Climate Uncovered

The Fire-Water Axis: Why we can’t “fire-fight” our way out of climate change.

By shifting from fire as a primary recycler back to moisture-dependent decomposition, can we reverse the landscape-scale successional traps of climate…

Mar 4 • Theodore Rethers and Tom Harris

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February 2026

Earth’s Energy Imbalance: Quarter century update

Data from the NASA CERES satellite system is now available to the end of 2025. What can it tell us about warming rates, trajectories and the engagement…

Feb 25 • Tom Harris

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The Point of No Return: Are We Entering the Hothouse?

A new paper explains the growing risk of an unstoppable “Hothouse Earth” trajectory as warming accelerates and tipping points approach.

Feb 18 • Tom Harris

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The Isotope Archive: How Paleoclimate Science is Narrowing the Gap in Climate Projections

By analysing high-resolution proxies and deep-time isotopes, researchers are uncovering the Earth’s true response to rising greenhouse gas levels.

Feb 11 • Tom Harris

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Going Downhill: The Olympic Race Against a Receding Snow Line

How elevation-dependent climate change is melting the mountain cryosphere, threatening high-altitude biodiversity, water security and pushing the Winter…

Feb 4 • Tom Harris

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January 2026

The Unstable Giant: New Evidence of Greenland’s Fragile Future

Whilst US attacks on Greenland’s sovereignty create geopolitical instability, the island’s ice is rewriting the rules of global climate. No longer just…

Jan 28 • Tom Harris

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Parasol Lost: Recovery plan needed

The latest report from the Institute of Actuaries highlights climate sensitivity and geoengineering following a warning that “catastrophic warming…

Jan 21 • Tom Harris

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Choking the Carbon Pump: The invisible link between micro plastics and climate change

From inhibiting photosynthesis to disrupting the ocean’s carbon pump, micro plastics are no longer just a waste problem—they are a climate catalyst.

Jan 14 • Tom Harris

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Beyond the Canopy: The Multi-Scale Climate Impacts of Land Transformation

When we change the vegetation across a landscape, we create a cascade of effects with both short term and long terms implications that extend from the…

Jan 7 • Tom Harris and Theodore Rethers

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December 2025

My Top-10 pick of insightful climate papers of 2025

For my last article of 2025, I thought I’d look back over the climate change, paleoclimate, impacts, solutions and science papers that I found most…

Dec 17, 2025 • Tom Harris

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Permafrost emissions are on track to overtake India’s human emissions

Arctic Amplification, driving temperature increases up to 4x faster than the rest of the world, is melting Permafrost at alarming rates that will soon…

Dec 10, 2025 • Tom Harris

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The El Niño Fast Track: Could a 2026 El Niño deliver another global warming shockwave?

NOAA are predicting the return of El Niño in 2026, the first since 2023. What could this spell for global temperatures and weather extremes?

Dec 3, 2025 • Tom Harris

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