📢Global Carbon Budget 2025📢 Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength. The key findings are covered in two reports this year: * ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es... * Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart) What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...

Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says - 10bn tonnes must be captured from the air per year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström #COP30 #climatecrisis Story @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Like Australia. It's all about bums on seats. There's already a short fall of graduates - plant science majors walk straight into jobs

Really stupid decision.

This continued warmth means that it is likely that 2025 will end up more or less tying 2023 as the second or third warmest year since records began in 1850.

As COP30 nears, there is still a chance to avoid the worst of the climate crisis & limit global heating to 1.5C if gov't's take urgent action, a new assessment argues. The report calls for the rapid scaling-up of renewable energy & electrification of key sectors. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NEW | Renewable capacity additions grew 29% annually since 2023 – outpacing the 21% growth needed to triple global renewables by 2030 With just 12% annual growth from now to 2030, backed by more ambitious national targets, #3xRenewables is still possible ember-energy.org/lat...

Some fantastic graphs in this report! rmi.org/wp-content/u...

I have now read so many analyses about Bill Gates' climate memo. Yes, we can hate him because he is too rich and seems arrogant, and dislike his memo because he is suggesting that climate change take a back seat on the agenda. But I think the real reason why we should be really angry is...

NEW – Q&A: COP30 could – finally – agree how to track the ‘global goal on adaptation’ | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from Portia Adade Williams @bethan-laughlin.bsky.social Ana Mulio Alvarez @lisaschipper.bsky.social Emilie Beauchamp Read here: buff.ly/yEmFscA

How to Avoid A Climate Disaster 1. Ignore Bill Gates on climate 2. Repeat #1 thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...

Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Hoo boy this is a biggie. I have been tracking ultra large heat pumps and these are the most powerful individual modules I have ever heard of... two of them, 82.5 megawatts each. Unless someone can correct me! www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/31/w...

Last year, @michaelfwehner.bsky.social and Jim Kossin made the scientific case for a Cat6 cyclone. This week, Hurricane Melissa became the 6th storm in recorded history to smash through that threshold, with max winds of 216mph. And conditions leading to these storms are on the rise. Read more:

It's horrifying to see #Melissa intensifying right up to landfall - I dread to think what will happen in Jamaica, with up to a metre of rain forecast 🧪 But it's clear why Melissa is so powerful - it was fuelled by waters made abnormally warm by global heating: www.newscientist.com/article/2501...

As a phytolith researcher mainly working in the NE, it is frustrating that my usual assemblages are cereals (with wetland plants). Combined with macro remains, we don’t get the whole picture of what people ate. Barley and lentils can get a bit boring tbh 1/ 🏺🧪 #AncientBluesky

‘Still angry’: more than 50,000 protest in Valencia on first anniversary of floods

If you're a newer arrival to Blue Sky and looking for a leg-up for some Church of England related accounts to follow, look no further: (As always, suggestions for additions welcome) #StarterPack #Church bsky.app/starter-pack...

Distributed energy working its magic. One more area of the world that won't be burdened with a network of pipes of methane (natural gas). "Figures published by the ministry say the electrification program has already built 350 solar plants, bringing electricity access to 27,500 households."

Call for Papers: "Special Issue on “Silicon for Sustainable Agriculture and Resilient Ecosystems” in the journal, Plant and Soil, based on the 9th International Conference on #Silicon in Agriculture. Non-attendees can also submit. #plantscience #phytolith 🧪 link.springer.com/journal/1110...

The natural weathering of ALL THE ROCKS in the world removes almost 1 billion tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere every year. Enhanced rock weathering is an attempt to use a minuscule fraction of ALL THE ROCKS to remove many times more CO₂.

We're grateful to Lord Deben for his endorsement of the National Emergency Briefing on the #climate and #nature crisis. Lord Deben was first elected as a Conservative MP in 1970. He chaired the UK expert adviser on climate from 2012 - 2023. Is your MP attending on 27th Nov? www.nebriefing.org

🧵🚨 The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news. Today our report is published! www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n... 1/11

There's good reason why the oil and gas industry lobbies so hard for carbon capture - because it's the one 'climate solution' that wouldn't necessarily require shutting down the oil and gas industry But it doesn't work. They need to be shut down

This is exactly what scientists have been saying for years: oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...

Leaf cellular structure model at Sparsholt College today! How many parts can we all remember from our O Level or GCSE Biology lessons?! #palisademesophyll #spongymesophyll #stomata #waxycuticle #guardcells #chloroplast #hortigeek #plants #plantbiology

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Investors are the world are pouring more money into renewable energy than ever — even as they pull back on spending in the U.S.

Climate change is already damaging the nature, beauty and heritage we care for. Without deep and sustained cuts to emissions, nature faces an even more perilous future and the places people love will continue to suffer. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Review article: Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Key candidates include the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest. #climatecrisis ($) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I like this one, although it doesn't show temperature outcomes www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-sol...

Last Saturday night I was speaking at St Mary's, Watford, and I got to the section on household energy..... @billmckibben.bsky.social Great book!

Fun true fact: the yield of chardonnay grapes goes up 60% when grown in a field with solar panels. Chardonnay--helping solar, hurting coal. It's working hard, man!

Down with the roots. Phytoliths as biocultural traces in historical olive agroecosystems of Sicily Frontiers www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...

Trump claimed last week at the UN: “They [China] build them, but they have very few wind farms. So why is it that they build them and they send them all over the world, but they barely use them?” The answer is: they actually do. China has more wind power than any other country in the world.

Norway puts our backtracking to shame: Norway’s uptake of EVs is nearly 100%. August set a new record of 98.4% of all new sales (with plug-in hybrids a mere 1.5%). The government has a goal of ending the sale of fossil-fuelled cars by the end of this year. cleantechnica.com/2025/09/09/e...

The first steam-powered passenger rail trip was on 27th Sept 1825 (200th bday is nuanced - regular passenger steam slightly later). Here's transport carbon footprint today - Eurostar easily cleanest cos fully electrified. I hope the next 200 yrs has even more (electric) trains! With lower prices...

Bloody solar panels, cluttering up the countryside and preventing desertification while providing clean energy and growing food.

🪰🌾 REVIEW 🌾🪰 🪰🌾 Bathoova et al. summarize the current research regarding the effect of silicon application on phloem sap-feeding and chewing insect pest performance, and on plant resistance against these pests 🪰🌾 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Today's @carbonbrief.org Daily Briefing factchecks the false climate claims in Donald Trump's tirade to the UN www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/...

"An odd time to talk about peace?" A blog post that I wrote for #Creationtide 2025 at the invitation of Bible Reading Fellowship. www.brf.org.uk/an-odd-time-...

If you're housebound today (or in South Dakota, where there's no event), join us for a virtual Sun Day extravaganza! actionnetwork.org/events/think...

A paper in Nature suggests a quarter of heatwave events from 2000-23 would have been near impossible without anthropogenic climate change. The paper also indicates that major carbon emitters are responsible for around 50% of the increase in intensity of these events. ⚒️ 🧪

Two very successful PhD defences in #paleorudolph lab. Amanda Mateo Beneito explored multi proxy climate reconstruction and it's effect on vegetation dynamics. Kristýna Hošková paved new avenues in phytolith analysis and its use in environment reconstruction. Both with cum laude, congratulations!

Really excited that this is finally out: new paper by Katie Shaw showing how the effects of Si vary depending on how drought stress is imposed (with Julie Gray, Andy Fleming, and @suehartley.bsky.social) www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

Nature reports on the momentum that is building in Europe for regenerative agriculture, a set of approaches that could help farms to weather the changing climate and make them more profitable. #plantscience 🧪

California’s first solar-covered canal is now fully online #Climate