In a sane world, this would be front page news everywhere. But it will hardly be covered anywhere. The North Pacific Ocean surface warmed over twice as much over the past 15 years than it did over the preceding 156 years. That's an increase in warming rate of >2000%!

Breathing in air pollution from wood burning increases your risk of heart and lung disease, asthma, diabetes and dementia. Even homes with newer “Ecodesign” wood burners are three times more polluted than those without. This #CleanAirNight, share the facts about wood burning.

Arctic Sea Ice Year-End 2025 • Daily Arctic Sea Ice, Two Years • December 27, 2023 — December 31, 2025 See Chart and details in post below. #Arctic #SeaIce #dataviz Datasets courtesy of NASA/GSFC & JAXA NASA SVS Learn More: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5046/

Daily Global Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) December 31, 2025: 426.90 ppm Four Atmospheric Baseline Observatories: Barrow, Alaska -🟦 Mauna Loa, Hawaii -🟥 American Samoa -🟩 South Pole, Antarctica -🟨 Black Lines: Trends & Seasonal Cycles. #CO2 #CarbonDioxide More: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...

As we put the final period on 2025, it is virtually certain to rank among the 3 warmest years on record globally (following 2024 as the warmest & 2023 at #2) Here’s a quick look back at some of the weather extremes that this heat -- driven in part by climate change -- helped shape over the past 365

A Gigaton is a billion tons. Or 1000000000000 kg or 2204622621848.78 lbs More than 100 of those lost from Antarctic and Greenland land ice (not sea ice, which is different) each and every year in recent decades. That's the part not replaced by snowfall that helps drive up sea levels.

Arctic Sea Ice Extent at Record Low Levels • November 2025, 2nd lowest monthly mean extent on record, 11.7% less than normal. • Dec 23, 2025, #Arctic #SeaIce extent lowest observed for time of year. European Union, Copernicus Climate Change Service Learn More: www.copernicus.eu/en/media/ima...

Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Losses Average Mass Loss 2002–2025: • Antarctica -135 Gigatons ice/year, global sea level rise 0.4mm/yr. • Greenland -264 Gigatons ice/year, global sea level rise 0.8mm/yr. #Antarctic #Greenland #IceSheet NASA&JPL/Caltech LEARN MORE: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31166/

2025 Intense Wildfire Year in Northern Hemisphere • Extreme #wildfires in North America and Europe. • Atmospheric composition impacts far from where fires burn. Locations, intensity, smoke plumes Jan 1 - Nov 30 2025. #CopernicusAtmosphere CAMS/ECMWF LEARN: atmosphere.copernicus.eu/2025-sees-in...

Arctic Report Card 2025 - Key Findings • Surface air temperatures are rising. • Glaciers and ice sheets are shrinking. • Rivers are rusting. • Ocean temperatures are rising and sea ice is declining. 1/3 #ArcticReportCard #Arctic CIRES LEARN MORE: cires.colorado.edu/news/record-...

A series of storms is moving through the Pacific Northwest, downing trees and power lines along a wide swath of northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington. Read more here at OPB.org  📹 by Ryan Haas/OPB & Saskia Hatvany/OPB ✂️ by Emily Hamilton/OPB ✏️ by Frankie Benitez/OPB

My ‘office’ for today is a TGV train from Paris to Milan - via stunning scenery of mountains, waterfalls, lakes and forests 🌲🗻 I gave up short-haul flying 4 years ago for climate reasons - but I genuinely just prefer this way of travelling now. @flightfreeuk.bsky.social

Waterfronts should be designed for people, not for cars!

Flood Watches & Warnings are posted across Washington and Oregon this week as an atmospheric river impacts the Pacific Northwest. ⚠️Heavy rain, strong winds, and the risk of landslides are all on the radar. Let’s break down how climate change plays a role in events like this 🧵

Shanghai famously turned its back on the bike decades ago, surrendering its streets to cars in pursuit of economic prosperity. But in the coming years, they will make a remarkable U-turn, reclaiming substantial road space to add 1,250 km of high-quality cycling routes in the name of urban vitality.🧵

Kīlauea Volcano • Ep 37, #Kīlauea summit eruption, Halemaʻumaʻu crater, ended Nov 25, 2025. • Fountain heights of 500-600ft (150-180m). • Estimated 8.2 million cubic yards (6.3 million cubic meters) lava over 9.2 hours. 1/2 #Volcano #Geology #Hawaii USGS Learn More: www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/ki...

Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice • Daily Polar Sea Ice, Two Year History • November 30, 2023 — November 29, 2025 * "Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data)" #Arctic #Antarctic #SeaIce #dataviz Datasets courtesy of NASA/GSFC&JAXA NASA SVS Learn More: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5099

Loud voices in the climate community ignore the actual science and constantly use cherry-picking, strawmann arguments and ad hominems to try and deny the undeniable. Pretending that we have been exaggerating, while it's likely even worse than we feared (again, based on data).

🇯🇵 The Japanese students turning walking into a viral spectacle For more than half a century, students at Nippon Sport Science University have captivated audiences with their synchronised walking -- a practice known as Shudan Kodo, meaning "collective action".

Deadly Vietnam Floods Heavy rain, severe flooding, landslides in Vietnam. Relentless rain lashed Vietnam since late October. "Scientists have identified a pattern of human-driven climate change that has been making extreme weather more frequent and destructive." www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fzf...

Cycling is Terrible For The Economy “Choose wisely…Worth thinking about!!” Credit: via @urbancyclinginstitute.org

Trams on grass, Rotterdam edition.

Keeping up with students’ methods of cheating has always been a cat-and-mouse game for teachers. But some now say that AI tools, particularly Google Lens, have made it impossible to enforce academic integrity in the classroom. bit.ly/3Lww7rK 📝 @carolynjones100.bsky.social 📸 Lauren Justice

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage One of my favorite clips from Episode 7 (Nov. 1980), Carl Sagan returns to his 6th grade classroom to teach students in his childhood neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. You can see their genuine curiosity, wonder, and eagerness to learn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNgJ...

Loved this morning’s Women’s Breeze Ride - a relaxed 8 miles along the Worcs & Bham Canal towpath, the A38 cycleway, and the beautiful Rea Valley. So good to see the green spaces full of life - cyclists, walkers, even kayakers! 🚴‍♀️🛶 Good for the body and soul 💚 letsride.co.uk/rides/breeze...

Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%. This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement. www.unep.org/resources/em... 1/

Neighborhood Walk Beautiful colors of Autumn Leaves on my walk today! Mid 50s F and overcast concrete skies, very comfortable! #Hiking #AutumnLeaves #Walking #PDX #PNW

As coal power plants go offline, data centers boot up, and more people switch to electric appliances and vehicles, the region's electrical grid is strained and there’s not enough renewable energy projected to come online to fill the gap.

Hurricane Melissa Lightning flashes within powerful eye wall of Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. 🌀 Potential to be strongest storm to make landfall in #Jamaica on record. 🌀 1/2 #Hurricane #TropicalCyclone #Lightning 2025/10/27 UTC CSU/CIRA&NOAA LEARN MORE: satlib.cira.colostate.edu/event/hurric...

Upwelling Failure For the first time since records began, the cold, nutrient-rich waters of the Gulf of Panama failed to emerge from depths of the ocean to rise to the surface. Finding highlights climate’s impact on fundamental oceanic processes. #Chlorophyll LEARN: stri.si.edu/story/upwell...

Harvest Moon No matter how far apart we are, we are always under the same moon. October 6, 2025 #HarvestMoon #MidAutumnFestival #FullMoon www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/mo...

Imelda Absorbs Humberto’s Remnants • Hurricanes #Imelda & #Humberto traveling in western Atlantic. • Humberto dissipates & gets assimilated by Imelda. Sept 29 - Oct 2, 2025 UTC Extratropical Transition #Hurricane #TropicalCyclone CSU/CIRA&NOAA Learn More: satlib.cira.colostate.edu/event/hurric...

Jane Goodall Releases Chimp I had the opportunity to meet her many years ago while attending one of her presentations with "Roots & Shoots" at my sons international school in Asia at the time. youtu.be/bCVmfDuRpBc

Mainstream Media Owned and operated by corporations to promote and influence for their own corporate interests and financial gain. Big Five U.S. #CorporateMedia #MainstreamMedia #Disney #ABC

🚨 It's official - 2025 observed the 10th lowest annual minimum #Arctic sea ice extent (statistical tie). My next blog will focus on this past summer season. This minimum was set 4 days earlier than average. For more information: @nsidc.bsky.social (nsidc.org/sea-ice-toda...)

Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Extent 2025 • Arctic Sea Ice maximum extent March 22, 2025 to minimum extent reached September 10, 2025. • In the 47-year-satellite record, 19 lowest minimums have all occurred in last 19 years. *Appreciation much obliged! 1/2 #Arctic #SeaIce MORE: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5583/

Ozone Hole Development 2025 2025 ozone hole presented an early development, larger-than-average area mid-September. Current ongoing #Antarctic ozone hole as 3D rendered animation below, thru 15 Sep 2025. 1/2 #OzoneHole #WorldOzoneDay CAMS/ECMWF LEARN MORE: atmosphere.copernicus.eu/monitoring-o...

In the Netherlands, you will often see paths such as this one. Separated, wide, and surrounded by greenery. By making cycling infrastructure safe and enjoyable, it is less of a hurdle to travel by bike.

Financing of Fossil Fuel Industry by Banks Worldwide 2016 to 2024 • JPMorgan Chase, USD 53.5 billion 2024 alone. USD 192.3 billion 2021-2024. • Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Bank of America, RBC, EACH exceeding USD 100 billion 2021-2024. #FossilFuels #Emissions Aug 2025 www.statista.com/statistics/1...

And just like that, we're back to the school run and the usual grind 🤯. How did you get to school today? Did you know that travelling actively to school improves mood, behaviour & confidence, increases attention levels & enhances performance? Here's to a new school year! (1st pic: Crispin Hughes)

Car exhaust. Factory smoke. Wildfire haze. Chances are, no matter where on Earth you live, you’re exposed to some form of air pollution almost every day. The consequences of this pollution can be debilitating – and deadly. #AirPollution Learn More: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

Earth Rotating 3D Earth with clouds, atmosphere, and night lights. “On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.” #Earth #BlueMarble NASA SVS Learn, View, Download: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5570/

Kīlauea Volcano • Ep. 32, Halemaʻumaʻu eruption ended Sep 2. • Spectacular lava fountaining, crater floor flows. • ~12.5 million cubic yards of lava, enough to fill a hole the size of a football field one mile deep! #Volcano #Kīlauea #Geology #Hawaii USGS Learn More: www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/ki...

Greenland Ice Sheet Greenland subglacial flood bursts through #IceSheet surface. Equivalent to about 9 hours' worth of water thundering over Niagara Falls at peak flow, one of the largest recorded subglacial floods in #Greenland. 1/2 #Glacier #Meltwater ESA LEARN MORE: www.esa.int/Applications...

Temperature Records Broken High temperature records broken across NW Oregon & SW Washington Friday. Extreme Heat Warnings & Advisories for Pacific Northwest continue thru Tuesday, Aug. 26, triple digits, little nighttime relief. #ExtremeHeatWarning #HeatAdvisory #ORwx #WAwx www.weather.gov/pqr

🌡️ Heatwaves are prolonged, intense periods of high temps, with serious consequences for health, agriculture, energy and water. Learn more about how heatwaves are defined, and how Europe is adapting. Read the article 🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/heatwaves-br...

Dangerous Extreme Heat • Extreme Heat Warnings & Advisories for Pacific Northwest, triple digit some areas. • Numerous daily High Temperature records likely broken, little nighttime relief. • Dangerous #HeatWave across much of Western U.S. #ExtremeHeatWarning #HeatAdvisory #PNW www.weather.gov/pqr

Hurricane Erin Hurricane Erin continues journey along the U.S. Atlantic Coast as the Sun sets on August 20, 2025. Creating dangerous Storm Surge, life-threatening high surf, and powerful rip currents. #Hurricane #TropicalCyclone GOES-East - 2025/08/21 UTC Learn More: www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/

Hurricane Erin Churns off East Coast • Massive and strengthening Hurricane Erin looming off the U.S. East Coast. • Life-threatening high surf, powerful rip currents on U.S. East Coast. #Hurricane #TropicalCyclone 2025/08/20 UTC CSU/CIRA&NOAA Learn More: satlib.cira.colostate.edu/event/hurric...

The sun rises on massive and strengthening Hurricane Erin. The storm is expected to stay offshore, but some of its effects will be felt all along the East Coast.