Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane: STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification

Great to join #AF2025 virtually. My talk: upscaling the deployment of Nature-based Solutions needs - Good evidence on benefits, synergies and tradeoffs - Landscape scale planning - Local leadership and knowledge - trusted advisors - partnership working - Flexibility to adapt - Long-term funding

We are now on #Facebook so it will now be easier to share with friends & family what you do if you have a #LongTermExperiment registered with us! Follow us on there and share a post bit.ly/EcolConTFB

New blog out today naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/07/n... The Nature Returns Programme has been running since 2021, bringing together science and practice in one pilot programme testing nature-based solutions in a real world context. Find out more and link to our summary report.

Renewables have overtaken coal in the global electricity mix for the first time, @ember-energy.org has found www.linkedin.com/pulse/renewa...

It is "established fact" that humans have warmed the Earth by burning fossils fuels and that our emissions have made climate extremes more frequent and intense (IPCC AR6) Thank you for your attention to this matter! www.carbonbrief.org/...

Global investment in renewable energy up 10% on 2024 despite Trump rollback www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

Visited Muckle Moss in Northumberland yesterday with Natural England colleagues. Great restoration work has restored hydrology, rewetted the bog, reinvigorated the plant community and restarted growth. Note the disappearing fence line as the peat builds up.

The time has come to value tropical fieldworkers as equal partners. With billions spent on watching forests from space, the skills of foresters and botanists have never been more vital. In our #Nature correspondence we show why - and what needs to change. #GEO-TREES rdcu.be/enT5S

we’re getting evicted, it’s stupid, and I’m mad www.fastcompany.com/91333946/thi...

The EU has released its latest GHG emission inventory, with data up to 2023. The good news, GHG emissions continue a downward trend, currently 37% below 1990 levels. The bad news, a significant downward revision of land-use removals (LULUCF). 1/

Sad to hear of the passing of Pope Francis. Extraordinary Christian leadership on the environment and the needs of the poor and vulnerable. His encyclical Laudato si on care for the Earth is a tremendous legacy for all churches and the world. www.vatican.va/content/dam/...

Much of this cannot be done by the federal government, due to state rights: but I’m not an expert on that. So here’s @govjayinslee.bsky.social’s take on how federal EOs do and don’t impact state climate action and the clean energy revolution.

It wasn’t net zero — it was fossil gas that drove up UK electricity prices. Spot on, @pilitaclark.bsky.social! Gas sets the price most of the time. As @dharavyas.bsky.social Energy UK, says: "It’s the volatile cost of fossil fuels and our dependence on them that have driven up energy bills."

“Inequality and environmental destruction are two faces of the same coin” - Tony Juniper @tonyjuniper.bsky.social www.channel4.com/news/people-...

To no one's surprise, UK newspapers are full of truly dreadful - and, at times, outright bizarre - "reporting" of the Climate Change Committee's new carbon-budget advice. For a sane and nuanced summary – with lots of charts - here's our detailed coverage... www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-reducing...

Science advances our economic, physical, and social and cultural wellbeing, and is key to a sustainable future. However, we live in times of great change, and the values that have driven science for the benefit of humanity are under threat. Read our statement here: royalsociety.org/news/2025/02...

“We need to reverse the collapse in biodiversity, before it threatens our own survival. Without pollinators or healthy soil micro-organisms, we won’t be able to grow enough food to feed ourselves.” Henry Dimbleby speaking about the land use policy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's been a long time since Private Eye's satire has made me audibly wince, but this is so to the point if it were a knife people would demand it be banned.

Our new paper, free to read in Bird Study, compares bird counts on solar farms and adjacent farmland. For solar farms with infrequently cut/grazed grass and bounded by hedges/trees, both farmland and woodland birds were more abundant than on adjacent arable land www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks to the over 1000 climate colleagues pre-registering to help accelerate adaptation! At a tough time for USA researchers we extended the submission deadline to 1 March! We look forward to seeing you on line or in person! Thank u for your climate leadership! #AF2025 adaptationfutures2025.com

Great day at #NatureReturns conference last week. How can we get the most out of nature based solutions for nature, climate and people: we’re learning by doing! More information here www.kew.org/science/natu....

Jumping on line and going on again about Adaptation Futures 2025 as it’s the biggest climate adaptation event- held in both virtual & in person formats because we can’t keep flying to save the planet but come and stay longer - first time NZ & Pacific has hosted this

@mikemorecroft.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social describes the evidence that #NatureBasedSolutions can work, but sometimes fail when done in the wrong way. Building the evidence of how they can be done well to deliver for both nature and people (and climate) is essential.

@mikemorecroft.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social summarises some of the key findings of the Nature Returns partnership so far...

You have until 25.2 to submit an abstract to the Adaptation Futures 2025 conference (hybrid). Look here to see the exciting themes and follow @adaptationfutures.bsky.social adaptationfutures2025.com

Did climate change contribute to the LA wildfires? Yes "human-induced warming from burning fossil fuels made the peak January Fire Weather Index more intense, with an estimated 6% increase in intensity, and 35% more probable" Barnes et al (2025) www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

Was hoping to spend my Sunday selling Girl Scout cookies with my daughter. Instead I'm trying to find and download Federal datasets and reports on climate change, trade and foreign aid so I can actually teach and research on these topics. USDA Climate Hubs still up for now - grab info while you can!

The first ever US national nature assessment has been terminated and its USGCRP and DOI webpages have been removed. A PDF of the zeroth order draft is still available here: review.globalchange.gov/system/files...

We don't here much about Ash Dieback these days. But here's what it's done to an ancient woodland in eastern England after 10 yrs. On the left: summer 2014, as Ash Dieback first arrived. On the right: summer 2024, massive tree mortality/morbidity, vast amounts of deadwood, canopy opened up. Wow.

The share of wind & solar in primary energy has gone from 5-10% in IPCC AR5 to 20-40% in IPCC AR6, for deep mitigation scenarios. Scenarios are often used to explore uncertainties, but uncertainty in solar & wind does not seem to be a dimension that was explored in AR5. rdcu.be/d7jWG 1/

You can say, “gravity isn’t real,” but if you step off the cliff, you’re still going down. And if you convince other people it’s not real, you are responsible for what happens if they make decisions based on the information you withheld.

USA withdrawal from Paris is unsurprising, worrying & frustrating. Last time this happened an amazing campaign by states & cities (‘we’re still in’) continued an emissions decline despite their federal government. USA joins just 3 nations not in Paris: Iran, Libya & Yemen thehill.com/policy/energ...

🚨I recommend checking out our new commentary on the neutrality myth in climate science and activism, together with @lydiamessling.bsky.social and @katharinehayhoe.com in Nature Climate Action #openaccess nature.com/articles/s44... 1/3

Passion for the environment? The Christian Rural and Environmental Studies course brings together an understanding of the environment and Christian Faith. Competitively priced, with no entry requirements, CRES is a distance learning course that can be taken anywhere. bit.ly/CRESc

I was struck this morning by the sense of dire urgency expressed by Dame Glenys Stacey, Chair of the @OfficeforEP, on the need to quickly ramp up efforts to get on track to meet legally binding Nature goals. Time is running out, & so is Nature. www.theoep.org.uk/report/gover...

Coldest week of the winter last week. New heat pump working well, keeping us warm. Better and cheaper to run than our old gas boiler as well as low emissions.

Nice clear explainer of what a warm year means in relation to the warming trend and Paris Agreement

Southern California now sees longer fire weather seasons, like many other places worldwide Human-caused climate change means hot, dry, windy conditions happen more often, priming landscapes to burn more easily if ignition occurs Matt Jones et al 2022 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

These are the key facts everyone needs to know about climate change, according to @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social. I shared this post across 7 different social media platforms, including FB, LI, Mastodon, Threads, X and Twitter both pre-and post-Musk. Here's how their engagement stacked up. 🧵

I compared 22 identical climate-related posts on Threads vs Bluesky over the last 3 months, and the difference is shocking. Normalized engagement on Threads dropped nearly 2/3 + my following dropped, while Bluesky engagement held steady + following quadrupled. What’s driving this? Read on! 🧵

Can’t resist a quick proud father moment as I reflect back on #BES2024 - great to have Matthew there! No expectations what my children will do for a career but it was fun!

Great to be at #BES2024 and loved presenting results from #NatureReturns with our fantastic science team from @NaturalEngland: we’re measuring carbon and biodiversity across multiple habitats to identify the best #naturebasedsolutions for #climatechange. www.kew.org/science/natu...

Great to listen to Leo Mercer talking about net zero and rewilding at #BES2042 - some key evidence gaps need to be resolved to make the most of the opportunities. Glad our carbon storage and sequestration by habitat report could provide useful context.

The call is out! In Oct 2025, Aotearoa/New Zealand hosts the world’s most significant climate adaptation event: #AF2025. Online & in-person. Hosted by UC & UN World Adaptation Science programme & consortium sponsors. A key focus is Oceania & Indigenous solutions. Join us! adaptationfutures2025.com

Looking forward to speaking about Nature Returns our nature-based solutions programme 1215 at #BES2024 conference. Bringing together science and practice www.kew.org/science/natu...

Number of followers on Bluesky now exceeds those on X 🎉

Delighted to contribute to this great workshop on science and policy.

Hello @besclimate.bsky.social and welcome to Bluesky. The British Ecological Society’s Climate Change special interest group is a great forum for ecologists working on climate change. And as its founding chair it’s great to see it thriving under the present leadership!