If you're working in the climate science space, please sign and share this open letter calling out the insanity of exploiting more oil & gas when we need to eradicate dangerous fossil fuels. Letter here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Sign here: forms.gle/DexNszLJjaRe... Pls share far & wide!

The recent increase in Antarctic Ice Sheet is driven by enhanced precipitation from frequent atmospheric rivers, stronger westerlies, and reduced sea ice, which together offset ice loss from outlet glacier discharge. @marlenkolbe.bsky.social @ruthmottram.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Antarctica has been losing ice for years, but the rate has been slowing down/reversing recently, despite more ice discharge! Our new study shows the extra precipitation is driven by wind dynamics, atmospheric rivers and winter sea ice loss. Huge thanks to my co authors @ruthmottram.bsky.social &co!!

And the ECMWF IFS forecast, with some slight differences in details, but same story overall. Records for March warmth are going to be dropping left and right this week.

Oil brings us climate change and illegal invasions of sovereign nations.

🌊 Observed large-scale and deep-reaching compound ocean state changes over the past 60 years www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Timeline cleanse: Antarctic sun dogs/halo version. January 2024, RAICA ice core project at Canisteo Peninsula, West Antarctica supported by Korea Polar Research Institute and US National Science Foundation. 🌞 ❄️

Delighted that one of my Antarctic winter photos has won the 2025 Royal Society Photography Competition, Earth Science & Climatology category. Captured during polar-night surveys of ocean conditions near Antarctic Peninsula glaciers. royalsociety.org/journals/pub...

I've been gabbling excitedly about this for a lil' while, but... it's getting real! 🌍✨🔭 I'm developing a live science show - think SPECTACLE - with my brilliant colleague Charly. It's gonna be great, and I'm super hyped 👀 Go give Nova a follow to stay in the loop 👉 @nova-earth-astro.bsky.social

🚨 New @oceaniceeu.bsky.social preprint🚨 why has Antarctica stopped (net) losing mass, in spite of increased discharge? Declining sea ice is part of the answer but increasingly heavy and frequent atmospheric rivers are most important factor. Lots of important subtleties: arxiv.org/abs/2510.03590

Today was Truth and Reconciliation Day to recognize the ongoing legacy and survivors of Indian Residential Schools. Very grateful to all who came to our Inter-Generational march at UBC on the land of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people and to our wonderful team of volunteers and organizers.

1/ Hast du schon meinen Podcast abonniert? Wenn er dir gefällt, freue ich mich über positives Feedback auf all diesen Plattformen - raus aus der Nische der Willigen! Die aktuelle Folge beschäftigt sich mit einem Stachel in meinem Herzen: Grüner Kolonialismus. katja-diehl.de/gruener-kolo...

I’m delighted to share that our new paper is now out in @natclimate.nature.com! Our long-term, monthly Antarctic-wide dataset of surface meltwater shows that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is becoming increasingly prone to surface meltwater ponding.

Drop-dead gorgeous figures showing Hadley circulation patterns & cloud trends by Michala Garrison, NASA Earth Observatory. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15444... #dataviz 📊🗺️

I need you all to know that Spain received a letter from the European Broadcasting Union ordering them to not comment on the situation in Gaza during the Eurovision Song Contest or else they'd face consequences. This was the message they played before the broadcast, anyway: #ESC #Eurovision

Should you feel guilty using AI? I tried to unpick this question and ended up with a surprisingly personal video youtu.be/5sFBySzNIX0

🧵 Here is Earth's rotation realized in an unusual way: using a camera scanning the landscape of Tivoli, Namibia, Bartosz Wojczyński focused on the sky. He created a timelapse spanning 24 h that has a focal point in the sky rather than on the ground. ➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20070... 🔭 🧪 #galactic

Excited that our study on Arctic climate emergence is out! Despite strong variability, we found that the Arctic is soon approaching a new climate state, with sea ice thickness and temperature emerging first. 🧊 Big thanks to Nicoleta, @nskyllas.bsky.social, and Richard! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔭 🧪 ⚛️ #sciart This breathtaking photo by Brent Mckean features a few atmospheric optics phenomena due to refraction, reflection and diffraction of moonlight from millions of falling ice crystals. Image source➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20022...

New look at the landscape beneath Antarctica 🇦🇶 Without the 27.17 million km³ of ice. This clearly shows that much the West-Antarctic Ice Sheet is below sea level. That's why it melts rapidly in a warmer climate, like it did ~120,000 years ago during the Eemian interglacial.

The beef industry has done an incredible job of greenwashing -- far better than the fossil fuel industry. And the playbook is pretty damn clear. And, sadly, it's working incredibly well -- to the point of misleading the whole world, including many environmentalists... www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Feels like we're doing something really wrong if we need a World Water Day but here we are. Here’s a reminder that 2.2 billion people have no access to safe water and half the world doesn’t have basic sanitation but yet rich countries flush their toilets with clean drinking water.

My awesome colleague Abraham Torres ran a bunch of simulations with our new regional climate model #HCLIM + showed that 2.5km resolution was really crucial to resolve precipitation from ARs on ice shelves and ice sheet. Cloud processes + foehn are also crucial to get the energy budget correct 🥼❄️

Had lots of fun working on this! Atmospheric rivers can induce strong melt episodes, which tend to be underestimated in reanalyses and models. These models strongly diverge in their simulation of clouds and the surface energy balance 🌨️☼ Big thanks to @ruthmottram.bsky.social and my other co-authors!

🌨️🌨️🌨️ For those curious about Antarctic Atmospheric Rivers, this is a really nice overview! Thanks @jonathanwille.bsky.social for initiating, and to everyone else involved in bringing it together!

This is a cool paper. Even if you don't work on ocean dynamics or the Southern Ocean, check out the great figures. 🌊🧪

The extent of #Arctic sea ice is already a record low for this time of year, and yet a highly anomalous surge of heat and moisture is still inbound toward the North Pole over the week ahead... Local temperature anomalies will exceed 20°C above average. Graphic from www.karstenhaustein.com/climate 🧪

It is high time to meditate on the effect that North American conditions can have on Europe (and not only from a meteorological viewpoint!) In the current event, I like how it is the same trough now above the southern US that moves over the Atlantic to support the strong Atlantic cyclogenesis 🌀

Very proud of our talented PhDs + postdocs whose great introduction to #machineLearning in #glaciology of #Greenland + #Antarctic ice sheets is now in English! https://www.sciencenordic.com/artificial-intelligence-climate-change/is-ai-our-new-oracle-predicting-how-fast-the-ice-is-melting/2451960

Journalists should avoid using 'polar vortex' as a synonym for cold-air outbreak/Arctic airmass. This isn't just my opinion – there is published science encouraging this. doi.org/10.1029/2021... In an era of climate change, it is important to report weather events and terminology accurately.

🌧️ Atmospheric Rivers in Antarctica: What causes the highest impacts, and how does their vertical structure relate to these differences? We analyzed several models and reanalyses to uncover key insights, for example how sea ice buffers ARs near the coast! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...