Paul Beckwith

YouTube video by Paul Beckwith Sahara Desert Greening in AHPs (African Humid Periods) in the Paleorecords - what is going on today?

My new video…

Sahara Desert Greening in AHPs (African Humid Periods) in the Paleorecords - What is happening today?

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#climate #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #Africa #desert #Sahara

YouTube video by Paul Beckwith Global Tipping Points in Oceanic and Atmospheric Circulations — Can SRM Back Us Off from the Brink?

Global Tipping Points in Oceanic and Atmospheric Circulations — Can SRM Back us Off from the Brink?
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#climate #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #climateemergency #weather #ocean #atmosphere

YouTube video by Paul Beckwith Smorgasbord of Recent Climate Change Scientific Research: My High-Level Overview…

My new video…
Smorgasbord of Recent Climate Change Scientific Research: My High-Level Overview...
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#climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #weather

YouTube video by Paul Beckwith The Dark Side of Data Centre Exponential Growth on Electricity Grids, Water Usage, and Climate

My new video….
The Dark Side of Data Center Exponential Growth on Electricity Grids, Water Usage, and Climate
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#climate #DataScience #data #DataCenters #computers #gpu #cpu #nvidea #electricity #grids #water

YouTube video by Paul Beckwith Methane: The Emergency Brake for Global Heating

My new video…
Methane: The Emergency Brake for Global Heating

If we reduced human methane emissions by 45% over the next decade (very doable) then we could shave off 0.3C of warming…

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The science influencers going viral on TikTok to fight misinformation Scientists and medical experts are countering climate denialism, vaccine scepticism and wellness pseudoscience on social media.

🧪 🧪The science influencers going viral on TikTok to fight misinformation -- Scientists and medical experts are countering climate denialism, vaccine scepticism and wellness pseudoscience on social media. 👏👏👏👏

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Human-induced climate change amplification on storm dynamics in Valencia’s 2024 catastrophic flash flood - Nature Communications This study reveals how climate change altered storm dynamics during the 2024 Valencia floods. Warmer seas fueled stronger updrafts, increasing rainfall intensity by 20% and significantly amplifying fl...

Human-induced climate change amplification on storm dynamics in Valencia’s 2024 catastrophic flash flood
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UPDATE: The likelihood that humans will go extinct by 2100 is 80%.

"Under current trends, we hit 3°C within 25 years - meaning that avoiding extinction, not just collapse, would require population and consumption reduction beginning immediately, not post-2050"
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Sinking Giant Concrete Orbs to the Bottom of the Ocean Could Store Massive Amounts of Renewable Energy These underwater batteries could potentially store hundreds of thousands of gigawatt-hours.

About 2,000 feet beneath the ocean’s surface, off of SoCal, a concrete sphere the size of a small house will be installed. Yet it has no living inhabitants. Its cargo is not oil or gas. It’s electricity (sort of). #cawater www.zmescience.com/future/sinki...

As we breach 1.5 °C, we must replace temperature limits with clean-energy targets Actionable goals are needed to guide the world towards what needs to happen most quickly: shifting economies to clean energy sources.

Clean Energy Shift to End the Climate Crisis… www.nature.com/articles/d41...

YouTube video by Paul Beckwith Satellite Collision in Low-Earth Orbit Only Days Away With Loss of Maneuverability: Risks Spiking UP

My new video…
Satellite Collision in Low-Earth Orbit Only Days Away With Loss of Maneuverability: Risks Spiking UP
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#satellite #space #NASA @elonmusk #Starlink #rockets #xAI #Starship #Falcon #USA #tech #science #technology @Erdayastronaut

YouTube video by Paul Beckwith Accelerated Warming Hurtles Humanity Closer and Closer to a Hothouse Earth via Cascading Feedbacks

My new video…
Accelerated Warming Hurtles Humanity Closer and Closer to a Hothouse Earth via Cascading Feedbacks…
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#climate #weather #warming #globalwarming #science #weatheraware #business

YouTube video by Paul Beckwith Global Warming Still on Track to Surpass 2.0 C by around 2037: Latest Analysis by James Hansen

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Global Warming Still on Track to Surpass 2.0 C by around 2037: Latest Analysis by James Hansen…
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#climate #science #tech #weather #oceans #atmosphere #weatherchannel #Engineering

Priority effects inhibit the repeated evolution of phototrophy - npj Complexity npj Complexity - Priority effects inhibit the repeated evolution of phototrophy

New paper out! Here's a puzzle: phototrophy, the ability to use light for energy, is one of life's great innovations. It evolved early and transformed the biosphere. But it evolved 2x. Why not just once, why not more? Our work suggests the answer is priority effects.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Tipping points in ocean and atmosphere circulations Abstract. Continued anthropogenic pressures on the Earth system hold the potential to disrupt established circulation patterns in the ocean and atmosphere. In this narrative review, we investigate tip...

All things tipping points in ocean and atmosphere circulations. esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...

My TV clip filmed live yesterday about extreme cold, on CTV National News prime time for #Toronto #Ontario #Canada

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#Ontario #Ottawa #TV #news #cold #winter #ice #snow

YouTube video by Paul Beckwith Mother of All STORMS: Dog Walking Rant and Rave

My new video on the cold, snow, sleet, freezing rain and misery in the deep southern USA…

Mother of All STORMS: Dog Walking Rant and Rave youtu.be/9t2HKLIeNp0?si…

#weather #weatheralert #weathersystems #AMS2026 #AMC #snow #storms #storm #ice #sleet #FREEZE

YouTube video by Paul Beckwith Analysis (Climate Reanalyzer, Earth Nullschool) of the Massive Storm that Hammered Good Ole’ USA

My brand new video rant…

Analysis (Climate Reanalyzer, Earth Nullschool) of the Massive Storm that Hammered Good Ole’ USA

Below zero iceburg temperatures to hit Deep South this weekend…
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#climate #weather #Fern #storm #USA #freezing #cold #storms

This week’s Arctic onslaught and how it compares to blasts from the past » Yale Climate Connections Winter weather has to push uphill in our warming climate, but this event could set records for total damage and in some areas for prolonged cold.

This week’s Arctic onslaught and how it compares to blasts from the past yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/01/this...

YouTube video by Paul Beckwith Arctic Report Card 2025: My Detailed and Comprehensive Chat (Lecture:) on Ongoing Arctic Disruptions

Arctic Report Card 2025: My Detailed and Comprehensive Chat (Lecture:) on ongoing Climate Disruption
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#Arctic #climate #ClimateActionNow #climatechange #weather #oceans #atmosphere #globalwarming

YouTube video by Paul Beckwith Arctic Report Card 2025: My Detailed and Comprehensive Chat (Lecture:) on Ongoing Arctic Disruptions

Arctic Report Card 2025: My Detailed and Comprehensive Chat (Lecture:) on ongoing Climate Disruption
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#Arctic #climate #ClimateActionNow #climatechange #weather #oceans #atmosphere #globalwarming

YouTube video by Paul Beckwith Seawater Aging in North Atlantic Ocean Confirms Ongoing AMOC Slowing & Deep Ocean De-Oxygenization

Seawater Aging in North Atlantic Ocean Confirms Ongoing AMOC Slowing & Deep Ocean De-Oxygenation
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#climate #ClimateAction #climatechange #oceans #ocean #amoc #oxygen

How to motivate collective action on climate One of the most effective ways to move individuals to act together on climate involves showing them how past collective actions have delivered structural change, a new study finds. What doesn’t work? ...

@madalina.bsky.social has a paper out on what motivates people to act on climate. Reading through it to make sure I have a better sense of what actually works.

Press release:
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Paper:
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Oyster farming acts as a marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) hotspot for climate change mitigation Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

DYK? Oyster farms can help pull CO2 from the air, not just grow seafood.

Authors suggest that shellfish aquaculture should be considered within marine carbon removal (mCDR) and blue carbon frameworks for #ClimateChange mitigation.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2504004122

Atmospheric Methane Removal as a Third Climate Intervention: Termination Risks and Air Pollutant Effects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.17462
Atmospheric Methane Removal (AMR) is a third class of climate intervention, along with Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and Solar Radiation Management (SRM). W...📈🤖

Figure 5. Impact of climate change on terrestrial water fluxes (A). Climate change directly and indirectly impacts groundwater resources:

Figure 2. The impacts of the exceptional marine heatwaves in 2023–2024 and the period of occurrence of the warmest sea surface temperature

Figure 1. Estimates of contributing factors to the anomalous global mean temperatures in 2023 and 2024

10 key #climate science insights from 2025:
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Guest post by @carbonbrief.org:
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A megastudy of behavioral interventions to catalyze public, political, and financial climate advocacy Abstract. Addressing climate change depends on large-scale system changes, which require public advocacy. Here, we identified and tested 17 expert-crowdsou

New study finds that emphasizing collective efficacy (people's ability to catalyze large-scale change) is very effective in catalyzing behavioural change.

As you can see from my pinned post, I'm a big fan of simple messages that can mobilize public support for climate action!

How Trump’s Project 2025 would reshape America’s oceans Near the end of last year, the Heritage Foundation unveiled Project 2025, a sweeping, 900-page document that outlines their vision for a second Trump administration. Authored by key leaders of the …

July 24, 2024

How Trump’s Project 2025 would reshape America’s oceans

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I don't want to do a whole "we told you so" thing, but the ocean science community read P2025's plan for NOAA, realized it was catastrophic, mobilized folks early, entered 2025 with a plan, and fought like hell to avoid the worst outcomes of P2025.

Who do we trust on climate change, and why? Trust in climate communicators is a critical determinant of whether the public accepts and acts upon climate change information. Yet most research to …

Article by S. MacInnes et al.:
"•'Climate scientists' & 'friends and family' are the most trusted sources
•Believers & skeptics value different communicator traits
•Tailoring messages & messengers to the audience can build climate engagement."

#ClimateChange

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