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Probably worth a bit more attention than it is receiving. “With the ongoing bleaching it’s almost overwhelming the capacity of people to do the monitoring they need to do...that this most recent, global-scale coral bleaching event is still ongoing takes the world’s reefs into uncharted waters."

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

A record increase in atmospheric CO2 according to data released by NOAA gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/..., much higher than projected in the Global Carbon Budget essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/.... This occurred in the presence of an El Niño (red bars, data also from NOAA!). What does this mean? 1/

submitted 26 days ago • 18 comments

Waters around northern tropical Australia were by far the hottest on record for January 2025. Data from 1900-2025 from ERSSTv5. Typically northern Australian water temperatures peak in late summer www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/clim...

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

A lot of folks asked why I through this January's record global temperatures were so unexpected. I think this graph shows it pretty clearly: pretty much every other January with La Nina conditions has been a cooler than the surrounding years.

submitted 97 days ago • 26 comments

WA is experiencing its second worst marine heatwave on record. It could overtake the devastating 2011 marine heatwave as the worst on record if it moves south. Good summary in The Conversation released yesterday theconversation.com/a-marine-hea...

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

This could be the most terrifying article you'll read today, about how Trump is stuffing the EPA with lawyers and lobbyists for the oil and chemical industries who have worked to weaken climate and pollution protections and clearly don't care about human health.

submitted 105 days ago • 26 comments

Should not surprise people at all how quickly US companies are dropping diversity programs. Corporations are not your friends and only have lip service to social movements because of perceived commercial benefit. Always look at what they’re doing, not what they’re saying

submitted 104 days ago • 36 comments

Solar is surging in every EU country ☀️🇪🇺 16 EU countries generated more than 10% of their electricity from solar in 2024, with 🇭🇺, 🇬🇷 and 🇪🇸 leading the charge. ember-energy.org/lat...

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

Solar generated 11% of EU electricity in 2024, overtaking coal which fell below 10% for the first time, according to @ember-energy.org EU gas generation declined for the fifth year in a row, and total fossil generation fell to a historic low. #Upshift! electrek.co/2025/01/22/s... 🔌💡

submitted 107 days ago • 3 comments

More than 20% of the Earth's surface recorded its locally hottest annual average temperature last year. 40% of the Earth had its hottest recorded year since 2020, and 85% since the year 2000. 🧪

submitted 109 days ago • 7 comments

New UCLA rapid attribution study: “Climate change may be linked to roughly a quarter of the extreme fuel moisture deficit when the fires began. The fires would still have been extreme without climate change, but probably somewhat smaller and less intense.” sustainablela.ucla.edu/2025lawildfi...

submitted 116 days ago • 29 comments

Now that everyone has their annual temperature data out, here is a quick summary across groups. In addition to record warmth in every dataset, it's the first year where most estimates are at least 1.5 °C (2.7 °F) warmer than the 1850-1900 baseline. berkeleyearth.org/global-tempe... 🧪

submitted 121 days ago • 2 comments

All surface temperature products for 2024 are now live. All show 2024 is the warmest year (very clearly). The estimates of the change since the pre-industrial (1850-1900) are more uncertain but range from 1.46 to 1.62ºC. It is therefore likely this was the first year that exceeded 1.5ºC.

submitted 121 days ago • 23 comments

Labor and Liberal governments have passed 49 anti-protest laws across the country over the last two decades. It is damning (& history will judge us harshly) but no surprise that 🇦🇺 leads the world on climate protest arrests. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

submitted 146 days ago • 31 comments

For the first few decades of satellite observations, open water passages through the Arctic Ocean rarely formed. Now, there is open water along the Russian and/or Canadian coast for 40+ days a year.

submitted 158 days ago • 2 comments

We all think plastic pollution is a problem, and it is. In the nearly 70 years between 1950 and 2019, the world produced a total of ~9.5 billion tonnes of plastic. But all the plastic we have EVER produced weighs as much as CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere during the first three months of 2024!

submitted 163 days ago • 39 comments

Mass bleaching of corals on the Great Barrier Reef in early 2024 was the most severe and most widespread yet recorded - surpassing 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020 & 2022. The overall mortality rate this year will exceed the 30% loss in 2016. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 166 days ago • 12 comments

In a new post over at The Climate Brink I take an in-depth look at how "weird" the recent El Nino event was. Compared to prior strong events, global surface temperatures rose earlier and high temperatures have persisted for longer: www.theclimatebrink....

submitted 167 days ago • 2 comments

2024 will almost certainly set another new record for the highest global annual average temperature since instrumental measurements began. That trend is brutal. From @berkeleyearth.bsky.social: berkeleyearth.org/october-2024...

submitted 170 days ago • 5 comments

Following up on our opinion piece in the NYTimes this week - what are we really talking about?

submitted 175 days ago • 8 comments

Our sister website The Driven is now up and running on Bluesky. Give them a follow to keep up to date with all things #EVs 🚗⚡

submitted 174 days ago • 1 comment

If new rules enable cars without human controls, that would directly benefit Elon Musk.

submitted 175 days ago • 49 comments

Probably need to add Google to the bitcoin scammers block list. www.theage.com.au/business/con...

submitted 175 days ago • 0 comments

Many people don’t realise that Australia is a petrostate, striving to increase exports of fossil fuels for as long as possible. The Great Barrier Reef is a superhighway for shipping coal and fossil gas.

submitted 176 days ago • 1 comment

A gentle reminder that if we miss the 1.5°C target (and we certainly will), the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting. Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.

submitted 182 days ago • 114 comments

Australia has notched up a new renewable energy milestone, with the number of households around the country to have installed rooftop #solar passing the four million mark

submitted 178 days ago • 0 comments

What is causing the atmospheric CO2 concentration to growth (light blue bars)? It is all the fossil CO2 emissions (brown) we dump into the atmosphere (a little LUC too), with the land (green) & ocean (dark blue) sinks struggling to keep up. More figures: robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2024/

submitted 178 days ago • 6 comments

A column: Trump 2.0 could make even the most optimistic climate observers cynical - but it’s not the whole story (with a nod to @ketanjoshi.co @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social Bluesky climate types generally)

submitted 181 days ago • 0 comments

Today's release of the 2024 edition of the Global Carbon Budget, as an interactive slide presentation. Here: robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2024/slid...

submitted 179 days ago • 2 comments

Rooftop #solar meets more than 80 per cent of generation in landmark moment in W.A., which hosts the world’s largest isolated grid. reneweconomy.com.au/rooftop-sola...

submitted 180 days ago • 1 comment

In case you didn't think the US was a petrostate, here's a time series of oil production of the top 10 oil-producing nations.

submitted 181 days ago • 35 comments