Bianca Perren
@biancaperren.bsky.social
I’m a researcher at the British Antarctic Survey and an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto. I study what lakes in polar regions tell us about past and present climate.
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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/
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/
April 28, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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/
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/
Reposted by Bianca Perren
Mer de Glace
1969 | 2024
We are a world away from the 20th century climate, already in uncharted territories, and that's just the beginning! 😱
Losing glaciers through sole human emission should make us take action 🛑
But we are apathetic...
📷 @glacionaut / IG
1969 | 2024
We are a world away from the 20th century climate, already in uncharted territories, and that's just the beginning! 😱
Losing glaciers through sole human emission should make us take action 🛑
But we are apathetic...
📷 @glacionaut / IG
April 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Mer de Glace
1969 | 2024
We are a world away from the 20th century climate, already in uncharted territories, and that's just the beginning! 😱
Losing glaciers through sole human emission should make us take action 🛑
But we are apathetic...
📷 @glacionaut / IG
1969 | 2024
We are a world away from the 20th century climate, already in uncharted territories, and that's just the beginning! 😱
Losing glaciers through sole human emission should make us take action 🛑
But we are apathetic...
📷 @glacionaut / IG
Reposted by Bianca Perren
When Anonymous is posting about your record, you know something’s wrong
Pierre Poilievre has been in politics for 20 years, he's written 0 legislation; has one of the highest pensions in government. He's voted against the environment & climate nearly 400 times, derailed legislation to benefit workers, and voted against affordable housing initiatives.
March 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
When Anonymous is posting about your record, you know something’s wrong
Reposted by Bianca Perren
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
March 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
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Icy waterfall! #glaciers are so beautiful 😍
One-year time lapse of Triftgletscher, Switzerland, in 2005. No ice at this place meanwhile...
Based on @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social webcam images
One-year time lapse of Triftgletscher, Switzerland, in 2005. No ice at this place meanwhile...
Based on @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social webcam images
March 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Icy waterfall! #glaciers are so beautiful 😍
One-year time lapse of Triftgletscher, Switzerland, in 2005. No ice at this place meanwhile...
Based on @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social webcam images
One-year time lapse of Triftgletscher, Switzerland, in 2005. No ice at this place meanwhile...
Based on @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social webcam images
Here’s a BBC interview about the iconic 2019 Greenland melt photo
'The ice melted beneath our feet': The huskies that revealed the rapid shrinking of Greenland's ice
In 2019, climate scientist Steffen Olsen took a startling photo of huskies appearing to walk on water. The photo went viral as it revealed the reality of Greenland's melting ice.
www.bbc.com
March 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Here’s a BBC interview about the iconic 2019 Greenland melt photo
Reposted by Bianca Perren
Reposted by Bianca Perren
Rage Against the Miocene.
(I love the Miocene, but we're not prepared to live in it!)
(I love the Miocene, but we're not prepared to live in it!)
For the first time ever, recorded atmospheric CO₂ has exceeded 430ppm! The last time CO₂ consistently reached today’s human-driven levels was ∼14 Million years ago, with shorter periods of similar levels around 3-5 Million years ago.
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March 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Rage Against the Miocene.
(I love the Miocene, but we're not prepared to live in it!)
(I love the Miocene, but we're not prepared to live in it!)
New paper out today showing big latitudinal swings in the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies over the last 11,000 years
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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...
www.nature.com
February 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
New paper out today showing big latitudinal swings in the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies over the last 11,000 years
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...