I really like this because it also helps people become more familiar with how our climate future works. There's no science crystal ball, but we sure do know a lot and people can plan and act using that information. Insight instead of certainty.

a glut of awesome-ml lists and too few for awesome-glaciology on the hub of the git

Tom Waits called for explainable AI in 1999:

"...preindustrial glacier geometries simply cannot exist in their modern valley environments." 👀

"The next breakthrough in flood risk management will not come from a satellite with a higher resolution sensor, or a neural network with a lower RMSE, or a simulation that runs ten times faster. It..." a good reminder from @niklasjordan.com: risk-and-haz.offprint.app/a/3mozncdvl7...

The enraged bellow of the 21st century Polyphemus:

Now all done but the synthesis! Thanks to the ~110 scientists and practitioners, not to mention @agu.org and our local volunteers, for a great three days in Montreal!

Late to this, but - very good (and entertaining!) read from @frank.computer on the Tufte school of data viz. Friends who like to agonize over whether each gridline has earned its ink will relate:

Tracing the collapse of a giant ancient Himalayan glacier. Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh, Eastern Himalaya. Be10 dating shows pulses of glacier retreat over the past 60,000 years. www.nature.com/articles/d44...

i understand cat models now

I stumbled on Terry Pratchett as a teenager working in a library - couldn't figure out why I had to shelve those books constantly, read one, figured it out. Decades later and he holds up great. The watch books pulled me in first, nowadays bopping my way around the witches.

vanishing commons at low resolution: india.mongabay.com/2026/05/how-...

"This stance is based on an implicit belief that Indians are somehow more ‘adapted’ to air pollution. Such arguments are pervasive and have gained legitimacy from the political denial of the air pollution problem" ☠️ excellent reporting from @rishpardikar.bsky.social on the clean air crisis:

Excited to share our latest work, published today in Eos! The U.S. has led and helped to fund about a third of all global sea level projections ever produced. Now, attacks on science in the U.S. have left the field at a precipice.

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snagged a signed copy of @matratype.bsky.social's fantastic collection on street type design earlier this month and paired it with a gorgeous journey into drishti iconography from TN. Both already well-thumbed escapes into everyday art from this horrid heat 👁️

it's happening "PhD degree in Climatology or Atmospheric Sciences" "Deep knowledge of the mortgage business"

3/ We analyzed 18 major Antarctic ice drainage basins using the ice-sheet model #PISM, gradually increasing global mean temperature to map their long-term response. Result: different regions respond very differently to warming.

You: building your #AGU25 schedule 🤝 Me: providing you a GIF-ed list of #AGU25 talks from GT Cryo group members and friends for you to add to your schedule 🧵

Geoscience needs to lean harder into the Lovecraftian. An ever-changing, self consuming world dominated by unimaginably long cycles culminating in pulses of flood basalts or punctuated by collision with massive rocks from space that nearly wipe out all life....

What humans do to change climate matters much, much more than natural climate variations in determining future ice loss from Greenland 👉 Read about the results of the Greenland Ice Sheet Large Ensemble (GrISLENS) Project in our paper out now in The Cryosphere doi.org/10.5194/tc-1...

If extreme weather had a capital, it would be Mumbai. We’ve got it all: floods, sea-level rise, cyclones, heat islands. Mumbaikars are sick of being called resilient and being caught off-guard. But forecasting the monsoon is fraught, more so with climate change. My dispatch for @carbonbrief.org👇🏽

⏰ New study shows ambitious mitigation (1.5°C) saves 2X as much ice globally (53% left) than our current pathway, which will destroy >75% glacier ice once it fully adjusts to a warmer climate Every fraction of °C counts! +0.1°C warmer = 2% more glacier mass lost www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌊🧪

“My house is one of many that burned down. This event, for me, has destroyed any boundary between my work as a climate scientist and the rest of my life.” Read more from NASA JPL scientist Ben Hamlington:

physics of climate impacts 101: - Stuff gets hot (worse heatwaves) - Hot air holds more water vapor (heavier rainfall) - Hot air is thirstier air (higher drought risk) - Warm water is hurricane food (stronger storms) - Hot water expands and hot ice melts (sea level rise)

have starter packs just unanimously won out over feeds? does anyone know how one can use a starter pack as a feed on here? 👀

My favorite time of year! A GIF 🧵 of #AGU24 talks and posters from group members and friends:

Stay in Salon I for a talk by @murushiv.bsky.social Thursday at 16:22 “Towards an Antarctic Ice Sheet Large Ensemble” agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...

The deep oil states send their regards. Been shilling for Big Ice at the COP29 cryosphere pavilion the last few days, drop by if you’re around!

digital twins this digital twins that where are the digital triplets?

I first worked on this icefield in 1981. Change was expected, but the change we are reporting in 2024 is breathtaking in scale and acceleration. Project led by masterfully by @bethandavies.bsky.social, coordinating many data streams. apnews.com/article/glac...

Omelas as a service

And as much as programs like the Voluntary Carbon Standard (now Verra) and the CDM and the Gold Standard and their peers have tried to make these things work, the way these organizations themselves have shifted, mutated, renamed, and reborn themselves is enough indication that there's problems afoot

Seismology is so cool! For @earthscope-sci.bsky.social, I dove into a recent paper about the fastest through-cutting fracture ever recorded in a floating ice shelf. ⚒️🧪 www.earthscope.org/news/crackin...

lowkey funny that the ATL Watershed's official "boil water advisory tips" youtube video is unlisted

sorry y’all are having ai problems with search. Mine is working fine

brb stocking up on conglomerates

Glimpses of the northern lights in southern skies what is this 👀

ok this is v cool

The short answer is that the demographics of the glaciology research community are stunningly misaligned with the communities that we seek to benefit through our research, along a number of different dimensions. Read the paper to see why it matters and what how we can make progress

Who does glaciology research? Who does it benefit? And why does it matter? We tackle these questions in a new study out in the Journal of Glaciology bit.ly/44jhI7o

"solar is the new oil" it sure is my dude

when your readings commiserate with you