As part of our 10th anniversary celebrations, we recognised four outstanding members of the Priestley community Congratulations to Alex Romero Prieto, Elliott Johnson, Prof Alex Beresford & Dr Ruth Bookbinder for their impactful climate research and collaboration. climate.leeds.ac.uk/news/priestl...

Priestley Centre marks 10 years with prizes celebrating collaboration and impact - Priestley Centre for Climate Futures

On 30 June, the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures marked its 10th anniversary by celebrating outstanding contributions to climate research and impact, awarding two prestigious prizes that reflect t...

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We have a new preprint this week. When CO2 emissions stop, warming in the pipeline is controlled by two big opposing effects - thermal response to energetic imbalance *and* carbon sink evolution. We assess their roles in the flat10MIP ensemble /thread/ egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

Decomposition of the Zero Emissions Commitment into thermal warming pipeline and carbon buffering components

Abstract. The Zero Emissions Commitment (ZEC), the residual warming after anthropogenic CO2 emissions cease, remains poorly constrained and directly affects remaining carbon budget calculations. We fi...

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Just arriving in Vienna for #EGU! If you’d like to chat about RCMIP, come by my poster on Thursday at 14:00 (session NP1.2 in Hall X4). Or just stop by to say hi!

Yesterday, Piers Forster presented Defining National Fossil Fuel Phase Out Roadmaps: A Colombian Case Study at a side event at TAFF in Santa Marta. Key to the roadmap was the work of Priestley researchers Elliott Johnson and Alejandro Romero Prieto. Here's Alejandro's thoughts on the conference.

It's day 5 of the Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels Conference in Colombia. Today at 10–11, Colombia Time, Priestley will host a side event on the Fossil Fuel Phase Out Roadmap followed by a discussion. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-roadmap-...

A Roadmap for fossil fuel phase-out in Colombia

This side event will present a fossil fuel phase-out roadmap for Colombia, followed by a discussion on how to make it deliverable

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At the Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels Conference, Prof Piers Forster launched a draft national roadmap for fossil fuel phase-out: a Colombia-based, collaborative and science-led case study, demonstrating how roadmaps can support a just transition www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txuu...

Defining National Fossil Fuel Phase Out Roadmaps: A Colombian Case Study

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Grateful to be part of this collaboration and to help shape Colombia’s fossil fuel phase-out roadmap with such a strong group of colleagues. #ClimateAction #FossilFuelPhaseOut #EnergyTransition #SantaMarta #TransitioningAwayFromFossilFuels

Priestley Centre for Climate Futures@priestleycentre.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We're excited to announce that Priestley Centre Director, Piers Forster, is speaking at the Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels Conference in Colombia. 18:00 Colombia time today, he’ll present the draft national roadmap for fossil fuel phase-out in Colombia. #TAFF #ClimateScience #EnergyTransition

We're excited to announce that Priestley Centre Director, Piers Forster, is speaking at the Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels Conference in Colombia. 18:00 Colombia time today, he’ll present the draft national roadmap for fossil fuel phase-out in Colombia. #TAFF #ClimateScience #EnergyTransition

Had the opportunity to talk a bit about my PhD journey to PLOS Climate! Check the blog entry below 😁

PLOS Climate@plosclimate.org · 4mo ago

New on the Latitude blog: our next interview with a PhD student in climate research, @yasserhaddad.bsky.social of @usyseth.bsky.social! latitude.plos.org/2026/04/plos...

Friendly reminder: only a few days remain to submit your model output for the next RCMIP round. If you’d like to participate but the deadline is… rapidly approaching, do get in touch. We can likely be flexible and accommodate slightly later submissions.

Alex Romero Prieto@arp-climate.bsky.social · 9mo ago

✨ New preprint out! ✨ Really happy to share that our manuscript “Reduced Complexity Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3: Experimental protocol for coordinated constraining and evaluation of Reduced-Complexity Models” is now available as a preprint on EGUsphere 🔗 Preprint: doi.org/10.5194/egus...

Wild figures in two decades of EIA retrospective data. Solar getting it wrong gets all the airplay. But the consistent underestimation of natural gas exports and the speed of coal's collapse are just as striking, even at 3-5 year horizons.

National carbon budgets are smaller than commonly assumed because scientists and countries count CO₂ differently. Our new study in Nature Communications corrects for this and finds that the 1.5 °C budget shrinks by ~50%, the 2 °C budget by ~20%. Paper + data: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thread 👇

Tracking country-level mitigation progress using NGHGI-consistent carbon budgets - Nature Communications

This study shows that aligning remaining carbon budgets with national greenhouse gas inventory accounting reduces the global 1.5 ∘C (50%) budget by  ~100 GtCO2, with possible depletion around 202...

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Public discussion on the RCMIP3 protocol paper has now been opened! Do send us your thoughts if you have any ideas on how we could make the intercomparison better!

Alex Romero Prieto@arp-climate.bsky.social · 9mo ago

✨ New preprint out! ✨ Really happy to share that our manuscript “Reduced Complexity Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3: Experimental protocol for coordinated constraining and evaluation of Reduced-Complexity Models” is now available as a preprint on EGUsphere 🔗 Preprint: doi.org/10.5194/egus...

New paper in ERL in which we study the effect of a long-known issue in climate emulators: that we typically calibrate them on only 150 years of 4xCO2 ESM runs. This a problem as we know the climate isn't in equilibrium after this time, but running ESMs is 1/N iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Excited to convene the upcoming EGU webinar on "Mental Health in Academia: Obstacles, Advocacy and Inclusion" on 9 February at 16:00 CET. Open to all. 👉 Register here: www.egu.eu/webinars/694... @egu.eu @egubg.bsky.social @anabastos.bsky.social @elsa-abs.bsky.social

Preprint out today in ESDD. SRM's biggest risk is us. 'Peak-shaving' is a best-case scenario, with strong governance and international cooperation. We propose a framework for messier geoengineering futures, which look more like, you know, the news. /1 egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

Robust assessment of Solar Radiation Modification risks and uncertainties must include shocks and societal feedbacks

Abstract. Conventional climate scenarios omit fast-timescale human-system dynamics like policy rollback or economic shocks. The climate system's slow response to GHG emissions allows these `fast' ter...

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🎉 My first publication is out in Geoscientific Model Development! 📝 “Review of climate simulation by Simple Climate Models” ⭐ Selected as a GMD Highlight Article Link: doi.org/10.5194/gmd-...

Review of climate simulation by Simple Climate Models

Abstract. Simple Climate Models (SCMs) are a key tool in climate research, enabling the rapid exploration of climate responses beyond the reach of more complex models and aiding in the estimation of f...

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🌍 Working on climate model emulation or impact projections? ➡️ Abstracts are still open for our EGU 2026 session “Advances in climate change emulation for impact projections” (#CL3.2.7) SCMs, ML, emulator evaluations, impacts & more welcome. 🔗 Session info + link: www.egu26.eu/session/56612 #EGU26

Excited to share that I’ll be co-convening a session at EGU 2026 — and we’re now open for abstracts! 🌍✨

✨ New preprint out! ✨ Really happy to share that our manuscript “Reduced Complexity Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3: Experimental protocol for coordinated constraining and evaluation of Reduced-Complexity Models” is now available as a preprint on EGUsphere 🔗 Preprint: doi.org/10.5194/egus...

Newly published: an overview of FRIDAv2.1, a new IAM to model the coupled human-Earth system (including climate impacts!) gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...

OUT NOW: Global Tipping Points Report 2025 global-tipping-points.org Our chapter on the "Implications of overshooting 1.5°C for Earth system tipping points" is based on an associated paper: doi.org/10.31223/X52... Minimizing climate overshoot is essential to prevent climate tipping points.

Only a few days left to send us your feedback about our plans to run the upcoming RCMIP phase!

Alex Romero Prieto@arp-climate.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🌍📢 Calling all emulator / reduced-complexity / simple climate modelling groups! The next round of the Reduced Complexity Model Intercomparison Project (RCMIP) is starting, and we’d love your feedback.

🌍📢 Calling all emulator / reduced-complexity / simple climate modelling groups! The next round of the Reduced Complexity Model Intercomparison Project (RCMIP) is starting, and we’d love your feedback.

Our paper is out today in @nature.com where we assess a Prudent Planetary Limit for Geologic Carbon Storage: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage - Nature

A risk-based, spatially explicit analysis of carbon storage in sedimentary basins establishes a prudent planetary limit of around 1,460 Gt of geological carbon storage, which requires making explicit ...

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The pre-print for my review of simple climate models (SCMs) is out! This is a deep dive on how SCMs actually simulate climate, looking at the different steps in the emissions-temperature causal chain. You can find it here: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

Excited for the conference tomorrow in my home city. If you are also attending and want to meet drop me a message, happy to chat between sessions!

Priestley Centre for Climate Futures@priestleycentre.bsky.social · last yr.

⏰The Scenarios Forum 2025 starts tomorrow- we're looking forward to welcoming all delegates to Leeds for 3 days of inspiring discussions and presentations about Climate and Societal Futures. Find out more about the programme here: scenariosforum.org Will we see you there? Let us know!

Currently travelling to Manchester for the Royal meteorological society early careers and student conference, where I will be chairing the session on extreme weather events as part of the organising committee. Do say hi if you are around!

Reminder: call for abstracts for the CMIP Community Workshops. Latest developments in models & approaches, reflections on CMIP6, explorations on CMIP7, etc. In particular for those related to climate emulators, I encourage you to check the session 29. All info here: wcrp-cmip.org/event/cmip26/

CMIP Community Workshop 2026 - Coupled Model Intercomparison Project

The CMIP Community Workshop 2026 will bring together a growing, and increasingly diverse, community of Earth system scientists, partners, and stakeholders. It

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CMIP ─ Coupled Model Intercomparison Project@wcrp-cmip.org · last yr.

The CMIP Community Workshop 2026 will be held in Kyoto, Japan from 9-13th March 2026. The call for abstracts for CMIP26 is now open! Find out more at wcrp-cmip.org/cmip26-call-...

I want to connect with and highlight more trans voices working with plants, wildlife, and the natural environment so I've created a starter pack! If this sounds like you, introduce yourself by quote-posting this skeet and I'll add you to the list 🏳️‍⚧️