For those out there that still believe that protecting Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs), like sponge grounds, do nothing for sustainable fisheries. Many species likely use these VMEs as spawning substrate and/or juvenile habitat; we just don’t know enough yet to understand all these connections.

"Since 1990, the area affected by extreme melting episodes has increased at a rate of 2.8 million km² per decade. And the production of water from ice melt has increased six-fold" #Greenland 🇬🇱 #ClimateEmergency

Over a century of global decline in the growth performance of marine fishes 🧪🦑🌍🐟 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Experts at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have rediscovered a recording and determined it’s probably the oldest whale recording still in existence. The likely vocalist? A humpback whale. 🐋 spklr.io/6007Dxy1Z 📷: BlackBox 🎙️: Luis Lamar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

"...the higher the peak temperature, the more difficult it is to reverse temperature below critical levels and the longer it’s likely that we’ll remain in ‘overshoot’.” - @njsteinert.bsky.social, @cicero.oslo.no #ClimateEmergency

The press has reported on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision as if it were only about tariffs. Wrong. It’s far bigger and even more important. Let me explain. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-supreme-courts-tariff-decision

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Home vs office is the wrong framing. If the goals are improving productivity, team interactions, & sense of purpose, then hunger gaming a random desk each day, not knowing where your team is sitting, & having to book a silence closet to take calls aren’t the way there. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Good point. Many proposed solutions for clean energy (nuclear, but also wind to hydrogen) don’t have reliable business cases when compared with plain wind & solar. The fact that are often embraced by govs is a reminder of the tug-of-war that exists between evidence & lobbies.. and who often wins..

"Current levels of global temperature are consistent with a continued acceleration of global warming and suggest that surpassing the 1.5oC threshold above pre-industrial conditions is practically inevitable" #ClimateEmergency

"There are indications that, over the past decade, carbon transfer to the atmosphere from Northern Hemisphere ecosystems is accelerating. If so, the overall land carbon sink would be smaller than currently anticipated, which would imply an even lower remaining carbon budget"

Canada is taking his climate commitments as optional as opposed to existential. While there are many reasons for the recent reversals, and the current federal gov is likely a better climate option than the alternative, this is still profoundly disappointing. 👇👇👇 www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

"The Southern Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia is becoming less salty at an astonishing rate, largely due to #climate change, new research shows."

Could life have begun with simpler molecules than we once thought? A new paper in @science.org by @edogia.bsky.social shows that a tiny RNA catalyst can self-replicate itself, suggesting that life may have been easier to emerge than expected. Getting closer. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It’s an RNA world. RNA is posited to be the first genetic material, arising 4 billion years ago. It can store information and act as an enzyme. Eventually, it duplicated its information into a more stable form, DNA.

For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed. Is it any wonder why so many feel abandoned by the system? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system. AOC is right.

This really made me burst into laughter 🤣🤣🤣

A for sure, I remains doubtful 👇👇

Don’t worry, now that the EPA Endangerment Finding has been revoked by the Trump Administration everything will be fine; water will come back, warming will subside, no more century storms every other week, species will return to their ancestral distributions, the AMOC will run strong…

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

This is not the kind of blindness the Justice should have… 🙄

In the meantime some govs keep reducing or eliminating programs aimed at limiting climate change impacts as a if that could help reducing the price of groceries… go figure…

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The Remaining Carbon Budget (RCB) varies with different temperature levels & probabilities, based on Forster et al 2025 (calculation via @robinlamboll.bsky.social). Though, the variation in the RCB due to non-CO2 emissions spans 1.5°C-1.7°C & many likelihoods. essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

🗺️fisheriesXplorer just got more spatial The new VMS module in fisheriesXplorer enables you to explore fishing effort, intensity, and benthic impacts across ICES ecoregions with downloadable data and maps, all in one place. 👀Discover what’s new ices-taf.shinyapps.io/fisheriesXpl...

I don't think people appreciate the extent to which coral reefs are screwed. Even if ocean acidification doesn't get them, increasing ocean temperatures will. How screwed they are is up to us.

I thought that we had learned from the Harper gov's cuts the damaging domino effects from dismantling long-term federal science programs without strategic planning but it seems we are going there again. If that planning exists, it would be nice to see it. 👇 www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/02/n...

In this new analysis, Ben Leffel + @sovacool.bsky.social argue that, "as national-focused orthodoxy in climate policy has proven insufficient to address the climate crisis, a shift is needed, centering cities as pivotal actors in global climate mitigation" -- and I COULD NOT AGREE MORE. Read here:

Bathylagus @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 896 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife

At WEF, speeches by world leaders totaled almost four hours of speaking time: and not one mentioned climate change. So @wedonthavetime.bsky.social organized an alternative WEF speech by some of the world’s leading scientists and systems thinkers. It took place on a pile of snow. Watch here:

It's showing a positive effect.

This week’s Talking Climate is a mega-edition, a deep dive into the hot and contentious topic of AI and climate. If you’ve been wondering whether AI is a climate villain, a climate tool, or both, this edition’s for you.

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

Wait, can the entire world dump US Treasury Bonds? Or should we?? @mmmegan.bsky.social breaks it down to Luke, @nileseguin.bsky.social , and @clareblackwood.bsky.social.

Peer-review is better than no peer-review, but it's far from perfect.... 🤣

"Single ship load of solar PV – which can ultimately deliver 170 terawatt hours of PV once installed, is now worth 120 coal carries, or 57 LNG tankers"

Beyond the specific response to Poilievre's statement, this is a clear and concise rationale for questioning the economic viability of a new pipeline to the West coast. 👇👇 www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/23/o...

"Observing the EEI series, dominated by changes due to external forcing, we note... a intensification... in the mid to late 1990s, indicating an escalation in the adverse impacts of global warming & #climate change, which provides another independent confirmation of what recent studies have shown"

This piece by @acantle.bsky.social is worth a read. While oil production goes up, oil jobs go down. So if we are going to subsidize something, we are better off subsidizing the transition of oil&gas workers out of the industry than subsidizing oil&gas companies. 👇 theindependent.ca/commentary/e...

Yesterday, Nature released a report on the state of US science after a year of the second Trump Administration. The report is filled with innovative dataviz that all tell the same story of science under attack and in decline in the US. Here's my favorite figure. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Things don’t look good on the climate front for 2026… and geopolitics would likely keep the climate crisis in the political back burner… don’t despair, just take a breath, put your head down and keep pushing forward. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

In a world that is increasingly scary and unpredictable, sharing good news is almost an obligation. There are many things to finish, polish, tweak, etc to get this operational, but with this treaty ocean governance and sustainability is today better than yesterday. www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...

"Climate change is here. We are seeing event classes [today] that were forecast in #climate models for the 2050s, 2060s, and 2070s.” - @oceanterra.org #FasterThanExpected #ClimateEmergency

Climate change has already made the United States poorer. And the costs are continuing to rise. #climatechange www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Excellent thread by @thierryaaron.bsky.social on the mechanisms behind the lack of uptake for broad climate action. It’s a response to a specific article, and in doing so he touches on many key points at the institutional and political levels that have become critical showstoppers. 👇👇

"What we're finding is that these glaciers are disappearing much faster than previously projected" - Prof. Brian Menounos, University of Northern British Columbia and the chief scientist at the Airborne Coastal Observatory of the @hakai.org ##FasterThanExpected #ClimateEmergency

In this week’s Talking Climate, I unpack why recent cuts to scientific programs and data don’t only affect climate research in the U.S. They weaken the knowledge infrastructure we rely on to protect public health, manage risk, and make good decisions around the world. www.patreon.com/posts/how-si...