bbc.com/news/article... I hope I'm just missing something, but one thing I'm not hearing in talk about this new approach to science funding is that improving understanding of climate and environmental change is essential to effective planning of adaptation.

Day 1 of my voyage to the #Antarctic Peninsula on the #tallship #BarkEuropa: departing from #Ushuaia and sailing east along the Beagle Channel. #BusmansHoliday

🧵 This is the vessel I will be spending the next two and a half weeks aboard, travelling from Ushuaia to the Antarctic Peninsula and back. With an overall length of 56 m, which includes the bowsprit, the Bark Europa is smaller than any vessel I have ventured out into the Southern Ocean on before.

#Ushuaia, on the Beagle Channel. The southernmost port in #Argentina and the departure point for my forthcoming trip to sea.

Satellites reveal rapidly intensifying ice loss at Earth's poles ->Earth.com | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

The global warming trend continued in 2025. Each of the past 11 years (2015–2025) has been among the 11 warmest on record. Explore more data from #CopernicusClimate in the Global Climate Highlights 2025. #GCH2025 🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima... @ecmwf.int

Most 2025 global temperatures are now out (degrees C above 1850-1900 baseline) 1.41 HadCRUT5 1.44 Berkeley 1.46 JRA-3Q 1.47 Copernicus 1.53 DCENT-I NOAA and NASA GISS values will be public at 2pm UK time and but based on already public Jan-Nov data they will likely be between 1.3 and 1.4 degC.

The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on: * Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc AND * Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero I kid you not, it is that stupid

This is one of my favorite ways to visualize #SeaLevelRise... With another year of verified water levels at Key West behind us now (as of today), here's the updated version of this chart I've been making for the past decade or so. 🧪🌊 [1/3]

For those unable to access the Boston Globe article... www.technosphere.earth/we-cant-just...

Reform UK, which says it represents “change” from Conservative failures, has so far accepted defections from: - A disgraced Tory minister sacked for tax-dodging - Disgraced Tory vice chairman suspended for racism - Disgraced former minister suspended for abandoning constituents for a reality TV gig

How embarrassing it would be for him if lots of people reposted that.

This is especially bad news for Leila Cunningham who has been put forward as Reform UK’s Mayoral Candidate (two and half years ahead of the election), and rather punctures her message that we Londoners must be “pitied.” Brilliant work by our current mayor, @london.gov.uk. 🐻

🧵Preparing for one more #Antarctic trip. I have been "South" 22 times before, but this is going to be very different from any previous expedition. I have visited the point of departure once before, but that was more than 20 years ago.

With the growing outrage about the government being a tyranny because they’re considering shutting down X, which recently started producing non-consensual sexual images of women and children not as a bug, but as a feature, it’s worth asking - why? What do they gain from X? I think I know why.

I've been sitting on this for over a month...but given how cross I am with @royalsociety.org at their ongoing inaction over #Elon #Musk I thought I'd share this. They invited me to serve on their Public Engagement Committee; I could have been more eloquent, but I had to give a firm "no"...

“Mr. Trump’s policies are helping ‘to create a world without America,’ said Robert Z. Lawrence, a professor of international trade and investment at Harvard. And ‘it’s not only in trade,’ he added.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/b...

Considering @scar-antarctic.bsky.social this summer in Oslo? We are soliciting submissions for Session S13: Past, present, and future of Antarctic marine grounded basins. See scar2026.org for meeting details. @polarrobs.bsky.social @deformedearth.bsky.social and more are co-chairs. 🧪❄️

🧪❄️🛰️🧵Spectacular image of the current state of the front of Thwaites Glacier, West #Antarctica collected by Sentinel-1 two days ago. The upper (eastern) part of the image shows the fast decaying Eastern Ice Shelf with several recently formed rifts near its grounding zone.

2025 goes down as the ~3rd-warmest year on record (based on ERA5). Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).

Here is a new #ClimateTrollBingo card in case you want to play along ... entertain your friends, amaze your dog, a one-stop path to neverending fun and excitement, you too can play and win at CLIMATE TROLL BINGO.

Another 4 to 5 m of cliff retreat along one part of the Hemsby coastline last night. Disappointingly, the article fails to explain that the acceleration in coastal erosion is due to sea-level rise. www.itv.com/news/anglia/...

🚨 December 2025 #Arctic sea ice extent was the *lowest* on record for the month... This was 1,620,000 km² below the 1981-2010 average. December ice extent is decreasing at about 3.5% per decade. Data: @nsidc.bsky.social at nsidc.org/data/seaice_...

🧪🧵 Shocking statistics on the state of flood defences in Norfolk, which has the largest areas vulnerable to coastal flooding of any Enlish country. www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/2569863...

@zhonggg.bsky.social is currently on a South Korean icebreaker in Antarctica because the US is no longer a serious country. The Trump regime got rid of our Antarctic icebreaker, Nathaniel B. Palmer, so for the first time in six decades we are without a dedicated Antarctic research vessel.

As always, my last post of the year reminder... Reducing emissions will reduce future climate warming and impacts. The time is now. Visualization made by globalcarbonbudget.org. Thanks for being here in 2025! I appreciate all the support 🙂

Cheers to 2026 — may it bring less climate fantasy and a lot more climate reality. 🥂🌍 Start the year informed… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I'd like to be able to wish everyone a happy and carefree New Year. However, I feel I need to do everything I can to make people aware of the problem of committed sea-level rise. Compared to some other climate issues it's a slow burner, but we need to act sooner rather than later to mitigate it.

Temperature anomalies averaged over the last month (left), 3 months (center), and 12 months (right) across the Northern Hemisphere... Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis

4. Comparing geoengineering to sticking a knife in a plugged-in toaster is my new favourite analogy. #TabClosed2026

Powerful Guardian editorial on urgent need for #climate adaptation & for “real plans, real finance, real justice”. And good to see shout out to work of @climatemajority.bsky.social & GlacierTrust showing adaptation as both essential in itself & as a spur to greater decarbonisation👇

We analysed 73,000 articles and found the UK media is divorcing ‘climate change’ from net zero theconversation.com/we-analysed-...

🔥 What happens if we pass 1.5°C of warming? A decade after the #ParisAgreement, record heat and new data show just how close we are to breaching this critical threshold. WRI Climate breaks it down: bit.ly/407FBhk

This sounds rather similar to the way the Cambridge Growth Company has been set up - directly answerable to government, some local council representatives on an advisory board, but no local democratic control. Wonder if it will end the same way? thecgc.org.uk/index.php?co...

As scientists 🧪 who regularly attend UN #climate summits, we've noticed efforts to downplay, confuse and dilute the latest scientific findings, especially from the cryosphere ❄️. This is alarming. More details in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/earths-froze... @geogdurham.bsky.social

The #ThwaitesGlacier region has a prior history of dramatic #glacial-deglacial switching in the #Pliocene www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Under current climate policies, 79 per cent of the world’s glaciers will disappear by 2100, endangering the water supply for 2 billion people and raising sea levels dramatically

Interesting conditions forecast for the @bas.ac.uk midwinter 10k this lunchtime 😬 🏃‍♂️ 🌧

Pentre Ifan, Pembrokeshire National Park. Photo taken in July this year. #StandingStoneSunday

On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four. I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation. 🧵

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

The Guardian followed up today with a visualizer. The graphics drive home how fucked this is. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...

PS1: Yes, get a flu vaccine. Yes, if you’re sick avoid mixing with people and wear a mask (preferably an FFP2 one). Yes, if you are in a crowded indoor space, you might consider wearing a mask to reduce your chance of infection (again, FFP2 one). But this is good practice every winter!

🧵 Is it a super flu year? Who knows, but I think the current reporting is stupid. A pissed off thread using data. Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10

Surely, in view of the impact this flu wave is having on the NHS, and the effect it will undoubtedly have on national productivity, an obvious and cost effective action would be to make the vaccine free to everyone immediately? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Migrants who came to the UK on skilled work visas in 2022-23 will make a net contribution of £47bn to the public finances over their lifetime, according to new estimates from the government’s Migration Advisory Committee." Not surprising, but some observations (1/n) www.ft.com/content/10da...

Obviously it's not new, but it is once again striking how the United States, Saudi Arabia & Russia amongst others think they can deal with the environmental crisis by ignoring the evidence and cosying up to existing interests www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Greater Cambridge may double over 20 years — 50,000 homes, 73,000 jobs. What does that mean for nature, heritage & community? We’ve laid out the opportunities & risks. Have your say now: https://cambridgeppf.org/the-future-of-greater-cambridge/ #GreaterCambridge #UrbanPlanning #CommunityVoice