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Petra Heil retweeted
Mt. Kilimanjaro's ice cover has shrunk to less than 1km² today. The continued loss of Africa's glaciers threatens regional water cycles and increases the risk of glacial lake outburst floods.
WMO #StateOfClimate in Africa 2025: bit.ly/SOTCAfrica2025
Petra Heil retweeted
Thats certainly a take. Here is what the new paper introducing the emissions scenarios we are using in the upcoming IPCC 7th Assessment Report actually says:
Petra Heil retweeted
Intense heat, dust storms and thunderstorms are hitting India in close succession.
Multi-hazard #EarlyWarnings, including @Indiametdept's new campaign featuring monsoon advance forecasts, are helping people prepare for the cascading risks of extreme weather.
Petra Heil retweeted
Permafrost is thawing across the globe and nearly 30 years of satellite data show it's accelerating 🛰️
Join the next ESA Climate Change Initiative webinar with @ccipermafrost Science Lead Annett Bartsch to learn how Earth observation captures these changes.
22 April | 16:00 CEST | Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
ALT ESA CCI webinar poster with icy permafrost landscape background and text 'Permafrost and climate change: insights from CCI data', date 22/04/2026
Petra Heil retweeted
E-Lkw sind die saubere, leisere & BILLIGERE Zukunft für Deutschland.
Der Umstieg ist nicht nur gut für die Umwelt, sondern auch für unsere Wirtschaft und Unabhängigkeit. Wer heute noch auf Diesel setzt, hat die Zeichen der Zeit nicht erkannt.
Solar- & Windstrom fahren wir günstiger und stabiler als mit importiertem Krisen-Diesel!
#ELkw #Elektromobilität #Energiewende #Unabhängigkeit #Wirtschaft #Logistik #Preise #FossilAdieu – at Aurich, Germany
Petra Heil retweeted
Ich bin nur Fahrer – aber ich sehe jeden Tag, was es bedeutet, wirklich in die Zukunft zu investieren.
Während ich überall das Gejammer über 2-Euro-Diesel und die böse Politik höre, sehe ich bei uns im Betrieb das Gegenteil: Mein Chef macht uns gerade unabhängig von Krisen und fossilen Brennstoffen.
Mir sagen ständig Leute von außerhalb, warum das alles gar nicht funktionieren kann ,zu wenig Reichweite, schlechte Infrastruktur, zu teuer. Ich kann darüber nur lächeln, denn ich sehe jeden Tag, dass es funktioniert. Wir fahren.
Wir liefern.
Anstatt die Zeit mit Meckern zu verschwenden, sollten einige mal schauen, wie die Realität auf der Straße heute schon aussieht. Wer nicht mit der Zeit geht, geht mit der Zeit. Ich bin froh bei einer Spedition zu arbeiten, der handelt statt zu jammern!
#Verkehrswende #dieselpreis #ELkw #Logistik #NannoJanssen – at Aurich, Germany
Petra Heil retweeted
Man kann über die Kraftstoffpreise klagen – oder man kann die Ursache angehen.
Unsere Erfahrung zeigt: Die Umstellung auf E-Lkw funktioniert. Wir sind heute weitgehend unabhängig von den Preissprüngen an den Zapfsäulen und den Konflikten im Nahost.
Wer heute noch zögert, sich mit der Technik von morgen zu befassen, darf sich nicht wundern, wenn er übermorgen vom Markt verschwindet. Handeln statt Abwarten!
#Transport #Innovation #LKW #Elektromobilität #Logistik
#ELKW
#ZeroEmission
#CleanLogistics #dieselpreis – at Aurich, Germany
Petra Heil retweeted
Job alert! @NorthumbriaUni is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher to study tipping points in Antarctica's ice sheets 🧊🌍
Could West Antarctica's massive ice sheets reach a point of no return? This 14-month role – funded by ESA's Climate Change Initiative – focuses on using computer models and satellite data to find out.
You'll work with one of the world's leading ice-sheet research groups in Newcastle, UK.
📅 Apply by 13 March 2026
🔗 work4.northumbria.ac.uk/#en/…
ALT Two researchers in colorful winter gear work on snow-covered Antarctic terrain next to a red twin-propeller aircraft under a clear blue sky. Footprints lead through the snow toward a small equipment stand in the foreground.
Petra Heil retweeted
„45.000 Nm mximales Drehmoment. 🚀
Oder wie wir es nennen: Den Diesel-Fahrern beim Anfahren die Tränen in die Augen treiben. 💨🔋
Leiser, sauberer und deutlich mehr Kraft – wer einmal das Pedal in einem E-Lkw durchgedrückt hat, will den Schalthebel nie wieder anfassen.
#ELKW
#NannoJanssen #Logistics #lkw #NachhaltigeMobilität #Energiewende #NachhaltigeMobilität – at Ihlow, Deutschland
Petra Heil retweeted
Having both CryoSat's radar and ICESat-2's lidar monitoring the same ice is an excellent opportunity.
Check out the latest comparison, "New insights into uncertainties in Antarctic elevation change estimates by comparing radar and laser altimetry"
👉egusphere.copernicus.org/pre…
ALT This image is one of the first to be captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite, which carries a 12 m-long synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument. https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-1/Sentinel-1D_delivers_first_images_from_Antarctica_to_Bremen
Petra Heil retweeted
🏔️ Glaciers lost 450 gigatons of water in 2024.
This is enough to form a block of ice 7 km tall, 7 km wide, and 7 km deep or to fill 180 million Olympic swimming pools.
Help us amplify #Glaciers2025: we need urgent climate action now.
🔗 bit.ly/4ivRNPc
Petra Heil retweeted
The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) 2025 Status Report reveals both progress and gaps in the world’s critical ocean observation infrastructure.
🔗 Full interactive report: ocean-ops.org/goosreport/#ho…
Petra Heil retweeted
Remember all who claimed windfarm blades end in landfill? - No, they are Recycled.
🏴 Scotland's first ever wind farm has just been re-powered, 30 years after it began operating. It now delivers five times more power – using half the number of turbines and all old turbines have been recycled.
Hagshaw Hill wind farm entered service in 1995
Originally 26 turbines (16 MW total)
Re-powered with 14 new turbines (79 MW total)
Every blade from the original turbines was recycled into new construction material – replacing concrete, timber, and plastics.
The local community fund will also receive a huge boost, rising to £400,000 per year – 26x its previous level.
Wind turbine blade recycling has long been a challenge, both technically and economically, but progress is accelerating.
RWE recently completed installation of the first recyclable blades at the Sofia offshore wind farm – the first time this has been done at scale in the UK.
We have the solutions and all what we need to do is to implement them.
Petra Heil retweeted
🏔️ Why do glaciers in the Karakoram region seem to buck global trends?
Researchers wanted to know more about this phenomenon: Using satellite data of the Essential Climate Variables cloud cover, snow cover, and endorheic lake extent, they study the behaviour of glaciers, melting and mass patterns to better predict their future. Learn more here: climate.esa.int/en/Cross_ECV…
Petra Heil retweeted
September 2025 was the third warmest on record in the Berkeley Earth dataset. But this downplays how anomalous it was; without 2023 and 2024 this year would have been well above any prior records and well above the long-term trend:
Petra Heil retweeted
Something very odd going on..
Arctic temperatures usually begin to fall at this time of year.
Currently there’s very little sign of that and if anything it’s likely we’re going to see temperatures rise again.
