This is an interesting, if provocative perspective. I agree with most of what the authors say except I view the paradigm they advocate as more of a “yes and” rather than a replacement for our current understanding. 1/
In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.
New article about the global state of glaciers out: rdcu.be/fctdV
For Swedish glaciers, 2025 was a "good bad year": There was much less melt than compared to the record high mass losses in 2024, but the overall balance was still negative @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @bolincentre.bsky.social
Huge congratulations to the 2026 @scarinstant.bsky.social Fellows!
These fellowships support researchers working on topics related to Antarctic Ice Sheet stability.
We're looking forward to seeing the outcomes out their work ❄📊.
Read our opinion piece on AMOC! Now!
Image by Nasa/Terra/Modis 26/3/2026
The last two big fragments of the once mighty A23 iceberg. The US National Ice Center calls the bottom-left object A23k and the top-right, A23a. Its latest report (20/3/26) said both were about 140 sq km. Latitude is roughly 50 deg S.
Arctic sea ice has reached its maximum extent for the year, at 14.29 million square kilometers (5.52 million square miles) on March 15, edging just below last year’s record and statistically tying for the lowest maximum in the 48-year satellite record. @cires.colorado.edu https://bit.ly/4sBUe95
A new study suggests that droughts in global key breadbasket regions, precipitation extremes over highly populated areas, and fire weather extremes across forests at 2 °C of global warming may turn out to be much more extreme than previously assumed.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🚨 Four new PhD projects in Hobart at @utas.edu.au!
Work on precision #climate tracking in the Southern Ocean:
1️⃣ ocean heat uptake
2️⃣ human-induced salinity shifts
3️⃣ energy and sea level budgets
4️⃣ changes in the overturning circulation
⚠️ Applications close 1 April
▶️ www.utas.edu.au/research/deg...
Really important new work on emperor penguin populations - and more bad news, unfortunately. Significant declines in recent years at key Ross Sea colonies emphasize the need to better understand the relationship between sea ice conditions and the species' success.
Michela Savignano’s first PhD paper is now online as a preprint in The Cryosphere:
"Temporal evolution of the Petermann Ice Shelf estuary constrained by remote sensing observations"
egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... 🛰️❄️🧪
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social
Turquoise river braids surrounded by snow and little blocks of ice. Photo from a drone above.
The beautiful turquoise of the glacial rivers seen in south-east #Iceland isn't as visible in winter, but I was glad to get at least a hint of colour on this trip, as seen by my #DJIMavic3Pro drone.
About two dozen gentoo penguins and their chicks in a penguin rookery on a rocky slope above a fjord.
A gentoo penguin standing on a stony beach and facing the camera
A gentoo penguin with a large chick in the penguin rookery
A gentoo penguin withe two chicks, seen against a snowy slope in the background
Day 11 of my voyage to the #Antarctic Peninsula on the #tallship #BarkEuropa (continued): Gentoo #penguins on Danco Island.
#BusmansHoliday
A very important thread: Energy imbalance is important, but it shifts the focus away from the root of the problem (economy based on fossil fuel)
Since 2016, Antarctic sea ice extent has been declining sharply – now scientists are piecing together how strong winds and warm deep water have played a part in this abrupt transition
Silvery early morning light on a cove containing small icebergs and brash ice, beneath a cloudy sky. A line of snow-covered mountains can be seen along the horizon and there is a rocky bluff on the right in the foreground.
Six years ago today. The early morning view from the @bas.ac.uk Rothera research station on Adelaide Island, #Antarctic Peninsula, shortly before I heard the news that the UK had gone into #lockdown.
🛰️ How satellite altimetry is improving projections of Antarctic ice loss
New research shows satellite altimetry data confirms high mass loss from Thwaites glacier over next 50 years 👇
🔗 eo4society.esa.int/2026/03/19/s...
Read this article, featuring @restingdinoface.bsky.social as well as @jmtheodor.bsky.social
This is so unbelievably bleak. If this is what the future of science looks like, I want no part of it.
New review of surging glaciers in Svalbard!
I am pleased to share our new paper in which we review the current distribution of surging glaciers in Svalbard! Published in Earth Science Reviews, you can find the full paper here: The surging Borebreen in 2024. In this review, we analyse the methods…
good storytelling and nice presentation of the science - I liked it
It's here!! Be the first to read an article on At Its Core, a substack about past climate change. This one is a story about a time traveling geologist making a dangerous trip to the planet's first Snowball Earth event. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/climatea...
It really is not as simple as Hormuz closure = fossil fuel demand destruction = clean transition. Seems more like lessons for what happens when a transition is sudden and unplanned
🆕OCEAN ICE Publication: Mapping tipping risks from Antarctic ice basins under global warming.
Torsten Albrecht a WP6 Co-lead in OCEAN ICE, is Co-Author on this paper!
Read an article summarising the paper here: ocean-ice.eu/ocean-i...
The edge of a glacier seen from a drone, directly above. There are many pieces of intensely turquoise ice, som attached to the glacier with crevasses, some having broken off. There is some brown water around.
A turquoise iceberg seen in a frozen lagoon from above.
Turquoise icebergs seen in a frozen lagoon from above.
The edge of a turquoise glacier with deep smooth crevasses, and some brown meltwater around.
More ice from above in a wonderful frozen glacial lagoon in #Iceland last week.
#DronePhotography #DJIMavic3Pro #AwesomeFoursome
What I gather from this ancient Babylonian dialogue (and others) is that we have grappled with injustice for millennia. We've talked about it with our friends, and we've felt understandably depressed. How can we not?
But we will keep fighting, and the smoke will clear one day...
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
