Prof. Sonia I Seneviratne

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets www.nature.com/articles/d41...

« La liberté académique est une condition de la démocratie elle-même » TRIBUNE. La France doit tirer une leçon de l’expérience américaine : sans statut juridique fort, la liberté académique ne résiste pas longtemps aux chocs politiques, explique, dans une tribune au « Mo...

www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Trump Is Attacking Climate Science. Scientists Are Fighting Back. It’s easy, looking at the past year, to see the damage the administration has done. But researchers are also stepping up, trying to fill the gaps.

One year in the federal assault on climate science — a review and prospective

The Merchants of Doubt playbook down to the dot

@naomioreskes.bsky.social & @erikconway.bsky.social

NEW STUDY: Winter downpours are getting heavier in parts of Spain, Portugal and Morocco as the region recovers from a month of relentless storms.

Between mid-January and mid-February nine named storms brought torrential rain hurricane force winds causing major damage and disruption. 1/5

We need a global assessment of avoidable climate-change risks To understand the urgency of emissions reductions, policymakers and citizens need a full analysis of what is at stake.

Major threats to our well being from climate change can be avoided, or hugely reduced, by rapid action.

Our Nature comment calls for a global risk assessment, effectively communicated to governments, the media and the public, to make clear what is at stake.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Visualizing Climate Change: A Step-by-Step Guide to Reproduce Climate Stripes with Python | Towards Data Science A quick Matplotlib tutorial to build a remarkable visualization

Nice tutorial on re-creating @edhawkins.org Warming Stripes in Python & Matplotlib:

towardsdatascience.com/visualizing-...

Read Read chapter Front Matter: The scientific community has been studying the question of how human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases are affecting the cli...

The scientific understanding of human-driven climate change is much stronger today than it was in 2009 when the EPA first issued the endangerment finding. There is no scientific basis for the Trump administration's decision to repeal it

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

There is No Scientific Justification to Revoke the Endangerment Finding The U.S. EPA's decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding will limit the government's ability to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org

Going on the record on this: climate change is in fact bad

NEW – Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social @creacleanair.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/wC1nbXO

I can't repost this enough. Incredible outrage. This is a good article.

The European city banning all fossil fuel and meat adverts in public Amsterdam initially proposed the move in 2020, becoming the first city in the world to do so.

Amsterdam will ban fossil fuel and meat advertisements in public spaces and on public transport starting May 1st. 🥳

Federal Judge Blocks Texas Law Targeting Critics of Fossil Fuels

Very big win here. A federal judge says it's just fine for funds and pension plans to boycott fossil fuels
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/c...

As we have already reported, we are happy that the Swiss Federal Government has approved the new National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) CLIM+: Climate Extremes and Society.

👉 Here is our D-USYS report on the project:
usys.ethz.ch/en/news-even...

Home Institutions: @ethz.ch @unibe.ch
Co-Directors: @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social @kariningold.bsky.social
Deputy Co-Directors: @davidnbresch.bsky.social @omartius.bsky.social
Website: nccr-climplus.ch
NCCR-CLIM+ Starter Pack: PIs/Partners, Institutions & Int. adv. committee
go.bsky.app/4t2aLgV

Breaking news: The #NCCR #CLIM+ on "Climate Extremes & Society" will be funded by the @snf-fns.ch in the coming 4 years! With 47 PIs, 20 institutions & 22 stakeholders from #health to #finance & #agriculture, it will unite climate expertise from both natural & social science!
nccr-climplus.ch

Interdisciplinarity as a core pillar, addressing grand challenges, knowledge transfer and stakeholder engagement. The funding of the #NCCR #CLIM+ is a major milestone that aligns perfectly with the mission and long-term strategy of our @usyseth.bsky.social. Very proud of this major achievement! 🌏🙏🎉

How well can we quantify when 1.5 °C of global warming has been exceeded? Abstract. Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement agreed to limit the long-term increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C and pursue efforts to keep temperatures below 1.5 °C relative to p...

New discussion paper just dropped that’s taken shall we say a little work to get this far … essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es... please be kind. Not on an at all sensitive topic in the slightest.

"Our findings show that #SRM only proves beneficial under a narrow intersection of robust global mitigation, extremely low failure risk, & gradual phase-out. Paradoxically, the same governance failures that make SRM politically attractive undermine the very conditions needed for its safe operation."

Climate Data Scientist | Climate Central Climate Central is seeking a highly-skilled Climate Data Scientist to join our team. Reporting to the Vice President for Science, the scientist will be part of a new initiative in climate services to ...

Very exciting to share that @climatecentral.org is hiring a Climate Data Scientist to join a new climate services effort focused on advancing predictions of risks and hazards on seasonal-to-decadal timescales. The application closes on February 9, 2026 at 5pm ET, & the description can be found here:

Wind and solar used to play a niche role when I started to work on energy in 2004.

Last year they overtook fossil generation in the EU for the first time.

‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.

“The speed, the scope and the severity of the attacks on science are beyond anything we’ve ever seen,” says @gretchentg.bsky.social.

My @nature.com story on the human toll of the 2nd Trump presidency.

Thx to @dochfroehlich.bsky.social, @briannosek.bsky.social, @katharinehayhoe.com & others.

‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.

This is so grim. Science isn’t just something nerds do, but the foundation of the modern world. What the Trump regime has done to US science will harm Americans for generations.

A rare bit of good news from the US. House republicans seem to be pushing back against Trump's huge proposed cuts to science.

NSF, NASA, NOAA - all look set to be near flat, or - for DOE - even a slight increase.

www.economist.com/united-state...

Important and timely wide-ranging interview with one of the world's most influential climate scientists.

Some of what he tells @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org is, frankly, breathtaking.

A call to action for all scientists, not just those focused on climate change.

The global warming trend continued in 2025. Each of the past 11 years (2015–2025) has been among the 11 warmest on record. Explore more data from #CopernicusClimate in the Global Climate Highlights 2025. #GCH2025

🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

@ecmwf.int

2025 global climate highlights are out:
🌡️ 2025 was 3rd warmest year on record, 1.47ºC above the preindustrial level
📈 2023-2025 is the first three year period above 1.5ºC (according to ERA5)
🌍 The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record

See: climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

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