The best part of recording Space Oddity for me was the joy it gave David Bowie, to see his creation performed in a place he'd always dreamt of.
Ten years ago today -
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After almost a month of troubleshooting, the #RIME antenna on #ESAJuice is finally free!
Discover how 's flight control team did it 👉esa.int/Science_Explor
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The RIME antenna on @ESA_JUICE is free!!!
This Juice Monitoring Camera GIF shows the moments after the Flight Control Team at ESA #MissionControl fired the remaining 'actuator' on the jammed bracket.
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Woohoo 🥳 The RIME antenna is deployed…Jupiter here we come!! Huge congratulations to my colleagues in #MissionControl and everyone else involved…space is hard but that never means we give up 💪
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The RIME antenna on @ESA_JUICE is free!!!
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Here I explain 14 years ago that drought in the Mediterranean results from our fossil CO2 emissions, in a lecture in Malaga (Spain). That was well-established robust science even back then in 2009. Nobody should be surprised by it now.
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Spain in megadrought. Out of 55 hottest temperatures ever recorded in #Spain - only ~5 were recorded before 2020. 2024 looks set to be even hotter than 2023 with El Niño on the way. This is the new climate - one that will push civilization to the limit.
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In fact Eunice Foote en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Ne is credited with the first realisation that atmospheric greenhouse gases warm the planet!
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- more than 200 years since Fourier first made the analogy that the atmosphere behaves like a greenhouse
- more than 150 years since Foote & Tyndall identified the main greenhouse gases
- 85 years since Callendar showed the planet was warming & caused by increases in CO₂
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The equatorial tropical Pacific is rapidly transitioning to an El Niño state, which would have major consequences for global average temperatures as well as regional weather patterns. The latest thinking, incl. from axios.com/2023/04/19/el-
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India may tip this year to a wet-bulb temperatures threshold that will test human survival
"Temperatures in the Ganga and Indus valleys will likely pass the critical wet-bulb temperatures in 2023 and 2024."
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March 2023 was globally the second warmest March since 1880, +1.21°C and +1.48°C above the 1951-1980 and 1880-1920 March means, respectively.
An El Niño is going to start soon.
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Data sources: NASA/GISS &: cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/data/indices/e
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Even without the warming of an El Niño
The surface of the ocean is now so hot it's broken every record since satellite measurements began
This not only fuels more powerful storms but impacts Marine life where native organisms cannot tolerate such extremes
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I’m very aware there’s huge numbers of people who don’t accept that we are in a climate crisis. I have some in my family, such has been the power of the fossil fuels disinformation campaign. Good chance they’ll change their minds by the end of the year…
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Worst April heat wave in Asian history ongoing in more than a dozen countries
44.0C in Pakistan,43.5C in India,43.4C at Lampang in Thailand,0.1C from its all time record,43.3C in Myanmar,41.7C in Bangladesh,42C in Central Asia.
Also hottest day on records at Sayabouri,Laos.
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This is the future for Florida - better get used to it.
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Downtown Fort Lauderdale right now
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as if the planets trying to tell us something about cars…
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#Miami #FortLauderdale #Florida #southflorida #FloridaWeather #Weather #Raining #rains #flooding #Floods #MiamiWeather
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Sensitive deniers look away
The latest sea-level rise (SLR) projections indicate that future sea levels are certain to exceed 2 m and a rise by 4 m is considered possible
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TBH, this seems worse than having the road blocked by climate activists for a few minutes.
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This is by no means certain, but if realised it would be very bad news indeed.
1.5C could well come under threat.
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2️⃣ days to launch! 🚀
Here's a reminder of how to follow the #ESAJuice launch live this Thursday. Liftoff is 14:15 CEST👉esa.int/Science_Explor
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A fantastic article by
This is the brutal truth about what needs to happen to have any chance of staying below 1.5C
The idea that we can do this 'without the hair shirts' - as our last PM but one suggested - is pure BS.
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‘Headed off the charts’: world’s ocean surface temperature hits record high | Oceans | The Guardian
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Ocean surface temperatures have never been this hot in recorded history. It shouldn’t be happening. Yet the media wont report it. They’ll report football scores and celebrity trials and new film releases more prominently. The entire media is totally broken.
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I don’t think people understand that media, politics and society will be unrecognisably change by this and it’s almost time. It’s unlike any issue because the planet doesn’t care a jot about your view or beliefs or what politicians think is possible. An awe inspiring time to live
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Gulf Stream continues to slow down, new data shows, with freshwater creating imbalance in current, pushing it closer to a Collapse point
A weakening Gulf Stream cannot transport warmer waters towards north as effectively
Warmer waters pile up East Coast US
severe-weather.eu/global-weather
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In a high-level report for , experts including Prof and Prof say Europe risks missing out on a “space revolution” unless it significantly increases its autonomy in human and robotic space exploration
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Amazing footage of a newly calved iceberg flipping in the Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland. (Sound on)
Credit: Peter Søndergaard
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Yes. Here is Prof Rees in conversation with Dr Nate Hagens, accurately summing up our 'dead end'.
We require a 75-80% reduction in material well-being in the affluent west. Subsistence farming in a unstable climate anyone?
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We need a renewables revolution, not a self-destructive fossil fuel resurgence.
My message to fossil fuel producers and their enablers.
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🎧Looking for some lunchtime listening?
Check out Prof talking to 's Hannah Knox about how local people relate to #climatechange.
(Part-funded by )
▶️oldhamenergyfutures.carbon.coop/2022/12/08/epi
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Mars!!!
128 million miles away. Listen to the sounds.
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This video is made of images from the Curiosity rover, which does not have microphones on board to record sound. The sound was added in artificially afterward.
Video from the same images from the NASA JPL YouTube Channel: youtube.com/watch?v=0fva2p…
Context is written by people who use Twitter, and appears when rated helpful by others. Find out more.
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This is the highly accurate graph for global heating produced in 1982, for internal use, by scientists
They knew the scale of the problem and instead of acting they lied, obfuscated and paid others to deny global heating and climate breakdown were happening
Criminal!
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🌡️ ICYMI from :
🔥 The past 9 years have been Earth’s warmest since modern record keeping began.
🌏 2022 was tied with 2015 as the 5th warmest.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150828/ #dataviz #earthscience #climatechange #scicomm
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This photo is 100% real.
Taken all the way back in 1984, it shows Bruce McCandless II, a mission specialist on the Challenger spacecraft as he reached a maximum distance on one of the first untethered spacewalks ever.
Image: NASA
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On a ten year time horizon, the World Economic Forum ranks environmental risks nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 10. weforum.org/reports/global
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Listen to the scientists..
"If we go past 2 C of global warming , we will enter completely unknown terrain, a planet that is not even resembling our own planet" #ClimateEmergency
"The world will almost certainly blow through the 2 degrees ceiling."
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The last eight years have been the eight warmest on record.
2022 came in at number 5.
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France has passed a law to require every large car park to also be a solar panel farm.
The Tories are busy banning onshore wind & solar farms in fields.
The decision to double your energy bill was a political choice.
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Well, THIS seems like bad news…
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'equilibrium climate sensitivity is at least ~4°C with a likely range of 3.5-5.5°C.
global warming in the pipeline is greater than prior estimates.'
James Hansen and colleagues release new work for discussion.
This should be front page news.
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