Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@social.cleverlibre.org

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The International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM) opens a call for doctoral candidates in climate research:

https://mpimet.mpg.de/en/career/imprs-esm

Within this year’s call, I am looking to fill two PhD positions in my group at Uni. Hamburg / Helmholtz Zentrum Hereon / Max Planck Institute for Meteorology focusing on the ocean carbon cycle modeling in the Earth system.

Application deadline is 15 Sep.

Tuesday was the world's hottest day ever recorded with a global temperature of 17.18°C (62.9°F) - NWS

Earth just experienced the hottest global day on record. Records for near-surface air temperatures around the world broke all previous averages on July 3 and again on July 4, 2023. #climate #elnino https://www.newscientist.com/article/2381069-record-for-hottest-day-ever-recorded-on-earth-broken-twice-in-a-row/

One of #Russia 's bravest journalist, Yelena #Milashina attacked in #Chechnya
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66096607
#JournalismIsNotACrime

Study finds birds raise fewer young when spring arrives earlier in a warming world:

Rising global temperatures are making it harder for birds to know when it's spring and time to breed according to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-birds-young-earlier-world.html

Day 1 of #eve4climate is done.

The first session had talks by
Bjorn Stevens, Debra Roberts, Aromar Revi and Tim Palmer.

They were all addressing the possibilities of the Earth Virtual Engines (EVE), an amibitious project to develop several global centres of excellence in climate science supported by exascale compute and analysis facilities.

The basic thesis is that if we push toward global models with 1-km resolution we will be able to provide much better global predictions of climate

1/n

@davidallengreen with his tongue firmly placed in his cheek suggests what #RishiSunak really needs to help him make #government actually works is a committee of all the major departmental heads that meets (maybe twice a week), established joint responsibility for its actions & whose discussions remain confidential to ensure full & frank communication of issues that need to be resolved by that committee;

now what might you call that, I wonder & why haven't we got one?

https://davidallengreen.com/2023/07/a-modest-proposal-for-helping-the-prime-minister-keep-on-top-of-government-and-to-push-priorities/

Looking for more people on Mastodon who are working in fisheries or oceanography? @Huia_fishocean has a list going!

Pachyderms, it looks as if I forgot to post my latest Coppola Comment piece here. So here it is, belatedly.

Corporate #profits don't cause #inflation. Rather, they are a symptom of excess #demand, just as inflation is.

https://coppolacomment.substack.com/p/corporate-profits-dont-cause-inflation

@ocornut EU cookie law is not the problem. You don't need to ask for consent for essential cookies, like the ones that store your login session ID or the shopping cart in a web store.

Every time you see the cookie popup, it's about selling your browsing data to third parties.

We see these popups everywhere and the reasoning is "the EU did something stupid", but it's the opposite. They caught the thieves red-handed.

"We value your privacy." Yeah, no shit. By putting a monetary value on it.

SUBSTACK

Why the United Kingdom government cannot leave the ECHR without either breaching or re-negotiating the Good Friday Agreement

The overlooked obstacle to the United Kingdom withdrawing from the ECHR

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/why-the-united-kingdom-government