Here is a map view of the record high temperatures in October 2025 across the #Antarctic. Compare this blob of anomalies greater than 5°C with the Arctic from my earlier post. Yikes! Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds... using a 1981-2010 reference period.

This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.

This.

Super Typhoon Fung-wong, the biggest storm to threaten the Philippines this year, started battering the country’s northeastern coast ahead of landfall on Sunday, knocking down power, forcing the evacuation of more than a million people.

"Together, they shed light on the puzzle of Watson’s later years: a public and unrepentant racism and sexism that made him a pariah in life and poisoned his legacy in death."

To mark the death of James Watson, please read this 2023 piece about Rosalind Franklin's role in the discovery of the double helix www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

This study by my colleagues at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa shows that deep sea mining waste to be released near the ocean surface would disrupt marine food webs. The same would be true of grinding and spreading rocks in the ocean for CO₂ removal. 🌊

Global methane action pays for itself at least six times over And for fans of GHG metrics: "[...] Lastly, although the best basis for comparing methane and CO2 abatement should be relative social costs, we have found that the convention of using GWP100 is a reasonable approximation."

🌲How sickly forests are felling Europe's climate ambitions Concern about the capacity of forests, degraded by wildfires & drought, to absorb CO2 was a key reason EU countries watered down a new climate goal this week Story w/ @aliwithers.bsky.social & Simon Johnson www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

NZ: As world leaders meet for the COP30 climate summit, NZ is about to weaken the main purpose of its zero-carbon law – to ensure accountability in the long term.

‘I vote with the hand that holds this knife. I vote for the fish, the bird, the ocean and a raised land shaped by explosion, erosion and willful life.’ Dinah Hawken reads from her poem ‘The Uprising’ after receiving the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry last night.

I'm sure it's totally coincidental that the AoNZ government's changes to the Marsden Fund have been followed by successful applications led by female investigators dropping from 55% to 33%, and successful applications led by Māori investigators dropping from 13% to 5%. 🫠 🧪

@desmog.com reviewed US tax records which show Bill Gates’ charity has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by Danish academic and climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

NZ First announced a fireworks bill and most news outlets ran a story, without mentioning that it replaces a previous bill (definition of man and woman) and is part of the party's headline-generating strategy of proposing laws they have no intention of passing thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...

Wow, the NZ carbon market hates the Government's proposed changes to the ETS and Zero Carbon Act. Carbon price which had already dropped to $51.50 yesterday now down to $41 in intra-day trading. Just keep repeating "The ETS is our key tool to control emissions".

The Govt quietly announced a loosening of climate rules at 8pm last night: - Decoupling the ETS from Paris - Shifting ETS resets to every 2 years - Delaying the public sector target by 25 years - Removing CCC advice from *before* emission reductions plans: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

The US is not expected to send high-level representatives to COP30, and many say that’s for the best. Whether humanity bends the emissions curve sufficiently to escape the most dangerous climate impacts now depends on the actions of other big players www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Today marks the 1881 invasion of Parihaka to crush the peaceful resistance to the confiscation of Māori land. Here's a poignant extract from Richard Shaw's The Forgotten Coast theconversation.com/learning-to-...

NEW: The latest climate pledges under the Paris Agreement have driven only a slight fall in predicted global temperature rise over the course of this century. The UN Emissions Gap Report finds that implementing current policies would lead to up to 2.8°C of warming, down from 3.1°C. 🧵

Open water is so close this year (highly unusual) that seeing groups of Emperor Penguins out front of Scott Base is becoming a regular occurrence. Fun experience for people on base, but a stark and sobering reminder that change is here and is affecting more than humans. Viewed thru SB telescope

UNEP's latest annual “emissions gap” report is out - countries' climate plans "barely move the needle" on future warming @carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/unep-new-cou...

"The suggestion that this clause makes no difference simply isn’t true." _ president of school boards association Meredith Kennett. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

And this is basically kicking the can down the intergenerational road.

The govt is changing NZ's climate law - including moving the date for when govt organisations need to be carbon neutral from 2025 to 2050 'because 2025 is too soon for organisations to reduce their emissions enough to meet carbon neutrality' environment.govt.nz/news/governm...

a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐

Our 2025 State of the Climate Report was just published in BioScience by scientists from around the world including @michaelemann.bsky.social @petergleick.bsky.social This video (2 minutes) shows the key highlights: doi.org/10.1093/bios...

Did you know that submarine cables on the deep ocean floor literally connect our world? This map reveals the fragile & mostly unseen infrastructure carrying 99% of Earth's data traffic & providing internet access everywhere. www.maps.com/submarine-ca... 🧪 🌊 ⚒️ 🌍 🌎 🌏 #gischat @seabed2030.bsky.social

A Conversation piece on our (@manpreetkdhami.bsky.social @sbirdy.bsky.social) quirky fake spiderweb research for eDNA biomonitoring, just out in time for Halloween. Paper forthcoming! theconversation.com/spiders-insp...

"A Melissa type hurricane at landfall is about four times more likely in the 2025 climate compared to a pre-industrial baseline. This event was unlikely without climate change." From the attribution study quoted in this @insideclimatenews.org story insideclimatenews.org/news/3010202...

If @billgates.bsky.social were to read #ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & myself, he would know that climate change is amplifying deadly pandemics. Only someone ignorant of the science adopts the fallacy that we can treat global health and the climate crisis as separate threats

I think that if a property owner dies without a will and doesn't have direct beneficiaries, land should just go back to tangata whenua. Seems like it should be uncontentious - if you don't like it, write a will! www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/governmen...

The recovery of kelp forests brought many fish species back. But fish stocks in the reserve remain far below those present before commercial fishing took off. 👉 theconversation.com/nzs-fir...

At #COP30 next month in Brazil, the animal ag (and broader ag) industry is likely to be as active as the fossil fuel guys obstructing commitments to emissions reductions. I got a crash course on how they work from the great @profsecchi.bsky.social and Kathrin Lauber and terrific new @cssn.org book

Discontinued: monthly and mid-month posts and analysis of sea ice volume and extent If you're relying on these @nsidc.bsky.social services, I'd like to hear from you, too

Carbon offsets, though widely used, often fail to deliver real emission cuts. They undermine global climate goals by enabling polluters to avoid reducing fossil-fuel use.

For so long, fossil fuel projects have said their contribution to climate change is "negligible". Turns out that's wrong. Our research in NPJ Climate Action proves it. Every tonne of CO2 matters. @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social @minderoo.bsky.social #climatechange www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Seems like a good time to share this again - given the government's decision to weaken the methane emissions target and not to put a price on agricultural emissions northandsouth.co.nz/2021/10/18/n...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

A reminder.

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage? 🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

On the eve of a major international meeting on climate adaptation, NZ's government announces it is weakening its 2050 target to cut methane emissions - now only 14-24% (from 24-47%). As @christinahood.bsky.social says, NZ is now backtracking www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...

Among many others at the CDC, the Trump regime laid off the staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. “The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.”

Peace Nobel Prize goes to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for her "tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela" and "her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy" share.google/slEstTt7TFhN...

Our plane to Spain is in the air! 🙌🙌 Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

Germany's justice ministry held firm and killed EU chat control (for now): "Chat control without cause must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law. Private communication must never be under general suspicion." Admirably concise and direct. German in the best possible way.

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

This likely resonates with many of you, myself included. 'The hormonal upheaval of menopause doesn’t occur in isolation. In midlife, women often juggle caring responsibilities, career pressures and domestic demands ... layered on to biological changes.' theconversation.com/the-mental-t...

I've been looking for more reporting on this. NVIDIA has an increasing number of deals where it is paying companies to buy its chips. sounds very bubbly.

“We must stop expecting carbon offsetting to work at scale. […] We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...