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Ruth_Mottram

@Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org

Climate scientist at DMI, Danish/British dual national, married Dutch, interested in glaciers, ice sheets, atmosphere and climate in Arctic, Greenland, Antarctic
Coordinator of #OCEANICE
WP lead on #PolarRES + #ProtectSLR

Mine dansksprogede toots er i helvede

#climate #science #openresearch #IceSheets #Greenland #Antarctica #cycling #kayaking #biodiversity #Arctic #Glaciology #Weather #Atmosphere #OA #PolarPortal #HorizonEurope #SeaLevelRise #fedi22 tootfinder

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Ruth_Mottram, to Ukraine
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This is quite possibly the least reassuring video @anderspuck has ever made, but it might also be the most important.


How soon can a NATO-Russia war happen?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptnboLDPS38

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@anderspuck @Havant_Enviro yes I agree. And I think they exacerbate each other too...

Ruth_Mottram, to random
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Reviewing a PhD thesis on Antarctic melt.. The results aren't exactly, reassuring....

Ruth_Mottram, to Oslo
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Presumably this is the floating sauna that made that daring rescue of Tesla driver + passenger the other week?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/01/floating-sauna-rescues-motorists-whose-tesla-plunged-into-oslo-fjord

Ruth_Mottram, to Oslo
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Farvel og tak , you've been brilliant as ever.
by definitely the best way to see the city.

Ruth_Mottram, to Oslo
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Sitting on the Oslo metro T-bane with my alongside about 30 other people all taking to the nearest

This might be the most I've ever felt.

Ruth_Mottram, to random
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Just time for a couple of hours cross country skiing before I take the boat back home. I've been entombed in windowless rooms for a week, it's time for some fresh air...

Ruth_Mottram, to Ukraine
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"Navalny had many words that would never make him a friend of , no matter how valiantly he would stand in opposition to Putin.

And we can have different opinions on his personality, but it is without a doubt that his decision was not an easy one, and one that requires character."

A good piece on from @timkmak 's

NEWSFLASH: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dead in government custody

https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/newsflash-russian-opposition-leader?r=2o5hr8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Ruth_Mottram, to climate
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Gosh, this is interesting - not just Europeans who see Action as important it seems

"While Republican supporters recognize that most Republicans support climate change policy, they may be discouraged from expressing their support due to an information environment disproportionately portraying Republicans as opposed to climate change action."

https://scicomm.xyz/
HT @Doug_Bostrom - @Ruth_Mottram

This seems germane:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01240-x

Ruth_Mottram, to random
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Great piece by @micefearboggis on the "pause" or "hiatus" if you like.
My favourite quote:

"The substitution of simplistic stats for physical understanding provides an opportunity for all kinds of shenanigans."

Can't help feeling that is applicable to many situations outside of too..

Seeping
https://wp.me/s4K9DA-seeping

Ruth_Mottram, to climate
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A survey in European countries showed 69% of people would be willing to give up 1% of their income each month to fight - 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,
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@junesim63 it should be a gift link. Has it expired?

Ruth_Mottram, to random
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"by 2050, 10% to 47% of Amazonian forests will be exposed to compounding disturbances that may trigger unexpected ecosystem transitions ... inherent complexity of the Amazon adds uncertainty about future dynamics, but also reveals opportunities for action... a combination of local efforts to end deforestation and degradation and to expand restoration, with global efforts to stop greenhouse gas emissions."

How close is to a . Nice review

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06970-0?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20240215&sap-outbound-id=FE81D3D8799DCD882FFB957ADA3D8054EDD66C4A

Ruth_Mottram, to random
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What deep held flaw is built into the human psyche that we would prefer to consider the monstrous technologies of rather than cut any fossil fuel use?

Ruth_Mottram, to climate
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I first met Geir Moholdt in Svalbard in 2005 when we were both PhD students at . Now we're both at this high level meeting for the panel, still talking about glaciers.
behind his title slide shows in summer, not much snow left, a terrible sign for a glacier, confirmed by red blobs that show thinning rates since the 1930s. Since 2011 the glaciers of Svalbard on average have lost half a metre per year!

Map of Svalbard, red shows thinning glaciers

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Not sure what the message is here tbh - perhaps that you'll keep meeting the same people over and over again, so build good relationships.

Or maybe that the ice will keep melting until we get global temperatures down.

Ruth_Mottram, to random
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This is a really important point from Andreas Kääb : is partly a question of definitions - and different definitions are used even within the scientific community.
The are likely tipping elements, but we're really not sure about all of them!!

High impact, high uncertainty is not a good combination..

Map of world listing tipping points

Ruth_Mottram, to Weather
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Somewhat ironically, or perhaps appropriately, the meeting is taking place in one of the few blue (colder than average) spots in the northern hemisphere as the @polarportal data shows

Ruth_Mottram, to worldwithoutus
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And here we go again...

@osi_saf charts for both + not looking particularly healthy...

https://osisaf-hl.met.no/v2p2-sea-ice-index

Ruth_Mottram, to climate
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Good summary from head of services Chris Hewitt on - 1.45 +/- 0.12 (though I suspect @micefearboggis has something to say about this...)

Ruth_Mottram, to worldwithoutus
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Kicking off the and high mountain regions committee meeting in Oslo this morning. Long pre-meeting on yesterday to determine policy and strategy was pretty successful. Hoping it will get passed by full panel today.
WMO president Celeste Sauto giving us an online welcome.

Ruth_Mottram,
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WMO president is on board with Antarctica, Greenland and sea level rise!

often underestimate the importance of the WMO - it's not as visible to us as IPCC say and the focus has long been on but is very much built on the infrastructure of - the in-situ observations, the satellites and the numerical models originally developed for forecasting.

Ruth_Mottram, to Ukraine
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Can confirm btw that we have several Kyivan Rus' nobles buried in
Definitely worth a claim to make Danish again...

https://fediscience.org/

A heart Romanesque vaulted cathedral interior with painted ceiling and light pouring through clear glass windows over the altar. The view is down the nave with wooden pews on either side and carved funeral monuments on the brick walls

Ruth_Mottram, to random
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Book(s) 5(a-d) is out the door in my list - it's the first four books in Ursula K. 's series. And what a brilliant entry this one was. Im slightly surprised it took me so long to discover these but our wonderful librarians in strikes again.

http://sternaparadisaea.net/about-me/the-first-book-of-2024-is-done-the-fish-can-sing-by-halldor-laxness/

ElleGray, (edited ) to random
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I'm already tired of football here's a small frogg

Ruth_Mottram,
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@ElleGray That is a remarkably beautiful frog! What kind is it?

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