The Greenlandification of Antarctica Antarctica is beginning to behave more like Greenland, with surface melt, ice dynamics, and climate feedbacks in Antarctica exhibiting "Greenland-like” traits, which have major implications for sea-level rise projections. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The before and after images showing glaciers vanishing before our eyes www.bbc.com/news/article...

🧵🧪 In session on policy and societal requirements at the Royal Society discussion meeting today, Prof Hans-Otto Pörtner, former Co-Chair of the IPCC Working Group II, stated that he thinks keeping global temperature rise "below 1.5 [°C above pre-industrial] is probably now out of reach".

This would be laughable if it wasn't so serious: yet again, the Tories are claiming that we can get "all our oil and gas" from the North Sea and that we should be doing even more to support the industry to extract. There are several reasons why we should treat this with maximum scepticism:

New paper! Check out @zifeiyang.bsky.social gorgeous data from M2 glaciation (3.3Ma) - stunning Melonis Mg/Ca temperature records allow us to be confident about ice growth, but this was not like later glaciations following iNHG, we think gateways were more important: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The budget proposal eliminates: NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research office Stops funding regional climate data, climate competitive research or sea grant programs Severely defunds the Natl Ocean Service & the NMFS www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...

📣 Our new paper is out in Nature Communications! Subglacial water—often overlooked—can change sea-level rise projections by up to a factor of three. Big implications for how we model Antarctica. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You want to know about this NASA Sea Level Projection Tool, which allows you to visualize and download the sea level projection data from the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6).

🧪🌊 🧵 As the minimum in Antarctic sea-ice extent has now dipped below 2 million km² for the third year in a row, it is looking increasingly like this is the new normal. In the 10 years up to 2015 the minimum extent averaged more than 3 million km². Graph from @nsidc.bsky.social 1/n

This paper by Barker et al resolves many details about how Earth’s orbital wobbles caused glacial cycles of expansion & contraction of ice sheets over the last ~800,000 years 🧵 ⚒️🧪 1/11 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A new special issue of Science highlights research on Earth’s frozen places—from the Arctic to the Antarctic—and how it’s changing due to climate change and the geopolitical challenges this important work faces. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4jPYRID

Some people on this and other social media platforms have been claiming that something dramatic is about to happen at Thwaites Glacier, and implying that this will result of an abrupt rise is sea level within a few years. So what's really going on? 🧵🧪

Current policies & NDCs take the world to 2-3C in 2100, across a range of studies. The biggest gap is strengthening climate action to ensure net zero pledges are met, leading to <2C in 2100. @hausfath.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We all think plastic pollution is a problem, and it is. In the nearly 70 years between 1950 and 2019, the world produced a total of ~9.5 billion tonnes of plastic. But all the plastic we have EVER produced weighs as much as CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere during the first three months of 2024!

In our warming world there is an increasing chance of extreme rainfall events and flash flooding For every 1C rise in temperature the atmosphere can hold 7% more moisture...

Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology

It's the extremes that will get us. A hotter world has much hotter heat waves. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Changes in the #PolarRegions will affect everyone. Understanding and predicting this change needs commitment and talent; and that needs a supportive and inclusive community. Wishing everyone a happy #PolarPride as part of a wider celebration of #DiversityInPolarScience 🐻‍❄️🐧🥶🏳️‍🌈

Please share - PhD with me, #lnadler and BAS colleagues Lloyd Peck, Gabi Stowasser and Ryan Saunders at unisouthampton. - Fish metabolism across latitudes - lovely team, cool science and great fish! Please contact me, details: tinyurl.com/mhfp8f2h #MarineLife #Science

The Met Office has been working hard to make more of our weather and climate data available for interest or research. I’ll share some links in a thread 🧪First up is our climate data portal climatedataportal.metoffice.gov.uk

While it's very funny to watch The Metals Company whine about the deep ocean oxygen discovery they helped fund, I worry that this only the start. Climate tech startups want science to support their business case, but many are going to discover that science is about reality, not their bottom line 1/2

Paris is warming #ShowYourStripes #Olympics

Excellent piece from the Australian Sydney Morning Herald that puts the Chinese green industrial revolution in a balanced context and language most can absorb. Excellent journalism www.smh.com.au/environment/...

It's #ShowYourStripes Day. Here are ours. As our planet warms, so does the ocean, sending warmer waters to Antarctica & under the ice shelves. Ice shelves act as vital dams, holding back the ice sheets flowing to the sea & slowing sea level rise. #SaveTheShelves #ClimateCrisis 🧪

This is the right image to use for a heat wave; not one of children playing in the fountain or people frolicking on the beach.

Just landed: the new CAT Data Explorer! It brings together data from country analyses, ratings & 1.5°C compatible benchmarks to help policymakers, researchers, media, & interested citizens better understand countries’ progress on climate mitigation climateactiontracker.org/cat-data-exp...

Announcing this year’s postgraduate conference to be hosted by Queen’s University, Belfast from the 29 -31st August! This is a great opportunity to showcase your research in a friendly environment, and get to know other Quaternary ECRs. Registration will be open soon!

Museum folks, please bring your fury! Like the Duke herabarium, the National Museum of Wales is now in danger of losing support for all its geology/paleo collections! 🧪 Petition: petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...

Very excited to see this paper in print written by the first graduate student who worked in my laboratory, Maya Prabhakar, on planktic #foraminifera in Recent Arctic Ocean sediments! Take home message: Arctic forams are weird, but not *THAT* weird... 🧪🔬🐚 pubs.geoscienceworld.org/cushmanfound...

January 2024 was the warmest January on record. 
New data from CopernicusECMWF shows that we've now had 
- the eighth record breaking month in a row and 
- twelve months (Feb 23-Jan 24) with global temperatures more than 1.5ºC above the pre-industrial reference baseline. 🧪⚒️

Letter from John Imbrie to Quaternary geologist DQ Bowen in 1979 (found by Steve Barker inside one of DQ’s books). Love the reference to the Oxford fellow 😂

2023 smashed the prior record, becoming the hottest year at between 1.34C and 1.54C above preindustrial levels based on reports from five different monitoring groups. For more details see our massive new State of the Climate report over at @carbonbrief.org: www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the...

We are recruiting to 3 positions (at Lecturer/Associate Prof level): Applied Geology or Environmental Geoscience jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Coastal Marine Science jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Marine Conservation and Management jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Email me for more info!

For all your Cenozoic #CO2 plotting needs (at least for now). A super worthy project and an immense task to put all of this together. Great community effort and a nice summary to reference. Importantly, ~all primary authors of the datasets will get a citation! 🧪🔬📚📉 www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

If you want to find paleoclimate in the tipping points report head to section 1.5, which is based on this paper: doi.org/10.5194/egus... but I also recommend the more hopeful section 4 of the report on positive tipping points in technology economy and society global-tipping-points.org

“Climate tipping points are nearer than you think – our new report warns of catastrophic risk” David Armstrong-McKay & I provide some thoughts (I have many other thoughts about this, most of them unpublishable). theconversation.com/climate-tipp...?

🚨NERC GW4+ DTP PhD projects at Dept. Earth & Environmental Sci, Exeter, UK🚨 www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/apply Including… Rare Earth Elements in carbonatites of Mozambique: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Early Jurassic brachiopod geochemistry: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... #phd #studentship 🧪⚒️

this is a bloody great name for a climate report www.unep.org/resources/em...

The warming of November temperatures in the Arctic by decade... (yes, it's a lot) Data from cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dat...

How to Fathom Climate Change's Unfathomable Numbers

Hello Blue Sky! Thread below gives a nice summary of some of my recent work (thanks @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social!). I also have PhD and Postdoc positions to be advertised soon in this field 👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬👨‍🔬 - please encourage anyone interested to get in touch! ⚒️🧊🌋

We are looking for a part-time Laboratory Technician in our Geochemistry Labs at the School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Southampton. Please DM/email me if you are interested and/or please pass on to other interested parties. Details here: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Deadline 29th Nov 2023.

By the end of September, more than half of the world’s countries could fit inside the land burned this year in Canada. “I can’t think of any analogy for the extent to which the modern records were not only broken but destroyed here,” says climate scientist John Abatzoglou. Read more:

Super cool new paper. Most of the community and funding is focused on West Antarctica. However, East Antarctica holds >19 m of sea level equivalent ice in it’s climatically sensitive marine-based catchments. #glaciology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Do you love forams? do you love lasers? do you love the PETM? Well I have a PhD project for you: noc.ac.uk/gsnocs/proje.... More details here: thefosterlab.org/blog/2023/10.... Please spread the word and pass on to anyone who you think might be interested.

Four lectureships in: (1) Glaciology (2) Land-Vegetation-Atmosphere Interactions (3) Global Biogeochemical Cycles (4) Upper Crustal Geophysics at Cardiff Uni. Come and join us in a friendly department in beautiful Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 www.cardiff.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci... ⚒️

Would you like to help climate scientists? If so, today we launch our latest #WeatherRescue project. Join other volunteers to transcribe lost weather observations. The mission is to recover pressure measurements taken in Oxford between 1828-1860. Visit: weatherrescue.org

Absolutely loved reading this article about Dr Jess Wade, who gives me hope for the future of academia! 🌟 #WomeninSTEM #AcademicSky 🧪 amp.theguardian.com/science/2023...

Great paper by Eleanor John @carolinelear.bsky.social and others. Check out that lovely Mg/Ca banding! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....