David Ho

Climate scientist researching the ocean carbon cycle and marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). Professor of Oceanography at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.; Visiting Faculty at School of Ocean Futures, Arizona State University; Founder, Bamboo Bike Project; co-founder, [C]Worthy.

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2026-03-03 03:46:49 GMT

My strongly held belief is that the rapture isn’t real and people should stop trying to make it happen.

2026-02-21 09:21:33 GMT

There are so many additional ways to die under the Trump regime.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/climate/epa-mercury-coal-plants.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NVA.GI-P.I17QftCQ0eM-&smid=url-share

2026-02-12 15:33:33 GMT

I don't want self-driving cars. I want cars with speed governors and doors that won't open when cyclists are approaching.

2026-02-03 11:24:16 GMT

We will forever regret not doing something about PFAS.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/03/environmentalists-decry-crushingly-disappointing-pfas-action-plan-for-uk

2026-01-14 16:57:45 GMT

I know some of you who follow me mostly care about ocean or climate but this is one of the most alarming things happening and is worth your attention.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/politics/fbi-washington-post-journalist.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EVA.qA5L.JqhqNEIbidv4&smid=url-share

2026-01-13 16:42:31 GMT

“A car crash involving a pedestrian” is one of the dumbest things I read constantly in the news.
How hard is it to say that a person driving a car killed another person on foot?
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/01/13/police-confirm-traffic-fatality-after-pedestrian-involved-kalihi-crash-succumbs-injuries-days-later/

2026-01-09 19:27:57 GMT

“Hundreds of passengers were stranded at the airport in Gander, Newfoundland, waiting in vain for taxis, when suddenly residents pulled up in their own cars.
“It wasn’t Sept. 11, 2001, when 6,500 marooned passengers from 240 diverted aircraft were taken in by local residents. It was Wednesday.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/world/canada/gander-canada-airport-stranded-travelers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DFA.FWk6.7v3mT-gKbnlC&smid=url-share

2026-01-08 08:38:28 GMT

The US has some of the world’s best climate scientists (and certainly more of them than anywhere else) and has contributed disproportionately to understanding the climate system. It’s idiotic for the US to withdraw from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change but it’s on brand for this regime.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-international-organizations-conventions-and-treaties-that-are-contrary-to-the-interests-of-the-united-states/

2026-01-06 05:40:02 GMT

It's so embarrassing to be an American these days: "In a late-night Truth Social post, the president announces that the Danish territory is now an American 'protectorate.'" 🙄
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/01/greenland-trump-venezuela-nato/685511/?gift=i3QjUyXCf1lgRJBp1hmmpr5_HL6h3Zbcm39I6AIIdoI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2026-01-05 19:00:03 GMT

This is a must read from Anne Applebaum.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trumps-american-dominance-may-leave-us-with-nothing/685503/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3wuCngYfU-x_09b7xBElK_g

2026-01-05 15:42:16 GMT

“…the Supreme Court has become deeply polarized in cases pitting the rich against the poor, with Republican appointees far more likely than Democratic ones to side with the wealthy. That is starkly different from the middle of the last century, when appointees of the two parties were statistically indistinguishable on this measure.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/politics/supreme-court-study-rich-poor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CFA.2CJu.8WRPfXI5_k8X&smid=url-share

2025-12-29 05:20:08 GMT

As someone who often conducts fieldwork in remote places, I find it really irritating that many applications now require an internet connection to function.
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/801/163/712/183/360/original/4f17b9e5075f3129.jpeg

2025-12-25 18:49:23 GMT

Good morning!
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2025-12-22 06:25:31 GMT

My jacket has been leaking feathers because of a bike crash, so I brought it into Patagonia for repair. They said it would take 14 weeks and offered me a new jacket. I turned it down because the jacket was otherwise still perfectly good so I fixed the hole with a patch.
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/761/785/765/206/675/original/9e18b25d6d10272a.jpeg

2025-12-20 16:29:57 GMT

Hype.
No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/12/19/hope-or-hype

2025-12-18 19:01:31 GMT

China's massive deployment of clean technology allows it to have things we think of as the future, like flying taxis, delivery drones, battery swapping for EVs, high-speed rail, autonomous taxis, robot delivery trucks, and modern subways.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/17/climate/china-hefei-clean-energy-drones-evs-robots.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9k8.1fIH.r6yQXTdljzCN&smid=bs-share

2025-12-17 16:18:26 GMT

I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.
https://wapo.st/4p3YwDx

2025-12-17 15:45:36 GMT

Given all the insane things that the Trump regime has done, nothing should surprise us. But I’m still shocked and angry that they are going to dismantle NCAR.
https://eos.org/research-and-developments/trump-administration-plans-to-break-up-ncar

2025-12-17 03:12:23 GMT

I’m a vegetarian but Shrimp Basket seems like a pretty awesome place.
https://wapo.st/48DKS54

2025-12-16 23:11:45 GMT

Turns out civilized people find symbols of hate to be potentially divisive.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/12/16/coast-guard-swastikas-nooses/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY1ODYxMjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY3MjQzNTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjU4NjEyMDAsImp0aSI6IjA2ODRlZWMzLWU3NWUtNDQ1ZS1hNzc0LTYzZGVjMzFhZTI2MyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eS8yMDI1LzEyLzE2L2NvYXN0LWd1YXJkLXN3YXN0aWthcy1ub29zZXMvIn0.MyAy77UUhRJqHNN9RKFYGPKF_t7SDAem_vzPI-8Ev-4

2025-12-12 18:02:14 GMT

Phenomenal photos.
Photojournalists are amazing people.
https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/2025/12/top-25-news-photos-2025/685128/?gift=201cWZnM2XBz2eP81zy0pHipP2UMvSwVHuaO9hUqUqA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-12-10 04:54:48 GMT

Today in insanity: "Travelers visiting the United States from countries like Britain, France, Germany and South Korea could soon have to undergo a review of up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal filed on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/travel/social-media-tourists-visa-border-patrol.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7k8.mvwk.v7O5pjT6XqBy&smid=nytcore-android-share

2025-12-08 13:36:56 GMT

“Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve compared with their pre-disaster state, highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09804-3?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nature&linkId=22287371

2025-12-06 18:26:34 GMT

Deep sea mining is very bad for deep sea ecosystems.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/climate/deep-sea-mining-ecosystem.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6k8.9cee.Vp5TK3vmrPxv&smid=url-share

2025-12-02 17:36:57 GMT

"Costco is suing the Trump administration over its tariffs, arguing that the White House has exceeded its executive authority in instituting tariffs and that it should be entitled to a refund if the tariffs are found unconstitutional." 👀
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/costco-sues-trump-tariffs

2025-12-01 12:28:29 GMT

I used to think that our current period in the geologic record would be marked by plastic, but now I wonder if it's PFAS.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/pfa-tfa-forever-chemical-water-pollution-uk-rivers-b2875561.html

2025-12-01 10:41:07 GMT

The ocean remains the only true carbon sink. 🥲
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/28/africa-forests-transformed-carbon-sink-carbon-source-study

2025-11-17 23:21:49 GMT

The Trump regime’s cuts to NIH grants disrupted more than 380 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants. The cuts disproportionately impacted trials on infectious diseases and minority communities.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/11/17/clinical-trials-nih-funding-cuts/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzYzMzU1NjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY0NzM3OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjMzNTU2MDAsImp0aSI6IjQyYTY3NjYxLTI2YjktNDRjZC05M2YxLTM4ZjJlYjZiNjZmNyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9oZWFsdGgvMjAyNS8xMS8xNy9jbGluaWNhbC10cmlhbHMtbmloLWZ1bmRpbmctY3V0cy8ifQ.NdwDOwFRbvve-Waft52LLfqstFufMnhXGlJoix3Xu4Q

2025-11-16 13:06:39 GMT

Immigration raids in Hawaiʻi are especially ironic since the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi was illegally overthrown and the Hawaiian Islands annexed by the United States against the will of the people.
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/11/11/immigration-arrests-surge-hawaii-federal-agents-target-courthouses/

2025-11-16 09:06:02 GMT

“The mainstream media has been strikingly incurious about the nature of Epstein’s geopolitical activity…[it] has in fact long participated in covering up the full scale of the Epstein story. The original cover-up was ignoring his sexual crimes. Those are now better reported. But by ignoring how integrated Epstein was with the American empire, these outlets are conducting another cover-up.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jeffrey-epstein-israel-foreign-policy-elite/

2025-11-15 20:30:52 GMT

Boeing is paying Charm Industrial to remove 100000 tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere, which is a time machine that takes us back by 1 minute and 15 seconds. 🥲
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/14/boeing-has-a-carbon-emissions-problem-startup-charm-industrial-is-cleaning-up/

2025-11-15 12:05:52 GMT

Come be my colleague at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. We're hiring an assistant professor in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling.
https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawaiiedu/jobs/5142055/assistant-professor-ocean-biogeochemical-modeling-0082726?keywords=ocean&pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs

2025-11-14 11:59:03 GMT

There are things that shouldn't be in private control, and water is one of them.
In East Maui, Hawaiʻi, a decision is pending on whether to grant a 30-year water license to a private Canadian company whose predecessors have a long history of devastating the local ecosystem or give control to the county.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/11/the-fight-over-the-future-of-east-maui-water-returns-to-the-state-land-board/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky

2025-11-13 15:06:19 GMT

With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C.
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C.
1.5°C was a good target, but did anyone seriously think it was possible?
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/13/world-still-on-track-for-catastrophic-26c-temperature-rise-report-finds

2025-11-12 12:33:30 GMT

The CIA conducted a covert program for over a decade to manipulate Afghanistan’s opium crop by airdropping specially modified poppy seeds. These seeds were designed to produce plants with minimal chemicals used to make heroin, aiming to degrade the crop’s potency over time. While the program was considered successful for a period, it ultimately failed to make a lasting impact on opium production in Afghanistan.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/12/cia-afghanistan-heroin-poppy-seeds/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzYyOTIzNjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY0MzA1OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjI5MjM2MDAsImp0aSI6ImNlNjZmNjI3LTk4MDUtNDEwOC1iNDIyLTZkNTk4MjYwY2YzYyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eS8yMDI1LzExLzEyL2NpYS1hZmdoYW5pc3Rhbi1oZXJvaW4tcG9wcHktc2VlZHMvIn0.zBI8pWylctSaB8CbzB1yMuiRNZOz4Fuh8c6m7pTytpU

2025-11-11 23:51:38 GMT

It might be true that the world needs to remove ten billion tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere every year but it’s never going to happen for many different reasons: technical, financial, social, environmental, governance, etc. If we don’t reduce CO₂ emissions, we’re screwed. That’s it.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/11/leading-scientist-says

2025-11-11 19:23:48 GMT

NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/11/11/tsunami-warning-center-trump-funding-cuts/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzYyODM3MjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY0MjE5NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjI4MzcyMDAsImp0aSI6Ijk4NzdjN2ExLTRhMmUtNDdjYi04M2Q2LTUwNGI4Zjk1ZTZiNSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9jbGltYXRlLWVudmlyb25tZW50LzIwMjUvMTEvMTEvdHN1bmFtaS13YXJuaW5nLWNlbnRlci10cnVtcC1mdW5kaW5nLWN1dHMvIn0.AdH-y4BLvreuNv6kGWNjdo7-Jj2X4CSudIObguYdRIY

2025-11-09 22:07:51 GMT

Cyclists should be able to treat a stop sign as a yield sign and a red light as a stop sign.
https://theconversation.com/cyclists-may-be-right-to-run-stop-signs-and-red-lights-heres-why-268724

2025-11-09 11:10:11 GMT

This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.
https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/

2025-11-08 18:16:14 GMT

Kudos to the Seattle times for spelling with diacritical marks used in the Hawaiian language, the ʻokina and the kahakō.
A few years ago, when I asked the NY Times to spell my affiliation as University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, they refused because it went against their style guide.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/why-were-using-this-spelling-of-hawai%ca%bbi/

2025-11-07 18:13:41 GMT

Although we're not where we should be, we're on a significantly better trajectory than we were 10 years ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/07/climate/paris-agreement-climate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zU8._FoE.8eesjpnE0K4M&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-11-07 11:05:39 GMT

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/11/06/chinas-clean-energy-revolution-will-reshape-markets-and-politics

2025-11-07 10:45:54 GMT

What a nightmare! Chinese astronauts can’t come home because space debris hit their return craft.
The rapidly increasing amount of stuff we launch into space is something everyone should be aware of.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/science/space/china-space-station-debris.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zU8.-t7N.pz3NhIOAbO5s&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-11-07 10:17:57 GMT

This study by my colleagues at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa shows that deep sea mining waste to be released near the ocean surface would disrupt marine food webs.
The same would be true of grinding and spreading rocks in the ocean for CO₂ removal.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65411-w

2025-11-06 21:28:32 GMT

The carbon market is not the way to do CO₂ removal (CDR). If we're serious about this, it has to be a government-led effort.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/06/carbon-offsetting-market-collapses-what-happens-to-the-forests-they-hoped-to-protect-aoe

2025-11-04 16:40:24 GMT

Six people died from eating pasta. Everything is more dangerous under the Trump regime.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/business/listeria-outbreak-trader-joes-kroger.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yk8.VSMS.kN2ZjW0mFLiZ&smid=url-share

2025-11-04 08:40:26 GMT

MacKenzie Scott gave $38 million to Spelman College, an all-women’s historically Black college, and another $38 million to Clark Atlanta University, the first historically Black university in the US to confer graduate degrees. This is her second time giving to both schools.
https://www.ajc.com/education/2025/11/spelman-college-gets-38-million-donation-from-philanthropist-mackenzie-scott/

2025-11-03 05:57:18 GMT

Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening health and the environment, with no replacements yet hired.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/climate/national-parks-orphan-wells.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yU8.LY3D.6CeA_4VDQ27t

2025-11-02 11:46:28 GMT

Streets are for people.
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/479/927/831/034/040/original/076829a9f36c1188.jpeg

2025-11-01 15:17:36 GMT

30+ years ago, my mind was blown when my computer science professor suggested that one day, applications on our computers would be updated by contacting a remote server.
I don’t think he ever imagined that companies would also be able to disable applications we’ve already paid for and installed.

2025-10-31 18:08:29 GMT

PSA: Harp covers look like giant oven mitts. 🪉
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/470/107/762/680/053/original/470a7cc1ced07862.jpeg

2025-10-31 12:23:08 GMT

"Countries that slide from democracy toward autocracy tend to follow similar patterns. To measure what is happening in the United States, the Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion, with help from scholars who have studied this phenomenon. The sobering reality is that the United States has regressed, to different degrees, on all 12.”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/31/opinion/trump-autocracy-democracy-report.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xk8.NaRS.au4G8gsEj-gH&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-10-29 19:23:36 GMT

The State of Climate Action 2025 report finds that global efforts to combat climate change are “well off track” and require significant acceleration to meet the 1.5°C limit. Deforestation, coal phase-out, and climate finance are particularly concerning areas where progress is lacking.
https://systemschangelab.org/state-climate-action-2025

2025-10-29 12:17:32 GMT

The Trump regime used misleading footage in videos promoting its immigration agenda, including clips from unrelated operations and mislabeled locations. These videos, widely shared on social media, have been viewed millions of times and have contributed to a distorted public understanding of events.
https://wapo.st/4nuDGwf

2025-10-28 07:28:29 GMT

That's a very low bar.
Those most affected by climate change are those who have contributed the least to global CO₂ emissions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/climate/bill-gates-climate-change-humanity.html?unlocked_article_code=1.w08.HLYy.Bc56PttZsF-j&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-10-27 17:25:37 GMT

1 in 8 Americans won't be able to afford groceries next week because of the Republican government shutdown and because the Trump regime refuses to use the contingency fund that would have continued the benefits. 1 in 8 people!
https://time.com/7328216/snap-benefits-food-stamps-halting-november-government-shutdown-impact/

2025-10-27 15:29:42 GMT

Attribution science allows us to link climate impacts to fossil fuel companies. In response, the industry and Republicans are trying to stop climate liability laws and lawsuits, and seek legal immunity like gun manufacturers got two decades ago. You don't do that unless you're guilty.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26102025/trump-republicans-big-oil-climate-liability/

2025-10-26 20:33:57 GMT

Now let's work on cycling teams sponsored by petrochemical companies and petrostates.
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/its-good-that-israel-doesnt-appear-on-the-list-barcelona-mayor-expecting-calmer-tour-de-france-2026-grand-depart-after-protest-marred-vuelta/

2025-10-26 11:06:07 GMT

The US is a deeply unserious country whose actions have serious consequences for the world.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/25/trump-canada-tariffs-reagan-ad/

2025-10-24 23:44:43 GMT

Centuries!
Quick, someone start selling plastics in the ocean as durable carbon removal!
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/plastic-pollution-research-oceans-100-years-b2850912.html

2025-10-24 16:43:29 GMT

"An artificial intelligence system (AI) apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed." 🤨
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/24/baltimore-student-ai-gun-detection-system-doritos

2025-10-22 12:29:09 GMT

Ok, I'll bite. Why does a bed need to be internet-enabled?
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/internet-down-eight-sleep-amazon-was-b2849606.html

2025-10-21 23:02:11 GMT

We were all relieved that this didn’t happen on 9/11.
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/414/641/064/322/006/original/a52efa5ee06549ec.jpeg

2025-10-21 16:40:29 GMT

Starting with people who keep AWS up and running?
https://www.theverge.com/news/803257/amazon-robotics-automation-replace-600000-human-jobs

2025-10-21 06:04:26 GMT

Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is a promising strategy for marine carbon dioxide removal, as it attempts to accelerate a natural process and may have climatically significant scalability. However, our best strategy for assessing OAE effects involves running computationally expensive climate models. We develop a powerful statistical technique that can encapsulate the climatic response to OAE interventions, thus simplifying the OAE carbon accounting problem.
https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/5723/2025/

2025-10-20 11:05:16 GMT

Not every environmental issue should be viewed through the lens of CO₂. The death of corals would actually be good for atmospheric CO₂. Coral calcification releases CO₂, and the dissolution of coral would allow the ocean to take up more atmospheric CO₂.
However, coral reefs support biodiversity and provide food, coastal protection, and income for up to a billion people around the world. There are reasons to save coral reefs that have nothing to do with CO₂.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2499583-coral-reefs-are-at-a-tipping-point-after-surging-global-temperatures/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=SOC&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1760899531

2025-10-20 03:21:04 GMT

Hostile architecture, like leaning benches and armrests designed to stop houseless people from occupying public spaces, makes things terrible for everyone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/nyregion/nyc-benches.html?unlocked_article_code=1.u08.8TfX.dt1V0eAoX_qA&smid=url-share

2025-10-19 10:02:15 GMT

At #NewScientistLive, we’re bombarded by ads that say: the climate crisis is terrible; fusion is the answer.
Yes, fusion is the answer, but it’s not happening here on Earth but 8.33 minutes away.
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2025-10-18 13:10:55 GMT

I’m reading Human Nature from the marvelous Dr. Marvel. We share the same sense of humor but she’s much funnier. I’d recommend the book to anyone.
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2025-10-17 09:14:13 GMT

Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. Southern Command, is resigning less than a year into his tenure amid escalating illegal U.S. military strikes against boats in the Caribbean, which the Trump regime claims are smuggling drugs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/us/politics/southern-command-head-stepping-down.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t08.8If9.E9yJ7ybleSbK&smid=url-share

2025-10-17 06:06:40 GMT

Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars 🫠
https://www.transportenvironment.org/share/plug-in-hybrids-pollute-almost-as-much-as-petrol-cars-eu-data/image/143008#143252

2025-10-16 07:48:24 GMT

“The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’s cuts.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/14/weather/alaska-storm-weather-balloons-trump-cuts-nws-climate

2025-10-15 10:34:34 GMT

Teens who won a lawsuit requiring Hawaiʻi to eliminate carbon emissions from the state’s transportation system in the next 20 years rightly call out sustainable aviation fuel as bullshit.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/10/teens-who-sued-hawaii-say-states-climate-plan-for-aviation-doesnt-fly/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky

2025-10-14 14:47:33 GMT

Your free version of America has expired.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/11/america-democracy-autocracy/684335/?gift=T2MjvQuCkaPOgkBxp57AvEtKdFoh2TqVwpD4-ac6NJo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-10-13 22:49:03 GMT

Microplastics are released from plastic when exposed to heat, a finding supported by multiple studies. This includes microplastics leaching from tea bags into hot tea, plastic containers releasing nanoplastics when microwaved, and higher temperatures during laundry increasing microplastic release from synthetic clothing. While the health effects of microplastics are still being studied, minimizing heat exposure to plastic is a simple way to reduce exposure.
https://wapo.st/46Zw1Qd

2025-10-11 13:26:11 GMT

Next to where I’m working in Iceland is a whaling station. They didn’t slaughter any whales this year because the Japanese economy tanked, thanks to Trump’s idiotic actions.
So…Trump saves whales*. 🫠
*He also saved a lot of whales by cancelling offshore wind. 🙃
https://arcticportal.org/ap-library/news/3744-iceland-issues-whaling-licenses-but-no-fin-whale-hunt-planned-for-summer-2025
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2025-10-10 19:54:15 GMT

Trump’s next target.
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2025-10-10 09:43:10 GMT

A story from last year about your Nobel Peace Prize winner.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/world/americas/venezuela-election-opposition-machado.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sU8.rajy.ODTFtaZ-gRwu&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-10-09 19:07:12 GMT

Listen to scientists and not sociopaths in public office. Get your annual COVID vaccine.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-study-finds-annual-covid-vaccines-protect-people-against-severe-disease/

2025-10-08 21:03:26 GMT

This is a story about Terradot, a carbon dioxide removal (CDR) company that is spreading crushed basalt rock over farmland in Brazil with the goal of accelerating the natural process of rock weathering.
These stories need to strike a balance between hope and realism. CDR is not a current climate solution.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/10/08/enhanced-rock-weathering-carbon-capture/

2025-10-08 14:05:14 GMT

A lot of great NOAA scientists I know have left or are going to leave soon. This is bad news for all of us.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/us/politics/senate-neil-jacobs-noaa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.r08.mXnh.l2wevVbS0cay&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-10-08 12:16:13 GMT

We will have a webinar on October 23, 2025 to discuss the Principles for Responsible and Effective Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Development and Governance.
Sign up here: https://hub.wri.org/events/2025/10/principles-responsible-and-effective-marine-carbon-dioxide-removal-development-and
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2025-10-08 07:29:25 GMT

RFK Jr. fired Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, after she filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that the Trump regime had undermined vaccine research and defied court orders. Dr. Marrazzo’s dismissal is part of a pattern of actions against scientists and experts who raised concerns about the administration’s policies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/health/kennedy-marrazzo-nih.html?unlocked_article_code=1.r08.mses.YeS8nI1F-q_3&smid=em-share

2025-10-07 02:37:57 GMT

Whisper: Maybe we should stop messing with the radiative balance of Earth.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-06/sequoia-backed-startup-faces-pushback-over-plan-to-reflect-sunlight-to-earth

2025-10-06 21:59:27 GMT

The Trump regime’s tariffs and the elimination of the de minimis exemption are hindering interlibrary loans, trapping books in foreign countries. This disruption to international resource sharing hinders academic progress and limits access to information for researchers.
https://www.404media.co/libraries-cant-get-their-loaned-books-back-because-of-trumps-tariffs/

2025-10-06 17:37:36 GMT

Even when it’s windy, freezing, and miserable, Iceland looks very beautiful in pictures.
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2025-10-05 20:56:46 GMT

Federal agents charged and knocked down two 84-year-olds (84!) as they peacefully protested on Saturday in front of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland, just blocks from their home. Psychopaths.
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/10/federal-agents-knock-down-elderly-couple-during-portland-protest.html

2025-10-04 15:05:22 GMT

Meat is a blind spot for people who care about climate. When I used to have dinner with my colleague Wally Broecker, the climate scientist who coined the term “global warming”, he would always order a steak.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/463643/eat-lancet-plant-based-diet-climate-week

2025-10-01 20:53:18 GMT

There are a few people that are inspirations to almost all scientists that I know, and Jane Goodall was one of them. RIP. 😢
https://apnews.com/article/jane-goodall-obit-78698397851bc7634717206f7eba07b2

2025-10-01 10:43:18 GMT

This area where the Trump Library is expected to be built is projected to be flooded in about 100 years due to sea level rise, and I'm sad I won’t be around to see it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/us/miami-property-trump-library.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qE8.HLxj.Qqb0chTg5R9w

2025-09-30 17:56:45 GMT

They look bored and unamused, like they're at a faculty meeting.
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2025-09-29 16:23:22 GMT

Jesus!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/climate/trump-coal-revival.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pk8.Ck_V.cow2ckEbwHhi&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-09-28 21:42:42 GMT

Lol
https://www.vice.com/en/article/tesla-bros-attempt-coast-to-coast-trip-in-self-driving-mode-crash-right-away/

2025-09-27 11:06:37 GMT

Shareholder capitalism makes everything terrible.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/business/trump-disney-paramount-shareholder-capitalism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.o08.WTyb.JKibFna3Qw10

2025-09-27 02:39:15 GMT

British Cycling, sponsored by a fossil fuel company and a bank that provides billions in financing to the fossil fuel industry.
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2025-09-26 21:25:39 GMT

Headline: The fascist conservative justices on the Supreme Court voted to allow Trump to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid that congress had appropriated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-foreign-aid.html?unlocked_article_code=1.o08.kprQ.qW7ygCtmkrNm&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-09-25 11:31:11 GMT

Privatizing a vital public utility is never a good thing.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/25/united-utilities-underspent-work-windermere-water-company-pollution

2025-09-23 11:03:43 GMT

Fuck these guys.
“The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking back federal aid: the projects aren’t designed for cars.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-22/trump-cancels-trail-bike-lane-grants-deemed-hostile-to-cars?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1ODU3NzIyMywiZXhwIjoxNzU5MTgyMDIzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMlpXMlpHT1QwSkswMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI5NTY4NzY4MEU4NTc0MTQ1QUVFREFDMTdCOEQ3MEZGOSJ9.0zX_4sO2rgTvRyU8iPtsjTHv6YEKUJ8guhzWFTkBq3w

2025-09-23 10:12:02 GMT

District Judge Royce Lamberth in D.C. halted the Trump regime's order to stop construction of the Revolution Wind project, writing that the project developers are likely to succeed in their lawsuit against the regime and are “likely to suffer irreparable harm in the absence of an injunction.” He also wrote that “maintaining the status quo by granting an injunction is in the public’s interest.”
https://wapo.st/4mvXgaX

2025-09-22 15:09:23 GMT

I met Dr. David Ho!
He’s responsible for the fact that HIV is no longer a death sentence and his work has saved tens of millions of lives. Why he doesn’t have a Nobel Prize is beyond me. AMA.
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