Noticed all the acorns in the UK this year? You’re not alone. A study of 331 plant species shows temperature drives seed booms (masting), but cues vary by biome: Warm = more seeds in temperate forests Cool = more in tropics Climate change is disrupting these patterns. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our new study finds that the upper atmosphere is becoming more sheared and less stratified because of climate change. Both these changes are making the air less stable and more conducive to turbulence. Published in the November issue of Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. doi.org/10.1175/JAS-...

This is a good corrective to the BS narrative flowing through the Pielke/AEI/NYP/EID/DOE nexus. Their argument is designed so that we can never ever attribute extreme events to emissions - even singular events that would have *never* [for some suitable finite approximation] have happened before.

Two job opportunities on new @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social contract until 30/06/28. Both looking at aspects of data rescue and preparation and provision of global historical land meteorological data. Looking to fill ASAP. First job is for a senior postdoctoral position: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

📢 New open-access webserver from the Wallace Initiative - to understand the vulnerability of protected areas to climate change and help increase the area’s resilience 🟢 ~98,000 reports 🟢 one for most of the terrestrial protected areas in the world >1km2 in size Access here ➡️

There have been efforts from some critics to suggest that the @metoffice.gov.uk weather stations are not good enough for monitoring climate change. Here, @edhawkins.org shows that they agree well with multiple independent datasets, providing strong support that they are, in fact, reliable.

UK air temperatures and soil temperatures are warming at the same rate climatelabbook.substack.com/p/monitoring...

🏔️Yakutat Glacier is one of the fastest-retreating glaciers on Earth. This "before and after" is a stark reminder that glaciers are sensitive indicators of climate change, and around the world, they are retreating due to rising temperatures. #Glaciers2025

What a beauty... a terrible monstrous beauty... #StormAmy #Humberto from METEOSAT-12/ MTG water vapour 6.2micron channel: The dark area is dry, descending air. Where it forms the scorpion's tail in the final frame (dare I say "sting") is location of some of the most violent winds

Very cool work (with a very sobering result) led by Andy Jones (a paleoCAMP alumnus!) in Science Advances: 'Glaciers in California’s Sierra Nevada are likely disappearing for the first time in the Holocene' www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Rainfall Observers Over the past three centuries, thousands of people across the British & Irish Isles have recorded rainfall, often every day for decades. Here we recognise some of the individuals who made particularly important contributions. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

"I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish." Read the full statement from the President of the Royal Society Sir Adrian Smith: royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

Just a reminder that NWS is considered essential during a government shutdown. Meteorologists will still go to work, forecasts will still be made, watches and warnings will be issued, data will flow. We won’t be paid until the shutdown ends, but we’ll still protect life and property as always.

Here‘s a rare and excellent career opportunity for outstanding physical oceanographers at the Potsdam Institute (PIK) and the University of Potsdam, in beautiful surroundings just outside Berlin. Tell qualified friends or colleagues! 🌊 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

I'm a really big fan of these "storyline" approaches to uncertain forecasts – such a simple way to communicate quite a lot of detail and I think in a way that makes sense to many. Hope to see more of these on TV

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Tyndall Centre has just hosted its largest ever climate conference on the UEA campus in Norwich, UK - ‘The Critical Decade for Climate Action':

Spain has just announced it’s joining the Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change. "Disinformation not only creates confusion and spreads fake news; in the context of the climate emergency, it also puts lives and property at risk. Climate misinformation kills" buff.ly/cixOfB9

If you're looking to do a PhD on a timely subject, I'm on the advisory board of a cool new project; "When Lies Take Root: Investigating the Impact of Misinformation on Those at Risk" at the top-ranked Amsterdam School of Communication Research/ Do share & apply: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Last week I published my first PhD paper on the sources of freshwater for Greenland's fjords (tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...)

New paper out. In which we helped the folks at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) show that their climate emulator does a good (though not perfect) job at reproducing E3SMs' response to different SST boundary conditions. 1/ agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Great to see coverage of our first full @wasitusie.bsky.social study on RTE (and elsewhere). Kudos @clairebergin.bsky.social and Lionel swan as well as met Éireann colleagues and thanks as ever to @wwattribution.bsky.social for the hugely valuable collaboration www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Beautiful thread about the function of terpenes for trees!

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

The people I work with are not stupid people and our climate predictions of 30 years ago of global warming have proved to be accurate. Just saying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

Hours of daylight throughout the year in the Northern Hemisphere.

For regular monthly updates to CRUTEM (and hence to HadCRUT) we rely on monthly data provided by National Met Services via the WMO's CLIMAT system. Unusually, the USA data didn't yet make it into the CLIMAT data feed for Mar-Jun 2025. Note the USA-sized gap in the non-infilled version of HadCRUT:

After a brief (ahem) hiatus, the HadCRUT5 global temperature dataset has now been updated to June 2025 by @metoffice.gov.uk @climateuea.bsky.social and @ncas-uk.bsky.social

The Congo Basin Science Initiative (CBSI) is advertising for a Director of Science. Based in Kinshasa, 4 yrs position. Work with me, amazing students and great scientists to transform our understanding of the world’s second largest area of tropical forests. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Prof @carlosperes.bsky.social from @ueaenv.bsky.social said: "The conservation dividends from community-based protection are unprecedented and deployed at a tiny fraction of the financial costs of traditional protection mechanisms. In practice, this makes local land managers true ‘unsung heroes’..."

New research reveals “unprecedented” conservation results of community management of protected areas in the Amazon - as many face an uncertain future due to low enforcement of regulations, external encroachment and competition for resources. 🌳🐟🧵 Read more 👇: bit.ly/3VmTqpB #Amazon #Conservation

Want to join our next course? Check out our training programme: ncas.ac.uk/study-with-us/

📣 PRESS RELEASE Registration for experts interested in serving as Expert Reviewers and providing scientific comments on the First Order Draft of the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities is now open! Registration closes 30 Nov 2025. Read more 🔗 www.ipcc.ch/2025/09/17/p...

"Revolutionary AI tools rescue old weather data to improve climate models": News article @nature.com describing efforts of @hydr-vub.bsky.social Researcher @derrickmuheki.bsky.social to rescue weather records from DR Congo using the MeteoSaver software he developed: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Monthly update of the monthly climate dashboard We now have most global temperature datasets updated to August, but numerous other updates too. www.jkclimate.fr/MonthlyDashb...

RFMIP2 preprint now out! egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

For those waiting for an update to the HadCRUT5 global temperature (currently to Feb 2025): good news. We aim to release an update this week -- to Jun 2025 and with a new intermediate version (v5.1) to reflect improvements in some underlying observational data.

We are looking for a postdoc in seismology to work on a NERC-funded Large Grant ‘Ex-X’ Expecting the Unexpected. Understanding ‘dangerous’ volcanic transitions. For more details, please see vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/16... Informal discussion welcome.

Yet another Nat Cat job? Actually, we're searching for TWO experts, specialized in tropical cyclones or earthquakes. US or UK, remote work definitely an option. Great job for an ECR physical scientist looking to join the insurance/reinsurance industry! eedu.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Below is a clever visualization of the distribution of how land is used in the US. Cows roam over a lot of land! But this is not a map - for example, the 100 largest landowning families aren't confined to Florida.

Telegraph headline feels inflammatory - there's no tearing, just careful removal of a flag from a grade 1 listed historic monument that belongs to the nation.

There’s still time to visit “A Field Hospital for Eco-Anxiety”, open till 28 Sep. It’s an installation at National Trust’s Dunham Massey, put together by “Not here to be liked” including input from UEA / CRU PhD student Erik Hartin. @nationaltrust.org.uk @climateuea.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

Climate Change Drove Pacific Islanders to ‘Chase the Rain’ Over 1,000 Years Ago A groundbreaking study jointly conducted by the University of Southampton and the University of East Anglia (UEA) reveals a remarkable climatic transformation across the South Pacific that began roughly a millennium…

There’s still time to visit “A Field Hospital for Eco-Anxiety”, open till 28 Sep. It’s an installation at National Trust’s Dunham Massey, put together by “Not here to be liked” including input from UEA / CRU PhD student Erik Hartin. @nationaltrust.org.uk @climateuea.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

John has a knack for finding the heart of the issue and expressing it in understandable terms.

Bonferroni of the vanities On sea level and not seeing the wood for the tree diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/09/11/b...

Online chatter suggests that the DOE Climate Change (Denying) Working Group has been disbanded and the report will be withdrawn. 😂 Seems that violating FACA and the Information Quality Acts have consequences. Not seen any official announcement though.

Grimly crisp illustration of the mechanism whereby toxic and unrepresentative social media shapes mainstream coverage. Prominent journalist logs onto X, sees claim, assumes truth, repeats in national broadcast from trusted mainstream news org. Happens all day every day, just especially stark here.