🚨 Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 840,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,380,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 2,070,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,530,000 km² below the 1980s mean Graphics zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities. #COP30

If you're still wanting more suggestions here's my recommendation list from last year... 📖 Happy reading!

Another great read from @scrawford.bsky.social: "We can’t rely on the insurance industry to be the only risk-signaler for homes. These companies may be tracking hurricanes and wildfires, and translating those risks into higher premiums, but they are likely to exclude saltwater intrusion coverage."

Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *2nd* lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 770,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,390,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 2,010,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,530,000 km² below the 1980s mean More zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

"Bad COP" | My new commentary on #COP30: michaelmann.net/bad-cop/

www.dailymail.co.uk/real-estate/... “Hail now causes more home-damage dollars nationwide than hurricanes in some years, and is driving insurance premiums in the Great Plains to the highest levels in America.” As predicted by scientists.

And we warned them with our new 2025 State of the Climate Report which you can check out here: doi.org/10.1093/bios...

In our Climate Report my coauthors and I say: We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. Consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer future threats but are here now. Read report here doi.org/10.1093/bios...

Charts like this paint an overly optimistic picture Many countries are off track for delivery & are unlikely to fully implement their current policy targets without greater action E.g UKs Climate Change Commitee asseses that there is insufficient implementation to meet 40%of our emissions target!

Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *2nd* lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 720,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,390,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 2,010,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,520,000 km² below the 1980s mean More zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

A view of this year's extreme sea surface temperatures and recent warming across the North Pacific... 🌊 This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every average January-October period from 1854-2025 using ERSSTv5 data.

A number of new estimates of current policy warming by 2100 have been released in recent months, including three prominent ones from UNEP, IEA, and CAT in the run-up to COP30. I've got a new piece over at The Climate Brink digging into the details: www.theclimatebrink....

“As the planet warms, so much ice has been erased from around Mount Everest that the elevation at base camp in Nepal, which sits on a melting glacier, has dropped more than 220 feet since the 1980s.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Dramatic increase in conflicts over #water in 2024 compared to previous years. pacinst.org/announcement...

Something to ponder.

Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead. Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

"To achieve this through..... direct air capture, would require the construction of the world’s second biggest industry, after oil and gas, and require expenditures of about a trillion dollars a year" Pie in the sky www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Relevant as #COP30 gets underway...

Global emissions are up 34% since the first COP conference in 1995. The market for solar panels & EVs has grown - but so has fossil fuel use. However, without the COP process, world temperatures would be headed for a catastrophic 5C of heating, instead of the 3C+ increase that is now projected.

“These things came [to California] clearly from another region, another country — and that means all of our waterways are at risk,” Ransom said, calling the mussels a “serious emerging threat” to farms, water supplies, and recreation. www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/06/e...

I believe it’s time we adopt a universal symbol to represent humanity’s failure to heed scientists’ warnings about climate change—while we still have the power to prevent the worst outcomes. Symbols can work because they communicate powerful ideas instantly—without needing words.

We still hold the power to prevent the worst outcomes of climate change if we act decisively to end our dependence on fossil fuels. But that window is closing fast. Humanity needs to get their heads out of the sand before it is too late to stop climate change!

Something timely and new for your Holiday tree this year?

Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:

Let’s go back to the 1950s when children consumed Strontium 90 in their breakfast meals every morning. It was the breakfast of champions.

Given the United States’ current trajectory of promoting fossil fuel use—and if future elections continue to reinforce this direction—our only remaining choice may soon be how we prefer humanity cooked: medium rare, medium, well done, or extra crispy. Just madness.

Stopping climate change has become a battle of communication—a struggle to win the hearts and minds of people around the world. Unfortunately, the fossil fuel industry is winning that battle with ease, as if taking candy from a baby.

Climate disasters in first half of 2025 costliest ever on record, research shows. LA wildfires and storms this year cost $101bn, new study by non-profit resurrecting work axed by Trump says. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Today, the U.S. faces one billion+ dollar climate/weather disaster on average every 2w. That's a massive increase from one every 4m in the 1980s. This is 'global weirding' and people are taking notice! The government told NOAA to stop tracking these events: but @climatecentral.org is on the job.

In the 2025 State of Wildfires report, the authors suggest that climate change made southern California wildfires much more expansive in 2025, increasing burned area 25-fold. And also that, in decades ahead, fire risk may *decrease* in the region, despite warming. essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

In the last 10 years Swiss glaciers lost a quarter of their ice volume The warming is accelerating! From now on, I publish my articles in English as well Free accessible. The only thing I ask is a push on the repost button (the donation button is ❤️) reportersonline.eu/2025-another...

The decline of marine algae due to stronger thermal stratifications will have far-reaching consequences: reduced CO₂ absorption, the collapse of plankton-based food webs, decreased oxygen production, severe impacts on fisheries & biodiversity, & major global economic & humanitarian losses.

Our new study finds that the upper atmosphere is becoming more sheared and less stratified because of climate change. Both these changes are making the air less stable and more conducive to turbulence. Published in the November issue of Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. doi.org/10.1175/JAS-...

📢 New paper on burned and thawing permafrost #peatlands in northern Alberta! Large Carbon Losses From Burned Permafrost Peatlands During Post‐Fire Succession - led by Chris Schulze - 2025 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... Really great research involving some difficult field work!

As an old saying — attributed to Winston Churchill — goes: “Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing once all other possibilities have been exhausted.” Let’s hope this applies to climate change.

We desperately need global educational infrastructure —one capable of countering climate change disinformation while educating people about the consequences of inaction. As Sir David Attenborough has observed, “Saving the planet is now a communications challenge.”

The Great Melting is upon us.

And much more massive in South Australia. Vaste areas with almost all marine life dead www.marineconservation.org.au/south-austra...

🧪 NEW STUDY: Air pollution increases risk of Lewy Body Dementia, the 2nd most common dementia after Alzheimer’s* Your reminder that air pollution is just another name for fossil fuel combustion byproducts. *linked to air pollution in previous studies 1/3 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Decades ago, I had the privilege of hearing Dr. Jane Goodall speak to a full auditorium at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. Her talk was inspiring, filled with hope and wisdom about our natural world. The world needs more people like her, especially now!

63 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Despite recent gains in renewable energy usage, & even if these recent trends persist for the next three decades, carbon intensity by 2050 would be 0.02 kg CO2e per $ of GDP, which would still result in temperature increases over 3° above pre-industrial levels.

Now outside the paywall!

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life. Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Well, without the U.S. leading the world in reducing carbon emissions, others won’t do enough to avoid catastrophic warming. Madness, just madness.