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AMOC weakening declared a national security threat
Iceland has declared the AMOC a national security threat and an existential risk in the coming decades, enabling its Government to prepare for…
 • Tom Harris
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…
 • Tom Harris
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?
 • Tom Harris
We cannot negotiate with the melting point of ice.
The 2025 State of the Cryosphere Report reveals accelerating losses of ice sheets, mountain glaciers, sea ice and permafrost. This impacts everyone, but…
 • Tom Harris
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…
 • Tom Harris
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.
 • Tom Harris
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…
 • Tom Harris
Are Earth’s natural carbon sinks collapsing?
Atmospheric CO2 levels jumping a record 3.5ppm in 2024, while human emissions remained largely constant. This suggests reduced carbon absorption by land…
 • Tom Harris
2050 is less than 25 years away!
OK that’s obvious, but the point is that 2050 is much more relevant than 2100 for climate predictions. For one thing, most of us are likely to still be…
 • Tom Harris
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…
 • Tom Harris
Earth's Energy Imbalance - half year update
The NASA CERES satellite data is now available up to June, so at this half year point, its a good time to look at the recent trends and warming drivers.
 • Tom Harris
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.
 • Tom Harris
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