“I always tell people that if I ever feel like our funding is in doubt I’ll just come with big tanks of sea lamprey and release them in their offices in Congress or in Parliament.” Ethan Baker, chair, Great Lakes Fishery Commission that works to suppress the population of invasive sea lampreys 🧪🌎

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We (industry, governments) spend so much money on "quick fixes" that would allow us to keep emitting and polluting. It's a slight-of-hand: any "fix" will bite us in the @$$ eventually. Stored carbon will leak back into the atmosphere. And now this: #ClimateChange 🧪🌎

That's because it DOESN'T GO AWAY after emission. And the temperature doesn't immediately jump - no, we get to wait YEARS to DECADES until we start to experience the results of what we are putting into the atmosphere TODAY. #FAFO - or should it be FA, your grandkids FO.

Scientists and staff are affected by these stupid cuts. Too many people will be harmed as a direct result of these stupid cuts, this year and decades to come. Future scientific research is set back of these stupid cuts. The indirect impacts of these stupid cuts are global and multi-decadal.

The data show it: global warming is real and faster than background interglacial rates. This is a graph of every April's record high averaged over all land areas since 1850. Thank you, @zacklabe.com for posting.

Passing this along to keep up the fight against misinformation. Here are some ACTUAL data and results.

Is it not sad that a year ago, climate change posts were about science, data, research, warnings, and solutions... we communicated, collaborated, consoled, and supported... but now every third post is about tRump and MAGATs devaluing, devastating, and destroying? #ClimateChange 1/2

It's #FieldworkFriday ! Fieldwork at Brady's Beach near Bamfield Marine Lab, west side of Vancouver Island, Canada. You can see the white rope at the base of the photo, in the process of being set up to record a transect of intertidal organisms attached to the rock.

It's #FossilFriday ! Devonian Desquamatia sp. brachiopod from the Givetian of Iowa, USA encrusted by Aulopora sp. coral and unidentified bryozoans.

#FossilFriday A mammoth tooth fragment dredged from the bottom of the North Sea.

Add: the mass extinction of species, including key species, which could lead to extinction of the human species. No amount of survivalist training will make up for lack of resources. No billions of dollars can rewild a key species if it has no habitat. We can adapt, but we have our limits. 🌎🧪

Lag times apply. What we fix today won't be felt for a long time - decades from now. Or more. What we delay to fix later will add to the already overburdened system. Lag time to recovery will be even longer. Species can't wait. We can't wait. #ClimateChange 🌎🧪

When the rate of adaptation << the rate of climate change, evolution << extinction and Life goes through a mass extinction. From human perspectives, climate change takes generations = slow. From species' perspectives, climate change >> their ability to adapt; change is too fast. #ClimateChange 🧪🌎

Scaled-up, this is true of past mass extinctions, too: large refugia had a better chance of hosting higher biodiversity and helping species survive. Thus, larger protected areas will be better for helping species survive the oncoming 6th extinction than fragmented ones. 🧪🌎 #Extinction #Biodiversity

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My research suggests that random extinction at current levels of biodiversity loss will lead to mass extinction levels in about 950 years (we would be long gone before then). This does not take into account extinction cascades or other acceleration, like in this post. #ClimateChange #Extinction 🧪🌎

We know climate grief, but now we face a new grief: science loss. We not only feel the grief from our research, but also the loss of colleagues who stood with us. We grieve for the increase in future deterioration of our Earth. We grieve over the work we will have to do. #ClimateChange 🧪🌎

I grieve for those who lost their careers and purpose, across science organizations and academia. I think of Sara, who loves Mars so much that she had a spaceship-shaped tent. I think of Carrie, whose students may not be able to continue. I think of our future. 🧪🌎 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

When the loss of artic sea ice is reinterpreted as a boon to shipping and profit... When overharvesting of resources increases the bottom line... When infinite growth ignores the limits of a global system... When disasters are downplayed in favor of "progress"... #ClimateChange 🧪🌎

New term for today: greenhushing. Prioritizing current political favor and profit ahead of humanity's and Earth's future. #ClimateChange 🌎🧪

Regardless of climate denial, the data are real. Another problem is deliberate denial - those in power who know the Earth is warming too fast and either don't care or actually want climate to warm. An ice-free Arctic means a Northwest Passage and accessible resources. #ClimateChange 🧪🌎

H. Holden Thorp: "It is vital to remember that it is the words and actions of all members of the scientific community—universities, journals, societies, associations, activists, and scientists—that form the collective voice of science, not any one statement." 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A joke that my husband and I often bring up in lectures: "We finished the analyses on our research. We got excellent results, yay us, it's a paper that should be in Nature!" *reality sets in* We go into the next room and scream our heads off over what the results actually mean.

Thank you, whoever created this. Climate change and global warming are behind more frequent and intense forest fires. People on the front lines of fighting fires and fighting climate change are under attack. Thank you, fire fighters and climate change fighters. #ClimateChange 🌎🧪

Climate scientists predicted that heatwaves would become so frequent that ecosystems would not have time to recover between heatwave events. That time is here, not in the nebulous future. My research shows it, others show it. We can slow down warming, save Life, and save us. #ClimateChange 🧪🌎

Throughout the history of Earth, Life has survived whatever has been thrown at it. 🌎 Mega-volcanoes 🌋 Fully frozen Earth ❄️ Asteroid impacts 🌠 Super-greenhouse climate 🦕 Habitat loss, droughts, poison oceans... 🏜️ LIfe always survives and re-diversifies. 🧪 Do we want to survive, too? #ClimateChange

Devonian (ca. 380 million years old) colonial rugose coral, encrusted by smaller Syringopora colonial tabulate coral. Alberta, Canada #FossilFriday #Paleontology #Palaeontology 🧪🦖🦕

Devonian (ca. 380 million years old) colonial rugose coral, encrusted by smaller Syringopora colonial tabulate coral. Alberta, Canada #FossilFriday #Paleontology #Palaeontology 🧪🦖🦕

Devonian (ca. 380 million years old) colonial rugose coral, encrusted by smaller Syringopora colonial tabulate coral. Alberta, Canada #FossilFriday #Paleontology #Palaeontology 🧪🦖🦕

"Deep corals at the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Reef complex are bleaching for the first time on record. The heat stress is because of a marine heatwave along half the WA coastline that has bleached corals from Ningaloo up to Ashmore Reef at the same time..." 🌎🧪 www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Bigfoot's Dog #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying #SFF #Bigfoot #Sasquatch

From Nature Briefing newsletter: "100 years ago this week, Nature published a column debating whether members of the scientific community should adopt the word ‘scientist’ to describe themselves." 🧪

How long will it be until those of us with .bsky accounts will be black-listed, flagged, blocked, or worse? 🧪🌎 #ClimateChange

Tipping point: the threshold past which a system becomes unstable and, with perturbation, can fail. Metastable: the system passes the tipping point but still appears normal. Rate-induced tipping point: when changes are too rapid, the system can't adjust, so it fails. #ClimateChange🌎🧪

NOAA scientists must get approval for all international: Meetings (in person and virtual) Emails to colleagues Phonecalls, Zoom, etc. Cross-border research funds are frozen. Words like climate change are red flags for review. Who's next? #ClimateChange🌎🧪 www.cbc.ca/news/science...

I recall this January in northern Canada as very cold, although we did hit several days above 0C. Extreme cold weather does not disprove global warming. Rather, weather extremes - hot or cold - attest to the highly unstable, roller-coaster process of accelerated climate change. #ClimateChange🧪

While research into corals that are heat tolerant is a good thing, it may be only a stopgap measure. We at the start of a 4+ year event of increased greenhouse gas emissions. Tropical regions may warm too quickly and become too hot for even heat-tolerant corals. #ClimateChange🌎🧪

Eep! This is scary. It's not just the polar bears that are suffering from decreased sea ice extent (and duration). #ClimateChange🧪🌎

Never in the history of life did one area of Earth "export" extinction burden to another area. We re-write the definition of mass extinction. Life re-diversifies after a mass extinction - but it can't recreate the present uniqueness. We will disappear, too, if we don't fix this. #ClimateChange🌎🧪

Teachers, what do you think? I see a trend in current undergrad-masters' students: they don't care who caused climate/biodiversity problems. They want to fix the problems. They want to collaborate broadly, even beyond academia, not isolated in a lab. And they crave advocacy. #ClimateChange 🧪🌎

Ryan Katz-Rosene's words are true. One researcher's "bad" is another's "worst," and I add 2 things: 1. "Bad" or "worst," it can get worse than that without action. 2. Sadly, there are still too many "it's not real, I don't care, I don't have energy/time to care" perspectives. #ClimateChange 🧪🌎

I met a high-level industry scientist and we discussed his company's emissions. I said, "why do you do this, even though you know it's destroying the planet?" He said, "I won't be here when it all goes to sh!t. Why should I care?" And this, folks, is what we are up against. #ClimateChange 🧪🌎

Remember, self-care is important to strength and perseverance. This is a reminder to: 😂Laugh 🫗Hydrate 🍰Treat yourself 😻Hug your loved ones 🌛Sleep!!!! 🍏Eat healthy 🏃‍♀️Exercise and breathe. You are not alone. All of our advocacy, research, and efforts add up. Keep up the good fight! #ClimateChange 🧪🌎

Wildfires are not just about forests. There can be a wildfire in a grassland. There can be wildfires in cropland and ranches. There are wildfires on the Arctic tundra and in the muskegs (bogs) of the Arctic and sub-Arctic, where fires can overwinter in the peat. #ClimateChange 🧪🌎

Rolling back protections and destroying more habitat will only hasten the decline into the "6th mass extinction." Use your voice and actions as you can. #ClimateChange 🧪🌎

Yes, we can have extreme cold even though the climate is warming. #ClimateChange 🧪🌎

Most people in the U.S. understand that climate change is real - but enough remain willfully ignorant, apathetic, selfish, or disbelieve, and we are seeing the results of that loud minority. #ClimateChange 🧪🌎 www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

“…declining water quality over the past two decades has direct implications for the future of the world heritage listed site.” Most of the Great Barrier Reef is too far offshore to be affected by runoff. ALL of it is succumbing to rising temperatures. theconversation.com/serious-conc...

From Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #Science🧪