Last week the German Meteorological Society warned that "the 3-degree limit could be exceeded as early as 2050". While not possible to fully rule out, the assessed warming scenarios we published in the IPCC AR6 report find this to be extremely unlikely.

Its Doors Open Days at @uni-of-edinburgh.bsky.social! All weekend, find Euclideans at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh and learn more about how the #Euclid mission will transform our understanding of the Dark Universe. 🌀🔭🌌 #ROEopen

All set for @lsstuk.bsky.social at #DoorsOpenDay #ROEOpen #lsst

RealClimate: “But you said the ice was going to disappear in 10 years!” www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: Time and Tide Gauges wait for no Voortman www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

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New from me on The Climate Brink: The Cartoon Villain's Guide to Killing Climate Action www.theclimatebrink....

@kenrice.bsky.social traces the trend of the limits of justified disingenuousness andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/c...

1/ A rising telescope under a rising Sun and Moon! 🔭☀️🌕 This montage is a kaleidoscope of moments from the construction of our Extremely Large Telescope. Creating this #ELT collage took Boris Häußler, an ESO astronomer in Chile, years of meticulous planning.

I used to think that climate change was a somewhat unique example of a topic that was challenging to discuss publicly. The last few years have made me realise that it's not just climate change; we seem incapable of having nuanced discussions about any complex/contentious topic.

Caught a bus today to pick up my car and wanted to go to the last stop. When we got to the second last, the bus driver checked if I wanted to get off. When we got to the last stop, I asked why and was told it's because most people who go to the last stop have fallen asleep and missed their stop :-)

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I totally agree, the two articles you mention are really worth reading - esp by those not asking what science 'is' (or even worse 'should be') but how it's 'done'. (This one is also good: diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/08/10/e...)

Many years ago I had a somewhat "amusing" discussion with Viscount Monckton that included his clerk (James Rowlatt) taking over because "his Lordship [was] engaged on other business". climateconomysociety.blogspot.com/2015/01/monc...

There was outrage in Conservative circles at the revelation that Angela Rayner has a property empire extending to two actual residences. From the new Private Eye, out now.

NEW STUDY: How much CO2 can we safely store in geological formations? In a new @nature.com study, we cross-check established academic and industry estimates with various risk factors. We find a prudent geological CO2 storage limit that is about 10x smaller. /1

Metathugs Science, metascience, metametascience, *critical* metascience, and how science's greatest strengths are its greatest weaknesses. Gloomier than usual and it's only Wednesday. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/m...

“Even if climate change plays a big role in the weather event, what turns weather into a disaster is always strongly shaped by vulnerability and exposure". Read @wwattribution.bsky.social Dr @frediotto.bsky.social's comments for @grist.org on the Texas Floods: grist.org/extreme-weat...

Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.

Huge thanks to the dozens of climate scientists who sent us their rebuttals to the catalogue of outright falsehoods and misleading claims in Trump's new 'critical' climate report. This factcheck is the longest article CB has ever published - 27,500 words already and likely to keep growing...

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Very interesting issue.

Had the pleasure of chatting with Prof Steve Desch (@deschscoveries.bsky.social) regarding Avi Loeb's latest claims that an interstellar object might be a hostile alien probe. Spoiler alert: It isn't. We break down Loeb's weak, cherry picking arguments. Full link: youtube.com/watch?v=B4wp... 🧪⚛️

This thread neatly summarizes the main divide I see in the energy and climate community. Do you think we need political intervention to intentionally wind down fossil fuels, or do you think if we make clean alternatives cheap enough then companies will voluntarily wind down fossil fuels?

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Wow, that is quite a clever deception to downplay sea-level rise in the DOE climate report. You have to read the vertical axis label in their graph and understand what “trailing trend” means. StatisticianTamino explains it nicely in his blog. tamino.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/s...

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I have a new post over at The Climate Brink on how the recent DOE report on climate science and the EPA's proposed overturning of the endangerment finding used and misused my research: www.theclimatebrink....

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Just to reiterate for the curious: While there's *nothing wrong* with thinking about whether some interstellar objects could be alien technology, 3I/ATLAS has had its coma clearly detected since July 3. It's very clearly, *unambiguously*, a comet. sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...

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New article "White House sparks concern after hiring notorious scientists with disturbing pasts: 'A growing crisis'" | By Daniel Gala for The Cool Down: www.thecooldown.com/green-busine...

"What I really wanted to do was highlight an exchange, between Steve Koonin and Isaac Held...held last year – of the American Physical Society (H/T Willard – I don’t know how he finds these thing" (answer: because I am a ninja) andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2015/04/09/s...

Climate confuser is being very polite.

For those who haven't seen it yet, this week's post is about communication climate change in a chaotic world blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingscienc...

Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years theconversation.com/earth-is-tra...