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Eric Ness

@eric.ness.net
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Dad, husband, programmer, popcorn enthusiast. Computer Science PhD candidate @AngliaRuskin (Machine Learning, Remote Sensing, Env. Data). Day job: prog. tools to analyze environmental data. Website: eric.ness.net Posting stuff l am looking at.

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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 03/09/2026
Handing in revisions to a journal. Fingers crossed.
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 14/08/2026
Interesting YouGov survey of nearly 30,000 Americans: 85% own physical books, but only 25% own 100 or more. And the most common way Americans organize their books? They don't. 29% say they use no system at all. - yougov.com/en-us/articl...
yougov.com
How many books Americans own — and how they organize them
How do Americans organize their books? A new survey shows that depends a lot on how many books they own
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 06/07/2026
Cheney Orr took this picture for Reuters in Washington, D.C., on July 4, 2026. It reminds me of the James Baldwin quote, “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
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News Analysis @newsanalysis.com · 08/05/2026
Two Russian military satellites, COSMOS 2581 and 2583, performed a sophisticated maneuver, passing within 3 meters of each other in low Earth orbit last week. The purpose of this close proximity operation remains undisclosed. #space #News
yahoo.com
‘Whatever Russia is testing, it’s sophisticated’: Satellites pass within 3 metres of each other
Two Russian military satellites, COSMOS 2581 and 2583, performed a sophisticated maneuver, passing w...
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 02/05/2026
This is a fairly fascinating video. Most people don’t realize this: AI pricing and latency mostly come down to batching. Bigger batches = cheaper tokens but slower responses. Faster modes? You’re literally paying to jump the queue and reduce batching efficiency. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmkS...
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How GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini are actually trained and served – Reiner Pope
YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 29/04/2026
This is clever: Sentinel-2 captures RGB bands ~1 second apart. Moving vehicles shift between captures → creating color “smears.” DrishX turns those into vehicle counts, speeds, and trends across the globe. github.com/sparkyniner/...
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 28/03/2026
The numbers here are difficult to ignore. If aid reductions continue, we’re looking at tens of millions of additional deaths by 2030, including millions of children. What you see here is derived from actual historical relationships, not hypothetical ones. #AIDE - www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 27/03/2026
What if LLMs aren’t the future of AI? AI pioneer Yann LeCun argues they’re a dead end—too brittle, inefficient, and disconnected from real-world understanding. A new modular approach may be next. Great video discussion. #AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IMV...
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Are LLMs a Dead End? (Investors Just Bet $1 Billion on “Yes”) | AI Reality Check | Cal Newport
YouTube video by Cal Newport
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News Analysis @newsanalysis.com · 15/01/2026
Growing concern over academic freedom as some college students monitor & report professors for perceived political incorrectness. Texas A&M incidents cited. #AcademicFreedom #News
theconversation.com
There’s an intensifying kind of threat to academic freedom – watchful students serving as informants
Growing concern over academic freedom as some college students monitor & report professors for perce...
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 12/01/2026
I built a GitHub issue–centric workflow framework for Claude Code. A GitHub issue # drives everything: plan → audit → execute → review. Fully configurable (TDD, ADR, etc.). At this point, my 9-year-old could probably do most of my job. github.com/Eric-Ness/Tiki
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GitHub - Eric-Ness/Tiki
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 02/01/2026
Big milestone today: I integrated my satellite-based water quality models into the web app I built. I can now view and interact with the models in one place. Shown here: chlorophyll-a in the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers. #RemoteSensing #WaterQuality #GIS #Landsat #EarthObservation #DataScience
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 03/12/2025
Tired of firing up QGIS just to peek at a raster? viewtif lets you: • View single-band + RGB GeoTIFFs • Overlay shapefiles • Browse NetCDF time steps • Open HDF/HDF5 + FileGDB rasters All from the command line. #GeoSpatial #Python - github.com/nkeikon/tifv...
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 25/11/2025
SWOT captured 65-ft waves during Storm Eddie, the tallest ever measured from orbit. These waves traveled 15,000 miles, carrying the storm’s power across entire oceans. #SWOT #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing #ClimateScience www.space.com/space-explor...
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 24/11/2025
The World Bank just released updated high-resolution official boundaries (Admin 0–2) across GeoJSON, Shapefile & GeoPackage. Includes NDLSA areas, ocean masks, and full data dictionary + attribute tables. #GIS #RemoteSensing #Geospatial datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/datas...
datacatalog.worldbank.org
World Bank Official Boundaries | Data Catalog
High resolution, World Bank-approved administrative boundaries. Each download option (shapefile, GeoPackage, or GeoJSON format) includes Admin 0, 1, 2, Non-Determined Legal Status Areas (NDLSA), and a...
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 21/11/2025
Burnscar Detection Pipeline: NASA FIRMS + Sentinel-2 + Google Earth Engine + SQLMesh + DuckDB = open-source system to spot suspicious burn scars & potential arson events. #OSINT #RemoteSensing #FIRMS Library: github.com/Centre-for-I... Writeup: bigdatarepublic.nl/articles/det...
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 21/11/2025
So I just implemented a major update to the news clustering algorithm on newsmap.org. If anyone is interested, I am also currently supporting a number of new languages.
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 20/11/2025
Wildfire modeling just got faster. PROPAGATOR uses stochastic cellular automata + rate-of-spread physics to simulate fire behavior in minutes — helping emergency teams make real-time decisions. #GIS #EmergencyManagement #RemoteSensing www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/3/...
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 20/11/2025
My cat's litter box is connected to the Internet. Surely this is a sign of the end of days.
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 19/11/2025
This looks interesting — Lonboard 0.13 just dropped and now supports H3, S2, Geohash, and even A5 layers. Lots of new ways to explore geospatial grids in Python. #GIS #GeoPython #Lonboard - github.com/developments...
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GitHub - developmentseed/lonboard: A Python library for fast, interactive geospatial vector data visualization in Jupyter.
A Python library for fast, interactive geospatial vector data visualization in Jupyter. - developmentseed/lonboard
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 18/11/2025
SAR satellites don’t need daylight — they image Earth day, night, rain, or clouds. Different radar bands (P, L, S, C, X, Ku, K, Ka) reveal everything from subsurface rivers to cars in a parking lot. Wild tech. #SAR #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation #Radar #Geospatial - www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT6c...
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Why does Synthetic Aperture Radar use different wavelengths? | SAR bands explained
YouTube video by sigma nought
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News Analysis @newsanalysis.com · 11/11/2025
Analysis finds China's CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months due to increased solar & wind power. Sector emissions remained flat despite rising electricity demand. #ClimateChange #News
theguardian.com
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
Analysis finds China's CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months due to increased solar ...
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 18/11/2025
Tired of hunting down shapefiles? The new wkls Python library gives you instant access to 625K global administrative boundaries with clean, chainable syntax — no downloading, no parsing. Just wkls.us.nyc.cityofnewyork.wkt() #GIS #Python #GeoSpatial #Wherobots - github.com/wherobots/wk...
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 24/10/2025
With a $600 satellite dish and open-source software, UCSD & UMD researchers intercepted cleartext IP traffic from 50% of GEO satellite links — voice calls, grid data, in-flight WiFi, retail systems, even military assets. - satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/docs/dontloo...
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 25/09/2025
If you’ve ever wondered where endless scam calls come from… SIM farms. USSS just shut a few down. That’s good news. But no, they weren’t going to knock out every phone in New York. - www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBZj...
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Did The Secret Service Really Foil A Plot To Destroy New York's Cellphone Infrastructure?
YouTube video by Marcus Hutchins
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 11/09/2025
My advisors and I finally submitted our next paper! #PhDChat
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 08/08/2025
Orbio Earth just open-sourced their full methane detection pipeline—models, tools, synthetic-plume engine & validation notebooks—for Sentinel-2, Landsat 8/9, and EMIT. #Methane #ClimateTech #OpenSource - orbio-earth.github.io/Project-Euca...
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 07/08/2025
How do we track water flowing through rivers from space? This major review says: 1–3 day revisit. Resolution down to 30–100 m widths. Must include width, slope, & velocity. Flood forecasting + water management depend on it. #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing #WaterResources doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 06/08/2025
The Trump administration is pushing NASA to kill two critical climate satellites. The Orbiting Carbon Observatories track CO₂ globally — data vital to scientists, farmers, and even oil companies. Cost? Just $15M/year. #ClimateScience #EarthObservation futurism.com/white-house-...
futurism.com
White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite
The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 04/08/2025
"At the current rate of horrible fiery deaths, FuelArc projects the Cybertruck will have 14.52 fatalities per 100,000 units — far eclipsing the Pinto's 0.85. " - futurism.com/the-byte/cyb...
futurism.com
The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis
A new analysis suggests that the Cybertruck might lead to 17 times more fatalities than the infamous Ford Pinto.
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 17/07/2025
Want to overlay a heatmap on a real map using Python? This guide walks through visualizing EF3–EF5 tornado trends across the U.S. with NOAA data, grid-based bins, and Matplotlib. Bonus: how to include tornado endpoints too! #geospatial #Python towardsdatascience.com/how-to-overl...
towardsdatascience.com
How to Overlay a Heatmap on a Real Map with Python | Towards Data Science
Visualizing historical tornado trends
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 10/07/2025
Just launched: SMAP salinity data V5.0 + V5.3 with ice/ocean flags — available now via NASA’s SNWG Earthdata Portal. Track salinity near the sea ice edge like never before. #SeaSurfaceSalinity #NASAData www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/sea-sur...
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Sea Surface Salinity Datasets Now Available on the SNWG Earthdata Search Portal | NASA Earthdata
Access Sea Surface Salinity with Sea Ice Mask, a NASA Satellite Needs Working Group solution, to discern salinity values close to the sea ice edge.
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 08/07/2025
A record-breaking heatwave is sweeping across southern Europe and North Africa. Copernicus Sentinel-3 reveals land surface temps far above normal – and the Mediterranean Sea isn't spared either. #ClimateCrisis #EarthObservation www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
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Southern Europe’s land and sea sizzles
A powerful heatwave has been gripping large parts of southern Europe. This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission’s Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer on 29 June 2025, reveals t...
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 03/07/2025
NASA’s PACE satellite just dropped a year of stunning hyperspectral data—mapping chlorophyll, carotenoids & anthocyanins globally, every 1–2 days. It's the first time we’re seeing land plants in full spectral color from space. #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation - svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5548/
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NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Global Views of PACE Land Vegetation Data
Global view of three major classes of plant pigments observed by the PACE satellite: chlorophylls, carotenoids, and anthocyanins.
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 02/07/2025
It appears that MethaneSAT is gone. Launched in March 2024 to track powerful methane leaks, the Bezos-backed satellite veered off course over Norway and lost power. #MethaneLeaks #ClimateChange #MethaneSAT www.reuters.com/business/ene...
reuters.com
Exclusive: Bezos-backed methane tracking satellite is lost in space
An $88 million satellite backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos that detected oil and gas industry's emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane has been lost in space, the group that operates it told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 02/07/2025
Microsoft just launched Planetary Computer Pro (Public Preview) — a cloud-native geospatial platform built for AI, ML, and massive-scale analysis. 50PB+ of data, now enterprise-ready via Azure. #Geospatial #AI techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/iotblog...
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Introducing Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro — Now in Public Preview | Microsoft Community Hub
Today, we’re excited to announce the public preview of Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro — a turnkey platform that makes it dramatically easier for...
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 17/06/2025
LOL - me too. What's sad is that I just wrote some code for a paper that does this, sort of. This is a better approach, though.
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 17/06/2025
A great read on automating your ML workflow in just 10 lines of Python. With LazyPredict + pycaret, you can test over 20 models instantly and compare their performance. #MachineLearning #Python #AutoML towardsdatascience.com/how-i-automa...
towardsdatascience.com
How I Automated My Machine Learning Workflow with Just 10 Lines of Python | Towards Data Science
Use LazyPredict and PyCaret to skip the grunt work and jump straight to performance.
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 11/06/2025
This is even worse - Brian Wilson just passed away. The Beach Boys are probably my all-time favorite band, and Brian Wilson was an absolute treasure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvNX...
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God Only Knows - The Beach Boys, a cappella
YouTube video by Stuckinthe6Ts
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 10/06/2025
So sad to hear of Sly Stone's passing. Absolutely loved him and the Family Stone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG_x...
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Sly And The Family Stone "I Want To Take You Higher" on The Ed Sullivan Show
YouTube video by The Ed Sullivan Show
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 06/06/2025
ChatGPT just released Codex. You can connect to a GitHub repository, and it will explain the codebase to newcomers, suggest codebase improvements, and identify and fix critical bugs. Then do a pull/merge request! Kind of awesome. chatgpt.com/codex/ #vibecoding #chatgpt #codex
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News Analysis @newsanalysis.com · 05/06/2025
Satellite images show Mount Etna's major eruption on June 2nd, 2025, releasing a large plume of sulfur dioxide & ash. ESA's Sentinel-5P & Sentinel-2 missions captured the event. #MountEtna #News
dailygalaxy.com
New Satellite Images Capture Mount Etna’s Massive Eruption
Satellite images show Mount Etna's major eruption on June 2nd, 2025, releasing a large plume of sulf...
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 02/06/2025
NASA’s “Power of 10” for safety-critical code is awesome. No recursion. No dynamic memory after init. No function > 60 lines. Every return value is checked. Brutal but beautiful. Great video review. #CleanCode www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWKa...
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NASAs Coding Requirements Are Insane
YouTube video by ThePrimeTime
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 30/05/2025
Is America facing a literacy crisis? Not exactly. But 40% of 4th graders can't read at a basic level. And 28% of adults are functionally illiterate. The real problem? It's been bad for a long time—and it's getting worse. But Mississippi shows it's fixable. #reading www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvCT...
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The American Literacy Crisis, Explained
YouTube video by Jared Henderson
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News Analysis @newsanalysis.com · 23/05/2025
Trump admin. revoked Harvard's ability to enroll international students, impacting nearly 6,800 students. The action follows accusations of harboring anti-American agitators & CCP ties. Harvard disputes claims. #HigherEducation #News
apnews.com
Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students
Trump admin. revoked Harvard's ability to enroll international students, impacting nearly 6,800 stud...
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 22/05/2025
Flannery O’Connor’s once-hidden artworks are on view at her Georgia farm, offering new insight into her creative process. #FlanneryOConnor #ArtExhibition www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...
smithsonianmag.com
See Flannery O'Connor's Little-Known Visual Artworks That Had Been Collecting Dust in Storage
From childhood cartoons to thoughtful self-portraits, the acclaimed Southern writer was always a keen observer of her surroundings
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 13/05/2025
Based on the article I came across yesterday, I put this together. It's an 'LLM-Assisted Project Development Template'. I am unsure if it works entirely, but I will test it out. Not sure if anyone else is playing with this type of development. github.com/Eric-Ness/my...
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GitHub - Eric-Ness/my-ai-project
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 12/05/2025
I really like this tutorial – defining .cursor/rules as your AI’s “operating manual” keeps context consistent and cuts down on misfires. #AICoding #PairProgramming - www.aitidbits.ai/p/sahar-ai-c...
aitidbits.ai
Sahar’s Coding with AI guide
How to treat your AI coding agent (Cursor/Windsurf/Cline) as a human pair programmer and yield the best results
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 11/05/2025
Check out creative ways to export your maps from QGIS to Illustrator — then bring them to life with animations in Premiere! #QGIS #Illustrator #PremierePro #MapDesign - www.chiaraphillips.com/post/make-th...
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News Analysis @newsanalysis.com · 09/05/2025
NOAA retired its billion-dollar weather disaster database, ending public tracking of extreme weather costs since 1980. The database will be archived but not updated. #ClimateChange #News
cnn.com
Trump admin ends extreme weather database that has tracked cost of disasters since 1980
NOAA retired its billion-dollar weather disaster database, ending public tracking of extreme weather...
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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · 09/05/2025
ESA’s new Biomass Dataset v6 delivers the longest-ever satellite-based record of above‑ground forest carbon (2007–2022), mapping trunks & branches at 100 m–50 km resolution. A game‑changer for climate & carbon modelling! #ForestBiomass #ClimateAction www.esa.int/Applications...
esa.int
ESA unveils longest-ever dataset on forest biomass
As the new Biomass satellite settles into life in orbit following its launch on 29 April, ESA has released its most extensive satellite-based maps of above-ground forest carbon to date. Spanning nearl...
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