Alec Luhn

Meltwater bursts through Greenland ice in first-of-a-kind eruption Satellite images reveal how a subglacial lake erupted through the Greenland ice sheet – a phenomenon never witnessed before which could be driven by rising temperatures

A subglacial lake erupted from 85m below the surface of the Greenland ice sheet, apparently because of pressure caused by the increasing buildup of meltwater www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

The EPA cited my paper in their argument against the endangerment finding today. However, their point is completely backwards: my paper actually supports the EPA's 2009 range of 1.8C to 4C warming by 2100. www.nature.com/artic...

Only 0.5% of 90,000 oil slicks reported over five-year period, analysis finds Pollution incidents reported between 2014 and 2019 were compared against scientific study that used satellite imagery to count slicks

Shipping firms claim most oil slicks are from natural seeps.
But sat imagery shows >3x more slicks are illegal discharges from ships.
There’s almost no enforcement to make them spend $ treating their bilge water @leanahosea.bsky.social @pulitzercenter.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/202...

slowly becoming anti cancel culture from the leftist perspective and its lowkey liberating

No food, no pay, no liberty: marooned sailors plead with ... Crew left to drift off Mozambique by firm registered in the UK are latest in rising number abandoned at sea

12 seafarers have been stranded off Mozambique by the shipowner. 2,280 seafarers have been stranded this yr.
“We are not getting paid, & not being released or allowed to disembark and work for some other shipping co.” @katiemcque.bsky.social @pulitzercenter.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/interna...

I don’t think it’s really tenable to have a situation where the president can sue someone as a supposedly private citizen but can’t be sued while in office.

Olivia Campbell-Cavendish announced at @transpridebrighton.bsky.social that the Trans Legal Clinic has raided £70,000 to match JK Rowling’s donation to lawsuit against trans recognition

Reform’s Clean Energy Crackdown Would Cost 60,000 Jobs and Raise Bills, Says Study Reform UK’s policies to “scrap net zero” would cost more than 60,000 jobs and wipe £92 billion off the UK economy, according to a new study. Nigel Farage’s party — which took control of 10 councils in...

Reform’s clean energy crackdown would cost 60,000 jobs, wipe £92 billion off the economy, and raise bills, says study

Clean energy is unstoppable now.

The question is: who will lead this transition, and who's going to be left in the dust?

In the United States, it looks like we're going backward, while China and others are leaping ahead.

TRUMP: "We had very little inflation"

TRUMP 20 seconds later: "We've had no inflation."

Annual climate stocktake shows weather records and extremes now the norm in UK Climate Record breaking and extreme weather has become increasingly commonplace in the UK as our climate has changed over the last few decades.

Weeks after a heatwave that killed >600 people, the Met Office warns extreme heat, rain & flooding is the new normal in the UK:
- 2x as many days >5°C hotter than average
- 16% more winter rainfall
- 19cm sea level rise—& accelerating www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

1500 deaths in the recent European heatwave were due to climate change We now have the ability to rapidly assess the impact of climate change after extreme weather events – a first-of-its-kind analysis has shown that it nearly tripled the death toll from the most recent European heatwave

We now have the ability to rapidly assess the impact of climate change after extreme weather events – a first of its kind analysis has shown that it nearly tripled the death toll from the most recent European heatwave.

"Back in my day we didn't need none of this air conditioning" yeah my dude you burnt a bunch of coal, that's why we need air conditioning now

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

Excerpt from @billmckibben.bsky.social’s new book about how solar has gotten so cheap that people are installing it on the sly across the global south & analysts warn that continuing to burn fossil fuels like the US is a “self-imposed financial penalty” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

This is catastrophic for UK journalists trying to use this platform vs Twitter, will kill DMs for most users and make the experience shit for newbies.

All to stop teenagers accessing porn on a site with no teenagers and where the most arousing content is some graphs posted by policy nerds.

US lawmakers write to Canada to complain that its wildfire smoke is spoiling summer The politicians say their constituents are

GOP lawmakers who just repealed climate action in the US, the largest historical emitter, complain to Canada that smoke from climate-fueled wildfires is preventing their constituents from recreating outdoors 😭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cool video!

YouTube video by New Scientist These storm-chasing scientists are on the hunt for the world’s most extreme hail

I rode along with the meteorologists chasing the world's most extreme hail storms across the Great Plains in a massive effort improve our forecasts of these damaging events. Thanks to all involved in @nsficechip.bsky.social for having us. Had a hail of a good time. 🧪🌩️🌪️

1500 deaths in the recent European heatwave were due to climate change We now have the ability to rapidly assess the death toll of climate change after extreme heat – a first-of-its-kind analysis has shown that it nearly tripled the death toll from the most recent Europe...

There are easy steps now to make heatwaves like this one less deadly.
London for instance could distribute water on the tube & ban non-essential car travel during heatwaves, says @frediotto.bsky.social. @newscientist.com @lshtm.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2487...

Democrats and climate groups ‘too polite’ in fight against ‘malevolent’ fossil fuel giants, says key senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island gives 300th climate speech on the US Senate floor

@whitehouse.senate.gov to @coveringclimatenow.org: Democrats keep "getting caught in this stupid doom loop in which our pollsters say: ‘Well, climate’s not one of the top issues.'
"If you actually go ask [voters] and engage on the issue, it explodes in enthusiasm" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The heat deaths due to climate change last week are crazy if you think about it.
In London, 171 were killed in 10 days.
That's far more than were killed in homicides in London in all of 2024 (102).

The breakthrough is scientists found the climate change impact not only on temperatures but also deaths.
Previous research graphed excess deaths & higher temperatures in Euro cities.
They applied this curve to real-world temperatures & those calculated for a non-warming world to find the death toll

In London, 263 people died in the heatwave, 171 of them because of climate change.
London & other European cities clearly aren't prepared for extreme heat.
While authorities are now giving more warnings, they need to improve response plans & public awareness about the danger

In a non-warming world, a heatwave still would have happened last week. But climate change increased the temperatures by 2-4˚C.
"Now, it’s closer to dangerous heat for more people,” especially the elderly, said Ben Clarke @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

Don’t worry it’s not a Nazi post it’s a Roman post

1500 deaths in the recent European heatwave were due to climate change We now have the ability to rapidly assess the impact of climate change after extreme weather events – a first-of-its-kind analysis has shown that it nearly tripled the death toll from the most recent ...

The recent European heatwave killed 2,300 people in 12 cities. If not for climate change, 1,500 of them would still be alive. @wwattribution.bsky.social @newscientist.com www.newscientist.com/article/2487...

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

Brahim Ait El Hajjam, 47, collapsed while pouring concrete in Bologna, one of >9 people confirmed killed by the European heatwave.
The real number is surely in the hundreds if not thousands. news.sky.com/story/bluesk...

The same light trap in a Costa Rican conservation area in 1984 & 2019 illustrates the disastrous decline in insects. That loss is accelerating due to warming.
“We’re talking about nearly half the tree of life disappearing in one human lifetime.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Why your big ugly utility bill will get bigger & uglier under President Trump’s big beautiful spending bill”—a beautifully simple explanation here of the cost rises, which will be the biggest in red states @billweircnn.bsky.social