Peter Cox
@coxypm.bsky.social
Climate scientist who believes that the world is simpler than it looks. Director of Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
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*DEADLINE EXTENDED* February 8
Submit your suggestions and nominate (yourself or others) as a co-author for the 2026 edition of the 10 New Insights in Climate Science
Submit your suggestions and nominate (yourself or others) as a co-author for the 2026 edition of the 10 New Insights in Climate Science
📢 Call for expert input: Researchers across the natural and social sciences are invited to share key recent developments in climate change research for the next "10 New Insights in Climate Science" report.
📝 Questionnaire: form.jotform.com/Future_Earth...
🔗 10 NICS website: 10insightsclimate.science
📝 Questionnaire: form.jotform.com/Future_Earth...
🔗 10 NICS website: 10insightsclimate.science
February 5, 2026 at 8:29 AM
*DEADLINE EXTENDED* February 8
Submit your suggestions and nominate (yourself or others) as a co-author for the 2026 edition of the 10 New Insights in Climate Science
Submit your suggestions and nominate (yourself or others) as a co-author for the 2026 edition of the 10 New Insights in Climate Science
The "Ten New Insights in Climate Science (10NICS)" is an impressive project that leads to a very high-profile policy relevant paper each year. Get involved if you can (details in the attached message from @daniel-ospina.bsky.social)!
*DEADLINE EXTENDED* February 8
Submit your suggestions and nominate (yourself or others) as a co-author for the 2026 edition of the 10 New Insights in Climate Science
Submit your suggestions and nominate (yourself or others) as a co-author for the 2026 edition of the 10 New Insights in Climate Science
What climate insights are policymakers missing?
If you’re working on new or emerging climate research, now’s the time to surface it.
Help shape the 2026 10 New Insights in Climate Science.
Submit by 31 Jan 2026: form.jotform.com/Future_Earth...
If you’re working on new or emerging climate research, now’s the time to surface it.
Help shape the 2026 10 New Insights in Climate Science.
Submit by 31 Jan 2026: form.jotform.com/Future_Earth...
February 5, 2026 at 11:02 AM
The "Ten New Insights in Climate Science (10NICS)" is an impressive project that leads to a very high-profile policy relevant paper each year. Get involved if you can (details in the attached message from @daniel-ospina.bsky.social)!
We've had a heatpump on our leaky barn for 5 years, and it's been great!
January 13, 2026 at 4:51 PM
We've had a heatpump on our leaky barn for 5 years, and it's been great!
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Putting the hot & dry summer of 1976 into context
50 years after the extreme summer for the UK and Ireland, what can we still learn?
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-summer...
50 years after the extreme summer for the UK and Ireland, what can we still learn?
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-summer...
January 6, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Putting the hot & dry summer of 1976 into context
50 years after the extreme summer for the UK and Ireland, what can we still learn?
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-summer...
50 years after the extreme summer for the UK and Ireland, what can we still learn?
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-summer...
I couldn't agree more! Piers Forster is an excellent scientist who has also worked tirelessly to contribute to climate change understanding (e.g. through his many roles in the IPCC), and to UK climate policy (through his roles on the UK Climate Change Committee). Congrats, Piers!
Huge congratulations to Prof Piers Forster CBE! 🎉Director of the Priestley Centre, who has been awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours 2026 for his climate science leadership and impact. A brilliant recognition of excellence and action on climate change. 🌍 Read more www.leeds.ac.uk/university-n...
New Year Honours at the University of Leeds
www.leeds.ac.uk
January 5, 2026 at 10:50 AM
I couldn't agree more! Piers Forster is an excellent scientist who has also worked tirelessly to contribute to climate change understanding (e.g. through his many roles in the IPCC), and to UK climate policy (through his roles on the UK Climate Change Committee). Congrats, Piers!
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Cartoon by Nick Anderson
January 4, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Cartoon by Nick Anderson
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Congratulations to Piers Forster, Stephen Belcher and Gideon Henderson for well deserved CBEs in the New Year’s Honours!
December 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Congratulations to Piers Forster, Stephen Belcher and Gideon Henderson for well deserved CBEs in the New Year’s Honours!
Climate modelling work (e.g. GeoMIP) suggests that SRM geoengineering could work as a temporary/emergency way to cool the climate. This certainly does not justify large-scale implementation at this stage. However, open research on SRM needs to be encouraged, not driven underground.
“Out of a superhero movie: Companies are coming up with plans to block out the sun”
It’s not a planetary light switch — it’s risky, limited research being sold as a climate silver bullet
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
It’s not a planetary light switch — it’s risky, limited research being sold as a climate silver bullet
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
Inside the multi-million dollar race to dim the sun and stop climate change
Private companies are jumping into the race to deploy particles to the atmosphere to reduce global warming, prompting enthusiasm from investors and concerns from some scientists, Josh Marcus reports
www.independent.co.uk
December 26, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Climate modelling work (e.g. GeoMIP) suggests that SRM geoengineering could work as a temporary/emergency way to cool the climate. This certainly does not justify large-scale implementation at this stage. However, open research on SRM needs to be encouraged, not driven underground.
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👉 Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward
This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:35 AM
👉 Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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FIFA is a joke. Infantino is corrupt. The beautiful sport had to fire him and clean out the rot. 🤬🤬🤬
December 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
FIFA is a joke. Infantino is corrupt. The beautiful sport had to fire him and clean out the rot. 🤬🤬🤬
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I will be giving the final @gsiexeter.bsky.social seminar of 2025 "Living beyond limits: Consequences of missing the decisive decade for preserving our planet’s life-supporting systems." 10th Dec 2:30pm UK time. You can join remotely👇
universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/9357183404...
universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/9357183404...
December 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I will be giving the final @gsiexeter.bsky.social seminar of 2025 "Living beyond limits: Consequences of missing the decisive decade for preserving our planet’s life-supporting systems." 10th Dec 2:30pm UK time. You can join remotely👇
universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/9357183404...
universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/9357183404...
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this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
this shit is just beyond parody, man
Absolutely disgraceful from @fifaworldcup26.bsky.social!
December 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Absolutely disgraceful from @fifaworldcup26.bsky.social!
Is this a joke, @fifaworldcup26.bsky.social? How corrupt are you to honour the most despicable US President in living memory?
December 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Is this a joke, @fifaworldcup26.bsky.social? How corrupt are you to honour the most despicable US President in living memory?
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Crossing a climate tipping point doesn't mean tipping is inevitable - a threshold can be temporarily passed if overshoot is short-lived.
Limiting time over 1.5 °C would considerably reduce tipping point risks.
New Ideas paper from @exeter.ac.uk & UKCEH: esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/... 🧪
Limiting time over 1.5 °C would considerably reduce tipping point risks.
New Ideas paper from @exeter.ac.uk & UKCEH: esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/... 🧪
ESD Ideas: Climate tipping is not instantaneous – the duration of an overshoot matters
Abstract. Climate tipping points are not committed to occur automatically upon crossing critical thresholds in global warming, as is often assumed. Instead, it is possible to temporarily overshoot a t...
esd.copernicus.org
September 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Crossing a climate tipping point doesn't mean tipping is inevitable - a threshold can be temporarily passed if overshoot is short-lived.
Limiting time over 1.5 °C would considerably reduce tipping point risks.
New Ideas paper from @exeter.ac.uk & UKCEH: esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/... 🧪
Limiting time over 1.5 °C would considerably reduce tipping point risks.
New Ideas paper from @exeter.ac.uk & UKCEH: esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/... 🧪
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I wrote this paper to work how the climate-carbon system could enter a runaway state 👇
esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
Conditions for instability in the climate–carbon cycle system
Abstract. The climate and carbon cycle interact in multiple ways. An increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere warms the climate through the greenhouse effect, but also leads to uptake of CO2 by th...
esd.copernicus.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I wrote this paper to work how the climate-carbon system could enter a runaway state 👇
esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
Fascinating new paper from Joe Clarke et al., which addresses the question: could the climate-carbon system suffer a self-sustaining runaway feedback? @gsiexeter.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @bolincentre.bsky.social
esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
Conditions for instability in the climate–carbon cycle system
Abstract. The climate and carbon cycle interact in multiple ways. An increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere warms the climate through the greenhouse effect, but also leads to uptake of CO2 by th...
esd.copernicus.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Fascinating new paper from Joe Clarke et al., which addresses the question: could the climate-carbon system suffer a self-sustaining runaway feedback? @gsiexeter.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @bolincentre.bsky.social
esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
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10% GDP boost to Global South from clean energy transition
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Find out more: www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/ne...
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10% GDP boost to Global South from clean energy transition
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Find out more: www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/ne...
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10% GDP boost to Global South from clean energy transition
A new Oxford Smith School report finds a rapid switch to renewables could double energy-sector productivity in low-to-middle income economies within 25 years. In many countries, this would result in a GDP boost by mid-century of around 10%.
www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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10% GDP boost to Global South from clean energy transition
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Find out more: www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/ne...
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10% GDP boost to Global South from clean energy transition
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Find out more: www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/ne...
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At 5:30pm UK time I will be joining @rogerhallam.com, @fisherdanar.bsky.social, @jeremylent.bsky.social for our panel discussion "Collapse in the 21st century and apocalyptic optimism", part of REV21. Join 👇
events.zoom.us/ejl/AjPpsEFu...
events.zoom.us/ejl/AjPpsEFu...
November 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
At 5:30pm UK time I will be joining @rogerhallam.com, @fisherdanar.bsky.social, @jeremylent.bsky.social for our panel discussion "Collapse in the 21st century and apocalyptic optimism", part of REV21. Join 👇
events.zoom.us/ejl/AjPpsEFu...
events.zoom.us/ejl/AjPpsEFu...
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In 2024, renewable energy accounted for over 90% of global power capacity expansion. That is because it makes economic sense. IRENA_DAT_RE_Capacity_Highlights_2025-1.pdf
November 16, 2025 at 11:22 AM
In 2024, renewable energy accounted for over 90% of global power capacity expansion. That is because it makes economic sense. IRENA_DAT_RE_Capacity_Highlights_2025-1.pdf
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Where Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions Go (2015–2024 Average)
bit.ly/GCB2025-a
Friedlingstein, P. et al. (2025). Global Carbon Budget 2025. Earth System Science Data Discussion, (Under Review). DOI:10.5194/essd-2025-659
bit.ly/GCB2025-a
Friedlingstein, P. et al. (2025). Global Carbon Budget 2025. Earth System Science Data Discussion, (Under Review). DOI:10.5194/essd-2025-659
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Where Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions Go (2015–2024 Average)
bit.ly/GCB2025-a
Friedlingstein, P. et al. (2025). Global Carbon Budget 2025. Earth System Science Data Discussion, (Under Review). DOI:10.5194/essd-2025-659
bit.ly/GCB2025-a
Friedlingstein, P. et al. (2025). Global Carbon Budget 2025. Earth System Science Data Discussion, (Under Review). DOI:10.5194/essd-2025-659
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Components of the global carbon budget and their uncertainties as a function of time
bit.ly/GCB2025-b
Friedlingstein, P. et al. (2025). Global Carbon Budget 2025. Earth System Science Data Discussion, (Under Review). DOI:10.5194/essd-2025-659
bit.ly/GCB2025-b
Friedlingstein, P. et al. (2025). Global Carbon Budget 2025. Earth System Science Data Discussion, (Under Review). DOI:10.5194/essd-2025-659
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Components of the global carbon budget and their uncertainties as a function of time
bit.ly/GCB2025-b
Friedlingstein, P. et al. (2025). Global Carbon Budget 2025. Earth System Science Data Discussion, (Under Review). DOI:10.5194/essd-2025-659
bit.ly/GCB2025-b
Friedlingstein, P. et al. (2025). Global Carbon Budget 2025. Earth System Science Data Discussion, (Under Review). DOI:10.5194/essd-2025-659
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"As a scientist, I've never had reason to be so concerned as I am today for the future we are facing," states PIK Director Johan Rockström as #COP30 kicks off in Belém, Brazil. The first ever Planetary Science Pavilion, under the mandate from COP30 Brazil, and together with Carlos A. Nobre,... 1/2
Raising the Voice of Science: COP30’s New Planetary Science Pavilion in Belém
YouTube video by Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"As a scientist, I've never had reason to be so concerned as I am today for the future we are facing," states PIK Director Johan Rockström as #COP30 kicks off in Belém, Brazil. The first ever Planetary Science Pavilion, under the mandate from COP30 Brazil, and together with Carlos A. Nobre,... 1/2