Ruth_Mottram

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

This is a little depressing but I think probably correct insight..

🎁You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire.

Europe’s new-look winter: floods, high sea levels and melting glaciers
https://econ.st/431ALmb

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to Help

TFW: I got on this train with 2018 emails in my inbox, intending to clear them out in the course of a 5 hour return trip. 2 horus later I have dealt with loads of them, but now have 2019 emails in my inbox....

#Help #Emails #LifeOfAScientist

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

This is why in EU funded (#HorizoneEurope) projects, the commission demands that a copy of every publications is ALSO archived in a repository like #Zenodo - and they have full guidelines as to preserving open access to science via their #OpenAire service.

I used to think it was a bit of a nuisance having to comply with all that #OpenScience requirement - surely it was obvious?

I no longer think that.

https://code4lib.social/@pbinkley/112040978957733070

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to climate

Heh, this is kind of true, but apart from the armoured giants sleeping in their tombs the (non-Royal) Danish national anthem I've always found rather poetic. It only mentions Freya, no God!
But perhaps a little #climateChange warning in last couplet..?
" Denmark shall endure, as long as the beech-tree mirrors its top in the blue wave! "

https://mastodon.social/@olafurw/112039426699506002
QT @olafurw - Nordic National Anthems

Denmark: "Look at those armored giants and our King being cool on a boat" (2 different songs)

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

Allow me to recommend @organicmaps

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112038663883385719
QT @pluralistic - Hard to overstate how enshittified Google Maps has become. Went looking for my local locksmith. Gmaps shows 20+ fake locksmith referral scam outlets and doesn't even register the real locksmith, despite being fully visible in Street View.
Instead, a red pin on the shop identifies it as a fake locksmith scammer. The real locksmith - which has been there SINCE 1942 (!!) and is a verified merchant - doesn't even show up.

markmccaughrean, 2 months ago to random

You know how I told you not to go to that webcam watching a waterhole in the Namib desert?

Well, similarly, you really shouldn't go to this partner webcam in the Etosha National Park.

I mean, who would want to waste time watching a herd of white rhinos arsing about in the night? 🤷‍♂️🙂🦏

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAmFZj1y_a0

A herd of rhinos at a waterhole in the Etosha National Park seen on a webcam at night.

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to worldwithoutus

Reminder: If you work on #Antarctica in Denmark, the annual Danish Antarctic science seminar is on Thursday 7th March at DTU. Today is the last chance to register for lunch - contact DTU-Space for more details!

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

When is an Arctic bias not an Arctic bias?

I was going to blog about this cool new paper that my colleagues at DMI have produced, but John Kennedy has as always done such a good job I will just point you over there... Wondering whether a warm bias in the Arctic in ERA5 affects our estimates of global temperature change. When is an Arctic bias not an Arctic bias?

http://sternaparadisaea.net/2024/03/04/when-is-an-arctic-bias-not-an-arctic-bias/

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to climate

About that ozone hole..

Doesn't seem to be healing very fast - not due to #CFCs necessarily but a quirk of the #Climate system means a colder #Stratosphere - which is delaying things.
Really good piece from my colleagues at DMI on it (in danish but DeepL works really well for translation):
#OzoneHole #OzoneLayer #Ozone #Antarctica
https://www.dmi.dk/nyheder/2024/ozonhullets-lange-helingsproces

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to worldwithoutus

Cool new @nature paper just dropped colleagues at #DMI suggesting #CMIP6 models may have #Arctic warming about right, when compared to @osi_saf #Satellite data rather than #ERA5

"We find that the CMIP6 simulations in the central Arctic, with generally thicker ice and snow, align well with satellite observations ... By contrast, climate reanalyses like ERA5 exhibit widespread warm biases exceeding 2 °C in the same region."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01276-z

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to climate

My research focuses on ice sheets and sea level rise which are often thought to be long-term and distant problems (they're actually not but that's another topic), but this is the kind of disruption that's harder to adapt to in some.ways. What happens to our food supply when Spain runs out of water?
We're (probably) not going to starve, but other people might and we're certainly going to be spending more in food
#ClimateChange #science #Economics
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/15/spain-water-barcelona-farmers-tourism-catalonia-drought

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to Danmark

Jeg skal snart prøve at snakke på #ThwaitesGlacier på dansk på #Radio24Syv hvis nogen vil høre mere om "#DømmedagsGletscher" og hvad det betyder til #Danmark's #havNiveauStigning

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

TT
Danes are the 3rd richest population in the EU and they have the highest consumption based CO2emissions of all - 11 tonnes per Dane per year.

It's primarily food. And let's be really honest, it's primarily meat and dairy.

#DanishCrown
https://fediscience.org/
Ruth_Mottram - Danskerne er det tredjerigeste folkefærd i EU og har de højeste forbrugsbaserede CO₂-udledninger af alle: 11 ton per dansker per år.

#klima #dkKlima #Forbrug
🎁
https://www.information.dk/indland/2024/02/klimaraadet-danskernes-forbrug-rekordhoejt-strategi-maa-goere-klimavenligt?kupon=eyJpYXQiOjE3MDk0ODUyNDIsInN1YiI6IjIyMjUyMDo4MTU2NTMifQ.wLoB2QD9in_CpM9qjCIfhw

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to LEGO

adds item to birthday wishlist

https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/112028166528488702
@Pepijn - Here's a #timelapse of the #LEGO #Technic set 42179 #orrery doing a full #astronomical year!

It has accurate turning of the #sun and #earth (day), the earth & #moon system turning around the sun (year), the moon around earth (month) and earths axial tilt (seasons).

It's honestly awesome. One of the most enjoyable technic builds ever. A highly recommended set.

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to Geology

Update:
Some very interesting replies to this question
Kid asked very good question this morning: why is this fossil ammonite in a round concretion? As in how was it preserved? (I explained that in some locations you find roundish stones that when broken in half reveal a fossil ammonite or other fossil inside). But why do they form in these roundish shapes? What is the preservation method.
I no longer remember where this came from but I think, Whitby?

#Ammonite #Fossil #palaeontology #Geology

A back view of the same fossil showing the rounded rock on the back of the fossil

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

Calling Betteridge's Law on this one..

#BetteridgesLaw

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to climate

Haven't read this piece but the image is interesting, because it's clearly AI generated but it looks just like Icelandic glacier lagoon Jokulsarlon with Breiðamerkurjökull glacier in the background, possibly the most photographed glacier on earth. Photos of it crop up absolutely everywhere. Which is presumably how DALL-E learned what a glacier is.

https://mastodon.social/@Climatehistories/112015112809200144
@Climatehistories
Thanks again for reading The Climate Historian 💚

#climatechange #globalwarming

https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatehistorian/p/the-warming-arctic?r=1qy42b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

Really worrying thread from the amazing @maiathecyberwitch about developments over on the birdsite where it looks like radicalisation of once reasonably sensible people is full steam ahead.
Glad I'm here. I like it and I don't miss the other place at all. But Goodness, which way is society heading with this kind of spread of misinformation and hate...?

https://helvede.net/@maiathecyberwitch/112014136615959754

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, 2 months ago to gardening

After nurturing this plant for the last 13 years, (acquired no higher than 30cm, it's now well over 2 metres tall) for the first time ever, it has flowered, producing 7 flowering spikes. This one opened this morning.
Many years ago I saw bird of paradise flowers blooming in the magnificent Kirstenbosch botanical gardens in Cape Town. I have coveted them ever since. It is bringing much joy and a touch of South African sun to the cold northern February
#NeverGiveUp #gardening #plants #plantstodon

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to ghana

I introduced 2 colleagues to @thecontinent today. They're working on a #ClimateAtlas to assist #ClimateAdaptation in #Ghana and had not heard about the new anti-LGBTI legislation that was on its way

Thanks to #TheContinent I had - a friendly reminder that mainstream news outside #Africa is not always very broad. So give them some support...

https://mastodon.nl/
nrc_nl@mastodon.nl - Ghanees parlement keurt strenge lhtbi-wet goed, lange gevangenisstraf mogelijk https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/02/28/ghanees-parlement-keurt-strenge-lhtbi-wet-goed-lange-gevangenisstraf-mogelijk-a4191600?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_term=20240228

Ruth_Mottram, 2 months ago to random

Why does the loss of ice in Antarctica affect Northern Europe more than melt in Greenland? I wrote a brief post to try and explain it.

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