I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

If you see this, post a dino! The Pentaceratops and Magnolias skateboard I painted this spring.

twarda.bsky.social@twarda.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you see this, post a Dino!! (stylized paleoart this time :) )

Happy birthday to #geologist & oceanographic #cartographer Marie Tharp (1920-2006), whose pioneering, thorough & complete ocean floor maps with Bruce Heezen, made using realms of echo sounder data, revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.⁠ 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡⚒️ #histsci After studying #geology & math,

🧵UK media has been duped about net-zero (again) The playbook is identical: 1️⃣ Find a big scary number 2️⃣ Speed-dial non-specialist hacks 3️⃣ Do say “serious economic damage” 4️⃣ Don’t say “we pretended gas is free” 5️⃣ That's it! Many papers still fell for it 🤷

Water flow in the Rhine river on its way to a new all time low. Red band: 5% lowest values for every date. Currently we're below the bottom: where the Rhine has never* gone before. Measured where it enters the Netherlands. Via www.linkedin.com/posts/niko-w... *) in recorded history, duh.

🤯🍔 Did you know that producing *one pound* of beef releases as much greenhouse gas pollution as burning 25-50 pounds of coal? And producing grass-fed beef is even worse? We gotta rethink our high levels of beef consumption...

Project Drawdown@projectdrawdown.bsky.social · last wk.

Red meat production accounts for 30% of global food-related emissions but generates only 5% of dietary calories or 2% of the global protein supply. That's why Project Drawdown researcher @enviroem.bsky.social calls it the coal of the food system: https://bit.ly/4x2yGnz

📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

"Previous global assessments, which mainly focused on L. reservoirs, probably underestimated sedimentation risks across more than 75% of reservoir regions. Our projections indicate that, by 2060, > 1/2 of all reservoirs will become functionally dead, including 58.6% of S. & 38.1% of L. reservoirs"

Global patterns of reservoir sedimentation and overlooked risks in small reservoirs - Nature Sustainability

Global reservoirs are under threat from increasing sedimentation rates, which threaten infrastructure function and storage capacity. A focus on large reservoirs underestimates the scale of the problem...

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My alma mater (College of the Atlantic) is hiring faculty in Field Ecology, Agroecology, and Chemistry. If you're looking for a very cool small liberal arts college on the coast of Maine with a strong environmental focus, check it out (happy to answer questions!): www.coa.edu/human-resour...

Career Opportunities | College of the Atlantic

Career opportunities at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor Maine.

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“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it.”

Emily Atkin@emorwee.bsky.social · 3w ago

We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.

I am #hiring! In my group 📍Universität Zürich | University of Zurich & Eawag I have #two open #Postdoc #Positions, with application deadlines in early August 2026. 🧬 🦐 🐠🌐🌍 Here a quick reminder & 🧵with all details, thanks for 🔄 redistributing to interested candidates.

Uncharted Territory! El Niño means The Boy, but this El Niño is certainly El Hombre! 2026 is the white line, far above all others for the water temps that define El Niño. Latest forecast calls for an event so record shattering that it stays above historic levels for 6 full months! That’s insane 1/

There are some paleontologists that got mildly annoyed by Jurassic Park's impact on the cultural view of dinosaurs, but there are WAAAAAY more who saw dusty Sam Neill making very little money as he dug through the desert and thought "THAT. That is my north star. I know what I must do now."

Gather round for the story of the Very Hungry Data Centre... 🧵 (1/4) #datacentre #ai

On June 21, 2026, the average global sea surface temperature peaked at an astounding 21°C (70°F). According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, this sudden spike completely eclipses the previous record highs set in 2023 and 2024.

Preparator – Field Paleontologist The Geologic Mapping and Paleontology Program of the Utah Geological Survey (UGS) seeking a full time permanent Preparator – Field Paleontologist. This is a unique opportunity to build a career focused on Field Paleontology in Utah. @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

This is wild. 93% of the renewable electricity generation added to the Irish grid over that last decade now powers data centers, rather than reducing fossil fuel use. Data centers have pretty much annihilated the health and climate benefits those renewables could have provided.

Hannah Daly@hannahdaly.ie · 4w ago

What is even more striking is that data centre demand has matched 93% of the growth in renewable electricity generation (wind + solar + hydro) over the past decade. If we measure since 2020, data centre demand has grown nearly 3-times faster than renewable electricity growth.

Everyone needs to read "More and More and More" by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, which argues (persuasively, I think) that calling what we're seeing right now an "energy transition" is nothing more than myth-making.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · last mo.

Even within the broad renewables category, biofuels & wood still provide more primary energy than either wind or solar. That little yellow line on the bottom? That is humanity's best hope.

monstrous

Mark Gongloff@markgongloff.bsky.social · 4w ago

The US plans to build or expand 74 methane-fired generating stations to power data centers, according to a new study. Those will release 662 million tons of CO2 equivalent/year, as much as all of Germany (article says Australia, but it's actually worse than that) cleantechnica.com/2026/07/06/n...

Reminder of this postdoctoral research associate #job in #biogeochemistry at Oxford @oxfordgeography.bsky.social deadline 13th July - pls get in touch if any Qs! 🥼🧪⚒️

Bob Hilton@profbobhilton.bsky.social · last mo.

New Job! Please RP! 2 year Postdoctoral Research Associate in #Biogeochemistry in Oxford @oxfordgeography.bsky.social using novel methods to explore organic matter stability and new proxies of rock #weathering &wider team in Southampton. Any Qs let me know 🧪🥼⚒️ my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Air conditioning has become the latest front in the energy culture war. Depending on who you ask, it is either wasteful excess we must resist or the only sensible response and anyone urging caution is a zealot. A few thoughts in this 🧵

This World #History Timeline shows the main superpowers and dynasties over the last 5000 years. Gorgeous piece of work. These type of charts really help to understand who ruled at the same time on the other side of the globe. Love it! Source: buff.ly/2qiP1Wo

📢 🧪 vacancy for a PhD student wildfire risk assessment and fire propagation at UHasselt, Belgium. Vacancy closing date August 14th, 2026. FireRisk project - focus on wildfire risks in Flanders using hires data. www.uhasselt.be/en/about-has...

PhD student wildfire risk assessment and fire propagation (100%) - UHasselt

Wildfires have significant socio-economic and ecological impacts, posing risks to human lives, buildings, ecosystem services and biodiversity values. In Europe,

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Come work with me at Earth Sciences New Zealand! Deep-sea benthic ecologist position available: careers.sciencenewzealand.org/jobdetails?a... Plenty of opportunities for voyages across the Pacific and Southern oceans. #ecology #ecologyjobs #sciencejobs #deepsea #marinebiology

I’m recruiting a PhD student to join our lab in the fall of 2027. If you’re excited about phylogenetics, comp bio, paleobiology, stats theory, macroevolution, etc. please get in touch! Folks at #Evol2026, you can talk to @brpetrucci.bsky.social & @sigournie.bsky.social to learn more about our lab

Yay, a new phylogeny of Cenozoic foraminifera. I'm sure this won't make things confusing, lead to multiple name and age shifts, or get me side-eyed when I'll mix things up. Still happy to have it. 🧪 Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2026.2669255​

"Lopen risico dat we een zware ramp missen": David Dehenauw waarschuwt voor besparingen bij KMI vrtnws.be/p.w79N19nLp?t=178... @vrtnws.be

"Lopen risico dat we een zware ramp missen": David Dehenauw waarschuwt voor besparingen bij KMI

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Your 'moment of doom' for June 30, 2026 ~ Can't live without it. "... plankton abundance is declining across vast swathes of the North East Atlantic—a region covering the Atlantic Ocean from Portugal to Norway, and the entirety of the North Sea." ecomagazine.com/news/researc...

Plankton Decline Across the North East Atlantic Signals Failing Ocean Health - environment coastal & offshore

A University of Plymouth-led study drawing on over 60 years of data found no pelagic habitats in the North East Atlantic meeting Good Environmental Status, with plankton decline linked to rising tempe...

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In the Netherlands, the budget cuts on Social Sciences & Humanities will not be reversed cause the cabinet wants to invest in "innovation" (read AI factories). This is a political agenda and would be great if STEM colleagues recognise it and fight back.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.

Science is under threat. In your country or one next door. In what universe do we need fewer historians, fewer philosophers, fewer linguists, fewer people who can read a text in this context? If less is sometimes more, is stupider ever smarter? 4/4

What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.