Somewhat disturbing that we haven’t deviated whatsoever from this trajectory

Global surface temperatures from Berkeley Earth are now out for June. It was the warmest June on record for land, oceans, and the globe as a whole by a sizable margin (~0.14C), and came in at 1.6C above preindustrial levels.berkeleyearth.org/june-2024-temp…

🚨 The decline of the northern sink was masked by recent good conditions in the Tropics absorbing CO2, but in the coming years if this decline continues, we may see a rapid acceleration of CO2 and global warming which was unforeseen in future climate models projections

I’m extremely saddened to hear of the passing of James C Scott. He was a stunningly original thinker, who asked truly significant questions, and whose work has become foundational to several different disciplines. To me personally, he endowed a sense of the fundamental

Incredible. “'We have another source of oxygen on the planet, other than photosynthesis,' says study co-author Andrew Sweetman."

Glacier geoengineering is one of the dumbest ideas ever, and studying it is widely seen as a waste of time and resources by scientists.

COLUMN: Despite all the solar panels, all the windmills, all the electric vehicles and all the government incentives to go green, the world has never used as much coal as it’s burning this year. My @Opinion column on why coal is still king in 2024. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

"The reason we know how warm Earth was in the past, how our oceans, atmosphere, ice sheets have responded to these warming events is because of the JR...I thought the program would be saved, the government & funding agencies would come to their senses. But that isn’t the case.."

"Perhaps in the end the climate-change economist can help most by not presenting a cost-benefit estimate for what is inherently a fat-tailed situation with potentially unlimited downside exposure as if it is accurate and objective." -Martin Weitzman

The reflexive default in scholarship to its imagined political use case produces extremely stupid work. Going to an environmental humanities event and listening to person after person talk about novels & poetry as a variety of climate activism makes me want to gauge my eyes out.

British Coal Export, 1864. Charles Joseph Minard

Three hearty Parasaurolophus cranial crest honks for Bryony Page

Just learned a geology fun fact: the Montney Formation, one of North America's largest unconventional petroleum deposits and a so-called "carbon bomb" was deposited in the immediate, high-CO2 aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction, in the horrendous, anoxic seas off Pangaea

Pretty weird that there are 2 proven ways of mobilizing thousands of gigatons of organic carbon from Earth's crust: 1 involves mantle plumes and volcanism & the other involves a system of organizing society & nature invented in the 16th century Dutch Republic/English countryside.

Nothing in white areas has any chance of being preserved in fossil record (not sedimentary basins). Cool figure from paper showing ranges of two frogs (T. cryptotis & L. diedrus) one of which might get lucky and leave behind legacy, the other has zero hope cambridge.org/core/journals/…

People forget how bad the Obama Voice™️ thing got

I could watch this on loop forever

I wrote about two endearing young scientists, an argument, and the worst day in the history of the planet nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Wally Broecker and I wrote about the possibility that there might be a northward shift of the ‘thermal equator’ as NH warming outpaces that in the south. pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…