Oh man, what a story of a plutonium generator lost at Nanda Devi! By putting an unmanned station on top of the Himalayas, the C.I.A. hoped to pluck radio signals from high-altitude missiles launched from China. Gift Link 🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In the world we live in today, that is 1.3C warmer due to our continued burning of fossil fuels, the extreme rainfall leading to disastrous flooding in many parts of Asia is up to 50 to 160% more intense - new @wwattribution.bsky.social study www.worldweatherattribution.org/increasing-h...

thebulletin.org/2025/11/a-cl... I had the great privilege of working with Ben at the Livermore Labs and be a part of the AR6 chapter that featured the “unequivocal” finding - a vast leap from the “discernible human influence”. If we have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants ..

$170,000 a minute: Why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action The desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on? #COP30 #climatecrisis Story by me 1/7 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Interesting data highlighted by the Hindu on attitudes to climate change.

“I wish we could ignore Bill Gates. Unfortunately his economic and political power makes that impossible. But unlike him, we can recognise that this power exists and, when it speaks, it does so on its own behalf.”

A must read for all who are interested in event attribution!

Rapid attribution study by @climameter.bsky.social @davifaranda.bsky.social of hurricane #melissa More at climameter.org

To seed or not to seed? Here’s a piece Shahzad Gani @shahzadgani.bsky.social and I wrote for The Hindu newspaper.

Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out. Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.

New Orleans has been on my mind these last couple of days- more than usual. Hurricane Katrina was 20 years ago and the city that I still consider my spiritual home had been devastated. share.google/injnMWmMfXQ9...

Heavy monsoon rains have led to more than 300 deaths in Pakistan since late June. Climate change increased the downpours by about 15% 📈 Our latest study, focusing on the hardest-hit north of the country, was published this morning 🧵

Energy Secretary Chris Wright says Trump admin is altering previous National Climate Assessments. These were produced by hundreds of climate scientists and mandated by Congress. (1/2)

Surprise! - Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot Has Started Reciting Climate Denial Talking Points www.scientificamerican.com/article/elon...

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT!! WCRP endorses CMIP 7 scenarios proposed by ScenarioMIP as part of the @wcrp-cmip.org Project suite of experiments, featuring 6 future climate scenarios. 🔗 Read and download the endorsement here: loom.ly/zS29hMU #ClimateChange #ClimateAction

Not that we really need more ways to show how unusually warm 2024 was... Here's the joyplot updated with the past year.

New on The Climate Brink: Los Angeles is 🔥, what you should know www.theclimatebrink.com/p/some-thoug...

With all the news about the latest data showing that temperatures in 2024 were 1.6°C warmer than pre-industrial levels, many have asked what this means for the 1.5°C of the UN Paris Agreement. A short 🧵that aims to distinguish the signal from the noise (1)

How extreme was the weather this year? Is a question we, @wwattribution.bsky.social , get asked every year. Looking back at the events we studied in detail & some new stats, we try to give an answer www.worldweatherattribution.org/when-risks-b... - in short: it was pretty bad, but things can change!

A visual illustration of the case for geological net zero.

An important piece by my colleague Shahzad Gani.

Redrawing the global warming stripes. In a new paper led by Sebastian Sippel published in Nature today, we show that the early 20th century global ocean surface temperatures and thereby global mean surface temperature were warmer than previously thought. Thread... (1/13)

“You shouldn’t ask scientists how to galvanize the world because clearly we don’t have a fucking clue” - Gavin Schmidt www.theguardian.com/environment/...

At least 24 previously impossible heatwaves have struck communities across the planet, a new assessment has shown, providing stark evidence of how severely human-caused global heating is supercharging extreme weather www.theguardian.com/environment/...