#Atmospheric

There are many reasons I use wildlife as my main measure of environmental health and ecological sustainability, not least of which because they demonstrate an underlying principle that everyone needs
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1/ Last Friday @ESO released this awesome image of the surface of Betelgeuse, taken with the SPHERE instrument. You may have read that SPHERE uses a deformable mirror to correct
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New work led by @k_r_gonz on the different "flavors" of U.S. West Coast atmospheric rivers is out this week! We find that wind- vs. moisture-dominated ARs have distinct characteristics that
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Why I love black metal over thrash, death, or heavy metal in general.I don’t see it as some superior or refined genre of metal. Its something that is difficult to
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THREAD: Does methane from cattle have the same warming impact as methane from fossil fuels? The answer is NO, but that’s the popular belief. Through science we will #rethinkmethane AND
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This is an article about the use of women as muses in Surrealism, but it strikes me as an eerily prescient description of our current body politic: the cartoonish dimensions
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There's rarely such a clean example of Dunning–Kruger in action, but this is a good opportunity to remind people how the greenhouse effect works. What Don has shown (not with
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As we see the Davos crowd meeting virtually over the next week we are sure to be hearing a lot of Climate Change. 1/Climate change is real. Over 2 million
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2021 the (real) story so far:1. the oldest, thickest Arctic sea ice is not as stable as previously thought2. committed global warming has a most-likely value of 2.5°C3. grasslands are
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4 current earthly domains or realms that occupy shared cosmic space & are separated mostly by electromagnetic energy belts (‘Van Allen’) will simultaneously be experiencing their own cosmic energetic ‘Cardinal
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Today is International day of women and girls in science. And here is the supremely talented @bertyashleyto talk about some amazing Indian women and their contributions to science. #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
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1/ The link between changes in the Arctic and clear changes in the frequency or duration of (winter) weather patterns have been debated for years. I've always been rather skeptical.
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Absolutely incredible footage of #LoyaltonFire #pyrovortex ("Fire Tornado") earlier today. Pretty sure this validates @NWSReno's Tornado Warning--which is, I believe, the first ever issued by @NWS specifically for a wildfire-g
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Urban agriculture has been a staple in Cuba since the special period, including communal urban farms. This isn't new, but an upscaling.The reason Cuba has not yet achieved food sovereignty
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Interesting questions, thank you. But there seems to be a misconception on what makes a FOBS.As the name says, it is a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System, meaning it has to
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#WhatAreciboMeansToMe: More than a telescope, Arecibo is the reason I am even in astronomy, and has had an incalculable impact in the communities of PR. A thread . I started
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