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Temperature anomalies exceeded 10°C above the 1981-2010 climatological average in February 2025 from Svalbard toward the North Pole! 🔥

Data from @CopernicusECMWF ERA5 reanalysis.

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I just read about more looming cuts coming for certain science agencies right after making this graph. Not good. 🫠

The data for the carbon dioxide (CO₂) growth rate over the last year is now in (gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/gr.ht…).

Graphic provided at zacklabe.com/climate-change-in….

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Submitted the NOAA CCGG pages to the @InternetArchive. They hadn't been archived for a few days.

Just in case ...

web.archive.org/web/2025030916…

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Sunday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data)

• about 740,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,340,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,720,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,260,000 km² below the 1980s mean

Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-ex…

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Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats.

After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.

The reasons I was given:
--> I did not demonstrate that my work was in the public interest, and my ability, knowledge and/or skills did not match NOAA's needs.

More soon. It will be okay.

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Last month observed widespread warmer than average sea surface temperatures surrounding the #Arctic Ocean ice edge. Some of the largest anomalies were along the coast in the southeastern Barents Sea.

Data: NOAA OISSTv2.1 (ncei.noaa.gov/products/optimum…) 🌊

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@xtaran asks:

Q5. I recently stumbled upon a library with hammocks on a bicycle and many more "service cycles" at les-zambules.com/ (via mastodon.social/@JasonThorne/1… and mastodon.top/@pierrick_taluy/1…). And today I had raclette from a raclette oven on a cargo bike.

What services on a bicycle have you seen or know of? Post pictures of them if possible.

#BikeNite #BikeNiteQ #BikeTooter #Cycling cc @bikenite


A mobile bicycle-trailer pop-up library ... with hammocks. Genius.

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A6.
bikeportland.org/2013/02/22/lo…
(3/2)
#BikeNite
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On-line dating in 1928
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Upper ocean heat content is also soaring off the chart with the latest data update from the Japan Meteorological Agency...

0-700 meter graphic at zacklabe.com/climate-change-in…

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Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data)

• about 570,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,140,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,670,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,040,000 km² below the 1980s mean

Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-ex…

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Was it Cory Doctorow who noted that the only way to stop a system being corrupted is to design it to be impossible to corrupt from the outset? AI involves surrendering a HUGE amount of power, and expecting no operator ever to surrender to the temptation to tweak it for their own benefit is ludicrous

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Yes I believe it was indeed Cory Doctorow @pluralistic who noted this. As I recall, he called building in those restraints "Ulysses Pacts" to prevent #enshittification.

The first post I can find in which he coined the term is this:

pluralistic.net/2021/02/15/uly…

Followed by numerous later writings:

pluralistic.net/tag/ulysses-pa…

Maybe @pluralistic can confirm the origins of this concept for us? 😅

I do wonder if an effective Ulysses Pact could ever be designed for an #AI business...

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Midweek ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data)

• about 690,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,330,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,910,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,330,000 km² below the 1980s mean

Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-fi…

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I hadn't a spoon myself so cheers to We Distribute for the reflection. @hello

wedistribute.org/2025/02/radio…

Celebrate community, agency, independence and artists' direct voices and choices, not clout cannons, gatekeepers, curators and skimmers.

Be wary of where you put your art and patronage. We need platforms that work for artist needs, not making artists work for platforms.

Stay weird, stay wild. Demand better of platforms or kick them to the kerb. Lift each other up and punch upwards friends.

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We should as always continue to do our best to as directly as possible support our creative siblings as amiably as we can wherever we as artists can manage to be.

Seek change to build voices, don't shout them down.

We don't have to and shouldn't agree with every single platform and tool out there. Minimise harm where you can and do demand and celebrate good attribution and support paths.

Together we've proven it makes a huge difference being as direct and durable as possible.

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Community building is hard.

Being positive in this timeline and tech climate is brutally hard.

Although the hamster is retiring from positive instigator, please continue where you can in your circles to support and uplift one another.

Same goes for advocacy, research, quietly testing of all the things out there competing for oxygen. We can be vigilant for each other and offer assists to those who ask AND warn when things smell off.

Be safe. Protect our voices.
🐹 ❤️
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