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Add: the mass extinction of species, including key species, which could lead to extinction of the human species. No amount of survivalist training will make up for lack of resources. No billions of dollars can rewild a key species if it has no habitat. We can adapt, but we have our limits. 🌎🧪

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

Lag times apply. What we fix today won't be felt for a long time - decades from now. Or more. What we delay to fix later will add to the already overburdened system. Lag time to recovery will be even longer. Species can't wait. We can't wait. #ClimateChange 🌎🧪

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When the rate of adaptation << the rate of climate change, evolution << extinction and Life goes through a mass extinction. From human perspectives, climate change takes generations = slow. From species' perspectives, climate change >> their ability to adapt; change is too fast. #ClimateChange 🧪🌎

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Scaled-up, this is true of past mass extinctions, too: large refugia had a better chance of hosting higher biodiversity and helping species survive. Thus, larger protected areas will be better for helping species survive the oncoming 6th extinction than fragmented ones. 🧪🌎 #Extinction #Biodiversity

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

My research suggests that random extinction at current levels of biodiversity loss will lead to mass extinction levels in about 950 years (we would be long gone before then). This does not take into account extinction cascades or other acceleration, like in this post. #ClimateChange #Extinction 🧪🌎

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

We know climate grief, but now we face a new grief: science loss. We not only feel the grief from our research, but also the loss of colleagues who stood with us. We grieve for the increase in future deterioration of our Earth. We grieve over the work we will have to do. #ClimateChange 🧪🌎

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

I grieve for those who lost their careers and purpose, across science organizations and academia. I think of Sara, who loves Mars so much that she had a spaceship-shaped tent. I think of Carrie, whose students may not be able to continue. I think of our future. 🧪🌎 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

When the loss of artic sea ice is reinterpreted as a boon to shipping and profit... When overharvesting of resources increases the bottom line... When infinite growth ignores the limits of a global system... When disasters are downplayed in favor of "progress"... #ClimateChange 🧪🌎

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

New term for today: greenhushing. Prioritizing current political favor and profit ahead of humanity's and Earth's future. #ClimateChange 🌎🧪

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

Regardless of climate denial, the data are real. Another problem is deliberate denial - those in power who know the Earth is warming too fast and either don't care or actually want climate to warm. An ice-free Arctic means a Northwest Passage and accessible resources. #ClimateChange 🧪🌎

submitted 50 days ago • 5 comments

H. Holden Thorp: "It is vital to remember that it is the words and actions of all members of the scientific community—universities, journals, societies, associations, activists, and scientists—that form the collective voice of science, not any one statement." 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

A joke that my husband and I often bring up in lectures: "We finished the analyses on our research. We got excellent results, yay us, it's a paper that should be in Nature!" reality sets in We go into the next room and scream our heads off over what the results actually mean.

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Thank you, whoever created this. Climate change and global warming are behind more frequent and intense forest fires. People on the front lines of fighting fires and fighting climate change are under attack. Thank you, fire fighters and climate change fighters. #ClimateChange 🌎🧪

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Climate scientists predicted that heatwaves would become so frequent that ecosystems would not have time to recover between heatwave events. That time is here, not in the nebulous future. My research shows it, others show it. We can slow down warming, save Life, and save us. #ClimateChange 🧪🌎

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Throughout the history of Earth, Life has survived whatever has been thrown at it. 🌎 Mega-volcanoes 🌋 Fully frozen Earth ❄️ Asteroid impacts 🌠 Super-greenhouse climate 🦕 Habitat loss, droughts, poison oceans... 🏜️ LIfe always survives and re-diversifies. 🧪 Do we want to survive, too? #ClimateChange

submitted 65 days ago • 5 comments

Devonian (ca. 380 million years old) colonial rugose coral, encrusted by smaller Syringopora colonial tabulate coral. Alberta, Canada #FossilFriday #Paleontology #Palaeontology 🧪🦖🦕

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Devonian (ca. 380 million years old) colonial rugose coral, encrusted by smaller Syringopora colonial tabulate coral. Alberta, Canada #FossilFriday #Paleontology #Palaeontology 🧪🦖🦕

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Devonian (ca. 380 million years old) colonial rugose coral, encrusted by smaller Syringopora colonial tabulate coral. Alberta, Canada #FossilFriday #Paleontology #Palaeontology 🧪🦖🦕

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

"Deep corals at the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef complex are bleaching for the first time on record. The heat stress is because of a marine heatwave along half the WA coastline that has bleached corals from Ningaloo up to Ashmore Reef at the same time..." 🌎🧪 www.abc.net.au/news/science...

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Bigfoot's Dog #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying #SFF #Bigfoot #Sasquatch

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

From Nature Briefing newsletter: "100 years ago this week, Nature published a column debating whether members of the scientific community should adopt the word ‘scientist’ to describe themselves." 🧪

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

How long will it be until those of us with .bsky accounts will be black-listed, flagged, blocked, or worse? 🧪🌎 #ClimateChange

submitted 68 days ago • 4 comments

Tipping point: the threshold past which a system becomes unstable and, with perturbation, can fail. Metastable: the system passes the tipping point but still appears normal. Rate-induced tipping point: when changes are too rapid, the system can't adjust, so it fails. #ClimateChange🌎🧪

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

NOAA scientists must get approval for all international: Meetings (in person and virtual) Emails to colleagues Phonecalls, Zoom, etc. Cross-border research funds are frozen. Words like climate change are red flags for review. Who's next? #ClimateChange🌎🧪 www.cbc.ca/news/science...

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

I recall this January in northern Canada as very cold, although we did hit several days above 0C. Extreme cold weather does not disprove global warming. Rather, weather extremes - hot or cold - attest to the highly unstable, roller-coaster process of accelerated climate change. #ClimateChange🧪

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment