Richard Davy
@davyclimate.bsky.social
Climate scientist, Arctic, atmosphere, surface coupling
Living in Bergen, Norway
Nansen Center, Bjerknes Center
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=v3d2ceIAAAAJ&hl=en
Living in Bergen, Norway
Nansen Center, Bjerknes Center
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=v3d2ceIAAAAJ&hl=en
We are recruiting! (x2)
There are two permanent positions available in our climate dynamics and prediction group, so if either sounds interesting to you do apply, or share with your colleagues:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
There are two permanent positions available in our climate dynamics and prediction group, so if either sounds interesting to you do apply, or share with your colleagues:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Permanent position as researcher in Climate Prediction (289560) | Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center
Job title: Permanent position as researcher in Climate Prediction (289560), Employer: Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Deadline: Sunday, December 7, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
We are recruiting! (x2)
There are two permanent positions available in our climate dynamics and prediction group, so if either sounds interesting to you do apply, or share with your colleagues:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
There are two permanent positions available in our climate dynamics and prediction group, so if either sounds interesting to you do apply, or share with your colleagues:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Sarcasm aside, it's perhaps worth pointing out that the evidence suggests that weather disasters reduce economic growth for decades - the idea that there's rapid bounceback, or even extra growth stimulated by recovery, has proved wrong
www.newscientist.com/article/mg23...
www.newscientist.com/article/mg23...
We all get poorer every time a climate disaster strikes
Long-term economic effects of global warming could be far greater than thought, making many countries poorer and hurting even those of us spared direct impacts
www.newscientist.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Sarcasm aside, it's perhaps worth pointing out that the evidence suggests that weather disasters reduce economic growth for decades - the idea that there's rapid bounceback, or even extra growth stimulated by recovery, has proved wrong
www.newscientist.com/article/mg23...
www.newscientist.com/article/mg23...
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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A reality check for me was working with students on an internal carbon accounting platform that Bon App our food provider uses. Beef was less than 5% of our purchases but around 50% of our food emissions even with international work to be plant forward.
apnews.com/article/plan...
apnews.com/article/plan...
A recipe for avoiding 15 million deaths a year and climate disaster is fixing food, scientists say
Scientists are presenting new evidence that the worst effects of climate change can’t be avoided without a major transformation of food systems.
apnews.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
A reality check for me was working with students on an internal carbon accounting platform that Bon App our food provider uses. Beef was less than 5% of our purchases but around 50% of our food emissions even with international work to be plant forward.
apnews.com/article/plan...
apnews.com/article/plan...
Growing wealth inequality is devastating for societies.
But with headlines like “the wealth of the top 1% reached $52 trillion”, the topic gets ignored — because those numbers mean absolutely nothing to anyone.
But with headlines like “the wealth of the top 1% reached $52 trillion”, the topic gets ignored — because those numbers mean absolutely nothing to anyone.
wealth of the top 1% reached a record $52 trillion (icymi friday) — www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/t...
The wealth of the top 1% reaches a record $52 trillion
All wealth groups saw gains over the past year, according to recent Fed data. But the growth has been fastest for those at the very top.
www.cnbc.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Growing wealth inequality is devastating for societies.
But with headlines like “the wealth of the top 1% reached $52 trillion”, the topic gets ignored — because those numbers mean absolutely nothing to anyone.
But with headlines like “the wealth of the top 1% reached $52 trillion”, the topic gets ignored — because those numbers mean absolutely nothing to anyone.
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I am happy to announce that we received major funding from Schmidt Sciences under their VICC program to study rapid #Permafrost Thaw Carbon Trajectories (PeTCaT). The 5-year project led by my team @awi.de partners with an international team to quantify how rapid thaw contributes to climate change.
We're investing $45M over 5 years to launch the Virtual Institute for the Carbon Cycle (VICC).
Four global teams will combine AI, advanced observations & modeling to close major carbon cycle gaps, strengthening climate projections worldwide.
🔗 buff.ly/8WVpM9s
WIRED coverage: buff.ly/YsLAcRZ
Four global teams will combine AI, advanced observations & modeling to close major carbon cycle gaps, strengthening climate projections worldwide.
🔗 buff.ly/8WVpM9s
WIRED coverage: buff.ly/YsLAcRZ
Schmidt Sciences awards $45M to narrow carbon cycle knowledge gap - Schmidt Sciences
Globe-spanning interdisciplinary teams will dramatically improve climate modeling to drive better energy, environmental, economic decision making Contact: Carlie Wiener, cwiener@schmidtsciences.org…
www.schmidtsciences.org
October 3, 2025 at 6:13 AM
I am happy to announce that we received major funding from Schmidt Sciences under their VICC program to study rapid #Permafrost Thaw Carbon Trajectories (PeTCaT). The 5-year project led by my team @awi.de partners with an international team to quantify how rapid thaw contributes to climate change.
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Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires
Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...
www.science.org
October 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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By applying a tracking method to both climate models and satellite data, @davyclimate.bsky.social found that sea ice age is a more sensitive indicator of change than ice thickness or volume.
🧪🌊 Read the publication here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
🧪🌊 Read the publication here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
October 2, 2025 at 10:42 AM
By applying a tracking method to both climate models and satellite data, @davyclimate.bsky.social found that sea ice age is a more sensitive indicator of change than ice thickness or volume.
🧪🌊 Read the publication here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
🧪🌊 Read the publication here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Are you interested in seasonal forecasts and how they have advanced over the past two decades?
Chris O’Reilly (Univ. of Reading) led a new paper on exactly this: rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Chris O’Reilly (Univ. of Reading) led a new paper on exactly this: rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Evaluating seasonal forecast improvements over the past two decades
We have analysed the performance of operational seasonal forecasting models since their inception. Clear improvements are measured through the different model eras, particularly in the Tropics. For t....
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Are you interested in seasonal forecasts and how they have advanced over the past two decades?
Chris O’Reilly (Univ. of Reading) led a new paper on exactly this: rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Chris O’Reilly (Univ. of Reading) led a new paper on exactly this: rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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I may have found my defining quote.
Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!
Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!
September 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I may have found my defining quote.
Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!
Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!
We have a new paper out today taking a fresh look at sea ice age, showing how this variable offers new insights into Arctic climate change:
A Fair Assessment of Sea Ice Age Reduces Bias and Gives New Insight to Arctic Sea Ice Dynamics
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
A Fair Assessment of Sea Ice Age Reduces Bias and Gives New Insight to Arctic Sea Ice Dynamics
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
A Fair Assessment of Sea Ice Age Reduces Bias and Gives New Insight to Arctic Sea Ice Dynamics
We applied the same algorithm for diagnosing sea ice age in observations to a climate model for the first time The derived sea ice age reproduces the model dynamics but has much lower bias compar...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
We have a new paper out today taking a fresh look at sea ice age, showing how this variable offers new insights into Arctic climate change:
A Fair Assessment of Sea Ice Age Reduces Bias and Gives New Insight to Arctic Sea Ice Dynamics
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
A Fair Assessment of Sea Ice Age Reduces Bias and Gives New Insight to Arctic Sea Ice Dynamics
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
@signeaaboe.bsky.social kicking off the Sea ice Age (SAGE) project webinar to discuss current challenges and opportunities in using age to monitor sea ice change.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#ESA #SeaIce
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#ESA #SeaIce
September 19, 2025 at 7:13 AM
@signeaaboe.bsky.social kicking off the Sea ice Age (SAGE) project webinar to discuss current challenges and opportunities in using age to monitor sea ice change.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#ESA #SeaIce
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#ESA #SeaIce
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If you had the opportunity to educate the sustainable investing community about one fact, what would you want ensure it knew, above all else? My nomination: The large-scale, economy-wide asset devaluations that economists & climate scientists say will ensue if we fail to accelerate decarbonization.
September 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
If you had the opportunity to educate the sustainable investing community about one fact, what would you want ensure it knew, above all else? My nomination: The large-scale, economy-wide asset devaluations that economists & climate scientists say will ensue if we fail to accelerate decarbonization.
Those late summer rains do make for a dramatic sky
September 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Those late summer rains do make for a dramatic sky
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very intense night in Greenland a few days ago. I say 'night' because this light lasted all night.
September 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
very intense night in Greenland a few days ago. I say 'night' because this light lasted all night.
For this years Research days I'll be talking about climate change in Reisa national park in northern Norway. It's a protected area that is expected to see dramatic warming in the coming century:
September 2, 2025 at 8:59 AM
For this years Research days I'll be talking about climate change in Reisa national park in northern Norway. It's a protected area that is expected to see dramatic warming in the coming century:
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#Wildfires in Spain have reached record emissions in just one week according to our #CopernicusAtmosphere data. Heatwaves & drought are fueling fires, forcing evacuations & worsening air quality hundreds of km away. 🔥 Read the article for details
atmosphere.copernicus.eu/spain-below-...
atmosphere.copernicus.eu/spain-below-...
August 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#Wildfires in Spain have reached record emissions in just one week according to our #CopernicusAtmosphere data. Heatwaves & drought are fueling fires, forcing evacuations & worsening air quality hundreds of km away. 🔥 Read the article for details
atmosphere.copernicus.eu/spain-below-...
atmosphere.copernicus.eu/spain-below-...
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Summer 2024 featured unprecedented warmth in the European Arctic, causing melting of 1 % of the total ice volume on Svalbard.
Bad news is that in 2100 and even in the optimistic SSP1-2.6 emission scenario, 50% of the future summers will be warmer than 2024.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Bad news is that in 2100 and even in the optimistic SSP1-2.6 emission scenario, 50% of the future summers will be warmer than 2024.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
August 19, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Summer 2024 featured unprecedented warmth in the European Arctic, causing melting of 1 % of the total ice volume on Svalbard.
Bad news is that in 2100 and even in the optimistic SSP1-2.6 emission scenario, 50% of the future summers will be warmer than 2024.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Bad news is that in 2100 and even in the optimistic SSP1-2.6 emission scenario, 50% of the future summers will be warmer than 2024.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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one of the smart things that Newsom is doing here is implicitly calling out the insanity of how much Trump has been normalized by media by forcing them to think about what it looks like when somebody else does it
August 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
one of the smart things that Newsom is doing here is implicitly calling out the insanity of how much Trump has been normalized by media by forcing them to think about what it looks like when somebody else does it
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One Boston block was 94°F. Just a few streets away, it was 103°F.
Hyperlocal heat data can pinpoint where cooling projects will save the most lives (and money).
buff.ly/pgSujfI
Hyperlocal heat data can pinpoint where cooling projects will save the most lives (and money).
buff.ly/pgSujfI
Inside an urban heat island, one street can be much hotter than its neighbor – new tech makes it easier to target cooling projects
New technologies are making it easier to find these urban heat islets, opening the door to new strategies for efficiently improving community health.
buff.ly
August 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
One Boston block was 94°F. Just a few streets away, it was 103°F.
Hyperlocal heat data can pinpoint where cooling projects will save the most lives (and money).
buff.ly/pgSujfI
Hyperlocal heat data can pinpoint where cooling projects will save the most lives (and money).
buff.ly/pgSujfI
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World weather attribution rapid study on the two-week Fennoscandian heatwave is out.
The key results do not surprise:
1) the heatwave was ∼2 °C hotter and
2) at least 10 times more likely due to climate change.
www.worldweatherattribution.org/intense-two-...
The key results do not surprise:
1) the heatwave was ∼2 °C hotter and
2) at least 10 times more likely due to climate change.
www.worldweatherattribution.org/intense-two-...
Intense two-week heatwave in Fennoscandia hotter and more likely due to climate change – World Weather Attribution
www.worldweatherattribution.org
August 14, 2025 at 5:32 AM
World weather attribution rapid study on the two-week Fennoscandian heatwave is out.
The key results do not surprise:
1) the heatwave was ∼2 °C hotter and
2) at least 10 times more likely due to climate change.
www.worldweatherattribution.org/intense-two-...
The key results do not surprise:
1) the heatwave was ∼2 °C hotter and
2) at least 10 times more likely due to climate change.
www.worldweatherattribution.org/intense-two-...
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By changing our diets now, we can avoid the food chaos that climate change is bringing, says @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social
- This trajectory of climate-driven food price hikes – leading to social unrest and political decay – is not inevitable
#climatecrisis
theconversation.com/by-changing-...
- This trajectory of climate-driven food price hikes – leading to social unrest and political decay – is not inevitable
#climatecrisis
theconversation.com/by-changing-...
By changing our diets now, we can avoid the food chaos that climate change is bringing
By choosing to transform how we grow food and what we eat – rather than letting climate change dictate the pace of change – we have so much to gain.
theconversation.com
August 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
By changing our diets now, we can avoid the food chaos that climate change is bringing, says @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social
- This trajectory of climate-driven food price hikes – leading to social unrest and political decay – is not inevitable
#climatecrisis
theconversation.com/by-changing-...
- This trajectory of climate-driven food price hikes – leading to social unrest and political decay – is not inevitable
#climatecrisis
theconversation.com/by-changing-...
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Global datasets of black carbon emissions tend to be based on estimates of how much fuel is combusted incompletely. Comparing with actual measurements suggests these datasets have underestimated black carbon emissions in developing countries. 1/3
Black carbon emissions have been underestimated in the 'global south'
Black carbon, the sooty byproduct of incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, has emerged as a major contributor to climate change and human health impacts. Researchers in the McKelvey School of Enginee...
phys.org
August 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Global datasets of black carbon emissions tend to be based on estimates of how much fuel is combusted incompletely. Comparing with actual measurements suggests these datasets have underestimated black carbon emissions in developing countries. 1/3
🌞 What makes a good summer?
I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately — and decided to quantify it.
Meet the Good Summer Index (GSI): a data-driven but human-centric score of summer quality, based on things people say they actually enjoy.
Thread 👇
I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately — and decided to quantify it.
Meet the Good Summer Index (GSI): a data-driven but human-centric score of summer quality, based on things people say they actually enjoy.
Thread 👇
August 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
🌞 What makes a good summer?
I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately — and decided to quantify it.
Meet the Good Summer Index (GSI): a data-driven but human-centric score of summer quality, based on things people say they actually enjoy.
Thread 👇
I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately — and decided to quantify it.
Meet the Good Summer Index (GSI): a data-driven but human-centric score of summer quality, based on things people say they actually enjoy.
Thread 👇
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Yes. This map showing how children’s right to roam free has been removed over four generations always makes me sad.
August 6, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Yes. This map showing how children’s right to roam free has been removed over four generations always makes me sad.