Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."
Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, @wacswain.bsky.social examines the Antarctic’s response to climate changes over the last 100,000 years and investigates the deepest parts of the ice core, thought to be 400,000 years old. Read now in our Annual Review: www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...
The health of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Eric Wolff examines the Antarctic’s response to climate changes over the last 100,000 years and investigates the deepest parts of the ice core, thought to be 400,000 years old
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Important to defend this. The problems of climate change won’t go away because we don’t measure them but they’ll certainly be harder to solve. @royalsociety.org
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine@nationalacademies.org · 2mo agoA new statement from presidents of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Medicine, and National Academy of Engineering reaffirms the importance of the Ocean Observatories Initiative to U.S. #OceanScience. Read: https://ow.ly/oqPZ50Z9ym5
royalsociety.org/current-topi... If you have (UK) Conservative friends please get them to read this. If we drill oil that would otherwise stay in the ground we simply delay net zero and raise the temperature at which it’s achieved. (And it doesn’t affect the price we pay for energy.)
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World Meteorological Organization@wmo-global.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe last 11 years have been the hottest years ever recorded. Earth’s energy imbalance has reached its highest than at any time in observed history, with heat reaching deeper into the ocean. This is the Global #StateOfClimate 2025. 📰 Press release: https://bit.ly/4ds4r2V #WorldMetDay
Climate snapshots trapped in ancient ice tell a surprising story www.nature.com/articles/d41... See my commentary on articles about 3 million year old blue ice from Antarctica
Climate snapshots trapped in ancient ice tell a surprising story
Antarctic ice cores hint that changes in the ocean might have played a larger part than have greenhouse gases in key climate shifts of the past three million years.
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Professor Corinne Le Quéré FRS, Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science and Professor at the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social, made a special address at the Royal Society earlier today. Watch now and read the full address on our website: royalsociety.org/news/2026/03...
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It's #InternationalWomensDay, and for the past year we've been commemorating the 80th anniversary of the election of our first women Fellows. Find out more about trailblazing women scientists and help us chart science history with our interactive map: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...
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The science is clear. The stakes are real. AGU condemns the repeal of the EPA Endangerment Finding — a decision that rejects the overwhelming evidence and undermines climate accountability. We will continue to defend science and advocate for evidence-based policy. buff.ly/wX1BQ2t
The new briefing on solar radiation modification considers the impacts of deploying these techniques globally, looking at effectiveness, limitations, risks, and challenges with monitoring and governance. Read the full briefing here: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...
Solar Radiation Modification | Royal Society
This policy briefing assesses the potential risks, detrimental impacts and climate benefits of implementing solar radiation modification at scale.
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Thanks to @tinyicybubbles.bsky.social for helping cut this ice! Hoping to get some ages (probably over 400,000 years) from this ice from 651 m deep. @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @royalsociety.org
Thomas Bauska@tinyicybubbles.bsky.social · 10mo agoPlaying spot the pebbles in the very last meter of ice drilled at Skytrain Ice Rise (~650 meters deep) with @wacswain.bsky.social and PhD student Yu Huang @bas.ac.uk @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social @gatescambridge.bsky.social
🧊Our researchers have just finished analysing ancient Antarctic ice spanning 1.2 million years of climate history! The Beyond EPICA project extends the ice core climate record by 400,000 years, helping us to understand long-term climate patterns and improve future predictions.
In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
For answers to key questions around #ClimateChange, including how scientists know that recent changes in our climate are caused largely by human activities, see our page of frequently-asked questions: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...
Evidence & Causes of Climate Change | Royal Society
Climate change is one of the defining issues of our time. It is now more certain than ever, based on many lines of evidence, that humans are changing Earth’s climate.
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Climate change is not a con-job. If you want to know more about the evidence for and causes of #ClimateChange, head to our website: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...
Climate change: evidence and causes | Royal Society
Supplementary information for the project 'Climate Change: Evidence and causes'.
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I doubt there is a “cause” for autism, but if I wanted to test for possible contributory factors, I wouldn’t ask an economist or a lawyer. I’d ask a medical scientist who could tell me what the scientific literature tells us. All of it: not just the bit that gives the answer I want to hear.
Today is an important day to speak up for making decisions based on the best scientific evidence. @royalsociety.org
This is part of the BeyondEPICA project. Extremely impressive setup of multiple analysis systems by the team, especially Liz Thomas, Jack Humby, Sarah Jackson et al. @bas.ac.uk
Was extremely exciting today to visit the team melting and analysing Antarctic ice more than a million years old in the BAS CFA analysis campaign. @bas.ac.uk @royalsociety.org
The past two years have witnessed unprecedented extremes in the Antarctic linked to #ClimateChange. Register now for our upcoming discussion meeting to discuss the urgent implications of these changes. You can also apply to present your poster at the meeting: royalsociety.org/science-even...
If anyone is reading, then I have repurposed the Wacswain account to show my name (Eric Wolff). The ERC project has ended, so I can’t claim to speak for its members any more. But I will start posting here again, mainly about science but I may be tempted to give my opinion occasionally as well!
In July 2025, the U.S. DOE released a climate report tied to EPA’s proposed rollback of emissions rules. The report claims to challenge decades of climate science… But scientists say it is unscientific and misrepresents key findings 🧵 science.feedback.org/review/misle...
Misleading U.S. Department of Energy climate report chooses bias over science, climate scientists say
DOE report written by climate contrarians shares misleading information on climate change and excludes well-established evidence.
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Our project “BeyondEPICA” collected ice at least 1.2million years old. Now we are meeting at this palazzo in Venice to finalise how it will be analysed to show us the climate and CO2 across this fascinating time period!
