Dan Hodson

Jane Goodall, merci!
Merci pour votre engagement, votre humanité... et merci d'avoir été une figure si inspirante pour tant de jeunes, en tout cas celui que j'ai été. RIP Madame.

So this is pretty amazing - yesterday EarthCARE sampled Hurricane Humberto straight across the eye! The eye of a tropical cyclone is small so a direct hit is rare: this is the first time EarthCARE has hit one after over a year in orbit! (Showing here also VIIRS on NOAA-20 for context.)

ESA selects WIVERN as 11th Earth Explorer mission After meticulous preparation and rigorous evaluation, ESA’s Member States have selected WIVERN to become the 11th Earth Explorer mission to be implemented through the agency’s prestigious FutureEO pro...

It's official: WIVERN will be ESA's 11th Earth Explorer satellite, measuring winds deep inside hurricanes, fronts and other weather systems!
www.esa.int/Applications...

Showing the rainfall of 14th July 2021 (upper left) and 5 alternative scenarios derived from a climate model, conditioned to the atmospheric circulation patterns of the observed event. Similar to fig.6 of https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02386-y

📣 New paper:
💧💧💧 In July 2021 record breaking rainfall hit western Europe, we use ensemble boosting to explore different plausible storylines. These show it could have rained for longer, or over a larger area, or in a different place. Are we prepared?

doi.org/10.1038/s432...

It is "established fact" that humans have warmed the Earth by burning fossils fuels and that our emissions have made climate extremes more frequent and intense (IPCC AR6)

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

www.carbonbrief.org/...

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".

Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

The people I work with are not stupid people and our climate predictions of 30 years ago of global warming have proved to be accurate. Just saying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

Climate predictions made 20 years ago compared to the world that actually happened.

What's that? Climate predictions, you say? Okay!

www.realclimate.org/index.php/cl...

HadCRUT5 has been updated to include more historical weather station data, including temperature observations taken at University of Reading since 1908.

We are hiring two new postdocs in Greenland ocean and ice sheet modelling to join our team at @bas.ac.uk! Apply by 8 October:

Excited to be kicking off another season of "AI and Climate Science" webinars as part of the UN 'AI for Good' Discovery series this quarter with a talk from Chris Bretherton reflecting on 'AI for climate modeling from present to future'.

‘Revolutionary’ AI tools rescue old weather data to improve climate models Specialist machine-learning models are helping researchers to transcribe centuries-old handwritten records.

AI tools are starting to help scientists fill gaps in our knowledge of how weather and climate has varied in the past, with a focus on instrumental weather observations stored in paper archives worldwide

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I hope this ishmael finds you whale

We need to talk about geoengineering ⚠️

In a rapidly warming world with looming net zero due dates, there's growing polarised debate about whether we should intervene in Earth’s natural systems.

This is a thread about the state of polar geoengineering, and how we should be talking about it ⬇️

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YESS, the Young Earth System Scientists community, is an interdisciplinary, international, bottom-up early career researchers (ECR) network in Earth system science, collaborating & exchanging on a range of themes through webinars, workshops, learning groups, etc. Find out more www.yess-community.org

5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you From rising global temperatures to the fast-warming Arctic, early climate models predicted the changes half a century ago.

Good science explains unexpected observations, but great science predicts things only later confirmed from observations. Brilliant article from Nadir Jeevanjee on the fundamental correctness of climate models and the incredible work of Syukuro Manabe. theconversation.com/5-forecasts-...

Solar energy to power atmospheric observatory in East Anglia - NCAS A solar energy system has been installed to power climate measurements at the Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory in Norfolk.

A new solar energy system has been installed at the Weybourne Atmospheric Observatory in Norfolk, to help power vital climate research with less of a carbon footprint.

Thanks to the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social for making this possible!

ncas.ac.uk/solar-energy...

There's a decent chance of seeing the aurora tonight - it may be visible as far south as the Midlands (perhaps even further south) 🌃

Summer 2025 is the warmest on record for the UK Provisional Met Office statistics confirm that summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK.

New analysis from @metoffice.gov.uk showing that the record-breaking hot UK summer of 2025 has been made much more likely by human-induced climate change and such a hot summer would be expected about once every 5 years in current climate. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

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Looking for a job in AI/ML? Interested in climate change? 1 year interdisciplinary research role at King's College London using ML to quantify uncertainties in future sea level rise: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL498/p... Please share - thanks

#MachineLearning #Climate @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

Tories pledge to get 'all our oil and gas out of the North Sea' The government warns Kemi Badenoch's plans would "only accelerate the worsening climate crisis".

Foolish, reckless and politically desperate: www.bbc.com/news/article...

CNN news story, Climate.gov will re-launch under new URL thanks to a secret team of web ninjas

Curious what we are all about?
Click the link: www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...

Here’s a 48-hour water vapor loop of Ex-Hurricane Erin spinning on its final approach to Europe. Truly mesmerizing.

Remnants of ex hurricane Erin looking very majestic to our west

Two postdoc jobs available on our Arctic Butterflies project! (Not actual butterflies - basically Arctic dynamics and predictability - the butterfly effect in the Arctic...)

Oxford job: tinyurl.com/yc6h4b35

Reading job: tinyurl.com/ypn75jh2

Please help spread the word!

What are heatwaves and how are they linked to climate change and air pollution? - NCAS We asked climate, weather, and air pollution scientists about heatwaves, the link to climate change, and what this means for the UK’s air quality.

The hot temperatures in the UK this summer provide a glimpse of our future.

We asked climate, weather, and air pollution scientists at @ncas-uk.bsky.social about heatwaves, the link to climate change, and what this means for the UK’s air quality.

ncas.ac.uk/what-are-hea...

Understanding University Finances ... a very short guide

Very few people seem to understand university finances and, distressingly, this includes many academics and most policymakers. This is an attempt to condense the key points you need to know. open.substack.com/pub/profseri...

DOE climate report response form We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.

🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨

Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.

forms.gle/BL9xUAfRxA...

Screencap from the middle of a paper: questions like ‘where?’, ‘whither?’ or ‘what?’ and answer them with demonstrative words like ‘there’, ‘thither’ or ‘that’. English, like many languages, allows a range of spatially calibrated answers—here versus there (and yon in older English), hither versus thither, this versus that. Moreover, many languages are like English in having proportional formal relationships between question words and demonstratives. The English formula is wh- for questions, h- for proximal demonstratives, and th- for distal demonstratives, but we don’t do this consistently HIGHLIGHT (we don’t express ‘now’ with hen, or answer which? with hich or thich). END HIGHLIGHT Some languages, like Japanese or Tamil, have systems that are both richer and more consistent (see Evans 2012b for [screencap cuts off mid-sentence]

brb making "hich" happen