Marie Shaylor

Rift Widens Between Elon Musk, Anyone Who Ever Met Him AUSTIN, TX—Stressing that the billionaire’s completely erratic behavior had strained the already fraught relationships, sources confirmed Thursday that a rift was widening between Elon Musk and anyone...

Rift Widens Between Elon Musk, Anyone Who Ever Met Him

Statement begins: The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others). Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

Art installation of the controversial display of sharks on the Hoxton London Canal way

Voicing my support for the Antepavillion Sharks ✊🏻 www.antepavilion.org/updates/2024...

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:

-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.

-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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Dry season in Ivory Coast triggers cocoa shortage fears, farmers say A lack of rain in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa-growing regions could delay the start of the April-to-September mid-crop, potentially leading to a shortage of beans, the main ingredient in chocolate, farmers said on Monday.

A lack of rain in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa-growing regions could delay the start of the April-to-September mid-crop, potentially leading to a shortage of beans, the main ingredient in chocolate, farmers said on Monday

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‘It won’t come back’: Argentina farmers battle drought and a shrinking harvest Standing in his fields among tall, dry corn plants, farmer Dario Sabini inspects the smaller-than-usual corn cobs before taking the yellowing leaves of the crop that should be green at this time of the season, to crinkle them between his fingers.

‘It won’t come back’: Argentina farmers battle drought and a shrinking harvest

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Shows a weather map still from the Met Offices online forecast, predicting lots of rain spread over the UK

Met Office forecasting a big old bit of weather coming over the whole of the UK on Friday! Storm warnings in place for those in the North 🚨⚠️

Informal map showing overlap between Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire footprints (as of 1/8/24) and structures within said footprints. This is an informal and preliminary map intended for illustrative purposes; not all structures within the footprint were destroyed. Image source: David Marvin/Planet Labs.

Major caveat: this imagery is tentative and informal; not all structures within the fire footprints have burned. But this imagery suggests that there are 10,000+ potentially affected structures within *each* fire footprint (which have expanded since yesterday). #LAfires #CAfire

What Is Causing The Pacific Palisades And Southern California Wildfires? — Konsyse A wildfire spread and engulfed a huge portion of the LA neighborhood. Other wildfires have also been reported across South California.

The U.S. Drought Monitor, in its January 1st visual map, placed Southern California under "moderate" to "excessive" drought. AccuWeather meteorologists, in their January 6th report, warned of fast-spreading wildfires due to strong Santa Ana winds. /@konsyse.com

The colours used come from a map posted by wikipedia user Llywelyn2000 and the patterning completed by me with some help from flosscross.com to get started ✨

Shows a cross stitch pattern of the UK, coloured by the different geological ground zones

Starting a biggie of a cross stitch project I have planned this weekend - a Geological Map of Britain 🌍🪡

Climate change attribution of Tropical Cyclone Chido The IRIS model estimates that climate change uplifted the intensity of a Tropical Cyclone of the type “Chido\

🚨Human-caused climate change intensified Tropical #CycloneChido’s destructive winds, elevating it from a category 3 to a category 4 storm when it struck Mayotte, a rapid study from Imperial College London has found. 🧵

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A Dutch study on the relationship between spending and visitors’ choice of transportation showed that, on a monthly basis, cyclists and pedestrians contribute about 25% more to total spending in centres than car users. dutchcycling.nl/knowledge/bl...

Dozens of luxury condos, hotels in Miami sinking at ‘unexpected’ rates, new study reveals First-ever observation of continuous subsidence shows as much as 70 percent of high-rises affected in some areas of Miami

Yikes, .8-3” of sinking, 2016-2023.“Globally, similar subsidence within such a large area has never been reported…this could be a sign that rising sea levels [are] accelerating the erosion of the limestone on which South Florida is built.” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...

A lovely crisp day in and around the canals and lakes of East London 🪷

Brightly lit christmas tree in the city

Three decorated christmas trees with St. Paul’s Cathedral in the background

A large christmas tree in front of a historical building in Bank

The google maps layer showing locations of trees and other displays around the city

Treated myself to a little after work tour yesterday around the city of London christmas tree displays (many thanks to www.thecityofldn.com/event/christmas-trees-lights-installations/ for the google maps layer) 🎄🎅🏻 Highly recommended ✨

It's always fascinating to see how sparse our historical records of Major #Hurricane US landfalls are !

This is why we need stochastic event sets to fill these gaps, and get a better picture of the risk ( #NaturalDisaster #climaterisk ).

It’s almost winter, but much of the U.S. is still unusually dry Moderate drought covers parts of all but one state. That’s odd, given how late in the year it is.

Yesterday in DC, less than a mile from my house, there was a brush fire in Rock Creek Park. In December. Not normal.

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flicked over to this post from Microsoft Excel, where instead of inserting a new row I accidentally clicked on the fucking Copilot button for 43920432th time

The pushy desperation with which AI prompts and buttons are being crammed into once-useful software is a sign of their problems

A calico coloured cat relaxing on a paving slab in greece

de stressing by thinking about the (many, gorgeous) street cats i saw in greece this summer

#StormDarragh is set to bring damaging winds, heavy rain, and some snow to parts of the UK and Ireland this weekend. Coastal gusts could reach 90mph, with 60-70mph gusts expected inland.

Couple of exhibits from our seasonal forecast view of NA TC risk (what we released back in May 2024) with observations superimposed.
- Hurricane level % differences to long-term
- Same but zoomed on the Gulf of Mexico with the NHC 5-day cones about 36h before each landfall - quite some overlaps...

Twitter is extremely creepy these days because 90% of the responses are bots and it’s not exactly clear why. Usually it’s not even political, it’s not selling anything, it’s just bots pretending to be people. The vibe is like boarding a city bus and realizing none of the passengers have faces

So glad there's a new series of Black Mirror next year. We really need something like that to lighten the mood.

Reflections on the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Now that the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season seems to be coming to a close, it is worth reflecting on what transpired and what we might learn from it. By most measures, it was an active, destructive an...

"Reflections on the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season" | My latest on the michaelmann blog: michaelmann.net/content/refl...

A photograph showing the view from one section of the city of london with blue and cloudy skies, which is heavily occupied by tall buildings including the gherkin and the cheesegrater

Having todays lunch with a view into the city of london 🏙️ 🥪

Some great climate and cat risk accounts on here! 🔥🔥

hahaha thank you! i try 🫡

thanks Thomas - It was a fun one to write! 🌞🏜️