How well can we quantify when 1.5 °C of global warming has been exceeded? Open review until 11 March essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...

Today I learnt that a bit of Totnes has been recreated at Disney World

Our new paper on the future of the Antarctic Peninsula published today, showing how the various systems across the Peninsula will be impacted by different global warming scenarios. www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...

Wuuuargh

I’m giving up for lent.

"When it comes to science, the White House could not have crafted a more effective America Last policy." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... by @anjahuja.bsky.social

🔔🚨 New Publication Alert! Research has shown that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a climate tipping element. We found: it’s not one — it’s many. 📄 Paper (open access): www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📢 Press release: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late... Tread below 🧵👇

📅 Save the date! Join us on Saturday 21 March 2026 for a free, family-friendly open day as part of the Cambridge Festival lineup. 🎟️ Free tickets dropping soon - watch this space! 📍 British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET 🕙 21st March 10am - 4pm

Enjoyed Guy Martin’s House Without Bills: www.channel4.com/programmes/g...

“Academia is a lot like an open-world RPG: a role playing game in which you wander a world that initially seems full of endless possibility, but ultimately devolves into repeating the same actions over and over again for diminishing returns slowly consuming your days, evenings, and weekends.”

This cartoon of his lives rent free in my brain.

France has ended up in a strange position after using some €250bn of tax-payer money to build a fleet of nuclear power stations. Wind and solar power is merrily entering the French power market at prices nuclear production can't match, resulting in huge surpluses of power. 1/

A brilliant postdoc opportunity in beautiful Hobart. IMAS is a lovely place to work.

I hope the “Based on Dame Jilly Cooper’s Rutshire Chronicles“ means they’re going to do more books. The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous? #Rivals youtu.be/YeDy_JebCE0

“Once we have ecosystem breakdown or climate breakdown, we can’t bail out the Earth like we did the banks.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Devon is a mud bath, but the snow drops are out

Unfortunately the conspiracy theory paper that they give out in Totnes on Saturdays has turned into the Daily Mail. Nothing about how aliens live amongst us or how the earth’s crust will be turning to lava at 3pm on 16th October 2032. I might write in and complain.

Don't forget! Dr. James Kirkham @iccinet.bsky.social will be talking about "Climate science diplomacy: What is it? How do YOU do it? And how can we make policymakers care about ice?” at 11:00 UTC/12:00 CET today. Register: scar.org/scar-news/pr...

Good luck to the reviewers…

Their tartan-panelled yellow dungarees and snakeskin shirts are a symbol of their individuality and belief in personal freedom #TOTP

As ever, Private Eye sees through the way the usual-suspect media are happy to swallow wholesale and then amplify the BS from Tufton St lobbyists when it comes to net-zero And, as ever, @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org made all these points the moment the coverage landed

When my family ran a bus company the worst thing that happened was a coach broke down on the Torpoint ferry and so the passengers spent most of an afternoon going backwards and forwards across the river until my dad fixed it. Fortunately we never employed anyone quite this mad.

The aurora is back in South Devon

Nice summary of the importance of Antarctica's ice shelves and how little we know about them. Major differences between models of present day ice shelf melt need to be resolved. Paper here tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...

A new map of basal topography will help improve model projections of how Antarctica’s ice sheet could respond to warming: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“The findings will leave environmentally conscious pet owners torn between giving their dogs the most delicious food and minimising their impact on the climate.” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... This is my dog after he enthusiastically inhaled a fresh cowpat earlier today.

UPDATED – Factcheck: How ‘scary-sounding numbers’ are being used to mislead the UK about net-zero | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/Be7nHfA

📢 Excited to advertise a PhD opportunity at @geogdurham.bsky.social and @ihrr.bsky.social generously funded by the Christopher Moyes Memorial Foundation. There are ten projects to select from (two highlighted below), and the deadline is 6th February. Learn more at: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

And if you add the share of ‘Sustainable Aviation Fuels’ that actually is sustainable and not just declared so, then it becomes even more ridiculous.

To me this was a highlight of the @nebriefing.bsky.social A vital perspective from an "establishment source", traditionally listened to by the right-wing, from a sector that knows how to handle risks, threats and emergencies. Well worth a listen.

Look out!

I’ve become a professional professional and joined LinkedIn. I’ve no idea how it works or what I’m doing there. Please like, follow and subscribe 🤷‍♀️ www.linkedin.com/in/helen-mil...

Absolutely glorious thread on the Telegraph's "Whisper it" series. I would "whisper it", too, if I was putting out this much drivel...

God bless us, every one.

Take a journey through time down a new NSF COLDEX ice core borehole just completed by the team in #Antarctica! If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc

Meanwhile, in London

She was a girl from Birmingham She just had an abortion She was a case of insanity Her name was Pauline She lived in a tree.

Antarctica’s future beyond 2100: high emissions would drive major long-term ice loss, finds new PIK study. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet’s long-term collapse becomes virtually certain under high emissions; strong mitigation would limit sea-level rise contribution. www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship (3.75 years, inc. 3 month internship with S&T Norway) @cpom-uk.bsky.social, Northumbria, UK: "The Role of Landfast Sea Ice in Antarctic Ice Shelf Stability: Integrating Earth Observation with Low-Carbon AI Modelling" More details: tinyurl.com/yc7v3t5r 🧪❄️🛰️

Happy #AntarcticaDay 🇦🇶 If you're interested in learning more about the Antarctic Treaty, visit ASOC's website: www.asoc.org/learn/antarc...

Ben Santer writes. It's worth reading.

Tonight’s TOTP highlight was a dancing pantomime camel: youtu.be/5sIbqrJBZAA

How could I forget, here's the UK version

I'd like to see the response to this if the question added "if that that means universities have less money to spend on UK students".

Reflections on COP30 Global Mutirão final decision text:

Climate Diplomacy Brief - #COP30 day 12 **ENDGAME - MAKE IT END** The COP30 negotiations have been a mess, but we’ll always remember Belém and its wonderful people

On my way to London for some COP30 appropriate music #Radiohead youtu.be/FxlYPR8MEvY

The script writers of reality are a bit too on the nose today.

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