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Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...

Per World Weather Attribution, scientists found that the European heatwave is producing temperatures that would be "virtually impossible" in June 50 years ago. Even in 2003, when a heatwave in Europe killed ~70,000, these temps would be ten times less likely to occur.

Global warming is making extreme heat more likely and more severe.

🚨 📰 🌊 🥼 💻 🧪 🧑‍🔬 New publication on future changes in ocean carbon cycling lead by Samar Khatiwala. We applied a new decomposition into preformed (saturation and disequilibrium) and regenerated (soft tissue and carbonate) components, which is more accurate that previous methods.

Trump admin plans to give political appointees the final decision on research grants, who could deny proposals that don’t advance the president’s agenda. open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

They should rename the DoJ the DoIB Department of Intimidation and Bullying

Just because funding is cut and information is not getting made public doesn't mean the Greenland ice sheet stops melting.

Global temperatures (30-year averages) over the last 2000 years. Rates-of-Change in the following ...

Here's the temperature data, the scythe, including a link to the spreadsheet if you want to play around with them. bsky.app/profile/andr...

This is why compoting your organic waste is good for the climate. share.google/l6l2XNMaezf2...

Not only are CO2 concentrations at record high, growth rates have also been increasing with records since 2020. gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg...

That’s a heroine. Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner Hospitalized in Critical Condition www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/w...

😢 Emperor Penguins Are Now Endangered, a New Assessment Finds www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/c...

Interesting article about a weather observatory that operated since the 1830s. The temperature trend there is 0.34 deg F per decade, or a 4.2 deg F increases since 1831. phys.org/news/2026-04...

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

Reminds me of the “Climate Club” idea suggested by Nordhaus, which is a treaty to reduce fossil fuels and tax imports from countries who are not members. Makes much more sense than the consensus-based approach by #UNFCCC, where action is blocked by petro states.

Ice dome in NW Greenland melted during early Holocene. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

While studies showed that violent crime rates went down nationwide in 2025, experts found political violence sharply increased.

Cool animation

44% of Americans are very worried about climate change — among the highest levels since 1989 — and 63% believe the US government is not taking enough environmental action, the highest since @Gallup.com started polling the question in 1992.

Japan’s Cherry Blossom Database, 1,200 Years Old, Has a New Keeper www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/c...

"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-...

The recent warming is also unusual compared with the past 10,000 years.

The hockey stick's blade is getting longer. Global temperatures over the past 2000 years. Temperatures over the past 30 years were 0.75 warmer than the 1901-2000 average. Warmer than at any time during the past 2000 years.

This is a frightening map, especially given the fact that this is normally near the peak in snowpack across the West. There are many far-reaching consequences from this historic snow drought, ranging from increasing risk of summer wildfires to major water concerns. Map by nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov

Renewable energy generation for electricity in the EU increased from 22% in 2021 to 30% in 2024!!! www.energyintel.com/00000194-848...

An electric farm, an electric harvest …. electric everything #energysky -- via Renew Economy: reneweconomy.com.au/...

Finally!

Climate Science 101: This term I'm teaching climate science and I may share some of the things here too. Observations show global temperatures are going up. Over the last 50 years there is a near-linear trend. This graph is from NOAA's climate at a glance website: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...

As the first reanalysis data become available, I think I can say with a fairly high degree of confidence that the March 2026 heatwave will go down as the most anomalously extreme heat event ever observed at any time of year in the southwestern U.S.

Great podcast about the use of the word concentration camps. www.patreon.com/posts/jake-t...

It’s mind boggling

10/ Can US and Israel achieve their objectives of smashing the Iranian regime from the air and now punishing civilian population? Pape's book studying whether or not air power succeeds is called "Bombing to Win". Spoiler: No one ever wins Read gist here: escalationtrap.substack.com/p/the-smart-...

Chris Wright is genuinely a con man selling climate denial to the world in order to enrich himself and his gas industry friends. This should be a much bigger story.

Here’s a good article about climate effects on the economy www.cfr.org/articles/cli...

In its hunt for critical minerals, the US is misconstruing what is and is not America’s …If you can’t mine it legally, just redefine it. theconversation.com/in-its-hunt-...

„Over 70% of EU electricity now comes from low-carbon sources, and nearly half from renewable sources such as solar, wind, hydro and bioenergy.“ europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/the-yea...

I just left another briefing on Iran. Here's the only part of Trump's plan that is clear to me: He won't spare a cent for the 15 million Americans who will lose their health care, but he'll spend a billion dollars a day bombing Iran.

Snowdays have been decreasing in Germany since the 1960’s, a trend consistent with human-caused warming. I remember regularly skiing sledding and snowball battles as a kid. These days kids grow up without those experiences. 😢 www.dwd.de/DE/wetter/th...

I think they carry sick Americans to treatment in Greenland hospitals.

🔔🚨 New Publication Alert! Research has shown that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a climate tipping element. We found: it’s not one — it’s many. 📄 Paper (open access): www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📢 Press release: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late... Tread below 🧵👇

The United States uses about twice as much energy per person as Switzerland or the UK. The US also has worse public health and life expectancy. Few countries use more energy per person than the US. Most of them are, like the US, petrostates.

Large electric powered container ships are already a reality. When posting about this 2 years ago the so-called “experts” said it is impossible. Can people stop listening to oil and gas “experts” soon?

Palantir, Deloitte, and the private prison giant GEO Group took in more than $22 billion from ICE and CBP last year. Behind the spreadsheets and contracts, there's a quieter truth: someone is getting rich from cages, borders, and human pain. Profit has always been fluent in the language of cruelty.

Two-thirds of Germans see the USA as the greatest danger for world peace, up from 24% in 2024. www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...

Amazon paid $28 Million to Melania for filming her for 20 days. So corrupt! ‘Melania’: Watching a First Lady Vanish in Plain Sight www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/o...

Deep Inside an Antarctic Glacier, a Mission Collapses at Its Final Step www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/c...