Meridionally consistent decline in the observed western boundary contribution to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Western boundary observations in the Atlantic suggest a meridionally consistent decline in the ocean overturning circulation.

New study finds the "canary in the coal mine" for the #AMOC: a consistent decline of the western overturning circulation, down from 20 to 15 Sv during 2004-2023 at 26° N. 🌊
AMOC "could be at or near a critical tipping point, potentially leading to its collapse".
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I've updated my El Niño forecast plume with the latest April data (ECMWF, NMME, CFSv2, Canadian models). Its now looking like it might end up giving 2015/2016 a run for its money in terms of strength, with a peak of ~2.6C in the ENSO3.4 region by end of year: dashboard.theclimate...

BOBER!

AlEż To Są ZuPeŁnIe NiEpOrÓwNyWaLnE sYtUaCjE!!!11

YOU WOULDNT USE AI TO GENERATE A VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF PIRACY RIAA PARODY

I do vaguely remember this line by Jeremy Irons: "...and we wil be left with the biggest bag of odorous excrement ever assembled in the history of...massive bombings and missile strikes in the Middle East?"

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

The algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects.

This is what I love about the German courts. You may paste 4 sentences or 4 paragraphs or 4 pages and they might amount to the same volume of text! 😍

I have just written a sentence in what may become a journal article that paraphrases Darth Vader's description of the Force in "A New Hope". I am at the same time proud of myself (and the scholarly terror I've constructed), afraid noone will get the reference, and amazed how cheezy the sentence is.

The interoperability of email is very similar to the existence of libraries in that it would be considered a utopian dream if we didn't already have it

🇵🇱⚖️ We've reached a crucial point in the Polish rule-of-law crisis: a court found a divorce null and void due to a "neo-judge" presiding over the proceedings. Given how quick, easy, and fast access to divorce is in the country, this story will make waves. 1/

Może do tamtego państwa się nie wybierali, a do tego chcą kiedyś dostać wizę?

Brytyjczycy w przeciwieństwie do Polaków ufali państwu. Niepotrzebnie Ben Stanley, Brytyjczyk od lat mieszkający w Polsce, odpowiada na esej Jarosława Kuisza o polskości.

Przeczytałem w końcu zostawiony tydzień temu "w zakładkach na później" tekst @benstanley.eu i bardzo polecam. Przemawia do mnie dużo bardziej, niż przerysowany tekst redaktora naczelnego KL, na który odpowiada.

kulturaliberalna.pl/2025/12/30/b...

I'm starting to get the emails. Reporters: please see my comments below.

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.

30 years ago today, Netscape announced a new programming language, one that emerged from a frantic, week-and-a-half-long sprint. It ended up sticking around far longer than anyone could've expected.

Iceland declares ocean-current instability a national security risk Iceland has classified the potential collapse of a major Atlantic current system as a national security threat, citing new scientific warnings that such a change could radically alter the country’s cl...

Iceland is right to consider this an existential threat.
www.dagens.com/news/iceland...

We have reached 1.4 degrees celsius #globalheating according to NASA data (smooth black trend line). Breaching 1.5 is now inevitable. From now on the fight is to keep overshoot as small and short as possible.

Unexpected laughs thanks to the gargantuan opinion in Getty v. Stability AI (the stuff below concerns the application of the standard of average consumer in trademark law)

Stop giving Ridley Scott ideas for another presequel.

Narwhals : animated music video : MrWeebl YouTube video by Weebl's Stuff

Which, again randomly, reminds me of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykwq...

I should get back to work.

a drawing of a purple pony with a unicorn horn ALT: a drawing of a purple pony with a unicorn horn

Which randomly reminds me of a certain (failed) attempt to convince a court in Warsaw to grant an injunction prohibiting the sale of toys depicting "ponies with distinctive colorful manes, fancifully outlined eyes, and tails with long colorful hair".

I wonder if the unicorn:
- just gave up
- consulted a lawyer and gave up upon advice
- lost the case ON COPYRIGHT GROUNDS

The worse problem is that any of those is plausible.

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".

Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

Very fine people on both sides!

<approvingly gnaws on wood>

To be fair, the article says it quite directly and lists all the names of killed journalists.

August 29, 1981 - New York Times editorial “Heating up the Atmosphere” - All Our Yesterdays Forty four years ago, on this day, August 29th, 1981, a week after a front page story “Study finds warming trend that could raise sea levels,” the New York Times editorialised For years there have bee...

On this day 44 yrs ago (Aug 29 1981) the New York Times editorialised

"7 scientists from NASA claim to have found evidence that C02 has already been warming the Earth for a century. They predict it will produce ”unprecedented” warming in the next century."

1/n
allouryesterdays.info/2025/08/28/a...

Surely if we invest more in AI, we will solve it, won't we.

NEW CHART: Trump's "big beautiful bill" & other efforts to dismantle climate policy means the US will add an extra 7bn tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere from now until 2030, compared to meeting its former climate pledge under the Paris Agreement 🫠

www.carbonbrief.org/...

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.