Mike Sparrow
World Climate Research Programme & Polar Focal Point #Polar #Marine #Climate #Conservation #SDGs; also #Yoga #Surfing #Snowboard ... Tweets in own capacity
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Supercomputers, Climate Models and 40 Years of the World Climate Research Programme
InsideClimate News 3d 5 tweets
The world’s ability to adapt to climate change is on the agenda as the venerable international climate research program charts its next decade.
Oceans running out of oxygen say scientists
BBC News 3d 16 tweets
A warmer world means oceans are able to hold less dissolved oxygen, which is bad news for many fish.
Mike Sparrow Climate change: Oceans running out of oxygen as temperatures rise #ocean #climate #sdg13 #sdg14 56h
The polar regions in a 2°C warmer world
Science Advances 5d 8 tweets
Over the past decade, the Arctic has warmed by 0.75°C, far outpacing the global average, while Antarctic temperatures have remained comparatively stable. As Earth approaches 2°C warming, the Arctic and Antarctic may reach 4°C and 2°C mean annual...
Mike Sparrow The polar regions in a 2°C warmer world #polar #Arctic #Antarctic #climatechange #climate #SDG13 56h
Cryo Adventures – What’s currently going on in Antarctic science?
Cryospheric Sciences 4d 1 tweets
As Christmas gets closer, days are getting shorter in the northern hemisphere. A good excuse to get cosy inside on the sofa, drinking tea and eating Christmas biscuits. Meanwhile, a few thousand of scientists are heading “South”, to Antarctica,...
Planet at the crossroads
Ricochet - Ricochet 4d 1 tweets
As COP25 gets underway in Madrid, we need to understand that international environmental law can save lives
WCRP Climate Science Week
Mailchi.mp 5d 1 tweets
Antarctic environmental change and biological responses
Science Advances 10d 2 tweets
Antarctica and the surrounding Southern Ocean are facing complex environmental change. Their native biota has adapted to the region’s extreme conditions over many millions of years. This unique biota is now challenged by environmental change and the...
Mike Sparrow Antarctic environmental change and biological responses #Antarctic #Polar #Conservation #NonNativeSpecies 9d
Climate emergency: world 'may have crossed tipping points’
Damian Carrington - the Guardian 12d 40 tweets
Warning of ‘existential threat to civilisation’ as impacts lead to cascade of unstoppable events
Mike Sparrow World 'may have crossed certain climate tipping points’ already ... #climate #TippingPoints #SDG13 12d
Watch the Arctic’s sea ice slowly disappear
Science | AAAS 22d 1 tweets
Researchers visualize 35 years of sea ice shrinkage
How to erase a ship—Arctic researchers work to eliminate their vessel’s fingerprints
Science | AAAS 26d 3 tweets
Soot, noise, and light from icebreaker threaten observations
Mike Sparrow How to erase a ship—Arctic researchers work to eliminate their vessel’s fingerprints #Arctic #Polarstern #MOSAiC #Polar 22d
Sentinel for sea-level rise enters testing
BBC News 23d 6 tweets
The satellite that will maintain the "gold standard" measurement of ocean height is nearly complete.
Mike Sparrow Sentinel for sea-level rise enters testing #sealevel #Sentinel #ocean 22d
The discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole
Nature.com 43d 4 tweets
How an unexpected observation changed global environmental policy.
Mike Sparrow The discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole #Ozone #Antarctic #Polar 32d
Climate emergency 'clear and unequivocal'
BBC News 34d 24 tweets
Around 11,000 scientists have endorsed research that says the world is facing a climate emergency.
Mike Sparrow Climate change: ‘Clear and unequivocal’ emergency, say scientists #climate #SDG13 34d
World’s oldest ice core could solve mystery of ‘flipped’ ice age cycles
Science | AAAS 40d 5 tweets
2.7-million-year-old core chronicles switch from 40,000- to 100,000-year ice age cycles
Mike Sparrow World’s oldest ice core could solve mystery of ‘flipped’ ice age cycles #climate #polar #Antarctic #IceCore 36d
Rising sea levels pose threat to homes of 300m people – study
jonathanwatts - the Guardian 41d 17 tweets
Figure based on new analysis of coastlines is more than three times previous estimate
Mike Sparrow Rising sea levels pose threat to homes of 300m people – study #climate #SeaLevelRise #cities #SDG13 #SDG14 #SDG11 41d
Women innovators become STEM ambassadors for girls
Science 46d 1 tweets
Catie Cuan did well in middle school math and science classes but “got made fun of a lot for being smart,” she recalled. She was also a dancer and “a gregarious, outgoing person, and I felt like those identities couldn't be reconciled with being a...
Mike Sparrow Women innovators become STEM ambassadors for girls #STEM #Gender #innovation #SDG5 46d
Climate explained: how volcanoes influence climate and how their emissions compare to what we produce
Theconversation.com 48d 1 tweets
Global impacts of thawing Arctic permafrost may be imminent
Science | AAAS 49d 3 tweets
Seasonal carbon emissions seen outpacing absorption
Mike Sparrow Global impacts of thawing Arctic permafrost may be imminent #Arctic #polar #climate #permafrost #climate 49d
Southwest Atlantic humpbacks on recovery path
BBC News 55d 7 tweets
The population first ravaged by commercial whalers in the 1900s is almost back to where it was.
Mike Sparrow Southwest Atlantic humpback whales on recovery path #SouthernOcean #Polar #Whale #Conservation 54d
How fast will seas rise? A dying Greenland glacier holds clues
Vis.sciencemag.org 60d 5 tweets
Scientists watch a warming ocean melt and fracture the ice
Mike Sparrow How fast will seas rise? A dying Greenland glacier holds clues (featuring the co-chair of our project, ) #Arctic #Greenland #SeaLevel 59d