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Behind every weather forecast lie millions of observations gathered from satellites, aircraft, ships, buoys and other instruments. ECMWF monitors these instruments throughout their lifecycle, from their rollout and evaluation through to their retirement. Read more ➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

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Andrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 18h

As it is the week of the Nobel prizes and also the week of the Budget here, I thought it worth flagging the pretty pathetic record of the Irish state in supporting academic research (in case you can't see, Ireland is at the bottom between Chile and Cost Rica).

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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 19h

This story by @tbartelme.bsky.social is a fantastic exploration of the intricate web of consequences that our changing oceans inflict on distant lands -- but the real hero is the local news team based in Charleston, SC that made this story happen.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 05/10/2026

this is my favorite example ever of an interactive clearly, creatively illustrated concept

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ireland's chronic over-dependence on HGVs for freight leaves us at mercy of every fuel crisis & cutting diesel prices is only a short-term salve. We need to shift to rail freight & electrify our HGV fleet, as I explain in @irishexaminer.bsky.social today. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

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Subsidies for diesel are lost money when electric trucks are the future

Pumping taxpayers' money into diesel-guzzling trucks is fair to nobody when we should be subsidising companies to transition to electric vehicles

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think they probably would have preferred a spare?

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Another very hot October day, especially across coastal central & southern California (where widespread 100s have occurred, again, even near immediate coast) but now also extending farther north into NV, ID, WY, and eastern OR. Anomalous heat continues across the West this week.

Map from coolwx.com showing locations across CONUS with record-breaking temperatures, or near-record breaking temperatures, at present. There are many such locations across the West, extending from coastal southern California to the Northern Rockies

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Maxime Combes @maximecombes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Des glaciers ont littéralement disparu pendant l'été. Ici un glacier emblématique du Parc national des Ecrins et du massif de la Meije, à plus de 3600 mètres d'altitude, le galcier carré. #Canicule #Eté2026 Photo via le Parc national des Ecrins F. de Montety & @MeteoGrenoble38

3 photos du glacier carré dans le massif de la Meije, dans le Parc national des Ecrins.

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solhog @solhog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Enormt skyfall har skapat dödsfall och oreda på Kreta och fortsätter tydligen att flöda. Videon visar från igår: youtu.be/nHmbIv9KPQY

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Chaos in Greece today..!! Crete devastated by severe flooding; cars swept away

YouTube video by Nau Weather News

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Manuel María Lojo Muñoz @manuelmlm3.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"No forma parte del modelo conceptual típico de medicane del Mediterráneo: esto es algo diferente, un proceso de formación de ciclón tropical como los que ocurren en el trópico. " Madre mía. @amturiel.bsky.social @aaretx.eurosky.social @saraaagesen.bsky.social

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s time to stop subsidising fossil fuels. Promoting continued fossil fuel reliance is reinforcing energy injustice and worsening climate injustice - this is the opposite of what is urgently needed.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 03/10/2026

I often see people claim that because clean energy sources like solar, wind, or nuclear are manufactured using fossil fuels their emissions are high. But thats absolutely not the case: even accounting for full lifecycle emissions they are vastly better than burning coal or gas:

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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ireland imports 80% of its wheat. Not great food security. Concentration on livestock farming elbowed Irish wheat out. Imported wheat and flour add considerably to the cost of living crisis. But new crop science opens the door to Irish grown wheat. Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/listen/clip/...

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Food Security: Bread

Only the tiniest fraction of the flour needed to bake the 50kg of bread we eat a year is grown and milled in Ireland, and the cost of what we import is sky rocketing. We take a look at what needs to b...

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Major flash flooding in Spain yesterday. In Madrigueras (Albacete), 142 mm fell in just 2.5 hours, killing one woman, while many others had to be rescued. These "DANA" events are not uncommon, but record warm Mediterranean water now provides further 'fuel' to them. www.eltiempo.es/noticias/mad...

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Madrigueras bajo el agua tras caer 142 l/m2

La localidad albaceteña sufrió el viernes una de las riadas más importantes que se recuerdan desde mediados del siglo pasado.

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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

2026 has likely finished with 85 days exceeding 25C at #London Heathrow Airport this is a staggering 25 days above next highest year, 2018. We've never known anything like it.

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If it’s not titled ‘deadly’ I’ll be extremely disappointed

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VAW Glaciology @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Switzerland's glacier report 2026 is out. Swiss glaciers have lost 5% of their ice volume this year. Only the last 5 years accounted for nearly 20% of the total ice loss across Switzerland. The numbers are devastating. Full report → doi.glamos.ch/pubs/annualr...

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 01/10/2026

My column in The Irish Times today is about heating oil, and how policy can deal with the awful pain facing households depending on it to heat their homes this winter. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

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Cutting fuel taxation in the budget does nothing to cure the disease

Households need help to break free from home heating oil for good

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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 03/10/2026

🔴 Russia has struck the Northern Bridge here in Kyiv. There is damage on the road and on the trolley bus electric lines. Traffic from the Left to the Right Bank is halted across the bridge It has been three days that Moscow focused on creating chaos in the capital by targeting bridges..

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thread worth reading for researchers who do a lot of public outreach. It's sadly always worth considering which journalists you speak with because of how outlets sometimes skew science coverage. This doesn't help

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh retractionwatch.com/2026/10/02/p...

David Ho, a climate scientist at the University of Hawaii, responded to our request for comment on the paper by saying he was not interested in reading it. “I’m sorry, but I’d rather keep my brain cells,” he said.

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

France’s ongoing drought has once again pushed soil moisture further below historical levels than any previously recorded drought. Uncharted territory.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 02/10/2026

Here's another perspective on how quickly the melt season has started for #Antarctic sea ice this year... More views at zacklabe.com/antarctic-se...

Line graph time series of 2026's daily Antarctic sea ice extent compared to 1981-2010 climatological statistics. The graph shows the seasonal cycle, and ice-free conditions are indicated at 1 million square kilometers. Sea ice is currently below average for early October.

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 02/10/2026

A paper that called into question many central data linking carbon dioxide to the rapidly warming climate has been retracted for “significant concerns,” including “unsupported conclusions” and “inaccuracies” in the interpretation of the data.

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‘Hot mess’ paper questioning CO2 and climate change gets retracted

The paper refers to air temperature data as “obtained by NASA from satellites” and claims the main areas of warming depicted in this figure do “not fit in with the main industrial…

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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We're never going to reach forestry targets if we only see forests as an economic, rather than an ecological, project www.agriland.ie/farming-news...

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DAFM needs 'at least 50 years' to reach forestry targets

'To achieve this level of forest cover by (say) 2050, additional planting of 16,000 hectares a year would have to be achieved'

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When climate scientists say things are going to be horrendous, people find out many years later that we’re right. With this El Niño, the “find out” part will come in months.

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Becca Thorne @beccathorne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New work: The Folded Earth, oil and peat (collected on a walk) on linen, 60 x 80cm

Heavily textured painting through multiple layers of paint and peat. Oranges, browns, black, greys and olive greens used to build a bogland landscape in the foreground: layers of cut-away turf exposed, and the beginnings of rewilding. Heavily outlined shapes of contours, rocks, trees and vegetation, with patches of white bogcotton. An expressive pale olive sky, with burnt umber and white clouds.

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Climate Change Advisory Council Ireland @ccacireland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Council has updated its Factsheet on ETS2. There is a significant risk of Ireland losing its derogation from important elements of the ETS Directive in the event that there are material changes to the Governments plans for increases to the national carbon tax. To read more: tinyurl.com/mu7kjv2f

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 02/10/2026

Another "need to extend the y-axis" moment... Average temperature in Central England for Jan-Sep for each year since 1772. It is 0.8°C higher in 2026 than any other previous year.

Timeseries of average Jan-Sep temperature for Central England with huge jump up in 2026

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Stop being at the whim of fascists: Electrify everything yesterday.

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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 02/10/2026

Europe didnt just experience an exceptionally hot summer in 2026. It experienced a summer where multiple climate extremes reinforced each other. First - temperature records were broken at daily, monthly and seasonal scales across Europe Read more: climate.copernicus.eu/summer-revie...

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IPCC @ipcc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

📣 Registration is now open for experts to review the First Order Draft of the Working Group II contribution to IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Interested experts can register until 20 Nov 2026: bit.ly/4y1LI58

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And again, gender theory, queer theory, critical race theory - all university level subjects - you are not going to encounter them at primary or secondary levels. What these muppets want is to shut down any age appropriate discussion of sex, sexuality & identity in 1st & 2nd schools.

Cornell shows us we cannot keep telling our girls to be careful while teaching boys to be entitle

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

counterpoint: break the rules then ask for an exemption later. Exhibit A: fuel excise duty cuts 2026

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arXiv @arxiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

arXiv has updated our policy on rate limiting for all submitters. This update was made to fairly distribute moderator time & support the arXiv community of staff, volunteers, readers & authors. Please read our announcement to learn more: blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/updated-r…

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Scott K. Johnson @sjon.earth · 02/10/2026

It's not a Gish Gallop, that implies an inappropriate level of control. A Gush Wallop? A Flush Flollop?

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not only are the flat earthers wrong, they are getting wronger by the day.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

arXiv limits people to 2 submissions a month, to hold back the tide of AI papers. Feels entirely sensible - today I happened to notice one person had submitted 3 papers, all AI-assisted, in September. Totally out of step with academic norms and simply not sustainable blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/u...

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Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy

arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…

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Cllr Barry McKee @barryndgreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thankful to have had the opportunity to sign this open letter.

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