It’s astounding and encouraging that the Met Office put out these long scientific explanations of how our world works. We need more science in the world like this. 👏
Ocean scienceseeting 2026 over. ✌️
Brain: 🧠🔥
Feet: 🦶😫
Already looking forward to OSM28.
#OSM26
Are you at ocean sciences meeting? Wanna hear about ocean memory and its role in climate variability?
Check out my talk at 11 am on 26th Feb in CC42B: Global Teleconnections session in Alsh-SEC.
Would love your take on ocean memory! Come by if you can make it.
#OSM26
@ricwilli.bsky.social
Are you at ocean sciences meeting? Wanna hear about ocean memory and its role in climate variability?
Check out my talk at 11 am on 26th Feb in CC42B: Global Teleconnections session in Alsh-SEC.
Would love your take on ocean memory! Come by if you can make it.
#OSM26
@ricwilli.bsky.social
Great talk by Prof. Eleanor Frajka-Williamson @eleanorfrajka.bsky.social on the history of AMOC research! Fascinating to see how decades of observations have evolved our understanding of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and its role in our climate system.
#OSM26
Historically, the U.S. has funded almost 50% of global ocean observation programs. However, amidst shifting geopolitics and rising global uncertainty, it remains to be seen whether other nations will step up to fill the funding gap.
#OSM26
Got ocean science you’re excited about?Want to support 🌊community programs? Looking for editors and reviewers who care? @jgroceans.bsky.social
Excited to share our new publication in GRL
We examine how a seasonal North Atlantic Oscillation affects the thermal and biogeochemical states in the North Atlantic Ocean for many years.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
@agu.org @ricliv.bsky.social
COP30 overpromised, underdelivered, empowered distractions, backtracked on issues and once again gave big oil and big ag a free pass.
Unfortunately, the suspicions of climate scientists (here in Brazil and abroad) were confirmed again.
Science fraud is on the rise, facilitated by for-profit, open-access journals (Richardson et al, 2025, PNAS). These same journals are accelerating author and reviewer burnout by profiting from quantity while neglecting quality. Choose society journals where reputation and community are everything!
New data modelling suggests that the world is on track to warm by 2°C and 3°C even if countries met every near-term climate pledge and hit their targets for net-zero CO₂ emissions
Record warm ocean temperatures continued in September across the North Pacific Ocean, with a number of consequential impacts (including on downstream weather patterns).
This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every September from 1854-2025 using @noaa.gov ERSSTv5 data.
Two stories juxtaposed on the BBC website... sigh.
Anyone else spot the irony here?
I guess I was right to switch to @bsky.app from Twitter.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Heavy monsoon rains trigger flash floods across Pakistan and India, forcing mass evacuations and causing deaths.
@metoffice.gov.uk ‘s 'State of the UK Climate' report is out today, with some key findings:
🌊UK sea level is rising faster than the global average
🌡️extremes are becoming the norm
🥇record breaking weather events are becoming more frequent
🔥the last 3 yrs have been in the UK's top 5 warmest on record
The Secretary of Commerce's new policy requiring his personal review of all NOAA contracts over $100,000 is directly harming American science. 🧪
How do I know? Because this morning, twelve of America's rising leaders in climate science (including myself) were furloughed.
What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔
NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...
Excellent post by @dinahvp.bsky.social on the plan to devastate NOAA research, with quotes from @franklinjamesl.bsky.social @wxmanms1.bsky.social. "Only a small fraction of NOAA Research would remain and be transferred to the NWS, including portions of the weather, tornado and technology research."
Awful. More horrible science news
"The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing & delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025."
I know there’s a lot of news right now but this is really crazy. They’re booting the National Science Foundation out of its newish building with no plans for where 1800 people are going to go.
Great initiative by Bill Gates. The global economic uncertainty and wars are hitting poor countries the most. Hope this initiative would provide the required investment.
Excited to share new research in the Journal of Geophysical Research:Oceans with @andyhogg.bsky.social, @navidcy.bsky.social, Ryan Holmes, and @hemant-khatri.bsky.social on how the North Atlantic Oscillation impacts the basin's subtropical and subpolar gyres: doi.org/10.1029/2024... 🌊
Trump just revoked the ability for foreign students to enroll at Harvard. Every foreign student, which is in the thousands, enrolled for next year at Harvard will not be able to continue studying if this isn't challenged in court.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
Updated Climate Visuals
(1) Warming stripes for atmosphere and ocean
(2) Climate indicators (adding land humidity for 2024)
(3) UK climate indicators (adding some 2024 data)
ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
RIP American science: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions, layoff staff, and terminate more funded grants.
Interesting study showing economic losses due to emissions by individual fossil fuel companies.
Such studies aimed at quantifying economic losses and emissions by individual sectors, companies and countries are needed to determine accountability for global warming.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"The possible elimination of the lab, called GFDL, in concert with potential cuts to other NOAA operations, threatens irreparable harm not only to global understanding of climate change and long-range scenarios for the planet but to the country’s safety, competitiveness and national security."
That's definitely on my reading list.
Looks like Trump has vowed to destroy everything, including oceans, climate research, trade, freedom of speech.
