With warming in 2024 taking us past the 1.5 oC Paris limit we could only dream of A White Christmas.

But...

Ho, ho, ho, Carbon Lock can bring you (inorganic) Marine Snow!

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A fun, festive feast for the eyes with a marvelous mind muddle of swivelling seasonal snowflakes.

Enjoy!

Maybe In Between Days was the draw to a research career in fluorescence...

Raising a glass of fluorescent G&T to an unforgetable era!

Fond recall of the extended #crybabywahwah guiterscape finale at the 1985 HotD Wembley gig, sounding suspiciously like a precursor to '87's Kiss Me x3.

There and not there!

Neat optical illusion and good intro to what living/not-living is like for poor Schrödinger's cat :))

#illusionlife

From the first CLock drawdown!

CO2 monitor and pH meter showing restoration of the CLock sorbent, ready for return to us its natural origins.

Cryptic, but crucial to nature positive, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) at scale

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Reposting a great @natureportfolio.bsky.social article on NGS and Solexa SBS. Its origins are found in our original attempt to follow DNA synthesis in real-time at the single molecule level.

For a spin through the early years of Solexa from the bench...
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Interesting and necessary!

SRM pros & cons still need to be weighed, but the cooling potential of a 1% dimming of inbound solar must be kept in check!

1 g SO2 offsets 1 ton CO2 warming, about as much used as preservative in a half kilo bag of dried apricots!

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Iodine clock from an old #Salter's chemistry camp @sussexuni.bsky.social.

H2O2 + 2 I− + 2 H+ → I2 + 2H2O
2S2O3(2−) + I2 → S4O6(2−) + 2I−

Starch indicator turns black with I2 when all thiosulphate consumed & excess peroxide continues oxidising I-. Timing set by more/less acid H+ catalyst.

#Boom

Risks of runaway feel very real with recent rainfall extremes across the globe.

Freshwater forcing from increased precipitation can slow the AMOC, with major domino effects if it shuts down.

The AMOC amok is like the double-pendulum on a path to a tipping point...

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From a post on solar radiation modulation via stratospheric apricots injection...

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When your investor asks for your fastest route to return plus 10X...

Everyday's a school day!

Just discovered the NGS learning curve is called The Carlson Curve and beats Moore's Law after intro of Solexa (now Illumina) sequencing in 2006.

As one of the original Cambridge gang of four and Solexa spin-out, cool to learn just how impactful your research can be.

Marangoni magic for a #sciart Saturday!

Colourmap of the thermocapillary flow induced by laser excited plasmonic nanoparticles.

Same effect as the "tears of wine" phenomenon!

As alcohol in your glass of the good stuff evaporates, surface tension drives droplets up the sides in a ring of tears.

Feels like the north atlantic cold blob may have returned early to the UK today!

First frost of the season, but tropical compared to predicted cold snaps if the AMOC shutsdown!

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Double-pendulum? Simplest coupled system sensitive to tipping points like the AMOC.

When you overlay atmsospheric CO2 ppm from anthro-emissions since 1750, with the last 800 000 years of CO2 records (log timescale), you see the shocking divergence of where we are, from where we should be and the task ahead to net zero!

#anthropocencewoes

Bringing a splash colour to the first post!

Timelapse from the first CO2 drawdown of the Carbon Lock Project process.

Shows the pH drop of the sorbent produced in the CLock process, as CO2 absorption and dissolution to carbonic acid leads to neutralisation.

#naturepositive #climatesolutions