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  1. Glaciers are going away, some slower, some faster. But we are losing them at an alarming rate. Do you want to know when if the glacier closer to you will vanish? This is a handy database to look for that.

    glacierextinction.com

    #Glaciers #ClimateChange

  2. Narwhals help scientists map Greenland’s fjords

    To Greenland, where scientists have been collecting otherwise hard-to-gather data with the help of some unconventional lab partners.…
    #Conflict #Conflicts #War #Arctic #arcticsea #Atlantic #Danmark #denmark #fjords #glaciers #Greenland #narwhals #whales
    europesays.com/3246281/

  3. Documents shed light on the earliest-known instance of #ClimateScience funded by the #FossilFuel industry, adding to growing understanding of #BigOil ’s knowledge of #ClimateChange . Fossil fuel industry sponsored climate science in 1954.

    February 1, 2024, Rebecca John

    Excerpt: "Unknown until now, however, is the fact that Keeling’s earliest research into carbon dioxide across the western U.S. was funded in part by the fossil fuel industry via a private foundation — and that in 1954 this foundation was informed of the potential impact of manmade carbon dioxide emissions on both the climate and human civilization.

    "Newly discovered documents affirm that the #automobile and #petroleum industries funded early climate science #Keeling conducted at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) between 1954 and 1956. Records show that 'oil and auto companies' sponsored the scientist’s research via an organization called the Southern California Air Pollution Foundation, formed in 1953 to tackle Los Angeles’s infamous smog. American Motors, #Chrysler, #Ford, and #GeneralMotors were among 18 automotive companies that gave money to the foundation.

    "A 1959 internal U.S. Public Health Service memo also identifies the #AmericanPetroleumInstitute ( #API ) and the #WesternOilAndGasAssociation — the oldest petroleum trade association in the U.S., which is now known as the #WesternStatesPetroleumAssociation — as 'major contributors to the funds of the Air Pollution Foundation.' Its Board of Trustees included top-level representatives from the Southern California Gas Company, the Southern California Edison Co., Chrysler, General Motors, and Union Oil (now #Chevron).

    "And from mid-1955, these trustees were also appraised of research projects by a seven-man 'technical advisory committee,' which included a senior official from API as well as scientists from the Richfield Oil Corporation (now #BP ) and #Chrysler.

    "With the discovery of these Air Pollution Foundation documents, it is now possible to date the earliest sponsorship of climate science by the fossil fuel industry to 1954, approximately a quarter of a century before Exxon’s internal research program of the late 1970s. These new documents provide important evidence that the fossil fuel industry has been intricately connected to climate science from its earliest beginnings — not only as a driver of the greenhouse effect behind climate change, but also as a contributor to the scientific discoveries that would transform our understanding of humanity’s relationship with the Earth and its atmosphere. "

    Read more:
    theinteldrop.org/2024/02/02/bi

    #ExxonKnew #BigOilKnew #FossilFuels #ExxonLied #Oligarchy #Oiligarchy #ClimateDenial #BigOil #BigOilStillLies #ClimateDeception #ClimateCrisis
    #Capitalism #Exxon #ClimateCrisis
    #MakeCorporatePollutersPay #Glaciers
    #GlobalWarming #FossilFools #BigOilAndGas

  4. Blatten, Switzerland
    A drone view shows a few remaining houses surrounded by the Lonza River nearly a year after a huge rock and ice slide triggered by the collapse of the Birch glacier destroyed much of the village of Blatten.

    Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters

    #photography
    #Switzerland
    #glaciers
    #landslide
    #Blatten
    #AltText

  5. After some time of trying mastodon, I quite like it here and will probably stay so it's maybe time for an introduction:
    I'm a student in physical #oceanography in northern germany and mainly here for finding interesting research related content. Second interest is just general #opensource stuff & programming and third is politics.
    For the research part I'm mostly a fan of #hydrothermalvents , #oceans , #climate , the #arctic , #antarctic , #glaciers , #seaice but also #ships and more.

  6. #ClimateCatastrophe #Glaciers #SeaLevelRise #Antarctica

    (3/n)

    ...not all the #ice will return.👈

    “The impacts of #Antarctic #SeaIce staying low for over twenty years would be profound, including on local and global weather,” #LouiseSime, a co-author on the #BAS [#BritishAntarcticSurvey] study, said in a statement."

    "👉The #ThwaitesGlacier in #WestAntarctica — nicknamed the “#DoomsdayGlacier” because its collapse could cause catastrophic sea level rise👈 — is ...

  7. Climate: why disinformation is so persistent

    A research team has tested six psychological interventions to combat climate misinformation. It shows how difficult it is to combat these messages, which are resistant to scientific information.

    globalplantcouncil.org/climate via @unigeneve #ClimateChange #Climate #COP28 #ClimateDisinformation #Disinformation #Nature #Science #Glaciers #HeatWave

  8. #Earth had hottest three-month period on record, with unprecedented sea surface temperatures and much #Extreme #Weather : WMO

    Half of #Glaciers #Vanish with 1.5 Degrees of #Warming : NASA

    What does the surprise #Discovery of the world’s second-deepest deep #BlueHole entail? : Medium

    Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks

    knowledgezone.co.in/resources/

  9. Research into one of our most iconic peaks is uncovering an alarming reality.

    #OurFrozenPlanet tells stories of communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis - inspiring hope that change is possible.
    What Happens If Everest Melts? | Our Frozen Planet | BBC Earth