I currently have three funded PhD positions available for applications. Links for more info and to apply are in my profile page: research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/t...

Have you noticed that around the winter solstice the latest sunrise and earliest sunset do not coincide? This is because the earth day is very rarely 24 hours. This means solar noon is changing faster than day length is changing. This #dataviz shows this for London sunrise and sunset times.

In one sentence: OpenAlex is made to count (bibliometrics, scientometrics), Matilda is made to read (bibliographical tools).

"The #HockeyStick" | My recent conversation with #BBC's Hannah Fry for the "Uncharted with Hannah Fry" podcast: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Apparently OpenAlex is the future of open bibliometric databases openalex.org/works?filter...

„…we have worked for free to lock ourselves collectively into a paid system when we are all aware of its biases and incompleteness. Institutions have been trapped in the WoS system …“🧪🎓🔓

From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.

If you’d like to hear Ben Santer talking about this “arc of history” from the IPCC’s discernible influence finding 30 years ago to the present, then his talk at CRU’s 50th anniversary is a nice intro to climate fingerprinting youtu.be/ZinW-m2GDvU?...

📣 PRESS RELEASE #IPCC authors meet in Paris 🇫🇷 to begin drafting the Seventh Assessment Report More than six hundred experts appointed to the three Working Groups of the IPCC are gathering in Paris this week to draft IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report. 🔗 bit.ly/4ir09cC

Would you like to join UEA's new Fellowship Academy? Talented researchers who join the UEA academy will receive mentoring to help write strong fellowship applications, and successful fellowships will lead to a permanent academic post. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

We are starting! #ipcc_ar7

If you’d like to hear Ben Santer talking about this “arc of history” from the IPCC’s discernible influence finding 30 years ago to the present, then his talk at CRU’s 50th anniversary is a nice intro to climate fingerprinting youtu.be/ZinW-m2GDvU?...

Would you like to join UEA's new Fellowship Academy? Talented researchers who join the UEA academy will receive mentoring to help write strong fellowship applications, and successful fellowships will lead to a permanent academic post. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

From Copernicus: This shows how the expected date for breaching 1.5C has been creeping ever closer in recent years. The orange date shows the baseline for the extrapolation; the red date shows when 1.5C is breached based on the trend...

Mediterranean drying by a positive North Atlantic Oscillation trend over the last 65 years is an extreme outlier in the CMIP6 multimodel ensemble journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal... 'observed Mediterranean drying and NAO trends are at the very limit of what climate model simulations can do'

30 years ago this week, the IPCC agreed on a historic finding: "The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." Benjamin Santer, a contributor to all six scientific assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, reflects on the anniversary.

I presented our latest research on groundwater recharge yesterday to the NSW government water planners for groundwater and coastal syatems. And then led tours to show the team our recharge monitoring sites at Harrie Wood Cave, Yarrangobilly.

I currently have three funded PhD positions available for applications. Links for more info and to apply are in my profile page: research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/t...

🔴BBC Apologises for Failing to Challenge ‘Dark Money’ Climate-Denial Lobbyist EXCLUSIVE: BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford ‘fell below usual standards’ bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...

This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is. The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

🔴⚠️🌋🇪🇹After more than 10000 years,the 1st historical #eruption of #HayliGubbi #volcano has occurred in E. #Ethiopia, producing an eruptive column that reached more than 18km of height on Nov.23.⬇️Meteosat12 animation of RGB Ash product of the huge gas & ash plume moving eastward.

Two years ago we got together in a beautiful mountain to learn and develop #rstats packages for ecology After {labeleR} (ecologyr.github.io/labeleR/) and {BlueCarbon} (ecologyr.github.io/BlueCarbon/), {mappestRisk} is now officially out! See thread by lead author @dario-ssm.bsky.social 👇

In a 2024 paper criticizing the 'billion-dollar-disasters' database, Roger Pielke Jr. published analysis that is best described as a Russian-doll of errors. Here's my in-depth take down of his appallingly bad work. economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/r...

For a review of the multiple factors forcing drought in the region: Barlow, M., B. Zaitchik, S. Paz, E. Black, J. Evans, and A. Hoell, 2016: A Review of Drought in the Middle East and Southwest Asia. J. Climate, 29, 8547–8574, doi.org/10.1175/JCLI.... 3/3

The ocean has a strong influence on precipitation in Southwest Asia. The historical patterns of warm and cold that suppress rain in Tehran are shown on the left. The current pattern is shown on the right, aligning closely for maximum forcing of drought. 2/3

Tehran is having an historic drought due to a combination of factors, including climate change. The ocean is not helping. 1/3

Most people hear “heat pump” and think of small air-source units at home. But Germany is building one of the world’s largest heat pumps in Mannheim: a 162 MW river-source system using heat from the Rhine. Big reminder that heat-pumps scale far beyond households — they can decarbonise whole cities.

Now that we are likely to cross 1.5°C, there is increasing discussion on "overshoot". There is a lot of uncertainties on overshoot, but there is one thing that we are 100% sure about: GHG emissions need to go down >90% in decades for overshoot to be a reality. www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/...

So famous they named a road after him @micefearboggis.bsky.social

Read this interview with @peterthorne.bsky.social to understand how dire the situation is with respect to US science funding. The US has played an outsized role in Earth observations and global coordination, and even if other nations decide to step in, it would take at least a decade to recover.

The notion that someone who is in their 20's can't have experienced climate change (supposedly due to an IPCC definition) is utter crap. It's embarrassing for a supposedly serious academic to be so disingenuous.

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...

1/2 To support this year's Global Carbon Budget, 2025, we are publishing The big paper, made possible by the strong commitment of a core group of scientists, with @pfriedling.bsky.social at the lead, working with a network of equally committed contributors from 102 research organizations worldwide

Published today in Earth System Science Data: The Global Carbon Budget 2025 essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...

Please pass this on to any potential PhD applicants. Thanks. The closing date for applications is 10 December.

Looking for a PhD in climate science? Great opportunity to help modernise one of the iconic climate time series - Central England Temperature. Led by @timosbornclim.bsky.social, with myself and Met Office collaborators: www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

We are looking for a PhD student to join an exciting project focused on ice-penetrating radar geophysics to investigate ice-flow patterns in West Antarctica. The project will be led by TJ Young as part of an interdisciplinary supervisory team. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Fully funded PhD projects available in my group (Please share with interested parties, details here: www.thefosterlab.org/blog/2025/11...):

Memo? No, you mo. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/m...

Crisis in Iran as reservoirs supplying Mashhad, the second-largest city with 4 million people, fall below 3% Authorities warn of an unprecedented drought emergency www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

As we approach the 30th United Nations Climate Change conference, @dialoguescc.bsky.social asked @glenpeters.bsky.social: is limiting the temperature increase to 1.5°C still possible? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Should we start historical climate simulations in 1750 (or 1800) rather than 1850? Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century Ballinger, Schurer et al.: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Another 8 UK sites broke November high daily (09-09) min temperature records this morning..29 in the last 2 days With 14.8C at Chivenor N Devon, it's only 0.1C below the England Bonfire night highest daily min temp record, and 0.2C below the similar UK record set Colwyn Bay 1938

A reminder of what happened last time a UK govt tried to reduce bills by "cutting the green crap" Analysis: Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015 www.carbonbrief.org/...

a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐

Yesterday marked 60 years of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) at the Met Office Find out more about the history of NWP in our recent blog www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2025/nu...

HadCRUT5 global temperature dataset now updated to Sep 2025. As usual, data can be downloaded from CRU/UEA website: crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/tem... And from Met Office/hadobs website: www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcr... @climateuea.bsky.social @colinmorice.bsky.social

From @ellecordova.bsky.social (NASA GISS get a shout out in this) www.tiktok.com/@elle.cordov...

Nice analyses by Eden Markovitz and Nathan Steiger on recent persistent drought for Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Indeed, the island had one of the more severe future drying trends in our 2016 paper (Karnauskas et al. www.nature.com/articles/ncl...) agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...