While there is increasingly strong evidence that global warming is accelerating, we need to be careful about how we detect it. Unfortunately a newly published paper on the topic makes a number of mistakes in it approach, as I discuss over at The Climate Brink:

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Core lab week. Top right is up, lower left is down. Right aide(top) looks like coarse grained fluvio-deltaics(?), middle is coal, left is bioturbated sands and mudstones. ⚒️

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Looking through some older photos and came across some sedimentological gems. Lunate ripples in the Turkwel River, Turkana, Kenya. The ripples were dissected during falling stage and draped with mud. Internal cross-laminae are now exposed. Bonus trough cross-beds from nearby Miocene rocks. ⚒️

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For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #Reflections, here are two wading birds: a Long-billed #Dowitcher in the San Francisco Bay Area and a Greater #Flamingo in the Camargue, France. #BirdPhotography 🪶

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🌍 “This is no longer a warning for the future; it is a diagnosis of the present.” Our 2026 State of the Climate report finds 7 of 16 planetary vital signs at record extremes. The planetary emergency is already here. doi.org/10.1093/bios...

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