On The Climate Brink: Stop emissions, stop warming: A climate reality check This is a crucial point because it determines how much warming is already "locked in" and effectively unavoidable. The answer is very little warming is locked in. Also, this is our 100th post! www.theclimatebrink....

Tenure track positions! The department of Geological Sciences at Stockholm University is part of a consortium that seeks applications for a three lecturerships biodiversity, including that in deep time - in the field of Molecular Paleontology. More info: www.scilifelab.se/career/assis...

"And so the far right’s supposed concern about antisemitism is rerouted into using the power of the state to deprive another racialised other of citizenship." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

On a Wednesday in February 1938, Guy Stewart Callendar stood before a group of leading scientists, members of the United Kingdom’s Royal Meteorological Society. He had a bold idea to share: Humans’ burning of fuel was making the planet warmer. nautil.us/the-part-tim...

Visiting my former colleagues at Stockjolm University and the annual Event of the @bolincentre.bsky.social

Profoundly dark but dramatically true and remarkably written piece by @michaelemann.bsky.social

And one more - ever wanted to know what the weather was like during the PETM? then this project with @climategordon.bsky.social is one for you! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I finally received the digital 'offprint' of my encyclopedia chapter 'Biomarker indicators of Past Climate'. It will be officially published in 2025. Paywalled, I am afraid, so much for visibility. Won't do this again. The accepted version is on Research Gate and EarthArxiv: doi.org/10.31223/X54...

Call for abstracts #EGU25 on developing new biomarkers! #EGUbiomarker. Abstract submission is now open! Organized by Jingjing Guo, @hallbergpetter.bsky.social, Nora Richter, Addison Rice and myself. tinyurl.com/4422wwr7

AGC is planning to open for submission in January 2025! In order to plan our initial workload, please register your interest in submitting your work to AGC using this form: forms.gle/GHHmHioBdRSi... note that registering interest is not a pre-requisite for submission.

1/ Article alert! 🎺 The latest article from the PhD project of Petter Hällberg is now online! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We used the distribution of long chain alkanes, their hydrogen isotopic compositions, in combination with with insights gained from...

Comes on top of a paper 1 year ago suggesting organic carbon weathering offsets silicate weathering. So we now would appear to have mountain building as a source of CO2 not a sink. Im not sure that's tenable. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We've created a new faculty position at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at @ethzurich.bsky.social and invite applications for the position of Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Geomitigation of Greenhouse Gases. Further information and application:

This is a great @canarymediainc.bsky.social deep dive into what went wrong at Running Tide (with a kind call out to my earlier reporting): www.canarymedia.com/articles/car...

Slightly more thoughts on this at RealClimate: www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

Congratulations to Emily Judd and the entire Phantastic DA team on this temperature reconstruction www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This will be an interesting day to reflect on in the future. "Battery cells at $50/kWh means the technology to decarbonize most of road transport globally is already here, as opposed to in some future scenario." EVs are cheaper than ICE now. Today.

Beste Titelseite 1/2 👏 Frankfurter Rundschau #Hochwasser #Klimawandel #Klimakrise #Klimakatastrophe

Apparently some lawyers found an elephant in the room and decided to take a wide ranging US antitrust suit against the main academic publishers?! www.lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/ac...

There’s no scenario in which rich countries buying land in developing countries to offset the rich countries’ carbon emissions is a good thing. Just wait till they do this for engineered CO₂ removal (CDR) like direct air capture (DAC).

"Justice is essential for planet & people", says PIKs Johan Rockström on new paper by the Earth Commission. It underscores risks of Earth system decline & the need for fair resource distribution. The poorest are most at risk, but everyone is increasingly affected. www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

How many research projects end up ‘unfinished’ where PhD students or postdocs have moved on, and faculty grant holders (PIs) with not enough time to write up, despite the data being good and still money available? I bet this is a lot. Are there freelancers out there who can jump in that gap?

Many congratulations to Prof. Timothy Eglinton on receiving the Alfred Treibs Award 2024, presented by the Geochemical Society's Organic Geochemistry Division for his achievements in compound-specific radiocarbon analysis. www.geochemsoc.org/news/2024/04...

Only a few more days to apply to the Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimate! 9-25th JULY 2024! We have an amazing line-up of instructors this year ;-) urbinossp.wordpress.com ECORD summer school scholarship applications are also now open! www.ecord.org/education/sc... Please share paleo-network ! ☺️

I don't think people understand the huge rise in global surface & ocean temperatures in 2023 (and now in 2024), how climate scientists are struggling to understand it, & the growing worry in the science community about what it means. Are we in "uncharted territory?" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thank you, School Reading List (schoolreadinglist.co.uk) for naming "How To Teach Grown-Ups About Climate Change" as your nonfiction Book of the Month for March. And thanks as ever to my invaluable consultant, Dr. Michael Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social and great illustrator, Aaron Blecha.

“We’re used to having a fairly good handle on things. But the impression at the moment is that things have gone further and faster than we expected. That’s an uncomfortable place as a scientist to be.” www.nytimes.com/2024/02/27/c...

If direct air removal costs $500 per tonne, removing just US emissions would cost ~$3 trillion per year (that's ~4x US military spending). It would also require twice the total power generation capacity of the US today (and it has to be carbon-free). thebulletin.org/2023/12/dire...

So I should call myself a ‘destiny scientist’!

Open position for a PhD student in Paleoclimatology at the Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, with closing date 29 February 2024. The topic focuses on reconstructing past storminess & includes fieldwork in the Norwegian Arctic, Sweden & Norway. www.su.se/english/abou...

Co-led by my previous advisor Julian Sachs. I’m very curious, and hope this indeed works! The big question remains: where to put all that captured gas?

🛑Looking for a PhD in palaeoclimatology? Doing field work in the Bolivian Amazon? Learning about stable isotopes in one of the best labs? Living in Barcelona? Apply rigth now, deadline is aproaching: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/186708 Please share widely

Makes me longing back to my equatorial Pacific research trips

New paper (led by Emily Hollingsworth) in P&P assessing spatial and temporal patterns in petrogenic organic carbon mobilization during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. It's also Emily's first first-author paper - wooo! #proudsupervisor agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📣 As part of my DFF-funded project, WARMEST, I'm hiring a biomarker-loving postdoc to join my group and examine terrestrial climate + environment of the western Sahel during the Eocene. Applications are due Feb 15th - contact me with any questions! RT plz :) international.au.dk/about/profil...

Don't get fooled if they promise you that a herd of unicorns will save you from #globalheating. #COP28

The goal should even be towards negative emissions by 2050 latest

Before we all log off for holidays I would like to advertise a PhD position that is currently open in our group: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP.... I‘m looking to find a good candidate who wants to start next semester or in the summer of 2024. Interest in orbitrap mass spec is an asset!

Are you a hyper-doer? Perhaps you need to practice being a hyper-don’t over the end of year holidays. A new article by my sister in law which is open access until Christmas journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Prognosis for glacier loss in the Alps is worse than previously thought! 🔥 Commited ice loss (=irrespective of any climate change) for 2050 amounts to 35%! This is an absolute lower bound, in fact it will be more than 50%, only 2.5 decades from now 😱 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The isotopic signatures of soil organic carbon are powerful indicators and tracers of carbon fluxes through soils and of transformation processes within soils but also challenging to interpret. New Review: Soil depth gradients of organic carbon-13 – A review on drivers and processes #soilscience 🧪

Wisdom the Laysan albatross — the world's oldest known wild bird — is back at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge! She was banded by the US Geological Survey (USGS) in the 1950s. 🧪 earthsky.org/earth/oldest...

A very nice and thorough new synthesis of atm CO2, and its relation with global Temp - with again the higher sensitivity than we would wish for..

"In summary, the Cenozoic compilation confirms a strong link between CO2 and GMST across timescales from 500 kyr to tens of millions of years,..." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Indeed a very nice study I was also part of. Happy to see it published! The Sumatra transect was in fact one, but divided up in a roadside sampling and hiking-further-up-part by PhD Petter Hällberg (not on bsky). (Btw he is on the lookout for a PDRP after his foreseen defense upcoming spring)

420 forskare uppmanar alla att höja sina röster och visa att vi kräver en kunskapsgrundad klimatomställning. Det är bråttom. Regeringens klimatpolitik är katastrofal. Den farligt snabba uppvärmningen av planeten kräver handling nu!

this is a bloody great name for a climate report www.unep.org/resources/em...

Here’s a gift link to my @nytimes.com op-ed arguing that because of the tireless work of the policymakers, engineers, activists, and others who listened to the science, we now have a fighting chance for a better world www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/o...