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davidamckay.bsky.social
Climate & Earth system scientist; Lecturer, Sussex Uni; sci-comm, inc climatetippingpoints.info. Into Earth, life, & societies as complex & intertwined systems. More often at https://mstdn.social/@davidamckay davidarmstrongmckay.com
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The weakening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation could be bolstering rainfall over the Amazon, reducing the risk it will reach a tipping point

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New blogpost: *On the Point of Tipping* [some thoughts-in-progress (that ended up quite long...) on the uses & limitations of climate tipping points as a scientific metaphor & model] gaiaexmachina.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/o... #TippingPoints #ClimateChange #EarthSystemScience #PhilosophyOfScience

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

The abstract submission deadline for #EGU25 is tomorrow 12GMT/13CET - if you're working on nonlinear human-Earth system interactions, then consider submitting your latest research to our session! #EGU #EarthSystemScience #TippingPoints #Anthropocene

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Many things familiar to me in this article on the issues stemming from precarious ECR contracts (in some of my first postdoc projects, the zero hours contract I had to be on didn't even allow access to the Uni's *library*, let alone a desk, webprofile, or a long enough contract to write a paper in).

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Some top notch viral content at the moment over on linkedin, of some definitely real firefighters in LA rescuing absolutely real animals with very real smoke pouring out of... themselves? #LAWildfires #AI #LinkedIn

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Dr. David McKay gave an excellent public lecture on ' #Climate Tipping Points' at Cardiff University's School of Earth & Environmental Sciences. How close are they? & What can we do about them? 🧵 1 / 18

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments

Two decades of climate tipping points research: Progress and outlook New article online first in Dialogues on Climate Change by @davidamckay.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Thinking of going to @eurogeosciences.bsky.social GA2025? We have a session on 'Earth resilience, tipping points and human-Earth system interactions in the Anthropocene' - abstract deadline is Wednesday 15th Jan. 13:00 CET! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... #EGU #EarthSystemScience

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

Thinking of going to @eurogeosciences.bsky.social GA2025? We have a session on 'Earth resilience, tipping points and human-Earth system interactions in the Anthropocene' - abstract deadline is Wednesday 15th Jan. 13:00 CET! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... #EGU #EarthSystemScience

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New post from me on recent stories of #CarbonSinks "collapsing" last year & Earth's "buffering capacity" reaching its limits, putting it in context of past trends & future projections. A lukewarm take by now, but hopefully a useful explainer! climatetippingpoints.info/2024/12/03/c... #ClimateChange

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I've got a commentary out today in the new Dialogues on Climate Change journal, summarising progress so far in research on climate #TippingPoints, and reflecting on their implications for climate action & the outlook for future research: doi.org/10.1177/2976... #ClimateChange #OpenAccess

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

I've got a commentary out today in the new Dialogues on Climate Change journal, summarising progress so far in research on climate #TippingPoints, and reflecting on their implications for climate action & the outlook for future research: doi.org/10.1177/2976... #ClimateChange #OpenAccess

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

New post from me on recent stories of #CarbonSinks "collapsing" last year & Earth's "buffering capacity" reaching its limits, putting it in context of past trends & future projections. A lukewarm take by now, but hopefully a useful explainer! climatetippingpoints.info/2024/12/03/c... #ClimateChange

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

I prefer Mastodon (where I'm at mstdn.social/@davidamckay), but now also have a backup profile up here (but for now am mainly broadcast-only here)

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