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Roger Creel

@rogercreel.bsky.social
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Climate geophysicist at WHOI || Assistant Professor at Texas A&M starting fall 2025 || sea level + ice sheets + permafrost || PhD Columbia / BA Amherst || rogercreel.com || Views my own.

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 17/12/2025
My collaborator and friend Chris Piecuch's new paper confirms: despite what the Department of Energy claimed, sea-level rise is indeed accelerating around the contiguous US
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Rebutting a Trump report, study shows U.S. sea-level rise is accelerating
“It’s not politics. That’s what the data say,” said the study’s author, who examined 70 tide gauges around the country.
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 07/05/2025
There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
That's just one of many instances of distortion and misinformation in the US Department of Energy "Critical Review on the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions". Which in fact is a fossil fuel propaganda scam. Let's hope Americans are not that easily fooled. tamino.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/s...
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Sea Level Mis-information from DOE
Here in the USA, the Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a report titled “A Critical Review of the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.” It is a product of the &#8…
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/08/2025
"Reducing our dependence on whales as an energy source will send us sliding down the slippery, spermaceti-lubricated slope to socialism. If we give up whaling, what will those lackwits come for next? Will I have to surrender my peg leg for a titanium prosthetic?"
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I’m Captain Ahab and I Say We Must Never Transition Away from a Whale-Based Energy Industry
When I heard that the globalist oligarchs and fat cats in the Washington marshland were conspiring to invest in alternative, non-whale-based energy...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 10/08/2025
The appearance of large language models caused a drastic shift in the vocabulary of academic writing, according to an analysis in #ScienceAdvances of more than 15 million biomedical abstracts published from 2010 to 2024. Learn more:
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Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary
Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can generate and revise text with human-level performance. These models come with clear limitations, can produce inaccurate information, and reinforce existing biases.
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WDEF Chief Meteorologist Austen Onek @wdefaustenonek.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
“A 1.5-foot-tall wave might not seem like much, but #tsunamis are waves that extend from the seafloor to the ocean’s surface,” said Ben Hamlington, an oceanographer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California." #NASA #JPL www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/us-fren...
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US-French SWOT Satellite Measures Tsunami After Massive Quake
Data provided by the water satellite, a joint effort between NASA and the French space agency, is helping to improve tsunami forecast models, benefitting coastal communities.
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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 25/07/2025
🌊❄️🧪 🇦🇶 Please share: We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October. If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)
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Roger Creel @rogercreel.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Thanks for the boost, @whoi.edu! www.linkedin.com/posts/woods-...
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#whoi | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Is Antarctica melting more rapidly than previously thought? 🥶 To predict the future, it's helpful to look at the past. For instance, the Laurentide Ice Sheet, which once covered parts of North Am...
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NPR @npr.org · 12/05/2025
When it comes to rice and pasta, dieticians recommend eating brown or whole grain because they're more nutritious. But you can create a super nutrient in white rice and white pasta. Here's the trick.
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There's a secret superfood in white rice and pasta: Here's how to unlock it
When it comes to rice and pasta, dietitians recommend eating brown or whole grain because they're more nutritious. But you can create a super nutrient in white rice and white pasta. Here's the trick.
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Nature Climate Change @natclimate.nature.com · 29/04/2025
Perspective: It has been argued that parts of the climate system can experience rapid changes and that such tipping can be anticipated by early warning signals. Here the authors discuss the limitations of such indicators and common pitfalls in their application rdcu.be/ejQfr
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Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points
Nature Climate Change - It has been argued that parts of the climate system can experience rapid changes and that such tipping can be anticipated by early warning signals. Here the authors discuss...
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Roger Creel @rogercreel.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
North American ice sheets may have persisted into past warm periods --- and this matters for projections of future ice sheet mass loss. Check out our new preprint! eartharxiv.org/repository/v... With @bobkopp.net , @drandreadutton.bsky.social , and co.
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Roger Creel @rogercreel.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Excellent chance to increase the reach of sea level science -- consider submitting!
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 28/04/2025
As summer in the Northern Hemisphere approaches, it is important to keep in mind how temperatures are changing 🌡️ Shifting distribution to the right ➡️ increasing societal risks from extreme heat The driver? Humans... The burning of fossil fuels Visualization created by NASA svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🧪 Whoa this @aaup.bsky.social guide for navigating NSF grant terminations looks amazing!! 👀 And quite timely: there's another EO deadline this Friday (3/28) to "terminate or modify...grants...to advance the policies of my administration." PDF: www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
Understanding the Law and Policies for Grant Terminations for the National Science Foundation March 25, 2025 This informational guide is primarily intended for National Science Foundation (NSF)–funded principal investigators if NSF requests a change in your work. The level of detail assumes the reader has basic familiarity with the NSF’s two main review criteria (intellectual merit and broader impacts), in addition to the NSF’s Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG). However, this guide may also be relevant to research administrators, legal experts, or awards from other funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), given that the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) applies to all agencies, not just the NSF. This guide is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Please also consult the links contained within this document for the official statutes, regulations, procedures, or any other such guidance. Other experts may interpret the official guidance in ways that may differ from this informational document.
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Roger Creel @rogercreel.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Parts of Alaska are losing 10+ meters of coastline yearly, and this loss may accelerate over the next century. Thanks @pnas.org for highlighting our work! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQCd... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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How Climate Change Could Accelerate Coastal Erosion in Alaska | Cozzarelli Prize-Winning Research
YouTube video by PNAS
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Roger Creel @rogercreel.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Love it when GIA makes it into @nature.com!
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NASAaarrr @nasaaarr.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
ROSES 2025 is now 69 days late. And counting.
A background of ROSES with the overlaid text "April 24, 2025   69 Days Late" and the pirate NASA logo (NASA meatball with 2 crossed swords instead of the swoosh)
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 24/04/2025
New preprint on the persistence of North American ice sheets in past warm period and implications for constraining future ice sheet projections, led by @rogercreel.bsky.social
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North American ice sheet persistence during past warm periods should inform future projections
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Elizabeth Wig @elizabethwig.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Permafrost Dynamics Observatory: Remote Sensing Big Data for the Active Layer, Soil Moisture, and Greening and Browning We analyze a big dataset of airborne L-band SAR data over permafrost in the Arctic-Boreal region agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Permafrost Dynamics Observatory: 3. Remote Sensing Big Data for the Active Layer, Soil Moisture, and Greening and Browning
Lower soil volumetric water content associated with deeper active layers suggests that Arctic soil may become drier as the climate warms Burned areas have higher soil water content than unburned ...
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 17/04/2025
Even animals with very small brains turn out to have cultural traditions, which poses a puzzler for biologists wondering what makes human culture unique.
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The animals revealing why human culture isn't as special as we thought
Even animals with very small brains turn out to have cultural traditions, which poses a puzzler for biologists wondering what makes human culture unique
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Scientists on Survival @scientistsonsurviv.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
“A new review of 50 recent studies finds that protests tend to sway media coverage and public opinion toward the climate cause, without appearing to backfire, even when disruptive tactics are used”. climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...
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The impacts of climate activism - Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new article, “The impacts of climate activism” in the journal Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. In this article, the research team reviews and syn...
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Roger Creel @rogercreel.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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Roger Creel @rogercreel.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Did you know that from 2000 to 2020, retreat of marine-terminating glaciers exposed >2,400 km of new Arctic coastline? www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congratulations, @mettebendixen.bsky.social, @cpecz.bsky.social, Jan Kavan, Matt Strelecki, and co., on your excellent paper!
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New coasts emerging from the retreat of Northern Hemisphere marine-terminating glaciers in the twenty-first century - Nature Climate Change
As marine-terminating glaciers retreat, they reveal new coastlines in many regions. Here the authors use satellite data to quantify these changes for the Northern Hemisphere, finding that between 2000...
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Roger Creel @rogercreel.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Food for thought, mentoring friends.
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Roger Creel @rogercreel.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Honored to announce that our paper on Alaskan permafrost received the 2024 Cozzarelli prize from @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/post/update/...
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2024 Cozzarelli Prize Recipients
The annual Cozzarelli Prize acknowledges papers that reflect scientific excellence and originality. The 2024 awardees will be recognized at an awards ceremony during the NAS Annual Meeting in April 20...
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Bianca Perren @biancaperren.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
New paper out today showing big latitudinal swings in the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies over the last 11,000 years www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Poleward displacement of the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies in response to Early Holocene warming
Communications Earth & Environment - Southern Hemisphere Westerlies were poleward of their current position during the Early Holocene, as suggested by diatom-inferred sea salt aerosol and lake...
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Roger Creel @rogercreel.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Thanks to @pnas.org Science Sessions and Paul Gabrielson for this podcast about our recent paper! @whoi.edu www.pnas.org/post/podcast...
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Climate effects and shifting Arctic coastlines
Roger Creel describes how compounding forces could reshape a thawing Arctic coastline.
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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
🧊🔥 New paper @natclimchange.bsky.social: After millennia as a carbon deep-freezer for the planet, a third of the Arctic-boreal zone is now a CO2 source to the atmosphere. The int’l research team was led by @annvirkk.bsky.social ⬇️ Learn more: permafrost.woodwellclimate.org/after-millen...
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
USDOT has now deleted this webpage
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Roger Creel @rogercreel.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Neat paper alert: To match Antarctic isotope records, we would need to know way more about the Last Interglacial than we currently do! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Plausible Last Interglacial Antarctic Ice Sheet Changes Do Not Fully Explain Antarctic Ice Core Water Isotope Records
A compilation of Last Interglacial δ18O ${\delta }^{18}O$ ice core records shows anomalies of + ${+}$1.5‰ and + ${+}$3.3‰ for 127 kyr BP and LIG-peak core-mean Simulations run with plausible LIG ...
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Dr Catherine Russell @seddyrocks.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I am ✨BEYOND✨ excited to share my “Classification Framework for Assessing #Anthropogenic #Sedimentary Facies”! It covers composition, bed- and grain-scale descriptors, structures, and nomenclature. Now we can describe the developing #sedimentology of #Anthropocene #Earth 🌍 bit.ly/4hLbd2X 🧪 ⚒️
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 23/01/2025
Moving @npr.org story about the Eaton Fire, featuring @bhamlington.bsky.social
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This scientist studies climate change. Then the Los Angeles fire destroyed his home
Climate scientist Ben Hamlington works on understanding the impacts of climate change. Losing his house in the Eaton Fire has given that work new meaning.
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Dr. Tripti Bhattacharya @triptychphrases.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
You can browse NIH awards by location (even aggregated by congressional district) here. Some may be surprised by how many people are employed by these grants in their districts…
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NIH Awards by Location and Organization - NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT)
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The warming stripes are now officially art! @edhawkins.org
Stripes visible from 54th St. outside MOMA.
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 23/01/2025
Mysterious continent-sized masses lurk under Earth's surface – and new measurements suggest they may have remained stable for billions of years, resisting the powerful churn of the planet's interior. www.newscientist.com/article/2465...
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Towering structures in Earth’s depths may be billions of years old
New measurements suggest mysterious continent-sized masses in our planet’s lower mantle may be extremely stable features
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Roger Creel @rogercreel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Looking to have your jaw drop? Check out the Zanclean flood.
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James Kirkham @jdkirkham.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions - new study Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global warming www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions, study reveals
Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, report shows
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 13/01/2025
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Organising an academic conference in 2025? See our reflections here from the @quaternaryra.bsky.social Annual Discussion meeting: www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/01/how-...
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How to organise a conference: advice and reflections from the 2025 Quaternary Research Association (QRA) Annual Discussion Meeting - AntarcticGlaciers.org
By Christine Batchelor, Louise Callard, Becky Sanderson and Bethan Davies 1. Introduction Together with other colleagues from Newcastle University, we organised the Quaternary Research Association (QR...
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 17/01/2025
Cicadas have little, bendy micro-pillars on their wings that pierce bacterial membranes and are as effective at killing microbes as a bleach solution. It might be possible to mimic this effect for use in medical (etc.) equipment. 🪳🪲🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
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Microscopic pillars on insect wings give bugs an antibacterial superpower
New insights into how these “nanopillars” work could inspire better ways to protect humans from infection
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
How is it possible that heat pumps can extract energy from the air even when it’s freezing cold outside? It’s because there’s energy in the air down to -273C which is absolute zero.
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Roger Creel @rogercreel.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Check out the ⚡️power⚡️of the ice that covered North America: fingernails on the continental chalkboard!
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Aaron Putnam @aaronputnam.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
#fieldphotofriday Late Holocene moraines and outwash of the Tänshı̨̄/Kaskawulsh #Glacier, Kluahe Nat’l Park, Yukon, Canada. Photographed May 2023, during our @UMaine #Sea2Sky class.
Photograph looking toward the morainal foreland of the Kaskawulsh Glacier (Slims River lobe). Glacier terminus and the St Elias Mountains in background.
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Roger Creel @rogercreel.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
1,000,000+ years of history in the ice! Tremendously exciting. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Million year-old bubbles could solve ice age mystery
What is probably the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2m years ago, has been dug out from deep within Antarctica.
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Roger Creel @rogercreel.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Thanks to #TheCoolDown for writing about our new paper on permafrost subsidence compounding climate hazards along Arctic coastlines! www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/com... @pnas.org
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Scientists raise concerns over factor driving unprecedented change to Arctic coast: 'This study is a wake-up call'
A new study of Alaska says the state's coastal erosion is accelerating as a result of compound climate impacts.
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James Kirkham @jdkirkham.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Catching up on reading & came across this fab paper by @rogercreel.bsky.social showing that SLR + permafrost thaw substantially increases Arctic erosion 40-65% infrastructure and 10-20% oilfield infrastructure in Alaskan Arctic Coastal Plain potentially at risk by 2100 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Roger Creel @rogercreel.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Important piece by @grosseguido.bsky.social et al. on permafrost subsidence -- great work! See also doi.org/10.1073/pnas... for how subsidence + other hazards transform the Arctic coastal zone 🌊
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Permafrost thaw subsidence, sea-level rise, and erosion are transforming Alaska’s Arctic coastal zone | PNAS
Arctic shorelines are vulnerable to climate change impacts as sea level rises, permafrost thaws, storms intensify, and sea ice thins. Seventy-five ...
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Christine Siddoway @iphigenesdream.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
This is an incredible piece of important work! #sealevel #coastalchange #Antarctica #World
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Rob Larter @polarrobs.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The reality is that the last 10 years are globally both the warmest in the Observational record and almost certainly the warmest since the peak of the last interglacial period, more than 125,000 years ago.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 02/01/2025
It was another stunning year for global climate and weather extremes. As data is processed and released in the first two weeks of January, you are going to be hearing all about these new historical records. Apologies for my many graphs in advance! 😬 Spiral below produced by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5190
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