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Paul Macdonald

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Fighting for climate action, and challenging anti-science propaganda, disinformation, and misinformation.

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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · Nov 15

A few years ago, prior to Australia’s ‘Black Summer’, I began capturing extreme events as I became aware of them escalating to a frequency of becoming annual events - some type of disaster of unprecedented scale occurring somewhere where such an event was previously unheard of. 🧵

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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 4h

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Plants
#Vegetation
#CO2
#AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source - Nature

A transition from carbon sink to source for the aboveground woody biomass of moist tropical Australian forests has occurred, driven by increasingly extreme climate anomalies.

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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 4h

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Plants
#Vegetation
#CO2
#AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

‘This is bad news’: Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source

Researchers say carbon emissions change in Queensland tropical rainforests may have global climate implications

www.theguardian.com

Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 5h

For more details and videos of extreme climate and weather events, go to:
x.com/weathermonit...
x.com/volcaholic1
x.com/arab_storms
bsky.app/profile/fire...

#Precipitation
#AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 5h

#RateOfChange
#Temperature
#AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 5h

#RateOfChange
#CO2
#AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 5h

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#RateOfChange
#CO2
#AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

www.theguardian.com

Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 11h

bsky.app/profile/clim...

#Precipitation
#AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 23h

True for the whole planet as well:

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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 11h

bsky.app/profile/clim...

#Precipitation
#Storms
#AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 23h

Why are there more flooding storms? Why does my cat ignore me?

For starters, the Northern mid-latitudes just set yet another new record for the 3-year running average for Total Column Precipitable Water.

And yes, this one is exponential.

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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 11h

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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#Food
#ExtremeWeather
#AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

Farmers raise alarm after key crops become nearly impossible to produce: 'Losses could be in the millions'

"In some plots, barely four ... have survived."

www.yahoo.com

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