PIK_climate

pik-potsdam.bsky.social

30 September 2026 21:06

“There is a certain threshold when there is no more stopping the total breakdown of the AMOC.” PIK’s @rahmstorf.bsky.social explains how global warming could weaken the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation AMOC by adding more freshwater to the North Atlantic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNOS...

Daniel Swain

weatherwest.bsky.social

30 September 2026 21:06

Wading into the "relative versus absolute" El Niño intensity debate: I genuinely think both are important--and I think we lose important information if we focus solely on one vs another. And both, as of late Sep, have now reached or exceeded record levels! [Thread]

Prof Ian Hall

ianhall.bsky.social

30 September 2026 21:03

23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules. That’s the amount of heat the oceans absorbed in 2025. A number so huge it’s almost meaningless…until you realise it’s roughly 40× humanity’s annual energy use. The ocean is buying us time. We’re running out of it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bob Wong

bbmwong.bsky.social

30 September 2026 12:35

What are the causes & consequences of behavioural diversity loss in a changing world? And how do we harness this knowledge for conservation? New open access paper led by @odedberger-tal.bsky.social with David Saltz and @mrmic1.bsky.social #BobWongLab royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Journal of Experimental Biology

jexpbiol.bsky.social

03 August 2026 18:20

Issue 14 has closed and issue 15 is open The front cover shows sleeping sperm whales releasing bubbles as they hang suspended vertically in the water journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...