@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org avatar ai6yr , to random

US weather prediction supercomputer reportedly being transferred to an unknown "third party", per NY Times. This is not a "climate change" supercomputer, it's one of the supercomputers used to run the US weather prediction models. 😬

The U.S. National Science Foundation said on Thursday that the management and operations of a supercomputer used by more than 2,000 climate and weather scientists across the country would be transferred from a leading research lab to an undisclosed third party. Science foundation officials said stewardship of the supercomputer, located at a National Center for Atmospheric Research facility in Cheyenne, Wyo., would “transition to a third-party operator” but declined to give details about the new operator or the timeline. The national center, known as NCAR, has 835 scientists and engineers at its headquarters in Boulder, Colo., and has managed the Cheyenne facility since it opened in 2012.

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@Snoro@mastodon.social avatar Snoro , to random

The study published last year found that soils under mature pine forests had about half as much carbon as nearby soils that stayed as grassland, and that the carbon lost from the soil was equal to around a third of the carbon that the trees had absorbed from the atmosphere

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-climate-benefits-tree-soil-carbon.html

@pitchaya@mastodon.social avatar pitchaya , to random

"We urgently need to overcome the capitalist law of value and democratise our economy, so that we can organise production around urgent social and ecological priorities. After all, we are the producers of the goods, the services, the technologies. It is our labour and our planet’s resources that are at stake. And so we must claim the right to decide what is produced, how, and for what purpose."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2026/feb/12/capitalist-model-climate-growth-capitalism-species-humanity

@nuwagaba2@mastodon.social avatar nuwagaba2 , to random

Here we're combating change and fight through fruits in schools and other public places. Each child at a certain school in our community was requested to plant a tree on every birth day which world help yo increase the number of trees planted each year.

Tomatoes being grown in sacks

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@petergleick@fediscience.org avatar petergleick , to random

They can hide, censor, and deny change science but that doesn't change the .
They can try to repeal the Finding but that doesn't change the danger.
Reality will always win and history will never forget what they're doing and who is doing it.

@pitchaya@mastodon.social avatar pitchaya , to random

'Global temperatures have been rising for decades. But many scientists say it’s now happening faster than ever before...“We’re not continuing on the same path we had before,” said Robert Rohde, chief scientist at Berkeley Earth. “Something has changed.”'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2026/climate-change-temperature-rate-accelerating/

@sgtgary@mindly.social avatar sgtgary , to random

Assessing the Global Temperature and Precipitation Analysis in January 2026
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-202601

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org avatar ai6yr , to random

LA Times: Get more electricity from coal, Trump tells Department of Defense

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-02-11/get-your-electricity-from-coal-trump-tells-department-of-defense

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@alxd@writing.exchange avatar alxd , to random

I keep seeing a lot of writers and youtubers still using images to illustrate - even Aeon in their latest article did so.

Could I ask you to help spread https://storyseedlibrary.org/ around?

If you know a / creator who might want to talk about the movement, could you share the Library with them?

All SSL is human-made, Creative Commons (some even for commercial use) and translated to multiple languages!

@jhlyon@mastodon.social avatar jhlyon , to random
@gsymon@mstdn.social avatar gsymon , to random

It's hard to imagine how dumb supposedly intelligent people can be. How much is it costing to deal with floods, now and in the future + heatwaves + droughts?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8g20xgdjwo

@gsymon@mstdn.social avatar gsymon , to random

Important to remember, that there is no going back.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ew90vj8vyo

@dallo@pouet.chapril.org avatar dallo , to random

Me with my bike, meanwhile...

Starbucks scraps $250,000 cap on boss's use of company jet

> Brian Niccol uses the jet to commute almost 1,000 miles (1,600km) from his family home in Newport Beach, California, to the firm's headquarters in Seattle.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20gy48571po

@ApaulD@aus.social avatar ApaulD , to random

“A small group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts seem poised to pay off.”

NOTE Heritage Foundation sponsorship

https://archive.md/zJY6r

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/climate/endangerment-finding.html

@maugendre@mas.to avatar maugendre , to random

Countries publish data on activities & emissions. So it's convenient to cluster them to demonstrate relationships.

Today i found that countries from Argentina to Australia via ZA emit methane in the same proportion: from cattle then sheep.
(This does not say anything about their .)

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@ProPublica@newsie.social avatar ProPublica , to random

A newly updated reference manual for U.S. judges that provides answers to scientific and technical questions has eliminated some 90 pages about climate science.

It comes as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts.
https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-judicial-center-climate-change-republican-pressure?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

@Akshay@eupolicy.social avatar Akshay , to random

New EU rules to stop the destruction of unsold clothes and shoes

“Instead of discarding stock, companies are encouraged to manage their stock more effectively, handle returns, and explore alternatives such as resale, remanufacturing, donations, or reuse.”

https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-stop-destruction-unsold-clothes-and-shoes-2026-02-09_en

@petergleick@fediscience.org avatar petergleick , to random

US Judiciary deletes a chapter on science in the newest edition of its reference manual on scientific evidence because apparently science is a left-leaning concept and MAGAs complained.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judiciary-scraps-climate-chapter-scientific-evidence-manual-2026-02-09

@ScienceDesk@flipboard.social avatar ScienceDesk , to random

The climate crisis is real, human-created and scary, but we shouldn't give in to the idea that it's too late to do anything at all. Here's Hannah Ritchie's story for MIT Press Reader, adapted from her new book, "Clearing the Air," on what the latest science actually says, and how climate fatalism can put us on a worse trajectory.

https://flip.it/JG-5g0

@ScienceCommunicator@mastodon.social avatar ScienceCommunicator , to random

: A review of the ’s in 2025 -

https://www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a-review-of-the-uks-climate-in-2025/

> In this review, we take a look back at the UK’s climate in 2025 and place the record-breaking year in the context of human-caused change.

@Akshay@eupolicy.social avatar Akshay , to random

“The Washington Post’s decision to cut a large share of its climate and environmental reporters is not just a newsroom story…

cuts to environmental journalism thin the information infrastructure societies rely on to recognize risks and respond before harm becomes harder to reverse.”

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/what-is-lost-when-environmental-coverage-is-cut/

@royaards@newsie.social avatar royaards , to random

Winter Olympics of the future. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

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@alxd@writing.exchange avatar alxd , to random
@mrundkvist@archaeo.social avatar mrundkvist , to random

refuses to come to terms with the Swedish labour unions. As a result, nobody is willing to link up their charging stations in the small Swedish town of Vansbro. But Tesla has found a solution.

They've bought some diesel generators. 🙄

https://www.arbetsvarlden.se/tesla-rundar-strejken-driver-laddstation-med-diesel/

@avilewis@mstdn.ca avatar avilewis , to random

There is already life after oil for workers.

No more boom & bust.
No re-training required.
Steady, high-paying work.
Less isolated, closer to home...

It's geothermal drilling to heat and cool new housing!

We need a Canadian Green New Deal to create a million good green jobs building the renewable energy of the future, including geothermal.

https://www.thestar.com/from-the-oil-patch-to-toronto-drilling-for-geothermal-in-toronto/video_c777f1b8-782a-48bf-8ab9-9004f307c15e.html