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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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November 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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...
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
Playing 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
October 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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
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October 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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🧊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.
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.
October 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🧊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.
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.
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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!
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!
September 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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!
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!
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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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September 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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...
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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'.
royalsociety.org
September 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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...
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.
September 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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
September 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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
September 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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
September 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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
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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...
August 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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!
August 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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!
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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...
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.
science.feedback.org
August 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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...
The report claims to challenge decades of climate science…
But scientists say it is unscientific and misrepresents key findings 🧵
science.feedback.org/review/misle...
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only 439 days, 12 hours, 39 minutes and 27 seconds until...
www.ipics2026.org
www.ipics2026.org
July 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
only 439 days, 12 hours, 39 minutes and 27 seconds until...
www.ipics2026.org
www.ipics2026.org
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!
March 12, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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!
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Science advances our economic, physical, and social and cultural wellbeing, and is key to a sustainable future. However, we live in times of great change, and the values that have driven science for the benefit of humanity are under threat. Read our statement here: royalsociety.org/news/2025/02...
Science under threat | Royal Society
The Royal Society will use its voice and the expertise of our Fellows to resist the various challenges to science.
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February 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Science advances our economic, physical, and social and cultural wellbeing, and is key to a sustainable future. However, we live in times of great change, and the values that have driven science for the benefit of humanity are under threat. Read our statement here: royalsociety.org/news/2025/02...
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We have an exciting opportunity for postdoc to join our group at @bas.ac.uk and take part in two big ice core projects: www.beyondepica.eu and @fetch4.bsky.social.
Package includes: mugs, stickers, maps, trips to Copenhagen, Grenoble and (maybe) Greenland.
bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v...
Package includes: mugs, stickers, maps, trips to Copenhagen, Grenoble and (maybe) Greenland.
bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v...
February 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
We have an exciting opportunity for postdoc to join our group at @bas.ac.uk and take part in two big ice core projects: www.beyondepica.eu and @fetch4.bsky.social.
Package includes: mugs, stickers, maps, trips to Copenhagen, Grenoble and (maybe) Greenland.
bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v...
Package includes: mugs, stickers, maps, trips to Copenhagen, Grenoble and (maybe) Greenland.
bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v...
Wacswain is no longer on Twitter/X. Hurrah!
February 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Wacswain is no longer on Twitter/X. Hurrah!
Antarctic ice shelf kept its cool during the last interglacial period
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social @ercresearch.bsky.social @royalsociety.org @bas.ac.uk
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social @ercresearch.bsky.social @royalsociety.org @bas.ac.uk
Antarctic ice shelf kept its cool during the last interglacial period
An ice core suggests that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet lost ice 125,000 years ago, but not to the extent proposed by some scenarios.
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Antarctic ice shelf kept its cool during the last interglacial period
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social @ercresearch.bsky.social @royalsociety.org @bas.ac.uk
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social @ercresearch.bsky.social @royalsociety.org @bas.ac.uk
5. The fact that a significant part of WAIS was lost anyway still says we should avoid the climate that caused it. That requires us to reach net zero sooner rather than later.
January 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
5. The fact that a significant part of WAIS was lost anyway still says we should avoid the climate that caused it. That requires us to reach net zero sooner rather than later.
4. Lessons for the future?
This suggests we should expect significant ice loss from WAIS over the next decades to centuries, but makes the very worst case scenarios look slightly less realistic.
This suggests we should expect significant ice loss from WAIS over the next decades to centuries, but makes the very worst case scenarios look slightly less realistic.
January 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
4. Lessons for the future?
This suggests we should expect significant ice loss from WAIS over the next decades to centuries, but makes the very worst case scenarios look slightly less realistic.
This suggests we should expect significant ice loss from WAIS over the next decades to centuries, but makes the very worst case scenarios look slightly less realistic.
3. We find:
a. The Ronne Ice Shelf survived
b. But the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) certainly retreated .
So it's good news and bad. The ice sheet retreated but didn't do the worst case that some models proposed. WAIS retreat was probably mainly in the Amundsen sector, not the Weddell.
a. The Ronne Ice Shelf survived
b. But the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) certainly retreated .
So it's good news and bad. The ice sheet retreated but didn't do the worst case that some models proposed. WAIS retreat was probably mainly in the Amundsen sector, not the Weddell.
January 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
3. We find:
a. The Ronne Ice Shelf survived
b. But the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) certainly retreated .
So it's good news and bad. The ice sheet retreated but didn't do the worst case that some models proposed. WAIS retreat was probably mainly in the Amundsen sector, not the Weddell.
a. The Ronne Ice Shelf survived
b. But the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) certainly retreated .
So it's good news and bad. The ice sheet retreated but didn't do the worst case that some models proposed. WAIS retreat was probably mainly in the Amundsen sector, not the Weddell.