Peter Thorne

@peterthorne.bsky.social

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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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Environmental science 55%

Geography 19%

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 8h

He’s travelling light

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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 17h

I've seen many negative comments about the 3p per mile road tax for electric cars UK gov have announced in the budget. I don't know the details yet, I know the complaints will die down but the impact on regular people switching to EVs will definitely take a hefty knock.

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Jonathan Frewin @jonfrewin.bsky.social · 20h

I thought I might try the same experiment with a bit more context, and - I dunno - it seems to have stumbled a bit with the basic facts…

Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 20h

Indeed

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Becca Thorne @beccathorne.bsky.social · 22h

After a couple of tweaks, I think this is done. I don’t want to do too much to it.
Oil on linen, 100 x 100cm. I’ll be adding it to my website: www.artachart.com so do message me if interested in buying it.
#oilpainting #landscape #mountains #hills #irishartist #darkness

A dark painting of a valley, surrounded by hills. Limited palette (predominantly browns and greens) with suggestion of path or waterways and rocks. A narrow strip of pale blue-grey sky, with minimal white clouds above the left hand side of the ridge.

Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 1d

I believe so

Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve had worse commutes

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Jason Mittell, Jed A. Fuhrman , and 6 more Lisa W. Fazio, Jason Mittell, Jed A. Fuhrman, Peter Thorne, Jesse M. Shapiro, Benny Geys, Kevin Carey, Smith, Greg Linden

Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 2d

Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Jenni Barclay, Christina Pagel

Antonio Vecoli (@tonyveco on X) @tonyveco.bsky.social · 2d

🔴⚠️🌋🇪🇹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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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.

Reposted by Glen P. Peters, Peter Thorne, Tom Shakespeare , and 1 more Glen P. Peters, Peter Thorne, Tom Shakespeare, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3d

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.

Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 3d

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.

Reposted by Jan W. Mueller, Christian Odendahl, Will Jennings , and 28 more Jan W. Mueller, Christian Odendahl, Will Jennings, Peter Thorne, Steve Peers, Iain Davidson, Rosemary A. Joyce, David Rothschild, Ian Hall, Melissa R. Michelson, Fabián Muniesa, Anders Nilsson, Juan Cole, Edgar Morgenroth, Michelle Everson, Göran Bolin, Smith, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Jonathan Hopkin, Melanie C. Green, Rebecca Tushnet, Alan Richardson, McKenzie Wark, Gerald Friedman, Timothy Graham, Brian Keegan, Mark Rice, Philipp Sarasin, Jeremy S. Pal, Tim Stephens, Manisha Sinha

Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

#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 · 4d

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.

Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 4d

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.

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 4d

🧵 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

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Gavin L. Foster, John McLaren , and 1 more Peter Thorne, Gavin L. Foster, John McLaren, Christopher Peters

Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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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