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Peter Thorne

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Climate scientist, director ICARUS Climate Research Centre, Maynooth University, Ireland, author IPCC AR6, member Ireland's climate change advisory council, Chair GCOS AOPC. www.peter-thorne.net

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Prof David Farrell, UCD @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social · 20m
Potato beer. Now why didn’t we think of that?!
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 11h
Temperatures 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.
Two panel plot showing daily time series of temperature anomalies in the Central Pacific Nino3.4 region during the last four strongest El Niño events without and with correction for changes in global ocean mean temperature.
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Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social · 20h
The 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:
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Simon Noone @simonj1967.bsky.social · 23h
IN 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/...
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/09/2026
Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer xkcd.com/3304/
4-panel comic. (1) April 2023: [JUICE space probe flying away from Earth] FROM EARTH: *JUICE* is en route to explore the icy moons of Jupiter! JUICE: *Wheee!* (2) August 2024: [JUICE flying past Earth] JUICE: ...So which planet was I visiting again? I got distracted. FROM EARTH: Jupiter! JUICE: Right, OK. (3) September 2026: [JUICE flies past Earth again] JUICE: Is Jupiter the one with all the rings? Or... FROM EARTH: No, the big one near it. JUICE: Got it! (4) January 2029: [JUICE returning to fly past Earth again] JUICE: And *which* moons am I looking at? FROM EARTH: Oh my *god*. FROM EARTH: Now I get why we budgeted for so many Earth flybys.
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why 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...
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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
CCC: Heathrow expansion could push flights to ‘80% of UK emissions by 2050’
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CCC: Heathrow expansion could push flights to ‘80% of UK emissions by 2050’ - Carbon Brief
Aviation 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).
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 28/09/2026
Check out the total extent of the ocean warmth from last month... Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1 🌊
Global map showing sea surface temperature anomalies in August 2026 relative to 1982 to 2010. Most areas are warmer than average. Red is shown for warmer sea surface temperatures, and blue is shown for colder sea surface temperatures. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1.
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hurricane Polo is making landfall in an area that averages 5" rain per year. Even the mountains inland average under 15" per year.
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 29/09/2026
In 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...
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Texas can’t hide from climate change by stopping students from learning about it
Texas has removed climate change courses from core curriculum at public universities. Ignoring climate change will not serve the state.
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our 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.”
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This 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!
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 28/09/2026
The 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...
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The Environmental Impact of AI - A Poorly Regulated Tipping Point in the EU - Center for Democracy and Technology
At 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...
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Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW - 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 litigation
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Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.
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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 28/09/2026
My 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.
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Tim Osborn @timosbornclim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Seems like this is still in the UK news...
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A 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.
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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meanwhile, 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.
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Steven 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.
Screenshot of the first page of the paper "Propagation of the Storegga tsunami in the southeastern North Sea" by Steven J. Gibbons et al., Quaternary Research Advances (2026) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2026.100345 containing images of figures within the paper and the logos of projects that have supported the work performed.
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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 27/09/2026
Call 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....
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Call 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. 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."
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I 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/
A woman scientist - me! - standing over the boreal forest in interior Alaska.
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Adrian Leyser Sturm @leysersturm.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
An 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
Temperature highs in Germany on 27 Sep 26.List of Temperature highs above 30 C in Germany on 27 Sep 26.
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Cllr Brian Smyth @briansmyth99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I 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.
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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here's the NI Parade Commission's 'Determination Document': paradescommissionni.flexigrant.com/downloadfile...
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Marlo Garnsworthy @icebird.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good morning! The sea is quite a bit calmer this morning, but ther erosion at Newcomb hollow is wild! More pics later.. #OceanDevotion
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Brian Caulfield @briancaulfield.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The 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...
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Colm McCarthy: There’s a gaping hole in the case for the €16bn MetroLink
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/09/2026
Photos: Heavy rains and flooding in Bangkok force thousands into shelters aje.news/i27o1x
Pedestrians wade through floodwaters in the Bang Bua district of Bangkok, Thailand. [Wikus De Wet/AFP]People walk past abandoned vehicles on the flooded Phetchaburi Road in Bangkok, Thailand. [Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP]Floodwaters submerge cars next to residential buildings in the Thai capital. [Sarot Meksophawannakul/Thai News Pix via AFP]Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said several roads were still flooded and warned residents to avoid unnecessary travel. [Wikus De Wet/AFP]
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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Who could have predicted this? (Answer: everyone) Drumcree Orange Order march remains stalled after large crowd gathers to stop parade jrnl.ie/7174779
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Drumcree Orange Order march remains stalled after large crowd gathers to stop parade
The march was due to start at 8am and finish by 9.30am, but the orange men have been stalled all morning.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Alan Dunne @aldunne.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
in 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
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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Is your subscription to the Times really helping you?
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Mathew Barlow @mathewabarlow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hourly mid-stratospheric temperatures over Hurricane Polo, from yesterday in the GFS.
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Maciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
With 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.
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Public Enemy#666 @lilithnocturne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We gotta also start referring to them as "mass surveillance centers" and not "data centers." Let's all be real, here.
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sometimes 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...
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Silt removal will help river flow – ‘Boxer’ | Westmeath Independent
The 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'...
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We 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
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gavin Bazunu statement on withdrawing from Ireland squad

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Statement - Gavin Bazunu

Representing my country means everything to me. I have the utmost respect for every single one of my team mates, the Manager, his staff and the Irish people

However I have reached a decision that I have hot taken lightly. I am a man of strong faith and try my best to be a person of character and principle therefore 1 feel it would be wrong to participate in the upcoming fixtures against Israel.

My decision is based purely upon my personal belief that the killing of innocent people is wrong.

It is important to note that my stance is not in opposition of the Israeli people or the Jewish community but against the atrocities in the region.

There are few times where you get a chance ir ife to stand up for something bigger and strongly believe that this is one of them


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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cornell 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/...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An 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.
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The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 26/09/2026
Bangkok declared disaster zone after more than 30cm of rain in 48 hours
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Bangkok declared disaster zone after more than 30cm of rain in 48 hours
Bangkok 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.
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World 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
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 16/09/2026
lady: our data center flexes demand to protect the grid and ratepayers!

guy: how

lady: we use AI to shift load!

guy: how

lady: we run diesel generators when prices spike

guy: thank you
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can’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.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ireland 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?
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The long game.
Tony O'Donoghue speaking to Brendan O'Connor on RTÉ Radio 1: "From other sources I was hearing it could be four or five players that have now decided they don't want to be involved either. And if they stay to their stated ambition that they have to be all in it together, if one or more want to be out, maybe they will all be out."
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Aarne 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...
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Satellite reveals a world of ‘weird rivers’ shaped by humans
SWOT is exposing humans’ effects on rivers—and challenging flood prediction models
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Marburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just had this amazing Beetle run across the road in front of me. A Devil’s Coach-horse Ocypus olens
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Adrian Hiel @adrianhiel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Why 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.
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Nature @nature.com · 26/09/2026
The 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/4jnZvyX
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Nepal’s floods expose issues with climate-disaster funding — firmer policies are needed fast
The UN’s climate loss and damage fund needs to consider how to make decisions about finance fairly and quickly, without disadvantaging low-resource nations.
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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I guess they meant to say: How windthrow is the biggest threat to Irish tree plantations...
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How windthrow is the biggest threat to Irish forests
Windthrow can reduce the climate benefit of forestry by removing trees that would have kept growing and disturbing the carbon-rich soils beneath them
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