Rick Lumpkin

Oceanographer and guitar player. He/him.

[Ginger Zee @Ginger_Zee]

So hot over the waters around south Florida they barely get the typical land sea breeze (without temp gradient) but anything that comes onshore doesn't cool them down. 36 days in a row for Miami with a 100 plus heat index

[Star Wars @starwars]

Once a rebel, always a rebel.

Watch the brand-new trailer and experience the two-episode series premiere of @AhsokaOfficial, a Star Wars Original series, streaming August 23 on @DisneyPlus.

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@proofNOTtrust @LeonSimons8 @BoletusFavius Good for clean air to breath, but less sunlight blocked. Just like clean air act in the 1970s.

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@ClimateBen Everyone saying that a sudden increase in CO2 isn’t bad should google “Triassic-Jurassic extinction event”

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@marcryanmedia @vladiusdaddius @gtconway3d Is this why we read twitter?

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@jaodynamics Breaking news!

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@catinsight That’s hot

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@PaulRoundy1 @BMcNoldy Very interesting overview, Paul - thanks!

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@BigOldFreak @theflophousepod LOL!

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@NOAAClimate I wonder how much these teleconnection patterns are altered by an anomalously warm tropical Atlantic

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Extreme climate event in North Atlantic may have kicked off Sargassum explosion a decade ago https://t.co/DEFEfTEyqR

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

ALIEN was released 44 years ago today. One of the definitive science fiction/horror movies, its influence is still seen to this day. The behind-the-scenes story of how the film was made is a fascinating one...

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[Rick Lumpkin @RickLumpkin]

@PatrickBRussell @WookOfficial My dad took the family to see it in summer 77 … I was 9, and remember it vividly. They asked me if I liked it after, and I said it was the best thing ever

[Dr Adam M Sykulski @ASykulski]

A new paper with Michael O'Malley, @RickLumpkin and @UnibusPluram on predicting ocean current velocities using multivariate natural gradient boosting: https://t.co/6yE1uMRmjz

[Prof. Matt England @ProfMattEngland]

‘Headed off the charts’: world’s ocean surface temperature hits record high https://t.co/EMQNyrKh5G

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

6. Misinformation is highly down-ranked

Anything that is categorized as misinformation gets the rug pulled out from under it.

Surprisingly, so are posts about Ukraine.

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@LetsTalkOceans Congratulations and safe travels home!

[Lisa M Beal @LetsTalkOceans]

Playful seals greeted us as we approached Cape Town on our final leg of #QUICCHE. That’s a wrap on our cruise. Now we are looking forward to several years of collaborations to build and understanding of our data and what we have learned about the ocean!

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@ProfMattEngland @Nature @_Qian_Li_ @dr_akmorrison @hogg_andy @AntarcticSciAus @ccrc_unsw @anuearthscience @ClimateMIT @UNSWScience Really important work, Matt! Thank you for this outreach to all!

[Prof. Matt England @ProfMattEngland]

👉👉 Out today in @nature our new paper showing how meltwater increases around Antarctica are set to dramatically slowdown the Antarctic overturning circulation, with a potential collapse this century. https://t.co/p3au6k4zcK A🧵on how this work came about and what we found...