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Peter Thorne
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Climate scientist, director ICARUS Climate Research Centre, Maynooth University, Ireland, author IPCC AR6, member Ireland's climate change advisory council, Chair GCOS AOPC. www.peter-thorne.net

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Peter William Thorne is a climatologist and professor of physical geography in the Department of Geography, Maynooth University.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 16h
Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Jenni Barclay, Christina Pagel

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Antonio Vecoli (@tonyveco on X) @tonyveco.bsky.social · 20h
🔴⚠️🌋🇪🇹After more than 10000 years,the 1st historical #eruption of #HayliGubbi #volcano has occurred in E. #Ethiopia, producing an eruptive column that reached more than 18km of height on Nov.23.⬇️Meteosat12 animation of RGB Ash product of the huge gas & ash plume moving eastward.

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 1d
russian tracking device found by UK scuba divers near Wales. The recovered object was a russian RGB-1A sonar buoy. Relative lack of marine growth, suggests that they were likely dropped recently.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

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EUMETSAT @eumetsat.int · 1d
An eruption from the #HayliGubbi volcano in #Ethiopia resulted in a large ash cloud, visible here from space. 🌋

This impressive view was seen 36,000km above Earth by our Meteosat-12 satellite on 23 November at 13:40 UTC.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d
A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.

Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.

ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d
This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
a drawing of a boat heating torwads an iceberg - lower temps still collide with ice but not as badly.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 1d
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

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DJ Francois @djfrancois.bsky.social · 1d
what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland

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Bob King @bkingdc.bsky.social · 2d
#COP30 "exposed the world as it is — haltingly and slowly tackling climate pollution, and fragmented by rising economic nationalism and protectionism, rather than the united, optimistic community of nations that produced the Paris climate agreement 10 years ago."

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The world is fractured. The climate talks reflected that.
Delegates from nearly 200 nations — not including the U.S. — showed they could make some progress. But they deferred the hardest decisions.
www.politico.com

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Chris McLaren @chrismclaren.com · 2d
As I always say when some right-winger starts going on about "red tape that slows innovation", every regulation on the books represents a lesson we as a society learned the hard way, and then encoded so we wouldn't forget. It's someone's blood & pain.
troutgirl.bsky.social Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 2d
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
mattseybold.bsky.social Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 3d
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨‍🍳 😘

The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.

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Rob Larter @polarrobs.bsky.social · 2d
🧵 After 30 years of COP meetings we are still stuck with
> countries being urged to "voluntarily" accelerate their action to reduce their use of fossil fuels.
> no agreement on a roadmap to halt deforestation

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
COP30: UN climate talks fail to secure new fossil fuel promises
Nearly 200 countries attended COP30, which aimed to commit the world to take more action on climate change.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 2d
Two billion kids would REALLY appreciate it if we did more about this than just make a few non-binding promises every year & then instantly forget about them.
#COP30

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d
What if I told you that the entire point of the COPs is, at root, to single out their key export
Oil-producing countries like Saudi Arabia were adamant that their key export not be singled out.

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Christophe Cassou @cassouman40.bsky.social · 2d
Le jour le plus anormalement froid en France sur les derniers 365 jours👇, voire même dans certains endroits depuis plus de 10 ans, voire 20 ans!
L'occasion de refaire de la pub pour la page climat qui accompagne le journal de La météo & du climat #JTMC sur FranceTV
www.franceinfo.fr/environnemen...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d
America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 2d
Reverse work in progress.

#linocut #wip #printmaking
Linocut lino block half carved/half not, with the pencil sketch marks still visible on the uncarved bit. The image is of a man’s face looking to the right.

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 2d
Nations clinched a deal at the UN's COP30 climate summit in the Amazon today without a roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels as demanded by the European Union and other countries
jrnl.ie/6882939
Deal made at COP30 without EU's demanded roadmap for phase-out of fossil fuels
Nearly 200 countries approved the deal by consensus after two weeks of fraught negotiations in the Brazilian city of Belem.
jrnl.ie

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Becca Thorne @beccathorne.bsky.social · 2d
I think this painting might be finished, but I've been staring at it for too long! Oil on panel, 70 x 100cm.
#oilpainting #landscape #hills #moonlight #irishart #maybefinished 🤔
Landscape in limited palette of Payne's Grey, Raw Umber, Green Gold, Old Gamboge & Warm White. Rolling hills dominate the composition: largely dark on the left side of the pass, but with rock and flora detail; Suggestion of a small cottage nestled into the lower hillside, then most of the right half of the panel lit up by moonlight. Small strip of dark night sky at the top, with bright white cloud in front of the moon and a dark line along the ridge, emphasising the curve.

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Joeri Rogelj @joerirogelj.bsky.social · 3d
New text @cop30brazil.bsky.social provides a glimpse of where #COP30 might land.

Some reflections on references to science and evidence. /1

unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
unfccc.int

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Chris Hadfield @cmdr-hadfield.bsky.social · 3d
This was such a fun photo to set up, taken by Thomas Reiter through a sleep station window on Mir. The sun was so bright we were all squinting like crazy. But I love how it shows the texture of the Shuttle's rough, protective hide, and the glimpse of humanity (and my moustache) against the universe.

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 3d
Of course there is lying and not facing facts and harming the innocent. It's an addiction archetype when the suppliers have captured the problem solving mechanisms that could support recovery.

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 3d
Reducing emissions without phasing out fossil fuels is like being full after a big restaurant meal and telling the waiter to keep delivering new dishes to the table with a promise that your kids and your neighbor who is not even at the table will pay the bill.

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Ciarán Cuffe @ciarancuffe.bsky.social · 3d
Two more road deaths in urban areas in the last 24 hours. A failure to introduce default 30 km/h speed limits in Built Up Areas reflects poorly on the Irish Government. #VisionZero road deaths? A pipe-dream unless attitudes change. www.rte.ie/news/regiona...
Two dead in separate collisions in Waterford and Louth
An 18-year-old man and a woman in her 70s have died in separate collisions in Waterford and Louth.
www.rte.ie

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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 3d
Over the 19 years Ireland has had a derogation from the nitrates directive we have backed ourselves in to a corner. Which now leaves us having productive and economically viable farms or cleaner rivers and lakes, but not both.

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Nitrates derogation
Back in the early nineties all across the EU a rule was introduced to protect rivers and streams from agricultural run off. At the last count 7,000 out of 137,000 farms in Ireland had received a derog...
www.rte.ie

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Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · 3d
I had the a welcome opportunity to move beyond the standard Punch & Judy media setup to properly look under the derogation hood, & explore why the Government measures are failing our waters & failing our farmers.

www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Nitrates derogation
Back in the early nineties all across the EU a rule was introduced to protect rivers and streams from agricultural run off. At the last count 7,000 out of 137,000 farms in Ireland had received a derog...
www.rte.ie

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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 3d
We're constantly being told that pollution prevention measures are working and more time is needed to show results. But the rivers don't lie.

www.independent.ie/regionals/co...
Half of Cork farms inspected by Council failed water quality protection regulations
Half of the farms inspected by Cork County Council under the National Agriculture Inspection Programme (NAIP) this year have failed to comply with the government’s Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) reg...
www.independent.ie

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Nature Nomad @naturecompass.bsky.social · 3d
Extreme Northern Lights from last night over Tombstone Mountain Park, Canada

These shots are unreal — some of the most breathtaking aurora photos to come out of Canada this year.
Extreme Northern Lights from last night over Tombstone Mountain Park, Canada 🍁 These shots are unreal — some of the most breathtaking aurora photos to come out of Canada this year. 🌌✨ Tonight is the last day you will get to witness the best auroras of our lifetimes, all over Canada and most States of USA. Don't miss it.

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 3d
Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
A man in a Batman costume and a pregnant woman in a crowded subway car, their faces obscured by pixelation. Text on top of the image reads: "Fig. 1: An example of the experimental setting, with Batman and a woman simulating pregnancy stand in a crowded metro"

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 3d
Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."

This is what's happening in epidemiology.