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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#FOTW Daily Post 5 Favourite denier myth - volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans Ask me or any other volcanologist — false Volcanoes: ~300 million tonnes CO2/year. Humans: 130 times more Please pass on the truth. Share and tag 2 others #FateOfTheWorld #TogetherUnstoppable

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot

A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You're gonna need a bigger chart

Chart showing the daily sea surface temperature for the Nino region of the Pacific, with a red line for 2026 shooting off above every other year in record-setting territory, with the latest spot right at the top of the chart

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 02/10/2026

Breaking News! y-Axis Alert! With yesterday's preliminary Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature spiking to a new record at 29.975°C, the y-axis was raised to 30.5°C. Meanwhile, the Niño 3.4 anomaly now sits at 3.33°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. Until tomorrow ...

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Second of two events I'll be doing in the U.K. during the week of Oct 12 | I will be in conversation at the #OxfordUnion in Oxford, 5pm Thurs Oct 15: issuu.com/oxfordunion/...

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh, this is going to further complicate interpretations of the Great Unconformity stuff....

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Swiss glaciers suffer 'disastrous' year of ice loss, threatening water supplies "…in its simplest form, what we see right now is that we took an ice cube out of the fridge and it's just melting in front of our eyes." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wow! Can we clone this man? Asking for every American City! 😍

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For those of us who love boron for what it can tell us about past ocean pH and atmospheric CO₂, this is a fun reminder of just how versatile this remarkable element really is. Paging @thefosterlab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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There’s a new form of boron — and it’s really weird

A boron phase prepared under pressure is a million times more conductive than chemists expected, and can be stretched.

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🔈 On October 13th I’m giving the Public Lecture at the Geological Society in London. ☢️ I’ll be talking about my current favourite topic: the geological storage of nuclear waste. The talk will be online too, so please join if you can! ➡️ @geolsoc.bsky.social www.geolsoc.org.uk/events/the-g...

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The geological disposal of nuclear waste and its role in the Energy Transition - Public Lecture | The Geological Society of London

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 25/09/2026

How hot & dry was your UK summer? Excellent interactive tool to explore how hot this summer was: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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UK summer 2026: BBC postcode lookup shows how hot and dry it was

Most of us experienced drought and heatwaves - but temperatures and rainfall were not the same everywhere.

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Current [El Nino] forecasts suggest that the 2026 event could push global mean surface temperatures in 2027 to almost 1.8°C above pre-industrial levels" 😱 Good rundown of El Nino impacts via @zekehausfather.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Love going to Sunnyfields - pumpkin soup for weeks!

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Have you ever tried to read a scientific journal article and been told “you don’t have access, pay to download this article?” Did you know that the author of that article gets $0 if you pay? Instead, you can email the author and ask for a free copy! I’d be delighted to help and answer questions!

Screenshot of a scientific journal paywall

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 22/09/2026

I have a new piece out in Nature today on the record-breaking 2026/2027 El Niño, what impacts we should expect, and how governments can prepare. The Niño3.4 region is currently running more than 1C hotter than any prior event on record, and we remain months away from the peak www.nature.com/artic...

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak The planet is entering uncharted territory. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 19/09/2026

I gave a talk yesterday at a clean tech in incubator, and this was literally my thesis.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This image went viral a few months ago. Data centres are energy hungry and can cause substantial grid constraints and in worst case new fossil generation. But there is a silver lining: we can use some of the waste heat for district heating. More here: janrosenow.substack.com/p/district-h...

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 18/09/2026

Some folks are holding up the unusually quiet Atlantic hurricane season as some sort of "gotcha" for climate scientists. But low Atlantic hurricane activity has long been the signature of strong El Nino events, as memorably shown back in 1997:

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Interesting stuff. Not thought about that before. Given the requirement of runoff for silicate weathering this may weaken the silicate weathering feedback and promote a runaway greenhouse on the long term

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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Of course they are... 🙄

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We don’t have to choose which existential risk deserves our attention. Climate change is real and urgent. AI risks are real and potentially profound. We should be able to hold both ideas at once and tackle both. www.independent.co.uk/life-style/c...

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We should be more scared of climate change destroying humanity than AI

With everyone warning of an AI extinction event within a decade, we seem to have forgotten about the climate crisis already here – and its knock-on effects, from financial crises and conflict to new d...

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David A. McKay @davidamckay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

1.5 degrees is coming – does that mean we’ll soon cross a *physical* limit? New post from me, on a perspective piece @smconstantino.bsky.social & I had out recently in Environmental Research Letters, arguing what it says on the tin: that 'Tipping points do not make 1.5 °C a physical climate limit'

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Welcome to the limit

1.5 degrees is coming – does that mean we’ll soon cross a physical climate limit?

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Not to be pedantic but Christopher Harborne has already given £25 million to Reform and Ben Delo £8 million. So the figure isn’t £72 million - it’s £105 million.

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I hope we are not too late. Come on, Labour. Get your finger out!

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Bridget Wade @bridgetwade.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

More on flipping plankton: Why Do These Fossil Shells Flip Their Spirals Every Few Millennia? www.quantamagazine.org/why-do-these...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

How is this bully able to just act like this with free rein?

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Syd Barhey Esq. FCA. #FBPE @barheys.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Call to action ? Change the bloomin law and make sure no one can buy influence in this way. The Representation of the People Bill is making its way through Parliament right now - amend it and fix this. Thats all the action thats needed. #UKLabour

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Truly disgusting social media post from one of Brexit's most influential backers.

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Going through Heathrow today, there wasn't one
white face in security or airport services. The
Home office is staffed by the type of people we
are trying to keep out! What hope?

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Spiralling global temperatures, visualisation by Ed Hawkins. #Visualisation #GlobalWarming #Climate

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EAG @eageo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New in #GPLetters by Custado et al: "Triple oxygen isotopes improve our ability to reconstruct lake evaporation". Dive in here: buff.ly/HXv6anK #OpenAccess

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you happen to live within travelling distance of #Portsmouth

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.

Facebook post showing the photo of three white women on a train with a group of black-clad, masked men being shared to a group called ‘South east patriots’

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

From ancient greenhouse worlds to ice ages, Earth’s past offers vital clues to its future. Explore the 40th anniversary special collection from Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. eos.org/editors-vox/...

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Forty Years of Looking to Earth's Past to Understand Its Future - Eos

From ancient greenhouse worlds to ice ages, Earth's past offers vital clues to its future. Explore the 40th anniversary special collection from Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology.

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I am an author on this study and this is our first publication detailing such findings in Southampton. As with all research though we obviously presented this work various times in the last couple of years so maybe you heard of it before it was written up?

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Tom Arney @tomarney.com · 04/09/2026

New paper out now in EPSL! Pb isotopes and Rb–Sr geochronology via laser ablation of feldspar grains from West Antarctica. This developing method with some added ML clustering spice exposes crustal fragments, tectonic boundaries and metamorphic events hidden under the ice.

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West Antarctic subglacial geology distinguished by Pb isotopes and Rb–Sr ages in ice-rafted feldspars

Multi-proxy fingerprints via Rb–Sr isochrons from detrital Pb-isotope populations reveal Antarctic geology and set the stage for future studies of ice sheet history.

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