Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Dynamic Electricity Tariffs are arriving in Ireland (equivalent of Octopus Agile). So I wrote an explainer. Lower bills and lower carbon emissions. A win-win. 030
Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 29/01/2026I also spoke to RTE News at One yesterday on what an Early Warning Flood System for Ireland would look like. This morning, they've also turned that into a Brainstorm article! 061
Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Wrote a thing for RTE Brainstorm! When Does Spring Begin? February or March? In the article I touch on how Ireland's unique geography and climate result in a battle of light versus warmth in shaping our perceptions and definitions of the beginning of Spring. 051
Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Who killed the hobbit? 💀🐘🦴⛰️🌧️☀️🪨⛏️ Our new paper out today in Communications Earth and Environment reveals the role of a major drought in the disappearance of the diminutive hominin Homo floresiensis. theconversation.com/the-hobbits-...theconversation.com 1118
Reposted by Nick ScroxtonCarbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 15/05/2025NEW – Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU 23650242
Reposted by Nick ScroxtonS4 2025 @s42025.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Less than a month left for you to apply Deadline : May 14, 2025 www.speleothemschool.com/apply 012
Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 22/04/2025China powers up first Thorium Molten Salt Reactor. Big, exciting step for clean energy with far lower weapons, waste and meltdown potential. futurism.com/china-thoriu...futurism.comChina Fires Up World's First Thorium-Powered Nuclear ReactorResearchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed the successful refueling of an operational Thorium-powered nuclear reactor. 010
Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Big deal going under the news radar: IMO introduces regulation of shipping emissions. International shipping accounts for 3% of emissions yet is not attributable to individual nations and therefore is not part of most legally binding targets. This is a mini-Paris moment. eutoday.net/landmark-dea...eutoday.net"Landmark" deal agreed on global shipping - https://eutoday.netApostolos Tzitzikostas, Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism, noted, “This landmark deal highlights the strong commitment of the international 030
Reposted by Nick ScroxtonMelanie Leng @meljleng.bsky.social · 13/04/2025This issue of Quaternary Science Reviews comprises reviews on stable isotopes in different types of records. This is an update of the 2004 issue on “Isotopes in Quaternary Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction (ISOPAL)”, volume 23, issue 7–8, pages 739–992. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comIsotopes in Palaeoenvironmental Research – A 20 year updateThis special issue of Quaternary Science Reviews comprises a series of review papers which discuss the application of stable isotopes to different typ… 04522
Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Electrification better than insulation? Some interesting thoughts (and studies!) here. cleantechnica.com/2025/03/27/t...cleantechnica.comThe "Fabric First" Trap: Decades Of Studies Show Electrification Wins Every Time - CleanTechnicaOver-insulating buildings through “fabric first” wastes money and delays decarbonization; electrification with moderate insulation gets much bigger results. 021
Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 18/03/2025U-Series sampling day. Taking those lovely polished stalagmites from last week and drilling out top and bottom powder samples so that we can date them and understand their growth history. 100mg should do the trick. 030
Reposted by Nick ScroxtonPLOS Climate @plosclimate.org · 10/03/2025New research by @tylerbarrett.bsky.social, @rakramer.bsky.social and colleagues finds that climate change is a significant challenge for farmers in northeast Madagascar, yet adaptation is limited by existing socioeconomic inequalities journals.plos.org/climate/arti...journals.plos.orgClimate Change Perceptions and Adaptive Behavior Among Smallholder Farmers in Northeast MadagascarClimate change is impacting the food security and health of people worldwide, and the risk for smallholder farmers is particularly high. While many studies have forecast changes to food production at ... 032
Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Stalagmite Polishing Day! Getting these beauties nice and smooth so that we can identify the layering and choose the best locations for u-series sampling next week. 160
Reposted by Nick ScroxtonKevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 26/02/2025'Here we show that the AMOC is resilient to extreme greenhouse gas and North Atlantic freshwater forcings across 34 climate models.' www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comContinued Atlantic overturning circulation even under climate extremes - NatureClimate models suggest that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is unlikely to collapse this century, owing to stabilization from wind-driven upwelling in the Southern Ocean. 14711
Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Amazing new record. Ireland tops 100% renewable generation for the first time ever. Thanks interconnectors. Thanterconnectors. 200
Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 20/02/2025The most impressive part of the improvement in weather forecasting was in 1991 when scientists managed to invent a time machine to go back and improve the five day forecast. Either that or someone forgot to sort the columns by date before plotting. 010
Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Can we use speleothem growth phases to trace the growth and decay of past ice-sheets? Our compilation of 1020 U-series dates from the UK and Ireland says Yes! Read all about it in our 📣New Paper📣 led by Sina Panitz, feat @speleoseb.bsky.social, myself and others, out now in Climate of the Past. 282
Reposted by Nick ScroxtonThomas Bauska @tinyicybubbles.bsky.social · 09/01/2025🎉🎉🎉 Woo hoo! 🎉🎉🎉 Amazing feat by the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice team! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Smashing the 800,000 year record for a continuous ice core by a country mile back to 1.2 million years ago. 16716
Reposted by Nick ScroxtonKevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Analysis of speleothems across Asia suggest no coherent 4.2kya event agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.comRegime Shifts in Holocene Paleohydrology as Recorded by Asian SpeleothemsA pronounced isotopic enrichment trend is observed from 3.9 to 3.6 ka in a network of Asian speleothem records This trend is observed in records influenced by both the Indian Summer Monsoon and t... 1164
Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Kicking off the new year with a 📣New Paper📣 in Paleoceanography and Palecolimatology, led by Alexander James at USC, with Jun Hu, Julien-Emile Geay and others. In it we explore whether we can find regime changes in the Holocene Asian Summer Monsoons. We can for 8.2, but 4.2 falls short. 2176
Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Absolutely delighted for Ros! Prof. Rickaby was my MESci thesis supervisor, and I could not have wished for a better start of my research career with Ros as a supervisor and with all those in the group she led. (Even if I did jump ship (haha) to terrestrial paleoclimate) 030
Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 31/12/2024A very useful dataset that will underpin paleotempestology work for a long while. 010
Reposted by Nick ScroxtonGreen Collective @greencollective.io · 24/12/2024Santa won't be leaving coals for anyone this year... It's a week now since Moneypoint was in operation. With the end of the year targetted for shutdown, we suspect the era of coal generation in Ireland quietly ended last week, just a few months after the UK's last coal plant shuttered. 🏭🤞 3426
Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 19/12/2024📢New Paper📢 In our opinion piece "The Hunt for Holocene Abrupt Climate Change" in #PLOSClimate, Nick McKay and myself ask why are ACCs found easily in individual studies but not in compilations? doi.org/10.1371/jour... 2126
Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Shiny new ocean drilling ship will keep lots of paleoclimatologists knee deep in forams for decades to come. Hooray. But it marks another step along the road of the US abdication of science, as the scientific baton transfers from the Joides Resolution to Meng Xiang. www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgChina’s ‘dreamy’ new ship aims for Earth’s mantle—and assumes ocean-drilling leadershipAs U.S.-led program falters, Meng Xiang prepares for bold mission to drill 7 kilometers below the sea floor 0104
Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Latest sunset in Ireland was today. What are you going to do with all that extra light tomorrow evening? 142
Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Work Update Announcement! After three years at Maynooth University, I'm excited to be starting a new Research Scientist position at University College Dublin working on climate seasonality in Ireland during the late Neolithic, a collaborative project between Earth Sciences and Archaeology. 🌧️🪨🔬🧪👨🔬 2110
Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Science of water in Ireland and management of water in Ireland. In one room! Collaborative vibes at An Fóram Uisce's (Irish Water Forum) conference today. 110
Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Ok, definitely on the Bluesky learning curve here! Lists are a thing as well as starter packs, and have the added bonus that you can make them feeds. So for all your stalagmite paleoclimate needs in one place I've made StalPals! As previously, message me for additions. bsky.app/profile/did:... 120
Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 14/11/2024I've only been on here a day, but I made a starter pack for stalagmite paleoclimatologists. Let me know about others I might have missed, or new arrivals. go.bsky.app/N2DP3qj 010
Reposted by Nick ScroxtonNoam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · 13/11/2024Now that I've finally made the move, I'm reposting one of my favourite things I made during my PhD: 1 year of output from a regional simulation of the SW Indian Ocean (colours show SST). We often use neat schematic diagrams to represent ocean currents but in reality, it's a rather turbulent mess! 1518142
Reposted by Nick ScroxtonSophie Warken @swinnyy.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Excited to share our new paper!!!! 🎉🎉🎉Our publication out today in CEE uses a 20ka long speleothem record from Romania to study the link between 🌧️ variability in CE Europe and atmospheric dynamics. Interested??? Read more here ➡️➡️➡️➡️ 🌬️https://rdcu.be/dZVtJrdcu.beDynamic processes determine precipitation variability in Eastern Central European since the Last Glacial MaximumCommunications Earth & Environment - Dynamic atmospheric processes like the North Atlantic jet stream determine the variability of precipitation in Eastern Central Europe, according to analysis... 074
Nick Scroxton @stalagnick.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Another recent new arrival. Let me get my bearings. In the meantime I have a pretty stalagmite picture for you. 161