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Nice paper, but disagree a bit on framing. “Our estimate of 96.9 Gt carbon sequestration potential…amounts to 17.6% of the 640 Gt of carbon emissions since 1750.” This may be smaller than other estimates but that’s still a lot of carbon!!! Much more than I’d expect from DAC this century!
La traduzione italiana mia e di @virginiamagnaghi.bsky.social di Half-Earth Socialism è uscita ieri! @drewpendergrass.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social
Our candles post Boston heat wave lol; so dramatic
VENICE: Exciting event happening on Monday and Tuesday 23-24th of June: www.unive.it/data/33113/2... 3rd HEPM workshop with a great line up of speakers including @drewpendergrass.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social @geoffmann.bsky.social @julianordblad.bsky.social
Folks in Hamburg: I'll be giving a talk on the economist János Kornai at the New Institute on Tuesday 18 June at 12pm. All are welcome! thenew.institute/en/media/a-c...
Based on some quick math, this alone could fund the NSF Plant Genome Research Program for ~4 years; the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology, which was totally axed in the NSF budget request, for ~9 years; and ~ half the total NSF GRFP budget
I'll be doing a mini book tour for our Swedish translation, starting in Stockholm tomorrow with @holgersen.bsky.social! Will be in Umeå on 13 June (www.facebook.com/events/68492...) to do my northernmost event yet (sun rises at 2:20am). All are welcome to talk green left politics!
Hur bygger vi en ekonomi som tillgodoser människors behov inom ekologiska gränser? Missa inte samtalet imorgon med @holgersen.bsky.social och Drew Pendergrass. facebook.com/events/s/sa-...
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I need to actually get to my gate in time, but am stuck processing this particular table:
A closer look to figure out what this means for atmos chemists: -GEO is cut by 45%, but includes a 75.1% cut to research (buffered by smaller cuts to infrastructure) -NCAR gets a 39.7% cut with focus moving to ‘weather & earth system models’ and research to better understand wildfire evolution
Trump's Budget is out. For NOAA, it's exactly what the previous passback document showed. Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
We have NASA's proposed budget for FY26, and it is brutal to science. Earth science would be cut by more than half. Astrophysics (like JWST, Hubble) by nearly two-thirds. Full details at www.nasa.gov/fy-2026-budg...
I'm having a conversation with @drewpendergrass.bsky.social on June 11 in Stockholm about the truly fascinating book Half-Earth Socialism – now available in Swedish!! The conversation will be in English. Join us! @versobooks.bsky.social @verbalforlag.se
Did Deimos write this?? So rude
“Like other Palestinian fathers, I was separated from you by racist regimes and distant prisons. Babies are born every day without their fathers – not because their fathers chose to leave, but because they are taken by war, by bombs, by prison cells and by the cold machinery of occupation.”
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
Against the Crisis, alongside great titles from @zetkincollective.bsky.social, @drewpendergrass.bsky.social, @wimcarton.bsky.social, and @taddelay.bsky.social, is now 30% off!
🚨 Holgersen at Harvard! For those nearby: Come see @holgersen.bsky.social talk about his new book with me and others interested in economic and ecological crises!
From the latest episode - @quinnslobodian.com on how all too often the far right has been mistakenly portrayed as the enemy of neoliberalism - and even capitalism in toto:
This is a horrifying violation of Rumeysa's constitutional rights to due process and free speech. She must be immediately released. And we won't stand by while the Trump Administration continues to abduct students with legal status and attack our fundamental freedoms.
I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
Columbia has expelled the president of @swcolumbia.bsky.social, a HELU member org, for participation in Palestine solidarity activism. This comes less than 24 hours before SWC's first bargaining session. We stand with SWC-UAW against this illegal interference in bargaining. uaw.org/in-shocking-...
Speak out. Organize. Across all the silos. They are testing to see what they can get away with.
Italian translation of Half-Earth Socialism, by @drewpendergrass.bsky.social and Troy Vettese, coming soon! With @virginiamagnaghi.bsky.social and by Mimesis @drewpendergrass.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social
Rhode Island! I'll be at @symposiumbooks.bsky.social with @drewpendergrass.bsky.social this Friday, February 14th at 6pm. What better way to spend your Valentine's Day than at a delightful bookstore in downtown Providence? www.eventbrite.com/e/author-eve... @pantheonbooks.bsky.social
My friend Kyle Paoletta wrote a book, American Oasis, on the past and future of the US southwest, climate/water politics, and more. I'll be joining him in discussion on Friday at 6pm at Symposium Books in Providence. Join us if you're around! www.eventbrite.com/e/author-eve...
We trained a separate machine learning algorithm to create a synthetic training set, covering this pre-2015 period so that we can create our full 2011-2022 maps. Our synthetic PM2.5 compares very well to a small network of observations in Seoul, which we don't use in training.
One neat thing we tried: South Korea only began measuring PM2.5 in 2015. This is tricky with machine learning, because missing data can lead to big biases. However, the environmental ministry did measure other pollutants (including coarser PM10) which correlate closely with PM2.5.
To give you a sense of what this dataset adds, here is a map of Seoul during an extreme pollution event in May 2016. Many areas outside the city center have no nearby observations, but this tool can help fill the gaps.
PM2.5 is the number one environmental cause of death. Fortunately, governments in east Asia have cracked down on emissions, leading to enormous improvements in air quality everywhere, with no population left behind.
New open-access paper at Atmos. Environment! We used machine learning to transform data from the GOCI satellite -- originally launched to study ocean color -- into daily maps of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) at 2km resolution, 2011-2022. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Bike frozen in fifth gear after the northeast cold snap. Feels like I'm commuting in super smash bros and got hit by the ice climbers.
*Laughing like dr. evil while I put a nice preliminary result in this grant proposal* the government will have no choice but to give me $200,000 now
I made a political economy & climate crisis starter pack! 💸🏝️⛽️🌲 It’s incomplete - who else is on here? go.bsky.app/GJLn7zk
Swedish edition out Saturday! verbalforlag.se/bocker/halvj...
I think this is a big part of it — lots of seventh day adventists too
Please do!
Adding the Manichaeans to my list of vegetarians
