Heidi Cullen

Discover the new CAMS Methane Hotspot Explorer app! Visualise CH4 plumes and identify their sources with this cutting-edge tool developed with the Netherlands Institute for Space Research.

Read more atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cams-methane...

#CopernicusAtmosphere

Hard to process the devastation I’ve witnessed in the last two days. Still in a state of shock for those who have lost so much in such a short period of time. #NoWords 💔

We're excited to announce the launch of a new virtual institute! The Decarbonization and Energy Virtual Institute (DEVI) is seeking expressions of intent for innovative, cross-disciplinary projects that address methodological gaps in energy transition modeling.

Learn more at: lnkd.in/em2J3SxM

🧪 📍 🌊 🦑 Amazing opportunity - OceanX has opened applications for 2025 spots in our Young Explorers and Early Career Explorers programs. This is an opportunity to join us on the OceanXplorer. Application sites: lnkd.in/ga_GuwRE

Machine learning for the physics of climate - Nature Reviews Physics Artificial intelligence techniques, specifically machine learning, are being increasingly applied to climate physics owing to the growing availability of big data and increasing computational power. T...

I am very glad to share this review paper: 📃 "Machine Learning for the Physics of Climate." As stated in the title, the review targets the opportunities and challenges of machine learning for climate physics. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
@pedramh.bsky.social

Reality check on technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air An MIT Energy Initiative study finds many climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost and deployment of “direct air capture” and therefore may not bring abo...

Okay, I have to do a thread on this pretty amazing article because it is just seriously chockers with eye-opening stats about 'direct air capture' - ie, sucking up air and trying to remove carbon dioxide from it

news.mit.edu/2024/reality...

How will climate change in your region?

The C3S Atlas allows you to explore and analyse past and future climate monitoring and change information in a flexible way.🧵

Are we already breaching the Paris Agreement this year?

No, but... While it is almost certain that 2024 will be more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level, the limit set by the Paris Agreement applies to a long-term average of at least 20 years.🧵

An important area of transdisciplinary research...

Thank you @climateofgavin.bsky.social and @hausfath.bsky.social. This needed to be said and you said it so well. (And thanks for the nod to World Weather Attribution, R2O was one of our goals.)

Investing in R&D has never been more critical. In the US, R&D expenditure as a share of GDP has stagnated since the mid-1960s and is below 1%. We can do better.

Thank you, Pierre, for this critical work to better understand and constrain the global carbon budget! 🙏 A must-read thread for anyone who cares about bending the carbon curve. We live on a dynamic and changing planet, and many of those changes result from our choices.

Here is why 2024 is virtually certain be the warmest year on record and first one above 1.5°C 👇

Honored and grateful to have raised three future service dogs. 🙏 🐾 These amazing pups bring independence, comfort, and so much joy to their future human partners. ❤️ #GuideDogs #PuppyRaiser

Time series from 1880 to 2023 showing steadily rising global temperatures and an estimate record for 2024.

With the October data in GISTEMP, it is almost certain that 2024 will be a new annual temperature record.

Best estimate is for 1.47°C above pre-industrial, but it could be above 1.5°C depending on the this month and next (of course).

The alarming slowdown of the ocean carbon pump shows why we need a global ocean health observing system. @SOCCOMProject @GO_BGC @bgc_argo data are critical to study how climate change is changing the ocean, especially the Southern Ocean.

bit.ly/3RH0yvR @ScienceMagazine

The SciComm Team at @mbarinews.bsky.social just posted our next 2-year Science Communication Fellowship opportunity. If you 💙 ocean science, tech, & conservation and are passionate about inclusive #SciComm, multimedia storytelling, & climate change, check it out: mbari.co/SciCommFello...

The new UNEP emissions gap report includes a chapter focusing on carbon dioxide removal.

It has a neat figure highlighting the feasibility, scalability, ease of MRV, environmental consequences, public perception, cost, and permanence of CDR pathways: www.unep.org/resources/em...

Helmet jellyfish in Kreisel tank when sediment is added, illuminated by red light.

Published today in Nat Comm: Experimental mining plumes and ocean warming trigger stress in a deep pelagic jellyfish. With Vanessa Stenvers, who also put together below video (and is not yet here) and a great team
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Yes. We need to embrace our inner thalassophile. 💙🌊

We now have results from a modern reanalysis product (ERA5) that shows November 17th was in fact the first day the world has experienced that was 2C above the preindustrial (1850-1900) average.

Hopefully it will prove transitory, but its a worrying sign.

MBARI technology featured in an episode of BBC Studios Natural History Unit’s landmark series MBARI robots and cameras allowed filmmakers to capture an intimate look at nesting deep-sea octopus for the new global series, Planet Earth III.

The Octopus Garden captured the curiosity of millions of people around the world. MBARI and its advanced deep-sea technology have helped BBC Studios Natural History Unit share the story of these deep-sea octopus moms as part of their new series, Planet Earth III.

www.mbari.org/news/mbari-t...

Another reason why climate & ocean scientists need to underscore that CDR - as Dave wrote in Nature - is not a climate "solution". This recent Nature commentary referred to CDR as a "scheme" - which struck me as an interesting word choice. bit.ly/3umthgh We need more thoughtful reporting like ICN!

Ocean-based climate interventions and their deep-sea impacts from Levin et al. 2023; DOI: 10.1126/science.ade7521.

I hope it does make it into the story. Referencing this would also be good: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How do we balance the potential benefits of marine CO₂ removal (mCDR) against the risk of negative environmental impacts?

We need a code of conduct.

www.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/u...

Occidental to sell carbon dioxide removal credits to TD Bank Reuters November 1, 20232:12 PM GMT+1Updated 21 hours ago [1/2]A sign for TD Canada Trust in Toronto, Ontario, Canada December 13, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights Companies Occidental Petroleum Corp Toronto-Dominion Bank Nov 1 (Reuters) - Occidental Petroleum (OXY.N) said on Wednesday it would sell 27,500 metric tons of direct air capture (DAC) carbon dioxide removal credits to TD Bank (TD.TO) over four years. The credit purchase represents one of the largest DAC credit deals by a financial institution, the companies said, and TD plans to some of the credits to offset its own operational emissions. TD will buy the credits from Occidental's carbon capture, utilization and sequestration unit 1PointFive's STRATOS, a DAC plant under construction in Texas. The U.S. oil and gas producer is aiming to build a profitable business from providing services and technologies that pull CO2 out of t

amount of financing provided by TD to various fossil projects

Best practicas Type: Bank Top 60 Banks BOCсс х Country Type Financial institutions Projects Expansion Phase-ont Arctic Fracking Tar sands Canada Bank TD 1 0 0 A Ultra deep water Global Evaluation Projects: Exclusion of financial services dedicated to oil and gas upstream projects in 1 unconventional sector (score 1). Expansion: No commitment regarding this criterion Phase-out: No commitment regarding this criterion Source: Environmental and Social Credit Risk Process (2020) Focus On Unconventional Fossil Fuels Arctic: Exclusion of financial services dedicated to Arctic oil and gas upstream projects/Arctic definition: North of the Arctic Circle. Fracking: No commitment regarding this criterion Tar sands: No commitment regarding this criterion Ultra-deep water: No commitment regarding this criterion Recommendations TD adopted an oil and gas policy in 2020, which only aims to exclude financial support for oil and gas upstream projects in the Arctic. The Canadian bank should now stop finan

Use the drop-down menu to explore the patterns in bank financing for fossil fuels over time and by sector. Click on any colored label on the x-axis to show or hide that data. Total Fossil Fuel Financing Financing across all sectors. 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Total Fossil Fuel Financing Financing in US Dollars (B = Billions) JPMorgan Chase Citi $OB $25B $50B $75B $1008 $1258 $1508 $1758 $200B $2258 $2508 $2758 $300B $3258 $350B $3758 $400B $4258 $450B $4 $434.15 B Wells Fargo Bank of America RBC $332.91 B $316.70 B $279.73 B $249.98 B MUFG $219.64 B Barclays Mizuho Scotiabank $190.58 B $189.61 B $182.31 B TD $173.20 B BNP Paribas Morgan Stanley $165.89 B $153.43 B HSBC $144.93 B Goldman Sachs Bank of Montreal SMBC Group Bank of China ICBC $143.28 B $138.38 B $135.96 B $134.46 B $133.76 B CIBC $114.54 B Credit Suisse $104.62 B

One of the world's biggest fossil fuel companies is selling carbon offsets from a not-yet-operational CDR facility to TD bank, who have provided $173 billion USD in fossil financing since

10th worst fossil financer in the world

Do carbon removal companies care?

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

$143 Billion...
That's the annual global price tag of extreme weather events attributed to climate change. A new study out in @NatureComms: bit.ly/45naE8y

As the impacts of climate change multiply, we need to scale our ability to autonomously monitor ocean health. MBARI engineers are working hard to make this happen.

And...Carbon Brief has been looking at carbon offsets. They mapped original media reports on the impacts of carbon-offset projects around the world. Nearly half of the reports found evidence of projects overstating their ability to cut emissions.

Worth a read: bit.ly/3ZsA3ws

Two complementary new climate reports:

The IEA's new NetZeroRoadmap focuses on:

- Tripling renewable capacity
- Doubling energy efficiency
- Cutting methane by 75%

More here: iea.li/3Ry8WOw