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Wiley Nonsequitur cartoon - conversation by characters about dealing with AI

Seems like relevant commentary - credit to the artist

Thanks, as I have a full analog life, I don't spend a lot of time here. Mostly I try to keep up in my career-adjacent topics, led by people who don't spend much time on social media 😎

More reason not to trust those "resources" - how ever did we think and do research without?

This is sad, really. Up to about 2022, Twitter was pretty useful in this way & yet with Bluesky.social you have to wade through everyone's (often justifiable) angst-filled threads to find tidbits

Also #Haiti (already a disaster) and #Cuba

Pick a relief provider depending on how you judge that, but pick some way to help .... #Jamaica

Captain Obvious: #ClimateChange is sickening and killing people

Wow #Melissa - 0.6 to >1.0 m rainfall events on mountainous #Jamaica & #Hispaniola (and Haiti denuded of watershed holding vegetation & civil aid)

Can you not relate? Actually, my #Wittenberg Uni #Ohio undergrad 50 y.a. promoted #science in culture, undergrad research, writing + a farm & mechanic youth - all pretty useful for rolling with it. Multi-topic MS ( #OhioState #ecology #hydrogeology, #microbiology) supported a useful life

Renewable energy auctions are evolving! A new TNC Europe paper shows how adding biodiversity and social criteria can boost climate, nature and community wins, just as the EU rolls out its Net-Zero Industry Act and Citizens Energy Package. A better energy future starts here. nature.ly/43zzHXZ

Very dry late summers after very wet spring is becoming a feature not anomaly in #Ohio for example, impacting pasture, gardening (gardeners know this) & apparently capacity to absorb runoff as precip resumes. Amping up #watershed #greeninfrastructure seems more necessary than ever

Interesting - It's sad to see our urban areas, even with relatively high #watershed indicator values: Iin #Ohio, the Cuyahoga, Mahoning (where we are), and the Miami watersheds w/ major parkland areas. Quality of woodlands matter (see adjacent hi diversity areas)

Good news! Yellow flags proliferate nicely #wetlands, #PFAS

Equipment of a water well pumping test in action

Meanwhile, outstanding in our field conducting post-rehabilitation testing of a municipal water well to document results (good!) on a gray day (surprisingly rare this fall) in Ohio. #Hydrogeology

Trying to not be a Luddite, but all this AI (can't you write a paper yourself?) has significant #environmental impacts, beside power, also water. #Ohio still acts like it has endless water, but happy to do the #hydrogeology to add to developed capacity, but the aquatic life need water too

An image of the U.S. flag

Not an original thought I think, but the #NoKings movement in the USA has an original banner - best flown by those who haven't flown traitor rags or play puusyfoot w/ fascists and we have a radical manifesto: search Declaration of Independence

FInd one near you if you can get out there - good comments by the Gipper in his final speech as president

#NoKings ad for Dubuque, Iowa 🤣🔥

Hysteresis of submarine karst springs reveals tipping points in flow reversal and saline intrusion phenomena - Communications Earth & Environment Sudden seawater inflow during flow reversal at the Vise submarine karst spring in France forms a saltwater barrier that causes high hysteresis of the system and a prolonged duration of flow reversal, ...

Interesting article about the Inversac of the Thau lagoon

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

A new borehole water facility with tank

People gathered at a new borehole water facility

Amid the chaos, dysfunction & cruelty, work to improve people's lives continues: Ground Water Tanzania drilled productive boreholes & constructed the water systems in Chemba District, #Dodoma, #Tanzania #SDG6 #WaterSupply

Just a drilling rig in a nice, shady, level place drilling a water borehole somewhere in central Dodoma, Tanzania - casing, screen and filter pack in view - Ground Water Tanzania

Right now's really not the time to stop funding climate research and data collection. The climate crisis is a horror show at this point.

Repealing EPA’s Endangerment Finding Threatens Decades of Climate Progress - From The Prow We are deeply alarmed by the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to reverse its longstanding endangerment finding for greenhouse gases. This..

2️⃣ AGU is alarmed by the EPA’s plan to repeal its endangerment finding. This move ignores science & risks our health.

Learn more: buff.ly/atecxlv

#ScienceMatters #ClimateAction

Be safe there, eastern Caribbean and ships at sea - that escalated quickly

We are of course not shocked by these things anymore - sorta like Putin in Alaska being applauded and to be offered a gift

The restraint of European leaders in the other seat during these harangues is admirable - just let him go on

I remember those feelings of anticipation - the day at school after the 1st Star Trek #TOS episode, the moon landings ....

UN says booming solar, wind and other green energy hits global tipping point for ever lower costs NEW YORK (AP) — The global switch to renewable energy has passed a “positive tipping point” where solar and wind power will become even cheaper and more widespread, according to

Don't miss this bright spot on the #climate news landscape: renewable energy has passed a positive tipping point where solar is now 41% cheaper and wind power 53% cheaper globally than the lowest-cost fossil fuel - UN www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/environment/...

Stop this

Thanks for sharing memories - also junior hi (in our ed system) - further reading over the years shows how extraordinarily difficult it is to live in space & local planetary bodies, so all the more reason to care for Mother, eh?