Reposted by Peter ThorneProf David Farrell, UCD @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social · 20mPotato beer. Now why didn’t we think of that?! 032
Reposted by Peter ThorneRobert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 11hTemperatures in the Central Pacific El Niño region are the hottest ever measured (top panel), and far above any other El Niño at this time of year. But, if you adjust for the warming of the global ocean, the current trajectory is not so different from other very strong events. 47636
Reposted by Peter ThorneMatt King @deformedearth.bsky.social · 20hThe part of the Antarctic Ice Sheet within a region known as Wilkes Subglacial Basin is vulnerable to change. It holds enough ice to - on its own - raise sea levels by 3-4m. And yet it is hard to find a living scientist who has ever been there. Our new review paper talks about: 13014
Reposted by Peter ThorneSimon Noone @simonj1967.bsky.social · 23hIN HER CORNER ❤️ My wife Maggie is recovering after treatment for stage 3B ovarian cancer and is thankfully disease-free. I’m taking on an 8-week boxing camp towards a November charity bout to raise €5,000 for OvaCare. Instagram:@simon.j.noone. Please donate/share: eventmaster.ie/fundraising/...eventmaster.ieIN HER CORNER 032
Reposted by Peter ThorneRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/09/2026Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer xkcd.com/3304/ 141802254
Reposted by Peter ThorneJohn Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Why yes, of course you can build out your gigantic 72,500 m2 energy and resource-sucking data centre, but be sure to “encourage staff to use public transport, cycling & walking”. Beyond parody from the crack squad at An Coimisiún Pleanala. www.irishtimes.com/business/202... 67121
Reposted by Peter ThorneWill Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026CCC: Heathrow expansion could push flights to ‘80% of UK emissions by 2050’buff.lyCCC: Heathrow expansion could push flights to ‘80% of UK emissions by 2050’ - Carbon BriefAviation is on track to be responsible for 80% of the UK’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2050, according to the Climate Change Committee (CCC). 075
Reposted by Peter ThorneZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 28/09/2026Check out the total extent of the ocean warmth from last month... Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1 🌊 29238
Reposted by Peter ThorneClimatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hurricane Polo is making landfall in an area that averages 5" rain per year. Even the mountains inland average under 15" per year. 69331
Reposted by Peter ThorneAndrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 29/09/2026In Texas, the State is removing climate change courses from the core curriculum. They have decided that climate change is just too dangerous to teach the students. This is indoctrination. I wrote an oped about it in the SA Express-News. Gift link: www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...expressnews.comTexas can’t hide from climate change by stopping students from learning about itTexas has removed climate change courses from core curriculum at public universities. Ignoring climate change will not serve the state. 512873
Reposted by Peter ThorneDr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Our failure to do adequate managed retreat from shores vulnerable to sea level rise has closed a National Seashore beach in North Carolina: “A significant amount of private beach stairs and boardwalk decking, septic system parts, and wooden and metal debris from houses are littering the beach.”islandfreepress.org 35513
Reposted by Peter ThorneDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895406928
Reposted by Peter ThorneCorporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 28/09/2026The European Commission’s Cloud and AI Development Act #CADA weakens rather than strengthens environmental protection, according to a new article from @cdteu.org cdt.org/insights/the...cdt.orgThe Environmental Impact of AI - A Poorly Regulated Tipping Point in the EU - Center for Democracy and TechnologyAt an EU-level, the environmental footprint of AI is addressed in a number of recent legislative proposals, including the AI Act. As we show in this blog post, existing legal obligations largely sides... 098
Reposted by Peter ThorneChelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026NEW - Conservative orgs are filing records requests by the dozens at public universities, demanding documents from climate researchers. @lesleyclark.bsky.social @corbinhiar.bsky.social & I have uncovered more than 100 requests, a campaign targets/allies say is an effort to derail climate litigationpolitico.comInside the anti-climate campaign against researchersA POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide. 110165
Reposted by Peter ThorneEmmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 28/09/2026My friend's office is next door, I wasn't sure where she was at the time. Just heard from her and thankfully she is unharmed. What is happening in Kyiv right now is truly horrific. Millions of people are at risk of dying at any time. I'm not quite sure this really comes across, abroad. 018592
Reposted by Peter ThorneTim Osborn @timosbornclim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Seems like this is still in the UK news... 031
Reposted by Peter ThorneWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A great illustration of the way social media has essentially shredded society’s informational immune system: The USSR spent a fortune trying to spread conspiracy theories, without success because they couldn’t crack newsrooms. Today, you can reach the globe with a post that costs $20 to make. 13840229
Reposted by Peter ThorneGiulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Meanwhile, Italy has introduced a fuel price cap, Germany a tax rebate, just to encourage people to burn some more fuel. And Germany still allows drivers to burn fuel to drive at 400km/h, if they feel so inclined. 34112
Reposted by Peter ThorneSteven J. Gibbons @stevenjgibbons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"Propagation of the Storegga tsunami in the southeastern North Sea" is published in Quaternary Research Advances today. Open access paper (doi.org/10.1016/j.qs...) examining the degree to which the tsunami from the 8150 BP Storegga slide would have been able to reach the coasts of Denmark+Germany. 2209
Reposted by Peter ThorneIrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 27/09/2026Call to fact-check columnists after another anti-MetroLink article from Colm McCarthy A new article by economist Colm McCarthy against the planned 19km MetroLink from central Dublin to Swords has prompted a call for newspapers to fact-check their columnists....irishcycle.comCall to fact-check columnists after another anti-MetroLink article from Colm McCarthyA new article by economist Colm McCarthy against the planned 19km MetroLink from central Dublin to Swords has prompted a call for newspapers to fact-check their columnists. Councillor Feljin Jose, the Green Party's spokesperson on transport, made the call after McCarthy wrongly claimed in the Sunday Business Post today that "The only available evaluation of MetroLink’s costs and benefits was released as part of the TII’s preliminary assessment in 2022." 0229
Reposted by Peter ThorneDr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I am a mom and scientist begging everyone to look closer at the muck. We’ve been conditioned to see wetlands as wastelands. But three decades of research, I see a fiercely defiant wilderness. The boreal mire is a dynamic carbon-trapping vault that in some places has outlasted ice ages. 1/ 11462124
Reposted by Peter ThorneAdrian Leyser Sturm @leysersturm.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026An absurdly hot day in Germany, with highs exceeding 31 °C. Some of the record highs for the last third of September were shattered by more than 2 °. #heatwave #weather #autumnheat 0168
Reposted by Peter ThorneCllr Brian Smyth @briansmyth99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I wish the urgency and fight on both sides of the Garvaghy Rd row was the same around the demise of Lough Neagh. Sure, it's only our drinking water. Stormont couldn't care less. 24212
Reposted by Peter ThorneGraham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Here's the NI Parade Commission's 'Determination Document': paradescommissionni.flexigrant.com/downloadfile...paradescommissionni.flexigrant.com 022
Reposted by Peter ThorneMarlo Garnsworthy @icebird.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Good morning! The sea is quite a bit calmer this morning, but ther erosion at Newcomb hollow is wild! More pics later.. #OceanDevotion 5579
Reposted by Peter ThorneBrian Caulfield @briancaulfield.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The gaping hole in Colm McCarthys article in the Business Post today is this "The only available evaluation of MetroLink’s costs and benefits was released as part of the TII’s preliminary assessment in 2022."..... A business case was published last week..... www.businesspost.ie/analysis-opi...businesspost.ieColm McCarthy: There’s a gaping hole in the case for the €16bn MetroLink 23110
Reposted by Peter ThorneAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/09/2026Photos: Heavy rains and flooding in Bangkok force thousands into shelters aje.news/i27o1x 38648
Reposted by Peter ThornePeter Coles 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Who could have predicted this? (Answer: everyone) Drumcree Orange Order march remains stalled after large crowd gathers to stop parade jrnl.ie/7174779jrnl.ieDrumcree Orange Order march remains stalled after large crowd gathers to stop paradeThe march was due to start at 8am and finish by 9.30am, but the orange men have been stalled all morning. 0197
Reposted by Peter ThorneIn Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes. 329184483846
Reposted by Peter ThorneAlan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026in case Irish people don't know the context, Stan Cullis played for and managed Wolverhampton Wanderers. in 1938 he objected to a proposed Nazi salute by 🏴 players before a game vs 🇩🇪 and was dropped from the side. he's a club legend at Wolves, the Stan Cullis Stand was where I sat last weekend 110037
Reposted by Peter ThornePeter Coles 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Is your subscription to the Times really helping you? 0217
Reposted by Peter ThorneMathew Barlow @mathewabarlow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Hourly mid-stratospheric temperatures over Hurricane Polo, from yesterday in the GFS. 1215
Reposted by Peter ThorneMaciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 26/09/2026With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets. 1501943546
Reposted by Peter ThornePublic Enemy#666 @lilithnocturne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We gotta also start referring to them as "mass surveillance centers" and not "data centers." Let's all be real, here. 39734
Reposted by Peter ThornePádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Sometimes I think we're making progress in our attitudes to nature, and then I read an article like this which reminds me that we haven't moved on much at all 😒 www.westmeathindependent.ie/2026/09/25/s...westmeathindependent.ieSilt removal will help river flow – ‘Boxer’ | Westmeath IndependentThe removal of 1,100 tonnes of silt upstream of Lough Derg, between Banagher and Victoria Lock, will be of "enormous benefit" to an improved flow of the River Shannon, local OPW Minister Kevin 'Boxer'... 54413
Reposted by Peter ThorneAmy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit 352122786
Reposted by Peter ThorneJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Gavin Bazunu statement on withdrawing from Ireland squad 9312121
Reposted by Peter Thorne21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Cornell University has serious problem with sexual misconduct on campus Its 2025 survey found 35% of undergraduate women who responded reported experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact at Cornell These are horrific numbers provost.cornell.edu/initiatives/... 188
Reposted by Peter ThorneParis Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.disconnect.blogThe media has the AI threat all wrongGenerative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios. 271738584
Reposted by Peter ThorneSky News @news.sky.com · 26/09/2026Bangkok declared disaster zone after more than 30cm of rain in 48 hoursnews.sky.comBangkok declared disaster zone after more than 30cm of rain in 48 hoursBangkok has been declared a disaster zone after parts of the Thai capital saw more than 30cm (12 inches) of rain in 48 hours, causing flooding across much of the city. 11917
Reposted by Peter ThorneWorld Meteorological Organization @wmo-global.bsky.social · 26/09/2026🌊 WMO welcomes the new United Nations General Assembly Declaration on Sea Level Rise. WMO stands ready to work with countries and partners to strengthen observations, early warning systems and climate information and services, helping communities better prepare. bit.ly/3Vgv7wy 082
Reposted by Peter ThorneJamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller. 20847451179
Reposted by Peter ThorneBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Ireland is facing pressure for not cancelling their match with Israel. They shouldn't have to face this pressure, Israel should be banned, Russia have been banned for 4.5 years. Why aren't Israel banned? 521654277
Reposted by Peter ThorneAarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026”Rivers are dammed, braided, frozen, or drained—with behaviors that hydrologic models struggle to capture” “Human-affected weird rivers dominate the global riverscape.” #Rivers www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgSatellite reveals a world of ‘weird rivers’ shaped by humansSWOT is exposing humans’ effects on rivers—and challenging flood prediction models 0810
Reposted by Peter ThorneMarburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Just had this amazing Beetle run across the road in front of me. A Devil’s Coach-horse Ocypus olens 4826
Reposted by Peter ThorneAdrian Hiel @adrianhiel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Why electrification is inevitable: Heating costs as of Sept. 20th in France for a 100m2 home: Heating oil - €2300 Gas - €2100 Wood pellets - €1000 Heat Pump - €800 Only one of these technologies also let's you sleep during a heatwave. 109134
Reposted by Peter ThorneNature @nature.com · 26/09/2026The UN’s climate loss and damage fund needs to consider how to make decisions about finance fairly and quickly, without disadvantaging low-resource nations, says Uttam Babu Shrestha go.nature.com/4jnZvyXgo.nature.comNepal’s floods expose issues with climate-disaster funding — firmer policies are needed fastThe UN’s climate loss and damage fund needs to consider how to make decisions about finance fairly and quickly, without disadvantaging low-resource nations. 0166
Reposted by Peter ThorneOla Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I guess they meant to say: How windthrow is the biggest threat to Irish tree plantations...rte.ieHow windthrow is the biggest threat to Irish forestsWindthrow can reduce the climate benefit of forestry by removing trees that would have kept growing and disturbing the carbon-rich soils beneath them 071