After a brief (ahem) hiatus, the HadCRUT5 global temperature dataset has now been updated to June 2025 by @metoffice.gov.uk @climateuea.bsky.social and @ncas-uk.bsky.social

In Newfoundland & Labrador there is no ban on corporate donations. Records show lots of business leaders donating big to the governing Liberal Party ($680,000 in 2024). #nlpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

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Welcome progress in making climate science a little more operational (and responsive). (This is what we were talking about in our opinion piece last year: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/o... @hausfath.bsky.social )

Our comment on the DOE CWG report is done. It tips the scales at 439 pages, approx. 3x longer than the DOE report. This is related to Brandolini's law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. Example: refuting one sentence.

@westernuntp.bsky.social fyi

This paragraph 🤯 #twitter #bluesky

Unofficial station, but 37.4°C at Northwest River looks like highest temperature recorded on the Queebs/Geolab network in #Labrador since it started. @labradorice.bsky.social www.smartatlantic.ca/station_alt.... #nlwx

Amid the unremitting bad news, something positive! 2025 will only be the 2nd or 3rd warmest year in the instrumental record. 🙄

Is sea level around the US accelerating? If you actually do the analysis, instead of just repeating talking points from decades ago, the answer is yes. tamino.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/s...

Members of the SISAdapt project incl. @frosty-feng.bsky.social are in Nain, Nunatsiavut this past week (and until mid-August) doing permafrost-focused fieldwork including geophysics, ert and other methods. Goal is to help inform future community development in Nunatsiavut!

Motherfucking wind farms…

we're fucked

Newfoundlander and Labrador be like:

Replication Crisis xkcd.com/3117/

Anyone else starting to get AI-generated ads featuring Mark Carney on Youtube? How is this legal?

Trump Invites Jeffrey Epstein On Stage To Explain There No Conspiracy

Area burned in Canada for 2025 is now at 5.6 M ha exceeding the total for the entire 2024 fire season. This fire season is not as bad as 2023 that had 9.37 M ha burned by July 12, 2023. However, 2025 is a very active year with 365 fires out of control and 2 months still left in the fire season.

Another barn-burner of a day in #Labrador. Numerous highs in the 30s for second day in a row. #nlwx

This figure from the article illustrates that the low adoption of air conditioning in European cities results in much higher heat-related mortality during extreme heatwaves compared to American cities, where air conditioning is more widespread.

Seriously

Incredible

When AI is allowed, developers spend less time actively coding and searching for information, and instead spend time prompting AI, waiting on/reviewing AI outputs, and idle. We find no single reason for the slowdown—it’s driven by a combination of factors.

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

CBC story in which Ross Mckitrick is quoted extensively about EV emissions without noting his years of contrarianism on climate change. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Yes. And Labradorians like my g. grandfather who served in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment

“To say some of the findings in this report are surprising may be putting it mildly," NL Auditor General Desnise Hanrahan said Wednesday. Opposition parties and the Registered Nurses' Union are calling for investigations. Read the full story from Yumna Iftikhar 👇 theindependent.ca/news/auditor...

Awful. More horrible science news "The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing & delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025."

SEE!?!? MORE BALLOONS ARE BETTER! @xkcd.com xkcd.com/3107/

Fun. Canadian version:

The security reason to electrify transport is not about oil imports, it’s economic resilience. Oil powers 90% of US vehicles, so when the price of oil spikes because of a war, people & companies pay more for energy, which hurts the economy. The more transport is electrified, econ security goes up.

I get annoyed at the narrative that all the awareness and work on climate change hasn't done anything. Yes, global CO₂ emissions indeed continue to climb, but we don't know the counterfactual. When I was in grad school, we were on track for 5°C of warming. Now it's below 3°C. That's progress.

Also while most coverage notes an environmental review happened (including an IBA with Labrador Innu). No IBA was done with Inuit who live downstream of the dams. There were huge protests over this & multiple env review panel members have since said the information has changed since the approval.

NL constantly uses figures close to 200 billion without noting that those are nominally adjusted figures.

Just a reminder that you can intensely dislike the Iranian regime and still think all this is a fucking gross combination of illegal and insane.

This paper is an incredible resource for those teaching climate change courses. Thanks for putting this together - it saves me *so* much time updating all my numbers each year.

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

Wowza

Bought our first EV (used) the other day. It's great! But we ran into a couple unexpected issues with level 1 charging. You need: 1) Outdoor GFI plug on its *own* circuit (i.e. not shared) 2) Ideally, 20 amps instead of 15 amps 3) Outdoor plug within ~25 ft of car (extension cords are not to code)

"The use of LLM had a measurable impact on participants, and while the benefits were initially apparent, as we demonstrated over the course of 4 months, the LLM group's participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels: neural, linguistic, scoring."

US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱 Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated". #climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience

New on The Climate Brink: Zeke @hausfath.bsky.social explains the contribution of sulfur aerosols to the modern warming. He writes: cleaning up air pollution has contributed ~25% of recent warming and driven recent acceleration. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-role-o...

🚀 Our new letter in Science. 🛰️ A proven formula: #Landsat’s success shows that commercial innovation, paired with public oversight, ensures continuity, #openaccess, and lasting public value in Earth observation. @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is as unrealistic as decent quality AI video will ever be. In other words, it’s going to get even harder to discern imaginary from reality. We are so not ready for this.

Interesting

Yikes

Holy crap this is great! Really shows the stakes. Kudos to @johnmoralestv.bsky.social John: You’ll have to let us know if you got any angry messages.

Area burned over 1 million hectares in Canada and increasing. Second only to the 2023 in terms of area burned for this time of year. @ciffc.bsky.social ciffc.ca cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/maps/fm3?typ...