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Zelensky rules out ceding land to Russia, refusing to bow to Putin or Trump
December 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
vaertorsten.bsky.social
Vinterens første målinger under -30C i Norge i Finnmark lørdag ettermiddag og kveld.
Graf: seklina.met.no
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
vaertorsten.bsky.social
Vinterens laveste temperaturer i landet i Finnmark natt til lørdag og lørdag morgen med -29.8C i Kautokeino som det kaldeste.
Kilde/graf: seklima.met.no
@yr.no
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
vaertorsten.bsky.social
Arctic heat. Jan Mayen (70,58N) set with 7.9C as medium temperature a new heat record for July. Old record: 7.4C 2014. The record stood still from 1924 to 2014, but has now increased with 1.0C since 2014. All three warmest july since 2014, and 10 of 12since 2002. Graph: seklima.met.no
August 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
vaertorsten.bsky.social
Trippel NAV-utbetaling og rentekutt - skal si @regjering1.bsky.social og @jensstoltenberg.bsky.social leverer!
June 19, 2025 at 8:32 AM
vaertorsten.bsky.social
Unreal, but true: No, this is not a fake photo. A container ship hit land just eight meters from a house in Trondheimsfjorden in the middle part of Norway Thursday morning, at the outskirts of Trondheim. A couple was sleeping inside the house and did not hear anything!
Source: adressa.no
May 22, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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brasmus.bsky.social
I think that changes to how the rainfall is distributed over Earth's surface - being concentrated into smaller surface area - is one reason for more floods like this. See www.nature.com/articles/s41... and references therein.
May 21, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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brasmus.bsky.social
We did an analysis on heatwaves and their effect on wheat in India some years ago ascmo.copernicus.org/articles/4/3...: wheat doesn't thrive when the weather gets too hot.
May 21, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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brasmus.bsky.social
En forklaring til mer tørke er at nedbøren faller over et areal som krymper med global oppvarming, i tillegg til at høyere temperaturer øker fordampningen. Se doi.org/10.1038/s416... og referansene i denne studien. Måten nedbøren fordeler seg på er ofte ikke omtalt av mediene.
May 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
vaertorsten.bsky.social
#Arctic sea ice extent 5th lowest on record (19th may)
zacklabe.com Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · May 19
Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 5th lowest on record (JAXA data)

• about 170,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 670,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,090,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,500,000 km² below the 1980s mean

More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🧪⚒️
Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between March and June by looking at the decadal average line positions.
May 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
vaertorsten.bsky.social
Alarming!
May 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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jdkirkham.bsky.social
⚠️New study shows that even warming of 1.5°C is too high to prevent long term global damage from the melt of Earth's polar ice sheets

🌊❄️

@geogdurham.bsky.social
@iccinet.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Warming of +1.5 °C is too high for polar ice sheets - Communications Earth & Environment
Warming of +1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels is too high for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and even the current climate forcing of +1.2 °C is likely to lead to several meters of sea-level ...
www.nature.com
May 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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zacklabe.com
The 12-month running mean global temperature anomaly has fallen slightly from its peak (temporary), which is mostly in response to cooler conditions over the equatorial Pacific during the last year (weak La Niña)

+ Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
+ Data from ERA5 cds.climate.copernicus.eu
Line graph time series of a 12-month running mean of global mean surface temperature anomalies from 1979 through April 2025. There is a long-term increasing trend and large interannual variability on this graph. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1991-2020 baseline. Blue shading is shown for below average anomalies, and red shading is shown for above average anomalies.
May 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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zacklabe.com
May #Arctic sea ice thickness by decade... ❄️🥼

Data information: climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data...
Four polar stereographic maps showing Arctic sea ice thickness for the month of May in 1985-1994, 1995-2004, 2005-2014, and 2015-2024. Thickness is shown with colors from black at 0 meters to purple at 2.5 meters to white at 5.0 meters. Sea ice in thinning in all regions over time.
May 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
vaertorsten.bsky.social
Troms og Finnmark, the two northernmost counties in Norway, both set new heat records for march sunday.
Troms: Sørkjosen AirPort 14.4C
Finnmark: Nuvsvåg (70.16N) 13.1C
@extremetemps.bsky.social
March 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
vaertorsten.bsky.social
19 steder i Trøndelag har fram til kl.13 lørdag målt årets høyeste temperatur.
Graf: seklima.met.no
March 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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brasmus.bsky.social
A nice perspective on climate modelling: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The futures of climate modeling - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - The futures of climate modeling
www.nature.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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mikarantane.bsky.social
Pretty interesting new paper in @nature.com showing that Mediterranean precipitation has not declined since 1871, in contrast to what might have been generally thought and what some previous studies have suggested.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
High temporal variability not trend dominates Mediterranean precipitation - Nature
Our assessment of a 27-country weather station dataset in the Mediterranean region revealed long-term stability in precipitation over 150 years, along with substantial short-term variability on annual...
www.nature.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
Over 2 billion people rely on glacier and snowmelt for fresh water.🚰 Today's World Day for Glaciers highlights their crucial roles. 🌍 From mass loss data to the European Alps' shrinkage, explore key insights in our article. 🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/inaugural-wo...
#C3S #WorldGlacierDay
March 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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drshepherd2013.bsky.social
My thoughts on why announced cuts to weather balloon launches are bad for weather forecasting. I tried to do some meteorology 101 too
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
Weather Balloon Cuts Announced This Week Could Harm Weather Forecasts
This week the National Weather Service announced reductions in weather balloon launches. Experts warn that could harm weather forecast accuracy, the economy and safety.
www.forbes.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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subfossilguy.bsky.social
Gorner Glacier
1930 | 2022

The second largest glacier in the Alps (towered by second highest peak, Monte Rosa) retreated 2.7 km over this period! 🧊📈

@vaw-glaciology.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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aoc.bsky.social
We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.

11,000 people showed up.

Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
daveweigel.bsky.social Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · Mar 21
Overflow crowd for Bernie/AOC rally in Greeley, CO — the small one today, big one is in Denver later
March 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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extremetemps.bsky.social
More record heat in North Africa.
The ALGERIA town of Tamanrasset, known as "the door of Sahara" and "Tam", located at 1320m asl, recorded an incredible warm night: Tmin 21.6C which is its hottest night in history in March (POR >140 years).
March 19, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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wired.com
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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reuters.com
Turkish authorities detained President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival on charges including corruption and aiding a terrorist group, in what the main opposition party called ‘a coup attempt against our next president’ reut.rs/3DR3WA2
Turkey detains Erdogan's main rival on array of charges
Turkish authorities detained President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival on Wednesday on charges including corruption and aiding a terrorist group, in what the main opposition party called "a coup attempt against our next president."
reut.rs
March 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM