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New tool directly links carbon emissions to amount of environmental and economic damage caused

This new tool, the Carbon Impacts Tracer, which translates carbon emissions into real-world climate impacts like heat exposure and coral bleaching, looks super useful. ➡️ carbonimpactstracer.com

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Carbon Impacts Tracer can be used to estimate climate impact from emissions across eight different factors, including lost food production

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@ericacioffi.bsky.social is an oceanographer and biogeochemical scientist at @normalesup.bsky.social. Her research focuses on the impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems and on the use of climate models to investigate Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems.

A woman with curly hair smiles warmly at the camera, wearing glasses and large hoop earrings. The background is blurred, featuring greenery and soft light, creating a serene atmosphere. The image is in black and white.

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I convinced @ericacioffi.bsky.social to join Bluesky today. Give her a follow if you like the ocean or climate science or Italians.

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Ospreys are disappearing along the East Coast. Scientists think they know why.

Ospreys are disappearing along the US East Coast due to a shortage of Atlantic menhaden, a crucial food source for ospreys. One company alone harvested nearly 300 million pounds of the fish in 2024 but somehow claims they’re not at fault. 🧐

wapo.st

At the center of a widening crisis for one of the nation's great wildlife comebacks is a fish most Americans would hardly recognize.

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026

What an odd moment in United States history. A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government. Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...

nytimes.com

A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by the Government (Gift Article)

The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.

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I guess none of what I said about attribution, mitigation, or adaptation was interesting enough so I need up being quoted for something that any auntie could have said. 😩

David Ho, a professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, was at home in Honolulu when Lala hit. His neighborhood flooded, and he was one of 200,000 electricity customers across the state who lost power. More than 200 homes and an estimated $67 million worth of public infrastructure were damaged, according to
*he Hawaii Emergency Management Agency.
"We have a lot of houses that were built before the building codes were modernized, Ho told me. "So once in a while, you have roofs that just fly away."

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Opinion | The Super El Niño Comes Bearing One Gift: Time to Prepare (Gift Article)

My former colleagues, Mark Cane and Stephen Zebiak, were the first to successfully predict El Niño more than a year in advance in the late 1980s. Now we’re really good at it, and know the consequences. It’d be irresponsible for governments not to take action. Read this from my buddy Jeff Shaman.

nytimes.com

There’s still time to prepare.

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What it means to be a naturalist in the 1800s. 🫠 "Citizen Milbert and Citizen Le Brun began drawing the porpoise that had been caught the day before. After that, Citizen Péron worked on it to make anatomical observations [...] Afterwards it was shared with the crew for lunch [...]"

« Le citoyen Milbert, le citoyen Le Brun ont commencé à dessiner le marsouin que l'on avait pris la veille. Après c'est le citoyen Péron qui l'a travaillé pour faire les observations anatomiques [...] Après on l'a partagé à l'équipage pour midi [...] »
"Citizen Milbert and Citizen Le Brun began drawing the porpoise that had been caught the day before. After that, Citizen Péron worked on it to make anatomical observations [...] Afterwards it was shared with the crew for lunch [...]"
Journal d'Anselme Riedlé, jardinier, 2 décembre 1800

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The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Scientists explore new ways to target mosquitoes as warming climate expands threat

Here’s another way climate change will kill us: the expansion of mosquitoes and the deadly diseases they carry. In Paris, the invasive Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), an aggressive, day-biting nuisance, is now everywhere. So excited to get Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika in Paris.

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It doesn't have sharp teeth or claws, but the mosquito kills more people than any other animal on earth. As the climate warms, mosquito season is lasting longer, giving them more time to spread danger...

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Pricey? “The Lectric XPedition2 costs $1,399 which is admittedly much more expensive than an entry-level non-electric bike.” You can’t get an EV in the US for less than $30k! Also, a decent non-electric bike will set you back at least $2k.

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Giulia Faucher @giuliafaucher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It might be a sign of the apocalypse when you can buy peanut butter in France.

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Nikolas Linke, scientific diver in our group and zooplankton student, took this wonderful shot beneath our mesocosms! Isn't it amazing? You can find him on Instagram: @niko.linke 📸 @geomarkiel.bsky.social #kosmos

A school of barracuda swims past the submerged bags of our mesocosms, with sunlight filtering down from the surface.

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Phil McKenna @mckennapr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Exclusive: More than half of global sulfur hexafluoride emissions, a climate pollutant 24,300 times worse than CO2, come from China. An inexpensive recycling program could help slash emissions, an @insideclimatenews.org analysis concludes. My latest, w/ Rudy Lu and @peteraldhous.com. Article ⬇️

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of my favorite cycle paths in Paris.

A view of a bike path under an archway of a bridge, featuring stone columns and a paved road. The perspective conveys movement, with a hand gripping the handlebars and a bag mounted on the bike. Two cyclists can be seen ahead in the distance.

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Manon Jacob @manonjacob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This website was just @faineg.com posting ALF.

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🌀Scientists @profcorbosiero.bsky.social, @davidho.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social et al. explain the impact of El Niño on hurricane season. Here's the story (as relevant as when it came out with monster Hurricane Polo barrelling through the Pacific Ocean and coatline...)

This satellite handout image from the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at Colorado State University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (CIRA/CSU and NOAA)

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I just went downstairs, walked three minutes to a boulangerie, and got a warm baguette. Tell me again why 15-minute cities are bad.

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US Supreme Court lets Trump deploy voter database ahead of midterms

Instead of saying, "US Supreme Court lets Trump…" as if SCOTUS speaks with one voice, the media should specify who voted for this. In this case, it's the six conservative justices.

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Ruling boosts the president’s efforts to overhaul election rules before the November vote

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Justin S. Mankin @jsmankin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Pricing El Niño is not the same as preventing its loss of life. Yet, many of those acting on its forecasts are using them to move money, not people, out of harm’s way." My editorial for Science on why hedging El Niño is not the same as adapting to it: www.science.org/eprint/DU6FR...

science.org

Hedging El Niño isn’t the same as adapting to it

Record-setting warm waters slosh eastward across the tropical Pacific, forming El Niño. This recurrent climate pattern reconfigures severe weather worldwide, and with it, the global economy. Scientist...

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French health authority reports almost 8,000 excess deaths over heatwave-struck summer

In the cost-benefit analysis of mitigation and adaptation, do you think French bureaucrats are saying to themselves, "Well, that's a few thousand pensioners that we no longer have to pay"? It's as good an explanation as any for the lack of action.

lemonde.fr

While the French public health authority's latest figure, 7,919 excess deaths from late May to August 20, was still not final and could rise further, it already gave a striking indication of the impac...

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