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Eric Maugendre about carbon

@maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy

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Data scientist; researching climate forcing. I calculate how to avoid much carbon emissions Banner is a directed acyclic graph. Avatar shows a white man in a heatwave. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mas.to/@maugendre, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Indigenous cultural practices are a climate solution, report finds (via Grist.org): dlvr.it/TTBm8w

Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

'The current fuel load in some Australian forests is not “natural”. It is a product of colonisation, which loaded Australian landscapes with fuel [because] frontier violence and massacres between the 1830s and 1860s removed [people] and disrupted a millennia-long […] [Original post on mas.to]

Cultural burning disrupted is a cause of Catastrophic wildfire loop

Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

“Cities can’t keep working to cut emissions while allowing their own advertising spaces to encourage more flying and fossil fuel consumption.” #Helsinki has intention. There's a ten-year delay and a strong international tourism growth plan, but it's symbolic, at least […]

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Eric Maugendre about data @maugendre.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

In the below fields, #adaptability may already be baked in, if the system has absorbed other contexts: • Staff have a life apart from being managed. • Animals, trees, ecosystems retain lessons from history. • The machine model with many features will promptly react to disruption. Here is a nice […]

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Eric Maugendre on adapting @eric.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Passive rewilding refers to *actively unmanaged* environments that are allowed to regain natural dominance, typically after their abandonment. 🧵 Sometimes referred to as "natural regeneration", it differs from other forms of rewilding in that direct human […] [Original post on social.coop]

Abandoned railroad platforms of the Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal, United States.
It lies just west of Battery Park, Manhattan, NYC.

Post and picture from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_rewilding CC BY-SA 4.0

Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

#Forests need sustainable management and strengthening Indigenous rights and resources. “She realized that, you know, the people were also a very important part of the complex forest relationships,” Erica Gies says. “Which is much more of a reciprocity kind of mentality. If you take, you also […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Solidarity is important for securing a political position. Our adversaries practice it: www.sussex.ac.uk/research/projects/… #carbonTaxes #climateMovement #methane #lobbying #policy

The politics of softer supply-side climate policies

Supply-side climate policies that favour some fossil fuel producers might seem to divide industry, but new research shows they often unite firms.

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Agricultural production this summer was very difficult. The next crops may not be expected in Europe. Why is that? 🧵

The seas around Europe are abnormally hot except from Galicia to Western Sahara.
Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly on 2026-09-19 12:00 UTC
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=7.17,52.77,657

Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Agricultural production this summer was very difficult. The next crops may not be expected in Europe. Why is that? 🧵

The seas around Europe are abnormally hot except from Galicia to Western Sahara.
Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly on 2026-09-19 12:00 UTC
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=7.17,52.77,657

Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

RE: mas.to/@maugendre/117267662020070279 … Because the soil has been stone dry for months, organisms that may have survived tillage and "phytosanitary" processes (aka pesticides) have died weeks ago. Artificial nitrogen will not help because much less available than usual (because a few […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

… In most of Spain and France, "the soil moisture index reaches 0% in the first nine centimetres. The surface horizons are completely dried out, making germination and emergence conditions particularly unfavourable." — Dr. Serge Zaka Soil is dry, darn dry. So the few […] [Original post on mas.to]

Water availability in the soil from -3 to -9 cm as forecast for 22nd September 2026
The soil is bone dry from Tanger to Devon and Frankfurt.
(c) Agroclimat2050

Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

… Now is the time to seed the "winter" crops. No rain is expected. So seedlings are not often going to sprout. …

Expect no rain from Morocco to Southern England, nor in the Middle East in September 2026.
Total accumulated precipitation forecast in 20–26 September 2026
https://charts.ecmwf.int/products/medium-rain-acc?base_time=202609200600&projection=opencharts_europe&valid_time=202609260600

Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

"Using homogenized soil temperature observations and observationally constrained soil moisture dataset for China, we show that the adverse effects of soil-based compound dry-hot extremes on vegetation productivity are more severe than their meteorological counterparts. From 1980 to 2017, the […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

"The data center buildout is ratcheting up the use of fossil fuels exponentially. Why not cancel both? Is it really more radical to make that suggestion than to suggest that 90 percent of the planet suffers enormously so that 10 percent of humans can remain comfortable?" Read Amy Westervelt […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

"Gross primary production" #GPP is the amount of chemical energy, typically expressed as carbon biomass, that primary producers (aka autotrophs) create in a given length of time. Some fraction of this fixed energy is used by primary producers for cellular respiration and maintenance of existing […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Breathing pollution from #wildfires is worse in Indonesia than it was in Northern America around the 26th August 2026. There are more aerosols on a daily basis. The big amount of aerosols is being emitted for months.

Breathing pollution from wildfires is worse in Indonesia than in Africa.
The period is 21st August to 17th September 2026.
You can play at https://apps.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/fire-emissions-watch/?d1=2026-08-21&d2=2026-09-17&tilt=0&t=2026-09-18T00

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Eric Maugendre on adapting @eric.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Mr. Sponge City, Kongjian Yu, made cities porous to soften floods & droughts: rdcu.be/d5ouG We lost Kongjian last year in a tragic accident. But his vision lives on. "The water cycle is a key climate stabilizer but overlooked by policymakers. Restoring wetlands, floodplains, forests […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Vegetal growth degradation (continued) "Our results show a large contribution from antecedent climate conditions (38.2%) to ecosystem productivity during extremes, with precipitation accounting for 42.2% of the memory effects, followed by temperature (22.1%) and vapour pressure deficit (20.8%) […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

#Mining is decided at the detriment of subordinate populations: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-intera… #energyTransition #cleanTransition #RDC #Sweden #rareEarths

Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

The south of the DRC supplies about 70% of the world's cobalt. This region is rich in copper, cobalt, and uranium. #Cobalt and #uranium are often found in the same rocks. The authors recommend cargo inspections, health monitoring for workers, and mandatory treatments to isolate uranium from […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Climate change makes permafrost melt, which releases carbon gas, which accumulates in the atmosphere, which contributes to a greenhouse effect, which accelerates climate change. #Feedback […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Observational data of the synthesis of organic compounds from carbon dioxide is taken from the historical period from 1985 to 2014. "The additive effect of heat on drought varies regionally: it significantly enhances the probability of extreme negative anomalies in low-latitude regions […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

"Soil moisture drought is one of the key prerequisites for the development of extremely high temperatures, whereas atmospheric dynamics control the onset of such extremes. During droughts, low soil moisture content limits evapotranspiration, which is the most efficient surface cooling flux. This […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

"Soil-moisture variability reduces the present land carbon sink, and its increase and drying trends in several regions are expected to reduce it further. […] This suggests that the increasing trend in carbon uptake rate may not be sustained past the middle of the century and could result in […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Fundamental is growth. Not economic growth but vegetal growth. Almost all life on Earth relies directly or indirectly on plant growth. Here is a thread on the degradation of vegetal growth 🧵 #soil #photosynthesis #degradation #ecology #anomalies #carbon #carbonSinks #drought #droughts #growth

Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

What is #attribution of weather disasters? Here is an explainer by Swain et al. (2020): doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.05.011 #climateChange #floods #heatwaves #droughts #wildfires

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CaptainDrawdown @captaindrawdown.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The paper's reframe is the key point: seaweed forests are shifting from sink to source 1,000-10,000x faster than restoration can offset. That makes protection of existing forests a carbon priority, not a future sequestration play.

Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

"Seaweed carbon removal cannot keep up with climate-driven loss" journals.plos.org/plosbiology/artic… Losses outpace restoration by a factor of at least a thousand. A research question that used to be "How much can seaweed sequester?" has become "How […]

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Ruth Mottram @ruth-mottram.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Publication day! Our finalised paper on melange processes at Greenland glacier fronts and what it means for calving glacier stability is finally out... sternaparadisaea.net/2026/09/09/a-j…

Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

'At least 5.5 million people in Borneo and Sumatra have been directly exposed to smoke.' 'The problem dates back to the Suharto regime, when huge areas of rainforest were cleared for logging, industrial plantations, and large-scale “development” projects. Perhaps the most notorious was the Mega […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

"By 2025, we ranked second in the world to electrify our transport system. "A question now sits on the same foundation the water has exposed. What does losing 10 percent of national generation capacity in one morning actually mean? Someone like a taxi driver, who might have financed an electric […]

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Eric Maugendre on adapting @eric.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Interview with a Nepali climate negotiator about: • how the government is handling rescue and relief in the aftermath of the disastrous flooding • the kinds of international support it seeks, including from the climate loss and damage fund. drilled.media/news/nepal-floods #attribution […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Electric batteries may make the grid abundant, maybe even boring? heatmap.news/energy/texas-grid-reli… #electricity #grid #texas #batteries

Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

“Gunjan Silwal (Silwal et al. 2026) recently published an analysis of the glaciers of Langtang, and found that these glaciers are retreating and thinning rapidly. We found that glaciers from 2000-2023 retreated at a rate 1.5 times faster than from 1964-2000, with glacier fragmentation […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

“The Lhende Khola has flooded twice in fourteen months, this time most probably triggered by an ice avalanche blocked the river and released a sudden surge downstream. This still needs to be confirmed, as we receive further information. These are cascading hazards: a cryosphere event becomes a […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

“An icefall and landslide can be seen.” “An ice and debris lake formed and then burst." "Satellite images obtained from Chinese authorities show the blockage occurred about 20 kilometres upstream of the Miteri Bridge before a sudden surge swept downstream." […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

“An icefall and landslide can be seen.” “An ice and debris lake formed and then burst." "Satellite images obtained from Chinese authorities show the blockage occurred about 20 kilometres upstream of the Miteri Bridge before a sudden surge swept downstream." […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

"The full extent of the deaths and damage caused by the enormous flash flood that swept down a river valley in Nepal and Tibet today won’t be clear for weeks. But initial analyses of satellite images and seismic data suggest that the collapse of a high glacier caused the disaster." "Melting […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

"A huge section of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier has snapped off, forming an ice island about the size of Manhattan. Satellites watched cracks spread rapidly before the 76-square-kilometer slab finally broke free on August 4. It is the glacier’s biggest calving event since 2012, and scientists […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

The explanation is allowed to stick. Permission is not necessary. #Drought #attribution: "Anthropogenic climate change has driven large decreases in water supply (snowpack and streamflow) and increases in water demand (irrigation demand), with roughly half attributable to the Carbon Majors […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

The explanation is allowed to stick. Permission is not necessary. #Drought #attribution: "Anthropogenic climate change has driven large decreases in water supply (snowpack and streamflow) and increases in water demand (irrigation demand), with roughly half attributable to the Carbon Majors […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

The world’s vast permafrost regions contain three times more carbon than all living vegetation. Some are thawing and emitting more and more greenhouse gases. #Permafrost cannot refreeze back. "Once you pass the permafrost’s threshold and the ice has gone and the landscape has changed, it is not […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

… "The fate of land carbon in a warming world is one of the most threatening "known unknowns" about what happens after we achieve netZero of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. There is a lot of carbon stored on land, including permafrost, and if a feedback starts where that carbon starts getting […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

"Dutch pension fund Recreatie has terminated a BlackRock equity mandate, amid a wider push for cost efficiency and sustainability." "BlackRock's departure from climate coalitions has prompted moves from other asset owners to review their mandates with large US managers. PME, PFZW, People's […]

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Eric Maugendre on adapting @eric.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Accepting a hypothesis depends on the importance of being mistaken. It can be considered a judgment with ethics attached. Without accounting for multiple values and preferences in policy design, scientific insights risk becoming politicized, potentially reinforcing dominant parties’ interests in […]

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Estelle Platini @estelle.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

There are "multifaceted reasons for our collective failure to bend the global emissions curve. However, a common thread that emerges across the reviewed literature is the central role of power, manifest in many forms, from a dogmatic political-economic hegemony and influential vested interests […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

The mean sea level rises but it does not plunge coastal cities under water. Coastal cities flood when one event overtops the defences. The number of such submersions already is increasing according to a scientific study: Dangendorf, S., Sun, Q., Maduwantha, P. et al […] [Original post on mas.to]

Brazil-Porto-Alegre-flooded-streets in 2024

Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

"Ice shelves provide a key source of stability to the Antarctic Ice Sheet by buttressing the flow of grounded ice. As ice shelves weaken and collapse due to rising temperatures, the glaciers buttressed by them speed up, increasing Antarctica’s contribution to sea level rise. Pine Island Glacier […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

A status on land use change worldwide: "The area used for growing crops grew significantly from 2001 to 2024. Temporary crops (such as wheat, rice and maize) increased by 104 million ha, or 11 percent, reaching 1 081 million ha. Permanent crops (such as cocoa, oil palm and coffee) grew by 59 […]

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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

"Land management categories should be disaggregated in emissions reporting and targets". "Targets should acknowledge the need for Geological Net Zero, meaning one tonne of CO₂ permanenty restored to the solid Earth from every tonne still generated from fossil sources." "By adding to cumulative […]

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