@thefosterlab
Palaeoclimatologist and isotope geochemist at the University of Southampton. Love/hate relationship with mass spectrometers. Researcher of climate science, coral reefs, biomineralisation, laser ablation, isotopes and geology. Views my own
It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.
Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) on agricultural soils is being considered as a carbon dioxide removal strategy. However, uncertainties remain regarding feedstock availability, plant-soil impacts, CDR efficiency, and socio-economic considerations, limiting large-scale deployment. 🧪
CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports By Helen Regan More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children. More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported. The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.
At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.
Excellent blog post for global surface temperature record enthusiasts 🤓 about a new preprint. 🧪⚒️
Researchers say the ancient breakup of tectonic plates creates churning waves in Earth’s mantle that tumble in slow motion under the continents for tens of millions of years, sculpting topography deep within continental interiors.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4s8GTEs #ScienceMagArchives
The richest man owns X.
The second and third richest men control Google.
The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
Here is a post by another co-author of the new paper by @joehingley.bsky.social et al. (2026) PALO @agu.org, with also @oligotobi.bsky.social, @thefosterlab.bsky.social, and @climategordon.bsky.social! 👇🏻
Yes, I re-up this paper again, because I think that it deserves it.
#AGUPubs
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#PaleoSky
The Epstein files grant us a rare glimpse into the kind of machinations that must be happening all the time. As @bylinetimes.bsky.social reveals, Trump's fixer, Steve Bannon, helped Boris Johnson overthrow Theresa May. Blatant foreign interference in our politics. 🧵
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...
What if warming doesn’t slow down but it speeds up?
A cascade of climate tipping points could push Earth toward a much hotter future, faster than expected
A new study warns of a self-reinforcing path toward “hothouse Earth”
The window to cut emissions is narrowing
www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
A study suggests that the South Atlantic is the ideal location to monitor the future weakening of the AMOC. This is because the short-term natural variability in the North Atlantic is effectively filtered out in the South. 🌊🧪 ocean2climate.org/2026/02/21/w...
Gonna post it again...
Please give it some exposure. It might not result in anything even if it got 100K signatures, but if it doesn't get any it definitely won't and we're seeing more and more evidence rather than conjecture around these murky, opaque orgs.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
#ReformUK is funded by huge donations from rich backers in the fossil fuels, finance, crypto & property industries, who'd profit massively from Reform being elected & implementing their plans to deregulate & strip away numerous legal rights that protect people & planet.
bsky.app/profile/bear...
New law will 'criminalise lying' by senior ministers
news.sky.com/story/hillsb...
"Right now, we are living in rip-off Britain."
Something the Government want you to forget...
Are you attending #OSM26? Here's when and where to connect with OCB - including our exhibit hall booth! See you soon in Glasgow!
mailchi.mp/whoi/ocb-osm26
US science funding shutdown:
Volcanism-induced collapse and recovery of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation under glacial conditions
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Record-breaking Antarctic drill reveals 23 million years of climate history swais2c.aq/media/record...
New paper out in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology: We used Cenozoic-spanning marine sediments to determine whether archived grain-size sorted sediments can be resurrected for biomarker analysis.
Great to see my first piece of PhD work published, available #openaccess: doi.org/10.1029/2025...
Exciting to see my first PhD paper published, from a great study with Sarge Bray, Tobias Agterhuis, @thefosterlab.bsky.social, Bridget Wade, Jessica Whiteside and @climategordon.bsky.social
Great Channel 4 News report on the latest #AMOC monitoring.
"Trouble is: there is now growing scientific consensus that the AMOC is weakening."
@noc.ac.uk
youtu.be/JpOpsMOBsL4?...
A new paper by @anaigmendez.bsky.social vin Geophysical Research Letters shows that the oxygen isotope ratio of the annual rings of tropical conifers in Central America records rainfall amount and tracks large-scale tropical atmosphere ocean dynamics! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
One in five children infected in the recent London measles outbreak were reportedly hospitalised.
Don’t believe the anti-vaxxers when they say “it’s a mild disease” or “it’s better to get immunity naturally”.
It isn’t.
🌊 One of the ocean's saltiest regions is freshening: What it means for circulation
phys.org/news/2026-02...
Climate extremes × demographic momentum = famine amplification
Climate change could expose >1.1 billion people to at least one severe food crisis by 2100 under high emissions
Mitigation halves the risk
theconversation.com/climate-chan...
Concerned about the Point of No Return? Today we published a paper on the risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory. You can read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mbW49C~Iu...
