Few technologies have been met with such a barrage of misinformation as heat pumps have. @carbonbrief.org just dropped a brand-new version of my heat pump myths factcheck. Have a look here 👇 interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...
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Few technologies have been met with such a barrage of misinformation as heat pumps have. @carbonbrief.org just dropped a brand-new version of my heat pump myths factcheck. Have a look here 👇 interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...
More bad news on AMOC: "I used to say that the chance of Amoc collapsing as a result of global warming was less than 10%”, said Prof @rahmstorf.bsky.social “Now even in a low-emission scenario, sticking to the Paris agreement, it looks like more like 25%." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I agree! I had to do that double take, and then a triple take 😎 really nice work!
Our comment on the DOE CWG report is done. It tips the scales at 439 pages, approx. 3x longer than the DOE report. This is related to Brandolini's law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. Example: refuting one sentence.
Out today in Nature is the most exciting dinosaur paper I've ever been involved in - led by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social we describe a partial skeleton of the UTTERLY BIZARRE Spicomellus from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco, the oldest known ankylosaur. (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I’m doing the exact same thing atm, but in a more recent setting. Even the graph and color scheme are the same. 🙃 still trying to figure it out too. I suppose it’s something to do with detrital vs. more marine environments…
Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!
Meet Spiny Norman, the earliest known and definitely the most outrageously spiky ankylosaur ever discovered, as presented by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social & @richardjbutler.bsky.social in @nature.com. Q: how did it mate? A: carefully. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Have you ever heard of #Spicomellus? It’s one of the world’s strangest dinosaurs. Its rib bone has spikes fused to it - something unheard of in any other animal! But now, more of the skeleton has been uncovered - and it's even stranger than anyone imagined... (1/4) 🧵
🚨Job alert Want to know what’s behind these doors? TAMU’s Gulf Coast Repository is looking for a Curatorial Specialist to support the GCR on shore & who will be sailing on expeditions operated by the Scientific Ocean Drilling Coordinating Office (SODCO). tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/System-wide_...
Recalibrating the past 100 million years on a unified, accurate and precise timescale? 🕰️ That is the aim of the ambitious TIMES project. Read more about the Kick-Off meeting here ➡️ www.marum.de/en/Kick-off-...
The energy transition is in full swing. Renewables have now surpassed fossil fuels as #1 for energy investment. 2025: Renewables investment to hit $780B Last decade: Renewables up 109% Grids & storage up 44% Energy efficiency up 42% Electrification up 131% Oil down 34%, gas down 19% Coal up 13%
New Paper Alert! 🚨 Emily Havard documents dramatic decreases in planktic foraminifera and carbonate fluxes in the Pacific. 🐚🌊 A striking example of marine ecosystems responding to climate change and the rapidly shifting carbon cycle. 👉 bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
Unbelievable footage from NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters inside the eye of Hurricane Erin. Simply incredible.
As the world of AI and Technology continues to ever increase, here's the one and only Mary Oliver with an important challenge for us all. (Legend ❤️✨️)
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨 Please RT this so as many people see it as possible. forms.gle/BL9xUAfRxA...
This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
It's true, #PrehistoricPlanet Ice Age is coming to #AppleTV for November 2025. These images show how good our animals are, but... believe me, this barely scratches the surface!! It has been a massive thrill and privilege to help bring this series together... you're in for an incredible treat.
🚨New paper alert🚨 We present the first record of Indian Monsoon variability and marine productivity spanning the late Pliocene–early Pleistocene (3.5 - 2.3 Ma). Multi-proxy data from the core zone of ISM rainfall - the NW Bay of Bengal. ⚒️🌊🌏 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
No meds here (yet), but the diagnosis and subsequent realisation, was life-changing. Also, hindsight hits wayyyy different now. First few weeks were an emotional rollercoaster. Lots of what ifs, NOW it all makes sense, recognising it in other family members, self-help, relief, regret and all that…
Re-upping this given the news that our beloved US icebreaker N.B.Palmer, whose portal I took this pic from, may be lost from science.
This is a pretty alarming new study out today (doi.org/10.1126/scia... - read the abstract) and here are some great visuals and highlights from it by @propublica.org: www.propublica.org/article/wate... "Since 2002, 75% of the population lives in 101 countries that have been losing freshwater water"
I figured it out 1.5 years ago. ADHD at 39. The very moment it clicked for me, I was shaking and my hands were trembling. Your meme is spot on, too. “what if” indeed… I hope you feel relief and comfort in knowing now, Andy.
Maybe abolishing FEMA wasn’t a great idea? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
OK, climate scientists, we have to talk about sea-surface temperature datasets. We can't keep having papers like this in Nature Climate Change, it's just embarrassing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Erleben Sie zwei Tage voller Inspiration, Innovation und Vernetzung auf dem Campus der Universität Wien! Das Open #Science Festival bringt Forscher*innen, Studierende und Mitarbeiter*innen in der Forschungsunterstützung zusammen! 👩🔬👨🔬 📅: 8.-9. Sep. 2025 Call for Posters & Anmeldung: ⤵️ #OSfestival2025
Geology Murder xkcd.com/3112/
![Comic. [two people in labcoats look at body pierced with blade draped over bench] PERSON 1: We found him lying uncomformably on the lab bench. I wonder if the iron-rich intrusion in his back is related. PERSON 2 with ponytail: It could be clastic. Maybe a rift opened in his body, and the intrusive material later fell into the hole. [caption] The Geology Department Investigates Their First Murder](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidexczuo22iq6o77sexfgdpvgx6baetimwtkzoeb7h7glon7enx4y@jpeg "Click to view full size")
There are 10 countries in the world that have had 50% or more of a months total electricity generation from only solar and wind. All 10 countries are in the EU
"For the first time, scientists from Utrecht, the UK and the US have been able to determine how sea levels must have varied on thousand-year timescales during the last 540 million years." 🧪⚒️🌊 Paper:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X25003243
Proposed NOAA cuts would destroy the basic infrastructure for weather research–including hurricane and flash flood forecasting–and take decades to recover from. “It’s like blowing up a dam and trying to rebuild it by gluing the pieces back together. It won’t work. You have to start from scratch.”
The rapidly growing number of days with a temperature above 35°C somewhere in the Netherlands: 19 in the 20th century. 39 in the first quarter of this century, and counting.
To the non-expert, this will seem esoteric, so allow me to summarise: we have profoundly altered the distribution of nutient elements on the ocean, with a potentially profound impact on the life that lives in it.
This is fucking insane. Closing these NOAA labs would obliterate our ability to observe, understand, and forecast the Earth System, from weather systems tomorrow to sea levels 50 years from now.
🚨Job alert PhD 🚨 We are looking for 15 new doctoral researchers at @marumunibremen.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social. Don't miss this fantastic opportunity! The deadline is the 25th of July. More information about the projects and how to apply can be found here 👇 www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
Our final updates have been posted to the Climate.gov website, and this will be our final post to our social media channels.
I sought comment from NOAA and the Department of Defense on this and received this reply today from NOAA's spokesperson. They suggest we use the surviving ATMS microwave that degrades significantly at the edges. You can see how much worse off we'd be with Erick last week if we only had ATMS.
"Sunrise surprises" are one of the many unwelcome visitors we may get as a result of the sudden cutoff of vital satellite-based data for hurricane monitoring. Below are thoughts from @franklinjamesl.bsky.social, former chief of the forecasting group (hurricane specialists) at NOAA's Nat'l Hurr Ctr.
@ajcruzlaufer.bsky.social something for you and Maarten? 😎
Trump’s decision “will open up vast swaths of largely untouched land to logging and roadbuilding, including about 30% of the land in the National Forest System — encompassing 92% of Tongass, one of the last remaining intact temperate rainforests in the world…” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Thanks for this Craig. I still remember the moment I had to fill my taxes in the US as a PD fellow, and realising I was in the third lowest tax bracket (of 20 IIRC). We got by (thanks to my full-time working partner), and I’d do it again. But it wasn’t a sustainable situation, to say the least.
A study confirms what we have long argued: the spectacular Atlantic 'cold blob' is the result of a slowing of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC, which transports warm waters into that region. That's the only part of Earth that resisted #globalwarming. 🌊 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
‼️WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN ALL NIGHT >40 DEGREES IN OMAN & EMIRATES Dawn at 40C at Fujairah and Dhudna Min 35.8 Rustaq,35.5 Sohar Majis:Hottest night ever INSANITY IN PAKISTAN🇵🇰 MINIMUMS 34C 1200m and 30.6C at 1500m (Bunji) WORLD RECORD HOT NIGHT AT THAT ELEVATION
President Trump has said that governors should be able to manage hurricanes alone, and if they can't, "Then maybe they shouldn’t be governor.” Hurricane Katrina’s costs topped $125 billion in 2005. The state of Louisiana’s total budget that year was $17.5 billion. The numbers don't add up.
To all the reply guys saying how renewables are a terrible idea. I hate to break it to you but >90% of new generation capacity built is now renewable energy, mainly solar & wind. Data from @irena-official.bsky.social
Every country is warming. Every country is experiencing more extreme weather events because of climate change, mainly caused by burning fossil fuels. www.ShowYourStripes.info Time to #ShowYourStripes and start climate conversations to prompt actions to reduce emissions, personally & collectively.
The Matthew Effect, in the wild
I love quaking grass! Planning on putting those wee little foramplants in my borders! I’ve got plenty of garden-related things planned this Summer!
"To our untrained eye, a corn field looks more 'natural' than an array of solar panels. But a corn field is a biological desert ... Put up some solar panels, and add some plants that only need to be mowed once a year or so (sometimes with sheep) and you see an explosion of life."
I know there's a lot happening in the world right now, but I can't find any news reporting at all of this major new study published in Science. Where's the #climate coverage?! "We therefore need to cut GHG emissions even further to have a chance of keeping global warming below 2 degrees"
Very interesting open access article about the "Long-term impact and biological recovery in a deep-sea mining track" by D.O.B. Jones and colleagues. Their photos of the ocean floor after mining, before and after, are simply shocking. #geoscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Do I know someone who can help me with slides on plant diversity? I know nothing about plants, but my son is turning into Linnaeus, spending hours looking at flowers and classifying plant families (correctly). I would like to help him out (instead of the other way around 🤣).
Sounds so familiar! I vividly remember my dad taking us to see an Air show in the pouring rain. We hiked over a hill, through a forest and meadow as “the airfield should be here somewhere”. Ended up on the opposing paramilitary training field, soaked. I found bullet casings. Great day for a 8 yo. 😂😅
Let alone ignoring his own ND traits and/or dismissing our childhood-memories of him surprise-waking us up at 5 am on a Sunday to “go see the castle 250 km away I read 3 books on last night”. Good times, good times 😅 (honestly, great childhood, albeit slightly chaotic 🫣 )
My dad’s putting together a geneology of our family. Last week, he visited his aunt to ask for info: “you just can’t keep a conversation, she’s constantly standing up and looking for stuff in drawers. Total ADHD, even worse than my mother.” Then proceeds to dismiss AD(H)D claims of my sister and I 😅
🎯 Does early success in science funding shape the rest of your career? New RoRI study says yes. The ‘Matthew effect’ — early winners keep winning — holds across funders & countries. 📄 Read more: researchonresearch.org/largest-stud...
Climate warming is not a recent phenomenon; it has had detectable impacts on plants for at least 134 years! The onset of phenological plant response to climate warming @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🌎🌿🌐🌳 🍁 #PlantBiology @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csic.es
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...
Really awful news. Some of the best and liveliest lay-friendly writing on El Niño/La Niña, stratosphere-climate links, and many other crucial topics has been produced by the talented folks at climate.gov.
Trump appointees at the State Department are illegally blocking nearly 200 Fulbright scholarships, awards meant to send American professors and researchers abroad for educational exchange.
Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️... Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong... 🌐 🦑🧪 🧵⬇️
7 of 9 planetary boundaries now crossed: “By 2020 the oceans condition were very close to or beyond the planetary boundary for ocean acidification (calcium carbonate levels >20% below preindustrial). The deeper in the ocean they looked, the worse the findings were, the scientists said.”
Just made a visualization for myself about the unprecedented growth in solar that I thought I might share. You can see how from 1880 to 1950 all our electricity came from fossil and hydro. Then nuclear briefly grew with market share increasing with up to 1% per year in 1985. Now solar takes over.
Germany just connected its largest battery storage system—103.5 MW in Bollingstedt. Big step for grid flexibility and renewables! Projects like this are key to a resilient, clean energy future. More here: www.x-elio.com/germanys-lar...
There was this notion, that as things get warmer, corals will expand to higher latitudes. But that seems not to be the case. Corals are too slow, and warming is too fast. Something also to remember when we look at past extinction events. 🧪🌊⚒️
If you have access, this is a great reference… www.science.org/doi/full/10....
IIRC, we’re now at Middle Miocene CO2 levels, so about 15 mya.
"the temperatures at every reef north of Ningaloo reached as high as or higher than ever recorded. “We’ve never had every major WA reef affected in a single event. This is the worst coral bleaching event recorded for WA reefs.” " #ClimateEmergency www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Coral reefs face an uncertain recovery from the 4th global mass bleaching event – can climate refuges help? It’s worth remembering that coral reefs are home to a quarter of all marine species and generate over a trillion USD annually in ecosystem services theconversation.com/coral-reefs-...
Have you developed a computational method or tool which would be useful to palaeobiologists? 🧰 If you might be interested in presenting in our Lecture Series later in the year, please get in touch with us! 🗓️ #FossilFriday
This is huge!🤩 (pun intended 🫣) 🌊 🧪
🧵New paper + open database drop! The Marine Organismal Body Size ( #MOBS ) Database is now live—85,000+ marine species, from plankton to whales, with standardized size data. A huge leap for biodiversity, conservation, and climate science. #science #marinelife onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
For many marine species, all we have is a name. Now, thanks to a huge effort led by @drcraigmc.bsky.social, for 85,000 species we have body size as well. Version 1 of the MOBS database is published today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Enjoy! 🌐🧪
This whole thread is worth reading to understand the existential crisis university teaching is now in.
🚨Permanent job🚨 Are you a reasearcher with experience in geotechnics and/or hydrogeology and a passion for teaching? Come and join us at @unibremen.bsky.social 👇 www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
📣 JOB ALERT 📣 I'm looking for an enthusiastic PhD student who is passionate about neuro-immunology, to work at the Biomedical Research Center of Hasselt University. Interested? Check the link: www.uhasselt.be/en/about-has...
A HISTORIC MILESTONE: For the first time, solar power generated more electricity globally than nuclear, making it the world’s 4th largest power source. In just 5 years, solar output nearly tripled—from 79 TWh (Apr 2020) to 233 TWh (Apr 2025). The energy transition is speeding up. @ember-energy.org
We are advertising for a full-time permanent lectureship in Earth Sciences. You can find out more about the position (and apply) here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Isotopes show that hail may not bounce up and down in clouds.
"Enhanced water column stratification and nutrient export to mesopelagic depths, associated with the intensification of..Glaciation, likely drove shifts in species diversity and ecogroup latitudinal gradients toward modern patterns" www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪⚒️ #Paleobio #Macroecology #Geology
Important! Jonkers et al Community guidelines to increase the reusability of marine microfossil assemblage data jm.copernicus.org/articles/44/...
How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)
This is 100% accurate 😅😂
For hurricane nerds only: my annual roundup of which models did the best. The European and GFS models were the top track models in 2024, with the GFS making better four- and five-day forecasts. The official NHC forecast was tough to beat. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/05/whic...
Shuggie Otis 🫶
FRESH AIR: New data from Belgium confirms the obvious: Low-emission zones work. Focusing on zones implemented in Antwerp in 2017 and Brussels in 2018, the study shows improved air quality in the areas car access was restricted, as well as overall improved health. www.politico.eu/newsletter/g...
A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich
Andy, I absolutely love that you’ve done this! Having been an international fellow myself and currently a support staff member working with (among other things) funding data… this rings home. Twice.
🚨 New Paper 🚨 Coauthors and I just published our work in PLOS One on Canadian graduate funding. We found that Canadian graduate funding falls _well_ below cost of living. On average, $10kCAD below cost of living. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Sorry to hear about your situation. Fingers crossed you’ll land a nice job soon. 😎 Btw, that little octopus reminds me of Darwin of Gumball 🤩
Here it is, in a clear graphic from the NYTimes. The GOP budget destruction bill will add $3.3 TRILLION to the national debt. And how? Entirely by tax cuts to the rich, paid for by cutting health, food for the poor, climate science, and Medicaid.
The organization that @bhensonweather.bsky.social and I write for, @climateconnections.bsky.social, lost one of its key funding sources last month. We need extra support to keep Bob and I writing this year, during what figures to be a stressful hurricane season. Please chip in!
So…about AI’s energy use… “…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️29th May 2025, 16:00 UTC🗓️ Join us for next week’s talk given by Dr Allison Hsiang from Stockholm University, on “Automating large-scale morphometric data generation using AutoMorph and deep learning” Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
Today's #HydrogenSoufflé is an update of a classic. I'm very much looking forward to the launch of the BMW iX5 Hydrogen in 2028, and seeing whether it can manage a single pixel on the RH chart before being taken off the market.
Excellent viz & analysis of what US researchers are acutely feeling (and what I’ve been yelling into the abyss): Last years grants are not coming through. PIs work on a 2-3 year grant cycle. Add this to the Trump budget & we’re looking at the extinction of an entire grant cycle. Unprecedented.
🧵 JUST IN: NOAA forecasters predict an above-normal 2025 Atlantic #HurricaneSeason --> See our news release at: bit.ly/2025Atlantic... PREPARE NOW. Season officially starts June 1 and runs through November 30. nws.noaa.gov #HurricaneOutlook #WeatherReadyNation
🧵JUST IN: @NOAA forecasters predict an above-normal 2025 Atlantic #HurricaneSeason is 60% likely bit.ly/2025Atlantic... @NWSCPC @NWS #HurricaneOutlook
This is so depressing! Result of decades-long disinformation campaigns rejecting science-based findings relating to climate change and whatever else rich white guys and big business interests felt cut into their profits. They had to rely on know-nothings & conspiracists for votes. Now, here we are.
Micropal (Foraminifera) postdoc position 😎 available at Köln University (Germany), with Patrick Grunert. 🌊 🧪 academicpositions.com/ad/universit...