENSO related effects on #Antarctic ice sheet.
As I’ve been writing for weeks, the paradox has arrived, Ukrainians are helping protect U.S. service personnel, while Trump rewards Russia with billions, the very ally of Iran helping them target American troops in the Middle East.
You have to be kidding me, now the Russians are celebrating 🤬
Yesterday, the Finnish government put a proposal to parliament to revise the Nuclear Energy Act.
2 major shifts underway. The government wants to:
1) Pave the way for Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) in 🇫🇮.
2) Modify the total ban on nuclear weapons on 🇫🇮 territory.
#Signalsforchangingworlds 31.
Du må gi’ mig, at jeg nok kender flere muslimer end du gør, ik?
Så tro mig, når jeg beskriver for dig en typisk muslimsk hverdag i DK🇩🇰:
• Madpakker
• Børnepasning/skole
• Arbejde
• Bringe/hente børn
• Lektier
• Aftensmad
• Oprydning
• Stene på Flixen
De er så fremmede, de der👳🏾♀️🧕
#DkHverdag #dkpol
🌐 Now in the Climate Data Store: global daily & monthly sea surface temperature (SST) and sea ice surface temperature (IST) from 1982–present. Includes SST-only and combined SST–IST fields with a sea‑ice mask.
🌊 cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/sat...
🧊 cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/sat...
"Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of 'highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat' while increasing the power of working-class men."
Remind me again why Labour is shoving vast public contracts down its throat?
Reaching net zero by 2050 is often framed as a cost burden.
The UK Climate Change Committee’s latest analysis suggests the opposite.
The real risk is fossil fuel dependency.
Weakening the 2030 target now would send the signal to hold back affordable models and failure in 2030 becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Check out the full analysis 👇
bit.ly/40YurLP
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Elbilpriser faldt 4% sidste år, da producenter skifter fokus til mindre, billigere modeller. EU's klimakrav presser på, men foreslåede lempelser kan forsinke udviklingen, advarer miljøorganisation.
This is why we have high resolution reanalyses...
Hummelgaards drøm - vores mareridt.
Og kan vi virkelig ikke komme højere op?
ANALYSIS: Badenoch and Farage might not want to admit it, but Conservative and Reform plans to scrap net zero whilst boosting the North Sea would actually make the UK even more reliant on gas imports 🤔
www.carbonbrief.org/...
if you think everyone who uses these tools for any reason is an evil AI enthusiast, you're never going to be able to usefully fight back against the many evil and insane ways in which GenAI is being deployed right now.
🆕OCEAN ICE Publication: Mapping tipping risks from Antarctic ice basins under global warming.
Torsten Albrecht a WP6 Co-lead in OCEAN ICE, is Co-Author on this paper!
Read an article summarising the paper here: ocean-ice.eu/ocean-i...
My latest for @science.org on the fraught future of NCAR as NSF's deadline nears. It can still go so many ways.
Valgkampen er nærmest amerikaniseret.
Del almisser ud til pøblen og lad de rigeste forblive defacto fredet. Det næste bliver vel fundraising arrangementer til finansiering af almene velfærdsopgaver. Hvad skete der med de store beslutninger og visioner om et stærkt velfærdssamfund for alle…?
#fv26
I quibble a bit with the title, how can any knowledge be useless, but there's some lovely examples in this.
The usefulness of useless knowledge - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... great piece by @timharford.ft.com
Dagens grafik
De er ekstremister.
90 % af alt dansk produceret svin og svinekød eksporteres, og ca. 70 % af landbrugsarealet bruges til at producere svinefoder. De overskider hele landet og smadrer alt på deres vej. Stop det!
#landbrugsmafia
#gyllebaroner
#venstre
#fv26
Delelink.
Wauw! Hvor har du fundet dem?🤩
For comparison, in France we “collect” 500 tons of various munitions every year (1870, WWI and WWII), and it is estimated that at the current rate we will be rid of them in… 700 years. That doesn't bode well for Ukraine.