What I gather from this ancient Babylonian dialogue (and others) is that we have grappled with injustice for millennia. We've talked about it with our friends, and we've felt understandably depressed. How can we not?
But we will keep fighting, and the smoke will clear one day...
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
I can sort of understand people treating climate breakdown as a distant, peripheral issue when they thought it was just a future threat to polar bears and Pacific Islands
But we're seeing these sorts of warnings all the time now, and little seems to have changed
I’m grumpy about this paper, which has been poorly communicated in a way that’s taken up a bunch of my time this week and is the result of framing decisions in the paper itself.
Another blow to climate science: budget cuts at Environment and Climate Change Canada threaten long-running Arctic monitoring programs, some with >50-year datasets.
The Arctic is warming ~4× faster than the global average. Cutting the science that tracks is…
theconversation.com/budget-cuts-...
Chart showing the exponential collapse of the lag, extrapolated to 2.0C. Reference points show 10, 20 and 30 year lag scenarios projecting 2033, 2043 and 2053 respectively.
1/🌡️ Global warming passed a milestone on 17th Nov 2023 that barely made the news
For the first time ever, the world's daily average temperature was 2.0°C above pre-industrial levels
Here's what the data says about when that becomes the annual norm, & whether it's coming sooner than anyone expects🧵
Ki-generierte Version
Originalbild mit dem die KI gefüttert wurde
Die Forschungsministerin freut sich auf Insta darüber, dass jetzt "Porträts" von Frauen der Geschichte in ihrem Haus hängen. Nur: Die sind mit KI erstellt. Und schleifen die Gesichter der Frauen gemäß moderner westlicher Schönheitsideale glatt.
Was für ein irres Projekt
Z.B.
Overview of emerging environmental issues and risks in #Iran and the wider region from Operation #EpicFury. We're already seeing pollution incidents that are placing people and ecosystems at risk of acute and chronic harm: ceobs.org/three-days-o... #IsraelIranWar 1/5
New from Picketty's lab: The world can raise incomes toward global equity & stabilize the climate under "under very strict conditions"
—reduction of work hours
—consumption shift toward immaterial sectors
—major change in food habits
—a fast energy transition requiring massive low-carbon investment
In Berlin haben wir spontan mit hunderten Leuten vor dem Kanzleramt klargemacht: Wir lassen diesen Angriff auf Energiewende und Klimaziele nicht zu! Erneuerbare sind die Zukunft ☀️
Early-career scientists: Applications are open to join the group review of the IPCC AR7 Working Group First Order Draft.
Apply by 23 March 2026 (23:59 UTC-12): forms.gle/wkaJVjMKfT3w... Onboarding & training: April - June 2026 Review: 10 Aug - 2 Oct 2026 More info here www.apecs.is/news/apecs-n...
Turquoise icebergs seen from above, with a huge amount visible under the water - far larger than the bits visible above the water. There are also some bits of flat ice at the top right that look a little pink in the setting sunlight.
More ridiculously turquoise icebergs in Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon a couple of nights ago.
#Iceland #DronePhotography #DJIMavic3Pro
I feel like the world is moving too fast right now, and I worry about all of the people who need help and attention around the world and are being made invisible in the international news because of all the war-loving crazies. Not to mention the ecosystems.
As a glaciologist, it is strange to realize that I can't go back to visit many of my past field sites, the memories are there, the ice is gone or soon to be gone. #ThwaitesGlacier #climategrief #glaciers #Antarctica
Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf heading for collapse. Monthly average velocities Jan 2025 to Feb 2026 derived from EU Copernicus Programme Sentinel-1 SAR data. Grounding lines in black and yellow from NASA MEaSUREs
Excellent article by @bobkopp.net describing the attacks on climate science by the Trump administration and calling for the research community to find a better strategy to respond. Articles like this are a critical to letting people know the full scope of what's being done to science.
🧪🌊🧵 Great to see this published. An 18,000 year record of deep water temperatures on the Amundsen Sea continental shelf, which confirms that incursion of warm water onto the shelf has been the main driver of West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat throughout deglaciation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A lone gentoo penguin on the rocky shoreline.
An Antarctic shag perched on a rock with icebergs in Paradise Harbour in the background.
A leopard seal resting on ice in Paradise Harbour.
Two gentoo penguins on the beach at Stony Point, seemingly trying to decide what to do about the Weddell seal that is in their way (front centre of photo)
Day 9 of my voyage to the #Antarctic Peninsula on the #tallship #BarkEuropa (continued): a selection of wildlife photos taken at Stony Point.
#BusmansHoliday
What can a PhD in polar science look like? 🧊
We followed CPOM PhD researcher Marlena Holloway (@northumbriauni.bsky.social) during the first year of her PhD to find out 👇
youtu.be/m5d7wYl5hRo
This is figure 1, which shows a risk map of Antarctic ice catchment basins.
The results of a study in Nature Climate Change imply that the Antarctic Ice Sheet does not act as one single tipping element, but rather as several tipping systems interacting across drainage basins. go.nature.com/4rFXQ9q 🧪
But we got a very specific example of that recently, and specifically using Claude Code - the software cited in Zeke's post.
You can immediately see why corporations like Anthropic *refuse* to disclose absolute, total numbers for energy consumption, and stick with per-query numbers
OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA
NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>
#RECCAP2 paper alert, Jemma Wadham led the polar chapter, summarizing knowns and (large) unknowns of carbon stocks and fluxes from ice sheets to land fringes, fjords, 🌊 oceans and sediments.🧪 Excellent reference starting point for future work.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
@awi.de
East Antarctica has been the epicenter for unusually persistent blocking and atmospheric river landfalls that have resulted in some extreme high temperatures. From February 12-March 1, I've noted 5 distinct atmospheric river events observed/forecasted over Wilkes Land.
🇦🇶 Reminder: Share Your Views on Antarctica & the Southern Ocean! 🇦🇶
SCAR is updating its Antarctic and Southern Ocean Horizon Scan and wants to hear from you.
🔷 Submit your response by 1 March 2026: bit.ly/scar-horizon...
The fundamental premise behind AI-enabled cheating is that coursework is merely busy work, because your'e just doing it for professors.
We would never say that showing up for football practice is merely busy work because you're just doing it for your coaches.
This!👇
Armed conflict exacerbates climate change
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine drove greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) up by 75M tonnes CO2 equivalents -
comparable to the annual emissions of France
What happens in a war zones affects the entire globe as well as the local communities 😡🌍
A pointy brown mountain with a glacier in front of it and some turquoise icebergs in the lagoon in front of it - they almost look like whales at the surface. The sky above is bright blue.
Turquoise iceberg close-up - lots of bubbles and round shapes. There are some tiny areas that look a little pink/red at the top.
Blue iceberg layers, seen on a glacier. There are some patches of snow.
A green/turquoise glacier face with some smooth bits at the foot (with some snow on them) and some jagged bits in the sun behind, with the glacier in shadow behind coming down the hill side.
Haven't posted much colour recently, so here's some varying turquoise ice from Feb 2020.
#Iceland #AwesomeFoursome
Line graph time series of 2026's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2025. 2026 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between January and March by looking at the decadal average line positions.
Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 2nd lowest on record (JAXA data)
• about 410,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,000,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,510,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,970,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
In a new review led by Prof @iceybethan.bsky.social we outline three possible futures for the Antarctic Peninsula.
The bottom line? Decisions we make in this decade will shape the region’s climate trajectory for decades and centuries to come. 🇦🇶❄️🧪
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