Outrageous and dangerous
30.07.2025 14:14 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker
Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists
My latest: Polar scientists warn that the White House and NSF are planning to terminate the Nathaniel Palmer, the only US research icebreaker capable of handling Antarctic extremes, this October.
So far the plan has seen minimal pushback from Congress.
28.07.2025 20:23 — 👍 931 🔁 444 💬 32 📌 59
Nations who fail to curb fossil fuel emissions could be ordered to pay reparations - top UN court
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
24.07.2025 08:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
10/ 🔥Judge Iwasawa Yuji quotes straight from the IPCC: "Warming of 1.5°C is not considered 'safe' for most nations, communities, ecosystems and sectors, and poses significant risks to natural and human systems." - this is a very strong basis for the Court's legal conclusions!
23.07.2025 13:13 — 👍 64 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 1
🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑⚖️ International Court of Justice.
🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability
📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇
#ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo
23.07.2025 12:49 — 👍 256 🔁 183 💬 4 📌 32
Stoked to share our Australian community’s voice on “impacts of #Antarctic #SeaIce extremes“ published in PNASNexus!
Massive kudos to Ed for spearheading this epic, super multidisciplinary work👏🥳 And so honoured to be a part of it.
doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
02.07.2025 08:07 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years
Real world measurements of how much extra heat the Earth is trapping are well beyond most climate models. That’s a real problem.
🗞️ There is an excellent article in The Conversation on the doubling of the Earth’s Energy Imbalance, accelerating global warming and the consequences for the near future.
theconversation.com/earth-is-tra...
#climatechange #globalwarming #acceleration #climatemodels #energyimbalance #EEI #feedback
30.06.2025 14:19 — 👍 64 🔁 35 💬 1 📌 0
Climate mitigation and adaptation measures are not costs. They are investments.
The true costs occur when mitigation fails and adaptation is too slow so we suffer from continually worsening extreme weather events like heatwaves and floods.
Invest now to reduce costs in future.
29.06.2025 10:45 — 👍 398 🔁 141 💬 7 📌 8
Believe it or not, the usual suspects are trying to sell the little blip at the end of the Antarctic ice loss curve (due to a few strong snowfall events in East Antarctica) as proof that "global warming is a hoax".
It shows once again that "climate skeptics" don't have honest arguments.
27.06.2025 09:18 — 👍 220 🔁 62 💬 8 📌 1
The Bonn climate talks, which concluded early Friday, were starkly out of step with the urgency the science demands.
New evidence from @IGCC_earth finds that global warming is accelerating, that we may reach the 1.5°C limit within five years unless emissions decline rapidly
27.06.2025 09:04 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
At the #JuneClimateMeetings, the Alliance of Small Island Developing States denounces attacks on science, noting some seem to consider the mere mention of 1.5°C a red flag, and underscored there is no #JustTransition without prioritization 1.5°C, fossil fuel phase out, & access to renewable energy
26.06.2025 13:55 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📣 Big update for the Methane Hotspot Explorer app from #CopernicusAtmosphere! New features include #methane plumes, a wind layer, and data on coordinates, emission rates and more.
Monitor and explore methane hotspots all over the world.
🔗 atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cams-methane...
26.06.2025 12:56 — 👍 32 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 3
Wow.
Incredible new interactive tool showing major methane emissions from fossil-fuel extraction around the world over past 12 months.
Striking how intense the hotspots are from, say, COP29 hosts Azerbaijan.
And Russia, China, US and India.
via @oceanterra.org and @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
26.06.2025 11:10 — 👍 160 🔁 78 💬 7 📌 4
The climate centre is barking mad
The climate movement will fail if it doesn't respect both political and physical realities
"Natural scientists have been far too naïve about how their equivocal comments about large-scale CDR and other geoengineering approaches will be used by policy makers to argue against the rapid phase out of fossil fuels." - Prof. @jamesgdyke.info, @gsiexeter.bsky.social
25.06.2025 07:25 — 👍 46 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 1
Two-fold increase in glacier mass loss between 2010-2020 and 2021-2024! 🔥📈
CAN+Swiss glaciers lost 12-13% of their 2020 volume during these 4 years! 😱
Nothing can compare with early 2020s ice loss rates
📷 Bare ice at Peyto Glacier @hakai.org
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
25.06.2025 16:30 — 👍 31 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1
Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between May and August by looking at the decadal average line positions.
🚨 Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data)
• about 350,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,010,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,590,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,150,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
23.06.2025 21:36 — 👍 141 🔁 65 💬 4 📌 6
⚠️Global warming caused by humans is advancing at 0.27°C per decade – the highest rate since records began.
This is one of the indicators updated every year by over 60 international scientists in the annual Indicators of Global Climate Change report – published today. doi.org/10.5194/essd... /1
19.06.2025 08:21 — 👍 329 🔁 191 💬 8 📌 9
Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence
Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15639576; Smith et al., 2025a) to produce updated estimates for key indicators of the state of the climate system: net emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, the Earth's energy imbalance, surface temperature changes, warming attributed to human activities, the remaining carbon budget, and estimates of global temperature extremes. This year, we additionally include indicators for sea-level rise and land precipitation change. We follow methods as closely as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One report. The indicators show that human activities are increasing the Earth's energy imbalance and driving faster sea-level rise compared to the AR6 assessment. For the 2015–2024 decade average, observed warming relative to 1850–1900 was 1.24 [1.11 to 1.35] °C, of which 1.22 [1.0 to 1.5] °C was human-induced. The 2024-observed best estimate of global surface temperature (1.52 °C) is well above the best estimate of human-caused warming (1.36 °C). However, the 2024 observed warming can still be regarded as a typical year, considering the human-induced warming level and the state of internal variability associated with the phase of El Niño and Atlantic variability. Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate that is unprecedented in the instrumental record, reaching 0.27 [0.2–0.4] °C per decade over 2015–2024. This high rate of warming is caused by a combination of greenhouse gas emissions being at an all-time high of 53.6±5.2 Gt CO2e yr−1 over the last decade (2014–2023), as well as reductions in the strength of aerosol cooling. Despite this, there is evidence that the rate of increase in CO2 emissions over the last decade has slowed compared to the 2000s, and depending on societal choices, a continued series of these annual updates over the critical 2020s decade could track decreases or increases in the rate of the climatic changes presented here.
Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim:
⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C
⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade
⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance
⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2
essd.copernicus.org/...
18.06.2025 23:10 — 👍 653 🔁 483 💬 22 📌 67
The usual science-illiterate stupidity from Trump, but surprising to me that climate change is on his mind (if you can call call it that) at all right now.
16.06.2025 14:53 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
Climate models with low sensitivity to greenhouse gases do not align with satellite measurements
Climate models that give a low warming from increases in greenhouse gases do not match satellite measurements. Future warming will likely be worse than thought unless society acts, according to a new ...
I know there's a lot happening in the world right now, but I can't find any news reporting at all of this major new study published in Science.
Where's the #climate coverage?!
"We therefore need to cut GHG emissions even further to have a chance of keeping global warming below 2 degrees"
16.06.2025 11:09 — 👍 136 🔁 68 💬 7 📌 11
Can anyone recommend a funding source for a small work package for AntarcticGlaciers focused on celebrating the role of women, indigenous peoples and minoritised people in arctic exploration? I am looking for £3-5k.
12.06.2025 07:22 — 👍 1 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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