Jim McQuaid
@jimmcquaid.bsky.social
airqualitystripes.info || Atmospheric/Climate Scientist #AirPollution (+health impacts) || 🚴♂️ Wetherby Velo plus a bit of 🏃
Looking for something to watch on Sunday night? 7pm on ITV1 is the start of an amazing series, Force of Nature, With the series available from Sunday night on @itvx.com
Jim McQuaid@jimmcquaid.bsky.social · 2w agoComing to a 'small screen' near you soon (if you are in UK) @itvx.com #ForceofNature Amazing stories of how nature is developing resilience in the face of a changing Climate theconversation.com/force-of-nat...
Coming to a 'small screen' near you soon (if you are in UK) @itvx.com #ForceofNature Amazing stories of how nature is developing resilience in the face of a changing Climate theconversation.com/force-of-nat...
Force of Nature shows how extreme weather pushes wildlife to its limits
This new documentary series reveals how nature is fighting back against today’s extreme weather.
theconversation.com
The *Air Quality Stripes* are in Vienna for #EGU26! Come to here more about the project this morning: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/EGU26-... And check out the stripes here: airqualitystripes.info @jimmcquaid.bsky.social @kirstypringle.bsky.social @sturnock.bsky.social
The animation reveals temperature change by country (years 1880–2024). Animation is based on NASA GISTEMP data. The message is very clear: human-caused climate change is impacting every country on Earth 🌍. Can you find your country? #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #science 🧪
BUT it's more nuanced than just GDP....
Jim McQuaid@jimmcquaid.bsky.social · 5mo agoInteresting week for the impact of #airpollution.... Monday gave us a new study on the effect of air pollution on global IQ levels and the subsequent decrease in socioeconomics.... "Reframing air pollution as a cognitive and socioeconomic risk " => www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Interesting week for the impact of #airpollution.... Monday gave us a new study on the effect of air pollution on global IQ levels and the subsequent decrease in socioeconomics.... "Reframing air pollution as a cognitive and socioeconomic risk " => www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Reframing air pollution as a cognitive and socioeconomic risk - npj Clean Air
npj Clean Air - Reframing air pollution as a cognitive and socioeconomic risk
nature.com
Our future depends on the health of the atmosphere. 🩺 The #Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission on board Metop-SGA1 will transform how we monitor the ozone hole, nitrogen dioxide, & wildfire smoke, delivering daily global insights. EUMETSAT’s Dominika Leskow-Czyżewska explains here: bit.ly/4rretod
Talk of a 2026 remix of #SUNSCREEN reminded me of the great advice and thoughts offered in the lyrics, it is a way to live your life. youtu.be/sTJ7AzBIJoI?...
Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen
YouTube video by steffyweffy777
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A massive plume of Saharan dust H/T @mparrington.bsky.social
Copernicus ECMWF@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe intense #SaharanDust plume over the North Atlantic is predicted to reach western Europe in the coming days in the #CopernicusAtmosphere forecast. These episodes are not uncommon at this time of the year, particularly impacting air quality and visibility in Canary Islands and Madeira.
Photos = Memories AND great memories too from @ukri.org Black & Bloom project. I've never seen the photo in the press release for Jenine McCutcheon's paper uwaterloo.ca/news/media/m... @universityofleeds.bsky.social @lianegbenning.bsky.social @waterloorecords.bsky.social @alexanesio.bsky.social
Jim McQuaid@jimmcquaid.bsky.social · 7mo agoIn 2016, an intrepid group of scientists stepped onto the #Greenland Icesheet and setup a camp to collect the most comprehensive dataset ever made. They made simultaneous measurements of microbiology, glaciology, geochemistry, atmospheric parameters and remote sensing for 6 weeks.
In 2016, an intrepid group of scientists stepped onto the #Greenland Icesheet and setup a camp to collect the most comprehensive dataset ever made. They made simultaneous measurements of microbiology, glaciology, geochemistry, atmospheric parameters and remote sensing for 6 weeks.
A BBC news story yesterday about the discovery of the earliest creation/use of fire set me thinking. "It provided warmth at will and enabled our ancestors to cook and eat meat". www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
The moment the earliest known human-made fire was uncovered - BBC News
Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires
bbc.co.uk
The wheels are all turning now for #ASIC2026! A fantastic selection of talks and posters, we had almost 250 abstracts, a big (but very rewarding) job to go through them all. event.fourwaves.com/asic2026/pages
2026 Air Sensors International Conference
Fourwaves - 2026 Air Sensors International Conference
event.fourwaves.com
Amazing science, so much detail from Earth Observations, Eloise Marais reminds us that the cloudiness of the UK, makes it one of the biggest challenges for extracting atmospheric chemical information.
More great work from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social *applause*
Mark Parrington@mparrington.bsky.social · 9mo ago#CopernicusAtmosphere daily mean PM2.5 surface concentration forecasts showing development of #airpollution across the Indo-Gangetic Plain between 1 October & 10 November 2025. More info + data access ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/datasets/cam... #airquality @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int
In three days, #COP30 starts in #Belém, Brazil, let’s remember that climate action isn’t just about climate - it’s also a good way to clean the air we breathe. Many of the steps we take to tackle #climatechange can also bring immediate air-quality benefits.
"Wood burners linked to 2,500 deaths a year in the UK, analysis finds" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wood burners linked to 2,500 deaths a year in the UK, analysis finds
Use of wood-burning stoves and fires in homes is mostly unnecessary and their toxic pollution costs the NHS millions
theguardian.com
A great thread about our #AirQualityStripes project, it has been fantastic to work with everyone making my idea (robbed from @edhawkins.org) a reality. We're going to run the whole lot again very soon to include the 2023 satellite data.
Carly Reddington@drcarlyreddington.bsky.social · 10mo ago🚨Our new paper introduces the #AirQualityStripes – a visual tool to show how outdoor air pollution (PM2.5) has changed in 🌍 cities since 1850. Inspired by the iconic #WarmingStripes. Led by @kirstypringle.bsky.social & @jimmcquaid.bsky.social 🔗 airqualitystripes.info 📄 doi.org/10.5194/gc-8... 🧵👇
Visualising historical changes in air pollution with the Air Quality Stripes Website: airqualitystripes.info And paper led by @kirstypringle.bsky.social and @jimmcquaid.bsky.social now published which visualises trends in air quality across many global cities: gc.copernicus.org/articles/8/2...
Visualising historical changes in air pollution with the Air Quality Stripes
Abstract. This paper introduces the Air Quality Stripes, a data visualisation project which presents historical changes in outdoor particulate matter air pollution (PM2.5) concentrations across major ...
gc.copernicus.org
So @microsoft.com close down #skype and seemt o have just pocketed what was sitting in my account ;-(
NEW ANALYSIS: Wildfires have already scorched a UK-record land area in 2025, double the previous high – and 4x above average By Orla Dwyer, Ho Woo Nam + Tom Prater www.carbonbrief.org/...
The important characterisation of the UK pop'n from More In Common highlights v low levels of trust in most former 'authoritative' professions. Scientists are the exception. Trust both fragile & valuable. We scientists must continue to *earn* it. Science communication is more important than ever.
I missed this last week, it is exactly why I originally joined twitter.... A question posed... and expert knowledge answers.... and then others add to the thread..... @mparrington.bsky.social @drgaryfuller.bsky.social
Dr Pete Knapp@peteknapp.bsky.social · last yr.Air quality question for @mparrington.bsky.social @cleanairlondon.bsky.social London’s air was pretty bad today. All Breathe London sensors saw the sudden rise that started late last night and peaked at 2pm today. Blew from the west, organic mass, no fires recorded in that area. Any ideas?
#AirPollution taking over from tobacco smoke as a significant cause of lung cancer "The mystery rise of lung cancer in non-smokers"
Theres Luethi@theresluethi.bsky.social · last yr.I recently wrote a piece that touches on this topic: www.bbc.com/future/artic...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0706202...
In One of the Nation’s Most Polluted Communities, Trump Terminates Funding for Air Monitoring - Inside Climate News
Residents in majority-Black north Birmingham, Alabama, have long been subjected to industrial pollution. The new administration has cut funding for a program aimed at measuring the impact.
insideclimatenews.org
Canada’s #wildfires 🔥 are rewriting the Arctic’s fate ❄️. This real satellite image 🛰️ shows smoke ☁️ infiltrating Arctic cloud systems. The result? A dangerous #climate feedback loop ♻️: Soot darkens snow 🖤, snow absorbs more heat ☀️… and the Arctic melts faster 🧊💧. Not just a photo 📷. A warning ⚠️.
Worldview Earth Data 🌍🌱@wed-explorer.bsky.social · last yr.🛰Two satellite views. Same Earth, different story. In May 2025, Canadian wildfires sent soot drifting across the Great Lakes — dark streaks now stain the snow and ice. 🔥Soot lowers albedo: less sunlight reflected → more heat absorbed. ➡️Faster melting. Local climate shifts. A feedback loop in motion.
"Why climate is an everyday story – but media coverage still spikes around special environment days and UN summits" - Thought provoking article in @theconversation.com by @sanammahoozi.bsky.social theconversation.com/why-climate-...
Why climate is an everyday story – but media coverage still spikes around special environment days and UN summits
International media reporting of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations is sporadic.
theconversation.com
Great thread on the tragedy of the US closing down AirNow.
Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air@creacleanair.bsky.social · last yr.🌍 🚨 NEW | US embassy AQ data halt: On 4 Mar, the AirNow website reporting data from #AirQuality monitors at US embassies worldwide halted data sharing 🏛️ CREA calls on reliant countries to ramp up local monitoring to fill the gap👇
