Elliott Roberts

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇲 Chemical Oceanographer | Views are my own | RT ≠ Endorsement | PhD 🇨🇳, MRes 🇬🇧, BSc 🇺🇲

[Elliott Roberts @ell__ro]

1/6 | Pls enjoy our #newpaper, now avble for dwnld

The #carbonatesystem of the northern #SouthChinaSea: #seasonality and exchange with the western North #Pacific

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https://t.co/8QQdq72j20

#CO2 #carboncycle #sea #carbon #oceanography #science #OA #realtimechem #ecrchat #data

[BONUS🌍 @TheDisproof]

A suspicious group calling itself the "Fact Check Alliance" has popped up on my radar. They are heavily linked to former Hugo Chavez govt PR guy Michael Shellenberger. The website appears to be a front to further the misleading work of Shellenberger and his astroturfing. Also...

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.

In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

[Prof. Ryan Katz-Rosene @ryankatzrosene]

More using cherry blossoms as an indicator of climate change

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[Elliott Roberts @ell__ro]

It's been called the 'Gulf of Mexico' for four centuries and I will stick to that defnition for upcoming and future publications. Calling it 'Gulf of America' because "...we do the most work there..." sets a dangerous precedent.

[BNO News @BNONews]

NEW: Trump says name of the Gulf of Mexico will be changed to Gulf of America

[Prof. Ryan Katz-Rosene @ryankatzrosene]

Hudson Bay will be around +20°C warmer than the 1979-2000 average right around Christmas.

[Chris Colose @CColose]

I believe the scientific community abandoning Twitter is a mistake. I understand this is not a place for much good faith dialogue, but it’s a highly used public platform and leaving it to armies of paid disinformation actors, frauds, and armies of trolls to fill in information space is not strategic. The alternative platforms might be nice for internal discussions on niche issues, but they are not compelling as highly viewed sources.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

750,000+ researchers work as peer reviewers for Springer Nature every year.

Say, a researcher spends 4 hours per review, which it makes it a total of 3+ million hours of labor a year.

And for these 3+ million hours of labor, Springer Nature pays exactly $0.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Major academic publishers are getting sued for unlawfully appropriating billions of dollars.

Prof. Lucina Qazi Uddin, a neuroscientist at UCLA, has sued these six academic publishers Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Sage, and Springer Nature.

The lawsuit claims that these publishers violate antitrust laws on the following three grouds:

1. The publishers have colluded to fix the price of peer review at zero.

2. These publishers agree to not compete with each by making it obligatory for researchers to submit their work to only one journal at a time.

3. These publishers prohibit scholars from sharing scientific advancements while they are under peer review, which can take up to a year.

Here's a comparison of the publishers' revenue and what they pay authors and reviewers

Elsevier: $3.9 billion
Springer Nature: $2 billion
Wolters Kluwer: $1.6 billion
Wiley: $1.8 billion
Taylor & Francis: $800 million
Sage: $500 million

They pay:
Authors: $0
Peer reviewers: $0

[BONUS🌍 @TheDisproof]

Last month Trump falsely claimed the ocean will only rise 1/8 of an inch in the next 400yrs. Now he falsely claims oceans will fall 1/100th of an inch in 400yrs YET: Global mean sea level rose more than 1/8 of an inch in the last year alone. 11cm since '93 https://t.co/a6guMkYZYg

[Leo Hickman @LeoHickman]

The section on climate change in the Musk/Trump "interview" is just *wild*

It really is worth reading in full to get a sense of the two men.

Just off-the-scale levels of ignorance, denial, misinformation and half-truths.

I've put the transcript here

https://t.co/9M7qKX6Yrt

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

The next three months will be decisive for climate change. It's because most climate scientists expect the global average temperature to decrease. If that doesn't happen, that makes it likely that the existing projections are underestimating future warming.

The past year has been in an above-average temperature phase partly because of a natural quasi-periodic climate cycle called the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO). You might also have heard of it as the El Nino-La Nina years.

According to a recent report (June 17) from NOAA, we are just out of the warmer El Nino phase and now in a neutral, intermediate phase, that is expected to turn to the colder La Nina towards the end of the year. Report here: https://t.co/sa4T4wBmqA

One of the consequences of this transition will probably be a very active hurricane season.

That 2023 was so hot on the global average might have been a statistical outlier. My impression is that most climate scientists at the moment think it was. Or maybe it's just what they hope.

Some are worried there is more to it and that the models have gotten something wrong, that the climate sensitivity has been estimated to be too low or that the impact of declining aerosol levels has been underestimated.

The scary truth is that no one really knows.

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

And climate change said, hold my beer.

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

The amount of fundamental radiative transfer work done by the US Air Force – and the role its had in measuring the heat-trapping properties of CO2 and other greenhouse gases – is an under-appreciated story. We still use the HITRAN database today: https://t.co/eeHr9yerZL

[BONUS🌍 @TheDisproof]

How US Air Force heat seeking missiles research shot down human induced climate change deniers. Footage source: PBS and thanks to @PeterWSinclair for finding this footage. #ClimateBrawl

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

One way to see just how truly "gobsmackingly bananas" North Atlantic sea surface temperatures are right now is to remove the "less anomalous" year 2023 from the graph.

This just looks impossible in real life.

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

In case you're keeping track, there have been five days in 2024 when the global temperature anomaly dipped below the Paris limit of 1.5°C. Most recently, March 23rd registered 1.46°C.

The current 365-day running average is 1.57°C.

The climate 8-ball says: "f&%kery ahead!"

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

We still have an ozone layer because we phased OUT (rather than phase DOWN) CFCs.

We still hear birdsong in spring because we phased OUT (rather than phase DOWN) DDT.

A livable climate requires that we phase OUT rather than phase DOWN fossil fuels.

[Heather Kim, PhD @kimlabwhoi]

We're hiring a postdoctoral investigator to work on modeling carbon export and flux attenuation mechanisms at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site. Email me ([email protected]) for any questions. https://t.co/pcCkmmSR0Z

[Dorothee Bakker @Dorothee_Bakker]

Fun PhD position on 'Carbon uptake by seasonally ice-covered waters' at @uniofeastanglia!

Application deadline 10 January 2024.
With @DorotheeBakker, @DrTGBell, @KRHendry, @DeepSeaHugh and Rob Hall.
@ueaenv @PlymouthMarine @BAS_News
@RoSES_ocean
https://t.co/CBCnFGvKyl