Almost-global-average sea-surface temperatures are creeping up to record levels again and we’re still in La Niña (according to NOAA). There’s some uncertainty though as you can see from these two datasets..

These "odds of this happening by chance" nuggets are meaningless.

These "odds of this happening by chance" nuggets are meaningless.

The WMO State of the Global Climate 2025 report came out today. The report landing page with the report, press release, Story Map, extremes supplement, and an interactive extremes map. wmo.int/publication-... mini-thread

This is the scary one. The earth’s energy imbalance has never been so out of whack. And it’s increasing. The only way it can balance again without stopping emissions is for the globe to get hotter. (BTW: It’s also the empirical evidence some climate sceptics bang on about that it doesn’t exist)

The WMO State of the Global Climate 2025 report came out today. The report landing page with the report, press release, Story Map, extremes supplement, and an interactive extremes map. wmo.int/publication-... mini-thread

State of Climate report confirms 2015-2025 hottest 11 years on record. Earth’s energy imbalance is highest in 65-year record. Oceans are absorbing 18 times the annual human energy use each year for the past two decades. Extreme weather costs billions. 🌎🧪 wmo.int/news/media-c...

Science Media Centre NZ - expert responses to the WMO State of the Global Climate 2025 www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2026/03/23/2...

Earth is increasingly ‘out of balance’, as more heat is trapped in the atmosphere, driving global warming go.nature.com/482g2Cd

The rate of ocean warming has doubled in the past two decades and every year for the past nine years has seen a new record set for ocean heat content. (RTÉ News)

The WMO State of the Global Climate 2025 report was published today. For the first time it includes the Earth’s Energy Imbalance (EEI) which is key indicator and a great addition to the report. wmo.int/publication-... #climatechange #WMO #EEI #OHC #globalwarming #albedo

This story about record energy imbalance and its terrible consequences is written by Jonathan Watts. No notes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As WMO unveils the Global #StateOfClimate 2025, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres calls for urgent action grounded in science. 📕Read the report: bit.ly/StateOfClimate2025 📽️UNSG's full message: https://youtu.be/iijVBQbm3jg

Also out today: the #StateOfClimate report from @wmo-global.bsky.social (bit.ly/StateOfClima...) - because the meteorological observations that power this video are the same ones underpinning decisions that affect millions of lives every day.

Today is #WorldMeteorologicalDay. This year’s theme is “Observing Today, Protecting Tomorrow”. From surface stations to satellites, observations are the backbone of weather, climate monitoring and early warnings. #Meteorology #Climate

The last 11 years have been the hottest years ever recorded. Earth’s energy imbalance has reached its highest than at any time in observed history, with heat reaching deeper into the ocean. This is the Global #StateOfClimate 2025. 📰 Press release: https://bit.ly/4ds4r2V #WorldMetDay

I have a joke about the real numbers. It’s a one liner but it just goes on and on.

I have a joke about the real numbers. It’s a one liner but it just goes on and on.

RealClimate: The Puzzling Pleistocene www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

Centennial Observing Stations State of Recognition Report Long station series are vital for monitoring long-term environmental change. The report recognises 474 long-term observing stations worldwide including 10 that have been operating for more than 250 years. library.wmo.int/records/item...

It’s been said before, but the extent to which the academic, cultural, professional and pedagogical world was already governed in a way amenable for LLMs to succeed, well before LLMs existed, gets far too overlooked.

The immense popularity of “Calvin and Hobbes,” often called “the last great newspaper comic,” can risk obscuring its many inspirations & antecedents. In both style & content, the strip is very well-versed in the rich history of comics and often pays tribute to its influences. 1/12 #CalvinAndHobbes

Can anyone explain what this photo shows? It was taken from the air over Lockerbie yesterday

Not waving but drowning When climate sceptics outsource their handwaving to AI the results are... predictable. [With lovingly crafted 100% human MS Paint original artwork.] diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/n...

I appreciate MS Paint so much more than I did before the AI-era. #CreateDontScrape

Not waving but drowning When climate sceptics outsource their handwaving to AI the results are... predictable. [With lovingly crafted 100% human MS Paint original artwork.] diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/n...

Terry Pratchett died 11 years ago today and he still brings me great pleasure to this day. Here is a #dataviz showing his published discworld books by year.

Not waving but drowning diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/n...

Would not normally direct anyone to LinkedIn, but read the comments under the Grammarly CEO’s announcement about them pulling the “Expert Review” feature. They are quite illuminating.

Science needs a culture of trust much more than a culture of interpersonal skepticism and suspicion. Verification is important but we cannot base verification systems on extreme distrust. Scientists' cynicism about their colleagues' values, priorities, and integrity leaves no room for social growth.

"Will she read novels? I hope so, because a novel is one of the last technologies that still trains attention as an ethical act. It makes you inhabit another mind without extracting a summary." Interesting piece that gazes across the epistemic abyss

RealClimate: How robust is our accelerometer? www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

Would have liked to see some more outside reporting on these surface temp acceleration stories. Like discussion of the shortwave rise, the uncertainty if a cloud feedback is at play, whether you can remove the triple-dip La Nina to El Nino combo like a normal ENSO signal...

Some comments on John Kennedy (the climate scientist, not the ex-president)'s post (a post with which I largely agree!) 🧵 1. Nobody familiar w/ my views could "everything is consistent with existing model projections". Even Gemini knows my views are far more nuanced:

For a rainy day Has global warming accelerated? Why? How much? How do we know? What does it all mean? etc. With hand-drawn illustrations, dodgy metaphors, and a complete lack of clear answers. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/07/f...

A small update to my long and unjustifiably profane blog post on the rollercoaster that is global temperature and the interpretations of its wrigglin' innards. ENSO is coming diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/a...

at this point, if I wrote an opinion piece about how Nature indiscriminately publishes every ridiculous essay about AI, I have little doubt they would publish it

OK, that's one glowing AI article too many in Nature and one cosy fireside editorial too many from Science. Can we have a prestige journal with a bit of attitude please, a little bite, a hint of tooth. Articles I want to read not shred. Papers the authors might actually have enjoyed writing.

Which is it GRL? Free or not free?

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Dear Nature, how are those figure limits working out for you?

Q. What do CGI cigarette butts and global temperature estimates have in common? A. Verisimilitude. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/03/v...

Word of the day is verisimilitude On data, reality, realism, the texture of reality and, yes, verisimilitude. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/03/v...

TIL about a large number of operators/tools that can be used to make Google searches much more focused and productive 🧪 #philsci cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Word of the day is verisimilitude On data, reality, realism, the texture of reality and, yes, verisimilitude. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/03/v...

Interesting to see this. And, we have lots more data for WW2 in the Pacific now, but I don't think they've been integrated into any of the datasets yet: rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

From noise, all this Notes on a new global temperature reconstruction that uses a spatio-temporal probabilistic diffusion model generative deep learning thingummybob to fill gaps in the data. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/f...

Peristeronic Septentrional Titivation Velleity

From noise, all this Notes on a new global temperature reconstruction that uses a spatio-temporal probabilistic diffusion model generative deep learning thingummybob to fill gaps in the data. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/f...

It’s not “democratised” if you have to pay a private company a shedload to participate.