Peter Griffith
@carboncyclist
Carbon, climate, justice, from space, in Baltimore
We’re very happy to see our Franklinia tree thriving in our urban backyard garden despite the compacted clay soil. The flowers are stunning
My friends bought this painting of sheep in Iceland. They stare, thinking thoughts that only @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social could articulate
Call for Abstracts: #AGU26 Planetary Health and Planetary Boundaries: Earth System Dynamics and Human Well-being bit.ly/4hjknXb
All the umbrellas at the pool were claimed except for this one, furled and alone. It turns out that is because the pin that holds it open is missing. Did I know how to tie a knot to hold it open? Yes. Am I inordinately proud of myself for knowing how to tie this knot? Also, yes.
I admire the bluntness of the extreme temperature warning: EVERYONE IS IN DANGER
A reminder that for centuries the US and France have been allies: maquette for the Statue of Liberty next to an American Oak planted in memory of the victims of 9/11.
Beware: Stendhal was famously overcome by the beauty of Florence. This plinth in the Jardin du Luxembourg by some dude named Rodin.
The underpasses are where some of the best graffiti artists are working. I stopped to chat with this guy who turned out to be Australian.
Boarding the train from Bordeaux to Paris, estimated travel time 3 hours, half the time it takes to drive a car. Why can’t we do this in the USA?
CO2 is a direct proxy for air quality and circulation. Normal outdoor concentrations are around 430 ppm. This graph shows concentrations during boarding / deboarding an aircraft rising to 2400 ppm. That’s a lot of sneezing and coughing and farting. So I wear a mask.
The little yellow box is a gas chromatograph, the core of the chemistry lab that Dragonfly will carry through the atmosphere of Titan. Currently being assembled at Goddard Space Flight Center science.nasa.gov/mission/drag...
Fire brigade salute to a retiring pilot’s last flight (Chicago O’Hare)
Ice wedge in the permafrost tunnel, Fairbanks Alaska. The holes are sampling boreholes
Today I wrote a letter of recommendation for a former colleague who was exceptionally good at their job. I did not use AI. It was all me. There’s no way anyone could interpret it other than a personal statement from me.
How can I tell the Bluesky algorithm that I love animals but I don’t want to see people’s posts about their dead fur babies?
Spring has sprung in the Baltimore @artbma.bsky.social sculpture garden