Recommended watch: BBC News reported on a coastal community in Nigeria where the ocean has "already swallowed more than half of the town".

The Typhoon at Torbay air show was so loud, I thought there was a thunderstorm in Dartington

I live just down the road from this weather station, and can confirm from my own scientific observations that it was at least a gazillion degrees. And to be more sombre about this: any politics that doesn't start from the existential nature of the climate crisis is just not a serious contribution.

This heatwave is historic

This is quite interesting: www.cnn.com/2026/05/25/s... I learnt that you can’t have many red buildings around penguins.

In case you hadn't grasped the magnitude of the problem on a day when UK temperature records are being annihilated.

UK universities cut jobs, research and teaching amid squeeze in overseas students - www.ft.com/content/ded7... I don't really understand why any administration would not try to reverse the fall in overseas student numbers, but I guess I'm a naive liberal

Meanwhile

Max Perutz also worked on Project Habakkuk and was John Glen's PhD supervisor. Here they are in the Alps.

I’m in Geneva for a couple of days for a workshop with WEF Hoffmann fellows past and present.

The YouTube algorithm suggested this and, although it explains some things well and includes interviews with some familiar faces, the absence of any mention of climate change or sea level rise is bothering me: youtu.be/XfGEMCb6BQU

Some drone shots of Svínafellsjökull, Iceland, from our 3rd year Geography & Environmental Science fieldtrip. #dundee #iceland #glacier

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

The latest issue of #PhilTransA considers how observations of the subglacial environment can be better collected and used for the prediction of global sea level through improved ice-sheet modelling. Read the full issue: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/issue/3...

Last year scientists gathered to discuss acquiring ice sheet bed measurements in ways that will benefit modelling in sea level rise predictions. A #PhilTransA issue stemming from this meeting has now been published. Guest Editor, Prof Martin Siegert, tells us more: royalsociety.org/blog/2026/04...

This is how King Charles ever-so-diplomatically raised the issue of the environment during his speech to the US Congress joint session. He avoided directly raising the issue that has long been close to his heart - the threat of climate change

Someone talking about the score for the Fellowship of the Ring was on Pick of the Week earlier and it led me to finding a whole episode of Sound of Cinema on the Lord of the Rings: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

If all glaciers melt, sea level will rise by about 24cm. If the polar ice sheets melt, sea level will rise by more than 65m; almost 300 times more.

We have a piece in @theconversation.com today on why the best-case sea-level rise scenarios are likely out of reach, and what that means for our coastlines. theconversation.com/why-delaying...

New paper out in Phil Trans R Soc A. We asked a simple question: are the IPCC’s lowest sea-level rise scenarios actually achievable? Short answer: probably not. 🧵 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article...

A month ago, I paid a deposit on a 2nd hand ID3 to replace my diesel Golf. I haven’t been allowed to collect it because the dealer did a software update that crashed all the electronics and they need another update from VW to fix it. Meanwhile, a tanker has just arrived to fill up my heating oil 😬

SPRINGER Spaniel

"The study’s author says Venice exemplifies the challenges that many low-lying coastal areas will face due to sea-level rise over the coming centuries, including the Maldives and the Netherlands." For the UK, add the Fens, Broads, Somerset Levels and areas flanking the Thames Estuary to that list.

This week humans returned to the Moon - something I've waited my life to witness. But watching the Artemis II launch left me feeling strangely unmoved. I was looking forward to something, and when it arrived I realised I had changed. And so had the Earth. www.technosphere.earth/dont-fly-me-...

We’ve had the roofers working on our flat roof today, so I got them to sweep up all the crud and put it in a bag for this: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Permafrost is thawing across the globe and nearly 30 years of satellite data show it's accelerating 🛰️ Join the next ESA Climate Change Initiative webinar with Annett Bartsch to learn how Earth observation captures these changes. 22 April | 16:00 CEST | Register here: tinyurl.com/k6mhk53z

Trump, Netanyahu and Khamenei. Totnes, 6pm this Saturday.

The Moonites are already gathering on the shores of the Sea of Tranquility and demanding that Earth stop sending illegal immigrants in small rockets across the Cislunar Channel.

Unfortunately, I’m too English to be an astronaut. I could never say any of these things, even after years of rigorous training.

Most coverage has focused on the US, but the UK has announced the steepest cut to foreign aid. Down to 0.3% of its Gross National Income, well below the 0.7% UN target: open.substack.com/pub/hannahri...

I’ve had a wonderful (but busy) few days in Oxford for the @esaclimate.bsky.social co-location meeting

Looks ominous

Huge relief to dive into X and find out Ed Miliband is responsible for the energy crisis we're all facing and no-one else. There was me thinking it might be something altogether bigger and tougher to fix.

What this story says is that, if the war were continued for 1 year, the increase in CO2 emissions would be about 0.3% of global emissions. Given the disaster this war would be for the fossil fuel energy system, the demand destruction would probably more than outweigh this…

This Saturday marks #WorldGlaciersDay. Understanding how glaciers and ice sheets move, thin, and lose mass is essential for projecting sea level rise. @esa.int Climate Change Initiative Glaciers and Ice Sheets projects deliver the satellite data to do just that. Find the projects here: t1p.de/5gm62

Before dinner with MPs, I watched a debate in the House of Lords. I was trying to work out where everyone sits because it’s not as straightforward as the Commons. If anyone is interested: lordslibrary.parliament.uk/who-sits-whe...

This evening I’ve been in Parliament discussing sea level rise and the future of our coastline with some MPs. I learnt that the general public isn’t very aware that sea level rise is happening already or that it’s something that they should be concerned about 😬

This year . . . Econ bro: I need to hire econ and finance bros for climate risk. Me: Pretty sure you need a climate scientist or an engineer on your team. Econ bro: Good point. Let's get an AI agent to feed the econ bro climate data because nothing could go wrong with that. Me: Arrghhhhh.

This new study in @agu.org GRL tests different ways of training models using two types of satellite data: "how fast the ice moves and how much the surface height changes over time." Models trained only on surface height changes performed better. ▶️ agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

“"Many glaciers are now losing so much mass that they barely react to periods of short-term cooling” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our coastline is slipping away — we need to act fast

Every week it goes on, every bit of the supply chain it spanners, it shaves off time at the end of oil's volume tail. That's your positive message. Now back to watching energy markets explode.

It was a foggy day at the beach, but I found these pyrite ammonites and some belemnites #fossils

Who doesn’t love seeing a supraglacial channel in winter? The ice shapes are amazing — frozen flows, bright blues, and patterns that show how glaciers move and melt. Nature at its coolest. #Glacier #Science #Glaciology

🧊Antarctica’s grounding lines have remained stable along most of the coast for 30 years — but not everywhere. A new study using data from Copernicus Sentinel-1 and other missions shows retreat of up to 40 km in vulnerable regions, signaling future ice loss risk. www.esa.int/Applications...

As a glaciologist, it is strange to realize that I can't go back to visit many of my past field sites, the memories are there, the ice is gone or soon to be gone. #ThwaitesGlacier #climategrief #glaciers #Antarctica

The UK atmospheric research aircraft (the FAAM) will cease operations in one month's time due to a research 'pivot' by UKRI... www.ukri.org/news/nerc-pi...

"Nature knows best" sounds wise. But we invented farming because nature didn't know best for growing crops. Pop ecology's tradeoff-free farming doesn't hold up to scrutiny. csanr.wsu.edu/pop-ecology/