Is global warming tipping key Atlantic ocean currents towards ‘collapse’? ✍️ @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org 🎨 @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org and Kerry Cleaver Read here ➡️ buff.ly/mgaIBvM

In other news: Arctic winter sea ice extent was the lowest ever measured in 2026. phys.org/news/2026-05...

You can get to a high-warming world without high emissions . That's the part of this week's "RCP 8.5 is implausible" discussion that's getting missed. A short thread on why the relief is premature 🧵

In 2025, the European ocean region experienced its highest annual sea surface temperature on record, the 4th consecutive year of record warmth. 36% experienced ‘severe’ or ‘extreme’ conditions. Read the European State of Climate #ESOTC2025 ↪️ bit.ly/ESOTC2025

👀 This should be front page news globally. The fact that it’s not speaks volumes about the capture of the media by vested interests. 57 countries, representing 1/3 of the world’s economy, met to phase out fossil fuels www.carbonbrief.org/santa-marta-... #climatechange #fossilfuels #energytransition

🌡️ Europe is the fastest‑warming continent, warming at more than 2× the global average. Changing weather patterns, reduced air pollution, declining snow cover & proximity to the rapidly warming Arctic all play a role. ⬇️

History is made by those who show up, and that is exactly what's happening in Santa Marta. There are 60 countries here, academics from all over the world, Indigenous people, civil society, all here to do one thing: figure out how to phase out fossil fuels. www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...

1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast. In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically. Most people have no idea. 🧵

"A decade ago, southern sea ice suddenly and dramatically declined. Scientists say the culprit was a 'very violent release' of deep, pent-up heat." via @grist.org at grist.org/oceans/deep-...

New study: most climate models underestimate the decline of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC. The AMOC is on course to slow by more than 50% by the end of the century. 🌊 Very likely the AMOC will then be past the tipping point for full shutdown. 😨 us.cnn.com/2026/04/16/c...

"Medan många med rätta är oroade över de möjliga effekterna av framtida värmeböljor i takt med att den globala uppvärmningen fortsätter, visar vår forskning att det förekommer förhållanden som inte går att överleva i under dagens värmeböljor." phys.org/news/2026-04...

SVT:s rapportering om klimatkrisen minskade från redan otroligt låga 2% av sändningstiden 2024 till försumbara 0,99% 2025. Medierna bestämmer med sina val vad som är viktigt, vad vi blir rädda för och därmed vilka frågor som hamnar högt inför det kommande valet www.journalisten.se/debatt/svts-...

Rapid melting of Antarctic sea ice largely driven by ocean warming. New important research by from Gothenburg Uni: www.gu.se/en/news/rapi...

A new paper for anyone interested in the role of forest conservation, forestry, and forest products as climate solutions. Led by Didac Pascual and Anders Ahlstrom from Lund University. theconversation.com/swedens-old-...

Big Oil is no longer trying to convince us they want to preserve a safe & stable climate Now, they're focused on convincing us that the world is only safe & stable if they're in charge That's the thesis of a new @cleancreatives.bsky.social report analyzing 2000 oil ads, exclusively in HEATED today

Ny forskning om Thwaitesglaciären i Västantarktis visar att läget är värre än vi tidigare trott. Den är en av de snabbast smältande glaciärerna och förlorar idag is fem gånger snabbare än på 1990-talet, samtidigt som uttunning och isflöde accelererar agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Stunning how little (or no) connection is drawn from the present war-induced energy and economic shock to the urgency of the clean #energyTransition. Rebewables+storage avoid such vulnerabilities "Could the war in Iran trigger a global economic crisis?" www.economist.com/insider/the-...

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Så är det och det här är en av de viktigaste anledningarna till att vi måste sluta prata om klimatfrågan som en fråga om att få folk att orka sopsortera och istället prata om den som en fråga om vår fysiska, ekonomiska och existentiella säkerhet och trygghet.

this would be irreversible, so let’s not let it happen. let’s use our talents to push for the phaseout of fossil fuels.

Whew. All signs are increasingly pointing to a significant, if not strong to very strong, El Niño event. I'll have more to say in coming weeks & months, but for now I'll just say that this is increasingly likely to become a major regional-to-global climate driver in 2026-2027.

Hello? Anybody home? Climate "hushing" and avoidance has allowed Trump and the fossil industry to destroy decades of effort. Where is the climate movement? Where are the Democratic politicians? Vast majorities are concerned about climate change. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Behövs fler anledningar till att fasa ut de dödliga fossila bränslena snarast?

It was exactly 4 years ago that we completed the work on the @ipcc.bsky.social AR6 WG 2 report. After an extended negotiations process for the Summary for Policy Makers, disrupted by the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the authors could finally exhale: new science for decision making was available.

Obs! En ny opinionsmätning visar att 2 av 3 väljare vill att politikerna gör mer för att begränsa klimatförändringarna. Den som hävdar att det saknas folkligt stöd för klimatet har fel. omni.se/a/0p4Wn0

Oil and gas are some of the biggest causes of the climate crisis, putting people's lives, homes and livelihoods in danger – and putting winter sports at risk too Oil and gas giant Eni, is using the #WinterOlympics to greenwash its fossil-fuelled destruction Polluters shouldn't get a podium

Forskning och akademisk frihet är under stark press i såväl auktoritära som demokratiska stater. Inte minst klimatforskningen, och det även i Sverige. Universitetsledningarna måste stötta dessa forskare bättre, kräver docent Mikael Karlsson och doktoranden Laila Mendy i Uppsala i ett debattinlägg.

De allra flesta svenskar anser att politiker och beslutsfattare måste göra mer för att bromsa klimatförändringen och skydda naturen. Läs @wwfsverige.bsky.social :s klimatbarometer. www.wwf.se/pressmeddela...

Vi befinner oss i ett mångfacetterat nödläge där klimat, natur och samhälle hänger ihop. För att minimera skadorna krävs snabb, kunskapsbaserad handling med de globala målen för hållbar utveckling som grund. Jag är en av undertecknarna till debattartikeln. www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/2p3...

Yet more evidence that the crucial Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC is weakening. Bad news for our climate future. More reason to finally get serious about ending fossil fuel use. As fast as we can.

As Bill Gates recommends a “strategic pivot” away from climate change, the Gates Foundation made record investments in fossil fuel companies in 2024, despite its 2019 pledge to divest. No one should ever listen to Gates about climate change again.

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

🔥Uppvärmingen accelererar och klimatkrisen förvärras🔥 * 2025 var det tredje varmaste året som någonsin uppmätts. * 2023–2025 är den första treårsperioden över 1,5 °C. * De senaste 11 åren har varit de varmaste 11 åren som någonsin uppmätts.

Thinking how best to summarise relationship between cumulative carbon dioxide emissions and functioning of Earth and social systems.

In a newly published paper, we find that in 2025 human emissions of greenhouse gases added around 23 billion trillion joules of heat to the world's oceans – 39 times as much as the annual energy produced by all human activity on Earth. link.springer.com/ar...

Förutom Climate Central så är Climate.us är ett annat viktigt initiativ för att säkra publicering av klimatdata efter Trumps korkade nedskärningar.

The future is bright. Surise over Lillgrund windfarm in Öresund, Baltic Sea. Energy from wind and solar is now cheaper than oil, coal and gas.

‘Profound impacts’: record ocean heat is intensifying climate disasters - Oceans absorb 90% of global heating, making them a stark indicator of the relentless march of the #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...