“Speaking at a #RenewableEnergy conference in #Sydney on Wednesday, #SurangelWhipps Jr described seeing two-thirds of an island in his archipelago country disappear under water in his lifetime. “For those of us in the #Pacific who have lived through storm surges, #rising #ocean levels and increasingly high tides, the phrase ‘water lapping at our door’ is not a metaphor or a punchline. It’s our fear and reality,” he said.

The comment was an apparent reference to a 2015 incident in which #PeterDutton, while #ImmigrationMinister, was overheard on a hot mic joking with then-prime minister #TonyAbbott (#dickhead) about delays during a visit to Papua New Guinea (#PNG) , saying “time doesn’t mean anything when you’re about to have water lapping at your door”.

Rules are applied only when needed.

#AusPol / #Politics / #tact / #Machiavellian / #Liberal <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/09/palau-president-australia-cop-31-climate-summit>

The Guardian · Apr 9Palau president delivers barb at Peter Dutton over ‘water lapping your door’ hot mic jokeBy Adam Morton

**Speckdäne** @Speckdaene@nrw.social · Apr 8 *

Apr 8 *

Speckdäne @Speckdaene@nrw.social

#NRDC Urge J.P. Morgan to stop backing #Mexico #Pacific ’s filthy #LNG project and save the Gulf of #California ’s breathtaking marine ecosystem from destruction. https://action.nrdc.org/letter/3910-lng-gulf-of-ca-040225 @berlinerwassertisch @Andy_Gheorghiu

**Paul Kidd** @paulkidd@aus.social · Apr 8

Apr 8

Paul Kidd @paulkidd@aus.social

Crucial work furthering #LGBTQ+ rights and preventing #HIV in the #Pacific has been disrupted by the Trump administration's freeze of foreign aid – and may not recover. https://www.context.news/socioeconomic-inclusion/us-aid-freeze-derails-lgbtq-rights-work-in-pacific-islands

www.context.newsU.S. aid freeze derails LGBTQ+ rights work in Pacific Islands | ContextLGBTQ+ communities in the Pacific Islands rely on U.S. funding to decriminalise same-sex relations, collate data and fight HIV

**OpenForum** @OpenForum@vivaldi.net · Apr 6

Apr 6

OpenForum @OpenForum@vivaldi.net

Australia can take USAID’s place in the Pacific islands

The shutdown of USAID has been an enormous hit to US soft power and its ability to counter China in the Pacific. But the worst outcomes can be avoided through the intervention of steadfast allies—especially Australia. #Pacific

https://www.openforum.com.au/forums/australia-can-take-usaids-place-in-the-pacific-islands/

**Things David Likes** @ThingsDavidLikes@mstdn.social · Apr 2

Apr 2

Things David Likes @ThingsDavidLikes@mstdn.social

Central Coast, 2023 by BE▲UD●IN

https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxhI499O0m00

#blackandwhite #pacific #ocean

**Greg Cocks** @GregCocks@techhub.social · Apr 2

Apr 2

Greg Cocks @GregCocks@techhub.social

Data In Action: The 2022 Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha′Apai Eruption - Altimetry Data And Models Help Us Understand How A Volcanic Eruption Generated A Tsunami
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https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/DataAction-2025-03-20-The-2022-Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Haapai-eruption-Altimetry-data-and-models-help-us-understand-how-a-volcanic-eruption-generated-a-tsunami <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01694-z <-- shared paper
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https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/JASON_CS_S6A_L2_ALT_LR_RED_OST_NTC_F08 <-- shared NASA dataset - Sentinel-6A MF Jason-CS L2 P4 Altimeter Low Resolution (LR) NTC Reduced Ocean Surface Topography F08
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #earthobservation #remotesensing #fedscience #tonga #HungaTonga #HungaHaApai #eruption #volcanic #volcano #Pacific #marine #geology #engineeringgeology #risk #hazard #satellite #altimetry #data #model #model #spatialanalysis #Tsunami #risk #hazard #monitoring #coast #coastal #naturalhazard #Sentinel #sealevel #warning #earlywarning
@nasa

**bikejourno** @bikejourno@mastodon.cloud · Apr 1

Apr 1

bikejourno @bikejourno@mastodon.cloud

Back from a little hike along the #Pacific ocean. No risk to either get wet or sunburnt. Planes coming in every few minutes. #Taiwan #Taitung #travel

**beja** @kap5535@pixelfed.social · Mar 30

Mar 30

beja @kap5535@pixelfed.social

Sunrise near Yachats Oregon.

#seascape #yachats #pacific #darktable

#darktable

**O=C=O** @tuxom@climatejustice.social · Mar 30

Mar 30

O=C=O @tuxom@climatejustice.social

Regional climate signals pose new challenges for climate science

#ClimateScience has correctly predicted many aspects of the #climate system and its response to increased atmospheric #CarbonDioxide concentrations. Recently, discrepancies between the real world and our expectations of regional climate changes have emerged, as have disruptive new computational approaches.

What the authors describe as the dominant paradigm or "standard approach" of climate science has been developed over the last 60 years by applying fundamental laws of #physics to the climate system under the assumption that small-scale processes are determined by statistical averages dependent on large scales (parameterization).

As with the evolution of other scientific fields, discrepancies have emerged in climate science with respect to how regional #ClimateChange is evolving. For example, the eastern Tropical #Pacific has cooled contrary to all model predictions. Neither was the increased frequency of blocking weather conditions over #Greenland in summer anticipated.

In particular, discrepancies are accumulating in the tropics where changes in the large-scale tropical circulation are known to grow out of instabilities that occur at small and intermediate scales. These scale-coupling mechanisms do not operate in the current generation of #ClimateModels.

"The challenge for conceptual work will be to identify which physics missing from the standard approach is most important for regional changes, and how to incorporate it," says Stevens.

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-regional-climate-pose-science.html

Phys.org · Mar 28Regional climate signals pose new challenges for climate scienceBy Denise Müller-Dum

**Europe Says** @europesays@pubeurope.com · Mar 27

Mar 27

Europe Says @europesays@pubeurope.com

https://www.europesays.com/1946132/ Micronesian leader says he trusts Japan’s nuclear wastewater disposal process #Environment #FukushimaNuclearPlant #japan #micronesia #nuclear #Pacific

**Alo Japan** @alojapan@channels.im · Mar 27

Mar 27

Alo Japan @alojapan@channels.im

https://www.alojapan.com/1227744/micronesian-leader-says-he-trusts-japans-nuclear-wastewater-disposal-process/ Micronesian leader says he trusts Japan’s nuclear wastewater disposal process #environment #FukushimaNuclearPlant #Japan #JapanNews #micronesia #news #Pacific Micronesian President Wesley Simina has expressed confidence in Japan’s treatment of radioactive water being dumped from the disabled Fukushima Daiichi power plant into the Pacific Ocean. “The visit to Fukushima underscores the FSM’s deep trust in the government of Japan,” Simina…

**nationalparks** @nationalparks@sfba.social · Mar 26

Mar 26

nationalparks @nationalparks@sfba.social

View from the new camera at the Kuchel Visitor Center in Redwood National and State Parks today. Learn more about the park at https://www.nps.gov/redw/index.htm and #nps #nationalparks #ocean #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #coast #pacific #redwood #waves #tide #california Image credit National Park Service #clouds

This is an image from the National Park Service web camera showing the view today from the coastal area of Redwood National and State Parks. Above the mixed yellows and greens of the coastal vegetation are a series of linear cloud formations in a blue sky. The white water from Pacific Ocean waves appears in the center.

**The Average European** @AvEUguy@mastodon.social · Mar 26

Mar 26

The Average European @AvEUguy@mastodon.social

#Trump : "a big, beautiful ocean in between", referencing the #Atlantic that separates the #US and #Europe. Therefore, #Russia 's war against #Ukraine would allegedly not affect the #USA.