The Global Monitoring Laboratory conducts research on greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in clouds, aerosols, and surface radiation, and recovery of stratospheric ozone.
I remember when small experiments to test how high CO2 would affect plant growth used 350 ppm for the “high CO2” treatment. The world has blasted past what we viewed back then as a disastrous number.
NASA created images of the Blue Marble (earth globe) based on data from NOAA and NASA - Wikimedia Commons Image of the Day: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil… - What aliens wouldn't give for this view...
“We’ve reached a tipping point where we have sufficient scientific knowledge of how to reintroduce species,” says Neil Carter, associate professor of #wildlife #conservation at the University of Michigan.
“But the social and political aspects are the other side of the coin. The biggest risk emerges from these animals coming into conflict with people and pets. It’s probably the number one issue facing conservation.”
"Maintaining healthy populations of just nine key wild species (or groups of species) – including elephants and wolves, but also wildebeest, musk ox and bison, as well as marine fish, whales, sharks and sea otters – can play a vital role in controlling the carbon cycle on land and sea."
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BREAKING: On November 14, NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment aboard the Psyche spacecraft beamed a near-infrared laser encoded with test data from nearly 16 million kilometers away (50 light-seconds) – about 40 times farther than the Moon is from Earth – to the Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California. This is the farthest-ever demonstration of optical communications.
DSOC, an experiment that could transform how spacecraft communicate, has achieved ‘first light,’ sending data via laser to and from far beyond the Moon for the first time.
779 trees planted in the Philippines in September, paid for by Mastodon.green tooters.
€1286 in September fees = €257 for trees = 779 mangroves.
Altogether, so far, the instance's members have planted 18,285 new trees on Earth.
The server runs on 100% renewable energy. 20% of the small monthly membership fee goes to certified tree-planting. Danke, tak & thanks to our admin @JohanEmpa for his work and for sharing the figures.
Our oceans have been record warm over the last three months due to human-caused climate change and an (unlucky) combination of other factors (e.g., transition from 3 years of La Niña to El Niño, atmospheric circulation forcing, multi-decadal variability, solar activity)
Very large portions of the #Arctic observed temperatures more than 5°C above the 1981-2010 reference period last month! This was especially prominent in areas of missing sea ice.
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