In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Michael Pollan, The Nature of Our Cities is a stirring exploration of how innovators from around the world are combining urban nature with emerging technologies, protecting the planet’s cities from the effects of climate change and safeguarding the health of their inhabitants.
I'm invited to be jury of a #PhD thesis in #Porto 🇵🇹 which defence could be attended either in person or remotely. I find a decent route by #train from #Marseille 🇫🇷 , via #Madrid 🇪🇸 for a total of 4 trains to reach the destination and about 2 days in the train / stations, both ways for 2 days in Porto.
Regardless of the cost,, and considering the potentiel benefit in terms of exemplarity, would you attend in person ?
🇳🇴 Inside the Extreme Plan to Refreeze the Arctic | WSJ Future of Everything
“A method normally used to create ice-skating rinks is now coming to the rescue of melting sea ice in the Arctic. Since satellite records began in 1979, summer Arctic sea ice has shrunk by around 13% per decade. Could making more ice be a potential solution to this issue?”
#Video length: eight minutes and eighteen seconds.
"Traditional print publishing comes with a high carbon footprint.
[...]
But digital reading seems to have a considerable eco-advantage over print because it is paperless, so it saves trees, pulping and shipping [...] But digital devices also come with a substantial carbon footprint, predominantly at the manufacturing stage."
"Details about oil majors contributing hundreds of millions of dollars to top universities to build relationships that could help the industry avoid taking climate action were inside thousands of pages of documents unveiled Tuesday by Democrats on the House Oversight and Accountability and the Senate Budget committees.
Of the files released Tuesday, many show the extraordinary lengths energy giants have gone to in order to maintain public support for the oil industry — a major employer that’s also one of the nation’s top corporate climate polluters.
Companies have acknowledged, then flat-out ignored, stark warnings about the fate of the planet in relation to their activities."
"Our overarching finding is that except for very high northern latitudes, ESMs project ongoing and future extreme temperature acceleration beyond background warming levels during the hottest months."
Our first ever cohort of Climatematch Impact Scholars has wrapped up their research projects and presented them to experts from Coupled Model Intercomparison Project and LEAP this week.
After last year’s Climatematch Academy, these 11 teams of up-and-coming researchers from all around the globe were selected to pursue research topics ranging from the influence of ENSO on the coastal upwelling along Northwest Africa to fire events in Argentinian Andean-Patagonian Forests.
Throughout this journey, Scholars received computing resources, guidance through workshops, and mentoring from international experts in their fields.
We would like to give a huge thanks to our Scholars, their mentors, our seminar chairs and the group of dedicated volunteers that made the program possible.
Interested in becoming an Impact Scholar yourself? You have one day left to apply to join Climatematch Academy 2024.
We at the Climatematch Impact Scholars Program are so excited to organize the seminars this week (26-27 March) to showcase the research carried out by the Impact Scholars 🎉
This research is a continuation of the projects they carried out during the Computational Tools for Climate Science course in 2023. The seminars will be chaired by climate scientists from CMIP and LEAP and are open to the public ✨ Please register here and join us in cheering on these aspiring climate researchers! 🥳
"In 2023, the development of El Niño is poised to drive a global upsurge in surface air temperatures (SAT), potentially resulting in unprecedented warming worldwide."
"With stronger freshwater anomalies, our results indicate an increase in the risk of warm, dry European summers and of heat waves and droughts accordingly."
📣 CSDE Panel on Climate Impacts on Population Health: Data Science, Demography, & Disparities
Fri, Mar 1, 2024
12:30-1:30PM Pacific
Panelists (UW experts Sameer Shah, Karen Chen, Joan Casey, and Kris Ebi) will prove short overviews of their research & how they've approached the challenges of studying climate impacts on population health through integrating data science techniques & demography to further our understanding.
"The overall acceleration of pinning-point loss is striking and paints a bleak future for many Antarctic ice shelves. From 2000 to 2022, the vast majority of pinning points in the 3,000-km stretch of coastline in West Antarctica from George VI Ice Shelf to Hull Glacier, along with an 800-km stretch of coastline in Wilkes Land, reduced in area or completely disappeared."
"We show that the drastic increase in the human population at risk of exposure is partly due to historical changes in population density, but that climate change has also been a critical driver behind the heightened risk of WNV circulation in Europe."