Notices by Prof. Tatiana Ilyina 🌊 O=C=O 🌍 (tatianailyina@mas.to)

BTW, none of the socio-economic scenarios that we use in our projections of climate change even consider #degrowth as an option.
@annaf

There are disputes on how to talk about climate change so that individuals care more about or "buy" climate protection. Not too alarmist, mainstream, positive enough?

Meanwhile CO2 emissions - the primary driver of #climatechange - are still rising globally and atmospheric CO2 reaches new record values.

Just learned that a very promising early career scientist in my discipline has left academia, not seeing a desired career future for herself here. That company is lucky to get her. Yet, it saddens me enormously that it is often the most dynamic, brilliant, curious once, who are challenging status quo, committed to diversity and making our world a better place, who are leaving #academia.

What are we doing wrong to make academic careers so unattractive for the best young minds?

Once upon a time, only about 650 million years ago, our Earth was a snowball. What was the aftermath #greenhouse #climate triggering deglaciation and the ocean's role in it?

We addressed this intriguing scientific question via a set of #EarthSystemModel experiments in the new Nature Communication paper "Moderate greenhouse climate and rapid carbonate formation after Marinoan snowball Earth" led by Lennart Ramme within his PhD project.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47873-6

Industrial carbon capture technologies are mostly a distraction from what we really need to do right now: phase out fossil fuels and deploy more effective climate solutions.

Don't Fall for Big Oil's Carbon Capture Deceptions - by @globalecoguy

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dont-fall-for-big-oils-carbon-capture-deceptions/

#COP28
#climatechange
#carboncapture

Phasing out fossil fuels is the only way to prevent dangerous climate change.

This is scientific consensus established upon decades of groundwork. Yet, it takes just one oil company CEO and science denial is making headlines again.

#COP28 #climatechange #fossilfuels

Well said 👍 @pfriedling: "The elephant in the room is fossil fuels"
Friedlingstein has one key message for the delegates of #Cop28 in Dubai: Focus on fossil fuels. “So long as we keep burning fossil fuels, nothing else really matters”

https://www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/sustainability/climate/2023/11/pierre-firelingstein-interview-cop-28-climate-finance

#climatechange
#climateemergency
#fossilfuelemissions

A journalist asked me recently whether #climatechangedenial has decreased or even disappeared.
Sure, only that they re-branded themselves.
Some switched to become #climatedoomers - why bother, we can’t do anything anyway. Some others are selling the ‚positive‘ effects of #climatechange on welfare of people.
All the same and they might even still find their audience.

Regardless, curbing #GHG emissions is the only way to stop #climateemergency.

What you see on this photo is not from the Empire Strikes Back.

No, it is German police protecting a coal mine excavator in #Lützerath - a village planned to be demolished by the energy company RWE to extract coal that is not even needed for the energy security of Germany.

#Klimaschande
#EndCoal #EndFossilFuels #LütziBleibt

Picture: @mariusmichusch

How does Earth breathe CO2 under different #ClimateChange scenarios?

Have a look at this visualization showing seasonal variations of atmospheric CO2 modulated by anthropogenic emissions and the strength of the ocean and land carbon sinks.

Computed with an #EarthSystemModel #MPI-ESM.
Details at #DKRZ Gallery:
https://www.dkrz.de/en/communication/galerie/Vis/esm/seasonal-variations-of-co2-under-climate-change

#ilyinaScience

This iconic cartoon by Tom Toles makes me think of the time machine concept by @davidho to visualize CO₂ removal approaches, like #CDR.

David, have you already introduced it here on #Mastodon? If not, please do, it's brilliant.