Reposted by Hemant KhatriDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Tellus has a long, storied history. I submitted my first paper there 30 years ago for that reason. I'm excited about Tellus's rebirth and plan to submit my next paper on the Arctic Ocean carbon cycle there. In the age of money-grubbing publishers, I encourage you to consider Tellus. 314038
Reposted by Hemant KhatriEd Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 26/06/2026Maximum temperature anomalies over the UK for the last two days. If you're wondering whether we need a new colour scale... you're not wrong. These anomaly maps are relative to the 1991-2020 average. (Based on HadUK-Grid dataset and produced by the Met Office National Climate Information Centre) 915774
Reposted by Hemant KhatriMichelle Cusolito, M.Ed. ❌👑 @mcusolito.bsky.social · 02/06/2026A lack of scientific understanding leads to this. 🌊 #STEM #MarineScience Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...nytimes.comTrump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System 074
Reposted by Hemant KhatriZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 30/03/2026Changes in March temperatures in the #Arctic by decade... (now updated through 2025 data) Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis. 16926
Reposted by Hemant KhatriDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/03/2026It’s astounding and encouraging that the Met Office put out these long scientific explanations of how our world works. We need more science in the world like this. 👏 210926
Hemant Khatri @hemant-khatri.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Ocean scienceseeting 2026 over. ✌️ Brain: 🧠🔥 Feet: 🦶😫 Already looking forward to OSM28. #OSM26 000
Reposted by Hemant KhatriHemant Khatri @hemant-khatri.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Are you at ocean sciences meeting? Wanna hear about ocean memory and its role in climate variability? Check out my talk at 11 am on 26th Feb in CC42B: Global Teleconnections session in Alsh-SEC. Would love your take on ocean memory! Come by if you can make it. #OSM26 @ricwilli.bsky.social 012
Hemant Khatri @hemant-khatri.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Are you at ocean sciences meeting? Wanna hear about ocean memory and its role in climate variability? Check out my talk at 11 am on 26th Feb in CC42B: Global Teleconnections session in Alsh-SEC. Would love your take on ocean memory! Come by if you can make it. #OSM26 @ricwilli.bsky.social 012
Hemant Khatri @hemant-khatri.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Great talk by Prof. Eleanor Frajka-Williamson @eleanorfrajka.bsky.social on the history of AMOC research! Fascinating to see how decades of observations have evolved our understanding of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and its role in our climate system. #OSM26 091
Hemant Khatri @hemant-khatri.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Historically, the U.S. has funded almost 50% of global ocean observation programs. However, amidst shifting geopolitics and rising global uncertainty, it remains to be seen whether other nations will step up to fill the funding gap. #OSM26 051
Reposted by Hemant KhatriLisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Got ocean science you’re excited about?Want to support 🌊community programs? Looking for editors and reviewers who care? @jgroceans.bsky.social 0216
Hemant Khatri @hemant-khatri.bsky.social · 07/12/2025Excited to share our new publication in GRL We examine how a seasonal North Atlantic Oscillation affects the thermal and biogeochemical states in the North Atlantic Ocean for many years. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... @agu.org @ricliv.bsky.socialagupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.comContrasting Fast and Slow Ocean Thermal, Carbon and Nutrient Responses to the North Atlantic OscillationOcean thermal, carbon and nutrient states respond to the North Atlantic Oscillation on fast and slow timescales, lasting up to a decade Thermal variability is driven by anomalous surface winds an... 040
Reposted by Hemant KhatriSabrina Fernandes @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social · 22/11/2025COP30 overpromised, underdelivered, empowered distractions, backtracked on issues and once again gave big oil and big ag a free pass. Unfortunately, the suspicions of climate scientists (here in Brazil and abroad) were confirmed again. 21171531579
Reposted by Hemant KhatriLisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Science fraud is on the rise, facilitated by for-profit, open-access journals (Richardson et al, 2025, PNAS). These same journals are accelerating author and reviewer burnout by profiting from quantity while neglecting quality. Choose society journals where reputation and community are everything! 0115
Reposted by Hemant KhatriThe Economist @economist.com · 09/11/2025New data modelling suggests that the world is on track to warm by 2°C and 3°C even if countries met every near-term climate pledge and hit their targets for net-zero CO₂ emissionsecon.stFor the first time, climate models show the 1.5°C goal is deadGovernments have failed to limit global warming. What comes next? 21911
Reposted by Hemant KhatriZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 04/10/2025Record warm ocean temperatures continued in September across the North Pacific Ocean, with a number of consequential impacts (including on downstream weather patterns). This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every September from 1854-2025 using @noaa.gov ERSSTv5 data. 621698
Reposted by Hemant KhatriProf Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Two stories juxtaposed on the BBC website... sigh. Anyone else spot the irony here? 03811
Hemant Khatri @hemant-khatri.bsky.social · 01/09/2025I guess I was right to switch to @bsky.app from Twitter. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comScience research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study findsBluesky posts referencing scholarly articles ‘find substantially higher levels of interaction’ than on Elon Musk’s platform 000
Reposted by Hemant KhatriBloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 27/08/2025Heavy monsoon rains trigger flash floods across Pakistan and India, forcing mass evacuations and causing deaths.bloom.bgDeadly Monsoon Rains Force Mass Evacuations in South AsiaHeavy monsoon rains have triggered flash floods across Pakistan and India, forcing mass evacuations and causing deaths. 0197
Reposted by Hemant KhatriNational Oceanography Centre @noc.ac.uk · 14/07/2025@metoffice.gov.uk ‘s 'State of the UK Climate' report is out today, with some key findings: 🌊UK sea level is rising faster than the global average 🌡️extremes are becoming the norm 🥇record breaking weather events are becoming more frequent 🔥the last 3 yrs have been in the UK's top 5 warmest on record 12212
Reposted by Hemant KhatriLily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 07/07/2025The Secretary of Commerce's new policy requiring his personal review of all NOAA contracts over $100,000 is directly harming American science. 🧪 How do I know? Because this morning, twelve of America's rising leaders in climate science (including myself) were furloughed. 416984
Reposted by Hemant KhatriZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 30/06/2025What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔 NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul... 28362153
Reposted by Hemant KhatriDr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Excellent post by @dinahvp.bsky.social on the plan to devastate NOAA research, with quotes from @franklinjamesl.bsky.social @wxmanms1.bsky.social. "Only a small fraction of NOAA Research would remain and be transferred to the NWS, including portions of the weather, tornado and technology research." 22714
Reposted by Hemant KhatriZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 25/06/2025Awful. More horrible science news "The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing & delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025." 22736394
Reposted by Hemant KhatriDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I know there’s a lot of news right now but this is really crazy. They’re booting the National Science Foundation out of its newish building with no plans for where 1800 people are going to go.eos.orgNational Science Foundation Staff Booted From Headquarters - EosStaff at the National Science Foundation (NSF) were notified on 25 June that the agency’s office space, located in Alexandria, Va., will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development (H... 25522239
Hemant Khatri @hemant-khatri.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Great initiative by Bill Gates. The global economic uncertainty and wars are hitting poor countries the most. Hope this initiative would provide the required investment. 010
Reposted by Hemant KhatriDhruv Bhagtani @dhruv21.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Excited to share new research in the Journal of Geophysical Research:Oceans with @andyhogg.bsky.social, @navidcy.bsky.social, Ryan Holmes, and @hemant-khatri.bsky.social on how the North Atlantic Oscillation impacts the basin's subtropical and subpolar gyres: doi.org/10.1029/2024... 🌊 095
Reposted by Hemant KhatriAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/05/2025Trump just revoked the ability for foreign students to enroll at Harvard. Every foreign student, which is in the thousands, enrolled for next year at Harvard will not be able to continue studying if this isn't challenged in court. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...nytimes.comTrump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students 741340456
Reposted by Hemant KhatriEd Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 12/05/2025Updated Climate Visuals (1) Warming stripes for atmosphere and ocean (2) Climate indicators (adding land humidity for 2024) (3) UK climate indicators (adding some 2024 data) ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu... 512453
Reposted by Hemant KhatriDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/05/2025RIP American science: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions, layoff staff, and terminate more funded grants.science.orgExclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisionsChanges seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund 15283127
Hemant Khatri @hemant-khatri.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Interesting study showing economic losses due to emissions by individual fossil fuel companies. Such studies aimed at quantifying economic losses and emissions by individual sectors, companies and countries are needed to determine accountability for global warming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comCarbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - NatureA transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi... 010
Reposted by Hemant KhatriZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 24/04/2025"The possible elimination of the lab, called GFDL, in concert with potential cuts to other NOAA operations, threatens irreparable harm not only to global understanding of climate change and long-range scenarios for the planet but to the country’s safety, competitiveness and national security."propublica.orgWhite House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends OnPotential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security. 5255100
Hemant Khatri @hemant-khatri.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Looks like Trump has vowed to destroy everything, including oceans, climate research, trade, freedom of speech. 010
Reposted by Hemant KhatriZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 17/04/2025"To envision the disastrous impact of this plan, one only needs to see what NOAA research has provided to the U.S. taxpayer and imagine where we would be without it." "Now is the time to reach out to your elected representatives." "Stand Up for NOAA Research" - @nwas.org and @ametsoc.org statementametsoc.orgStand Up for NOAA Research – The Time to Act is NowThe AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service. 017880
Reposted by Hemant KhatriHenri F. Drake @henrifdrake.bsky.social · 16/04/2025It's even worse than removing the grant funding for university research (in groups like mine at UC Irvine). NOAA labs and cooperative institutes collect the climate data we use, develop the predictive weather and climate models, and train the students we hire. This demolishes U.S. climate research. 053
Reposted by Hemant KhatriDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Critical yet often overlooked is that NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research maintains vital long-term monitoring programs like the CO₂ Keeling Curve that, while essential, often struggle for funding from agencies like NSF that prioritize hypothesis-driven research over sustained observation.nytimes.comWhite House Plan Calls for NOAA Research Programs to Be Dismantled (Gift Article)A Trump administration budget proposal would essentially eliminate one of the world’s foremost Earth sciences research operations. 5352138
Hemant Khatri @hemant-khatri.bsky.social · 09/04/2025It's sad to see CIMES funding cut at Princeton. It has been an incredibly successful research program. 021
Reposted by Hemant KhatriProf Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · 03/04/2025The big question is - will the penguins now impose reciprocal tariffs? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comTrump imposes tariffs on uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands near AntarcticaAustralian prime minister surprised after remote external territories – including islands home to penguins – targeted by US president 66216
Reposted by Hemant KhatriSimon Lee @simonleewx.com · 12/03/202510th UK Climate Dynamics Workshop 2025 7–9 July, Met Office, Exeter Abstract deadline 16 May www.rmets.org/event/10th-u...rmets.org10th UK Climate Dynamics Workshop 2025UK Climate Dynamics Workshops are annual in-person events aiming to promote collaboration amongst the UK academic sector and the Met Office. 0103
Reposted by Hemant KhatriEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u... 6131251381
Reposted by Hemant KhatriZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 24/03/2025Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 2nd lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 400,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 840,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,330,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 1,760,000 km² below the 1980s mean Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🧪 313162
Reposted by Hemant KhatriDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/03/2025What troubles me about Columbia, an institution I was associated with for 34 years, is that the actions of the Trump administration serve as a test case for future pressure on other universities, many of which lack the resources to fight. Things are gonna suck for academia in the US.nytimes.comColumbia University’s Concessions to Trump Seen as a Watershed (Gift Article)Threatened with losing $400 million in federal funding, the university agreed to overhaul its protest policies and security practices. 1633765
Reposted by Hemant KhatriZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 16/03/2025Methane (CH₄) is a potent greenhouse gas. Here are the latest monthly observations... 🧪⚒️ November 2024 - 1940.75 ppb November 2023 - 1931.75 ppb + Data: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends_... + More info on trends: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... 923988
Hemant Khatri @hemant-khatri.bsky.social · 15/03/2025It may be the time for Tesla to find a new CEO. 000
Reposted by Hemant KhatriDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/03/2025It would be good if there was a government agency tasked with warning people about these things.wapo.stStorms kill 16 across the U.S. as tornado risks are set to peakNumerous significant tornadoes are expected Saturday afternoon and evening, with the highest risk across several states in the Deep South, forecasters say. 1130773
Reposted by Hemant KhatriProfessor Matthew England FAA @profmattengland.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Suppression of climate data built up by decades of hard working scientists dedicated to measuring and understanding planetary health. Removing facilities that measure climate change will not change US exposure to its catastrophic consequences 🔥🌀🌊🌪️ 821490