MIHAI CARAGIU: January 2020

January 25, 2020

Physicists mobilize to reduce the nuclear threat. Again.

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Physicists mobilize to reduce the nuclear threat. Again.

January 24, 2020

January 15, 2020

Oceans were hottest on record in 2019

"The amount of heat we have put in the world's oceans in the past 25 years equals 3.6 billion Hiroshima atom bomb explosions."

Read the paper at https://www.france24.com/en/20200114-oceans-were-hottest-on-record-in-2019

David Attenborough attacks Australian PM on climate record and support for coal

“Do you think it’s right that we go on destroying the natural world?”
“a bleached reef is a tragic sight”.
“A desperately tragic sight, particularly if you’ve seen it before, and you know what it could have been like.”

#ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis

David Attenborough attacks Australian PM on climate record and support for coal

January 12, 2020

Climate Models are Getting Future Warming Projections Right

From climate.nasa.gov

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2943/study-confirms-climate-models-are-getting-future-warming-projections-right/

January 11, 2020

#ScoMoResign

https://www.insider.com/australia-prime-minister-fires-climate-change-emisisons-2020-1

Australian Wildfires Prove Denying Climate Change Won’t Save You From It

"Australian Wildfires Prove Denying Climate Change Won’t Save You From It"

Michael E. Mann's latest interview with The Real News Network

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`People deny climate change to protect their fossil fuel profits' - it is pointed out in a comment, followed by the quote:

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair

January 10, 2020

'Dangerous, misinformation': News Corp employee's fire coverage email

A News Corp employee has slammed the organisation for its "irresponsible", "dangerous" and "damaging" coverage of the national bushfire crisis... "I have been severely impacted by the coverage of News Corp publications in relation to the fires, in particular the misinformation campaign that has tried to divert attention away from the real issue which is climate change to rather focus on arson (including misrepresenting facts)," she said.

Read the full article: 'Dangerous, misinformation': News Corp employee's fire coverage email By Zoe Samios and Andrew Hornery, January 10, 2020

@MichaelEMann: these are the things that keep us up at night as climate scientists

Mother Jones interview

January 5, 2020

Big oil asks government to protect its Texas facilities from climate change (!)

Hear, hear!....

Big oil asks government to protect its Texas facilities from climate change (CBS, August 22, 2018 / 3:04 PM / AP)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-protect-oil-facilities-from-climate-change-coastal-spine/

Climate denial is collapsing; thanks to:

@GretaThunberg - #FridaysForFuture
@KHayhoe
@MichaelEMann
#climatebrawl
@ScienceNotDogma
@IPCC_CH
@NASAClimate
@billmckibben + @350
@MikeHudema
@DeSmogBlog
@skepticscience
@ExtinctionR
@GeraldKutney
@e_thunter
@MakichyanA
@KaoHua3
@vanessa_vash
@the_ecofeminist
@rahmstorf
@ElmGrace
@_carbontiptoes
@damenmaureen15
@Dexsupertramp
@WallworkSimon
@Dale_H_Park
@1tweetybugg
@AustFarmInstitu
@CharlieJPrell
@SteB777
@ChristieKngstn
@ChristopherNFox
@AnikaMolesworth
@FAotC
@Science_Academy
@kateauty
@djmor6
@dbell2100
@Oscarthefarmer
@RichardMcLellan
@GreenOlivine
@Klimaatzuster
@TinusPulles
@gjcats
@citizensclimate
@ethancwright6
@vanessa_vash
@ayan6a
@EricHolthaus
@SarahEMyhre
@StephenLeahy
@sciforfuture
@ClimateReality
@fionnualaAnjoo
@DoctorVive
@GreenRupertRead
@ayanaeliza
@NaomiOreskes
@JPvanYpersele
@JayInslee
@paispeloclima
@ClimateHuman
@MaryHeglar
@FFF_Bangladesh
@FridaysNigeria
@FFF_USA
@Agent350
@PeterGleick
@sunrisemvmt
@GlobalEcoGuy
@GeorgeMonbiot
@KevinClimate
@ClimateHuman
@NaomiAKlein
@annarose
@farmingforever
@VMorganSchmidt
@AnikaMolesworth
@RichardMcLellan
@Oscarthefarmer
@CorriganLucinda
@cstevens73
@whereisdaz
@jagungal1
@farmingforever
@Alex_Verbeek
@VMorganSchmidt
@ProfRayWills
@ProfMarkHowden
@SueBarrett
@aviandelights
@ElaineEDO
@sandergeelen
@AukeHoekstra
@Sustainable2050
@HenriBontenbal
@TerliWetter
@SarahGoody4
@cfeliquan
@JonahGottlieb
@Jamie_Margolin
@MaryHeglar
@AnnaKernahan
@CKemfert
@peter_simone
... and many others ...