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Bill Woinarski’s Climate Science Basics

·May 9

CLIMATE CHANGE PART 1: Climate Change Science — The Basics

What the science is telling us Hello everyone. I am Bill Woinarski, resident of the Shoalhaven, N.S.W. South Coast, Australia. I decided to write these essays on climate change because there are many of us who do not understand, doubt, or care about, the reasons for climate change. This is a basic guide to what scientists…

Climate Change

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Beth Bader

Blue Green

·Jan 9

About Blue Green

I remember the first time I saw deep tropical ocean water. The electric blue of it didn’t seem real. Neither did the spectrum of gemstone colors from the deep sapphire blues to the peridot, translucent green-gold topped with white foam brushing the tops of my feet in the sand. I…

Oceans

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Richard Crim

·Jan 5

Living in Bomb Time — 17

Climate Report: Part Two — How much has the Earth warmed up since the “preindustrial” period? Surprisingly it’s hard to get a straightforward answer to that question. “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” 1887 Charles Dudley Warner With Global Warming the situation is slightly different. Everyone knows it’s getting hotter, but no one seems to know how much it’s warmed up or how hot it’s going to get.

Climate Change

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Cooper Cole 🚀

·Jan 6

The 3 best resources to start learning about climate change

Educating yourself on the science of climate change can seem like a daunting task: trying to scrape together what you remember from 7th-grade geology, searching online and feeling overwhelmed with hundreds of resources, or not knowing where to start. I have been there. I curated the list below of the…

Climate Change

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Luke Gloege, Ph.D.

Towards Data Science

·Dec 8, 2021

Pythonic Way to Perform Statistics Across Multiple Variables with Xarray

By first creating a categorical dimension in your Dataset — Consider this, you have an ensemble of models stored in a Dataset (ds), with each ensemble member stored as a different variable. How would you take the ensemble average? If you have three members (ens1, ens2, ens3), one approach is to do this: ens_mean = (ds['ens1'] + ds['ens2'] + ds['ens3'])…

Xarray

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Thinking fast and slow on climate

Part I: The climate system — Hey 👋 I’m Lucy, Earth Fund’s resident climate scientist! I’m here to answer your questions on climate change and help the Earth Fund DAO find planet-saving projects to fund! Today, I’m writing part one of a post about why we need to think both short-term and long-term if we’re going…

Climate Crisis

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Firza Riany

·Dec 6, 2021

A message of hope in the era of climate crisis

I live through my 20s witnessing the creation of many historical milestones; Paris Agreement, Sustainable Development Goals, Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, the COP26, and the list goes on. It seems that we are changing and we, the youth, has become the centre of the changes. When I started college in…

Climate Change

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A message of hope in the era of climate crisis

Laura Peek

·Nov 11, 2021

Discover the hidden history of an unsung female climate hero

Eunice Foote warned in 1856 that too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would warm the Earth but was her work overlooked or deliberately ignored? A 19th-century scientist and suffragette was the first person to discover carbon dioxide could warm the Earth but her work was lost to history. Eunice…

Cop 26

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Discover the hidden history of an unsung female climate hero

Zoe Oomens

This is Altruistiq

·Oct 29, 2021

Learnings from the launch of the SBTi Net Zero Standard

Yesterday, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) launched the world’s first Net-Zero Standard. Here are the key things you need to know for setting targets in your business. What is the SBTi Net-Zero Standard? The SBTi Net-Zero Standard is the first framework for building net-zero targets that are based on climate science. It provides a common…

Climate Change

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Learnings from the launch of the SBTi Net Zero Standard

Tim Andersen, Ph.D.

The Infinite Universe

·Oct 22, 2021

Social media may let the powerful predict the future, but are we ready to be herded like sheep?

The new TV adaptation of Asimov’s classic Foundation has brought renewed interest in predicting the future. Now it may be possible but the consequences of letting this power fall into the wrong hands could be catastrophic. The problem is that it already has. Written in the 1950s, Foundation assumed that…

Social Media

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Climate Science

CLIMATE CHANGE PART 1: Climate Change Science — The Basics

About Blue Green

Living in Bomb Time — 17

The 3 best resources to start learning about climate change

Pythonic Way to Perform Statistics Across Multiple Variables with Xarray

Thinking fast and slow on climate

A message of hope in the era of climate crisis

Discover the hidden history of an unsung female climate hero

Learnings from the launch of the SBTi Net Zero Standard

Social media may let the powerful predict the future, but are we ready to be herded like sheep?

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