The world is getting hotter faster — its pace nearly doubled in the past decade
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The world is getting hotter faster — its pace nearly doubled in the past decade
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Greetings from Kyiv.
I came to the railway station to visit an exhibition — and instead saw this:
a concert by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.
Wow. I want you to hear this.
Watch the livestream from R/V Sonne now!
MBARI scientists and engineers have joined an expedition led by the @marumunibremen.bsky.social to study the cold seeps offshore of Southern California.
www.youtube.com/live/IrJ1kVs...
Time series graph showing the Baltic Sea annual maximum ice extent in 1900-2026.
The sea ice extent in the Baltic Sea probably reached its maximum on 20 February 2026, when the extent was 181,000 km².
Based on the maximum, this was the most widespread ice cover in the Baltic Sea since 2011, and overall the 5th harshest ice winter in the 21st century.
The AMSR2 data since 2012 agrees upon the maximum. What is your data source for the long time period?
seaice.de/nh_Baltic_se...
Womöglich fällt es Merz und Reiche ja auf, wenn sie nun die Kriegsnachrichten vom Golf lesen, wie oft darin das Wortpaar "Öl und Gas" auftaucht. Huch, genau das Zeug, das sie die Deutschen noch viel länger verheizen lassen wollen! … – Mein Kommentar für @zeit.de
www.zeit.de/wissen/2026-...
Spotted them penguins 🤩
And here is the current position and track of RV Polarstern.
seaice.de/AMSR2_SIC-LE... (daily-updated)
By the way, you can currently spot a few penguins on the live camera from RV Polarstern. 🐧❄️😍 (Feb 24, 14:06)
The Panomax camera provides a high-resolution, interactive 360° view directly from the ship.
awi.panomax.com/180
#Antarctic 🌊
New paper alert 🪐🌍🧊🛰️
Bonnefoy, L. E., Prigent, C., Picard, G., Soriot, C., Le Gall, A., Kilic, L., and Jimenez, C.: Active-passive microwave scattering in the Antarctica wind-glazed region: an analog for icy moons of Saturn, The Cryosphere, 20, 1297–1314, doi.org/10.5194/tc-2..., 2026.
Photo showing a tall, jagged ice front of the Ronne Ice Shelf in West Antarctica rising above the calm surface of the Weddell Sea. Credit: Torsten Albrecht / PIK.
🔔🚨 New Publication Alert!
Research has shown that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a climate tipping element.
We found: it’s not one — it’s many.
📄 Paper (open access): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📢 Press release: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
Tread below 🧵👇
U.S. annual electric power sector generation by source billion kilowatthours forecast Solar is now the dominant source of new U.S. power capacity and is on track to surpass coal in total installed capacity before the end of 2026. 70 GW of new solar capacity is scheduled to come online in 2026–2027 → a 49% increase in operating solar capacity from the end of 2025. 4,500 4,000 3,500 3,000 solar wind hydropower 2,500 natural gas 2,000 1,500 coal 1,000 nuclear 500 0 other 2021 2023 2025 2027 eia share of total U.S. generation forecast 45% 40% 35% 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% 2021 2023 2025 2027 Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Short-Term
This is why Donald Trump had to be made president by his fossil fuel handlers: desperation. Why he fights climate science on their behalf: desperation.
US media have failed miserably at pointing out the lies and the damage the climate crisis is doing already. Solar still wins.
If someone looks for a sea-ice related job in industry: driftnoise.com/senior-posit...
For all German speakers out there:
This month's #SCARCBET feature highlights @awi.de "Komm an Bord"! I
Sandra and Steffi are heading to Antarctica on board the research icebreaker RV Polarstern and will be sharing their journey along the way:
🛳️ www.awi.de/forschung/na...
Polarstern-centered sea-ice animation with recent ship track
seaice.de/AMSR2_SIC-LE...
The SWOS Polarstern has just started, heading into a rapidly changing Southern Ocean 🌊
www.awi.de/en/about-us/... #Antarctic #Climate
“He said Russian actions in the far north had generally been less aggressive than those in the Baltic Sea.
“So far, what we have seen of airspace violation in our area has been misunderstandings. Russia is conducting a lot of [GPS] jamming, and we think that the jamming also affects their aircraft.”
AWI’s gain is IARC’s loss
Portrait Hajo Eicken
Prof. Dr Hajo Eicken is the new director of the Alfred Wegener Institute! Born in Bremerhaven, the glaciologist will relocate from Alaska to take up his position as scientific director on 20 March. 🎉⚓
www.awi.de/en/about-us/...
@helmholtz.de
📸: University of Alaska Fairbanks
🧊 1/n Freue mich schon sehr auf die Führung durch die tolle Ausstellung #ColdAsIce in der Weserburg in #Bremen am kommenden Sonntag (15.02.2026 um 11:30 Uhr). Es geht um Kälte in der Kunst und Gesellschaft.
@awi.de
weserburg.de/veranstaltun...
Learn more about EDGE, and join us in congratulating Dr. Fricker and the EDGE team! ⤵️
scripps.ucsd.edu/news/uc-san-...
Polarstern will be departing Punta Arenas for the Weddell Sea🚢 Until April, an AWI-led team will study sea ice, ice shelves, and ocean interactions in this key climate region, where summer sea ice has declined since 2017, presumably as a result of warmer surface water.
www.awi.de/en/about-us/...
Antarctic sea ice is made of thousands of moving pieces.
New research shows how we can map and measure them from close-range images, even in winter conditions.
dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...
Sea ice thickness map from satellites
Sea ice thickness map from FMI
Also nice to see that your maps agree quite well to our sea ice thickness product.
data.marine.copernicus.eu/-/zink2qbge7
📣 New research by Rachel Tilling examines how different satellites track Arctic sea ice 'leads' and 'floes'. This is crucial for understanding how sea ice is changing seasonally and over the longer-term.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
📢 We are hiring at MET!
Position 1 (location in Tromso or Oslo)
Focus on climate and sea ice remote sensing using passive microwave sensors
👉 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
🕒 2-year position linked to projects with ESA.
Please help spread the word and boost 🦋⏩📧
#Climate #SeaIce #RemoteSensing
New preprint alert!
This manuscript is now open for discussion and under review in Earth Observation (EO).
🌍🛰️ Bonus: it’s the very first preprint for the new @egu.eu Journal!
egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... @jlbamber.bsky.social @egu-cr.bsky.social
@egu-cl.bsky.social
New preprint alert!
This manuscript is now open for discussion and under review in Earth Observation (EO).
🌍🛰️ Bonus: it’s the very first preprint for the new @egu.eu Journal!
egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... @jlbamber.bsky.social @egu-cr.bsky.social
@egu-cl.bsky.social
