Karin Kvale
@kkvale.bsky.social
Earth system scientist, Aotearoa Blue Ocean Research
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Bad news for large natural carbon sinks: "Our findings suggest the potential for a similar response to climate change by woody aboveground biomass in moist tropical forests globally, which could culminate in a long-term switch from carbon sinks to carbon sources."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source - Nature
A transition from carbon sink to source for the aboveground woody biomass of moist tropical Australian forests has occurred, driven by increasingly extreme climate anomalies.
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Bad news for large natural carbon sinks: "Our findings suggest the potential for a similar response to climate change by woody aboveground biomass in moist tropical forests globally, which could culminate in a long-term switch from carbon sinks to carbon sources."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New national climate plans have barely moved the needle on limiting global warming. Yet there is hope.
According to UNEP's latest #EmissionsGap Report, accelerated adoption of renewable energy and falling costs mean we have the tools to cut emissions now: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
According to UNEP's latest #EmissionsGap Report, accelerated adoption of renewable energy and falling costs mean we have the tools to cut emissions now: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
New national climate plans have barely moved the needle on limiting global warming. Yet there is hope.
According to UNEP's latest #EmissionsGap Report, accelerated adoption of renewable energy and falling costs mean we have the tools to cut emissions now: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
According to UNEP's latest #EmissionsGap Report, accelerated adoption of renewable energy and falling costs mean we have the tools to cut emissions now: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
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I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once:
- Things are going to get worse, no matter what
- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org
- Things are going to get worse, no matter what
- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org
January 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once:
- Things are going to get worse, no matter what
- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org
- Things are going to get worse, no matter what
- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org
Reposted by Karin Kvale
There has been a lot of recent interest in mitigating "super pollutants", short-lived climate pollutants like methane and refrigerants. We should cut emissions, but using them as carbon offsets risks breaking the math of net zero: www.theclimatebrink....
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
There has been a lot of recent interest in mitigating "super pollutants", short-lived climate pollutants like methane and refrigerants. We should cut emissions, but using them as carbon offsets risks breaking the math of net zero: www.theclimatebrink....
Reposted by Karin Kvale
The CLIVAR/CliC invite you to the workshop:
Polar Heat: Transports, Mechanisms and Global Linkages
-Central Glasgow, UK
-28 Feb – 1 Mar 2026
Deadline to register: 30 Nov 2025
More details: https://lnkd.in/dxzPSsSW
Polar Heat: Transports, Mechanisms and Global Linkages
-Central Glasgow, UK
-28 Feb – 1 Mar 2026
Deadline to register: 30 Nov 2025
More details: https://lnkd.in/dxzPSsSW
October 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The CLIVAR/CliC invite you to the workshop:
Polar Heat: Transports, Mechanisms and Global Linkages
-Central Glasgow, UK
-28 Feb – 1 Mar 2026
Deadline to register: 30 Nov 2025
More details: https://lnkd.in/dxzPSsSW
Polar Heat: Transports, Mechanisms and Global Linkages
-Central Glasgow, UK
-28 Feb – 1 Mar 2026
Deadline to register: 30 Nov 2025
More details: https://lnkd.in/dxzPSsSW
Reposted by Karin Kvale
Reposted by Karin Kvale
Thank you to everyone who joined the 11th SOLAS Seminar on Air–Sea Gas Exchange in Warming Polar Regions: Impacts of the Changing Sea-Ice Scape.
🎥 Watch the recording on SOLAS YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=wqz1...
🎥 Watch the recording on SOLAS YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=wqz1...
October 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Reposted by Karin Kvale
100 years of September sea surface temperature departures through this year. Check out how quickly some of the midlatitudes are warming! 🌊
Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 at doi.org/10.7289/V5T7...
Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 at doi.org/10.7289/V5T7...
October 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
100 years of September sea surface temperature departures through this year. Check out how quickly some of the midlatitudes are warming! 🌊
Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 at doi.org/10.7289/V5T7...
Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 at doi.org/10.7289/V5T7...
Reposted by Karin Kvale
Excuse you! If humans can reach net negative carbon emissions over the next few centuries, researchers suspect the Southern Ocean will “burp” built-up heat into the atmosphere. eos.org/research-spo...
The Southern Ocean May Be Building Up a Massive Burp - Eos
Modeled results suggest that if anthropogenic emissions decrease and the atmosphere cools, heat stored in the Southern Ocean could be released abruptly in a few hundred years, kicking off a temporary ...
eos.org
October 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Excuse you! If humans can reach net negative carbon emissions over the next few centuries, researchers suspect the Southern Ocean will “burp” built-up heat into the atmosphere. eos.org/research-spo...
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Here's an awesome trick - measuring ocean acidity with sound. It's a bit of a gimmick since you really need to tune the instrument per site, but potentially may open a low-cost monitoring tool if developed further. 🧪🌊
Link: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Link: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
October 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Here's an awesome trick - measuring ocean acidity with sound. It's a bit of a gimmick since you really need to tune the instrument per site, but potentially may open a low-cost monitoring tool if developed further. 🧪🌊
Link: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Link: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Reposted by Karin Kvale
The rate at which the atmospheric concentration of CO2 is growing jumped to its highest level ever, in 2024
pretty bad shit!!!!
wmo.int/sites/defaul...
pretty bad shit!!!!
wmo.int/sites/defaul...
October 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The rate at which the atmospheric concentration of CO2 is growing jumped to its highest level ever, in 2024
pretty bad shit!!!!
wmo.int/sites/defaul...
pretty bad shit!!!!
wmo.int/sites/defaul...
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📢 Opportunity Alert!
The MEL Visiting Fellowship Program at Xiamen University invites applications from scholars in marine sciences for 1–6 month research stays.
🗓️ Deadline: 15 November 2025
🌐 More info: mel.xmu.edu.cn/exchange/vis...
The MEL Visiting Fellowship Program at Xiamen University invites applications from scholars in marine sciences for 1–6 month research stays.
🗓️ Deadline: 15 November 2025
🌐 More info: mel.xmu.edu.cn/exchange/vis...
October 14, 2025 at 6:08 AM
📢 Opportunity Alert!
The MEL Visiting Fellowship Program at Xiamen University invites applications from scholars in marine sciences for 1–6 month research stays.
🗓️ Deadline: 15 November 2025
🌐 More info: mel.xmu.edu.cn/exchange/vis...
The MEL Visiting Fellowship Program at Xiamen University invites applications from scholars in marine sciences for 1–6 month research stays.
🗓️ Deadline: 15 November 2025
🌐 More info: mel.xmu.edu.cn/exchange/vis...
Reposted by Karin Kvale
New research showing climate impacts from individual fossil fuel projects. 🥵 🔥 🌏
Woodside’s Scarborough project will increase global temps by 0.00039 C and result in millions of extra coral bleaching and hundreds of extra deaths from extreme heat.
Woodside’s Scarborough project will increase global temps by 0.00039 C and result in millions of extra coral bleaching and hundreds of extra deaths from extreme heat.
For the first time, scientists can show the impact of gas project emissions
Fossil fuel companies and governments argue it's not possible to link climate impacts to specific projects, but Australian researchers have done the numbers.
www.abc.net.au
October 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
New research showing climate impacts from individual fossil fuel projects. 🥵 🔥 🌏
Woodside’s Scarborough project will increase global temps by 0.00039 C and result in millions of extra coral bleaching and hundreds of extra deaths from extreme heat.
Woodside’s Scarborough project will increase global temps by 0.00039 C and result in millions of extra coral bleaching and hundreds of extra deaths from extreme heat.
Reposted by Karin Kvale
🌊 SOLAS Seminar XI – Tomorrow!
Dive in tomorrow (14 Oct 2025, 15:00–16:00 UTC+2, online) for the 11th SOLAS Seminar on “Air–Sea Gas Exchange in Warming Polar Regions: Impacts of the Changing Sea-Ice Scape.”
🔗 Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🌐 More info: www.solas-int.org/events/solas...
Dive in tomorrow (14 Oct 2025, 15:00–16:00 UTC+2, online) for the 11th SOLAS Seminar on “Air–Sea Gas Exchange in Warming Polar Regions: Impacts of the Changing Sea-Ice Scape.”
🔗 Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🌐 More info: www.solas-int.org/events/solas...
October 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
🌊 SOLAS Seminar XI – Tomorrow!
Dive in tomorrow (14 Oct 2025, 15:00–16:00 UTC+2, online) for the 11th SOLAS Seminar on “Air–Sea Gas Exchange in Warming Polar Regions: Impacts of the Changing Sea-Ice Scape.”
🔗 Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🌐 More info: www.solas-int.org/events/solas...
Dive in tomorrow (14 Oct 2025, 15:00–16:00 UTC+2, online) for the 11th SOLAS Seminar on “Air–Sea Gas Exchange in Warming Polar Regions: Impacts of the Changing Sea-Ice Scape.”
🔗 Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🌐 More info: www.solas-int.org/events/solas...
Reposted by Karin Kvale
In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.
October 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.
Reposted by Karin Kvale
Michigan Avenue right now.
October 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Michigan Avenue right now.
Reposted by Karin Kvale
📣Calling all Pacific early career researchers📣
Want to gain experience working, living and conducting science at sea while exploring key issues affecting your region? 🚢🌊.
Applications for the Floating University 2026 voyage. ⏰Applications open until 30 November.
Apply here 👉 bit.ly/4nXODH6
Want to gain experience working, living and conducting science at sea while exploring key issues affecting your region? 🚢🌊.
Applications for the Floating University 2026 voyage. ⏰Applications open until 30 November.
Apply here 👉 bit.ly/4nXODH6
Microsoft Forms
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October 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
📣Calling all Pacific early career researchers📣
Want to gain experience working, living and conducting science at sea while exploring key issues affecting your region? 🚢🌊.
Applications for the Floating University 2026 voyage. ⏰Applications open until 30 November.
Apply here 👉 bit.ly/4nXODH6
Want to gain experience working, living and conducting science at sea while exploring key issues affecting your region? 🚢🌊.
Applications for the Floating University 2026 voyage. ⏰Applications open until 30 November.
Apply here 👉 bit.ly/4nXODH6
Reposted by Karin Kvale
🌊🌍 Hoy celebramos un hito histórico: la ratificación del Tratado de las Naciones Unidas sobre Biodiversidad en Áreas Fuera de Jurisdicción Nacional (BBNJ).
Un acuerdo global que protege las aguas oceánicas internacionales, el 60% del océano.
@imedea.bsky.social @csic.es @csicdivulga.bsky.social
🧵👇
Un acuerdo global que protege las aguas oceánicas internacionales, el 60% del océano.
@imedea.bsky.social @csic.es @csicdivulga.bsky.social
🧵👇
September 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🌊🌍 Hoy celebramos un hito histórico: la ratificación del Tratado de las Naciones Unidas sobre Biodiversidad en Áreas Fuera de Jurisdicción Nacional (BBNJ).
Un acuerdo global que protege las aguas oceánicas internacionales, el 60% del océano.
@imedea.bsky.social @csic.es @csicdivulga.bsky.social
🧵👇
Un acuerdo global que protege las aguas oceánicas internacionales, el 60% del océano.
@imedea.bsky.social @csic.es @csicdivulga.bsky.social
🧵👇
Reminder to register!
🚨 Register Now!
Join SOLAS Seminar XI “Air-Sea gas exchange in warming polar regions: impacts of the changing sea-ice scape” on 14 October 2025, 15:00-16:00 UTC+2, online!
Free registration: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
More info：https://www.solas-int.org/events/solas-seminar/solas-semianr-xi.html
Join SOLAS Seminar XI “Air-Sea gas exchange in warming polar regions: impacts of the changing sea-ice scape” on 14 October 2025, 15:00-16:00 UTC+2, online!
Free registration: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
More info：https://www.solas-int.org/events/solas-seminar/solas-semianr-xi.html
September 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Reminder to register!
Reposted by Karin Kvale
The Labor govt's 2035 target of 62% reduction in net national GHG emissions below 2005 emissions levels is aligned with >2.4°C of warming (above pre-industrial levels)
Not sure how destructive it'll be cos 2.4°C is BEYOND the range of this Climate Council infographic warning of appalling impacts
Not sure how destructive it'll be cos 2.4°C is BEYOND the range of this Climate Council infographic warning of appalling impacts
September 18, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The Labor govt's 2035 target of 62% reduction in net national GHG emissions below 2005 emissions levels is aligned with >2.4°C of warming (above pre-industrial levels)
Not sure how destructive it'll be cos 2.4°C is BEYOND the range of this Climate Council infographic warning of appalling impacts
Not sure how destructive it'll be cos 2.4°C is BEYOND the range of this Climate Council infographic warning of appalling impacts
Reposted by Karin Kvale
🚨 Register Now!
Join SOLAS Seminar XI “Air-Sea gas exchange in warming polar regions: impacts of the changing sea-ice scape” on 14 October 2025, 15:00-16:00 UTC+2, online!
Free registration: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
More info：https://www.solas-int.org/events/solas-seminar/solas-semianr-xi.html
Join SOLAS Seminar XI “Air-Sea gas exchange in warming polar regions: impacts of the changing sea-ice scape” on 14 October 2025, 15:00-16:00 UTC+2, online!
Free registration: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
More info：https://www.solas-int.org/events/solas-seminar/solas-semianr-xi.html
September 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM
🚨 Register Now!
Join SOLAS Seminar XI “Air-Sea gas exchange in warming polar regions: impacts of the changing sea-ice scape” on 14 October 2025, 15:00-16:00 UTC+2, online!
Free registration: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
More info：https://www.solas-int.org/events/solas-seminar/solas-semianr-xi.html
Join SOLAS Seminar XI “Air-Sea gas exchange in warming polar regions: impacts of the changing sea-ice scape” on 14 October 2025, 15:00-16:00 UTC+2, online!
Free registration: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
More info：https://www.solas-int.org/events/solas-seminar/solas-semianr-xi.html
Reposted by Karin Kvale
SOLAS is organising a special section "Greenhouse Gas Budgets Across the Land-Ocean Continuum" in the journal Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research. Submissions welcome for 2025! Article Processing Charges are waived.
More info: mailchi.mp/xmu/solas-an...
More info: mailchi.mp/xmu/solas-an...
August 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Congratulations to Ziman Zhang on this excellent PhD paper! 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ecological risk assessment of marine plastic pollution - Nature Sustainability
Escalating marine plastic pollution has been harmful for marine ecosystems. Here the authors evaluate the relative ecological risks posed by marine plastic globally through different exposure pathways...
www.nature.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Congratulations to Ziman Zhang on this excellent PhD paper! 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I have posted a preprint for comment 🌊 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
Reawakening of the bipolar seesaw under CO2 stabilisation
Anti-phased polar thermal and ventilation patterns are a recognised feature of climates of the past, thought to influence climate transitions. Here we initiate a bipolar seesaw in an earth system mode...
www.researchsquare.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I have posted a preprint for comment 🌊 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
Ocean plastics are not going to threaten the climate 🌊🧪
‘A double-whammy problem’: how plastic dust is altering natural processes
Carbon emissions from plastics production are no surprise. But when plastic turns to dust, it also affects how the planet absorbs carbon from the air, on land and in the oceans.
www.nature.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Ocean plastics are not going to threaten the climate 🌊🧪