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Peter Thorne
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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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Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment @deptcee.bsky.social · 1h
📢 Just Transition Commission: Call for Experts
Expert Focus: Applicants must have expertise in rural development.
Deadline to Apply: 12 December
Learn More & Apply: Visit www.gov.ie/JTC/News
Promotional poster for the Just Transition Commissioner from the Government of Ireland, inviting expressions of interest. The design features green geometric shapes and white text against a dark background.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 3h
SCOOP: Carbon Brief has exclusively obtained a list of 84 countries "opposed" to adding a fossil-fuel roadmap to COP30 deal – but our analysis found a series of contradictions & likely errors

For eg 14 on list are also roadmap "supporters"

Read more➡️

www.carbonbrief.org/...

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Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · 6h
Meet the Co-Chairs Leading AMOC in Focus

Introducing Hans Pörtner and Gerard McCarthy as the Co-Chairs of the newly launched Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) Report—AMOC in Focus, a joint assessment by JPI Climate and JPI Oceans.

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#cop30 #amoc #climatescience #oceancirculation #jpioceans #jpiclimate | JPI Oceans
Meet the Co-Chairs Leading AMOC in Focus Introducting Hans Pörtner and Gerard McCarthy as the Co-Chairs of the newly launched Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) Knowledge Report ini...
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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 7h
Paris!
The Seine

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 8h
So close to Paris that the distance markers have become every 100m rather than every km (I suspect the prosaic reason for this is emergency service dispatchers needing greater locations specificity because there are a lot more prangs close in to Paris, but still ...)

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 8h
I was thinking more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-... (45km out from Paris now)
Europe - The Final Countdown (Official Video)
YouTube video by EuropeVEVO
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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 10h
They’ve finally given us a 15 minute stop at some services. So I have managed to procure the pain au chocolat suggested by @davidho.bsky.social along with a coffee. Feeling vaguely more human

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 10h
Springer Nature tells @jacksonwryan.com that Scientific Reports paper about autism with the nonsensical figure will be retracted.
nobreakthroughs.substack.com

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 11h
The world is starting to come once more into technicolour about half way between Lyon and Paris. Hardly slept but then that’s not unusual on transport of any form. Relaxed enough. Messages about cancelled/ delayed/changing trains give me confidence I made the right call.

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Nature Nomad @naturecompass.bsky.social · 20h
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. ⌚

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 21h
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.

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 21h
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.

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 23h
bsky.app/profile/pete... not a joke but might help you feel a little less alone in transport pain at least.
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Home for the next 16 hours thanks to Italian strike tomorrow buggering up the train legs to Paris.
Flixbus seat My chariot to Paris

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 1d
So long as it doesn’t end up like this bsky.app/profile/anne...
annesh.no Anders :) 🇧🇻🏳️‍🌈 @annesh.no · 3d
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.

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 1d
When they said green travel I really wasn’t thinking the bus decor tbh

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 1d
Home for the next 16 hours thanks to Italian strike tomorrow buggering up the train legs to Paris.
Flixbus seat My chariot to Paris

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Josef Aschbacher @josefaschbacher.esa.int · 1d
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, ...
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 1d
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 1d
He’s travelling light
Blair Trewin travels light

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An Garda Síochána @garda.ie · 1d
👀 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…

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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.

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 2d
I believe so

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 2d
I’ve had worse commutes
Venice canal View across the lagoon to the alps View over to snow covered alps Americas cup yacht from 1992

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Citizen Wolf @citizenw0lf.bsky.social · 2d
Drivers are never not at it.

This guy was texting on his phone and managed to forget to turn. He ended up driving straight into the segregated cycle-lane.

But hey, remember folks, dress in head-to-toe HiViz when out walking or cycling.

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Anders :) 🇧🇻🏳️‍🌈 @annesh.no · 3d
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.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 3d
Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/

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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.