🔥Improving air quality increases forest fires🔥 “Cleaning up the air, which is something we all want to do, will accelerate global warming and also impact wildfires unless we also reduce emissions of greenhouse gases like methane and carbon dioxide,” We are not reducing GHGs!

"Because aerosol particles like sulfate and their precursors like sulfur dioxide reflect sunlight and help make clouds brighter, removing them means more of the sun’s heat hits the ground." Great article by Jules Bernstein! news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/…

Jules Bernstein Are Northern Hemisphere boreal forest fires more sensitive to future aerosol mitigation than to greenhouse gas–driven warming? Yes! And aerosol mitigation is already happening! Crucial new 📜 by Robert J. Allen, Bjørn H. Samset, Dr. Laura Wilcox & Rosie Fisher science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

How is the carbon sink doing? Glad you ask, not well. #ClimateCrisis

The high temperature in Phoenix has officially reached at least 100°F for 100 days in a row. Previous record was 76 days.

Here in the UK, the summer has been cooler than we have had recently (coolest since 2015). Rainfall and sunshine have been close to average. August was very wet in West Scotland. Here is a #dataviz of the weather/climate summary for the past year. #globalwarming #climatechange

The introduction of "the cast" honors Peter Cox, who's still fighting the good fight of modeling aerosol cooling and the risks of the land carbon sink turning into a land carbon source:

Peter Cox Case in point: x.com/coxypm/status/…

Vice President Harris: It is outrageous that every day in our country, parents have to send their children to school worried about whether or not their child will come home alive. It's senseless. We have to end this epidemic of gun violence in our country once and for all. It

The exceptional dryness in Brazil continues. They had their driest August in 50 years. This map shows the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) for the last 12 months. Brazil, by a very wide margin, is the driest region in the world during this period when using SPI.

I'll be on next week's episode of The Life Scientific with Jim Al-Khalili on BBC Radio 4 . It was a great honour to be asked and a pleasure to be involved. I hope you enjoy the programme! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

23 September: Join us for this exciting talk on the environmental role of mathematics by Dr Siddharth Unnithan Kumar RENEW. Open to all University of Exeter staff, students & RENEW partners. bit.ly/4e9rexE University of Exeter, Cornwall University of Exeter CEC Kevin J. Gaston UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Research at Exeter

We are hiring a PostDoc! Come work in Bergen Geofysisk institutt Universitetet i Bergen Bjerknessenteret in two exciting Horizon Europe projects: TipESM and OceanICU Project Reach out for more information or check out: shorturl.at/Q9Y9u

Climate-crisis induced drought in Amazonia has been a concern among climate researchers for a long time now. See pioneering modeling from 2008. Less aerosols aggravate precipitation decline. We are headed there. Also MANY other studies published since then.. Peter Cox Leon Simons (is fine)

Link to the Nature study: nature.com/articles/natur…

Just some of the 1,150 scientists calling for UK Gov to pass the 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 & 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹 to drive the science-led action needed to protect us from environmental collapse. Hard to see why any MP wouldn't support it. zerohour.uk/climate-and-na… #CANBill Zero Hour

How can we detect communities in complex networks? The standard view is based on geometric proximity, which is blind to deeper links playing similar roles . Check this paper on a new, very general topological picture by Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CSIC) Luis Seoane Luíño 🏉🤖🏳️‍🌈 arxiv.org/pdf/2409.02317

Another big step from our new Labour government this week - with nearly 10GW of new green energy contracted under the CFD scheme - enough to power 11 million homes. That’s as much power as three large nuclear power stations btw - and this is super relevant; green energy is being

Excited to share our latest paper led by ⁦Xu Lian⁩ discussing the key role of windthrow and water deficit on the Amazon seasonality - Water deficit and storm disturbances co-regulate Amazon rainforest seasonality | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Reminder of an excellent 2008 paper from Phil Harris UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, exploring how ocean warming in the North Atlantic reduces rainfall in Amazonia. Potentially relevant to the current fires in Amazonia.... royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…