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"Heatwave: Anti-Climate Reform Politicians Represent Areas at ‘High Risk’ from Extreme Temperatures"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

Heatwave: Anti-Climate Reform Politicians Represent Areas at ‘High Risk’ from Extreme Temperatures
Nigel Farage and his fellow Reform UK MPs, many of whom deny basic climate science, represent constituencies exposed to the worst effects of extreme heat, studies show. The UK has this week entered its fourth heatwave of 2025, with temperatures expected to rise to 33C on Thursday in what scientists have warned could become the […]

This is crazy, and not enough people are talking about this.
Dozens of leading scientists just reviewed a new Department of Energy climate report and found it riddled with errors and outright misrepresentations of climate science.
 
Why? Because the Trump administration hand-picked climate skeptics to write it in secret,
then used it as political cover to roll back protections against pollution from power plants, cars, trucks, and the oil industry.
 
Let’s be…

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Querying Climate Knowledge: Semantic Retrieval for Scientific Discovery
Mustapha Adamu, Qi Zhang, Huitong Pan, Longin Jan Latecki, Eduard C. Dragut
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10087

Querying Climate Knowledge: Semantic Retrieval for Scientific Discovery
The growing complexity and volume of climate science literature make it increasingly difficult for researchers to find relevant information across models, datasets, regions, and variables. This paper introduces a domain-specific Knowledge Graph (KG) built from climate publications and broader scientific texts, aimed at improving how climate knowledge is accessed and used. Unlike keyword based search, our KG supports structured, semantic queries that help researchers discover precise connections…

Volcanic emission of reduced sulfur species shaped the climate of early Mars: #Mars Climate, Making It More Hospitable To Life: https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/09/volcanic-emissions-of-reactive-sulfur-gases-may-have-shaped-early-mars-climate-making-it-more-hospitable-to-life/

Next week I will participate with the @… @… @… Horizon funded research projects in a policy briefing in Brussels, with MEP Group on Climate Change, Biodiversity & Sustainable Development @eupolarcluster.bsky.social
Remote participation possible if you're interested in what we have to say about Polar Science for Global Action and Strengthening Climate Preparedness through EU Leadership
https://polarres.eu/polarresevents/polar-science-for-global-action/

A Triad of Networks and a Triad of Fusions for the Other Climate Crisis
Emilio Porcu, Tobia Filosi, Horst Simon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09728 https://ar…

A Triad of Networks and a Triad of Fusions for the Other Climate Crisis
Shaw and Stevens call for a new paradigm in climate science criticizes Large Scale Determinism in favor of (i) embracing discrepancies, (ii) embracing hierarchies, and (iii) create disruption while keeping interpretability. The last 20 years have seen a plethora of contributions relating complex networks with climate data and climate models. We provide a view of climate networks through a triad of frameworks and associated paradigms: (a) networks of data, where both (geographical) nodes and the…

😰 Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/31/harrison-ford-donald-trump-climate-crisis

Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’
Indiana Jones star calls US president one of history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels

Climate Data for Power Systems Applications: Lessons in Reusing Wildfire Smoke Data for Solar PV Studies
Arleth Salinas, Irtaza Sohail, Valerio Pascucci, Pantelis Stefanakis, Saud Amjad, Aashish Panta, Roland Schigas, Timothy Chun-Yiu Chui, Nicolas Duboc, Mostafa Farrokhabadi, Roland Stull
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09888

Climate Data for Power Systems Applications: Lessons in Reusing Wildfire Smoke Data for Solar PV Studies
Data reuse is using data for a purpose distinct from its original intent. As data sharing becomes more prevalent in science, enabling effective data reuse is increasingly important. In this paper, we present a power systems case study of data repurposing for enabling data reuse. We define data repurposing as the process of transforming data to fit a new research purpose. In our case study, we repurpose a geospatial wildfire smoke forecast dataset into a historical dataset. We analyze its effica…

Still getting replies from the radical helmet deniers (and blocking them), amazing stuff.
It's basically like climate change deniers—including the same type of websites that are full of biased "science" tailored to support their argument that "helmets are actually worse".
Please get a life and leave me alone.

‘We must change course’: a stark climate warning from the UN chief – podcast https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2025/nov/04/we-must-change-course-a-stark-climate-warning-from-the-un-chief-podcast
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Automatic Regression for Governing Equations with Control (ARGOSc)
Amir Bahador Javadi, Amin Kargarian, Mort Naraghi-Pour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09784 https://

Automatic Regression for Governing Equations with Control (ARGOSc)
Learning the governing equations of dynamical systems from data has drawn significant attention across diverse fields, including physics, engineering, robotics and control, economics, climate science, and healthcare. Sparse regression techniques, exemplified by the Automatic Regression for Governing Equations (ARGOS) framework, have demonstrated effectiveness in extracting parsimonious models from time series data. However, real-world dynamical systems are driven by input control, external forc…

"Asad Rehman, chief executive of Friends of the Earth, said:
“Kemi Badenoch’s desperate attempt to sound like Donald Trump on climate change is taking her party further away from the interests of future generations, businesses, and the needs of ordinary people.
"Millions of lives are already being ruined and nature is being pushed to the brink. An act of political vandalism of this scale will not be easily forgiven or forgotten."

Replacing Climate Change Act is political vandalism that would abandon future generations | Friends of the Earth
Kemi Badenoch’s plan to replace the Climate Change Act is anti-science, anti-business and turns its back on those at the sharp end of climate breakdown now and future generations, says Friends of the Earth.

From the BC Green Party
🌱 Take Real Climate Action: BC must meet its 2030 climate goals—stop fossil fuel subsidies and invest in renewables now.
https://click.email.bcgreens.com/?qs=55…

Climate Action Petition
Call on the BC government to meet its 2030 climate targets and stop subsidizing fossil fuels. Join the BC Greens in demanding bold, science-based climate action now.

Scientists Denounce Trump Administration's Climate Report (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/climate/climate-science-report-energy-department.html?unlocked_article_code=1.i08.VWEr.FwKqvYY5-KM0&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p116#a250902p116

'Attacking the science': WA Ecology director slams Trump's climate policies • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/10/04/attacking-the-science-wa-ecology-director-slams-trumps-climate-policies/

Very interesting looking paper: In tech we trust: A history of technophilia in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) climate mitigation expertise
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629625003615
Hopefully someone wil…

Automated Evidence Extraction and Scoring for Corporate Climate Policy Engagement: A Multilingual RAG Approach
Imene Kolli, Ario Saeid Vaghefi, Chiara Colesanti Senni, Shantam Raj, Markus Leippold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08907

Automated Evidence Extraction and Scoring for Corporate Climate Policy Engagement: A Multilingual RAG Approach
InfluenceMap's LobbyMap Platform monitors the climate policy engagement of over 500 companies and 250 industry associations, assessing each entity's support or opposition to science-based policy pathways for achieving the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Although InfluenceMap has made progress with automating key elements of the analytical workflow, a significant portion of the assessment remains manual, making it time- and labor-intensive and susceptible to human er…

Scientists revive climate website, climate.us, to provide public-facing interpretations of climate science and promote climate literacy despite political obstacles. Optimistic yet cautious, they emphasize the importance of understanding climate change impacts.
https://www.theguardian.com/envi…

👼 Stringent climate policies could offer major health and economic gains by 2030
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-stringent-climate-policies-major-health.html

Stringent climate policies could offer major health and economic gains by 2030
Air pollution is one of the world's leading health risks, contributing to nearly one in eight deaths globally. A new study published in Science Advances by the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) shows that stringent climate policies designed to avoid temporarily exceeding 1.5°C warming could prevent hundreds of thousands of premature deaths while avoiding trillions of dollars in economic damages.

We've done the science—let's get on with climate action #climate

We've done the science—let's get on with climate action
For three decades now, I have watched Earth warm—not through headlines or politics, but in my own data. Every year, the evidence has become clearer. My colleagues have measured rising CO₂ levels in Antarctic ice cores. We have seen ice caps retreat, permafrost melt, ecosystems shift, and species vanish. Every single working day of my life has been a front-row seat to a planet in rapid transformation.

"‘Heat deaths aren’t a thing’: Coalition MPs weighing net zero given sceptical briefing on climate science"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Health

Hi, it’s the team at EDF Action Votes.
Trump’s administration just ordered NASA to shut down two crucial satellites
that track carbon emissions and monitor vegetation health worldwide.
One would even be destroyed, burning up in Earth’s atmosphere — erasing decades of critical climate data.
This is deliberate sabotage of science,
and it puts every American at risk.
Without these satellites, we’ll be flying blind in the fight against climate change.

I just gave to EDF Action Votes!
EDF Action votes is doing everything they can to elect environmental champions who will take climate action.

"Greenwashing at #Elsevier: A political ecology of corporate publishing"
https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7482

The first session of the second #AntarcticaInSync webinar is about to start - an international effort to coordinate research on and around the southern continent. Come and talk to me about land based observations and climate variability ... https://www.antarctica-insync.org/2nd-antarctica-insync-international-science-webinar/

Strengthening national capability in urban climate science: an Australian perspective
Negin Nazarian, Andy J Pitman, Mathew J Lipson, Melissa A Hart, Helen Cleugh, Ian Harman, Marcus J Thatcher, Annette L Hirsch, Giovanni Di Virgilio, Matthew L Riley, Nigel Tapper, Jason P Evans, Christian Jakob, Pascal Perez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.039…

Strengthening national capability in urban climate science: an Australian perspective
Cities are experiencing significant warming and more frequent climate extremes, raising risks for over 90% of Australians living in cities. Yet many of our tools for climate prediction and projection lack accurate representations of these environments. We also lack the observations and datasets needed to evaluate model performance. This paper identifies critical gaps in Australias current capability, showing how they undermine climate impact and risk assessments in cities and may lead to poorly…

The 2025 state of the #climate report - a planet on the brink: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf149/8303627 -> Earth’s vital signs worsen, science shows options for livable future: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/state-of-the-climate-2025-earths-vital-signs-worsen-science-shows-options-for-livable-future -> Our Planet’s Vital Signs are Crashing: https://eos.org/research-and-developments/2025-state-of-the-climate-report-our-planets-vital-signs-are-crashing

The American Meteorological Society doesn't buy the Trump regime's climate denial report.
https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-ams/ams-

Dozens of Scientists Find Errors in a New Energy Department Climate Report - Slashdot
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/1941215/dozens-of-scientists-find-errors-in-a-new-energy-department-climate-report

Archaeologists in Peru have found new evidence showing how the
oldest known civilization in the Americas adapted and survived a climate catastrophe without resorting to violence.
A team led by the renowned Peruvian archaeologist Ruth Shady, 78,
concluded that about 4,200 years ago, severe drought forced the population to leave the ancient city of Caral, and resettle nearby.
In the new settlements, they left intriguing friezes depicting victims of a famine with message…

As he approaches his final summit as the UN chief,
António Guterres reflects on
humanity’s progress in attempting to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels,
why Indigenous voices must be listened to
and how he remains positive in the face of the climate crisis.
https://…

‘We must change course’: a stark climate warning from the UN chief
Podcast Episode · Science Weekly · 11/04/2025 · 16m

Community-Centered Spatial Intelligence for Climate Adaptation at Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore
Gabriel Spadon, Oladapo Oyebode, Camilo M. Botero, Tushar Sharma, Floris Goerlandt, Ronald Pelot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01845

Community-Centered Spatial Intelligence for Climate Adaptation at Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore
This paper presents an overview of a human-centered initiative aimed at strengthening climate resilience along Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore. This region, a collection of rural villages with deep ties to the sea, faces existential threats from climate change that endanger its way of life. Our project moves beyond a purely technical response, weaving together expertise from Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, and Coastal Geography to co-create tools with the community. By integrating generat…

Predicting the future with magnons
Zeling Xiong, Christopher Heins, Thibaut Devolder, Fabian Kammerbauer, Mathias Kl\"aui, J\"urgen Fassbender, Helmut Schultheiss, Katrin Schultheiss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06382

Predicting the future with magnons
Forecasting complex, chaotic signals is a central challenge across science and technology, with implications ranging from secure communications to climate modeling. Here we demonstrate that magnons - the collective spin excitations in magnetically ordered materials - can serve as an efficient physical reservoir for predicting such dynamics. Using a magnetic microdisk in the vortex state as a magnon-scattering reservoir, we show that intrinsic nonlinear interactions transform a simple microwave …

RiverScope: High-Resolution River Masking Dataset
Rangel Daroya, Taylor Rowley, Jonathan Flores, Elisa Friedmann, Fiona Bennitt, Heejin An, Travis Simmons, Marissa Jean Hughes, Camryn L Kluetmeier, Solomon Kica, J. Daniel V\'elez, Sarah E. Esenther, Thomas E. Howard, Yanqi Ye, Audrey Turcotte, Colin Gleason, Subhransu Maji
https://arxi…

RiverScope: High-Resolution River Masking Dataset
Surface water dynamics play a critical role in Earth's climate system, influencing ecosystems, agriculture, disaster resilience, and sustainable development. Yet monitoring rivers and surface water at fine spatial and temporal scales remains challenging -- especially for narrow or sediment-rich rivers that are poorly captured by low-resolution satellite data. To address this, we introduce RiverScope, a high-resolution dataset developed through collaboration between computer science and hydrolog…

Despite congressional threat, National Academies releases new climate report https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/despite-congressional-threat-national-academies-releases-new-climate-report/

Despite congressional threat, National Academies releases new climate report
Things have changed since 2009: We’re more certain about the problems.

"After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors"
#US #USA #America

After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors
The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.

AI-Driven Marine Robotics: Emerging Trends in Underwater Perception and Ecosystem Monitoring
Scarlett Raine, Tobias Fischer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01878 https://

AI-Driven Marine Robotics: Emerging Trends in Underwater Perception and Ecosystem Monitoring
Marine ecosystems face increasing pressure due to climate change, driving the need for scalable, AI-powered monitoring solutions. This paper examines the rapid emergence of underwater AI as a major research frontier and analyzes the factors that have transformed marine perception from a niche application into a catalyst for AI innovation. We identify three convergent drivers: environmental necessity for ecosystem-scale monitoring, democratization of underwater datasets through citizen science p…

CERA: A Framework for Improved Generalization of Machine Learning Models to Changed Climates
Shuchang Liu, Paul A. O'Gorman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00010 https://

CERA: A Framework for Improved Generalization of Machine Learning Models to Changed Climates
Robust generalization under climate change remains a major challenge for machine learning applications in climate science. Most existing approaches struggle to extrapolate beyond the climate they were trained on, leading to a strong dependence on training data from model simulations of warm climates. Use of climate-invariant inputs improves generalization but requires challenging manual feature engineering. Here, we present CERA (Climate-invariant Encoding through Representation Alignment), a m…

From an interview I heard with May Mailman (the lawyer behind President Trump’s battles with Harvard and Columbia), I got the impression that American universities without teachers and professors who teach creationism and climate scepticism (and other crackpottery) are not sufficiently "balanced" and "merit based".
Proper science is apparently "leftist".

From Bill McKibben
"Any conversation about Bill Gates and climate should begin by acknowledging that he’s been wrong about it over and over again. He’s explained that up until 2006—i.e., 18 years after Jim Hansen’s testimony before Congress laying out the science, and well past the point where George W. Bush had acknowledged its reality—he like Trump thought the whole thing was a crock."

Climate Gates
Maybe we don't need billionaire opinions on everything

The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.
After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States will close Sept. 30,
a casualty of Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts and his administration’s focus on using the Arctic as an outpost for national security and energy dominance
—and its push away from science.
As part of the overarching…

After Trump Cut the National Science Foundation by 56 Percent, a Venerable Arctic Research Center Closes Its Doors - Inside Climate News
After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States will close Sept. 30, a casualty of President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts and his administration’s focus on using the Arctic as an outpost for national security and energy dominance—and its push away from science. As part of the overarching defunding of science […]

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Milan Chvostek (October 4, 1932 – November 8, 2018) was a producer/director at the CBC. He worked on A Case for the Court, The Lively Arts, This Hour Has Seven Days, Science Magazine and the CBC's flagship show The Nature of Things,[ which has aired in nearly fifty countries worldwide. Awards for Chvostek's shows include one from the Monte Carlo Television Festival awarded by Prince Rainier III in 1975, and the Bell Northern Research Communications Award for science programming from the Canadian Science Writers' Association (Chvostek is the only three-time winner of this award) in 1974 and 1975. After a decade of teaching television broadcast at Seneca College, Toronto (1986 to 1996), he embarked upon a freelance videography and photography career, working both independently and in partnership with his wife, journalist Isobel Warren. He also started researching climate change in the 1960s.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianLegends
https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/wife-discovers-late-husband-was-researching-climate-change-before-anyone-was-taking-it-seriously-1631676

World leaders and UN push climate agenda forward despite Trump's attacks. Science demands action to cut greenhouse gas emissions and avoid breaching temperature limits. China leads in clean energy efforts. #climatechange #climatesolutions

Our realities are constantly diverging, and never completely shared. And we •want• that! It’s important for people to bring different experiences, different ways of seeing and thinking.
One person understands climate science. Another person understands the subculture of Southern Iowa. A third person knows what it’s like to live as a Black person in this society — and so on, to infinity. All these perspectives matter, and nobody gets to hold all infinity of them at once.
Nobody gets to be in full possession of absolute truth.
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There hasn't been nearly enough coverage of this.
Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone — Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/…

"Sunlight worsens wildfire smoke pollution, study finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Wildfires

Sunlight worsens wildfire smoke pollution, study finds
Wildfire smoke causes more air pollution than current atmospheric models can predict. A new study by researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences explains why by revealing that, under sunlight, wildfire smoke particles act like tiny chemical factories, producing harmful oxidants such as peroxides, a group of highly reactive pollutants contributing to smog and haze.

From the man who said “If we don’t test, then there is no pandemic.”
#wedontneednosteenkindata
The costs of Trump’s campaign to censor climate science https://on.ft.com/42UZbyZ

@… another bug report (i know i know i'm sorry :P)
https://www.desmog.com seems to have been bridged fine up until sometime this month, and now it's suddenl…

DeSmog
Award winning website researching and exposing campaigns attacking climate change science.

nsEVDx: A Python library for modeling Non-Stationary Extreme Value Distributions
Nischal Kafle, Claudio I. Meier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07261 https://a…

nsEVDx: A Python library for modeling Non-Stationary Extreme Value Distributions
nsEVDx is an open-source Python package for fitting stationary and nonstationary Extreme Value Distributions (EVDs) to extreme value data. It can be used to model extreme events in fields like hydrology, climate science, finance, and insurance, using both frequentist and Bayesian methods. For Bayesian inference it employs advanced Monte Carlo sampling techniques such as Metropolis-Hastings, Metropolis-adjusted Langevin (MALA), and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC). Unlike many existing extreme valu…

"Is hot weather putting you in a bad mood? Science suggests it might be"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Rising temperatures cause moods to decline, study reveals
Scientists analysed over a billion social media posts to find out how sweltering temperatures are impacting our mood.

Today is house meeting day for us at DMI as we find out where the state's budget cuts will land and who will be affected (i.e. made redundant).
Coincidentally, one of our #Ukraine #AntarcticScience centre colleagues has just sent us a draft deliverable report to review.
They apologise for lack of polish (it's actually really good! And very interesting science looking at climate change impacts in Antarctica) and they appended this photo of their apartment block after a visit by a Russian drone last week.
And suddenly, Danish state budget cuts seem much less worse...
And now I am going to find someone to swear at.

Learn how sustainable cooling solutions can combat rising temperatures in our world. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

From David Suzuki
Science Matters - Small or big, new nuclear reactors are not climate solutions
Despite the efforts of industry and its supporters to convince us otherwise, coal, gas and oil are outdated, inefficient, polluting energy sources, especially compared to alternatives. Some people, including politicians, are touting nuclear power as a good alternative. Is it?
it’s far from clean, and it’s rife with problems

Understanding Ice Crystal Habit Diversity with Self-Supervised Learning
Joseph Ko, Hariprasath Govindarajan, Fredrik Lindsten, Vanessa Przybylo, Kara Sulia, Marcus van Lier-Walqui, Kara Lamb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07688

Understanding Ice Crystal Habit Diversity with Self-Supervised Learning
Ice-containing clouds strongly impact climate, but they are hard to model due to ice crystal habit (i.e., shape) diversity. We use self-supervised learning (SSL) to learn latent representations of crystals from ice crystal imagery. By pre-training a vision transformer with many cloud particle images, we learn robust representations of crystal morphology, which can be used for various science-driven tasks. Our key contributions include (1) validating that our SSL approach can be used to learn me…

"Nothing more illustrates the irrelevance of the UN in the 21st century than the issue of climate change.  It is the UN-sponsored International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that collects and presents the science on global warming and predictions for the future of the planet and humanity.  The IPCC delivers ever more stark warnings about the damage from global warming.... national governments ignore or reject even the most mild targets for global action."
Michael Roberts

The UN at 80: ignored and irrelevant
The 80th edition of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 80) opened yesterday in New York.  The theme this year is: ‘Better together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human r…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.MA. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.MA/new
[1/1]:
- AutoClimDS: Climate Data Science Agentic AI -- A Knowledge Graph is All You Need
Jaber, Zhu, Jayavelu, Downes, Mohamed, Agonafir, Hawkins, Zheng

Causal tail coefficient for compound extremes in multivariate time series
Cathy Yin, Adam M. Sykulski, Almut E. D. Veraart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19007 https://

Genuinely interested in any thoughts as to where to send it next. The subject is Antarctica and influences on observed ice sheet change
#academicchatter

LUNDIsim: model meshes for flow simulation and scientific data compression benchmarks
Laurent Duval, Fr\'ed\'eric Payan, Christophe Preux, Lauriane Bouard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13636

LUNDIsim: model meshes for flow simulation and scientific data compression benchmarks
The volume of scientific data produced for and by numerical simulation workflows is increasing at an incredible rate. This raises concerns either in computability, interpretability, and sustainability. This is especially noticeable in earth science (geology, meteorology, oceanography, and astronomy), notably with climate studies. We highlight five main evaluation issues: efficiency, discrepancy, diversity, interpretability, availability. Among remedies, lossless and lossy compression techn…

"Reform’s New Board Members: What Have They Said About Climate Change?"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange

Reform’s New Board Members: What Have They Said About Climate Change?
After skipping Parliament’s return from recess this week, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has flown back from Washington DC to kick off his party’s annual conference today in Birmingham. DeSmog has been banned from the event, which will be packed full of climate science deniers, anti-vaccine activists, and dark money lobby groups. One agenda item […]

Distillation of CNN Ensemble Results for Enhanced Long-Term Prediction of the ENSO Phenomenon
Saghar Ganji, Mohammad Naisipour, Alireza Hassani, Arash Adib
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06227

Distillation of CNN Ensemble Results for Enhanced Long-Term Prediction of the ENSO Phenomenon
The accurate long-term forecasting of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is still one of the biggest challenges in climate science. While it is true that short-to medium-range performance has been improved significantly using the advances in deep learning, statistical dynamical hybrids, most operational systems still use the simple mean of all ensemble members, implicitly assuming equal skill across members. In this study, we demonstrate, through a strictly a-posteriori evaluation , for an…

"Climate change-driven heat extremes are driving ‘staggering’ decline in tropical birds, study warns"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Birds

Extreme heat is driving a ‘staggering’ decline in tropical birds
Using climate attribution science, researchers have linked rising heat to declining bird populations around the world.

Really good piece in the FT on what the cuts at NOAA mean to the US and the rest of the world.
It feels a bit late to the table really, but perhaps that's just because it's in my world...
The costs of Trump’s campaign to censor climate science - https://on.ft.com/4oahCYJ via @FT

"Scores of Climate Experts Condemn Trump Climate Report as ‘Junk Science’"
#US #USA #America #Climate

Scores of Climate Experts Condemn Trump Climate Report as ‘Junk Science’
A 435-page review found the authors used standard climate denier tropes to produce a report riddled with errors.

From David Suzuki
Science Matters - Costly geoengineering schemes could stall real solutions
Because the fossil fuel industry and its supporters have done everything they can to stall needed solutions to the climate crisis, some people say we must now engineer our way out of the mess we created. Many are promoting schemes that block sunlight from reaching Earth, reflect more of it back into space or absorb carbon from the atmosphere.

IPCC:
Summarised the findings from more than 14,000 peer-reviewed studies on physical science:-
'The authors conclude that it is unequivocal” that humans have warmed the planet, causing “widespread and rapid” changes to Earth’s oceans, ice and land surface. They warn that the present state of many parts of the climate system is “unprecedented over many centuries to many thousands of years”.'
The Felon:
<In my opinion it's a hoax.>

Climate-Adaptive and Cascade-Constrained Machine Learning Prediction for Sea Surface Height under Greenhouse Warming
Tianmu Zheng, Ru Chen, Xin Su, Gang Huang, Bingzheng Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18741

"AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial"
#AI #ArtficialIntelligence #Climate #ClimateChange

AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial
At the start of June, MSN, the world’s fourth-largest news aggregator, posted an article from a new climate-focused publication, Climate Cosmos, entitled: “Why Top Experts Are Rethinking Climate Alarmism”. The article – by “Kathleen Westbrook M.Sc Climate Science” – cited a finding from the “Global Climate Research Institute” that “65 percent of surveyed climate professionals […]

A law firm representing opponents of offshore wind farms
is demanding that Brown University retract research that details links between the fossil fuel industry and anti-wind groups.
The firm, Marzulla Law L.L.C.,
which has close ties to the conservative legal movement,
called the research
“false and injurious”
and said it would complain to Brown’s public and private funders,
including the Energy Department, the National Science Foundation and the Me…

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
The firm, which represents opponents of offshore wind, said it would complain to Brown’s federal and private funding sources.

"Microplastics reduce soil fertility and boost production of a potent greenhouse gas, study shows"
#Microplastics #Plastic #Plastics

Microplastics reduce soil fertility and boost production of a potent greenhouse gas, study shows
More than 90% of plastic waste ends up in the soil, where it breaks down into microplastics that are invisible to the naked eye. Microplastic pollution of the soil poses a severe threat to soil health as it can harm essential microbial communities and reduce crop yields. The presence of these tiny plastics may also worsen climate change by boosting the production of greenhouse gases, according to a new study published in Environmental Science & Technology.

Winds Through Time: Interactive Data Visualization and Physicalization for Paleoclimate Communication
David Hunter, Pablo Botin, Emily Snode-Brenneman, Amy Stevermer, Becca Hatheway, Dillon Amaya, Eddie Goldstein, Wayne A Seltzer, Mark D Gross, Kris Karnauskas, Daniel Leithinger, Ellen Yi-Luen Do
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13039

Winds Through Time: Interactive Data Visualization and Physicalization for Paleoclimate Communication
We describe a multidisciplinary collaboration to iteratively design an interactive exhibit for a public science center on paleoclimate, the study of past climates. We created a data physicalisation of mountains and ice sheets that can be tangibly manipulated by visitors to interact with a wind simulation visualisation that demonstrates how the climate of North America differed dramatically between now and the peak of the last ice age. We detail the system for interaction and visualisation plus …

Expect deep cuts in PhD admissions throughout the US, including biomedical programs.
The current model of PhD training and the current financial climate are simply not compatible.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/21/fas-phd-admissions-cuts/…

Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for the next two years.

"Trump reports distort science to justify rollback of key climate protections, experts warn"
#US #USA #America #Climate

Experts slam Trump climate reports for errors and misinformation
From sea ice mix-ups to wildfire distortions, scientists say the reports misled on climate dangers.

"Belize project seeks out heat-resilient corals to protect its reefs"
#Belize #CoralReef #Environment

Belize project seeks out heat-resilient corals to protect its reefs
HOPKINS, Belize — Heaters, pumps and computerized meters rigged to an everyday picnic icebox may seem like a high school science project. But this heat stress tank may hold the key to finding the most heat-resilient corals in Belize’s waters. As climate change and other human-caused stressors continue to push these rainforests of the sea […]

"MPs Slam Trump Advisor for Interfering in UK Climate Debate"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange

MPs Slam Trump Advisor for Interfering in UK Climate Debate
Members of Parliament have rebuked a Donald Trump advisor for spreading misleading claims about the UK’s climate policies. Professor Steve Koonin, a former chief scientist at oil giant BP who has long claimed climate science is “unsettled”, appeared on GB News on Friday to declare that the UK public is being “deliberately ill-informed” about the […]