After a year+ living in the Norwegian Arctic (69°N) writing on an @icwa.org fellowship, I’ve finally joined friends on Substack.

For a view from the world’s fast-warming region, follow here:

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Real time data coming out of the world’s climate measurement systems should be stopping us in our tracks. The latest estimate shows that, this week, the Earth is 1.9°C warmer than before we began burning fossil fuels.
#climatecrisis #ClimateEmergency #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-re-t...

NOAA produces some of the world’s most powerful climate models and is sustained by thousands of employees. Recent and future staffing cuts put NOAA’s computational power at risk, @brettvsimpson.bsky.social reports from Norway: www.icwa.org/arctic-ice-u...

While Indigenous "permanent participants" are considered equal stakeholders to nation-states at the @arcticcouncil.bsky.social, political jockeying often overshadows their interests. This may change w Greenland's chairship, ICWA fellow @brettvsimpson.bsky.social reports: www.icwa.org/greenland-ch...

@brettvsimpson.bsky.social sent these stunning photos from aboard the Dana, a Danish research vessel that sailed for 3 weeks on the ice-edge east of Greenland. "Seeing so much Arctic ocean & wildlife from the confines of a ship is both world expanding and contracting," she reports.

Arctic temperatures are rising 4x faster than on the rest of the planet. The last few years, Tromsø winters have been going off-book. December brought record-setting precipitation. Unpredictable melts triggered more avalanches, @brettvsimpson.bsky.social reports: www.icwa.org/norway-arcti...

@robbieandrew.bsky.social has a page on National Extraction-based Emissions, and also provides the per capita data, but no plot (that I could find)... so I decided to have a look.

Solid 3rd place for Norway in 2022 (latest), steadily moving up the "ranks".

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The Trump administration doesn’t want to talk about climate change. But it is a military reality in the Arctic, @brettvsimpson.bsky.social reports:

Even if no one in the administration will say it out loud, the Greenland thing is a climate thing. By @brettvsimpson.bsky.social; gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Last August, I moved to the Arctic as an @icwa.org fellow. From here, it’s obvious that Trump wants Greenland for “security” threats caused by Arctic warming. But I was surprised to learn how seriously the DoD and NATO have been taking CC as a threat of its own. Now, that may be changing. My latest:

Dear California farmers and Congressional representatives:
Trump has just literally thrown millions of gallons of #water away that farmers were counting on this summer, purely to brag that he could.
That #cawater cannot be captured or used now by anyone.

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"Climate change is the real threat to Arctic defense and security," @brettvsimpson.bsky.social says at the @arcticfrontiers.bsky.social panel "Arctic Security Seminar: Adapting to Geopolitical Uncertainty" this week in Tromsø, Norway. arcticfrontiers.com