Check out the @pnas.org highlight for our new paper on how Paleoclimate Pattern Effects in the Pliocene lead to tighter constraints on the modern response to CO2 (a.k.a. climate sensitivity)

CFMIP protocol pre-print now out for discussion egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

Really excited to see this paper out!! Led by @vtcoop.bsky.social we show that if you use cold and warm paleoclimates together, you can reduce uncertainty in Earth's climate sensitivity by quantifying the pattern effect and more precisely constrain future climate change www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

How are we equipping people for the current and future climate? Our Chief Executive @pennyend.bsky.social has spoken to @carbonbrief.org about climate science, tackling misinformation and AI. Read and watch ⤵️ www.carbonbrief.org/the-carbon-b...

What's that? Climate predictions, you say? Okay! www.realclimate.org/index.php/cl...

Fantastic to welcome Dr Ben Booth to @universityofleeds.bsky.social School of Computer Science: the 5th of 5 new Met Office Academic Partnership joint positions. ML is transforming science. Ben's appointment will better link atmos & computer science & deliver impact eps.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

Abstract deadline is tomorrow (13th Aug) for the CMIP Community Workshop in Japan March 2026. cmip2026.org/programme/ab... Submissions for in person or virtual presentation welcome. Picked up out some fun sessions below 👇

Some sessions that ought to be fun & interesting: 🔷 ID4 RFMIP: Exploring radiative Forcing in models and observations to understand climate change 🔷 ID5 CERESMIP: Confronting models with observed changes in the Earth’s energy imbalance 🔷 ID15 CFMIP: Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity

Anfield ✊🔴 #LFC

Quick trip home to the #LakeDistrict 👌🏼

Got a call to visit the work post room as there was a parcel for me… (first time in 10+years!) It was a book, sent to contributing authors I presume, of papers that came out of an ISSI workshop in 2022. It’s easy to forget that journals often still have physical copies… a joy to flick through.

We (@tim-andrews.bsky.social, Ryan Kramer and I) are leading a session around understanding radiative forcing in models at the CMIP Community Workshop in Kyoto, Japan, next March. Abstract submissions open until 13 August: wcrp-cmip.org/event/cmip20... Session ID #4

“… oh, his name is Diogo..” 💔 youtu.be/XQ5TA0F-dZc?...

Fantastic to have spent two days at Leeds discussing physical climate science with new and old colleagues. Looking forward to the opportunities ahead @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social. And it’s great to be back where it all began 20 odd years ago as a student, but now on the other side of the fence…

The @metoffice.gov.uk Hadley Centre is a powerhouse of climate science. If you'd like to help guide their program of work, please consider joining their Science Review and Advisory Group. There has never been a more important time to stand up for science ! 🧪🌍🌡️ www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/app...

Happy to share our paper in ‪@science.org‬ 'Observed trend in Earth energy imbalance may provide a constraint for low climate sensitivity models' | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Looks a good read: The Sea Surface Temperature Pattern Effect on Outgoing Longwave Radiation: The Role of Large-Scale Convective Aggregation agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Some sessions that ought to be fun & interesting: 🔷 ID4 RFMIP: Exploring radiative Forcing in models and observations to understand climate change 🔷 ID5 CERESMIP: Confronting models with observed changes in the Earth’s energy imbalance 🔷 ID15 CFMIP: Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity

The CMIP Community Workshop 2026 will be held in Kyoto, Japan from 9-13th March 2026. The call for abstracts for CMIP26 is now open! Find out more at wcrp-cmip.org/cmip26-call-...

The CMIP Community Workshop 2026 will be held in Kyoto, Japan from 9-13th March 2026. The call for side sessions for CMIP26 is now open! Find out more at wcrp-cmip.org/cmip26-side-...

The Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update published today by Met Office and the WMO shows that global average temperature exceeded 1.5°C above the 1850-1900 average last year for the first time bit.ly/43CHLGJ

The doubling of the rate of global heating in recent decades has surprised the scientific community so needs to be better understood yet our capability to measure Earth's energy imbalance is at risk: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Anyone interested in learning about a first principles, quantitative theory for convective mass flux in a warming world? Read the paper and/or come to my EGU talk on Thursday! :) agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🔴✊ #LFC #YNWA youtube.com/shorts/zVe7b...

Anfield awaits 🔴✊ #LFC youtube.com/shorts/87III...

Hot off the press! New GRL paper from our group, led by Anna Mackie: Circulation and Cloud Responses to Patterned SST Warming @agu.org @uniofstandrews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Growing heating rate of Earth due to rising greenhouse gases & declining aerosol particles combined with a return of subsurface heat following a switch from extended La Niña to El Niño to explain exceptional jump in global temperature up to 2023-2024: doi.org/10.1038/s416...

Biases in Climate Model Global Warming Trends Related to Deficiencies in Southern Ocean Sea Ice Evolution Over Recent Decades New paper in GRL by Harry Mutton and myself: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... Quick thread [1/n] 🧵:

Biases in Climate Model Global Warming Trends Related to Deficiencies in Southern Ocean Sea Ice Evolution Over Recent Decades New paper in GRL by Harry Mutton and myself: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... Quick thread [1/n] 🧵:

Call for Session Proposals! 📢 We are happy to announce that the CMIP Community Workshop 2026 will take place in Kyoto, Japan, from 9-13 March 2026! 📅 Session Proposal Deadline: 12:00 UTC, 25 April 2025 🔗 More details below #CMIP #ClimateScience #EarthSystemModeling #ClimateAction #WCRP

I'm on the Scientific Organising Committee. Should be some great science and some early CMIP7 results to discuss. It's community driven - so we need you to put forward session proposals that you would like to convene. Looking forward to seeing folk in Japan. Should be a good one. 👇

🚨 #CMIP Community Workshop 2026 🚨 🌏 Kyoto Japan, 9-13th March 2026 Call for Session Proposals are now open : 📅 Session Proposal Deadline: 12:00 UTC, 25 April 2025 🔗 wcrp-cmip.org/cmip26-sessi... @wcrp-cmip.org

Today at 10:01 CET the Sun was directly above Earth’s equator, marking the #SpringEquinox! 🌸 At this moment, our planet is neither tilted towards nor away from the Sun, creating nearly equal day/night. 🌓 This stunning image was captured by our Meteosat-12 satellite. 🛰️

Happy Equinox! Image: @eumetsat.int

🔴The #StateOfClimate report, released today, reveals key climate change indicators again reached record levels in 2024. Check out the full report: wmo.int/publication-...

Can climate models reproduce observed trends? The answer can be challenging. Our new review paper in Science Advances led by Isla Simpson and Tiffany Shaw @drshaw.bsky.social discusses challenges and ways forward in confronting climate models and observations. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The 2025 CFMIP-CloudSense Meeting on Circulation, Clouds, and Climate will be held July 7-10 at the University of Exeter, Exeter, UK The conference will focus on Cloud processes, Microphysics, Dynamics, Feedback, Energy Imbalance & Convection Abstract deadline 4 April www.gewex.org/event/2025-c...

Our planet is becoming dimmer, in so many ways… our new @nceoscience.bsky.social @uor-research.bsky.social study teases out a signal of less shiny ocean clouds & how they combined with greenhouse gas heating to fast track #climate warming up to the balmy 2023/24 El Niño: doi.org/10.1088/1748...

And a big thank you to @johnmarsham.bsky.social for doing all the hard work that made these positions possible

Delighted to announce I have taken on a joint position between the Met Office and the University of Leeds: Research Scientist | Met Office Hadley Centre Associate Professor | University of Leeds Looking forward to getting to work on this. See news article below 👇

Hearing lots of “yaffle” from green woodpeckers the last two days… #SignsOfSpring

Banger of a quote from Chris Bretherton... "... No amount of clever technology can cover the gap that is forming. “Artificial intelligence,” he says, “cannot compensate for a lack of human intelligence.”..." www.science.org/content/arti...

Hello again Spring. Been a while. ☀️

2024 has recorded the highest temperature in any year since 1850 🌡🌍 This is the 11th year in succession that has equalled or exceeded 1.0°C above the pre-industrial average period A number of centres released their estimates today: www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Couple of hours off work earlier for some snow fun on #Dartmoor.

A rare treat this Christmas Eve: Anticrepuscular (shadow) rays, I believe. A first for me. Like the shafts of sun light you may have seen near sunset, but converging at the antisolar point (the point in the sky opposite the sun) - an illusion like railroads converging at infinity…

Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere. The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back. A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year. Fiat lux! 📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social

Check this recent special issue in Surveys of Geophysics on "Earth's Changing Water and Energy Cycle", with numerous exciting new articles. link.springer.com/collections/... @issibern.ch @gewex.bsky.social @wcrpclimate.bsky.social @ipcc.bsky.social @rpallanuk.bsky.social @robertvautard.bsky.social

📢Submit to our EGU session!📢 We are organizing a session at EGU 2025 in Vienna, with a focus on climate sensitivity, radiative feedbacks and the pattern effect! If you work on anything related to climate sensitivity, we'd love to have you! 🥳🥳🥳 Submit soon! :)

Important and fun topic too. Great opportunity for someone