Nika Shilobod · @NikaShilobod
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Discovers , Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of K2-18 b

"The abundance of methane and dioxide, and shortage of ammonia, support the hypothesis that there may be a water underneath a hydrogen-rich in K2-18 b. These ... observations also provided a possible detection of a molecule called ... DMS. On , this is only produced by . The bulk of the DMS in Earth’s atmosphere is emitted from phytoplankton in marine environments."

nasa.gov/goddard/2023/webb-dis

#life #earth #atmosphere #ocean #carbon #methane #webb

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SLCW💥 · @slcw
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A streaking across the isn't a . It's a completely normal and natural phenomenon known as a —a mass (typically a rock) that burns up and disintegrates as it traverses 's . Trying to associate these events with UFOs is misguided, and ultimately damaging to the legitimate study of unidentified arial phenomena.

popculture.com/trending/amp/ne

#fireball #sky #ufo #bolide #earth #atmosphere

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Things David Likes · @ThingsDavidLikes
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steve dustcircle ⍻ · @dustcircle
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What is ?
The U.S. is investing in technologies that keep out of industrial — or that remove it from the

theweek.com/climate-change/102

#carboncapture #co2 #emissions #atmosphere

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Daniele de Rigo · @dderigo
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Loretta Mickley (news.harvard.edu/gazette/story):

" affecting the succession of vegetation in an . [...] If you burn, for example, the conifers in Sierra Nevada, you may not get conifers back. It’s too dry and too warm during certain times of the year. That could be another source of into the . There is some concern that after the recent very large fires in the western U.S., [...] given the changing climate, we won’t see the same dense vegetation return"

#ClimateChange #ecosystem #carbon #atmosphere

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Daniele de Rigo · @dderigo
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On the two-way feedback vs :

news.harvard.edu/gazette/story

"For Loretta Mickley [...] the fires present a dual problem:
Not only are they a symptom of climate change — becoming bigger, hotter, and more common in regions where they can affect large population centers — but they also make the crisis worse. By burning vast layers of partially decomposed vegetable matter called , fires like those in release even more into the "

#wildfires #ClimateChange #peat #canada #greenhousegases #atmosphere

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Greggie · @Greggie
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Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
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: are hotter in , Hurricane Harvey disproportionately flooded Spanish-speaking households, and is worse in predominantly than mostly ones. There are reasons for this, and they have nothing to do with the of a warming .

#whitefaceblackfuel #dispropotionateimpacts #heatwaves #historically #redlined #neighborhoods #airpollution #black #white #physics #atmosphere

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Dekazeta :vf: · @dekazeta
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Daniele de Rigo · @dderigo
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by may also be connected with #"Earth’s radiation budget through absorption of incoming shortwave radiation" with potentially underestimated effects [3]. "Wildfires emit large amounts of and light-absorbing organic carbon, known as , into the " and [3] suggests that "a type of dark brown carbon contributes three-quarters of the short visible light absorption and half of the long visible light absorption"

#smoke #wildfires #blackcarbon #browncarbon #atmosphere #ClimateChange

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Nando161 · @nando161
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Nando161 · @nando161
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Nando161 · @nando161
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Rising could be sign that 's is part way through 'termination-level transition.' Since 2006, the amount of heat-trapping methane in Earth's has been rising fast and, unlike the rise in (CO₂), methane's recent increase seems to be driven by biological , not burning of . Methane was about 0.7ppm of the air before humans began burning fossil fuels. Now it is over 1.9ppm and rising fast. phys.org/news/2023-08-methane-

#methane #earth #climate #atmosphere #carbondioxide #emissions #fossilfuels #climatecrisis

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eejayes · @eejayes
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