Peter Thorne

@peterthorne.bsky.social

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Climate scientist, director ICARUS Climate Research Centre, Maynooth University, Ireland, author IPCC AR6, member Ireland's climate change advisory council, Chair GCOS AOPC. www.peter-thorne.net

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Peter William Thorne is a climatologist and professor of physical geography in the Department of Geography, Maynooth University.

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Reposted by Peter Thorne, John W. Williams, Gavin A. Schmidt , and 2 more Peter Thorne, John W. Williams, Gavin A. Schmidt, Valerie Mueller, Aaron Sojourner

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 12h

While Zillow is removing its climate risk data from public view, the first truly open climate risk database.

Kudos, @carbonplan.org

CarbonPlan @carbonplan.org · 22h

Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...

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Eos @eos.org · 15h

Opinion: Climate-smart ag practices are lauded as low-barrier pathways to nature-based atmospheric CO2 removal. But these practices haven’t been studied at the extent needed to verify their effectiveness.

eos.org/opinions/how...

Read more in our February theme collection: eos.org/themes/carbo...

How Can We Tell If Climate-Smart Agriculture Stores Carbon? - Eos

Quantitative data at real-world scales are needed to assess the effects of cover cropping and other practices on soil carbon storage. Large-scale medical studies provide a proven methodology.

eos.org

Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders, Peter Thorne, Caroline Krafft , and 6 more Elizabeth Saunders, Peter Thorne, Caroline Krafft, Eric Goldman, Smith, Julia Lynch, Jason Lyall, Ann Bartow, David Darmofal

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16h

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 16h

🗣️ “Surely nobody should be in a condition described like that?” — guest presenter @newschambers.bsky.social
🗣️ “They shouldn’t,” — Fianna Fáil TD Paul McAuliffe
🗣️ “Sorry, that’s actually a description of the Knockalisheen Centre,” — @newschambers.bsky.social

#TonightVMTV #SeamusCulleton #ICE

Reposted by Jason Mittell, Amanda Lotz, Mary Bosworth , and 27 more Jason Mittell, Amanda Lotz, Mary Bosworth, Nandita Sharma, Margaret Mitchell, Will Jennings, Peter Thorne, Steven French, David Feldman, Martin Tomko, Peter Campbell, Jacob Montgomery, Joseph Schafer, Paul E. Smaldino, Linda Martín Alcoff, Melanie C. Green, Michael Zimmer, Stephen D. Murphy, Graham Webster, Juan Moreno‐Cruz, Samantha Brennan, Michael D. McDonald, Jessica Vitak, Woodrow Hartzog, Sam Kamin, Meredith Farkas, Magda Teter, Evan Roberts, David Neilson, Kevin Grant

WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 18h

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 20h

The well hard crew?

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Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social · 1d

🌊 An important new study led by ACEAS PhD researcher Annika Oetjens from @imas-utas.bsky.social at @utas.edu.au shows the Southern Ocean may be storing 40 to 60 per cent less carbon at certain depths than many climate models assume.

Learn more ▶️ antarctic.org.au/southern-oce...

Southern Ocean may store less carbon than climate models assume - ACEAS

New research led by ACEAS PhD researcher Annika Oetjens and colleagues at the University of Tasmania reveals that the Southern Ocean may be storing less carbon than climate models assume – with import...

antarctic.org.au

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Smith, Vaughan S. Roberts , and 1 more Peter Thorne, Smith, Vaughan S. Roberts, Colin Woodard

Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 1d

President Mandela said, "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility

Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

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Reposted by Peter Thorne, Ellen C. Hopmans, Ben Barr , and 4 more Peter Thorne, Ellen C. Hopmans, Ben Barr, Patricia Aufderheide, Richard Waite, Andréas Nilsson, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 1d

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

xkcd.com/3204/

Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Michael J. Allen

Tom Brown @nworbmot.bsky.social · 1d

Solar and batteries are cheap enough that most people can get most of their electricity from them, and save money. This equation gets better and better over time as their costs decline.

All details in a new blog post: nworbmot.org/blog/solar-b...

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Katharine Hayhoe, Richard S.J. Tol , and 2 more Joanna Bryson, Katharine Hayhoe, Richard S.J. Tol, Peter Thorne, Pieter Vantieghem

Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 1d

Grazalema, Spain, received over 2,000 mm (78 inches) of rain in just the last 20 days.

Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.

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Becca Thorne @beccathorne.bsky.social · 2d

My latest painting: Oil on panel, 70 x 100cm artachart.com
#oilpainting #landscape #seascape #coast #irishart

An almost Classical style landscape in oils: Expansive sky with sweeping clouds, shadows and patches of lapis near the top of the panel. The impression of land beneath the clouds on the left, leading across the foreground, with areas of olive and new gamboge/ochre, almost lost between the drifting clouds and waves breaking onto the coast at the very bottom of the composition. More lapis beneath the foam.

A more distant shot of the painting described in the other image, this one including the easel, with a chair on one side, curtains behind and the world's most beautiful dog on the other side, holding her favourite ball in her mouth.

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 2d

The arrogance of people who tell others what clothes and headgear they should wear doing daily things like cycling to the shop is unreal.

And none of them willing to wear high-vis or helmets in their cars "if it saves one life".

Anything, but safer streets, and enforcement of existing laws.

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Jane Suiter

Lamhfada @lamhfada.bsky.social · 2d

Google must have finally incorporated AI into Google Maps. How do I know?
It just told me I needed to leave now to be at Dublin Airport by 13:30 now to catch 9am Citylink that arrives in Dublin Airport at 11am. Then I should take the 11:45 Kells bus to Ballymun and walk back one hour to the airport

Google maps telling me to get to Dublin Airport by leaving Dublin airport and walking back an hour and a half to it. #Spéirgorm

Reposted by Peter Thorne, David H. Kaye, Daxton R. Stewart

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 2d

In case you missed the moment.

Art is powerful

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Marian Kamenský

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, here comes another wave of insanity.

Ukraine is now supposed to surrender in a war it has not lost and willingly ensure its own destruction by Russia because Trump needs to avert a midterm disaster.

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Oliver L. Phillips , and 3 more Katharine Hayhoe, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Oliver L. Phillips, Peter Thorne, Jonathan Wolff, Robert Marten

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

Amsterdam will ban fossil fuel and meat advertisements in public spaces and on public transport starting May 1st. 🥳

The European city banning all fossil fuel and meat adverts in public

Amsterdam initially proposed the move in 2020, becoming the first city in the world to do so.

www.euronews.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

This is what Hess said: “It brings up mixed emotions to represent the US right now. I think it’s a little hard. There’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of. Just because I wear the flag doesn't mean I represent everything that's going on in the US.”

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 2d

Good morning! Taxing the wealth of the richest 1% of Americans down to the median wealth of the next-richest 9% ($5.2 million per household) would free up $48 trillion. Redistributing that to the poorest 50% of Americans would give *68 million households* an average of *$700k per household*.

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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 2d

It's the dead of winter, and California just supplied a peak of 117% of its demand with solar alone and 136% of its demand from WindWaterSolar and over 100% of demand for 6 hours.

Gas output down 58% and batteries output up 303% in 2025 v '2023

Solar+batteries replacing gas

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Ella McSweeney @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social · 3d

Nature and climate funding must now be articulated as infrastructure: as essential to food systems, public health, energy stability and geopolitical resilience. In security terms, biodiversity is not sentimental, it is strategic.

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Environmental breakdown isn’t a distant possibility – it’s a threat to world stability

The message is clear: climate change should be prioritised as a security crisis, not just an environmental one

www.irishtimes.com

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Nandita Sharma, Peter Thorne , and 9 more Joanna Bryson, Nandita Sharma, Peter Thorne, Steve Peers, Rosemary A. Joyce, Rebecca Tushnet, Alan Richardson, Silvia Secchi, Stephen D. Murphy, Elisa Perego, Ann Bartow, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee

Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

www.gofundme.com

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Jonas Geschke @jgeschke.bsky.social · 3d

It is done, the @ipbes.net Business and Biodiversity Assessment is agreed! 👏

And the #IPBES12 closing plenary starting in about 11 hours from now. Time for translations.

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Antoine Cabon

Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 3d

Last Wednesday, the village of Grazalema (southern Spain, 900 m altitude) received 577 mm of rain in one day: the second highest ever recorded in Spain, only behind the deadly downpour in the Valencia region of 29 October 2024. malagaldia.es/2026/02/06/g...

Grazalema sufrió el segundo día más lluvioso jamás registrado en España, según la Aemet - malagaldia.es

La Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (Aemet) activó el aviso rojo -peligro extraordinario- el miércoles por lluvias muy abundantes en zonas de Cádiz (Grazalema

malagaldia.es

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Cian Ginty @cianginty.bsky.social · 4d

Dublin's deputy lord mayor says bus lanes not needed at weekends as he doesn't see congestion but claims bus lanes add to weekend traffic irishcycle.com/2026/01/22/d...

Dublin’s deputy lord mayor says bus lanes not needed at weekends as he doesn’t see congestion but claims bus lanes add to weekend traffic

Dublin City’s deputy lord mayor has said that the operating hours of 24/7 bus lanes should be reduced because they are not needed on weekends, as he doesn’t see congestion then, but in …

irishcycle.com

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Stacy D. VanDeveer

Mikael Karlsson @mikaelkarlsson.bsky.social · 4d

Deliberative mini-publics (DMPs) bring randomly selected citizens together to learn, deliberate, and advise on sustainability policy.

In this new article in Sustainability Science, we discuss how DMPs could improve relations between science, publics and politics.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...