4. We pay again and again for a failure to raise taxes. It’s a false economy, for which we suffer in multiple ways. Fair Taxation Saves Us Money.

It just seems like, if we really wanted to, we could have solved mass poverty by now.

This, from John, is fantastic. I never really caught that first wave of the internet, but I certainly lament the whirlpool it has become.

Shankle et al. show how a better- #Ventilated #NorthPacific could have reduced the #ocean-carbon upwelled in the #SouthernOcean, reducing outgassing and revealing a remote influence on #SouthernOcean biogeochemistry in #GlacialTimes. #ice-ages @earthscista.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🗣️ Come one, come all! Read about connections between North Pacific Ocean ventilation and Southern Ocean carbon release 🌊 This is the first publication from Maddie Shankle’s PhD thesis, with more exciting work to follow!

Maybe the land carbon sink is weaker than we thought. Big implications: "A lower-than-expected land carbon sink would also imply that the land biosphere may be closer to transitioning from a net carbon sink to a net source than current models predict" Randerson et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Last week, our 4th year Environmental Earth Science students were at Loch Etive, getting hands-on experience collecting data for investigating water column profiles & overturning events. Led by Drs James Barnet & @gmacgilchrist.bsky.social & supported back in the lab by @oceanicandrea.bsky.social.

Meet the motley crew of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences – ready to kick off the new academic year! 🌍👋 Special mention to our Head of School, Prof. Rob Wilson, who is cleverly disguised a a responsible adult (the T-shirt says it all) 😅🤦‍♂ www.st-andrews.ac.uk/earth-scienc...

Moral incoherence is the zeitgeist of our age.

Our finalised paper on flat10MIP is finally up in GMD! This is the experimental protocol which allows for a simple, emissions-driven evaluation of TCRE, ZEC and climate reversibility in CMIP7. Thanks so much to all who ran these simulations as a proof of concept! gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...

Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history. And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:

We had a fantastic research 'away day' at East Sands in St Andrews, where we discussed the future of extreme temperatures as part of GLOBAL-EX project. A lunchtime swim + cheese toasties on the beach was an added bonus! @erc.europa.eu @ukri.org @earthscista.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

A real honor to be able to help out with this. An absolute gutter ball that it is required. Kudos to @andrewdessler.com for exemplary leadership, @bobkopp.net for helping pull it together, and to all coauthors for resisting in our own way.

International Conference on Paleoceanography #ICP16 coming to @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @earthscista.bsky.social next year 🫶🏼 🌊

More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

I've just submitted formal comments on the shoddy DoE Climate Working Group report. My focus is the failure to include any information on the extensive defense/intelligence assessments of the threats to US national security from #climate changes. A copy of my comments: www.gleick.com/blog/comment...

It’s great to see the scientific community blowing the whistle on Trump’s attempt to convince us that the forest fires, floods, heat strokes, and general misery caused by climate is somehow good for us. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/c...

🌊 In 2023, the ocean carbon sink weakened for the first time in a record-hot year 🌡️🌎 Our new study in Nature Climate Change quantifies this unexpected decline and explains how it came about. 👇 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A group of 85 leading US climate scientists have compiled a withering review of a controversial Trump administration report written by fringe researchers that downplays the risks of the climate crisis, finding that the document is biased, riddled with errors and fails basic scientific credibility.

More than 85 scientists have issued a rebuttal to a recent Department of Energy report on climate change, finding it full of errors and misrepresentations. The Trump administration cited the DOE report in its proposal to roll back rules regulating climate pollution. More here ⬇️ on @npr.org

More than 85 scientific experts, brought together by the inimitable @andrewdessler.com, have found the DOE report “biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policymaking.”

A real honor to be able to help out with this. An absolute gutter ball that it is required. Kudos to @andrewdessler.com for exemplary leadership, @bobkopp.net for helping pull it together, and to all coauthors for resisting in our own way.

Wishing for the death of another human being is immoral. You can qualify it and justify it all you like, you can call it “pragmatic”, but the fundamental ethics remain. What matters is what we choose to foster in our own hearts.

On the eve of publication of our response to DOE’s “critical review”, organized by @andrewdessler.com, a reminder that the report falls way short even on the most basic of metrics. ✅ small fraction recent research cited ✅ 10% from non-peer reviewed sources ✅ 2 most cited authors are self-citations

I’m increasingly confident that these quotes are fully and intentionally fabricated, having searched extensively in both reports. The quotes are framed to suggest that the IPCC *concluded* that natural variability undermines attribution of anthropogenic climate change. FYI: It does not.

“Jobs disappear and the markets cheer.” On Labor Day 30 years ago, I issued a warning the growing divide between workers and the super-rich. Watch. youtu.be/8rW1kkAV-gw

One of the more damning indictments on the global financial system is that “ethical investments” exist, thereby affirming that alternatives are explicitly blind to ethics.

I can’t help but feel that if everyone just focused on doing what is within their reach (and were clearsighted about how far that reach extends), we might bring society to a much different place.

“sometimes you have to just look out and see what’s within your reach. And this problem is within our reach, so we just see it as sort of doing our part.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I’m increasingly confident that these quotes are fully and intentionally fabricated, having searched extensively in both reports. The quotes are framed to suggest that the IPCC *concluded* that natural variability undermines attribution of anthropogenic climate change. FYI: It does not.

Here we go! Helping out with this effort was inspiring and deflating in (almost) equal measure… inspiring tipped the scales.

Was great to participate in this. Scientists were arguing up to the deadline about individual sentences, showing the difference in rigor when you care about accuracy, and how non-orthodoxy the “mainstream” actually is. But when comments are open for just 30 days it’s designed to be difficult.

I never thought I would be spending my time explaining the scientific method to one of the most well funded research institutions in the history of humanity, but here we are. But it was so uplifting to see so many brilliant scientists provide context to every point in this thing. You guys rock.

Our comment on the DOE CWG report is done. It tips the scales at 439 pages, approx. 3x longer than the DOE report. This is related to Brandolini's law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. Example: refuting one sentence.

AMS released a statement on climate change today that points out five foundational flaws with the Department of Energy's 2025 climate report: www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

Too many folk overthinking this. "Mass deportations are an abhorrence that a civilised country should not countenance". That's all. No need for logistical advice, the spirit of Churchill, or picking your favourite previous action down the slippery slope.

Moral incoherence is the zeitgeist of our age.

"People kind of think of centrism as evidence-based policy. 'We'll be sensible and we'll follow the evidence.’ "I hate to break it to you, evidence is often quite radical." Catch Richard Denniss on his tour for his new Vantage Point essay Dead Centre! @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

This photo of a humpback whale entangled in fishing gear*. 🥺 It's shameful that the global plastic pollution treaty went nowhere. *from Oceanographic Magazine's Ocean Photographer of the Year competition. 🌊 www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Sign AGU’s letter to defend climate science. 
The Trump administration has proposed overturning the EPA’s endangerment finding — the science-based determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health.

Welcoming anyone willing to fact check me on this — ironically, I don’t want to get it wrong.

Made up quotes in the DOE CWG report? In Ch8, authors claim to quote IPCC AR5 and AR6 summary statements suggesting difficulty attributing climate change due to decadal variability. I suspected out-of-context, but I can't find the quotes (or anything like them) *at all*. Anyone know any better?

Unbelievable footage from NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters inside the eye of Hurricane Erin. Simply incredible.

The worst thing about EVs is that automakers are using them as an opportunity to effectively turn cars into digital devices with all the worst aspects that come with it to extract more profit: data collection, screen first, subscription business models, etc.

How can England possibly be running out of water? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Independent and comprehensive.

The current stance of the UK government is frankly beyond belief. It must change, and the more people willing to speak out against it the better.

Wonderful interview with colleague @profmattengland.bsky.social talking about the science cuts in the US that will result in harm to us all www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Me, @codeandcurrents.bsky.social, and ChatGPT had an excellent time vibe-coding our way to an assessment of the citations in the DOE's "critical review" of climate science. A wee 🧵 of highlights... 1/n