Saudi Arabia, Russia and others yet again blocking progress on climate science ... > IPCC: ‘Frustrating and disappointing’ meeting leaves AR7 timeline in deadlock #climatecrisis @carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/ipcc-frustra...

The last 11 years were the hottest on record, which is unsurprising and worrying at the same time, because we don’t fully understand why. Thread... 1/n

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Time and time again surveys of heat pump owners show that the vast majority of people are happy with their heat pump. Here's data from Canada, a place known for its very warm winters. cleanenergycanada.org/report/heat-...

🔥 PhD position alert ➡️ We are looking for a PhD candidate interested in studying spatially compounding fire risk and its drivers under climate change. Details & applications👇 recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/33...

In a new Nature study, we show that extreme global climate outcomes may occur even under moderate 2°C warming for several sectors. The findings reinforce the urgency of limiting warming well below 2°C. Together with @erichfischer.bsky.social @janasillmann.bsky.social @zscheischlerjak.bsky.social

PhD opportunity at KU Leuven Antropogenic influences on East African high impact rainfall Apply for this job no later than April 22, 2026 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Co-supervision by Kwinten Van Weverberg Universiteit Gent and Remko Uijlenhoet TU Delft Photo by Tai Pfeifer on Unsplash

March in Western North America is deadly hot, completely above temperatures that would have been possible without climate change from burning oil, coal and gas. New record shatteringly rapid @wwattribution.bsky.social study www.worldweatherattribution.org/record-shatt...

Two technologies that competed for the future of heating and transport. The race is over. In 2025, 19m heat pumps were sold globally. Hydrogen-ready boilers: 237 units. The picture in transport is identical. 21m electric vehicles were sold last year. Hydrogen fuel cell cars: roughly 10,000 units.

When I started working on UK energy in 2007, fossil fuels provided ~78% of electricity. Coal alone: 34%. Wind & solar: less than 2%. Today: wind & solar 33%, fossil fuels 28%, coal 0%. The chart below tells the story better than words can.

Electric vehicles avoided oil demand equivalent to 70% of #Iran’s exports in 2025 🚗⚡ Replacing imported oil used in transport with electric vehicles could reduce total global fossil fuel imports by a THIRD, saving around $600 billion per year. 🔗ember-energy.org/lat...

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented. They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed. That energy is all around us. It does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz or any other geopolitical chokepoint.

Certainly not the most important issue with the current situation in the Middle East, but there is a new Iran shaped hole in our surface weather observation network. In this example, measurements of surface pressure fed into operational weather forecasts: 9th Feb (left) and 9th Mar (right)

4-year fully funded PhD position in 'Climate-related health impacts on children' @hydr-vub.bsky.social. Apply now: jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...

Klimaatverandering ging laatste 10 jaar sneller dan ooit tevoren. nieuwsartikel over de recente studie van G. Foster en @rahmstorf.bsky.social vrtnws.be/p.3B6vymp4e

I just submitted my letter to NSF responding to its proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). I argue that doing so would be an astonishing and avoidable misstep, and that federal support for the institution should in fact be *increased.* [1/4]

🌍 The bclimate group is hiring! We are looking for a motivated PhD candidate in climate science to improve the attribution and projection of climate-related child health risks in Africa. 🗓️ Check out the vacancy & apply by March 22nd, more info on our website: hydr.vub.be/media/attach...

Hitteactieplannen redden duizenden levens in Europa. press.vub.ac.be/hitteactiepl...

The Mediterranean is a hotspot of climate change, not only due to more heat, droughts and wildfires, but increasingly severe rainstorms led to catastrophic flooding this winter, highlighting again the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels. www.worldweatherattribution.org/increasingly...

spot the difference

I have devoted much of my weather & climate career to engaging with journalists--including 200-300 news media interviews per year, many of which involve recurring conversations to facilitate timely & contextually accurate coverage. This recent collapse has been stunning and deeply disconcerting.

Great piece out today in Physics Today on historical origins, contemporary relevance, & fundamental irreplaceability of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which remains at imminent risk of dismantling for partisan political reasons.

New: Trump admin moves to pull supercomputing center out of top weather and climate research center (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. Part of its effort to "break up" the lab. www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/w...

Tien Shan glaciers are projected to lose around one-third of their 2020 ice mass before 2040, and 69-93% by 2100, depending on the climate scenario. By the late 21stC, the probability of unmet water demand in summer will increase substantially agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Electrostate China.

Is climate change responsible for increasingly frequent or severe cold events? The evidence suggests it is not. Instead, the impact of climate change is warmer winters and less severe cold events. @hausfath.bsky.social has a great post on The Climate Brink talking about this.

In our new paper in GMD @egu.eu by @seppelampe.bsky.social, we present BuRNN v1.0: an open-access, data-driven fire model. BuRNN largely outperforms current-generation process-based fire model across a range of metrics model: github.com/VUB-HYDR/BuRNN paper: gmd.copernicus.org/articles/19/...

NEW | India is forging a different #energytransition path to China 🇮🇳⚡ Where China built first on coal and gas, India is taking a shortcut — using cheap solar to meet rising demand, relying far less on fossil fuels, and electrifying transport earlier. https://loom.ly/UFDLamw

NEW | 2025 was another RECORD-breaking year for the EU’s electricity transition, as wind and solar overtook fossil fuel generation for the first time. Here’s what happened in the 🇪🇺 power sector last year, all in one thread 👇 🧵 1/9

While Australian heatwaves were some of the very first extreme events attributed to climate change, people still underestimate how much worse they got - killing more people than all other natural hazards combined. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

NEW | Wind and solar generated more power than fossil fuels in the EU for the FIRST time ever. 🌪️ and ☀️ made up a RECORD 30% of 🇪🇺 electricity, up from 20% just five years ago. https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/european-electricity-review-2026/

Last week, @carbonbrief.org listed the top climate papers that were the most featured in the media. Proud to have our paper in #8! The paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Denmark's December car sales data just released. Battery-electrics reached an incredible 81% in December to make up 68% for the year.

2025 global climate highlights are out: 🌡️ 2025 was 3rd warmest year on record, 1.47ºC above the preindustrial level 📈 2023-2025 is the first three year period above 1.5ºC (according to ERA5) 🌍 The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record See: climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima... ⚒️🧪🌊

China's December numbers are in, and battery-electric cars made up 35% in December and 33% for the year. Plug-in hybrids made up another 21% for the year for a total "new-energy" share of 54% in 2025. robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/

The Trump Administration's announced withdraw from the IPCC is disappointing, but not surprising. US scientists will continue to play key roles in the @ipcc.bsky.social. A statement from the US Academic Alliance for the IPCC:

The USA has pulled out of the UNFCCC. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The UNFCCC underpins global climate action. It brings countries together to support climate action, reduce emissions, adapt to climate change, and track progress. The decision by the world’s largest economy and second-largest emitter to retreat from it is regrettable and unfortunate.

Here's the EU's reaction to Trump administration formally pulling the US out of the UNFCCC and IPCC. But all eyes now on how/whether China chooses to seize this geopolitical gift from the US

🚨Professorship at St Andrews🚨 We are recruiting a Professor in Earth Sci (incl atmos, oceans, climate) @earthscista.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Ideal candidate is a leading researcher with interests in impact/outreach. Deadline 23/3/26! www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

📢 Working on land atmosphere-interactions and their role in shaping climate extremes? 🌍 Consider submitting an abstract to our European Geosciences Union (@egu.eu) 2026 session: Land-atmosphere interactions and climate extremes (CL4.4): www.egu26.eu/session/56763

2025 goes down as the ~3rd-warmest year on record (based on ERA5). Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).

Looking back to @wwattribution.bsky.social studies in 2025 showed again, in stark terms, how unfairly the consequences of human-induced climate change are distributed. The world does not have to be like this, we have a lot of agency to make it better. www.worldweatherattribution.org/unequal-evid...

Forget “Follow your passion.” At the School for Moral Ambition, we say: Follow the Gandalf 🧙 Gandalf didn’t ask Frodo about his passions. He said: “Here’s a world-sized problem. You’re the one to fix it.” So… which big, solvable, overlooked problem could you be the unlikely hero for?

This is find -dot- gif Towards the middle of the century, ~4000 glaciers worldwide will disappear every year.

2025 was 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗴𝗶𝘂𝗺'𝘀 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟲. With 620.9 mm of rain, it follows a record-wet 2024. It is also the 4𝐭𝐡 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿, featuring the 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗮𝘆 on record (12 Apr.). #Belgium #Climate #Weather | @meteobe.bsky.social FR: www.meteo.be/fr/infos/act... NL: www.meteo.be/nl/info/nieu...

Awesome turnout in support of @ncar-ucar.bsky.social at #AGU25. Take a look at how many people use our products!

Friends at NCAR, we're with you. @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is a trailblazer in community modelling driven not by idealogy, but by open science. We share all our code, thoughts, ideas. These can't be shut down. We'll fight and find every mechanism to support the ongoing CESM community.

NCAR’s Mesa Lab is literally a science castle dedicated to understanding our planet in an open and collaborative way, and leading the world in that effort. We cannot let this happen.

Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social. The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #AGU25 #climate