As activity around the Global Plastics Treaty ramps up, it is essential that provisions be included for monitoring www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🌊🧪

In our new paper in Nature Climate Change, we show that hail conditions are projected to shift poleward with climate change, and that summer decreases and winter increases in hail hazard mean that winter crops may face rising risks from hail. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Always delighted to see "we're rolling out a large language model to do a task that is built entirely around absolute precision in the handling of data." uhhhh so do you not know how LLMs work

The third chapter of this documentary series on #climate extremes is now out! This episode focuses specifically on the impacts of climate change and extreme weather-related disruptions to agriculture, as well as potential solutions to these challenges.

If you’re going to use this meme as Greenpeace do here, at least use it properly — “hottest spring of your life so far” (closer to Homer’s original line) It’s extremely unlikely to be the coldest spring of the rest of your life due to natural variability, but it will be among the colder ones.

HEY EVERYONE - I've got a new report out today! It's with @greenpeaceap.bsky.social and it just an absolutely huge and lovely exploration of - False claims of renewable energy use - Growing links bw tech and gas - Our call for a moratorium (!!) Read it here! www.greenpeace.org.au/greenpeace-r...

"The parallel between these [AI] companies and empires of old is that they have consolidated a historic amount of economic and political power. And the way that they've done this is through the dispossession of the majority" - Karen Hao, speaking at Hay

"Jaded Palestinian observers complained that it seemed the world was only interested in brutality towards prisoners when it was foreigners, not Palestinians." As Laura Tingle notes, the main reaction from Netanyahu's Israeli critics is not to cease brutalizing detainees, but to do better hasbara.

Climate scientists @edoddridge.bsky.social @adele-morrison.bsky.social @dkhutch.bsky.social Sonya Fiddes Jorge Luis Galvez Vallejo and Yi Huang wrote a letter to federal ministers about @csiro.bsky.social cuts. ✊🏼

On the tube

Incredible

I maintain that generative AI is very much inherently bad, and extremely useful for the worst, most toxic applications A system that convincingly fabricates content with no designed drive towrads accuracy or ethics of humanity is not "useless". You can use it for lying, fakery, cheating, abuse

It seems obvious, but these LLMs are a threat to democracy

Should be a perma-ban, but this is great

🎶 Timeline cleanser🎶 My favourite performance of one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written

Writing a conference abstract titled “Towards a(n)…” is the academic equivalent of manifesting.

This article about EY retracting a "study" full of flat-out fabrications reminded me something I made a while ago and completely forgot to share. Introducing: JOSHI'S WORKSLOP POSTULATE🚮

1% of the global population is responsible for 50% of flying emissions. The Iran oil crisis has revealed once again that flying has been far too cheap for too long and that this cannot continue amidst the climate crisis. This podcast discusses this really well.

Two fun stories to view side-by-side: - An Australian psychiatrist is refusing patients that don't agree to the use of an AI scribe - A new Canadian study finding AI scribes have a shockingly high failure rate www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/0...

Recently met a scientific illustrator at an event for school kids. Many of them couldn’t believe she’d drawn the images in her portfolio by hand and herself, rather than used AI to generate them. What a sad insight into how this world is robbing people of knowing their own creative potential.

Over the years, Al Gore pivoted significantly toward a climate justice framework, increasingly calling out the role of political & economic systems/injustices: "We cannot have climate justice without racial justice." The Climate Reality project is an also important part of his legacy and lessons.

This is ethnic cleansing. Yet still, @albomp.bsky.social does nothing.

In your face, Deutsche Bahn.

People cannot be asked to keep an issue hot, especially not one as complex and at the core technical like climate change, if the top information ecosystem is actively telling them *not* to mobilize. Climate policy is objectively hard, but the climate "backlash" is mostly an elite-driven phenomenon.

Here's @boganintel.bsky.social. "The royal commission into the hurt feelings of genocidal psychopaths"

Neat 🌊

This community that relocated to Bluesky would not even exist if it was still on the algorithmically rigged normalizing of nazism platform. Because the real fishbowl is the fascist one. bsky.app/profile/volt...

Is it possible to have 'sustainable AI'? If it was, it would be fundamentally unrecognisable compared to the system design being deployed by big tech today, which has inefficiency, waste, bloat and excess built in from the ground up. Was very nice to speak to Green Left Weekly for this interview

Heading home from #EGU26. Hoping we can avoid the drama of the trip here. Next stop, Nürnberg.

The trope of the "angry environmentalist" is basically a form of severe pathological reality-denialism from centrist journalists who cannot process or understand at any level we are talking about something universal, physical and just fundamentally extremely unavoidable, here

A sad day. Jorge Sarmiento, one of the greats in ocean science, passed away today. Jorge was a model leader; thoughtful, compassionate, and an excellent scientist. His leadership of @soccomproject.bsky.social transformed @bgc-argo.bsky.social into a global system.

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

Thomas Stocker's medal lecture is standing room only! #EGU26

Best part about EGU is meeting up with old friends #EGU26 so nice to see @katrinmeissner.bsky.social @kaitlinnaughten.bsky.social again

Rounding out day 2 with a workshop on science communication. Seems very popular (I've nabbed a spot on the floor) #EGU26

At the #EGU26 climate division meeting. Cool new paper type being launched this year!

Come say hi! #EGU26

People really need to try harder to stay on time. 3 talks in and the session is already running late #EGU26

Always nice to start the day with some good news 🫠 #EGU26

The day is starting with Stefan's invited talk on the AMOC #EGU26 looking forward to the discussions

On my way to #EGU26, perfect time to drop a new post! 🗺️ Something I've been wanting to write about: Mercator projections still showing up in high-profile journals. So here it is: projections you should stop using (for most things) 👇 #gis #rstats #dataviz dominicroye.github.io/blog/map-pro...

🚨 Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data)... • about 510,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 900,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,290,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 1,770,000 km² below the 1980s mean More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Another big #AMOC day coming up at #EGU26! Come see my poster between 0830 and 1230 in Hall X5, Poster 174. It will look like this (only much bigger). This work was led by the very talented @sasha-roewer.bsky.social

Even w/o El Niño, satellite SSTs (60N-60S) are already approaching the hottest values on record for this time of year, from 2024. There's been a lot of discussion about how big the burgeoning El Niño might turn out to be, but it doesn't need to be a huge event to nudge surface temps to a new record.

Rounding out a long day with the climate of the last 2000 years. Super interesting talk about how land models are too shallow and the impact on Earth's energy balance. #EGU26

6/ From that @carbonbrief.org article: "Under the highest available C-cycle feedback estimate in the literature a RCP6.0-related emissions scenario could result in 2100 atmospheric CO₂ concentrations equal to those in the standard RCP8.5 concentration scenario" Lower emissions. Same destination.

It's been a full afternoon of #AMOC science. Lots of cool work being done on the subpolar gyre at ever higher resolutions #EGU26

Can't believe people are still using the rainbow colour palette in the year 2026 #EGU26

Just voted in the #egu26 photo competition - some great entries this year!