Ruth_Mottram

Ruth_Mottram, 8 months ago to random

Incredible @CopernicusEU image of the day showing the effects of #StormDaniel in #Libya

https://www.copernicus.eu/en/media/image-day-gallery/storm-daniel-causes-flooding-libya

Credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery

Ruth_Mottram, 7 months ago to random

How to use Mastodon

Lots of people have asked me about mastodon, and lots of people have said they've found it difficult. SO I wrote a post, because I believe we should think carefully about where and how we engage, and who benefits.

With big thanks to @feditips
@micron

and many others for the suggestions

http://sternaparadisaea.net/2023/10/04/how-to-use-mastodon/

Ruth_Mottram, 9 months ago to BBC

So, the #BBC got here. And they're hosting their own server it seems...

https://social.bbc/about

Ruth_Mottram, 6 months ago to Ukraine

Danish farmer about #Ukraine's membership of the #EU :

"I had not imagined that there would be war in Europe again. But if EU membership for Ukraine can ensure that it doesn't happen again, I would be more than happy to pay 25 per cent of my agricultural subsidies from the EU to them," says Leif Hougaard.

• "This would mean a lower income and less to fall back on. But that's how it is and should be. Because no one is dying here."

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/udland/eu/det-kan-blive-dyrt-landmanden-leif-hougaard-hvis-ukraine-kommer-med-i-eu-men-han

Ruth_Mottram, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to worldwithoutus

I often say that Antarctica is really big - and one of the reasons that it's quite hard to work out what is going on is the sheer size as well as lack of observations.

We would not expect the same weather and climate across the US, and #Antarctica is almost 1.5 times bigger than the USA...

ht https://www.thetruesize.com/

Ruth_Mottram, 4 months ago to random

Ok mastodon, (or at least the part of it currently going through a big freeze), show me your strange ice pictures, your weird ice spikes, needle ice, hair ice and frazil ice, your beautiful ice crystals.

Is #icetodon a thing year? It should be. I'll start.

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to climate

It matters where the water comes from.

Why does the loss of ice in Antarctica affect Northern Europe more than melt in Greenland?

Apparently, many people are confused about how global and local sea level rise are not the same so I wrote a brief blog post to try and explain it.

Posting again for the European morning crowd..

#ClimateDiary #SeaLevelRise #ClimateChange
#Antarctica #Greenland #iceSheet

http://sternaparadisaea.net/2024/02/28/local-sea-level-rise-a-question-of-gravity/

Ruth_Mottram, 4 months ago to fediverse

I just found #Flipboard's #peertube channel.

This is an interesting interview with @BBC_News_Labs on how #BBC see the #Fediverse developments

@Flipboard

BBC’s Experiment in the Fediverse, with Senior Firestarter Ian Forrester
https://flipboard.video/videos/watch/2ce52ee8-fe4a-46c2-9b4c-a6e4b8637a77

Ruth_Mottram, 3 months ago to climate

A survey in European countries showed 69% of people would be willing to give up 1% of their income each month to fight #ClimateChange - but most people believe they are in a minority who would.
How to do climate policy in the age of the green backlash - https://on.ft.com/3urWMxH via @FT

Ruth_Mottram, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Is there a scientific illustrator on here who could do a reasonably easy piece of work quite quickly (within the next 2 weeks or so say) for an article I'm writing?
Or can anyone recommend somebody?
EDIT to add: it's a climate/ice sheet visual btw

#ScienceIllustrator #ScientificIllustration #SciCom

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

"Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory
Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed."

Good piece in Nature this week by Gavin Schmidt covers the extremely anomalous temperatures in 2023, well before El Nino got started as well as the loss of #Antarctic #SeaIce and aerosols...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00816-z

Ruth_Mottram, 8 months ago to Amazon

Beautifully illustrated piece on the transition of the #Amazon rainforest from carbon sink to carbon emitter from @nature

#ClimateChange #Carbon #CarbonSink #CarbonSource #Tropical forest #Rainforest

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-023-02599-1/index.html

Ruth_Mottram, 8 months ago to Switzerland

Horrendous satellite picture showing dying Swiss glaciers: courtesy

@CopernicusEU

A new record-breaking #Heatwave in #switzerland and #France is lethal here:

The winter snow accumulation is gone, so most of the incoming solar radiation is abosrbed; it's warm and there are clear skies which means lots of sunshine.

Not what a #glacier needs...

#ImageOfTheDay #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary
https://www.copernicus.eu/en/media/image-day-gallery/ongoing-heatwave-affects-glaciers-swiss-alps

Ruth_Mottram, 11 months ago to wordpress

Well that's interesting - #wordpress supports connections to #mastodon now automatically ..

Ruth_Mottram, 1 month ago to worldwithoutus

"For too long, too few have worried about Earth’s remotest continent and its largest refrigerator, while attention focused on the fires that burned, literally and figuratively, on more populated shores. Antarctica was variously portrayed as an explorer’s playground, a utopian land of scientific co-operation or a poster child for environmental protectionism. The exceptionalism is misguided"

Brilliant and essential reporting on #Antarctica from @TheEconomist

🎁
https://www.economist.com/interactive/science-and-technology/2024/03/27/antarctica-earths-largest-refrigerator-is-defrosting?fsrc=core-app-economist

Ruth_Mottram, 8 months ago to random

Holy moly:
"The neoliberal transformation of health from a collective endeavor – dependent on environmental regulation, sanitation, and public medicine – into a private one, built entirely on "personal choices," leads inexorably to eugenics."

@pluralistic is not pulling punches in this piece, nominally about the two Naomi's but actually about the confrontation between right, left + liberal...
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/05/not-that-naomi/

Ruth_Mottram, 7 months ago to random

So the scrapping of the #insulation scheme is probably the most baffling of all of the roll-backs that #Rishi Sunak announced yesterday - at least when seen from Scandinavia - British houses are legendary for their leakiness.

And hasn't the #UKgov heard of Russia?

Ruth_Mottram, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

This is so cool! There is an annual mass #biodiversity experiment in Danish schools, which this year involved 30,000 kids collecting + examining samples of moss + lichen. Only 5% have been examined so far but they've already discovered 5 species of water bear unknown to science.

Ht @jeppe

https://uddannelse.social/@jeppe/111322661213816133

#skolechat #mosstodon #lichenodon #tardigrade #WaterBear

https://www.folkeskolen.dk/hillerod-kommune-naturfag/danske-elever-skriver-naturhistorie-fem-nye-arter-opdaget-i-masseeksperimentet/4739378

Ruth_Mottram, 9 months ago to random

Huh. Did not know that hotels in Copenhagen have been using sea water to cool bedrooms instead of traditional electric air conditioning.
What a smart solution..

https://pro.ing.dk/gridtech/artikel/fjernkoeling-erstatter-i-stigende-grad-traditionel-aircondition-i-koebenhavn

Ruth_Mottram, 11 months ago to random

This paper on bird population declines is a real smoking gun in #biodiversity declines

"Agricultural intensification, in particular pesticides and fertiliser use, is the main pressure for most bird population declines, especially for invertebrate feeders."
We should be grateful to the thousands of volunteers who compiled the dataset: a "population time-series of 170 common bird species, monitored at more than 20,000 sites in 28 European countries over 37 years"
#birds
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216573120

Ruth_Mottram, 7 months ago to random

I am in the process of writing a new very brief "how to" intro to using mastodon as a scientist.
This blog by @liztai is a brilliant why to switching the way we engage with others online..
1/2
https://elizabethtai.com/2023/07/02/posse-and-pesos-better-ways-to-publish-content/

Ruth_Mottram, 8 months ago to random

A morning thought:
In a car, it's difficult to do anything beyond very passive entertainment when travelling long distances, so it's hard to imagine that travel can be at all productive.

But yesterday's 5 hour train trip and evening on the ferry, was some of the most genuinely productive + creative time I've had all year.
The car/plane teaches us that travel is dead time, but the train shows it's time we can use imaginatively.

#FlyingLess #TravelToHCLIM23

Ruth_Mottram, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

After last night's emergency situation in Denmark, with various public authorities posting updates mainly or only on X/twitter, I really hope that there will be a serious discussion of alternative channels in the coming weeks. As in places for emergency updates that are not subject to the misinformation and whims of a foreign tech company ..

#DKpol #dkmedier
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/111265124644470446

Ruth_Mottram, 5 months ago to Bulgaria

It is time for the #EU to deal with #Orban - and I say that as a strong supporter of Hungary and Hungarians in general - he and his party cannot be allowed to undermine us from within anymore and his country deserves better too.

https://journa.host/@ScottLucas/111556770742433401
@ScottLucas - Associates of #Hungary’s far-right PM Orbán, a long-time ally of #Putin, are meeting Republicans in Washington to press for the end of US military support for #Ukraine

#UkraineWar

Ruth_Mottram, 10 months ago to california

I learnt several things from this article, including that in #California, insurers are banned from using #ClimateModels to estimate risk because it would increase premiums too much 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

We need a new #ClimateScience # now. We understand the physics of #climate pretty well (with a few notable exceptions) it's #adaptation we need to work on.
How about #CliSciNewWave? Who's in? #ClimateDiary

🎁
Why people struggle to understand climate risk from The Economist
https://econ.st/3rtIMBz