Dr Ella Gilbert

What's your fave cloud? Mine's a lenticular 😎

Mostly cos they look like UFOs, and also cos they are formed by air flowing over an obstacles 🏔️

This causes invisible waves in the atmosphere like the ripples in a river that are formed by water flowing around a rock.

📸 @drgilbz.bsky.social

YouTube video by Dr Gilbz I didn't wanna make a COP30 video

even if she didn't want to, I'm so glad @drgilbz.bsky.social made this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZH9...

YouTube video by Dr Gilbz I didn't wanna make a COP30 video

The dust is settling on COP30: what did it achieve?

New video here: youtu.be/DZH9p-2nT3U

Our very own @drgilbz.bsky.social is involved in this epic series.

Come along to a NOVA show to hear her speak more about how ice age climates have shaped our beautiful planet 🌍

Promo poster showing two mammoths in a snowy landscape with "Prehistoric Planet ice age" overlain

Something VERY exciting is coming 👀

Discover the secret lives of ancient animals and how they handled the huge climate shifts of the ice age 🌎 🧊 📈

Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age is streaming November 26th, only on Apple TV #PrehistoricPlanet #AppleTV

Watch the trailer here: youtu.be/f7kvwp9aIyM

How much carbon budget do we have left if we want to stay below 1.5˚C?

Just 2 more years at current rates. It is essentially impossible to avoid global temperature rise exceeding 1.5˚C.

climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-shrink...

I've been gabbling excitedly about this for a lil' while, but... it's getting real!

🌍✨🔭 I'm developing a live science show - think SPECTACLE - with my brilliant colleague Charly.

It's gonna be great, and I'm super hyped 👀

Go give Nova a follow to stay in the loop 👉 @nova-earth-astro.bsky.social

Thanks Willem :)

Have fun, gang!

Michael Mann to Bill Gates: You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.

All you need to know about Bill Gates' long-standing and misguided take on climate change.
'The solution to the climate crisis isn’t going to come from the fairy-dust-sprinkled flying unicorns that are the “benevolent plutocrats.” They don’t exist.'
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Your flight emissions are way higher than carbon calculators suggest Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming impact, say the makers of a new calculator

Impact of flights on global warming severely underestimated by many carbon calculators & offset schemes that don’t properly account for taxiing, sub-optimal routing or non-CO2 climate effects which are larger component:
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...

Research paper:
doi.org/10.1038/s432...

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Hard relate 😂 Success stories are always welcome - thank you :)

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YouTube video by Dr Gilbz I'm leaving academia (for now)

It's Halloween, and to celebrate (?) I made a big scary decision...

I love climate research and polar science, but academia broke me. And more importantly, I feel like climate comms is where I can have more impact.

... So I've left academia. Wish me luck 🎃

More here: youtu.be/mw6miP-v1Ds

YouTube video by Dr Gilbz We've reached the climate's first tipping point

🪸 Coral reefs are already reaching breaking point - and we're rapidly approaching other critical climate red lines.

That's according to the latest tipping points report that came out last week.

Watch here: youtu.be/p9S_IKwwyeM

YouTube video by Dr Gilbz We've reached the climate's first tipping point

🪸 Coral reefs are already reaching breaking point - and we're rapidly approaching other critical climate red lines.

That's according to the latest tipping points report that came out last week.

Watch here: youtu.be/p9S_IKwwyeM

No definitely not an LLM! It's machine learning, which I agree is not the same as the kind of AI we're used to hearing about. But I guess it's all having a rebrand, and that's what people are calling it now...

Check out our new pre-print showcasing cutting-edge hi-res regional climate model simulations of Antarctica ❄️

Spoiler alert: they're pretty decent 😎

Link here: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

YouTube video by Dr Gilbz Is AI about to revolutionise weather & climate forecasting?

AI is being used to improve weather and climate prediction... But not in a make-you-dumber, planet-destroying, chatgpt kinda way.

New vid, ft. my best segue yet, here:

youtu.be/7gCbK1f0Zjc

Thanks to Kirstine Dale at the @metoffice.gov.uk for explaining how tech can enhance weather prediction ⛅

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12 month running average Arctic sea ice area lowest on record.

YouTube video by Dr Gilbz The weirdest place you've never heard of

Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys are one of the most extreme places on Earth 🌍❄️. I talked with @drgilbz.bsky.social about my PhD research on the glaciers there, why they matter for climate and ecosystems, and how they’re changing in a warming world. Check the great video she made below ⬇️

YouTube video by Dr Gilbz The climate impacts of flying we DON'T talk about

But remember, the impacts of airport expansion don't stop at CO2: 2/3 of the climate effects of aircraft come from non-CO2 impacts. Remember that next time Rachel Reeves says they'll invest in "green" aircraft tech.

What will expanding Heathrow do to UK’s net zero plans? Government is counting on tech to provide a panacea, but there may be simpler ways to keep climate goals on track

Expanding airports in a climate crisis is criminal.

Already not on track to meet our (too weak) climate targets, an extra runway at Heathrow will cause a vast increase in emissions, driving deaths and health issues for Londoners and the world.

YouTube video by Dr Gilbz We didn’t know East Antarctica was melting like this

We didn’t know East Antarctica was melting like this.

Excellent new video from Dr Gilbz @drgilbz.bsky.social

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.