Job alert: We are looking for a highly motivated doctoral researcher in our CRC @ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social to investigate water potential dynamics and water fluxes across the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum 🌳🌲☀️🌧️ Come and join our team @chriswernerlab.bsky.social

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Today is the deadline to respond to NSF's Dear Colleague Letter about restructuring NCAR -- there is still time to submit comments by emailing NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov! www.nsf.gov/funding/info...

Hydroclimate shapes photosynthetic sensitivity to cloud cover across global terrestrial ecosystems Nature Communications - Clouds affect photosynthesis differently across hydroclimates: they enhance it in arid regions but reduce it in humid regions. With climate warming, changes in cloud cover...

Clouds affect photosynthesis: they reduce sunlight but also supply rain. So are clouds good or bad for plants? New paper shows that it depends on water availability. Clouds will shrink in the warming future. That makes vegetation decline in arid regions and increase in humid regions. rdcu.be/e3TmT

Trump's Climate Supercomputer Plans Threaten US Insurance Market: Actuaries A new letter from the American Academy of Actuaries draws a direct line between the planned dismantling of NCAR and higher homeowners insurance costs for US consumers.

Need more industries to speak up against the attacks on NCAR.

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Note on Philip Glass stationery: “After thoughtful consideration, I have decided to withdraw my Symphony #15 ‘Lincoln’ from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Symphony #15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony. Therefore, I feel an obligation to withdraw this Symphony premiere from the Kennedy Center user its current leadership.” Followed by a handwritten signature and the printed name “Philip Glass.”

Always the minimalist.

My OpEd with @agu.org @eos.org on #SaveNCAR. Please check out what we can do together to speak on the value of this critical infrastructure, and what I believe is a source of American pride possible by over six decades of public investments. Let’s continue to invest in this important public good.

National park signs related to Native Americans, climate change to be removed Among the national parks targeted in the new removal orders are some of the country’s most iconic: Grand Canyon, Glacier, Big Bend and Zion.

They're also removing the remaining glaciers from Glacier National Park.

Cryogenic vacuum distillation‐induced deuterium isotope biases in leaf water and their ecophysiological implications Recent experiments show that cryogenic vacuum distillation (CVD) – the standard method for plant water extraction – can introduce biases into δ2H measurements of stem water. However, whether similar...

New study provides the evidence for the pervasive presence of cryogenic vacuum distillation artefacts in leaf water and identifies deuterium exchange between organic matter and water as the primary underlying mechanism; @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...

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Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

ICOS is pleased to announce that Dr Anna Virkkala is the first recipient of the Ingeborg Levin Early Career Scientist Award🎖️

Her research focuses on terrestrial carbon cycling, climate change, and Arctic ecosystems.

Read the story: icos-cp.eu/news-and-eve...

A new meditation app that embraces climate breakdown.

Breathe in profit. Breathe out responsibility.

If you’ve ever had problems with anxiety from being a fossil fuel executive, this is the app for you.

Brought to you by @olifro.st

Michael Mann to Bill Gates: You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.

All you need to know about Bill Gates' long-standing and misguided take on climate change.
'The solution to the climate crisis isn’t going to come from the fairy-dust-sprinkled flying unicorns that are the “benevolent plutocrats.” They don’t exist.'
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CBS NEWS headline: Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag

CNN headline: Stranded and injured, he drank his own urine to survive in the wild. Here's how an American hiker made it home

The difference between the French and Americans in two headlines. 😆

Sorry @alecluhn.bsky.social

PHOREAU v1.0: a new process-based model to predict forest functioning, from tree ecophysiology to forest dynamics and biogeography Abstract. Climate change impacts forest functioning and dynamics, but large uncertainties remain regarding the interactions between species composition, demographic processes and environmental drivers...

📣So happy to share the PhorEau model, combining models of forest dynamics, plant water relations, and process-based SDM = linking ecophysiology, ecology & biogeography 🌳📈💻
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➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC

Dans le contre-budget du RN, des coupes sans précédent dans la politique environnementale de la France L’écologie serait, avec les immigrés, la première victime des propositions budgétaires formulées par l’extrême droite, jeudi 23 octobre.

Une France soi-disant sans immigrés mais surtout sans biodiversité, surement sans stratégie forestière climatique crédible, et pleine de pesticides. Le bonheur est pour demain...🤢 www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis

Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr

Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.

And you're cutting... the sleeper?

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L’effet Matilda n’est pas une fiction.
Il est inscrit dans l’histoire scientifique.
Il a éclipsé des femmes comme Marthe Gautier, née il y a cent ans, pionnière oubliée de la trisomie 21.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/1LI

@bioclimatology.bsky.social hosted a fascinating workshop on fluxes anywhere and anytime

thanks to all the old and new friends from across the German speaking parts of Europe for attending. here is a list of talks and speakers. and thanks to the Goettingen team for hosting

Are Carbon Offsets Fixable? This article provides a systematic review of the literature on carbon offsets. A growing number of studies have found that the most widely used offset programs continue to greatly overestimate their p...

- Most offset programs overestimate their impact by a factor of 5, 10 or +
- Credit quality is a problem despite efforts to address additionality, leakage, double counting, injustice, verification and permanence
- Overcrediting an intractable problem

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Another two days of great talks and discussions at the Baldocchi Symposium in Göttingen. Lots of fun at the visits of our flux towers Reinshof and Hainich.
Thanks everyone for coming and making it a wonderful event.

First day of the Baldocchi Symposium in Göttingen. More than 40 scientists are discussing fluxes anywhere and anytime. Great atmosphere!

Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c

POLITICO Pro: Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.

Setting aside the absolute scientific idiocy of the specifics here, reflect for just a moment on the fact that there's a list of "banned words" at all.
That's fascism and unAmerican.

"Energy Dept adds #climatechange and emissions to list of banned words"

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1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.

2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.

3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

🚂 Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne Signez la pétition maintenant !

@egu.eu community please consider signing this petition to try and save the nightjet to Vienna🚂 A peine lancés et déjà supprimés ? Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne, un voyage bas-carbone largement plébiscité par ses utilisateurs agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...

MSF forced to suspend activities amid Israeli offensive in Gaza City | MSF The intense Israeli forces' offensive in Gaza City, Palestine, is putting our staff and patients at an unacceptable level of risk to continue our lifesaving activities.

“We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces... This is the last thing we wanted.”

We have been forced to suspend our activities and leave Gaza City.

Just like me: I am also normally right about everything.

Contre les «forces antidémocratiques» : le discours de Lula à l'ONU Dans un discours historique et anti-impérial qui a électrisé la salle de l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies avant l’entrée en scène de Donald Trump, Lula s’en est pris à l’ingérence américaine en ...

À l’AGNU, juste avant l’entrée de Trump, un discours anti-impérial a électrisé la salle : Lula a défendu la renaissance du multilatéralisme depuis un continent sans armes de destruction massive, bâti sur l’aspiration à la paix.

Nous le traduisons.

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Women in Hydrology – The Story of a Special Issue It was 2021, and we were not feeling good.  COVID-19 was in full force.  Personally we were experiencing lockdown conditions, disruptions to our work, schooling and childcare arrangements.  Our social...

Mentors matter—especially in challenging times.
The latest #EGU special issue Women in #Hydrology shines a light on women who’ve broken ground in hydrological sciences, & the mentees following their path.

Essential reads on equity, inclusion, & resilience.

Check 👇

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