It's not just Florida, the US ocean economy depends on science. Great piece by Dr. Dennis McGillicuddy, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)!🧪🌊 www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2...

One of our paper from 2016 on the effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on crops was cited in the DOE report commissioned by the Trump administration, giving misleading conclusions that rising CO2 emissions are beneficial to agriculture.

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

Read this from @pdemenocal.bsky.social, @msleinen.bsky.social, and John Richardson, retired Navy admiral, whose son was my student, about how investing in ocean science is not just about curiosity, but about ensuring our future readiness, resilience, and national security. 🌊

Please read this OpEd in the Wa Post by @pdemenocal.bsky.social. Federal investment into fundamental research about our ocean planet has led to profound discoveries with direct implications for national security. (h/t: @ashevenell.bsky.social) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

In recognition of his deep commitment to ocean advocacy, WHOI President @pdemenocal.bsky.social officially recognized His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco with a #WHOI Centennial Medal at #UNOC3 this morning. Here's to a continuing legacy of ocean leadership!

The importance of being there! HOV Alvin and the first live observation of a deep sea eruption www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/s...

A record increase in atmospheric CO2 according to data released by NOAA gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/..., much higher than projected in the Global Carbon Budget essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/.... This occurred in the presence of an El Niño (red bars, data also from NOAA!). What does this mean? 1/

Bennu asteroid geochemistry results in - Evidence for extraterrestrial soluble organic matter e outer protoplanetary disk."... "We detected amino acids (including 14 of the 20 used in terrestrial biology)…” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Welcome to the feed from the Million Year Ice Core Project, or MYIC. This project has been underway for some years, preparing to drill the oldest continuous ice core record from Antarctica, extending to more than a million years, possibly to 1.5 million years or more. /1

Why is WHOI such an inspiring place to work? - sharing our 2024 year end reel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dmc...

🙏We have much to be grateful for, including the #philanthropicsupport that drives our search for solutions. This year, the Grossman Family Foundation gifted $10 million towards innovative projects at #WHOI. 📲Find out what inspired this generous gift: go.whoi.edu/grossman #GivingTuesday

You can now share the Warming Stripes directly to BlueSky, such as these for my town of Reading: showyourstripes.info/s/europe/uni... (Find the graphic you want to share, click the blue options button - the one with three horizontal lines - and select the butterfly!)

Welcome to the #COP29 #OceanPavilion! With @scrippsocean.bsky.social + partners from around the world, we’re forming an #ocean-climate nexus, pushing the needle for #sciencebased, marine policy #solutions in the UN’s #climate negotiations. 📲 Hear from @pdemenocal.bsky.social: youtu.be/O_63TlozFfI

How long does CO₂ have to be stored in #CarbonDioxideRemoval #CDR? At least 35 years? 100 years? Longer?🤔 In a new study, @hausfath.bsky.social, @retoknutti.bsky.social & I find that for #netzero CO₂, anything less than 1000 years is not enough to neutralize warming.🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Such fantastic news from @whoi.bsky.social! Onward and “downward” 🌊🦑 we go and congratulations Kaitlyn! 🧪

As ever, Gavin breaks it down to a hard, pithy truth. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/o...

A gutting piece in the New York Times as we’re here at #cop29 “What it means to become of age in climate chaos”. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Wonderful to see my old friend and great colleague again, Ousmane N’diaye, renowned Senegalese meteorologist and newly Knight in the Order of the Lion

We are here, and we are ready. If you are a scientist in need of free legal help: csldf.org/contact If you are a lawyer who can provide pro bono support: csldf.org/contact If you are able to support our work for the fight to come: csldf.org/donate

With the October data in GISTEMP, it is almost certain that 2024 will be a new annual temperature record. Best estimate is for 1.47°C above pre-industrial, but it could be above 1.5°C depending on the this month and next (of course).

WHOI announced our newest Alvin pilot yesterday, Kaitlyn Beardshear. The attached picture shows Kaitlyn with the Alvin team and the Navy representatives that served as her “murder board” yesterday, the final step in a rigorous training and testing process. @whoi.bsky.social

With the (belated) September data now in, the updated prediction is that 2024 is almost certain to be a new annual surface temperature record, and possibly by more than 0.1ºC. 50% change of exceeding 1.5ºC above the late 19th C.

Congratulations Ben Van Mooy! www.whoi.edu/press-room/n...

“No year has confounded climate scientists’ predictive capabilities more than 2023 has” - Climate by Gavin www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A timely read shared with me on New Year’s Eve by friend and colleague George Philander: “ the usefulness of useless knowledge” Flexner 1939. www.ias.edu/sites/defaul...

A great NYT interview with @HannahRitchie.bsky.social "What If People Don’t Need to Care About Climate Change to Fix It?" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Arrived Dubai for COP28 and the first person we meet at the #oceanpavilion is Peter Thompson, UN SG special envoy on the ocean.

A virtual fly- through of the COP28 Ocean Pavilion? Here you are youtu.be/r6e2l4bfVpY

We’re a blue planet - The COP28 Dubai Ocean Declaration is now live, with dozens of signatories oceanpavilion-cop.org/dubai-ocean-...

A powerful guest OpEd from Kate Marvel ”Consider this your last warning from me.”

Hey everyone, the President and Director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is here: @pdemenocal.bsky.social Also, if y’all keep emailing me your invite codes, I will bring more ocean and climate people over.