Richard Davy

@davyclimate.bsky.social

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Climate scientist, Arctic, atmosphere, surface coupling
Living in Bergen, Norway
Nansen Center, Bjerknes Center

Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=v3d2ceIAAAAJ&hl=en

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Geology 21%

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Richard Davy @davyclimate.bsky.social · 6d

The map shows the spatial pattern of median conditions for the selected month, while the lower panel tracks how the season may evolve at your chosen location.

Richard Davy @davyclimate.bsky.social · 6d

You can:
• Jump between different ski resorts (like Myrkdalen in the screenshot)
• Switch to major Nordic cities
• Or just click anywhere on the map to get a local forecast time series for that spot

Richard Davy @davyclimate.bsky.social · 6d

The tool uses ECMWF’s 51-member seasonal ensemble and summarises the range of possible conditions each month.

In the time series you see the 5th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 95th percentiles, so you get a sense of the spread.

Richard Davy @davyclimate.bsky.social · 6d

Winter has arrived properly in Norway this week ❄️ After a few days of heavy snow it already feels like mid-season, so it’s time to look a bit further ahead.

I’ve built a small interactive tool to explore ECMWF seasonal snow forecasts for the Nordics:
climatecompass.shinyapps.io/Snow_Depth_F...

Richard Davy @davyclimate.bsky.social · 13d

On car sizes

Reposted by Scott C. Doney

Richard Davy @davyclimate.bsky.social · 16d

We are recruiting! (x2)
There are two permanent positions available in our climate dynamics and prediction group, so if either sounds interesting to you do apply, or share with your colleagues:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Permanent position as researcher in Climate Prediction  (289560) | Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center

Job title: Permanent position as researcher in Climate Prediction  (289560), Employer: Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Deadline: Sunday, December 7, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Richard Davy, Anthony Burke

Michael Le Page @mjflepage.bsky.social · Oct 22

Sarcasm aside, it's perhaps worth pointing out that the evidence suggests that weather disasters reduce economic growth for decades - the idea that there's rapid bounceback, or even extra growth stimulated by recovery, has proved wrong

www.newscientist.com/article/mg23...

We all get poorer every time a climate disaster strikes

Long-term economic effects of global warming could be far greater than thought, making many countries poorer and hurting even those of us spared direct impacts

www.newscientist.com

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Richard Waite, Richard Davy

Dr. Sarah Fortner @erthsarah.bsky.social · Oct 6

A reality check for me was working with students on an internal carbon accounting platform that Bon App our food provider uses. Beef was less than 5% of our purchases but around 50% of our food emissions even with international work to be plant forward.

apnews.com/article/plan...

A recipe for avoiding 15 million deaths a year and climate disaster is fixing food, scientists say

Scientists are presenting new evidence that the worst effects of climate change can’t be avoided without a major transformation of food systems.

apnews.com

Reposted by Euan G. Ritchie, Lesley A. Hall, Roger Luckhurst , and 10 more Euan G. Ritchie, Lesley A. Hall, Roger Luckhurst, Bryan Fanning, R. M. Wilson, Richard Davy, Brian Keegan, Fiona Moore, Thomas Masterson, Brooke Harrington, Karen O’Leary, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Catherine Spooner

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · Oct 6

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Richard Davy @davyclimate.bsky.social · Oct 6

The real headline is there in the article:

“The wealthiest are increasing their wealth faster than any other group.”

That’s the story. Not the meaningless number.

Richard Davy @davyclimate.bsky.social · Oct 6

So when we say the richest 1% hold $52 trillion, we just check out. It sounds like monopoly money.
We’re not wired to understand exponential scales — and that’s exactly how the story slips past us.

Richard Davy @davyclimate.bsky.social · Oct 6

Who has a sense of what $52 trillion means?
It’s too big, too abstract. Even billion vs. million is a scale most people can’t intuitively grasp — a billion seconds is 31 years; a million seconds is 12 days.

Richard Davy @davyclimate.bsky.social · Oct 6

Growing wealth inequality is devastating for societies.

But with headlines like “the wealth of the top 1% reached $52 trillion”, the topic gets ignored — because those numbers mean absolutely nothing to anyone.

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · Oct 6

wealth of the top 1% reached a record $52 trillion (icymi friday) — www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/t...

The wealth of the top 1% reaches a record $52 trillion

All wealth groups saw gains over the past year, according to recent Fed data. But the growth has been fastest for those at the very top.

www.cnbc.com

Reposted by Richard Davy

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · Oct 6

wealth of the top 1% reached a record $52 trillion (icymi friday) — www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/t...

The wealth of the top 1% reaches a record $52 trillion

All wealth groups saw gains over the past year, according to recent Fed data. But the growth has been fastest for those at the very top.

www.cnbc.com

Reposted by Richard Davy

Guido Grosse @grosseguido.bsky.social · Oct 3

I am happy to announce that we received major funding from Schmidt Sciences under their VICC program to study rapid #Permafrost Thaw Carbon Trajectories (PeTCaT). The 5-year project led by my team @awi.de partners with an international team to quantify how rapid thaw contributes to climate change.

Schmidt Sciences @schmidtsciences.bsky.social · Oct 2

We're investing $45M over 5 years to launch the Virtual Institute for the Carbon Cycle (VICC).

Four global teams will combine AI, advanced observations & modeling to close major carbon cycle gaps, strengthening climate projections worldwide.

🔗 buff.ly/8WVpM9s
WIRED coverage: buff.ly/YsLAcRZ

Schmidt Sciences awards $45M to narrow carbon cycle knowledge gap - Schmidt Sciences

Globe-spanning interdisciplinary teams will dramatically improve climate modeling to drive better energy, environmental, economic decision making Contact: Carlie Wiener, [email protected]…

www.schmidtsciences.org

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Graeme S. Cumming, Stefan Rahmstorf , and 9 more Richard S.J. Tol, Graeme S. Cumming, Stefan Rahmstorf, Peter Thorne, Benjamin I. Cook, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Juan Cole, Brian J. Harvey, Richard Davy, Anthony Burke, Ryan K. Brook, Angela E. Boag

Dr. Crystal A. Kolden @pyrogeog.bsky.social · Oct 2

Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires

Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

www.science.org

Reposted by Richard Davy

Bjerknes Center for Climate Research (BCCR) @bjerknes.uib.no · Oct 2

By applying a tracking method to both climate models and satellite data, @davyclimate.bsky.social found that sea ice age is a more sensitive indicator of change than ice thickness or volume.

🧪🌊 Read the publication here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Reposted by Tim Woollings, Richard Davy

Antje Weisheimer @antjeweisheimer.bsky.social · Sep 30

Are you interested in seasonal forecasts and how they have advanced over the past two decades?
Chris O’Reilly (Univ. of Reading) led a new paper on exactly this: rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Evaluating seasonal forecast improvements over the past two decades

We have analysed the performance of operational seasonal forecasting models since their inception. Clear improvements are measured through the different model eras, particularly in the Tropics. For t....

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Ed Hawkins, Gerry Canavan , and 5 more Lisa W. Fazio, Ed Hawkins, Gerry Canavan, Kathleen J. Mullen, Richard Davy, Rebecca M. Bratspies, David Waltner‐Toews, Southern Africa