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ned haughton

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I'm a climate scientist. I've just spent the last 6 years working in physical climate risk assessment, and now I'm heading back into academia to study how to […] [bridged from fediscience.org/@ned on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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ned haughton @ned.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2025

💀💀💀 #AMOS2025

Photo of a conference slide:

Thomas Midgley, Jr. (1889-1944) (photo on right)

- >100 patents
- American Chem. Society - Priestley Medal, Willard Gibbs Award, and fellow of the US National Academy of Sciences
- Developer of Tetraethyllead (leaded petrol)
- Developer of Freon —or CFCs (inert yet volatile)
- J. R. McNeill, quote “[Midgley] had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth’s history.”
- 1.1 million deaths due to leaded petrol (UN report 2011)
- ~70,000 excess cases of skin cancer per year (~10,000 deaths in 2015)

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ned haughton @ned.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2025

This is all that's left of the Bight Bridge in Wingham... it was a constant all through my childhood there. So many days wagging school to go jump off it in summer. This bridge was 4-5m high, and solid concrete. It's withstood many large floods, but not one […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Drone shot of the bight bridge emerging from the flood waters. half of it is missing completely.

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ned haughton @ned.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2025

Floods in Australia be like: #ManningFloods #floods #NSW #Australia #spiders

Picture of a Farmer in flouro, up to his balls in flood water

Caption:
Troy Irwin says it has been a "catastrophic flood".

Irwin woke up this morning to knee-deep water. His wife was rescued by the State Emergency Service, but Irwin is planning to swim his stallion and pony out of floodwaters, while also collecting a few stray cows along the way.

"I've had beetles in the budgie smugglers trying to have a chop at me, didn't appreciate that," he said.

"I've been covered in spiders, they're all over me. But this time around there's been no snakes.

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ned haughton @ned.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2025

Taree ha 2.5 days of water above the major flooding level..

Graph of the river level, showing the major flood line at about 3.7m, and the river breaching it at about 3pm tuesday, going above 6m soon after midnight, and peaking at 6.4m late wednesday evening. Flood went below the 3.7m level late friday morning.

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ned haughton @ned.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2025

Manning valley flood: - Old Killawarra bridge on Gloucester road, - new bridge next to it, during construction, and - the high water yesterday... Someone on FB says it's 24m.⁩ Luckily it's only that high there because it's hilly farm land, and that's a […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Old truss bridge at Killawarrah, over the Manning. About 20m high already.

New bridge just after construction. The bottom of the new one is almost as high as the top of the trusses of the old one.

Water hitting the underside of the new bridge.

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ned haughton @ned.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2025

Looking at this crazy flood graph from the Manning River, currently peaking significantly above previous record (last record was in 1921). Anyone know why this flood guage has that weird 12+24 hour cycle? Something to do with the daily cycle? Seems odd.. ⁨ […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Graph of river depths from the link. It has a regular 12 and 24 hour cycle in the first three days.

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ned haughton @ned.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2025

Ouch.

Graph titled "Statistical Significance of CST Papers (n = 32)" with a bar plot, with one bar (value=32), labelled "Not Empirical".

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ned haughton @ned.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2025

Ouch.

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ned haughton @ned.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2024

This is great coverage of the rise of #SciHub. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science… There is a sub-story that's missed, however. That's the big dot over Mountain View, CA. When I've worked or studied at a university, I've used the […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Screenshot of figure 2 from the paper, showing scihub user density over the US. Big labeled dots over Mountain view, CA, and a few other cities

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