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African climate science policy has a serious blind spot: The slowing Atlantic circulation #Africa

African climate science policy has a serious blind spot: The slowing Atlantic circulation
The climate fiction movie The Day After Tomorrow, released in 2004, popularized the devastating effects of sudden climate change on Earth. The plot dramatizes the consequences of a shut-down in an ocean current, and features the Northern Hemisphere plunging, within a few weeks, into an ice age.

WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change (Matthew Daly/Associated Press)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/watch-live-trump-zeldin-to-announce-end-of-scientific-basis-for-u-s-action-on-climate-change
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p88#a260212p88

Under pressure from Republican state attorneys general, the agency that advises
the U.S. Supreme Court and federal judges on scientific and technical matters has
withdrawn the entirety of its content on climate change from a new judicial reference manual.
The move by the Federal Judicial Center leaves judges without any official support on how to weigh evidence about basic weather and climate changes
-- just as numerous climate cases make their way through state and f…

Under GOP Pressure, Federal Agency Pulls Climate Change Chapter From Official Manual for U.S. Judges
The “Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence” — updated for the first time in 15 years — eliminates some 90 pages about climate science and comes just as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts.

"Even if warming is limited to 2°C, wildfires, storms and beetles may boost Europe forest loss"
#Europe #Nature #Climate

Even if warming is limited to 2°C, wildfires, storms and beetles may boost Europe forest loss
Forest damage in Europe caused by wildfires, storms and bark beetle outbreaks is projected to increase compared to recent decades under all analyzed climate scenarios, according to a new international study, published in Science, with contributions from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

EPA to repeal its own conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the planet and threaten health (Evan Bush/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/epa-to-repeal-endangerment-finding-climate-change-emissions-rcna258250
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p169#a260210p169

Talking climate with Katherine Hayhoe
https://open.substack.com/pub/talkingclimatenewsletter/p/how-silencing-science-harms-us-all?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx

How silencing science harms us all
Turning waste into heat, knowledge under attack, and how science benefits you

Science That's Actually Interesting
A fun, light-hearted deep dive into topics from climate and environment to health, technology, space and human behaviour. Informative, entertaining and refreshingly human, this is science for curious listeners who love stories and want to stay curious about the world...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory:

Proud PhD supervisor moment: @… have nice write up to Elke Schlager's brilliant work, (now a preprint in @…) on how we can use #MachineLearning methods to emulate #Greenland ice sheet melt via European Weather Cloud computing
https://europeanweather.cloud/use-cases/machine-learning-emulation-accelerate-climate-science

When the Trump administration began freezing federal funding for climate and ecosystem research, one of the programs hit hard was ours: the U.S. Geological Survey’s Climate Adaptation Science Centers.
These nine regional centers help fish, wildlife, water, land – and, importantly, people – adapt to rising global temperatures and other climate shifts.
The centers have been helping to track invasive species, protect water supplies and make agriculture more sustainable in the face of…

From invasive species tracking to water security – what’s lost with federal funding cuts at US Climate Adaptation Science Centers
The people who manage America’s aquifers, wetlands, shorelines and recreation areas rely on federal science as they face new and rising risks in a changing climate.

"Healing of the Ozone Layer Shows Power of Science and Global Unity"
#OzoneLayer #Climate #ClimateChange

Healing of the Ozone Layer Shows Power of Science and Global Unity | Happy Eco News
The healing of the ozone layer shows how science and global unity can repair Earth’s natural shield, offering hope for tackling today’s climate and environmental challenges.

US Government Is Accelerating Coral Reef Collapse, Scientists Warn – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/trump-policies-climate-coral-reefs-collapse-science/

Sabotage of climate action is systemic, not the result of individual actors.
Free download of ebook.
H/t @…
Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network
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Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network
Climate advocacy has not failed, climate policy has been sabotaged, explains a new open access book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment.

Ofcom makes 'urgent contact' with X over concerns Grok AI can generate 'sexualised images of children' | Science, Climate & Tech News | Sky News
#Twitter

Northern hemisphere snow cover is shrinking—new analysis tracks how fast #environment

Northern hemisphere snow cover is shrinking—new analysis tracks how fast
Faculty at Mississippi State University are continuing work at the intersection of mathematics, statistics, and climate science with the publication of a new study examining regional snow cover trends across the Northern Hemisphere. The results suggest shrinking snow coverage as well as seasonal shifts for when the wintry layer comes and goes. The study, "Regional Analysis of Snow Presence Trends in the Northern Hemisphere," was published in January in the Journal of Hydrometeorology.

The preprint of the paper is here btw: #MachineLearning methods to emulate #Greenland ice sheet melt via European Weather Cloud computing
https://europeanweather.cloud/use-cases/machine-learning-emulation-accelerate-climate-science

The Trump administration is eroding vital climate data (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/02/04/the-trump-administration-is-eroding-vital-climate-data
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p85#a260205p85

The Trump administration is currently questioning the role of science in maintaining the nation’s health, economy and global posture.
Yet the NIH stands as a testimony to the conviction that science is good for society,
that persistent investment in basic research is essential to technological advances that serve the public interest,
and that our nation’s health and economy benefit from developments in biology.

Top U.S. Researchers Warn against ‘Climate of Fear’ Threatening Science
Despite fears that speaking out will make them targets, top researchers warn that the Trump administration’s “wholesale assault on U.S. science” will harm the nation

Earth on Track to Become Uninhabitable, Scientists Say
https://futurism.com/science-energy/earth-uninhabitable-climate-change

Earth on Track to Become Uninhabitable, Scientists Say
The planet is close to entering a death-spiral that could bring about a worst-case-scenario known as "hothouse Earth."

Ocean damage nearly doubles the cost of climate change #ocean

Ocean damage nearly doubles the cost of climate change
Ignoring the blue economy has left a multi-trillion-dollar blind spot in climate finance.

Die Trump-Regierung will das renommierte US-#Klimaforschungszentrum #NCAR zerschlagen.
Der Vorwurf: Es sei ein Zentrum des „Klimaalarmismus“. NCAR spielt eine zentrale Rolle bei der Erforschung von #Wetter

Trump admin threatens to break up major climate research center
Major research institution dismissed as a source of “climate alarmism.”…

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
A recent review in #Science highlights knowledge gaps of the "calcifying plankton" role for biogenic carbon removal in #climate models. Coccolithophores (algae), f…

Climate scientists and meteorologists
are sounding the alarm
after White House budget director Russell Vought announced
the Trump administration will
❌break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, known as NCAR.
“He is executing the playbook of Project 2025,” says Michael Mann,
scientist and co-author of
"Science Under Siege".
Without NCAR, “we will not have the sorts of observational data and climate m…

“Destroying Knowledge”: Michael Mann on Trump’s Dismantling of Key Climate Center in Colorado
Climate scientists and meteorologists are sounding the alarm after White House budget director Russell Vought announced the Trump administration will break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, known as NCAR. “He is executing the playbook of Project 2025,” says Michael Mann, scientist and co-author of Science Under Siege. Without NCAR, “we will not have the sorts of observational data and climate models that we need to inform climate policy.”

When you say you need hope about climate change, what do you really need?
Maybe it's proof your actions matter.
Maybe it's permission to want a better future.
Maybe it's feeling less alone.
Your brain treats hope like a prediction. When reality doesn't match, hope breaks.
But agency doesn't break.
Community doesn't break.
Imagination doesn't break.
What if we stopped chasing hope and built something stronger?
Read …

How to Stay Hopeful About Climate Change: A Scientific Look at the Brain’s Hope Circuit
A science-backed exploration of why hope collapses during the climate crisis. Learn the neuroscience behind fragile hope, the psychology of despair, and the durable alternatives—like agency, imagination, and possibility—that truly sustain long-term climate engagement.

"Climate whiplash by 2064: Study projects extreme swings in rainfall and drought for Asia"
#Asia #Climate #ClimateChange

Climate whiplash by 2064: Study projects extreme swings in rainfall and drought for Asia
A climate study led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in collaboration with an international research team, reveals that under a high-emission scenario, the Northern Hemisphere summer monsoons region will undergo extreme weather events starting in 2064. Asia and broader tropical regions will face frequent "subseasonal whiplash" events, characterized by extreme downpours and dry spells alternating every 30 to 90 days which trigger climate disruptions with catastrophi…

Philip Ball:
"There’s a broader issue at stake here too that pertains to the place of AI in scientific research. Too often now, we hear claims of how AI will replace human scientists and, in doing so, will solve our most pressing problems: curing all disease, solving climate change, figuring out how to conduct nuclear fusion. Such claims are never supported by experts in those fields—and that’s not because they want to convince us that they are indispensable after all. Rather, it i…

AlphaGenome: On the Promise and Limits of AI in Science
PHILIP BALL | According to the old story, we once thought that all this other DNA was just “junk,” a term coined in this context in the 1970s. It was accumulated over the course of evolution, for example by viruses inserting their genetic material into ours, and it did nothing useful but just cluttered up our genome the way all our old detritus of a lifetime clutters up our attic.

"Arctic sees unprecedented heat as climate impacts cascade"
#Arctic #Climate #ClimateChange

Arctic sees unprecedented heat as climate impacts cascade
The Arctic has experienced its hottest year since records began, a US science agency announced Tuesday, as climate change triggers cascading impacts from melting glaciers and sea ice to greening landscapes and disruptions to global weather.

We don't need no stinking atmosphere.
From: @…
https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/news-i8koidj5z/…

Trump administration plans to break up largest federal climate research center (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/trump-administration-break-climate-research-center-ncar-rcna249668
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p128#a251217p128

Trump administration is erasing history and science at national parks, lawsuit argues
Conservation and historical groups sued Tuesday,
challenging Trump administration orders removing exhibits on slavery, civil rights, Indigenous history and climate science from national parks.
A federal judge ordered restoration of an exhibit about enslaved people at George Washington’s Philadelphia home,
comparing the censorship to Orwell’s dystopian “1984.”
The removals exte…

Trump administration is erasing history and science at national parks, lawsuit argues
A lawsuit filed in Boston says orders by President Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum have forced park service staff to remove or censor exhibits that share factually accurate and relevant U.S. history and scientific knowledge, including about slavery and climate change.

For reasons I am revisiting an old classic: Manabe and Stouffer, 1980.
The field of climate science is now effectively mostly about proving how correct those first simulations of the gigantic carbon experiment in the atmosphere were.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247488071_Sensitivity_of_a_Global_Climate_Model_to_an_Increase_of_CO2_Concentration_in_the_Atmosphere

"BP accused of ‘insidious’ influence on UK education through Science Museum links"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

When people say they need hope about climate change, what are they really asking for?
New piece breaks down why hope collapses so easily and what stronger feelings can replace it.
Not prediction. Participation.
Read it here: [link]
https://www.b…

How to Stay Hopeful About Climate Change: A Scientific Look at the Brain’s Hope Circuit
A science-backed exploration of why hope collapses during the climate crisis. Learn the neuroscience behind fragile hope, the psychology of despair, and the durable alternatives—like agency, imagination, and possibility—that truly sustain long-term climate engagement.

📢Forest Research in the UK is seeking two new members for the Expert Committee on #Forest #Science. 🧬🌳📖🌲🪵
Please boost.
* one early-career,
* one from the forestry sector,
Please see details on the link below.
The ECFS provides independent research oversight for Forest Research, the largest research and evidence organisation in the sector. Chaired by me; covering a fascinating range of research and engagement from urban #trees to timber security and #climate science.
Apply below, closing 30th January 2025.
➡️ https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/about-us/careers/current-opportunities/149805-2-x-committee-members-forestry-commission-expert-committee-on-forest-science/

Mithilfe privater #Satelliten der GHGSat-Konstellation wurden erstmals weltweit #Methanemissionen aus über 3000 Öl-, Gas- und #Kohleanlagen direkt erfasst.
Besonders betroffen si…

Private satellites pinpoint methane emissions from oil, gas and coal facilities worldwide
"The countries where we measure the largest oil and gas methane emissions are Turkmenistan, the U.S., Russia, Mexico and Kazakhstan."

“In western democracies, ageing and dying seem to have been reclassified as soluble problems,” clinical psychologist Frank Tallis in writes.
This is delusional – “a retreat from reality, and narcissistic”.
Climate-crisis denial, he suggests, in a striking formulation, can be seen as “the denial of death on an apocalyptic scale”.

A Somber Mood at Science Meeting as Trump Budget Cuts Continue (Eric Niiler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/climate/ncar-climate-research-agu.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p64#a251219p64

More Vigilante Traffic Safety!
(I know Stephen Earle well! He's a great guy and a retired VIU Geology and Earth Science Professor. A wonderful climate leader around #Nanaimo)
#Traffic #Safety #Pedestrian #Cycle #Climate

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"Crocuses are blooming early – here’s what this means for nature"
#Nature #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange

Crocuses are blooming early – here’s what this means for nature
The hard science behind these dainty flowers.