Peter Thorne

Excerpt from a book describing the inconsistency of climate denial

I am so tired

At #AMS2026, Tom Fahy said to expect pain with respect to NCAR.

It’s only going to get worse.

I’ve never seen a government so consistently try to make things incrementally worse.

Literally cannot stress enough that if I, a climate scientist, were running a scam it would be a lot more fun than this

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Many Trump agencies are functionally the opposite of their intended purpose but it's pretty hard to beat an EPA that stops considering human health in favor of just considering regulations' costs to businesses and rolls back the CO2 endangerment finding. Like that's EPA inside the mirror realm.

“It was for the sake of this day that he had first decided to run for the Presidency, a decision which had sent waves of astonishment throughout the Imperial Galaxy—Zaphod Beeblebrox? President? Not the Zaphod Beeblebrox? Not the President?” /continued

La tempête Nils fait virer les voyants au rouge !
3 vigilances rouges pour 3 phénomènes d'intensité exceptionnelle différents : crues dans le Sud-Ouest, vent violent dans l'Aude et avalanches en Savoie (rarissime).
Vraiment pas commun !!
Et une tartinade de départements en orange.
Quelle agitation !

NEW STUDY: Climate change is fueling deadly fires that threaten some of the world’s oldest living things: the ancient Alerce trees of Patagonia, which can live for over 3,000 years.

Our analysis shows that human-induced warming is making weather conditions more conducive to fire. 1/5

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

President Mandela said, "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."

🗣️ “Surely nobody should be in a condition described like that?” — guest presenter @newschambers.bsky.social
🗣️ “They shouldn’t,” — Fianna Fáil TD Paul McAuliffe
🗣️ “Sorry, that’s actually a description of the Knockalisheen Centre,” — @newschambers.bsky.social

#TonightVMTV #SeamusCulleton #ICE

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

While Zillow is removing its climate risk data from public view, the first truly open climate risk database.

Kudos, @carbonplan.org

How Can We Tell If Climate-Smart Agriculture Stores Carbon? - Eos Quantitative data at real-world scales are needed to assess the effects of cover cropping and other practices on soil carbon storage. Large-scale medical studies provide a proven methodology.

Opinion: Climate-smart ag practices are lauded as low-barrier pathways to nature-based atmospheric CO2 removal. But these practices haven’t been studied at the extent needed to verify their effectiveness.

eos.org/opinions/how...

Read more in our February theme collection: eos.org/themes/carbo...

Marian Kamenský

The well hard crew?

Solar and batteries are cheap enough that most people can get most of their electricity from them, and save money. This equation gets better and better over time as their costs decline.

All details in a new blog post: nworbmot.org/blog/solar-b...

In case you missed the moment.

Art is powerful

Southern Ocean may store less carbon than climate models assume - ACEAS New research led by ACEAS PhD researcher Annika Oetjens and colleagues at the University of Tasmania reveals that the Southern Ocean may be storing less carbon than climate models assume – with import...

🌊 An important new study led by ACEAS PhD researcher Annika Oetjens from @imas-utas.bsky.social at @utas.edu.au shows the Southern Ocean may be storing 40 to 60 per cent less carbon at certain depths than many climate models assume.

Learn more ▶️ antarctic.org.au/southern-oce...

Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

xkcd.com/3204/

Grazalema, Spain, received over 2,000 mm (78 inches) of rain in just the last 20 days.

Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.

An almost Classical style landscape in oils: Expansive sky with sweeping clouds, shadows and patches of lapis near the top of the panel. The impression of land beneath the clouds on the left, leading across the foreground, with areas of olive and new gamboge/ochre, almost lost between the drifting clouds and waves breaking onto the coast at the very bottom of the composition. More lapis beneath the foam.

A more distant shot of the painting described in the other image, this one including the easel, with a chair on one side, curtains behind and the world's most beautiful dog on the other side, holding her favourite ball in her mouth.

My latest painting: Oil on panel, 70 x 100cm artachart.com
#oilpainting #landscape #seascape #coast #irishart

The arrogance of people who tell others what clothes and headgear they should wear doing daily things like cycling to the shop is unreal.

And none of them willing to wear high-vis or helmets in their cars "if it saves one life".

Anything, but safer streets, and enforcement of existing laws.

Google maps telling me to get to Dublin Airport by leaving Dublin airport and walking back an hour and a half to it. #Spéirgorm

Google must have finally incorporated AI into Google Maps. How do I know?
It just told me I needed to leave now to be at Dublin Airport by 13:30 now to catch 9am Citylink that arrives in Dublin Airport at 11am. Then I should take the 11:45 Kells bus to Ballymun and walk back one hour to the airport

This is what Hess said: “It brings up mixed emotions to represent the US right now. I think it’s a little hard. There’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of. Just because I wear the flag doesn't mean I represent everything that's going on in the US.”

Energy demand and decarbonization in 2025 and beyond - Nature Reviews Clean Technology Rapid expansion of renewables has thus far mostly covered fast-growing energy demand rather than displacing fossil fuels. New demand drivers such as data centres and cooling could reverse declining de...

Digital services, AI, air conditioner systems, e-cars are causing global #electricity demand to rise faster than electricity production from renewables, warn PIK’s Felix Creutzig and @ipcc.bsky.social vice chair Diana Ürge-Vorsatz in Nature Reviews Clean Technology:
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Oh, here comes another wave of insanity.

Ukraine is now supposed to surrender in a war it has not lost and willingly ensure its own destruction by Russia because Trump needs to avert a midterm disaster.

It's the dead of winter, and California just supplied a peak of 117% of its demand with solar alone and 136% of its demand from WindWaterSolar and over 100% of demand for 6 hours.

Gas output down 58% and batteries output up 303% in 2025 v '2023

Solar+batteries replacing gas

Texaco sponsor an art competition in Ireland for children and teenagers.

Good morning! Taxing the wealth of the richest 1% of Americans down to the median wealth of the next-richest 9% ($5.2 million per household) would free up $48 trillion. Redistributing that to the poorest 50% of Americans would give *68 million households* an average of *$700k per household*.