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Heidi Cullen
@heidicullen.bsky.social
climate change 🌡/extreme weather ⚡️/science communication 📣 | ocean health 🌊/ Climate Director @schmidtsciences | formerly @MBARI_News @WWAttribution @ClimateCentral @weatherchannel @NCAR_Science | i ❤️ Labs | thalassophile 💙
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Discover the new CAMS Methane Hotspot Explorer app! Visualise CH4 plumes and identify their sources with this cutting-edge tool developed with the Netherlands Institute for Space Research.

Read more atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cams-methane...

#CopernicusAtmosphere
February 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Hard to process the devastation I’ve witnessed in the last two days. Still in a state of shock for those who have lost so much in such a short period of time. #NoWords 💔
January 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
We're excited to announce the launch of a new virtual institute! The Decarbonization and Energy Virtual Institute (DEVI) is seeking expressions of intent for innovative, cross-disciplinary projects that address methodological gaps in energy transition modeling.

Learn more at: lnkd.in/em2J3SxM
December 3, 2024 at 9:44 AM
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🧪 📍 🌊 🦑 Amazing opportunity - OceanX has opened applications for 2025 spots in our Young Explorers and Early Career Explorers programs. This is an opportunity to join us on the OceanXplorer. Application sites: lnkd.in/ga_GuwRE
LinkedIn
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November 26, 2024 at 3:38 AM
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I am very glad to share this review paper: 📃 "Machine Learning for the Physics of Climate." As stated in the title, the review targets the opportunities and challenges of machine learning for climate physics. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
@pedramh.bsky.social
Machine learning for the physics of climate - Nature Reviews Physics
Artificial intelligence techniques, specifically machine learning, are being increasingly applied to climate physics owing to the growing availability of big data and increasing computational power. T...
www.nature.com
November 25, 2024 at 6:18 AM
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Okay, I have to do a thread on this pretty amazing article because it is just seriously chockers with eye-opening stats about 'direct air capture' - ie, sucking up air and trying to remove carbon dioxide from it

news.mit.edu/2024/reality...
Reality check on technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air
An MIT Energy Initiative study finds many climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost and deployment of “direct air capture” and therefore may not bring abo...
news.mit.edu
November 26, 2024 at 8:26 AM
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How will climate change in your region?

The C3S Atlas allows you to explore and analyse past and future climate monitoring and change information in a flexible way.🧵
November 20, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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Are we already breaching the Paris Agreement this year?

No, but... While it is almost certain that 2024 will be more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level, the limit set by the Paris Agreement applies to a long-term average of at least 20 years.🧵
November 15, 2024 at 10:24 AM
An important area of transdisciplinary research...
A very accessible intro to how AI can help improve climate models, through reducing uncertainty, data limitations and more (featuring this Nature paper from July www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

www.economist.com/science-and-...
from The Economist
Artificial intelligence is helping improve climate models
More accurate predictions will lead to better policy-making
www.economist.com
November 14, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Thank you @climateofgavin.bsky.social and @hausfath.bsky.social. This needed to be said and you said it so well. (And thanks for the nod to World Weather Attribution, R2O was one of our goals.)
Gavin Schmidt (@climateofgavin.bsky.social) and I have a guest essay in today's New York Times about the exceptional and not fully explained recent global temperatures, and climate science can become more "operational" to address these questions: www.nytimes.com/2024...
Opinion | Climate Science Can’t Keep Up With the Warming Planet
We need more timely updates in response to the rapid changes to the climate.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Investing in R&D has never been more critical. In the US, R&D expenditure as a share of GDP has stagnated since the mid-1960s and is below 1%. We can do better.
Never forget that greenhouse gas emissions and and economic growth decoupled a LONG time ago. Anyone who tells you that our economy depends on ever-increasing use of fossil fuels is mistaken at best, and lying at worst, and they've been wrong for at least 20 years.
November 13, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Thank you, Pierre, for this critical work to better understand and constrain the global carbon budget! 🙏 A must-read thread for anyone who cares about bending the carbon curve. We live on a dynamic and changing planet, and many of those changes result from our choices.
The global carbon budget 2024 is out
November 13, 2024 at 10:33 AM
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Here is why 2024 is virtually certain be the warmest year on record and first one above 1.5°C 👇
November 8, 2024 at 7:58 AM
Honored and grateful to have raised three future service dogs. 🙏 🐾 These amazing pups bring independence, comfort, and so much joy to their future human partners. ❤️ #GuideDogs #PuppyRaiser
Behavioral scientists are studying puppies in hopes of developing a behavior model that can predict the likelihood a dog will successfully complete training and enter the canine workforce.
They’re all good boys and girls, but only some can be service dogs
For now, there is no way to predict which dogs will make good workers, but canine behavioral scientists are trying to change that.
wapo.st
November 9, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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With the October data in GISTEMP, it is almost certain that 2024 will be a new annual temperature record.

Best estimate is for 1.47°C above pre-industrial, but it could be above 1.5°C depending on the this month and next (of course).
November 8, 2024 at 8:05 PM
The alarming slowdown of the ocean carbon pump shows why we need a global ocean health observing system. @SOCCOMProject @GO_BGC @bgc_argo data are critical to study how climate change is changing the ocean, especially the Southern Ocean.

bit.ly/3RH0yvR @ScienceMagazine
December 15, 2023 at 4:42 PM
The SciComm Team at @mbarinews.bsky.social just posted our next 2-year Science Communication Fellowship opportunity. If you 💙 ocean science, tech, & conservation and are passionate about inclusive #SciComm, multimedia storytelling, & climate change, check it out: mbari.co/SciCommFello...
December 5, 2023 at 3:57 PM
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The new UNEP emissions gap report includes a chapter focusing on carbon dioxide removal.

It has a neat figure highlighting the feasibility, scalability, ease of MRV, environmental consequences, public perception, cost, and permanence of CDR pathways: www.unep.org/resources/em...
November 21, 2023 at 12:43 AM
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Published today in Nat Comm: Experimental mining plumes and ocean warming trigger stress in a deep pelagic jellyfish. With Vanessa Stenvers, who also put together below video (and is not yet here) and a great team
🧪🦑🌎
rdcu.be/drFvO
November 21, 2023 at 7:34 PM
Yes. We need to embrace our inner thalassophile. 💙🌊
⚡️Policy Brief⚡️

Incorporating #DeepSea #Biodiversity into #ClimateChange Policy.

@DeepStewardship

👉 www.dosi-project.org/wp-content/u...
November 22, 2023 at 4:46 PM
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We now have results from a modern reanalysis product (ERA5) that shows November 17th was in fact the first day the world has experienced that was 2C above the preindustrial (1850-1900) average.

Hopefully it will prove transitory, but its a worrying sign.
Provisional ERA5 global temperature for 17th November from @CopernicusECMWF was 1.17°C above 1991-2020 - the warmest on record.

Our best estimate is that this was the first day when global temperature was more than 2°C above 1850-1900 (or pre-industrial) levels, at 2.06°C.
November 19, 2023 at 8:59 PM
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The Octopus Garden captured the curiosity of millions of people around the world. MBARI and its advanced deep-sea technology have helped BBC Studios Natural History Unit share the story of these deep-sea octopus moms as part of their new series, Planet Earth III.

www.mbari.org/news/mbari-t...
MBARI technology featured in an episode of BBC Studios Natural History Unit’s landmark series
MBARI robots and cameras allowed filmmakers to capture an intimate look at nesting deep-sea octopus for the new global series, Planet Earth III.
www.mbari.org
November 16, 2023 at 10:23 PM
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How do we balance the potential benefits of marine CO₂ removal (mCDR) against the risk of negative environmental impacts?

We need a code of conduct.

www.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/u...
November 2, 2023 at 9:13 PM
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One of the world's biggest fossil fuel companies is selling carbon offsets from a not-yet-operational CDR facility to TD bank, who have provided $173 billion USD in fossil financing since

10th worst fossil financer in the world

Do carbon removal companies care?

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
November 2, 2023 at 10:29 AM
$143 Billion...
That's the annual global price tag of extreme weather events attributed to climate change. A new study out in @NatureComms: bit.ly/45naE8y
October 6, 2023 at 2:57 PM