Peter Thorne

@peterthorne.bsky.social

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Climate scientist, director ICARUS Climate Research Centre, Maynooth University, Ireland, author IPCC AR6, member Ireland's climate change advisory council, Chair GCOS AOPC. www.peter-thorne.net

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Peter William Thorne is a climatologist and professor of physical geography in the Department of Geography, Maynooth University.

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Geography 19%

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Nature Nomad @naturecompass.bsky.social · 4h

Incredible footage of volcanic eruption of a dormant volcano in Ethiopia from a commercial plane.

A sight seen for the first time in recorded history. ⌚

Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 5h

Anyway, at Bergamo after a bit of a hold up arising from a articulated truck that had been utterly engulfed by flames. Just Milan, Naples, Lyon and Paris to go.

Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 5h

There's something rather incongruous about one of the bus stops being at an airport served mainly by low cost airlines that are the source of much of what is wrong with modern travel priorities and costings structures if we are to ever get serious about addressing transport sector emissions.

Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 7h

bsky.app/profile/pete... not a joke but might help you feel a little less alone in transport pain at least.

Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 9h

Home for the next 16 hours thanks to Italian strike tomorrow buggering up the train legs to Paris.

Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 8h

So long as it doesn’t end up like this bsky.app/profile/anne...

Anders :) 🇧🇻🏳️‍🌈 @annesh.no · 2d

So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.

Four articulated buses blocking each other in a roundabout making them stuck.

Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 9h

When they said green travel I really wasn’t thinking the bus decor tbh

Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 9h

Home for the next 16 hours thanks to Italian strike tomorrow buggering up the train legs to Paris.

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Josef Aschbacher @josefaschbacher.esa.int · 9h

22.1 billion euros subscribed.
A record.
A first.
And a clear message that Europe is serious about space and that @esa.int is the agency it trusts to deliver.

A historic Ministerial. A united Europe. A stronger ESA.
www.esa.int/About_Us/Cor...

ESA Member States commit to largest contributions at Ministerial

The largest contributions in the history of the European Space Agency, €22.1 bn, have been approved at its Council meeting at Ministerial level in Bremen, ...

www.esa.int

Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 17h

He’s travelling light

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An Garda Síochána @garda.ie · 17h

👀 Can you see me now?

The importance of visibility on our roads cannot be understated, particularly for vulnerable road users including pedestrians, cyclists, e-scooter drivers and motorcyclists.

#CanYouSeeMeNow #KeepingPeopleSafe

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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 1d

I've seen many negative comments about the 3p per mile road tax for electric cars UK gov have announced in the budget. I don't know the details yet, I know the complaints will die down but the impact on regular people switching to EVs will definitely take a hefty knock.

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Jonathan Frewin @jonfrewin.bsky.social · 1d

I thought I might try the same experiment with a bit more context, and - I dunno - it seems to have stumbled a bit with the basic facts…

Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed

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Becca Thorne @beccathorne.bsky.social · 1d

After a couple of tweaks, I think this is done. I don’t want to do too much to it.
Oil on linen, 100 x 100cm. I’ll be adding it to my website: www.artachart.com so do message me if interested in buying it.
#oilpainting #landscape #mountains #hills #irishartist #darkness

A dark painting of a valley, surrounded by hills. Limited palette (predominantly browns and greens) with suggestion of path or waterways and rocks. A narrow strip of pale blue-grey sky, with minimal white clouds above the left hand side of the ridge.

Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 1d

I believe so

Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve had worse commutes

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Anders :) 🇧🇻🏳️‍🌈 @annesh.no · 2d

So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 3d

Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Jenni Barclay, Christina Pagel

Antonio Vecoli (@tonyveco on X) @tonyveco.bsky.social · 3d

🔴⚠️🌋🇪🇹After more than 10000 years,the 1st historical #eruption of #HayliGubbi #volcano has occurred in E. #Ethiopia, producing an eruptive column that reached more than 18km of height on Nov.23.⬇️Meteosat12 animation of RGB Ash product of the huge gas & ash plume moving eastward.

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 3d

russian tracking device found by UK scuba divers near Wales. The recovered object was a russian RGB-1A sonar buoy. Relative lack of marine growth, suggests that they were likely dropped recently.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

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EUMETSAT @eumetsat.int · 3d

An eruption from the #HayliGubbi volcano in #Ethiopia resulted in a large ash cloud, visible here from space. 🌋

This impressive view was seen 36,000km above Earth by our Meteosat-12 satellite on 23 November at 13:40 UTC.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.

Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.

ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.

Reposted by Glen P. Peters, Peter Thorne, Tom Shakespeare , and 1 more Glen P. Peters, Peter Thorne, Tom Shakespeare, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 4d

This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals

a drawing of a boat heating torwads an iceberg - lower temps still collide with ice but not as badly.

Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 4d

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 4d

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Steve Peers, Edgar Morgenroth , and 2 more Peter Thorne, Steve Peers, Edgar Morgenroth, Mary Corcoran, Ben Tonra

DJ Francois @djfrancois.bsky.social · 4d

what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland

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Bob King @bkingdc.bsky.social · 5d

#COP30 "exposed the world as it is — haltingly and slowly tackling climate pollution, and fragmented by rising economic nationalism and protectionism, rather than the united, optimistic community of nations that produced the Paris climate agreement 10 years ago."

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

The world is fractured. The climate talks reflected that.

Delegates from nearly 200 nations — not including the U.S. — showed they could make some progress. But they deferred the hardest decisions.

www.politico.com

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Chris McLaren @chrismclaren.com · 5d

As I always say when some right-winger starts going on about "red tape that slows innovation", every regulation on the books represents a lesson we as a society learned the hard way, and then encoded so we wouldn't forget. It's someone's blood & pain.

Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 5d

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 5d

AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨‍🍳 😘

The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.

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Rob Larter @polarrobs.bsky.social · 5d

🧵 After 30 years of COP meetings we are still stuck with
> countries being urged to "voluntarily" accelerate their action to reduce their use of fossil fuels.
> no agreement on a roadmap to halt deforestation

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

COP30: UN climate talks fail to secure new fossil fuel promises

Nearly 200 countries attended COP30, which aimed to commit the world to take more action on climate change.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 5d

Two billion kids would REALLY appreciate it if we did more about this than just make a few non-binding promises every year & then instantly forget about them.
#COP30

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