Peter Cox
@coxypm.bsky.social
Climate scientist who believes that the world is simpler than it looks. Director of Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
Just published, our paper for the 75th anniversary issue of #Tellus. It offers an improved way to quantify carbon cycle feedbacks on climate change, recognising sink saturation at high CO2. doi.org/10.16993/tel...
A New Method for Characterising Carbon Cycle Sensitivities in Earth System Models | Tellus
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Extremely-timely paper by Patric Boardman! Recent record breaking warm years do not warrant an increase in our estimate of the Earth's climate sensitivity to CO2 (but they do warrant much greater efforts to avoid exceeding 2degC!). @gsiexeter.bsky.social esd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...
Emergent constraints on climate sensitivity and recent record-breaking warm years
Abstract. The Earth's climate sensitivity remains a significant source of uncertainty in climate projections. A key metric is the Transient Climate Response (TCR), which incorporates aspects of Equili...
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"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).
Elite Cognitive Dissonance and the Asian Energy Disruption
Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026
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Professor Patrick Devine-Wright has taken up the ESI Challenge of the Month for June. He will deliver the (hybrid) talk "Social and spatial dimensions of low carbon energy transitions" in the ESI Trevithick Room on Monday 22 June 1 - 2pm. Join us! www.exeter.ac.uk/research/ins...
This is a great opportunity to hear from experts, and to engage in discussion, about the climate crisis and what we need to do to resolve it.
University of Exeter@exeter.ac.uk · 3mo agoJoin us this summer for the Exeter Climate Forum where we're bringing together world-leading climate researchers, businesses, policymakers and young people to shape and engage with the priorities for COP31 and beyond. exeterclimateforum.com/exeter-clima...
Thanks, @stottpeter.bsky.social! As you know, that graph projected onto the floor of the Tate Modern came from you and your group at the @metoffice.gov.uk (especially Gareth Jones, if I remember rightly). So it was "graphs like yours" that convinced David Attenborough about climate change.
Peter Stott@stottpeter.bsky.social · 3mo agoFascinating article including 2006 clip of the iconic walk through of climate models on the floor of Tate Modern explaining past warming with @coxypm.bsky.social. Bringing up to date, BBC iplayer still has the 2019 documentary with David Attenborough I was part of. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Fascinating article including 2006 clip of the iconic walk through of climate models on the floor of Tate Modern explaining past warming with @coxypm.bsky.social. Bringing up to date, BBC iplayer still has the 2019 documentary with David Attenborough I was part of. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Climate Change - The Facts
After one of the hottest years on record, Sir David Attenborough looks at the science of climate change and potential solutions to this global threat.
bbc.co.uk
Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 3mo agoTo mark David Attenborough's 100th birthday, here's something from Carbon Brief's archive. The story of the 2004 lecture at the University of Liège that *finally* convinced him about global warming... www.carbonbrief.org/the-2004-lec...
From last years @acscc.bsky.social Prof. Tim Lenton of @gsiexeter.bsky.social on methods for anticipating tipping points, both negative and positive varieties! #CliimateEmergency
ACSCC 2025 | Prof. Tim Lenton: Anticipating tipping points
YouTube video by Amsterdam Complexity School on Climate Change
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Fascinating new paper by Isobel Parry on the impact of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) on the well-being of the Amazon rainforest. GeoMIP6 models show increases in forest carbon relative to both unmitigated climate change and to conventional mitigation.
Stratospheric aerosol injection geoengineering has the potential to increase land carbon storage and to protect the Amazon rainforest
Abstract. Solar radiation modification (SRM) aims to artificially cool the Earth, counteracting warming from anthropogenic greenhouse gases by increasing the reflection of incoming sunlight. One SRM s...
esd.copernicus.org
*DEADLINE EXTENDED* February 8 Submit your suggestions and nominate (yourself or others) as a co-author for the 2026 edition of the 10 New Insights in Climate Science
PIK_climate@pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 7mo ago📢 Call for expert input: Researchers across the natural and social sciences are invited to share key recent developments in climate change research for the next "10 New Insights in Climate Science" report. 📝 Questionnaire: form.jotform.com/Future_Earth... 🔗 10 NICS website: 10insightsclimate.science
The "Ten New Insights in Climate Science (10NICS)" is an impressive project that leads to a very high-profile policy relevant paper each year. Get involved if you can (details in the attached message from @daniel-ospina.bsky.social)!
Daniel Ospina@daniel-ospina.bsky.social · 6mo ago*DEADLINE EXTENDED* February 8 Submit your suggestions and nominate (yourself or others) as a co-author for the 2026 edition of the 10 New Insights in Climate Science
Putting the hot & dry summer of 1976 into context 50 years after the extreme summer for the UK and Ireland, what can we still learn? climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-summer...
I couldn't agree more! Piers Forster is an excellent scientist who has also worked tirelessly to contribute to climate change understanding (e.g. through his many roles in the IPCC), and to UK climate policy (through his roles on the UK Climate Change Committee). Congrats, Piers!
Priestley Centre for Climate Futures@priestleycentre.bsky.social · 7mo agoHuge congratulations to Prof Piers Forster CBE! 🎉Director of the Priestley Centre, who has been awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours 2026 for his climate science leadership and impact. A brilliant recognition of excellence and action on climate change. 🌍 Read more www.leeds.ac.uk/university-n...
Congratulations to Piers Forster, Stephen Belcher and Gideon Henderson for well deserved CBEs in the New Year’s Honours!
Climate modelling work (e.g. GeoMIP) suggests that SRM geoengineering could work as a temporary/emergency way to cool the climate. This certainly does not justify large-scale implementation at this stage. However, open research on SRM needs to be encouraged, not driven underground.
Ian Hall@ianhall.bsky.social · 7mo ago“Out of a superhero movie: Companies are coming up with plans to block out the sun” It’s not a planetary light switch — it’s risky, limited research being sold as a climate silver bullet www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
👉 Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward
This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry
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“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” - Garry Kasparov
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
FIFA is a joke. Infantino is corrupt. The beautiful sport had to fire him and clean out the rot. 🤬🤬🤬
I will be giving the final @gsiexeter.bsky.social seminar of 2025 "Living beyond limits: Consequences of missing the decisive decade for preserving our planet’s life-supporting systems." 10th Dec 2:30pm UK time. You can join remotely👇 universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/9357183404...
Is this a joke, @fifaworldcup26.bsky.social? How corrupt are you to honour the most despicable US President in living memory?
Crossing a climate tipping point doesn't mean tipping is inevitable - a threshold can be temporarily passed if overshoot is short-lived. Limiting time over 1.5 °C would considerably reduce tipping point risks. New Ideas paper from @exeter.ac.uk & UKCEH: esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/... 🧪
ESD Ideas: Climate tipping is not instantaneous – the duration of an overshoot matters
Abstract. Climate tipping points are not committed to occur automatically upon crossing critical thresholds in global warming, as is often assumed. Instead, it is possible to temporarily overshoot a t...
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I wrote this paper to work how the climate-carbon system could enter a runaway state 👇 esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
Conditions for instability in the climate–carbon cycle system
Abstract. The climate and carbon cycle interact in multiple ways. An increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere warms the climate through the greenhouse effect, but also leads to uptake of CO2 by th...
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Fascinating new paper from Joe Clarke et al., which addresses the question: could the climate-carbon system suffer a self-sustaining runaway feedback? @gsiexeter.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @bolincentre.bsky.social esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
Conditions for instability in the climate–carbon cycle system
Abstract. The climate and carbon cycle interact in multiple ways. An increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere warms the climate through the greenhouse effect, but also leads to uptake of CO2 by th...
esd.copernicus.org
. 10% GDP boost to Global South from clean energy transition We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change! Find out more: www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/ne... .
10% GDP boost to Global South from clean energy transition
A new Oxford Smith School report finds a rapid switch to renewables could double energy-sector productivity in low-to-middle income economies within 25 years. In many countries, this would result in a GDP boost by mid-century of around 10%.
smithschool.ox.ac.uk
At 5:30pm UK time I will be joining @rogerhallam.com, @fisherdanar.bsky.social, @jeremylent.bsky.social for our panel discussion "Collapse in the 21st century and apocalyptic optimism", part of REV21. Join 👇 events.zoom.us/ejl/AjPpsEFu...
In 2024, renewable energy accounted for over 90% of global power capacity expansion. That is because it makes economic sense. IRENA_DAT_RE_Capacity_Highlights_2025-1.pdf
