"Given emerging evidence of widening achievement gaps in other developed countries, factors that transcend national boundaries merit special consideration." www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

India's environment ministry has issued an order stating mining for critical minerals can go ahead without public hearing. Historically, these hearings are where local communities raise concerns about land rights and environmental issues www.downtoearth.org.in/mining/criti...

August 31st / September 2nd

#Wildfires in Spain have reached record emissions in just one week according to our #CopernicusAtmosphere data. Heatwaves & drought are fueling fires, forcing evacuations & worsening air quality hundreds of km away. 🔥 Read the article for details atmosphere.copernicus.eu/spain-below-...

Addressing plastic pollution and hunger simultaneously. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

What's behind the summer "warming hole" in parts of the contiguous US? www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/c...

Not a single mention of food waste in this article. theconversation.com/by-changing-...

Report on how land-use change like deforestation and conversation from agriculture to urban sprawl are making cities in one Indian state hotter. Land-use change influences the climate and its impacts are more tangible at the local level india.mongabay.com/2025/08/a-ne...

AI in the DOE report? This ref (p29) is fake: Lee, S., Byrne, M. P., Loikith, P. C., & O’Dell, C. W. (2024). Zonal contrasts of the tropical Pacific climate predicted by a global constraint. Climate Dynamics, 62(1–2), 229–246. doi:10.1007/s00382-023-06741-7 www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

People say chatgpt is great for brainstorming ideas. I asked it a direct research question -- it cited my paper but the explanation is the exact opposite of my findings.

The extreme warmth of the North Atlantic in 2023 is largely due to a reduction in low-level cloud cover. This implies decreased atmospheric subsidence followed by a potential low-level cloud & SST positive feedback. 🌊🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If you are having trouble finding National Climate Assessment reports, they are here. www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

Sinking cities from Miami to Mumbai - combination of subsiding land and rising seas www.bbc.com/news/resourc...

A record early onset to the south Asian monsoon made May the wettest on record for India (since 1940).

Out today in Nature, our paper on the drivers of the record 2023 summer heating of the North Atlantic. Temperatures warmed to record levels in just a few months. The impacts on climate & ecosystems were severe. A thread on how this work came about and what we found.👇👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Microplastics permeating ocean waters

Did he really say, “God does not play dice"?https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05004-4

And this is looking at just a minuscule patch of the sky, way smaller than the area of the sky your fingertip covers when held at arm's length. Deep field images look like patches of fuzzy dots and blobs, but when you understand what they show ... mind blown! esawebb.org/images/potm2...

Drought weather in the northeastern United States, authored by Laurie Agel with @mathewabarlow.bsky.social, Christopher Skinner, and @ambarish.bsky.social journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

THE RISE OF MACHINE LEARNING IN CLIMATE MODELLING Very pleased to report the first published output from the @metoffice.bsky.social new team Data Driven Climate Modelling team. A short commentary from my esteemed colleague George Jordan rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

At an Earth Day event this evening, I was asked to talk about the 'Overview Effect' - the profound sense of awe many people feel when seeing the Earth from space.

Not mincing words.😍 "The outputs of Generative AI are—not to put too fine a point on it—bullshit ... one reason why this is true is that GenAI systems do not care about the truth: insofar as they are unfeeling machines, they do not care about anything at all." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Strongest evidence in the most tenuous sense possible www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Future TC risk is uncertain — but here’s the twist: what drives that uncertainty changes with your risk model setup. We unpacked that. Full paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @adamsobel.bsky.social @scamargo.bsky.social @nblmndl.bsky.social and other wonderful co-authors 🙏!

Why are children not playing in the street? An FT piece analysing the - very concerning - decline in outdoor play manages to look at every possible cause: screens, spaces, school timetable changes. Apart from one. Cars. It is simply not safe for kids to play outside on streets.

An astronomy professor colleague of mine once relayed trying to explain to his students why it was important that they actually write their class reports themselves. “The point is not to teach ME about neutron stars,” he said.

It's warming, just not as fast as the global average temperature. The question is why. www.science.org/content/arti...

Let them loose on a dedicated bike lane ... there, fixed it for you.

Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust, argue Heidi Larson and David Bersoff Science & scientists remain highly trusted. But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Narrowing uncertainty in climate projections to better inform adaptation decisions. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"taking model output at face value and seeking model consensus may underestimate the magnitude of future regional climate change." Use large ensembles. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fresh off the press: Our new review article on the water cycle in a changing climate, led by the indefatigable (but bluesky-less) Hugo Lambert. Enjoy! @uniofstandrews.bsky.social wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Only half of the Contiguous U.S. saw 20" or more of snow in the Oct-Mar 2024-25 period. This is the second lowest percentage on record (since 1940).

A new detailed study confirms that the Hunga-Tonga eruption in 2022 had a net cooling effect of 0.1ºC on the Southern Hemisphere. The sulphate aerosols overwhelmed the water vapour effect in the upper atmosphere. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #climatechange #SAI #volcano #geoengineering

“Whatever the nature of dark energy is, it will shape the future of our universe,” yeah, we noticed ... www.cnn.com/2025/04/02/s...

Not everyone will agree with everything in this article, but I am sure it captures what many faculty are experiencing in their classrooms right now. hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/the-averag...

Does the ocean warm when the AMOC weakens? 🌊 Our new ice-core noble-gas data say it does, at least during the last four deglaciations. A warmer ocean stores a lot of energy but also expands and has lower solubility, which has implications for CO2, sea level, and climate. doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Equations of fluid flow could help design efficient pedestrian flow. news.mit.edu/2025/mathema...

"The damaged forest area had reached 36,900 hectares, surpassing the country's previous record for the worst #wildfire in 2000, which destroyed 23,794 hectares of forest along the east coast." www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2...

South Korea wildfires become biggest on record as disaster chief points to ‘harsh reality’ of climate crisis www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Fuck droughts, we're doing pluvials now. New work w/ Park Williams, Richard Seager, Jason Smerdon, & @drkatemarvel.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

When you blurt out "data manipulation" while talking to a journalist

"With the Hindu Kush Himalaya feeding 10 vast transboundary rivers, the impact of Asia’s mountain #glacier losses is likely to quickly dwarf those unleashed elsewhere, given the huge populations, economic activity and 280 large cities along these river basins." www.scmp.com/opinion/asia...

Continuous monitoring over the past century+ & rapid climate change over recent decades means our obs record is now long enough to thoroughly evaluate historical climate trends in models. Excellent review article on best practices when comparing modeled & obs trends: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Worth re-reading this again: "the brutal tactic of using the public’s disorientation following a collective shock [such as natural disasters] to push through radical pro-corporate measures" #DisasterCapitalism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017...

Can climate models reproduce observed trends? The answer can be challenging. Our new review paper in Science Advances led by Isla Simpson and Tiffany Shaw @drshaw.bsky.social discusses challenges and ways forward in confronting climate models and observations. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨New paper🚨 We attribute present day air temperature and sea level rise, as well as future projected sea level rise to the Carbon Majors, the 122 largest industrial fossil fuel and cement producers…more details below! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... 1/n 🧪 #scicomm #ClimateSky #ClimateChange

Bordoni et al. reflect on the current state of climate modeling & the necessary future steps. TL;DR: Use multiple tools and diverse approaches. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in volunteering to be an author for the IPCC AR7 Working Groups? Nomination process open until 17th April: apps.ipcc.ch/nominations/...