Global mean sea surface temperature anomalies (departure from average) so far this year ➡️ warmest on record

Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 averaged over January to October

#Google pays 1150 times its entire #lobbying budget in the EU & US to fund its search engine #monopoly.😳

And if that wasn't bad enough, now they're accused of slowing down #YouTube on non-Chrome Browsers like #Firefox! 🤬

Does Google know any shame? Apparently not. 🤡 tuta.com/blog/google-search-mo…

“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.”

#rewilding #france #bears #pyrenees

rewildingmag.com/how-france-br…

How France brought brown bears back to the Pyrenees

Thanks to biological monitoring and community outreach, the once-nearly-extinct bruins are again ambling through the mountains.

^{Peter Yeung (Rewilding Magazine)}

"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."

#rewilding #bison #whales #wolves #elephants #sharks #climatechange

positive.news/environment/why-…

Why tackling biodiversity loss could solve the climate crisis - Positive News

Is tackling biodiversity loss or climate change more important? The beautiful thing is that we don't have to choose, says Martin Wright

^{Martin Wright (Positive News)}

Looking back at temperatures over the last 6 months - another game of trying to find any blue patches... 🫣

Temperature anomalies:
🟥 warmer than average
🟦 colder than average

Data from data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

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.

jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-deep-s…

#Psyche #NASA #Solarocks #space

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Comm Demo Sends, Receives First Data

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.

^{NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)}

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.

#Trees #TreeReport
#ClimateDiary

mastodon.green/@JohanEmpa/1113…

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)

Data via NOAA ERSSTv5 averaged over August-October: psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data…

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.

Graphic from zacklabe.com/arctic-temperatur…. Data from cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsa….

New episodes of Connections!

arstechnica.com/science/2023/1…

Fans of Connections, rejoice! Rebooted classic sci-doc series returns with original host

Ars chats with host James Burke about his "connective" approach to science history.

^{Ars Technica}

Trends in October #Arctic sea ice thickness over approximately the last four decades...

🟦 - increasing ice thickness
🟥 - thinning ice

[Simulated data from PIOMAS. For more information: doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0436…]

““It was an ecological surprise. When I first started with climate change, we thought time scales of 50 years or 100 years, but not three.”
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #environment #extinction

abc.net.au/news/2023-10-24/ody…

Gagged and grief-stricken, but not without hope

The beauty and wonder of the natural world is what keeps scientists like Dana Bergstrom fighting to protect it. She's one of many who say speaking out comes at a cost  but not speaking up can take an even greater personal toll.

^{Jess Davis (ABC News)}