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Michael T Coe @MichaelTCoe

Earth system scientist @WoodsHoleResCtr studying how deforestation alters climate, water, and environment in the Brazilian Amazon

Joined September 2011
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Florida Sees Signals of a Climate-Driven Housing Crisis nytimes.com/2020/10/12/clima…

Florida Sees Signals of a Climate-Driven Housing Crisis (Published 2020)

Home sales in areas most vulnerable to sea-level rise began falling around 2013, researchers found. Now, prices are following a similar downward path.

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Michael T Coe retweeted
Woodwell Climate Research Center@WoodwellClimate
7 Jul 2020
Both deforestation and fires in the Brazilian Amazon are up compared to this time last year. The carbon footprint of this destruction is estimated to be equivalent to 25 million cars. Figure by @g_fiske. Learn more: bit.ly/2DdlM0s
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A ‘Glorious Poetic Rage’ nytimes.com/2020/06/05/sunda…
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The Police Are Rioting. We Need to Talk About It. nytimes.com/2020/06/05/opini…
In a First, Renewable Energy Is Poised to Eclipse Coal in U.S. nytimes.com/2020/05/13/clima…
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A goal of no more than 1.5C change simply doesn't look possible. 2019 Was the Second-Hottest Year Ever, Closing Out the Warmest Decade nyti.ms/35P1XFu
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What isn't mentioned, but is really cool, is that it looks like they just found a way to organically and permanently remove CO2 from the Atmosphere. Bricks Alive! Scientists Create Living Concrete nyti.ms/385MAKn

Bricks Alive! Scientists Create Living Concrete (Published 2020)

“A Frankenstein material” is teeming with — and ultimately made by — photosynthetic microbes. And it can reproduce.

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Come to our lecture tonight in Boston at 60 State St to hear about the fires in the Amazon this year and how we responded! Kaneb Speaker Series:whrc.org/kaneb-speaker-serie…
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5 Global Trends Shaping Our Climate Future nyti.ms/2pXZbir
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Thankful to have recently returned from the Amazon and see our work so eloquently described. @IPAM_Amazonia bit.ly/320xy5d

Amazon Watch: What Happens When the Forest Disappears?

At a remote site where the world’s largest rainforest abuts land cleared for big agriculture, Brazilian and American scientists are keeping watch for a critical tipping point – the time when the...

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As Sea Levels Rise, So Do Ghost Forests nyti.ms/2Ovkguu
The Nasty Political Fight Over the First Weather Forecasts - POLITICO apple.news/AxJG8zObQTLC64xbg…

The Nasty Political Fight Over the First Weather Forecasts

Long before Donald Trump, lawmakers in Victorian England quashed early scientific storm predictions—with deadly consequences.

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How to stop fires in the Amazon and protect our climate thehill.com/opinion/energy-e… Our op-ed in The Hill came out tonight

How to stop fires in the Amazon and protect our climate

An alarming rise in human-caused fires in Brazil captured the world’s attention over the summer, shining a renewed spotlight on the need to conserve the Amazon rainforest. As scientists who’ve dedi…

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Brazil is 'not the culprit' for the Amazon fires, says country's foreign minister - CNN. That is a hard sell apple.news/AHvoLrKXrTZKRDQlG…
Gigantic Heat Anomaly Brewing in The Pacific Threatens a Return of 'The Blob' - ScienceAlert apple.news/AfcuzUsHING2ueXZr…

Gigantic Heat Anomaly Brewing in The Pacific Threatens a Return of 'The Blob'

A menacing heatwave is brewing in the Pacific Ocean, and it's got scientists worrying about the return of 'the Blob'.

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Jonathan Franzen Almost Has a Point About Climate Change - New York Magazine apple.news/Aj0bk0Bu3S9WXCaJJ…

Jonathan Franzen Almost Has a Point About Climate Change

The novelist is right that we are very unlikely to keep warming below two degrees Celsius. He’s badly wrong about what that means.

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PBS NewsHour is running a piece on the Amazon and our work in Brazil tonight at 6:00 and 11:00. ⁦@WoodsHoleResCtr⁩
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Earth to CEO: Your Company Is Already at Risk From Climate Change - FORTUNE apple.news/ASCK29r29QBOwj8_0…

Earth to CEO: Your Company Is Already at Risk From Climate Change

Carbon-free operations will soon be table stakes for responsible companies.

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@NOAASatellites
30 Aug 2019
Watch as the eye of #HurricaneDorian2019 begins to form in this 1-minute visible loop from NOAA's #GOESEast. "Dangerous Hurricane #Dorian poses a significant threat to #Florida and the northwestern #Bahamas," according to the @NHC_Atlantic. Latest: go.usa.gov/xVB3K
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30 Aug 2019
Category 3 #HurricaneDorian. re.ssec.wisc.edu/s/W1awHx
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