Dr. C. L. Schneider

Dr. C. L. Schneider

@stardusttostarfish.bsky.social

Conservation paleobiologist, marine ecologist, geologist Extinction survivorship, Devonian geology Dancer, cat rescuer, author, armchair linguist. Sermon on the Mount. Permanent optimist. Make an impact. Be excellent to others. Use the fancy dishes.

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Dr. C. L. Schneider
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The resources spent on resurrecting extinct species could stretch a long way to protect endangered species and ecosystems from going extinct. Pollinators or dodos? Reefs or dire wolves?

Reuters@reuters.com

US company announces progress toward resurrecting the extinct dodo reut.rs/4e793uU

reut.rsUS company announces progress toward resurrecting the extinct dodoA US biotech company says it is making progress toward its goal of resurrecting the dodo, the famous flightless bird with a large hooked beak, and returning it to its native Indian Ocean ​island of Mauritius, where humans drove it to extinction in the 17th century.
Dr. C. L. Schneider
@stardusttostarfish.bsky.social

Climate change is real. Global warming is real. Proof: science. Additional proof: insurance agencies know that climate change is real and they are preparing for it, at the insurees' expense. #ClimateChange

Keith McNeill@keith65.bsky.social

"People are not budgeting for a major increase in their insurance premiums or planning for their homes becoming uninsurable, but many of them absolutely should be." – Unnamed insurance modeller #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comI work for a major insurer. Much of my industry is fudging the numbers in the face of the climate crisis | AnonymousInsurers are taking on more risk than they should. If – or when – a major disaster hits, the catastrophe will have far-reaching consequences, says an anonymous modeller and whistleblower
Dr. C. L. Schneider
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Happy #FossilFriday! Two spines from an unknown fossil echinoid (Archaeocidaris or Miocidaris), Permian, north-central Texas. Good examples of pre-Mesozoic Marine Revolution arms race in sea urchins. Small squares are mm scale; large squares are cm scale. 🦖🧪#echinoid #Permian #Paleontology

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Prof Ian Hall
@ianhall.bsky.social

Europe's forests are hitting a tipping point. 6.5 Pg of aboveground biomass lost since 1985, with annual losses surging 46% since 2018. Climate-driven disturbances are accelerating carbon losses and weakening one of Europe's most important natural carbon sinks. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dr. C. L. Schneider
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This is what happens in the beginning of a mass extinction: chaos as each species responds individualistically to its requirements for survival. Range shifts, establishment of refugia, even expansion of environmentally tolerant species are parts of the breakdown of ecosystems. 🦖🧪🦤🌎 #6thExtinction

Shawan Chowdhury@shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social

Our new Nature Eco Evo paper documents range shifts in 1,758 butterfly species across 105 countries, primarily due to climate change. 🦋80% expanded 🦋27% contracted 🦋22% shifted elevation 🦋342 showed multiple shift types. doi.org/10.1038/s415... @monashbiol.bsky.social @monashscience.bsky.social

Dr. C. L. Schneider
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Sigh. To all of us who experience this, my sympathies. Hang in there. Thank you to those working to save our world from a 6th mass extinction and to those working toward a global sense of community and humanity, no matter how large or small an effort. You are making a difference.

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Dr. C. L. Schneider
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Happy #FossilFriday to all! I celebrate inverts today! Atrypide brachiopod (probably Desquamatia sp.) cross-section in core with spiralia (lophophore supports). Latest Givetian Firebag Member, Waterways Formation, northeast Alberta, Canada. Note geopetal of calcite spar above the spiralia. 🦖🧪

Dr. C. L. Schneider
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One of the characters used in cladistic analysis of predator species should be boxes: if it fits and sits, then it's definitely feline. (For paleo: Would Smilodon have fit and sat?) #Cats #Evolution #ScienceHumor 🧪🦖

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Climate.us
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What is Climate.us? It’s a new independent, nonprofit climate information website with a simple goal: keep trusted climate science easy to find, easy to understand, and available to the public. Climate information is a public good. Climate.us is here to help protect it. Explore Climate.us 🌍️ 🧪

Dr. C. L. Schneider
@stardusttostarfish.bsky.social

I appreciate the satire, but please, let's not. Even tiny efforts across many people add up. Maybe there is a small spot or an activity where we can each decrease our impact and footprint on Earth today; then let's find something again tomorrow, and then the day after that...

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social

Let’s keep burning those fossil fuels like there’s no tomorrow…

washingtonpost.comHeat dome to topple records in drought-stricken Plains and Western statesSee where temperatures could reach a rare 110 degrees and amplify fire weather risks.
Dr. C. L. Schneider
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Hang on, fellow humans, this could be an "interesting" year. Stay safe, reduce your emissions and carbon footprint even if you can do only a little, help keep the future a tad cooler. Yes, there are bigger issues than individuals' impacts, but a lot of us doing a little adds up to a lot. 🧪🌎🦤

Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net

Breaking News! Code: UFB!!! It's official! The "Super El Nino" has begun, with Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperatures now 2.0°C (3.6°F) above the 1991-2020 baseline. The Climate 8-ball is getting racked.

Dr. C. L. Schneider
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These places should be preserved as important refugia for corals to survive ocean warming. #ClimateChange #CoralReefs #SixthExtinction #6thExtinction

IPBES@ipbes.net

Researchers identified more than 64,000 square miles of coral reefs across 71 countries and 100 territories that are likely to withstand ocean warming. Highlighting such areas can guide smarter conservation efforts. 💡 Learn more with Sara Hashemi and Smithsonian Magazine: https://ow.ly/rAp350Zm2V2

ow.lyScientists Identify Swaths of Coral Reefs That Might Be Able to Withstand Climate Change, Offering New Avenues for ConservationNew research has mapped more than 64,000 square miles where the crucial habitat seems to be somewhat protected from the impacts of the warming ocean
Dr. C. L. Schneider
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“Heatwaves are here to stay, until we turn the tap off to global emissions. They’re more frequent, they’re more intense and they’re lasting longer.” - Samantha Burgess, deputy director of Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, via Nature Briefing. 🌎 🧪 #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

Dr. C. L. Schneider
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Most subterranean CCS is BS: CO2 absorption by rocks is slow. Putting CO2 in pores in rock means that it will leak out in the future. Plus, sinks for CO2 have a finite limit; there is only so much land for trees and so much CCS potential rock, while we keep digging up the stuff that produces CO2.

Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

Dr. C. L. Schneider
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Although the rest of the post didn't come through, this is the quote of the day. Somewhere in the process of civilization, we forgot how to adapt. We need to re-learn how to adapt. We may not have a choice if we continue to force the Earth to adapt to our desires. 🧪🌎 #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

William Colgan@glacierbytes.bsky.social

Plan for the climate we want. Prepare for the climate we may get.

Dr. C. L. Schneider
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" It turns out that heat waves not only create tinder-dry fuel sources, they also limit fire-suppressing humidity at night and promote lightning that can ignite vegetation" - Nature Briefing 🧪🦤🌎 #ClimateChange www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

science.orgHeatwaves enable wildfire activity in the western United StatesHeatwaves are associated with a disproportionate share of wildfire activity and trends in the western US in recent decades.
Dr. C. L. Schneider
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Just putting in a post for one of my favourite clothing companies: I've had some of my shirts for years and they are still pristine, so sustainable also applies to longevity of clothing. Very quick turnaround for orders. Great wear for ecological conferences and marine labs. www.kindredcoast.com

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Dr. C. L. Schneider
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I'm screaming. Are you screaming? Southern Ocean warming is too fast, faster than natural background warming. The Anatarctic is out of sight, out of mind for many but the Southern Ocean is a critical to global ocean circulation and global climate. 🌎🧪🦖

Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social

‼️HISTORIC EVENT :+15c IN ANTARCTIC WINTER Absolutely insane what we are witnessing: 15.4C/60F Esperanza 🇦🇷Minimum +6.0 ! HOTTEST WINTER DAY AND NIGHT IN ANTARCTICA HISTORY MORE RECORDS SHATTERED 11.8 Marambio🇦🇷 9.3 Palmer🇺🇸 8.1 San Martin🇦🇷 7.8 Juan Carlos🇪🇸 4.6 Arturo Prat🇨🇱

Dr. C. L. Schneider
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Dismantling these stations will be a major catastrophe for global society and for protecting the long-term health of the global ecosystem. Head-in-sand reactions to the changing oceans and climate: if you don't detect or acknowledge it, it isn't happening. But Nature never follows our rules. 🌎🦤🧪

Dave-Inder Comar@daveindercomar.bsky.social

The US has carved itself out of international law on so many fronts, and is now extending that exception to climate. There is a clear international legal obligation to cooperate on climate, and to prevent significant harm to the environment. Dismantling these stations is a breach of law.

e360.yale.eduU.S. to Dismantle System Tracking Atlantic Currents That Are at Risk of Collapse

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Garry Peterson
@resiliencesci.bsky.social

We Are in the Anthropocene—Now What? Rockstrom+ doi.org/10.1029/2025... explores 3 pathways: 1. A manageable Anthropocene—achieving sustainable stewardship 2. A dangerous Anthropocene—navigating the edge 3. An unmanageable Anthropocene—suffering a hostile Earth system mode

Dr. C. L. Schneider
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Per Sir Attenborough: "We are at a unique stage in our history. Never before have we had such an awareness of what we are doing to the planet, and never before have we had the power to do something about that." 🌎🦤🧪 #SixthExtinction #ClimateChange #6thExtinction Let's go for the green! See below:

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social

Three scenarios discussed in our article illustrate the choices and risks we face. I'd say: let's aim for the green one. We still have a choice, and are not yet destined to bequeath a much less habitable planet to future generations. Our children and grandchildren deserve a fair chance.

Dr. C. L. Schneider
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Further proof that we will need our global network of protected areas to remain robust for thousands of years. See my talk at #OceansPast #OceansPastInitiative #OPI #6thExtinction (Plus: check out this open access article!) 🌎🦤🧪

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social

We are in the Age of Humans - the Anthropocene. Our new article (open access) shows how even with a moderate future emissions scenario, global temperature will still be elevated by 3-4°C in the year 3000! Lifetime of our CO2 in the air is that long. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.comWe Are in the Anthropocene—Now What?The Anthropocene's enormous consequences are of long-term nature, the slow pace of recovery currently under-appreciated among the public The smallest unavoidable residual emissions (e.g., from fo...
Dr. C. L. Schneider
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No. How many of my fellow researchers have sleepless nights instead, trying to clean up the messes and catastrophes that others are causing?

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social

Do our politicians act like they are properly aware that their actions today are changing climate on Earth for thousands of years to come? Do they have sleepless nights and intensive exchange with experts over this huge responsibility?

Dr. C. L. Schneider
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In addition to loss of pollinators, direct habitat destruction, and pollution... #6thExtinction

Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net

Your 'moment of doom' for May 8, 2026 ~ Sixth great extinction. "Between warmer temperatures and shifts in rain and snow patterns, between 7% and 16% of the world's plant species are likely to lose at least 90% of their habitat and go essentially extinct in about 55 to 75 years"

mainichi.jpScientists say don't forget about plants. Climate change is endangering tens of thousands of species - The MainichiWASHINGTON (AP) -- Global warming extinctions usually have people picturing the last polar bears or other furry critters disappearing, but the crucial
Dr. C. L. Schneider
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Ditto.

Prof Ian Hall@ianhall.bsky.social

Happy 100th Birthday to Sir David Attenborough. The voice of nature for my entire life. Thank you for inspiring us to care more deeply about our planet. theconversation.com/from-fossick...

theconversation.comFrom fossicking for fossils to a champion for life on Earth: Sir David Attenborough at 100David Attenborough has captured and told the stories of nature to millions of people – and inspired scientists and conservationists the world over.
Dr. C. L. Schneider
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In honor of Sir David Attenborough: "There, perfect in every detail, glinting as though it had just been polished, was a coiled seashell… an object of breathtaking beauty, and my eyes were the first to see it since its occupant died 200 million years ago." Happy 100th, Sir David! #FossilFriday 🦖⛏️

Dr. C. L. Schneider
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And a hopeful quote from the same amazing human: “In my lifetime I’ve witnessed a terrible decline. In yours, you could and should witness a wonderful recovery.” - UN COP26 We can do it, fellow humans. Let's stop being a plague and start being citizens of Nature. 🌎 Happy birthday, sir David!

Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net

Your 'doom quote' for today: "We are a plague on the Earth. It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so…either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us." Happy 100, David! www.scientificamerican.com/article/davi...

scientificamerican.comHappy birthday, David Attenborough! Beloved naturalist, BBC producer and ‘regular bloke’ turns 100David Attenborough once directed programming at the BBC and has hosted numerous award-winning nature documentaries, but he’s always stayed down-to-earth, colleagues say
Dr. C. L. Schneider
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Happy 100th, Sir David Attenborough! A quote from 2021 to the United Nations COP26 climate meeting: “In my lifetime I’ve witnessed a terrible decline. In yours, you could and should witness a wonderful recovery.” Let's make this birthday wish come true. #Conservation #6thExtinction 🦖🦤🧪🌎

Dr. C. L. Schneider
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#ConservationPaleobiology

Andrej Spiridonov@andrejpaleo.bsky.social

Great talk by Jason J. Head on the use of the ecomorphology of reptiles in reconstructing past climate. Most of us are familiar with mammal ecometrics. But maybe the age of reptile ecometrics is nearing? 😎 🧪 ⚒️ #EvoBio #Paleobio #Geology #Climate #Macroecology

Dr. C. L. Schneider
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Watching for Blob 3.0 in the Pacific northeast...

Zack Labe@zacklabe.com

Sea surface temperatures continued to warm in the far eastern Pacific in April, as El Niño is likely to develop (find trusted sources to follow & not just the hype). Note also the significant marine heatwave stretching from near Hawaii to California/Mexico! Data: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/opt...)