Scientists and local stakeholders in Kerala, India recently came together to talk sea-level rise, shoreline change, algal blooms and how to adapt a coast under pressure. Clear needs. Strong local voices. Useful science. Full story here: nersc.no/en/features/...

Where do our CO2 emissions come from, and where do they end up? I made this little summary - and you can see why reducing the use of fossil fuels remains the most important tool we have for slowing climate change:

How old is the sea ice in the Arctic, and why does that matter? We’ve just released a new sea-ice age dataset covering 1991–2024. It helps researchers track the decline of older, thicker ice & improve climate studies, model evaluation & safe traffic in the region. @met.no nersc.no/en/features/...

Eye-opening presentation about demographic decline from Jesús Fernández-Villaverde. He thinks population will peak and begin to fall in 2055, much earlier than UN projections. This problem is solvable with policies that respect peoples autonomy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7_e...

The tide seems to be finally turning on global coal, as both China and India are now adding enough clean energy to reduce their coal generation: www.carbonbrief.org/...

I recently had a chat with Bob Grove for the climate hour about Arctic climate and tipping points, its out now online and on the air climategkc.org/climate-hour/

Winter has arrived properly in Norway this week ❄️ After a few days of heavy snow it already feels like mid-season, so it’s time to look a bit further ahead. I’ve built a small interactive tool to explore ECMWF seasonal snow forecasts for the Nordics: climatecompass.shinyapps.io/Snow_Depth_F...

On car sizes

We are recruiting! (x2) There are two permanent positions available in our climate dynamics and prediction group, so if either sounds interesting to you do apply, or share with your colleagues: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Sarcasm aside, it's perhaps worth pointing out that the evidence suggests that weather disasters reduce economic growth for decades - the idea that there's rapid bounceback, or even extra growth stimulated by recovery, has proved wrong www.newscientist.com/article/mg23...

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

A reality check for me was working with students on an internal carbon accounting platform that Bon App our food provider uses. Beef was less than 5% of our purchases but around 50% of our food emissions even with international work to be plant forward. apnews.com/article/plan...

Growing wealth inequality is devastating for societies. But with headlines like “the wealth of the top 1% reached $52 trillion”, the topic gets ignored — because those numbers mean absolutely nothing to anyone.

I am happy to announce that we received major funding from Schmidt Sciences under their VICC program to study rapid #Permafrost Thaw Carbon Trajectories (PeTCaT). The 5-year project led by my team @awi.de partners with an international team to quantify how rapid thaw contributes to climate change.

Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

By applying a tracking method to both climate models and satellite data, @davyclimate.bsky.social found that sea ice age is a more sensitive indicator of change than ice thickness or volume. 🧪🌊 Read the publication here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Are you interested in seasonal forecasts and how they have advanced over the past two decades? Chris O’Reilly (Univ. of Reading) led a new paper on exactly this: rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I may have found my defining quote. Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

We have a new paper out today taking a fresh look at sea ice age, showing how this variable offers new insights into Arctic climate change: A Fair Assessment of Sea Ice Age Reduces Bias and Gives New Insight to Arctic Sea Ice Dynamics agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

@signeaaboe.bsky.social kicking off the Sea ice Age (SAGE) project webinar to discuss current challenges and opportunities in using age to monitor sea ice change. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #ESA #SeaIce

If you had the opportunity to educate the sustainable investing community about one fact, what would you want ensure it knew, above all else? My nomination: The large-scale, economy-wide asset devaluations that economists & climate scientists say will ensue if we fail to accelerate decarbonization.

Those late summer rains do make for a dramatic sky

very intense night in Greenland a few days ago. I say 'night' because this light lasted all night.

For this years Research days I'll be talking about climate change in Reisa national park in northern Norway. It's a protected area that is expected to see dramatic warming in the coming century:

#Wildfires in Spain have reached record emissions in just one week according to our #CopernicusAtmosphere data. Heatwaves & drought are fueling fires, forcing evacuations & worsening air quality hundreds of km away. 🔥 Read the article for details atmosphere.copernicus.eu/spain-below-...

Summer 2024 featured unprecedented warmth in the European Arctic, causing melting of 1 % of the total ice volume on Svalbard. Bad news is that in 2100 and even in the optimistic SSP1-2.6 emission scenario, 50% of the future summers will be warmer than 2024. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

one of the smart things that Newsom is doing here is implicitly calling out the insanity of how much Trump has been normalized by media by forcing them to think about what it looks like when somebody else does it

One Boston block was 94°F. Just a few streets away, it was 103°F. Hyperlocal heat data can pinpoint where cooling projects will save the most lives (and money). buff.ly/pgSujfI

World weather attribution rapid study on the two-week Fennoscandian heatwave is out. The key results do not surprise: 1) the heatwave was ∼2 °C hotter and 2) at least 10 times more likely due to climate change. www.worldweatherattribution.org/intense-two-...

By changing our diets now, we can avoid the food chaos that climate change is bringing, says @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social - This trajectory of climate-driven food price hikes – leading to social unrest and political decay – is not inevitable #climatecrisis theconversation.com/by-changing-...

Global datasets of black carbon emissions tend to be based on estimates of how much fuel is combusted incompletely. Comparing with actual measurements suggests these datasets have underestimated black carbon emissions in developing countries. 1/3

🌞 What makes a good summer? I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately — and decided to quantify it. Meet the Good Summer Index (GSI): a data-driven but human-centric score of summer quality, based on things people say they actually enjoy. Thread 👇

Yes. This map showing how children’s right to roam free has been removed over four generations always makes me sad.

We've had a gloriously warm and sunny summer in Bergen this year. You really need this break in a city where you know the heavy rain is just around the corner.

If you're interested in sea ice and how we can track its development, you may want to sign up for our 1-day seminar where we'll be talking about the breadth of ECVs for sea ice, new developments in tracking sea ice age, and the pitfalls and opportunities of climate model - observation comparisons.

CO₂ removal (CDR) deployments require materials and energy, which emit CO₂. That’s why we talk about net CDR. Even if CDR affects ecosystems, it’s likely minor compared to the significant negative impacts of climate change on ecosystems. So we should focus on the net ecosystem benefits of CDR.

🌡️ Not all hot nights are equal. We track “tropical nights” when temps never dip below 20 °C—but what if it’s already 20 °C at bedtime? I crunched ERA5 data for 5 European capitals. Let’s talk tropical 10 pm. 👇

If you're interested in sea ice and how we can track its development, you may want to sign up for our 1-day seminar where we'll be talking about the breadth of ECVs for sea ice, new developments in tracking sea ice age, and the pitfalls and opportunities of climate model - observation comparisons.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Do you have a PlayStation? If so, Climate Station has launched as a free immersive and compelling data-driven experience of our planet: blog.playstation.com/2025/06/18/c... (and @playstation.com have joined #ShowYourStripes!)

The Bank of England just raised the bar on climate risk supervision. Boards are now expected to own climate risk. Scenario analysis must be routine. Data quality and disclosures? Under scrutiny. What does it mean for the financial sector—and how can we help? #climaterisk #BoE #finance #governance

we’re getting evicted, it’s stupid, and I’m mad www.fastcompany.com/91333946/thi...

Interested in the risk of marine heatwaves along the Norwegian coast this summer? Listen to my colleague, Dr Langehaug, discussing the state of the art on the Fish n' Bits podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/0iok... @nansensenteret.bsky.social

~45% of US corn production is now used to make ethanol, mostly for mixing into gasoline. That's ~13% of all US crop land already used for energy production. Using some of the same land for solar panels would capture 50-100 times more energy per acre.

Kelvin-Helmholtz waves looking all the more dramatic for catching the evening light

📣 Job Vacancy 📣 The University of St Andrews is seeking to enhance its research strength in Statistics by appointing a new Chair in Statistical Ecology. Closing date 21/07/2025. www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

Europe is the fastest-warming continent, and the impacts of climate change here are clear: 🟠 2024 was the warmest year on record for Europe 🟠 Europe experienced the most widespread flooding since 2013 🟠 An estimated 42,000 people were affected by wildfires in Europe. Read more 👇

Ladies, gentlemen, this outstanding piece of #climate information is out. Welcome to the European State of the Climate 2024 #ESOTC2024 Explore it, bookmark it, come back to it and then come back again, because there’s more in it than you can imagine. climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2024

Looking like a quite high risk of a marine heatwave in the northern aquaculture production zones this summer: seasonalforecastsfornorway.shinyapps.io/MarineHeatwa... #seasonalforecast #aquaculture #salmon #Norway

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.