Timon McPhearson
@timonm.bsky.social
Urban ecology and climate resilience scientist, IPCC AR6/AR7 Lead Author, NPCC Co-Chair, Founder/Director Urban System Lab, NYU
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Fires in France have now burned over 91,000 acres, by far the most of any year since the satellite record started in 2006. Current area burned is about 34x larger than this date in a typical (median) year:
Narrator: it was, in fact, exactly what scientists warned about
Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · last wk.The Prime Minister of Spain: “This climate emergency is exceeding every threshold and scale that scientists have long warned all of Spain and Europe about.” This is the realistic climate discourse the world needs. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/w...
📣 Upcoming online short course on the resilience of urban social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) 🏙️🌱 🗓️ 19-23 October 2026 📚 Online (2-3 synchronous sessions per day) ⚠️ Apply by 8 September 2026 ℹ️ Learn more and apply: socses.org/short-courses/
Some really fun discussions with some brilliant urban science minds. check out the others too!
+Lab @ University of Bristol@pluslab.bsky.social · 3w ago@timonm.bsky.social argues that cities face multiple, sometimes existential, challenges – yet decisions are still made in silos, by hazard or by sector, even as climate extremes cascade across infrastructure systems.
Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS
Our latest research with @jnicolasclimate.bsky.social @annalombardi.bsky.social @claudiadinapoli.bsky.social shows how much heat stress has changed from the climate of the 1970s to our current climate, due to climate change, and how the number of people affected has increased over the last 50 yrs 🥵⬇️
Springer Nature@springernature.com · last mo.One billion more people face at least one day of extreme heat stress each year compared with the 1970s, says @natclimate.nature.com paper. Findings show global heat stress is intensifying across events during day, night, and during both day and night: spklr.io/63322E3AC8 #ClimateChange 🧪
"there is only one majority in this country and that is the working class."
Joe Wrote@joewrote.bsky.social · 4mo agoZohran Mamdani on CBS — “Socialist politics can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country, and that is the working class. It’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what we’re doing, not in the appendix.” America’s Mayor can’t miss.
More tragedy for ecological science
Mike Kaspari@mikekaspari.bsky.social · 4mo agoNSF LTER program “archived”. LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”. This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings. My heart is breaking.
Hey all, it's so fun to be able to share the summary of all the work we got up to last year. It's been 10yrs since I started the Urban Systems Lab and this last year is a testament to the amazing people who call the Lab home. Enjoy!
Urban Systems Lab@uslnyc.bsky.social · 4mo ago🌏️ Our 2025 Annual Report is out. Last year we: • Advanced next generation tools and products for climate risk • Launched the NATURA Global Roadmap • Published 29 papers • Worked with communities worldwide Plus learn more about our vision for the next 10 years! Read the report: buff.ly/63cyVbq
If you want to help nature and climate in your region, or have science knowledge to contribute, see our draft report at naturerecord.org A bit of background here: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/c...
Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently
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Thanks! we are really excited to put this report out, including a chapter focused entirely on the bright spots, where we are seeing success working with and for nature! It's the Public Comment period so please add your voice naturerecord.org
Dr. Jonathan Foley@globalecoguy.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis is amazing. When the government kills a crucial report, independent scientists decide to write it anyway and release it outside of government channels. That’s science serving society, even when our political leaders don’t.
Conveniently forgotten. @ipcc.bsky.social AR6 SPM C.3 : "Hard limits to adaptation have been reached in some ecosystems (high confidence). With increasing global warming, losses and damages will increase and additional human and natural systems will reach adaptation limits (high confidence)."
Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist)@fisherdanar.bsky.social · 6mo agoWith the Paris Agreement targets no longer viable (and the US revoking its basis for federal climate policy), many turn attention to adapting to our much-warmed world. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Biodiversity isn’t only protected in parks and policy documents, it is defended on the ground by communities and social movements, often at great personal risk. Study by ICTA-UAB & IBEI shows that 40% of socio-environmental mobilizations take place in the world’s most important biodiversity areas
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
In good news, your advocacy for science funding is paying off! Congress has just rejected the massive cuts to NASA's 2026 budget. (Sadly, they didn't include a provision for saving @ncar-ucar.bsky.social but we use this win to keep fighting!)
You just saved NASA's budget
Here's what Congress rejected of the draconian cuts faced by NASA in FY 2026.
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ICYMI: an international team has developed a new framework for understanding sustainable development. Instead of separating nature, society and economy, David Obura and co. propose a model that positions nature as the foundation.
Scientists call for 'systems reset' to redefine sustainable development
A new international study calls for a fundamental reset in how humanity understands and pursues sustainable development. The article is published in the journal Communications Sustainability.
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People will get sicker. More people will have heart attacks and lung disease and other health challenges because of pollution. People’s lives will get worse, and shorter. People you know. Maybe me. Maybe you.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 7mo agoBreaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
Trees might be doing more for air quality than we thought #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Trees might be doing more for air quality than we thought
Researchers find that microbes on tree bark can alter greenhouse and toxic gases, shaping climate and air quality beyond leaves alone.
earth.com
It appears there is no withdraw process for @ipcc.bsky.social, participation in which is voluntary, free and open to all UN and WMO members. So the Trump administration’s supposed withdraw means less than their June firing of all the staff of the State Dept’s Office of Global Change
IPCC Statement on the US announcement to withdraw from participation in IPCC — IPCC
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After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up. Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes. More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
"Because the U.S. entered the UNFCCC with advice and consent of the Senate in 1992, it’s our legal view that it also must be exited using the same process in reciprocation... Letting this lawless move stand could shut the U.S. out of climate diplomacy forever" www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Trump withdrawal from bedrock UN climate treaty raises legal questions
Trump said that the U.S. would withdraw from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.
reuters.com
“The changes permit as few as one outside review rather than the current minimum of three, end the routine use of expert panels to discuss those individual reviews, and give program managers greater authority to recommend which proposals should or should not be funded.”
NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists
Memo cites overburdened staff, but some say move also aims to elevate White House priorities
science.org
It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.
USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 8mo agoExclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
You thought the pictures from last night were incredible? Look at this!
British Geological Survey@bgs.ac.uk · 9mo agoWe have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm. Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
thoughts and prayers to everyone in Jamaica today. stay safe!
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 9mo agoHurricane Melissa is one of the strongest storms in Atlantic hurricane history, and it is about to hit Jamaica. 175 Miles Per Hour as of this morning. This storm will be devastating for the island.
