Clair Barnes

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

We found strikingly clear evidence that climate change is increasing the risk of fire-prone conditions in Chile and Patagonia, making blazes like these much more likely than they would have been without fossil fuel emissions. Read the full report from @wwattribution.bsky.social here: buff.ly/QxaOMBg

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules

Oh! “A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming.”

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Let's all take a moment to stop and drink a toast to the wonderfulness and luminosity of Catherine O'Hara. Here's to her.

A real coming of age for the project. Kudos to @clairebergin.bsky.social @lionel-swan.bsky.social and met Éireann colleagues. And as ever would not be possible without help of @wwattribution.bsky.social colleagues

🚨 NEW STUDY: As Australia prepares for another heatwave, our latest study found the early January heatwave which hit SE Australia was made 5x more likely due to climate change. What was once a relatively rare 1-in-25-year event is now expected about every 5 years. 🧵 1/6

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows

- Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account

@influencemap.bsky.social
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Highly, highly recommended for persons interested in Bayesian methods and for persons not interested in Bayesian methods who should be.

For some reason that I cannot compute, "every tenth of a degree matters" has become a catch-cry for ending climate targets, dismissing the Paris Agreement as outdated and moving climate discourse centre-right.

This is so wild to me. We set targets *SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE THE INCREMENTS MATTER*

The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

bbc graphic showing heavy weather hitting a good chunk of England and Wales, except London for some reason.

This is what we call "Facebook weather" because it's too scared to go to London, for zero logical reason.

An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Private sector revives the climate disaster database Trump tried to squash | CNN In the US last year there were 23 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, adding up to a total of $115 billion in damages. The database that tracks these costs used to be maintained by ...

Nature, or rather, climate experts, always find a way. The billion dollar disasters report that the Trump admin tried to squash is now out via Climate Central. www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/c...

Just had a discussion with my aunt about her orange cat:
AUNT: Well, you know, he was born with a condition.
ME: Orange?
AUNT: He was born with two conditions—

a graphic showing the slower emissions reductions cause more greenhouse gas emissions over time

This isn't a debate about policy design or differing paths to the same goal

One is a plan to allow more emissions (and therefore, more harm / death), and one is a plan to *at least try* to reduce that harm.

The 'debate' is about whether we should let fossil fuels kill people, or try to stop that

The sun rising over the London skyline this morning, only it’s a very cloudy sky and the sun is visible only as an orange streak of fire that coincidentally seems to be emanating from the spire on the top of St Paul’s dome

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

Collage of three images of gingerbread replicas of pubs. Text overlay reads "Gingerbread pubs of St Albans 2025 Edition (Year 4 of the project--there are a lot of pubs in St Albans!)"

It's time for this year's installment of the Gingerbread Pubs of St Albans! This is the fourth year I've been recreating the iconic, historic pubs of St Albans, England in gingerbread, and giving them as a gift to the pubs. Read on for lots of pictures and details! 🧵 #stalbans #gingerbread

Generations from now, when historians study this period where we have perfect understanding of the problem, and brilliant, readily available solutions with all the resources necessary to implement them, they'll study cases like this to try to figure out why we kept drilling holes in our lifeboat.

Well now that's upsetting.

“Climate change isn’t everything“ is becoming a go-to justification for delaying action.

This is - deliberately or inadvertently - a misframing of the issue. The point isn’t CC is everything, it’s that it’s essential to deal with.

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screenshot of podcast recording with cat

Watch, @fisherdanar.bsky.social , @davidho.bsky.social and me talk about corporate capture, cat capture and where we think things climate could be in 5 years. cece.american.edu/copout-episo...

There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers | George Monbiot Climate sceptics tell us that more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat. What’s the truth? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Researching this week's column, I stumbled across something that amazed me:
the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the
world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know
because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Stories on BBC News - a street brawl which helpfully tells us those involved were “of Turkish origin” and another about a sex offender “Sudanese” but an extremely prolific sex offender responsible for 343 offences is not described as “white British” why is that

Do climate conferences actually achieve anything? A lot of people have strong opinions, but we wanted measurements, so we look at how the stock market moves during yearly international meetings called COPs – explanation below, or read the paper here:
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

Hey Bill Gates : Are you familiar with the logical fallacy known as "false dilemma"?

Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane:

STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food

RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor

SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise

PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification