Tom Nicholas

Oceanography + Scientific Software @_CWorthy
Climate Activism & sometimes opinions
(@TEGNicholasCode for software)

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[Tom Nicholas @TEGNicholas]

We are in a climate crisis, but must not give in to doomism.

@GalenHall4, @ColleenBSchmid1 and I explain why environmental doomism is never the right philosophy.

https://t.co/BcoOKhiItf

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[Daniel Rothenberg @danrothenberg]

It absolutely was not. Some of us have PhDs on this niche of the science.

[Tom Nicholas @TEGNicholas]

@Nick_Lutsko So would it be fair to say that very very roughly the current forcing from anthropogenic CO2 was cancelled out momentarily by the moon?

[Mike Tyka (@[email protected]) @mtyka]

Our new paper w/ @MengyangZhou, E.Yankovsky, @alicia_karspeck, S.Bachman,
T.Nicholas, @_david_ho_ and @matt_c_long (@_CWorthy) on mapping the efficiency of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) across the global ocean is out as a preprint:

https://t.co/4b9srgJU0l
#mcdr #CDR #CO2

[Tom Nicholas @TEGNicholas]

@H4wkm0th @ClimateOfGavin An environmental science analogy for this *should* be something like a global record that tells you "this land now has been concreted over so no space to plant trees there".

But I've only really seen the phrase used to mean "advanced global predictive physics model" in env. sci.

[Tom Nicholas @TEGNicholas]

@H4wkm0th @ClimateOfGavin That's not really automated data assimilation, as once the work is done the location of the new pipe would need to be entered into the twin by hand. It's more like a 3D inventory. It's also not the physics data in the digital twin.

[Tom Nicholas @TEGNicholas]

@danrothenberg @NOAA @modal_labs @danrothenberg I was talking today with @tom_e_white about his idea to use cubed as a serverless backend to parallelize the creation of the kerchunk references (i.e. doing the tree_reduce bit), and I'm now wondering if that has any crossover with what you've done here?

[Tom Nicholas @TEGNicholas]

I hope that CWorthy will be an example of truly impactful and open science.

If anyone wants to chat about any of this, please reach out! I and several others in the team will also be at Climate Week in NYC next week.

[Tom Nicholas @TEGNicholas]

New job: This week I started at @_CWorthy !

I’ll be building software systems for monitoring and verifying the safety and efficacy of Ocean-based Carbon Removal approaches.

https://t.co/RPNzj6hy5e

[Tom Nicholas @TEGNicholas]

Making the results open means open data, open methodologies, using open-source tools.

I will personally be working on the data analytics side of things, so am excited to continue using and contributing to @pangeo_data tools such as @xarray_dev , @dask_dev, and @zarr_dev .