Good news! Greenland's melt won't push the AMOC across a tipping point! On the other hand, it could still eventually decline 80%, so let's just call it "not-quite-as-terrible news." www.newscientist.com/article/2532...

"A Reform UK councillor's bid to scrap his authority's climate emergency declaration has been delayed because the chamber was too hot to debate it." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Lot more ideas out there than just planting trees (but a few more trees would be nice) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

2 pm update. Home outdoor thermometer reading 35.5°C. Bedford Aerodrome Met Office station 33.6°C Met Office Cambridge next hour forecast 36°C (now decreasing at last). So preliminary observations suggest today's maximum has exceeded Cambridge's June record from previous years by more than 3°C.

Asphalt roads soften and lose structural integrity at 50°C to 60°C (122°F to 140°F). At this stage, heavy vehicles cause ruts and deformations.

Europe’s heatwave is a new record & "would not have been possible" 50 years ago, according to @wwattribution.bsky.social. www.newscientist.com/article/2531...

Europe’s heatwave, in which temperatures have reached 44C and humidity 50%, is the hottest ever seen in Europe. Also most humid ever. www.newscientist.com/article/2531...

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - [email protected]

If the implosion of Running Tide didn't clue you in to the difficulties of carbon removal with seaweed, this should: www.newscientist.com/article/2531...

Runaway Warming Today is #ShowYourStripes day. A day when those concerned about the climate challenge raise awareness. I helped start the day in 2018 with the genius creator of the Warming Stripes Prof Ed Hawkins and the incredible BernadetteWoods It’s grown by leaps and bounds globally since 1/

This is what the Met Office app forecast for Reading looks like in terms of where it sits in the climatological record, and it's safe to say it obliterates anything seen before it - do believe it's a bit too enthusiastic with its temperatures but still astounding.

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

Watch for the insight of Time Team’s Phil Harding into Stonehenge, stay for his declaration: “Wiltshire is the centre of the universe!” youtu.be/brCPB19WtLw with @pennysarchet.bsky.social

The BBC went there: www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

What can western Europe expect from El Nino? "It's complicated" is the standard answer. I tried to figure out why, & it has to do with "planetary waves" & some pretty gnarly climate patterns in the North Atlantic www.newscientist.com/article/2530...

A lot of people thought melting sea ice would create a bonanza of marine life in the Arctic Ocean. Spoiler: It won’t. www.newscientist.com/article/2530...

New Scientist on our latest study, as linked in the comment. www.newscientist.com/article/2529...

Mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the Atlantic suggests the AMOC is weakening www.newscientist.com/article/2529...

This morning scrolling Bluesky, there is nothing at all in my feed about Putin’s barbaric attack on the Ukraine’s holiest site, the UNESCO protected Lavra so I’m posting this here.

Trump's war was an own goal in so many ways. Chinese solar exports to Asia doubled during the Iran energy crisis, and now solar has surpassed gas power for the 1st time. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-sol...

A few dozen far-right protesters met by a few thousand anti-fascist protesters in Brighton. The throat-slitting gesture by the guy with the cross doesn’t seem very Christian …

Community is the antidote to fascism.

It’s winter in Antarctica, and the Bellingshausen Sea is free of sea ice for the third year. “I don’t think we will see sea ice there any more. It’s done,” a scientist says. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Nice thing to see on my way home.

Global weather agencies have declared that El Niño has begun, and models show it is more likely than not to be a "super" El Niño. The climate pattern boosts extreme weather around the world, and could lead to record temperatures

Carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds & black carbon have caused 0.3°C of global warming, but they’re not included in countries’ emissions targets. These are from things like old boilers & solvents, & they’re the lowest-hanging fruit to reduce warming now www.newscientist.com/article/2530...

@sparkes.bsky.social almost got hit by a Waymo on his bike: "The AI didn’t look like it was going to stop, so a human jumped in". While AI has potential to be safer than human drivers, that can change with one tweak to the algorithm, so cities need to be vigilant www.newscientist.com/article/2529...

Good morning with good news: China's ICE sales fall 79%! China is ending internal combustion only vehicles. China's sales of ICE vehicles plunge 79% in May 2026 from peak ~10 years ago. ICE sales fell from monthly peak of 2,660,000 to 560,000. robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/?la... #energysky

Approvals for new gas-fired power plants rose to a 25-year high last year Until 2023, most gas-fired power plant approvals were in gas-importing countries, but the US now dominates orders, driven by data centre demand Learn more in our report ➡️ iea.li/4dPe8bJ

Peat PV could be a win-win-win for climate, biodiversity and landowners' wallets. Why isn't the UK looking into this more? www.newscientist.com/article/2529...

EVs are cheaper to buy and cheaper to run. In the UK, you now pay 2x as much to operate a gas car www.thetimes.com/money/family...

Scientists warn that the Trump administration's push to dismantle a vital network of ocean-sensing instruments will stymie crucial weather and climate monitoring in the Pacific and Atlantic

After he ran out of oxygen, Dawa Sherpa spent six days hauling himself down Mt Everest through crevasses & avalanches, the 1st person to survive an accident at 7,500 meters alone www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump’s dismantling of the Ocean Observatories Initiative moorings will leave the US “flying blind” into El Niño, with little view of the impacts on major fisheries like the Pacific NW www.newscientist.com/article/2529...

A patch of ocean south-east of Greenland is the only place on Earth that is cooling, and it could be a sign that the warm water "conveyor belt" in the Atlantic is slowing down

Two companies are aiming to preserve Arctic ice by pumping water onto the sheet and letting it freeze, but only one of the trials found that this delayed melting in the summer

You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

Next time somebody tells you net zero is bad for the economy, note that EV sales have brought the UK car market back to pre-COVID levels uk.news.yahoo.com/boost-demand...

Is the cold blob caused by a shifting jet stream, or by a weakening AMOC, which would be even more worrying? A new study from @rahmstorf.bsky.social et al sheds more light… www.newscientist.com/article/2529...

Congratulations to @rowhoop.bsky.social on the publication today of his brilliant new book Togetherness! www.newscientist.com/article/2528...

“Reform has the most extreme policy on energy and climate the UK has seen since modern science on the subject began. The party opposes solar; it opposes wind; it opposes batteries… Once again: Reform is largely funded by fossil fuels” Private Eye on the anti-thought, pro-corruption threat of Reform

So @theguardian.com has this entirely serious piece complaining that there are no Greek actors in Nolan's Odyssey, and now I'm wondering (a) how can you dare to make a film about events supposed to have taken place in 1000BC and all the actors have been born in the 20th or 21st century?, and (b) ...

A single day of extreme heat causes about 3,400 deaths across India. India has been in a heatwave for much of the past month. This is getting into Ministry for the Future territory www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/hea...

Results are in from initial field trials of sea ice thickening in Canada & Norway. So does thickening work? In the strictest sense of the word, yes www.newscientist.com/article/2528...

tic-tac-toe!

if it's bike-type, electric assist tops out at 15 mph, it can't be more than (let's say) 3 feet wide, and you can use bike lanes. if it's motorcycle type you have to take a safety class, pass a test, go through an EU style graduated license system, and you can't use bike lanes

Temperatures in Europe have been 10-15C above normal. Absolutely massive. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The White House today:

I visited Nick Lane's lab at UCL to see how they are mimicking the possible conditions at the origin of life and starting to make their own protocells - and it's wild 🧵1/7