"Some say we can ‘solar-engineer’ ourselves out of the climate crisis. Don’t buy it" [even if it's being sold by the #NewYorkTimes] | My evergreen @theguardian.com commentary with Ray Pierrehumbert: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Proud to share our paper: Drought intensity shapes soil legacy effects on grassland plant and soil microbial communities and their responses to future drought, out now in @globalchangebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... (1/n)

A beautiful and useful piece. theconversation.com/5-forecasts-...

Failing to address climate change is very expensive.

Top Scientists Find Growing Evidence That Greenhouse Gases Are, in Fact, a Danger www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/c...

@nationalacademies.org providing a intro lecture on climate change and its impacts for EPA. Report here: doi.org/10.17226/29239

Wrote a long story for @quantamagazine.bsky.social about our best understanding of climate change over the entire half-billion-year-plus age of animals www.quantamagazine.org/climate-extr...

The National Academies' response to the EPA's proposed removal of the endangerment finding is out today. It does not mince words about the effect of GHGs on the climate. Kudos to the authors. Key paragraph below; you can read the whole thing here: nas.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?...

A thread: The US National Academy of Science just released its review of Trump's proposal to eliminate the 2009 EPA greenhouse gas endangerment finding that human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases threaten human health and welfare. The NAS concludes that finding "has stood the test of time...

It may seem hard to focus in at a time when climate research and higher education are both under assault, but as I and my co-authors argue here: Higher education institutions can accelerate societal climate action academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

A good read: In the 60's and 70's climate scientists were simulating climate change futures for the first time: "In the decades since Manabe’s groundbreaking work, study after study has stacked evidence to confirm the startling accuracy of his prediction." www.quantamagazine.org/the-climate-...

I bet just about everyone who played sports as a kid has memories like I do of practicing or playing on the really hot days. It could be miserable. And it's getting worse as it also becomes a more serious health risk to kids. Be careful. time.com/7316742/extr...

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Today, Australia released its first ever National Climate Risk Assessment. Whole thing is worth a read, but I dig into the (well done!) defense/national security section in my latest newsletter. Noting a few highlights in this thread (1/x).

Climate science is the most significant scientific collaboration in history, and its lessons are a massive human achievement. “How We Came To Know Earth,” our new series, is a guide to the modern understanding of fundamental climate science. www.quantamagazine.org/series/clima...

A new paper out in AGU Advances led by Xiaoqing Liu in which we try to take the 'time' out of paleo and focus on the pattern of warming for wide range of global warming levels. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/K8WWRP...

What a farce: www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

Wow. The US Energy Department has withdrawn its scam climate report and disbanded its „Climate Working Group“ in order to dodge a law suit against the scam. They must have realized that this scam report by a few „climate skeptics“ is indefensible nonsense. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

5/ As historian of science and technology Jean-Baptiste Fressoz has recently written: "Climate expertise must shift from tech illusions to concrete proposals on sufficiency, redistribution, sectoral degrowth and structural change—or risk delaying meaningful action."

excellent and thought provoking paper on how carbon dioxide removal even if was successfully implemented (which I have grave doubts about) would not be sufficient to substantially reduce climate change driven agro-drought.

tagging the others authors (who led the work) @martialhouessou.bsky.social @haraldgrethe.bsky.social @zuhalelnour.bsky.social and of course qin qin kong, but I don't see him on bsky yet.

New paper out today on heat stress impacts in Burkina Faso. Houessou, M.A.K., Elnour, Z., Kong, Q. et al. Heat stress causes economic and welfare disparities across agroecological zones in Burkina Faso. rdcu.be/eFc45

The article itself www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Warming seas threaten key phytoplankton species that fuels the food web, study finds apnews.com/article/phyt...

And of course, mentioning climate in the nat sec strategy does not mean you're diverting the military from its mission -- no military can achieve its mission if it doesn't understand climate threats in this day and age.

Catching up on the WaPo editorial favoring the Dept of War, bemoaning Biden's natsec strategy that mentioned climate 19 times -- "climate is not the military's job." Tell that to the 1000s of US soldiers deployed 200+ times in the past 3 yrs in response to wildfires, floods and hurricanes.

My co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and I talk with the great @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy about our new book #ScienceUnderSiege: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/science-un...

This looks interesting and relevant and plausible.

Incredibly huge #FreeDC #WeAreDC March has begun

The Heat Is Punishing. So Is Being Told You Can’t Work in It. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/w...

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

In a new paper we show how misinformation derails support for public action on climate change by casting doubt on the scientific consensus (which undermines public opinion). Disinformers attack expert consensus because they know it works. Free: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Which curve-fitting method are you? (If you're not represented, please draw and post your own.) xkcd.com/2048/

Day5, #ICP15 , final act is our perspective talk from Thomas Westerhold taking about the Time Machine : #Stratigraphy is the Backbone of #Palaeoceanography what a wonderful way to end the #ICP15 ☺️ Age (age model) before the beauty (proxy-records) 😀

I had an engagement with blogger, failed California gubernatorial candidate, and self-identified reporter Michael Shellenberger this past week, which started out being about this new paper being heralded by climate skeptics as disproving global sea-level acceleration. (LONG 🧵)

I know it's not a systems analysis, but in an ideal world the most powerful guy in new media and the dumbest guy you've ever heard of wouldn't be the same person.

Astonishing nobody, it turns out that the Abundance movement is the brainchild of far-right billionaires, including Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen.

This is an important and good article.

"They’re going to simply send the comments to the DOE authors and leave it up those authors whether/how to address comments. This is a recipe for a review process that is an unscientific sham and...would demonstrate in no uncertain terms that the DOE is uninterested in legitimate scientific debate."

“It’s hard to overestimate the influence of Fourier analysis in math,” said mathematician Leslie Greengard. “It touches almost every field of math and physics and chemistry and everything else.”

How has climate change shaped your lifetime of heat? Younger people today are experiencing more extremely hot days during their childhood compared to previous generations. Check out the new interactive tool by @climatecentral.org: climatecentral.observablehq.cloud/generational...

Day 4, #ICP15 , panel discussion on Tropical Monsoon Climate On stage Pedro DiNezio @triptychphrases.bsky.social @edhathorne.bsky.social AD Singh River Shen and @antacl.bsky.social What is the underlying physics/working that good models get it right compare to other models -data-model integration

The news that they're collectively compiling a list of abusers should be sending some terror though some elite male circles right about now. Also this:

A great discussion panel at #ICP15 this afternoon on trust in climate science. Thanks to the panel and facilitator. @carbon8.bsky.social @triptychphrases.bsky.social on bsky.

Smart take on the emergent cleavage in global politics, with the US joining Saudi Arabia and Russia as a petrostate hostile to renewables and EVs.

Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out. Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.

@eleniwater.bsky.social kicking off the #ICP15 with early Cenozoic climate carbon relationship 🙏🏼