@tante@tldr.nettime.org"We also found that the evidence presented for examples of climate benefit, regardless of AI type, tend to be weak whether from companies or organisations like the IEA. The potential benefits are overstated, in surprising and significant ways."
(Original title: NEW REPORT – The AI climate hoax)
https://
@Dragofix@veganism.socialUnderestimates in global warming pose major climate and financial risks, report shows #climate
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgWant to be my new section lead?
These jobs don't come up very often, but if you want to work with a friendly and diverse bunch of scientists at the leading edge of high resolution regional climate and climate services development, give it a look. 🇪🇺🇩🇰🇬🇱🌍🇦🇶
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@primonatura@mstdn.social"What can—and cannot—be done to save the world’s glaciers"
#Glaciers #Climate #ClimateChange
@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social @ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgThis piece could just as easily have been written about atmospheric scientists and climate modellers.
We all need to get out of the computers and into the real world more often
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04150-w
@steve@s.yelvington.comWe don't need no stinking atmosphere.
From: @…
https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/news-i8koidj5z/…
@cdarwin@c.imChanges in a Florida ocean current could wreak havoc worldwide
For 43 years, scientists have been studying the strength of the water flow between Florida and the Bahamas
to learn what drives its changes over time.
The information could help scientists answer a pressing question:
Is the Florida Current, one of the world’s fastest ocean currents, slowing down?
If so, it could indicate weakening of the larger circulation system in the Atlantic Ocean
— what…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgRE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116085440408773572
Seriously. Every story of "AI will solve climate change" is a children's story to allow us to feel okay with not doing what we know needs doing to save the climate: Transform energy produc…
@Dragofix@veganism.social
@jby@ecoevo.socialReally good overview of plans to help Joshua trees survive climate change on National Geographic, with some description of a project I'd only heard rumored, which might aaaaalmost count as what we call assisted migration
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environ…
@jonippolito@digipres.clubI just spoke to WGME CBS/Fox last night about a data center proposed for an old Maine mill. Lewiston's climate and water resources are a better fit than in the southern US, but city managers still overestimate the benefits to local economies—about 20 jobs post-construction, many remote.
@a@paperbay.orgWhen the EIB grants a €20B loan for AI infrastructure while its yearly budget is €100B, that effectively means one-fifth of its annual budget goes to AI infrastructure.
Public transport? Green energy? Social infrastructure? No. Instead, data centres operated by private consortia to potentially sell private services. I hope it will be at least to produce open-source models and software.
#ai
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeMassive cyberattack on Polish power system in December failed, minister says
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/massive-cyberattack-polish-power-system-december-failed-minister-says-2026…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzYes. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/581692/how-to-support-a-low-emissions-farming-future We just need to halve the herd. That simple. Yeah, farmers will fail. That's how 'the market' deals with unsustainable businesses. But they&…
@me@mastodon.peterjanes.caShocked — shocked! — that #LdnOnt councillors want to increase parking, specifically going against the city's "climate emergency" declaration. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/park
@lschiff@mastodon.sdf.orgLooking forward to presenting tomorrow at Government Information Days 2025 with Rebecca Lindsey of Climate.us. We'll be talking about "Defending Public Information: Resisting Censorship, Rescuing Resources, Ensuring Access" #DefendResearch #Censorship
@vosje62@mastodon.nl'Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social: "This is not just a slight warming; it is a fundamental change in how people will have to survive on the continent.
Once regions in Africa enter a state of almost continuous heatwaves, the human body will have no window of time to recover." '
Heat with no end: climate model sets out an unbearable future for parts of Africa
#Africa #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency
@Dragofix@veganism.socialQuick course correction needed to avoid 'hothouse Earth' scenario, scientists say #climate
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgRE: https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/big-tech-greenwashing-report/
Ketan Joshi, who has been on the beat for a long time, actually looked into the story of if "AI" can "solve climate change". Conceptually as well as evidence …
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyIf humans keep heating the planet with greenhouse gases, the climate swing could lock Earth into a hothouse trajectory, as parts of the system feed on their own momentum, even if emissions are reduced later.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11022026/e…
@donelias@mastodon.crThe Economist: Geothermal energy’s massive leap forward
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JeTAeF3Ft6E
From video's description: "Could geothermal soon overtake nuclear power? Vijay Vaitheeswaran, our Global energy & climate innovation editor and winner of the Energy Write…
@ncoca@social.coopI've always felt this was, at least, partly true. Can be extrapolated to also be a reason why #China dominated cleantech too - something that most #climate & #environment groups don't want to acknowle…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgFantastic work by @… visualising Climate Change through 2025 - the Antarctica numbers are eye-opening ( 1.06°C)-> higher anomaly recorded in 2025 than almost anywhere else, except of course the Arctic 1.37°C
#PolarAmplification
https://climate.copernicus.eu/global-climate-highlights-2025
@jby@ecoevo.socialAccounting for the effects of year-to-year climate variation on population growth rate can substantially decrease the size of a species' expected geographic range— by an average of 22% in this simulation study with a new method for range modeling
https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.30.621023
@newstik@social.heise.de
@ingo@social.stuetzle.ccClimate, but as a class relationship: Richest 1% took 10 days while wealthiest 0.1% needed just three days to exhaust annual carbon budget https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/10/world-richest-used-fair-share-emissions-2026-oxfam
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social"les voitures électriques compensent leur surcoût environnemental initial après seulement deux ans d’usage."
(Étude d'une équipe de Duke University, publiée dans PLOS Climate)
https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journa…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzSo, when it comes to taking responsibility for our climate sins, our Gov't are dishonourable (even traitors) to NZers and our entire region. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/580824/government-rejects-all-of-…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgFor 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
@vosje62@mastodon.nlCanada-U.S.: why some snowbirds* are flying farther south
https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/article/didnt-like-us-canadians-snowbirds-say-tensions-between-canada-us-led-to-changes-in-travel-itinerary/
* “Snowbird” refers to Canadians who spend their winters in sunny climates, which include Florida, Arizona, Texas, as well as other sunny U.S. locales.
The climate has changed ...
@jby@ecoevo.socialAn 8-year study of plants and pollinators in a Mediterranean community in southern Spain shows they're all flowering and active earlier as climate warms, but also a little less likely to overlap with interacting species
https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.70046
@jonippolito@digipres.clubWe've updated the What Uses More app to reflect last week's finding by Luccioni and Gamazaychikov that "reasoning" mode increases energy and water usage by 30x. The study casts doubt on the improved efficiency AI companies are claiming for newer models
https://www.
@haayman@todon.nlWat me blijft verbazen bij dit soort opdrachten, dat ze dan ook daadwerkelijk uitgevoerd worden.
Komt er niemand in opstand als er een bibliotheek vernietigd moet worden?
Research Library at NASA’s Goddard Space and Flight Center to Close Friday - The New York Times
https://www.
@roland@devdilettante.comself driving is a lie which musk and others have lied about since 2015 at least. I believe it will work sometime after 2030 with some sort of breakthrough but i'd rather spend the money on i don't know climate change and feeding people or something :-)
https://mastodon.social/@JoBlakely/116
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzI reckon we need to shift the Overton Window prior to the coming election in Aotearoa NZ. We need to demonstrate the absurdities inherent it to show that it bears no useful relationship to the overall prosperity of a society. The fact that spending $billions to recover from a massive climate change-exacerbated storm looks like a 'GDP win' for the gov't, and climate change mitigation looks like a loss, is all you need to know.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgGreenland thoughts from Antarctica..
Greenland is all over the press at the moment for all the wrong reasons. But Greenland is also on my mind, not just because of geopolitics, but also because the Copernicus Climate service has just put out their annual global climate highlights for 2025 with some disturbing messages about Antarctica. Understanding Greenland can help us to understand also what is happening here.
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2026/01/14/greenland-thoughts-from-antarctica/
@NFL@darktundra.xyzThese legendary NFL coaches probably would have been fired if they coached in today's climate
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/legendary-nfl-coaches-fired-in-todays-climate/
@markhburton@mstdn.social"..the climate system is in a pincer grip. First, emissions of planet-warming gases remain stubbornly high, and second, natural carbon sinks are weakening. The result is an accelerating rise in atmospheric concentrations of CO2. 2024 saw the biggest jump ever."
https://e360.yale.edu/features/1.5-deg
@brichapman@mastodon.socialResearchers just cracked a major clean energy challenge: producing hydrogen at scale without using precious land or freshwater.
The University of Exeter team simulated a floating solar system in Oman that desalinates seawater and generates 1,755 kg of hydrogen daily at $9.5/kg. It's a game-changer for hot-climate regions.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org"The fragility of Africa’s coasts is further exacerbated by the deteriorating condition of its marine ecosystems... under mounting pressure from both climate anthropogenic stressors, including unregulated development, dam-induced sediment trap habitat degradation"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02965-z
@jdrm@social.linux.pizzaAyer descubrí que hay una instancia de Lemmy de solarpunk super activa. Si os interesa, es https://slrpnk.net/
@primonatura@mstdn.social"‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis"
#Pesticides #Climate #ClimateChange
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
@paulwermer@sfba.socialYet one more adverse impact of climate change:
"Greater warmth enables pests to develop faster, produce more generations each year and attack crops for longer as winters shorten. Rising temperatures are also helping pests invade places further from the equator and on higher ground that were previously too cold"
In hindsight, not surprising - but this is the first time I have seen this impact publicly discussed.
‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses superchar…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialYet one more adverse impact of climate change:
"Greater warmth enables pests to develop faster, produce more generations each year and attack crops for longer as winters shorten. Rising temperatures are also helping pests invade places further from the equator and on higher ground that were previously too cold"
In hindsight, not surprising - but this is the first time I have seen this impact publicly discussed.
‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses superchar…
@vosje62@mastodon.nlOfcom makes 'urgent contact' with X over concerns Grok AI can generate 'sexualised images of children' | Science, Climate & Tech News | Sky News
#Twitter
@steve@s.yelvington.comTrumpian Park Service sweeps slavery under the rug
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/01/22/slavery-exhibit-removed/
@jby@ecoevo.socialFrom 1981 to 2016, hermit thrushes migrating through Chicago became smaller, with shorter bills and longer wings, relative to body size— there are genetic changes associated with shortening bills, but not the other changes
Genetic and morphological shifts associated with climate change in a migratory bird https://doi.org/10.11…
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe state has become an existential threat to humanity in multiple ways. Not only are we *all* at risk of being killed at any time by the monsterous incompetence and malice of these systems (yeah, listen to this: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-men-who-might-310407494/), but we are also slowly being killed by systems enforced and protected by these same entities.
States won't fix climate change. Ecocide is enabled by the existence of states.
Maybe... just maybe... it's time to think of other ways to organize ourselves.
@buercher@tooting.chRubio was more polite than Vance, but the message was the same, as Christianity, closing borders and climate denial are now corner stones of the US defense strategy.
@newstik@social.heise.de
@hllizi@hespere.deFeels like there's a lesson here about climate policy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRwCPUEND1U
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesAt the #Willowdale Climate Action roundtable organized by my local Toronto city councillor Lily Cheng
I’m torned on those events. I wonder how much of it is just to give good conscience to the councillor.
While she keeps voting against more dense neighborhoods and in favor of pro-parking policies
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"We are now at a critical juncture. We are at or very close to human caused environmental change that will fundamentally unpick the life-sustaining systems on Earth. These risk triggering feedback loops...
Ultimately that could cause the planet to drift away along the pathway to “hothouse Earth”, a scenario where even if emissions were reduced, self amplifying feedback loops would drive global temperature increases up to or even beyond 5°C"
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgWe're also #hiring a coupled climate and ice sheet modeller for a 3 year position @dmidk.bsky.social
Come and work with me colleagues on the @icelink-project.bsky.social developing #ECEarth #Pism in both Greenland Antarctica
Job based @… in Copenhagen
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#AcademicJobs #FediHire #Fedijobs
https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=5001&ProjectId=192267&DepartmentId=10155&MediaId=5
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzIt begins: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/581225/man-dumps-home-insurance-over-tower-insurance-s-sea-surge-assessment - people being unable to afford insurance for their homes due to climate-related risks they don'…
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaIf you had told me that Alex Jones orchestrated this as a controlled opposition false flag to have something new to rant about, I might have believed you
"The Europeans" (a nebulous bunch, but seemingly in fact a climate action group called We Don't Have Time) are launching a new distribution platform for approved propaganda. From one summary: "W is a new European-backed social media platform, announced publicly at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2026. I…
@brichapman@mastodon.socialThe EU just opened the funding floodgates for clean energy innovation.
The European Commission launched €5.2bn in new funding opportunities targeting net-zero tech, low-carbon hydrogen, and industrial decarbonization. The goal: hit 2030 climate targets while keeping European industry competitive and resilient on the path to climate neutrality by 2050.
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgSome people might know "bash russian roulette":
[ $[ $RANDOM % 6] = 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo "Click"
which generates a random number between 0 and 5 and if it's a zero it deletes all your files.
Running an "agent" like Moltbot is basically that with more climate impact.
@newstik@social.heise.de"When customers choose faster #shipping and earlier delivery dates, the system shifts from optimized routing to whatever gets the package out fastest, and that means higher #emissions, said Sreedevi Rajagopalan, a research scientist at MIT’s Center for
@markhburton@mstdn.socialThis is how climate and geophysical system breakdown affects everyday life. Transport link (rail) cut and alternatives (buses) unable to replicate the traffic flow.
Expect much more like this.
Storm Ingrid damage forces closure of Devon railway line
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8gldd9
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.socialSi on ne change rien, 79 % des glaciers mondiaux auront disparu d'ici 2100, mettant en péril l'approvisionnement en eau de 2 milliards de personnes et provoquant une élévation spectaculaire du niveau des mers.
#climat
@brichapman@mastodon.socialIt seems that both AI and climate anxiety share a common root: the current structure of capitalism.
Our system, which demands constant, unrestricted growth, shapes everything from our economy to our psychology.
In the climate crisis, it manifests as overproduction and overconsumption, while in AI, it drives the replacement of human labor with cheaper machine labor and the optimization of attention economies.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgSo, #ClimateScience mastofriends, solve an argument between co-authors: When writing a paper specifically using outputs from #CMIP6 models, do you prefer to use GCM or ESM as descriptor?
@primonatura@mstdn.social"After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up"
#Iran #Climate #ClimateChange
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgRE: https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116013641319676975
It's not actually mandatory to be either working in a Nordic country or indeed in Nordic meteorology (I'll be presenting Antarctic climate work), so if you would like to hang out with the cool kids on a very weather beaten group of islands and talk about weather and climate for a few days...
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgIn the field of dynamical glaciology, this would be DeConto and Pollard, 2016.
I think it's dead wrong, but it's certainly led to some very interesting studies.and some real advanced in the otherwise moribund calving dynamics sub-field.
Would love to hear other suggestions from #climate (or adjacent) fields..
#science
@a_j_millar@fediscience.org📢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/
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgThe most dystopian daily news from Europe yet: climate change helping to spread West Nile Virus Chikungunya, segregation in Hungary and the militarisation of the EUs borders. It's not fun, but it is important 🙏 @eurcorrespond.bsky.social https://europeancorrespondent.com/en
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgStorm bound in Antarctica and catching up with reading, including an *excellent* paper by one of our PhD students on #DeepLearning applications, soon to be submitted.
Not for first time I'm struck that 1) there is a genuine #AI revolution in climate 2) It's mostly based on ERA-5 reanalysis.
@a_j_millar@fediscience.orgRE: #Climate change mitigation is cheaper than #adaptation, but we need both 👇. It's rarely 'either/or' in this space, almost always 'both/and'. Which begs the question of how to pay.
After ending #fossilfuel subsidies (innovations like any UK #tax on airline fuel🤯) I come back to #CarbonCurrency as an idea that could work at the required, gigantic scale. HT Delton Chen, Kim Stanley Robinson etc.
#solarpunk #CarbonCoin
