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Anomalies in #Antarctic sea ice concentration show the monthly variation from the long-term mean. This map from nilas.org shows more ➖ than ➕ anomalies for June. See the lack of sea ice in Bellingshausen Sea (arrowed), almost at summer ice levels in mid-winter! 
This map from @NSIDC and @NASAEarth shows sea ice concentration on 17 June. The orange line is the typical extent for that day based on the average from 1981 to 2010. Some coastal regions are now ice-free where that has not been observed before.
The last decade has seen increased variability. Sea-ice area reached a record low in Feb 2023 following the previous record low in Feb 2022, and an extremely low summer avg in 2016/17. Is this shift in Antarctic sea ice a response to climate change? We need to find out @IPCC_CH.
@EU_Commission It's #Climate - The #FourSeasons nothing else.
#CO2 0.04% #carbondioxide, have never affected the earth's #Temperature, at least since 600 million years. #Atmosphere of Earth
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#CO2 0.04% #carbondioxide, have never affected the earth's #Temperature, at least since 600 million years. #Atmosphere of Earth
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@EU_Commission Global #Temperature and Atmospheric #CO2 over Geologic Time - Late #Carboniferous to Early #Permian time (315-270 M yrs ago) is the only time period in the last 600 million years when both atmospheric #CO2 and #temperatures were as LOW as they are today
@EU_Commission #PragerUniversity is a 5013 non-profit conservative digital media organization. PragerU@prageru:
- What They Haven't Told You about #ClimateChange
- #Climate - The only constant is change
- What They Haven't Told You about #ClimateChange
- #Climate - The only constant is change
Just out: Scientific report with overview of highly pathogenic avian #influenza from December 2022 to March 2023, by @efsa, @ECDC_EU, and EURL AI. A thread on the situation in poultry, wild birds, wild mammals, and humans in Europe and worldwide. (1/11)
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In #Europe, highly pathogenic avian #influenza virus #H5N1, clade 2.3.4.4b, was reported in 403 #poultry farms and 119 other captive bird holdings birds in 24 countries between 3 December 2022 and 1 March 2023. (2/11)
In Europe, an unexpected number of highly pathogenic avian #influenza virus #H5N1 detections in #seabirds were observed between 3 December 2022 and 1 March 2023, mainly in gull species and particularly in black-headed #gulls (Chroicocephalus ridibundus). (3/11)
#NavalNews #Arctic #Antarctic
1. Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology & Environmental Monitoring (ROSGIDROMET) and Admiralty Shipyards signed a contract today for a new research expedition vessel R/V Ivan Frolov for the Arctic & Antarctic Research Institute (AARI).
1. Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology & Environmental Monitoring (ROSGIDROMET) and Admiralty Shipyards signed a contract today for a new research expedition vessel R/V Ivan Frolov for the Arctic & Antarctic Research Institute (AARI).
@CovertShores @Capt_Navy @The_Lookout_N @KaptainLOMA @CislakJaroslaw @BuchananLiz @WendtWeiss 2. R/V Ivan Frolov will replace the existing R/V Akademik Fedorov built in 1987 by the Finnish company Rauma-Repola.
"The new R/V is necessary for the smooth operation of Antarctic expeditions. Our country has 5 year-round stations & 5 seasonal bases on the continent."
"The new R/V is necessary for the smooth operation of Antarctic expeditions. Our country has 5 year-round stations & 5 seasonal bases on the continent."
@CovertShores @Capt_Navy @The_Lookout_N @KaptainLOMA @CislakJaroslaw @BuchananLiz @WendtWeiss 3. "Current vessel that's delivering polar explorers & cargo to Antarctica is already becoming obsolete & soon will be "five in one": a tanker, an icebreaker, a passenger, cargo & scientific ship." - Alexander Kozlov, Minister of Natural Resources & Ecology of Russia.
This may look like a very ordinary seascape, but it isn't. This view is at 72°S in the Bellingshausen Sea, #Antarctica, taken from RV Polarstern expedition #PS134. In a normal year there would be a lot of #seaice in this area, but this year there is none. 1/3
@AWI_Media @BAS_News This month has seen a new record minimum in #Antarctic #seaice extent since satellite records began more than 40 years ago. In the Bellingshausen Sea most of the ice was gone by the end of November. 2/3
@AWI_Media @BAS_News The minimum #seaice extent is highly variable from year to year, and we should be cautious about reading too much into a single year. However, #Antarctic annual and summer sea ice extents have now been below the long-term average for 7 years. A trend seems to be emerging. 3/3
We present genomic evidence showing the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed during the #LastInterglacialPeriod!🇦🇶🌊🚨#popgen #icesheet #interdisciplinary
...the tipping point of future #WestAntarcticIceSheet collapse could be reached even under the #ParisAgreement (+1.5-2.0°C)
...the tipping point of future #WestAntarcticIceSheet collapse could be reached even under the #ParisAgreement (+1.5-2.0°C)
We used found population connectivity between Ross Sea and Weddell Sea in an #Antarctic #octopus, and dated it back to #LastInterglacialPeriod. This is only possible if #WestAntarcticIceSheet completely collapsed and opened seaway connecting 2 basins biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… 🧵/9
This is my PhD work with @JanStrugnell @NeridaWilson @nick_golledge @naish_tim PhillWatts @Cataribio @iracooke @DrShmoo FelixMark, KatrinLinse. This work was only possible with their help+many hrs my advisors @JanStrugnell @NeridaWilson @Cataribio spent troubleshooting w me🧑🎓1/9
This is the most important paper you can read right now.
"We identify 9 global 'core' tipping elements which contribute substantially to Earth system functioning & 7 regional 'impact' tipping elements which contribute substantially to human welfare or have great value..."
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"We identify 9 global 'core' tipping elements which contribute substantially to Earth system functioning & 7 regional 'impact' tipping elements which contribute substantially to human welfare or have great value..."
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"... as unique features of the Earth system. Current global warming of ~1.1°C above pre-industrial already lies w/in the lower end of five CTP (#Climate Tipping Point) uncertainty ranges. Six CTPs become likely w/in the #parisagreement range of 1.5 to <2°C warming..."
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"... as unique features of the Earth system. Current global warming of ~1.1°C above pre-industrial already lies w/in the lower end of five CTP (#Climate Tipping Point) uncertainty ranges. Six CTPs become likely w/in the #parisagreement range of 1.5 to <2°C warming..."
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"...including collapse of the #Greenland & West #Antarctic ice sheets, die-off of low-latitude coral reefs, & widespread abrupt #permafrost thaw. An additional CTP likely & another 3 possible at the ~2.6°C of warming expected under current policies."
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"...including collapse of the #Greenland & West #Antarctic ice sheets, die-off of low-latitude coral reefs, & widespread abrupt #permafrost thaw. An additional CTP likely & another 3 possible at the ~2.6°C of warming expected under current policies."
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Russia welcomes Arctic cooperation with non-regional countries. a 🧵 on why suspending #Arctic dialogue & engagement w Moscow was a serious misstep. arctic.ru/international/…
morality of engagement appeared to be the narrative which won out in this (likely) protracted war. in lieu of the transnational, frontier challenges which the #Arctic whips up - climate change, global transportation, data, space, minerals, hydrocarbons, fisheries.
rational interests were sacrificed: #Arctic Council was effectively suspended via a pause & Russia has wasted no time seeking out new avenues for engagement w states far beyond the region. some will be hard to exorcise once embedded.
China Using Drones to Map And Survey #Antarctica asiafinancial.com/china-using-dr…
Sun Yat-sen University falls ‘High Risk’ on @ASPI_org Def Tracker & is on the 🇺🇸 gov list of unverified institutions (export bans).
but, science
Huge congratulations to @Endurance_22 and @NatGeo for finding the wreck of #Shackleton’s #Endurance. The wreck is amazing but can we also talk about some of the #Antarctic sea floor creatures that now call it home! Add any others you spot to the thread! (1)
Huge #Antarctic sea anemones (Hormathia or similar) dangle their tentacles in the icy water! All of the animals that I have spotted so far are filter feeding! (2)
Sea squirts pump water in and out through their two syphons to collect plankton and marine snow (dead things and poo raining down from the surface). (3)
1/ 2021 was a train wreck for my personal life, but it was pretty great for me professionally - so in the spirit of optimism, here’s a little thread of the highlights.
2/ @c2kittel and I wrote a neat little GRL paper about the fate of #Antarctic ice shelves at various levels of warming
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3/ It was widely reported in the media and we also wrote some articles in @CarbonBrief: carbonbrief.org/guest-post-the…
… and @ConversationUK : theconversation.com/antarcticas-ic…
… and @ConversationUK : theconversation.com/antarcticas-ic…
#pirámide es un #poliedro constituido por un polígono simple (llamado base) y triángulos que tienen un único lado que tiene que ver con uno del polígono base; todos los triángulos tienen un vértice común llamado #cúspide
Los #triángulos se llaman caras laterales.
#SiguemeYTeSigo
Los #triángulos se llaman caras laterales.
#SiguemeYTeSigo
El lado común a 2 caras laterales se llama #arista del mismo modo que cualquier lado de la base. El número total de las aristas es doble del número de lados de la base. Estrictamente el #poliedro tiene vértices poliedrales es el número de vértices de la base.
#RetweeetPlease 🛸
#RetweeetPlease 🛸
World’s Largest #Iceberg—Nearly Seven Times The Size of Mumbai—Forms in #Antarctica
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(📸:NASA/Chris Larsen)
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(📸:NASA/Chris Larsen)
A giant slab of ice almost seven times the size of Mumbai city has sheared off from the frozen edge of #Antarctica into the Weddell Sea, thereby becoming the largest #IceBerg in the world, according to the European Space Agency.
The #IceBerg dubbed A-76, measures around 4320 sq km in size—that is 170 km long and 25 km wide. In comparison, Mumbai’s total area is 603.4 sq km, while India’s capital city Delhi occupies about 1484 sq km.
#Antarctica
#Antarctica
Time to share our new paper published today in @EGU_TC " Diverging #future surface mass balance between the #Antarctic ice shelves and grounded ice sheet". 🥳 Message: The SMB is projected to increase over the grounded ice but to decrease on the peripheral ice shelves. (1/n)
We use our regional climate model #MAR to downscale 2 #CMIP5 and 2 #CMIP6 models that were carefully selected over the #Antarctic ice sheet . From 🌍 to🇦🇶using MAR as 🧐 (2/n)
The surface mass balance (ie, difference between accumulation and erosion at the ice sheet surface) is projected to increase ↗️ due to Global Warming. (3/n)
#Hydronomastics is the study of #hydronyms, the proper names of bodies of water.
It's a branch of #toponomastics, the study of #toponyms (the proper names of places), which in turn is a branch of #onomastics, the study of #orthonyms (proper names).
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It's a branch of #toponomastics, the study of #toponyms (the proper names of places), which in turn is a branch of #onomastics, the study of #orthonyms (proper names).
French / Luxembourghish sign:
#Hydronym and #hydronomastics both derive from Ancient #Greek ὕδωρ / húdōr (water) + ὄνομα / ónoma (name).
#Hydronyms tend to outlast other #toponyms, even when new #languages and cultures displace earlier ones.
#England, #EastAnglia, #Essex, and #Sussex are named for the #Angles and #Saxons; but #Trent, #Ouse, #Thames, #Severn, and #Avon are older #Celtic and #RomanoBritish names.
#England, #EastAnglia, #Essex, and #Sussex are named for the #Angles and #Saxons; but #Trent, #Ouse, #Thames, #Severn, and #Avon are older #Celtic and #RomanoBritish names.
#October2020 Sees Earth Endure Third-Hottest October on Record, Arctic Witness Slowest Known Sea-Ice Growth
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(📸: Copernicus Climate Change Service/ECMWF)
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(📸: Copernicus Climate Change Service/ECMWF)
Over the past few years, the climate across planet #Earth has been changing at a rapid pace, with its effects being fairly evident through hastened extinction of species, increased disaster events, brisk melting of ice, and record-breaking temperatures.
#ClimateChange
#ClimateChange
While the #COVID19Pandemic and the associated nationwide lockdowns did appear to have handed nature a much-needed ‘break’, the long-term build-up of warming agents in our atmosphere has continued to push mercury levels up across the globe.
#ClimateChange
#ClimateChange
Eight years ago today, we reopened camp at Roosevelt Island, #Antarctica. That season, a NZ-led 🇳🇿 team recovered a 764 meter long ice core to bedrock.
What are we looking at in this satellite image? 🛰🇦🇶
What are we looking at in this satellite image? 🛰🇦🇶
What you see at Roosevelt Island, #Antarctica 1) Large living tents and long, partly buried drill trench (with flags on top)
What you see at Roosevelt Island, #Antarctica 2) Personal mountain tents for sleeping. Bonus picture: what I look(ed) like after several months in the field... sunburnt, fuzzy, gross.
#WorldOzoneDay | Remember Geography classes?
Tell us your one memory of #ozonelayer from those classes in the comments section below.
Not necessarily nerdy, they can be fun too.
Tell us your one memory of #ozonelayer from those classes in the comments section below.
Not necessarily nerdy, they can be fun too.
#WorldOzoneDay: 35 Years On, Story of Ozone Hole and Recovery Sparks Inspiration for Effective #ClimateAction - by @deekshith_np
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(📸: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)
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(📸: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)
What is the ozone hole, how did we discover it, and how did we address it? The story is truly inspiring!
#WorldOzoneDay #OzoneDay #OzoneLayer
#WorldOzoneDay #OzoneDay #OzoneLayer
Earth has lost a 'staggering' 28 trillion tonnes of ice to global warming in the last 23 years, UK scientists find
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A "staggering" 28 trillion tonnes of ice has disappeared from the surface of the #Earth since 1994, a group of UK scientists has found.
Scientists from #Leeds and #Edinburgh universities and University College London analyzed satellite surveys of glaciers, mountains, and ice sheets between 1994 and 2017 to identify the impact of global warming.
After some reorganization we're back to somewhat regular programming! Raise your hand if you're looking for some #DistanceLearning & #SchoolsOutScience about #ocean, #stem, #STEMeducation?
Today we're promoting some cool accounts to watch in prep of a big announcement tomorrow!
Today we're promoting some cool accounts to watch in prep of a big announcement tomorrow!
Hi twitter! I have spent the last 5 weeks practicing #SocialDistancing and doing fun science in #Antarctica. It's been an INCREDIBLE trip. We were due to return home yesterday but bad weather means I get a few extra days in paradise. Time to share some of the adventure with you!
I am here as part of #RossRAMP's second seal team, equipping #WeddellSeals with CTD tags to see the how they utilize their environment throughout winter. We aimed to tag 21 post-moult post-partum females near NZ's Scott Base to see if they use the #RossSeaMarineProtectedArea
On the team we have Professors @RobHarcourt and Mark Hindell, wildlife vet @WellingtonZoo Baukje Lenting and UCSC PhD student @RachelHolser. This work is part of a 5-year @niwa_nz project that is looking at foraging behavior of Adelie and emperor penguins and Weddell seals.
Around 3000 BCE in eastern #Europe, a Proto-Balto-Slavic #language started to diverge from #ProtoIndoEuropean.
The #Slavic branch of the #IndoEuropean #languages began about 2,000 years later when Proto-Slavic deviated from Proto-Balto-Slavic.
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The #Slavic branch of the #IndoEuropean #languages began about 2,000 years later when Proto-Slavic deviated from Proto-Balto-Slavic.
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As the #Slavic-speaking area expanded during the first millennium CE (striped area on map), Proto-Slavic transitioned to Common Slavic. The #language underwent minor changes that occurred mostly uniformly across eastern #Europe, thereby maintaining mutual intelligibility.
Around the year 1000 CE #CommonSlavic began to split into the South, West, and East branches to which all modern #Slavic #languages belong.
Roughly 315m people speak a Slavic #language, mostly in Eastern #Europe (including the #Balkan peninsula), #CentralAsia, and #Siberia.
Roughly 315m people speak a Slavic #language, mostly in Eastern #Europe (including the #Balkan peninsula), #CentralAsia, and #Siberia.
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It’s #ClimateWeek2019 so I thought I’d create a #MedThread/#Tweetorial of Explore The Space podcast episodes focusing on #ClimateChange.
Please scroll through!
It’s #ClimateWeek2019 so I thought I’d create a #MedThread/#Tweetorial of Explore The Space podcast episodes focusing on #ClimateChange.
Please scroll through!
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Episode 152 w/ @MichaelEMann
A smashing layout of the current state of #ClimateChange & our response w/tons of resources for us to communicate more effectively. Also a premium @BillNye name drop!
#ClimateChange
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Episode 152 w/ @MichaelEMann
A smashing layout of the current state of #ClimateChange & our response w/tons of resources for us to communicate more effectively. Also a premium @BillNye name drop!
#ClimateChange
explorethespaceshow.com/podcasting/mic…
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Episode 132 w/ @Jamie_Margolin @ThisIsZeroHour
“The Teenager” (h/t @maryheglar) is tenacious, motivated, and inspiring.
She’s also just getting started!
#ClimateWeek
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Episode 132 w/ @Jamie_Margolin @ThisIsZeroHour
“The Teenager” (h/t @maryheglar) is tenacious, motivated, and inspiring.
She’s also just getting started!
#ClimateWeek
explorethespaceshow.com/podcasting/jam…
@DrDenaGrayson @VP @jaketapper In the U.S. at least, air pollution is down since 1992 for every single pollutant the EPA measures. And our CO2 emissions are down since the mid-1990s, yet #ClimateCatastrophists claim NONE of that improvement has slowed global, or U.S. #ClimateChange.
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@DrDenaGrayson @VP @jaketapper For more than forty-five years the Clean Air Act has cut pollution as the U.S. economy has grown.
Carbon dioxide is not pollution. It’s colorless, odorless, and tasteless.
epa.gov/clean-air-act-… #ClimateAlarmism #ClimateChange
Carbon dioxide is not pollution. It’s colorless, odorless, and tasteless.
epa.gov/clean-air-act-… #ClimateAlarmism #ClimateChange
@DrDenaGrayson @VP @jaketapper Watch the animated version & see how average global temperatures continually vary and move around erratically with no relationship or response to any nation’s #GlobalWarming prevention policies or actions.
#GlobalWarmingism #ClimateAlarmism #AlGore
#GlobalWarmingism #ClimateAlarmism #AlGore
