NEW – Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2024 | Cecilia Keating Robert McSweeney Ayesha Tandon Read here: buff.ly/4gTqKO3

Really interesting new guest post by Dr Ella Gilbert exploring how atmospheric rivers are bringing rain to the frozen slopes of the West Antarctic ice sheet:

It's like stepping back in time.

British Antarctic Survey From the new Private Eye, out now.

Global surface temperature anomalies have fallen a bit in recent weeks, making it very likely that February will not set a new record after a record January. However, its still on track to be the 3rd warmest at 1.56C above preindustrial levels in ERA5.

The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming. 1/11

NOAA owns, operates, or coordinates 18 weather satellites 92 twice-daily weather balloon launch sites 159 weather radar systems 9,000 weather monitoring stations Global & regional weather forecast models NOAA's data and modeling underpins everything weather-related in the USA.

February 2025 was the third warmest February on record after 2024 and 2016, at 1.59C above preindustrial level. This is the first time a month has not been the warmest or second warmest on record since June 2023.

A lot to unpack from the IPCC meeting last week! Not least the continuing stalemate over the AR7 timeline, plus the US no-show, outlines for the working group reports and the CDR report + much more Includes comments from IPCC chair Jim Skea ⬇️

Turning off air pollution monitoring at U.S. embassies around the world doesn't compare to depriving Ukrainian civilians of defences against Russia's missiles in cruelty, but it is an astonishingly pointless act of sabotage. U.S. monitoring in Beijing played a central role in

Winters have been warming rapidly in the contiguous US over the past 50 years. There are now on average 13 fewer days where temperatures get below freezing (0C, 32F), with some places seeing nearly full month that no longer gets below freezing:

📢ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 3.6% in 2024 to lowest since 1872 🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London 🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn 🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power 📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84% carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-em… 1/9

Mine in today’s The New Yorker

Dear BBC News (UK) - none of these answers are correct. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

FACTCHECK: Why Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is wrong about UK's net-zero goal In which I take a look at the evidence contradicting Badenoch's speech, from the science on the 2050 target to fact gas is causing high electricity prices + much much more carbonbrief.org/factcheck-why-…

On today's and yesterday's BBC Radio 4 Today programme, it was erroneously suggested that car companies, like Tesla, receive Government subsidies via the ZEV Mandate This is completely false Not a penny of taxpayer money is given to car manufacturers via the Mandate A short thread

My HORRIFYING cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books

2025 had the second warmest first quarter (Jan-Mar) on record, just a hair behind last year (2024). This is remarkable since 2024 was boosted by a strong El Nino event, while 2025 started off in weak La Nina conditions.

NEW – Explainer: How human-caused aerosols are ‘masking’ global warming | Zeke Hausfather Read here: buff.ly/46ERb71

Chart: The rise, fall and rise of UK nuclear power over eight decades Written by Simon Evans. Data analysis by Ho Woo Nam. Visuals by Tom Prater. Read here ➡️ buff.ly/54FJd7w