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wmo-global.bsky.social
@wcrpclimate.bsky.social APARC releases a landmark report on global atmospheric impacts of the 2022 Hunga volcanic eruption

159 scientists. 21 countries. 3 years. One report.

More information here: https://bit.ly/493hOmz

#WCRP #APARC #ScienceforAction #HungaEruption
January 1, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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zacklabe.com
As always, my last post of the year reminder...

Reducing emissions will reduce future climate warming and impacts. The time is now. Visualization made by globalcarbonbudget.org.

Thanks for being here in 2025! I appreciate all the support 🙂
January 1, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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flygirlnhm.bsky.social
Nature - fun, odd, amazing, beautiful and totally this planet. 2025 - what a year, what a rollercoaster, some tears, some hope

Please let us look after our world in 2026, it’s the only one that I live on and I happen to like it..
December 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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sjbknott.bsky.social
Best beetles of 2025 in Bengeo garden were both longhorns: Prionus coriarius, truly a giant, & Xylotrechus antilope, european oak species recorded for 2nd year in row here.
Prionus coriarius male attracted to light Xylotrechus antilope female
December 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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metoffice.gov.uk
Cold arctic air from the north will bring snow showers for some to start the new year. What happens during the first full week of January is still uncertain.

Find out more in this week’s 10 Day Trend with Alex Burkill 👇
10 Day Trend 31/12/2025 – Cold and snowy to start 2026
This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the next 10 days 31/12/2025. Cold arctic air from the north will bring snow showers for some to start the new year. What happens during the first full…
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December 31, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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onslies.bsky.social
31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
The final Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. The entire page is mostly white as they're in the winter snow. The pair is walking with a sledge, nicely duffled in in scarves, hats, gloves. Calvin delightedly exclaims 'wow, it really snowed las night! Isn't it wonderful?'. Hobbes follows up with 'Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand-new!' -- A new year... a fresh, clean start!' adds Calvin. As they look over the landscape, Hobbes observes 'it's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on!' -- 'A day full of possibilities!' Calvin affirms. They get ready on their sledge and Calvin tells his friend 'it's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... let's go exploring!', and the pair sledges off into the wintery landscape.
December 31, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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metoffice.gov.uk
Colder air will move south across the UK from tomorrow, bringing a marked drop in temperatures, severe gales in the north, and an increasing risk of snow and ice. Several National Severe Weather Warnings have been issued.

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Cold weather to grip the UK with risk of snow and gales
Several National Severe Weather Warnings have been issued marking a significant change in conditions.
www.metoffice.gov.uk
December 31, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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frediotto.bsky.social
Looking back to @wwattribution.bsky.social studies in 2025 showed again, in stark terms, how unfairly the consequences of human-induced climate change are distributed. The world does not have to be like this, we have a lot of agency to make it better. www.worldweatherattribution.org/unequal-evid...
a world map with locations of extreme weather event studies by WWA in pink & yellow dots
December 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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metoffice.gov.uk
The last day of 2025 has gotten off to a widely frosty start

Temperatures plummeted across all four home nations 🥶
Map of the UK with minimum temperatures on the morning of Wednesday 31 December 2025. Braemar, Scotland = -9.6℃ Shap, England = -8.1℃ Katesbridge, Northern Ireland = -6.8℃ Sennybridge, Wales = -6.4℃
December 31, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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rahmstorf.bsky.social
Want to learn what we know about #AMOC risk in under 15 minutes? Here's a video of my latest talk, in Helsinki in October. 6/6
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULJX...
Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute
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December 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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tony873004.bsky.social
In just 27 hours from now, 2026 will land on Earth on Christmas Island. It will then spend a day spreading to the rest of the world. Here's a countdown timer. It should adjust to your time zone. orbitsimulator.com/BA/countdown...
December 30, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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peaseroland.bsky.social
This thread sent me looking into the work of Patrick "PP" Laidlaw whose NIMR lab isolated flu virus in 1933 6 years after Thomas Rivers defined viruses as "obligate parasites in the sense their reproduction depends on living cells," - paving the way for vaccines that have saved millions of lives."
Pioneering Patrick PP Laidlaw, from https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbm/article/3/9/427/34331/Patrick-Playfair-Laidlaw-1881-1940
December 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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mtobis.bsky.social
Extremely interesting - a very simple model with enough complexity to explore a range of future scenarios.
December 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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petagna.bsky.social
As we approach year end, 2025 is on track to be one of the UK’s warmest years on record, joining 2022 and 2023 in the top three warmest years...

www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
2025: likely another record year for UK annual temperature
As we approach year end, 2025 is on track to be one of the UK’s warmest years on record, joining 2022 and 2023 in the top three warmest years.
www.metoffice.gov.uk
December 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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petagna.bsky.social
Even allowing for the upcoming colder weather to see out the year, 2025 is on course to be amongst, if not the warmest year on record for the UK

Here the projected mean annual temperature relative to the top 5 on record..
December 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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petagna.bsky.social
The #wintersolstice has arrived
3.03pm today UK time

The shortest day of the year

Evenings already just starting to get lighter

Another 10 days or so before mornings start to get lighter though
metoffice.gov.uk Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 12d
Sunday is the Winter Solstice in the northern hemisphere. The point in the year when daylight is at its shortest

Across the UK, daylight will be in short supply:
Less than 8 hours in the far south 🕑
And under 6 hours in the far north 🕑
December 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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ericlagadec.bsky.social
Aujourd'hui c'est le solstice d'hiver dans l'hémisphère Nord. Les journées vont commencer à rallonger! Le soleil ne se lève à l'Est (centre de l'image avec Nord à gauche, Sud a droite) que lors des équinoxes. La position du lever change un peu tous les jours! (©Z. Al-Abbadi)
Position du lever du soleil en fonction des saisons
December 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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seancasten.bsky.social
47. As Amory Lovins has said for years, no one wants a lump of coal, or a barrel of oil. All we want is a hot shower and a cold beer. And if we can get that heat and light and chilling without paying for (or burning) fuel, we're all happier... with one notable exception.
December 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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sarahhants.bsky.social
The Jubilee River is an 11km artificial flood relief channel, opened in 2002 to alleviate the risk of flooding in Maidenhead, Windsor and Eton. We decided to take a look.

The @thamespathnt.bsky.social around Boulters lock was much higher than last week after yesterdays heavy persistent rain.

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December 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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metoffice.gov.uk
The Met Office global average temperature forecast for 2026 suggests another year above 1.4 °C compared to pre-industrial levels (1850-1900), being the fourth year in succession exceeding 1.4 °C. Prior to this surge, the global temperature has never exceeded 1.3 °C.

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/491qWrE
Met Office graph showing global temperature difference above period 1850-1900 (degrees celsius). The graph shows a rise from 2000 to 2024, the warmest year on record and above 1.5C the 19th Century period. 2025 January to October was around 1.4C above the period.
December 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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slowbikeiain.bsky.social
If your cost-benefit model tells you it isn't worth investing in a tram or light rail system for an urban area with a population of well over 1m, like Leeds-Bradford, your model is wrong and should be thrown in the bin.
December 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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metoffice.gov.uk
💡 The record-breaking sunshine has seen benefits for the energy sector. According to National Energy System Operator, solar power provided over 6% of Britain’s annual energy needs so far this year - a 50% increase on recent years.
“Solar is one of the cheapest forms of power – getting us off fossil fuels and delivering energy security so we can get bills down for good. The sunniest year on record highlights the huge opportunity we have to make the most of this clean energy source.” Michael Shanks Energy Minister
December 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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simonleewx.com
Would be an absolutely devastating blow for science on an international scale, not just within the US. Hard to comprehend.
usatoday.com USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 15d
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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petagna.bsky.social
More than 14 inches of rain in 2 days 😯
December 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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thoughtrise.bsky.social
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about
screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM