Come by my poster this morning at #EGU2025

I want your perspectives on catastrophic climate risk and the impact of unprecedented extreme events.

The latest developments by Google #Quantum are exciting and we in the #climate #science & modelling community should pay close attention given the potential for solving eg. Navier-Stokes equations at exponentially faster speeds compared to classical computing!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#willow

The Scenarios Forum 2025 will be at @priestleycentre.bsky.social at the University of Leeds from 16-18 July 2025

The Call for Themes is now open until 3rd January: scenariosforum.org/themes-25/

New handle reflecting my new website: tomwood.science

🌡️ With 2024 on track to be the hottest on record, scientists from IIASA and @columbiaup.bsky.social provide the first worldwide map of high-risk regions in a new @pnas.org study.
“These regions become temporary hothouses,” says lead author Kai Kornhuber.
🔎 iiasa.ac.at/news/nov-202...

I'm quite confused by this, but I think I've decided this is a brilliant piece of art!

Mostofi and Peyravi (2024) 'Practice of neurosurgery on Saturn'

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Despite being a climate summit, COP is often held in countries that are putting their foot on the accelerator of environmental collapse.

Last year's COP was held in Dubai, and climate scientist @tomwoodscience.bsky.social was shocked by the gap between rhetoric and reality.

Initial reaction is in and Greenpeace are not impressed with the low ball numbers.

It seems #COP29 will end as yet another depressing failure, with developed countries unwilling to commit to what is needed to mitigate the most severe impacts on the world's most vulnerable communities.

$250bn by 2035 is simply not enough, and the text is, as usual, riddled with get-out clauses.

“A low risk [of really extreme warming] is not no risk. That risk exists. If that risk is so severe it’s going to be catastrophic or existential, policy makers need to be prepared.”

One of the quotes from me in this excellent piece from @rtakver.bsky.social discussing the impact of #COP29.

This is a really interesting analysis of the problems with Twitter (X) since Musk took over, and the reason I (along with many others) are migrating permanently away from that platform.

Hi everyone on Bluesky!
I'm a climate scientist at @kcl.ac.uk interested in extreme and worst-case scenario high impact, low likelihood climate change.
I aim to improve our understanding of the plausibility and possibility of potentially catastrophic unprecedented extreme weather and climate events.