Anyone looking for a short primer on the #CarbonCycle (🌳and 🌊) could do a lot worse than today's #TheLifeScientific programme on #BBCRadio4 with @jimalkhalili.bsky.social interviewing @pfriedling.bsky.social (@exeter.ac.uk) ... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

It’s been a while since I shared these, so here we go! If you are new to BlueSky, here are a few 🌊 ocean starter packs 🌊 to help you find who to follow: Physical oceanography go.bsky.app/Eb6xX19 Polar oceans go.bsky.app/851nQgx Organisations go.bsky.app/U1Ei6XY

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

Don’t miss the 12 November closing date!

The ethical use case for SRM is one in which governance conditions fail to enable adequately rapid decarbonization, and then there is a revolutionary change in governance that allows effective and equitable management of SRM

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

remember when I said that I’ve always said I’ve been saying it for years

Fortunately the people proposing this disgusting treatment of immigrants and their families are currently in opposition not in government. Frankly I'm ashamed that even a minority-party elected politician of my country can dare say this out loud. Gross attitude to my friends and colleagues.

Once more for the people in the back: you cannot ask people to pay many £1000s upfront for the *privilege* of *temporarily* coming to work and pay taxes in this country, give them nothing particularly unique in return, and expect that to be a sustainable situation.

The NHS health surcharge is a national embarrassment; and it would be if the affected group were not always perceived as “foreign”, and “privileged” to be here at all. It says right from the start “you will be treated differently here”, and it shows our arse as a nation.

A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

We killed them all. Every last one of them. And now they will never be again. They lived their Curlew lives, migrated, cared for their young, and had every right to be here - as much as ourselves. And they did us no harm. And we killed them all.

This is absolutely staggering.

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...