Brad Reed

Claim: "Water vapor is a greenhouse gas!"
Reality: Yes, and there's more of it in a warmer atmosphere

-"CO2 is plant food!"
-pretty hard to eat when you're on fire

-"Climate has changed before!"
-We know, we told you that

-"Scientists don't know everything!"
- doesn't mean we know *nothing*

🇦🇶 Antarctica’s coastal zone is changing fast & it matters globally. A new #AntarcticRINGS review paper maps what we know, what we don’t & why it matters for sea-level rise. 🌊

Explore fresh insights, a Quantarctica-friendly data package & all figures as downloadable slides: scar.org/scar-news/cr...

A plot of the maximum temperature (as red dots) reached in the UK each year from 1950 showing a large scatter but strong upward trend

Just one chart from the @metoffice.gov.uk State of the UK climate report published today. We get used to focusing on the record highs and how 35C has gone from being rare to routine. But just look at all those summers which never got to 30C even in my lifetime. It’s a different UK now.

NEW: Getting to net-zero will be much cheaper than thought for the UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly, says OBR

Quick piece / thread with 4 key charts showing, yet again, why climate action is far less costly than inaction

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Meltwater ponding in in Antarctica raises concerns over ice sheet stability, according to new study A team of researchers, led by the University of York, has discovered a trend of increasing surface meltwater in East Antarctica.

Researchers led by @uoyenvironment.bsky.social and @sheffielduni.bsky.social have produced the first Antarctic-wide, high-resolution monthly dataset of surface meltwater using satellite images 🧊 💧

Open access article with data availability links in @natclimate.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🔓 📃

Continent-wide mapping shows increasing sensitivity of East Antarctica to meltwater ponding - Nature Climate Change This study provides a continent-wide assessment of surface meltwater area in Antarctica between 2006 and 2021, highlighting recent increases in magnitude and variability in East Antarctica, with indic...

I’m delighted to share that our new paper is now out in @natclimate.nature.com! Our long-term, monthly Antarctic-wide dataset of surface meltwater shows that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is becoming increasingly prone to surface meltwater ponding.

1️⃣ Like a heartbeat driving one of the largest seasonal cycles on Earth, Antarctic sea ice is central to the global climate system and vital for unique ecosystems.

We know you’re still enjoying Monday’s packed #LPS25 schedule, but we wanted to prepare you for what’s on the agenda for tomorrow 👇

Coming up on Tuesday at the @esa.int Living Planet Symposium 2025 #LPS25...

And now visualizing the June solstice from the polar regions...

Animation looks downward at the North Pole (left; ☀️) and South Pole (right; 🌙) over a 24-hour period. Graphic from zacklabe.com/arctic-clima....

All participants of the FRISP 2025 conference standing on the steps inside the Arktikum museum

Photograph of a reflective lake, lush green gardens and bright blue sky dotted with clouds

Photo from Santa Claus Village with the Arctic Circle line down the centre of the image.

Outside of the Helsinki Central Library Oodi

On the way home now after another successful FRISP meeting (Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes) this time in Rovaniemi, Finland. Great to connect with this community again and see friends, old and new! 🌊❄️

This paper is an incredible resource for those teaching climate change courses. Thanks for putting this together - it saves me *so* much time updating all my numbers each year.

Happy #WorldOceanDay !!

Down here in Antarctica, we will spend it measuring the ocean and sampling the sea floor, to understand better how ice loss is impacting climate and ecosystems.

The views continue to amaze…!

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This is not the actual cover of Nature, just shown here for illustrative purposes. We did submit this figure for consideration for their cover. Print run in two weeks, we'll know by then if it gets used.

Out today in Nature, our paper on the drivers of the record 2023 summer heating of the North Atlantic. Temperatures warmed to record levels in just a few months. The impacts on climate & ecosystems were severe. A thread on how this work came about and what we found.👇👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A figure in jeans and a black jacket with a white t-shirt holding a bicycle with a basket. More bikes can be seen nearby and in the background green trees, hedges and a wooden fence.

Good morning from Copenhagen. I'm off to Brussels to represent @oceaniceeu.bsky.social talking impacts of #ClimateChange in the Polar Regions with @eupolarcluster.bsky.social friends @polarres.bsky.social @crices-h2020.bsky.social + @h2020protect.bsky.social First stop the metro!
#WorldBicycleDay

Great graph by @carbonbrief.org telling the story of why UK energy prices have risen in recent years

It makes clear that it's largely due to wholesale gas prices. Which isn't news, and shouldn't need reiterating, but sadly does because of misinformation...

www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

This viral climate graphic just got a troubling update The updated 'climate stripes' graph now visualizes the impact of climate change on oceans and the atmosphere. Some parts may surprise you.

The warming stripes have been updated to show the atmosphere and the ocean!

www.fastcompany.com/91339154/thi...

Paper: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

📌 Save the date for two upcoming @oceaniceeu.bsky.social / @europeanpolarboard.bsky.social ‬ webinars this week!

🌊 22 May - Subpolar circulation, heat delivery and water mass export
🔗 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🧊 23 May – Cryosphere-Ocean Processes
🔗 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Hopefully see you there Will 👍

Why the UK’s electricity costs are so high – and what can be done about it From nationalising gas plants to boosting renewables, how soaring prices could be tackled

This is *really* important: the reason electricity prices are high is the high cost of gas & that market rate is set by gas prices. One of the loudest calls at Everything Electric last week was to decouple from gas prices, so we benefit from cheaper renewables.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

On March 1, Antarctic sea ice reached its smallest coverage of the year. This year’s minimum extent tied 2022 and 2024 for the second-lowest summer sea ice area observed since satellite records began in 1979. Learn more: www.climate.gov/news-feature...

Daily global temperature anomaly chart showing new record reached on Thursday, April 10th at 1.67°C above the pre-industrial average.

We just hit a new global temperature record.

Thursday was the hottest April 10th in modern decades.

It was 1.67°C above the pre-industrial average.

(The second highest was 2024 at 1.65°C.)

www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...

Wild that 28% of Tory voters don't believe humans are causing climate change.

The figure is quite high for UK population as a whole, at 17%.

Yet it's 4yrs since the IPCC upgraded its certainty on our role in causing climate change, calling it "unequivocal". Lotta people didn't get the message.

These are truly staggering numbers 🤯. This is a failure of the media (right wing influence) - talking about both sides of the climate change ‘debate’.

As Adam (and IPCC) says, it should be “unequivocal” that modern day climate change is due to us!

NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov

Looks like it is going to happen. If you need the Paleoceanography data from NCEI, I wrote a script to download it all. github.com/evangowan/EJ...

🚨Some major errors & misleading claims from experienced presenter Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today, when discussing British Steel with Treasury Minister James Murray

I hope these are corrected on tomorrow's programme, and Robinson sticks to the facts in future.

Here's what he got wrong... 🧵

Screenshot of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2025 website showing the session details for "Session US2 – Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal: Fostering Earth Science Forces for Combating Global Warming." The session is scheduled for Friday, May 2, 2025, from 14:00 to 15:40 CEST in Room E1. It is chaired by Giulia Faucher, Carolin Löscher, and Gerhard Herndl. The program includes a 5-minute introduction, speaker presentations, a discussion on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR), and audience questions. Featured speakers are Louis Legendre (France), Daria Atamanchuk (Canada), and David Ho (USA). The session is hybrid with Zoom access. 🌊

I'm on an mCDR panel at #EGU25, but I just learned that our convener Carolin Löscher from Denmark won't be there.

She's been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer whose expensive treatment is only available in the US and UAE.

Please consider helping: www.gofundme.com/f/help-for-m...

A screenshot of https://www.polarview.aq/antarctic showing the footprints of Sentinel 1 and Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) products in turquoise and yellow colours respectively.

A screenshot of https://www.icelogistics.info/antarctic showing a Sentinel-1C image of the Brunt Ice Shelf displayed on the map viewer. Sea ice is dark black and hazy grey shades, and the ice shelf is brighter grey and white. Details of the images can be seen in a pop up.

🎉 Imagery from the newly launched Sentinel-1C Copernicus satellite is now accessible via Polar View www.polarview.aq and the Ice Logistics Portal www.icelogistics.info/antarctic?ce...! This addition significantly increases the repeatability of SAR observations in the Polar Regions 🛰️