Colleagues @frosty-feng.bsky.social & Emma Street have led this really interesting chapter on the Impacts of permafrost thaw on Indigenous livelihoods. Reach out via ResearchGate or contact the author team if you'd like to read it but can't get access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...

News got you down? How about this little pick-me-up from my friend Brian Menounos at @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social "What we're finding is that these glaciers are disappearing much faster than previously projected." 🧪⚒️ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Published today: Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century Defining pre-industrial to be 1750, rather than 1850, produces different (simulated) historical climate changes after 1850. Pre-1850 volcanoes & land use matter. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Queen's University is recruiting through the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program. Geography and Planning is a particularly great option for international scholars seeking to do northern or climate change research. Feel free to reach out if interested. www.queensu.ca/vpr/recruitm...

If you are interested in studying participatory cryosphere science or permafrost science feel free to reach out about these opportunities. Will be recirculating in early January. Also for international scholars there's funding opportunities for PhDs/postdocs where these projects could apply as well!

The world as 100 people over the last two centuries

RealClimate: 1.5ºC and all that www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

If you are interested in studying participatory cryosphere science or permafrost science feel free to reach out about these opportunities. Will be recirculating in early January. Also for international scholars there's funding opportunities for PhDs/postdocs where these projects could apply as well!

If you are interested in studying participatory cryosphere science or permafrost science feel free to reach out about these opportunities. Will be recirculating in early January. Also for international scholars there's a new funding opportunity for postdocs where these projects could apply as well!

Giving a talk shortly at ArcticNet ASM 2025 in Calgary on Canada's climate observing network. It isn't a pretty story.

On FB, Yukon Geological Survey posted some spectacular photos of landslides & snow avalanches triggered by the magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Dec 6 in the St Elias Mountains. Here are some of my favs. @geocron.bsky.social @theronfinley.bsky.social @davepetley.bsky.social @ksvenenvig.bsky.social 🧪⚒️

An interesting piece and discussion. The only thing I'd add is the radiative imbalance has been unusually large. Many of these factors contribute to it but it's not the whole story.

There must be some non-Euclidean geometric term that may be applied to this

#CopernicusClimate has released its first data from the Copernicus pan-Arctic Regional Reanalysis (CARRA2): 2.5 km pan‑Arctic coverage, 24 years of data in the Climate Data Store, more realistic physics & improved details for local extremes, lots of added details with respect to ERA5. ⬇️

Imagine if there was a program like this for Indigenous Scholars from Canada....

The recent massive cuts to climate change adaptation and hazard expertise at the Federal Gov of Canada are just going to end up costing Canadians millions (billions?) of dollars eventually. We've seen this story before. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/05/n...

Interesting thread. A reminder that models do not have updated forcing data to account for changes to aerosols (reductions) over the last number of years. Without that updated data it is tougher to assess short-term (recent) differences in trends.

Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...

Colleen Jones was larger than life. I’m devastated by her death. And will be forever inspired by how she lived. And fought. And loved. More than anything I’ll miss our laughs and lattes. And am so grateful for every second we had together. I love you, Coll.

The Mountain Ice & Water Lab @ ULethbridge is recruiting for Spring-Fall 2026! • PhD → glacier–groundwater interactions (Peyto Glacier) • MSc → snowmelt-driven hydrology & headwater recharge (Westcastle Basin) Both combine fieldwork + process-based modelling 🏔️💻📖 Details in posters!

How often is November the snowiest month of the winter (Jul-Jun) season? @alaskawx.bsky.social

This is a stunning story. I've been tracking the "greenhushing" narrative for a while now: this is the idea that strict regulations on fake climate claims spooks companies into total silence; therefore we shouldn't regulate them. @meyer.bsky.social asked for examples and the Carney gov't failed:

I hate to be a cynic but in my experience the majority of students would just use the LLM to critique the LLM output.

@davidwcochrane.bsky.social RE: The Power & Politics pipeline discussions and going through BC without their approval. Two thoughts: [1] QC wanting Strange Lake Project road through Nunatsiavut without consent; [2] Would this mean Carney (Sabia) thinks NL can force a transmission line through QC?

This contribution is a really interesting look at how climate change impacts and climate adaptation intersect in remote (fly-in) Inuit communities in northeastern Canada (Nunatsiavut, Labrador)

Our paper in Nature (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications) on political ecology of climate change adaptation in Nunatsiavut, environmental injustices, & barriers and limits to adaptation.”https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-06058-2 @profjamesford.bsky.social @labradorice.bsky.social

My latest for @science.org: A remarkable set of high-resolution climate model runs, computed over 900 (!) days of supercomputing time, are revealing how warming-induced changes to Earth's wind patterns due can prime huge spikes in extreme rainfall. But the MESACLIP runs also do much more than that.

In Nunatsiavut, Labrador, changing rivers and shorter winters are reshaping how Inuit communities connect to the land. The Nunatsiavut Rivers Project—supported by Hakai—braids Inuit knowledge with geospatial science to map these shifts. Read more: tinyurl.com/4fxu87zx

Looking for a good video on Youtube (or elsewhere) on climate tipping points for a climate change course. Usually I just do a series of lectures on these myself but we're running a bit behind. Any suggestions?

Joe Rogan has one of the world's most popular podcasts. Unfortunately, like nearly all of the most popular online shows, his tends to spread climate misinformation. For @climateconnections.bsky.social I scrutinize his recent episode with octogenarian climate contrarians Lindzen & Happer 🧵 (1/11)

Now that the Sept and Oct data are (belatedly) in, it looks like 2025 will be the second warmest year in the record (~80% probability). The last three years are in a class of their own.

National news media has been absent on this project which is absolutely amongst the most controversial of all the proposed major projects. Quebec gov essentially asking Feds to help force a road through Inuit lands in another province without their consent.

The federal government says land claims will be respected as it fast-tracks nation-building projects, but one deputy minister says that promise hasn’t been tested. Jim Goudie from the Nunatsiavut Government says Strange Lake isn’t there yet.

Tonight on Nation to Nation, We’re looking at the Prime Minister’s big push on critical minerals and what it means for communities on the ground. Also on Nation to Nation: Nunatsiavut government surprised by G7 announcement on Strange Lake mine.

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...

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The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

Video of the Canadian Premier League soccer finals yesterday in #Canada 🤣🍁

Exclusive: The parents of a man who killed himself are suing the company that created ChatGPT, claiming the product encouraged him to commit suicide.

Seeing this in budget 2025. Can someone make the case for why we need to spend $2.7 billion on new computing resources for Meteorological forecasting when we are in a dire need for improved investment in our weather monitoring network? Models need high-quality observational data...

For more details, see Carbon Brief's coverage here: www.carbonbrief.org/... And the full UNEP Emissions Gap report here: www.unep.org/resourc...

The new UNEP report is out with the latest estimates of 2100 warming outcomes under current policies, NDCs, and net-zero targets. Here is how it compares to both the IPCC scenarios and other estimates (CAT and IEA, who will release their own updates soon!).

The latest @unep.org #EmissionsGap Report 2025 finds that global emissions continue to rise. WMO’s own most recent Greenhouse Gas Bulletin also reported that carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels in the atmosphere soared by a record amount to new highs in 2024. 🔗 https://bit.ly/3LJY7b6

I actually just turned down a peer review request for a research proposal for this reason given its subject matter. Tri-Council leadership need to step up.

Impact of flights on global warming severely underestimated by many carbon calculators & offset schemes that don’t properly account for taxiing, sub-optimal routing or non-CO2 climate effects which are larger component: www.newscientist.com/article/2502... Research paper: doi.org/10.1038/s432...

New study in Nature by Lin et al shows how the sea-level rise from the melting Ice Age ice (a total of 120 meters rise) ended thousands of years ago. Until our fossil fuel use started a new phase of rising seas. Graph shows the global mean rate of sea level rise. 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why exactly are the Tri-councils complying? Force it to go to court.

Just out in Science Advances. Researchers (mostly) from Atlantic Canada find seasonal freeze-thaw mounds on the seafloor in Subarctic Canada (~57°N). This builds on earlier work (Normandeau et al. 2024 - Nature) that found subsea permafrost in this region. /1 www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Blue Jays G6 4th : man on 1st, 1 out 5th : 1st, 2 out 6th : 2nd & 3rd, 2 out 7th : 2nd, 2 out 8th : 1st & 2nd, 1 out 9th : 2nd & 3rd, 0 out G7 7th : 1st, 2 out 8th : 2nd, 0 out 9th : bases loaded, 1 out 11th : 2nd, 0 out Expected Runs scored : 8.73 Actual Runs Scored : 0

This is bringing me back to how I felt back when the Sens lost in double overtime of game seven to the Penguins.. just an absolute gut punch.