Meghan Cronin

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Physical Oceanographer observing/understanding weather and climate in the ocean and atmosphere. Coleads UN Ocean Decade programme Obseving Air Sea Interactions Strategy (OASIS)
Been told that this link helps find #twitterexodus fedifinder.glitch.me
Lu Hersey 📚🌾 (@LuWrites)

Snowflake on a raven's wing. (Photo by Shawn Bergman)

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On today’s coffee klatch: Elon Musk's brain, Kevin McCarthy's gut, and crossword puzzles.

Grab a cup and pull up a chair.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/elon-musks-brain-kevin-mccarthys#details

Elon Musk's brain, Kevin McCarthy's gut, and crossword puzzles

Listen now (14 min) | Saturday's coffee klatch

Robert Reich
My mastodon link at my pinned tweet on Twitter is now warning anyone who clicks on it that the sight may be “unsafe.”
You know what actually feels unsafe right now? Musk on Twitter.
@murshedz yes. Need to build vibrant alternatives. Here. Yes. But I also yesterday got on waiting list for post. Does anyone know what the waiting list is about? #TwitterIsADumpsterFire #TwitterDesaster
@dansinker great! Just ordered a set.
US folks, free covid tests are back and the site is active. Just ordered mine. https://www.covid.gov/tests
COVID.gov - Free at-home COVID-19 tests

Every U.S. household is eligible to order 4 free at-home COVID-19 tests.

COVID.gov

It's hard for people to visualize removing tons or billions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂). I propose we talk about CO₂ removal (#CDR) like a time machine (e.g., this machine will take us back 5 minutes). For example:

Q: How far back in time does planting 100 million trees take us?

A: If one mature tree takes up an average of 25 kg of CO₂ per year, then 100 million trees will take up 2.5 MtCO₂. That's a time machine that takes us back 33 minutes and 6 seconds in a year. It's not a lot.

Do you lay awake at night wondering how much of December precipitation typically falls as #snow? Wonder no more. Here's an answer from the ERA5 reanalysis courtesy ECMWF. Latitude and elevation are not the only factors, but they are important. #climate @Climatologist49

Not getting discussed nearly enough, IMHO: updated COVID-19 boosters are now authorized for children as young as 6 months.

https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/fda-authorizes-updated-covid-booster-shots-kids-young-94813859

Video FDA authorizes updated COVID booster shots for kids as young as 6 months

The FDA has authorized an updated COVID booster shot for children as young as six months, with the shots targeting the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants.

ABC News