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  1. Paul Beckwith, a climate science educator, goes through James Hansen's recent warnings about a coming "Super El Niño".

    This video (24:48) assumes a small amount of background in math and science, enough to read time/temperature graphs, but is generally quite accessible in its explanations. He walks through a lot of good stuff like how the El Niño / La Niña cycle works, what some of the "forcings" are that are driving some of these things, why things like aerosols matter, what different models show, what the consensus predictions have been and why Hansen's predicting something substantively stronger.

    It's a pretty worrisome set of things, but Hansen has been an important voice in the climate conversation, and I think Beckwith's presentation is pretty level—trying to just walk through the information dispassionately in a way that can help you understand the science part.

    youtube.com/watch?v=tP3VQk3mIgQ

    Note: Notwithstanding the use of em dash, this post was written by a human.

    #climate #ElNiño #ElNino #SuperElNiño #SuperElNino #ClimateModels #ClimateModeling #warming #heat #GlobalWarming #aerosol #aerosols #OceanWarming #ClimateSensitivity #ClimateScience #science #co2 #IPCC #forcing #Greenhouse #JamesHansen #PaulBeckwith #video #YouTube

  2. #FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture and literature review #CO2 #bloodChemistry #humanHealth #ClimateBreakdownBingo "The increasingly high CO2 levels in the atmosphere are changing our blood chemistry in negative ways, and over decades could result in critical health problems."

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:goyko7xu2ovkegs3g3isrdhz/post/3mgqrcag7ss2m

  3. RE: mastodon.social/@paulbeckwith/

    #FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture and literature review #CO2 #blood #bloodChemistry #health #humanHealth

    This one I did not have on my bingo card :( #ClimateBreakdownBingo

    (but I don't think many of us will experience the effects, after the famines of the coming years...)

    "The increasingly high CO2 levels in the atmosphere are changing our blood chemistry in negative ways, and over decades could result in critical health problems."

    #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateCrisis #polycrisis

  4. #FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture and literature review #SeawaterAging @paulbeckwith

    Just as we were thinking it just can't get that bad...

    "A new research paper shows clearly that #seawater is aging in the North #Atlantic #Ocean, which means that the #AMOC which ventilates the ocean is weakening."

    youtube.com/watch?v=_Q1BfnoHCKE

    #climate #ClimateScience #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #polycrisis

  5. #FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture and literature review #plasticpollution

    "nanoplastics are everywhere and are in much higher levels than anybody thought, with the cumulative mass in the north Atlantic of 27 million tonnes, which exceeds that of much larger plastic chunks.
    Because nanoplastics are so small, they easily pass through biological cell walls, and can penetrate everywhere including the entire human body"

    youtube.com/watch?v=Vi3tOV9AmKQ

    #plastic #plastics #pollution #PET #PVC #nanoplastic