Sam Burgess
Climate | ocean | science policy & diplomacy | Copernicus Climate Change Service, @ECMWF | Partner to @edhawkins.org | ex 🐼 | Views own | 🌍 🌡🌊 🛰 🪸| Born on Wurundjeri Country | 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺 |
www.pulse.climate.copernicus.eu
- Peak wisteria at RHS Wisley this weekend - stunning, fragrant and filled with buzzing bees 🌸🌱🐝🧪
- Globally, April 2025 was the second-hottest April on record, continuing the long sequence of months over 1.5ºC above pre-industrial. Continuous #climate monitoring is an essential tool for understanding and responding to the ongoing changes of our climate system. 🌡️🧪⚒️🌊🌎🛰️
- Reposted by Sam BurgessSea ice data on @polarportal is from European @osi_saf group, sea ice thickness + Greenland surface mass balance is from @dmidk.bsky.social's operational models + #GRACE satellite data is from our partners @dtucryo created as part of the @esaclimate.. ❄️🥼⚒️🧪⛏️🌊 […]
- The Arctic is one of the fastest changing places due to climate change. To stop monitoring the polar regions is the equivalent of burying our proverbial collective head in the sand ❄️🧪⚒️🌡️🛰️🌏
- This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data. "As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported." nsidc.org/data/user-re...
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- How are #heatwaves changing in #Europe? According to the European #Climate Report, 2024 saw: 🌡️ Record-breaking ‘strong heat stress’ days and tropical nights in southeastern Europe during summer 🥵 In recent decades, heat has been the leading cause of reported deaths due to extreme weather 🌍🧪⚒️🌡️🌊
- Peak bluebell in Oxfordshire. Love this time of year - the fragrance of a bluebell wood is exquisite! 🌸🌱🧪🌍 #bluebell #spring
- Really exciting sounding knowledge exchange for climate/energy policy with Prof Dave Brayshaw @unirdg-met.bsky.social #job #recruiting #climate #energy 🧪⚒️🌏🔋
- The #ClimateStripes are arguably one of the most compelling #dataviz of our generation! Check out @edhawkins.org latest paper on their development and impact. Delighted to contribute alongside @elliehighwood.bsky.social @weatherprof.bsky.social, Bern from @climatecentral.org and others. 🧪⚒️🌏🌊🌡️
- Is Europe experiencing more flooding? Yes! 2024 saw the most widespread flooding since 2013, with 30% of European rivers exceeding the 'high' flood threshold and 12% exceeding the 'severe' flood threshold For more @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social check out: climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2024/f... 🌏🛰️🧪⚒️🌊⛈️
- Interested in how #Climatechange is impacting Europe? 🗻 Alpine glaciers are shrinking rapidly - 50 years of change in one graphic Huge kudos to @annalombardi.bsky.social for this spectacular #dataviz in the @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social European Climate Report 🧪⚒️❄️🛰️🗺️
- The @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social and @wmo-global.bsky.social European State of the Climate Report is launched today 🌐 more than 40 datasets 👩🔬 over 100 scientists 🗺️ > 130 charts and graphics Check it out: climate.copernicus.eu/ESOTC 🌏🌡️🧪⚒️🌊🛰️
- 1000% this ⬇️
- Reposted by Sam BurgessAir pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.
- In March 2025 @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social show that: 📉 Arctic sea ice reached its lowest monthly extent for March in the 47-year satellite record, at 6% below average #SeaIce #Arctic #ClimateAction 🌍⚒️🧪❄️🌊
- Latest from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social shows March 2025 continued to break temperature records 🌡️ Warmest March for Europe 📈 Second warmest March globally, 1.60°C above the pre-industrial level 🌍 20th month in the last 21 months more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial level #climate 🛰️🧪⚒️🗺️
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- Peak cherry blossom in Berkshire, UK 🌸🌱☀️
- On the first World Glacier Day the evidence is alarming: 🧊 2023 saw a record annual mass loss of global glaciers 🗻 The years with the largest global glacier mass loss have all occurred since 2019 🌊 Estimates indicate the 2023 mass loss contributed ~1.7 mm to global mean sea level rise #glacier 🧪⚒️🌏
- First coat free day of 2025! Welcome spring ☀️🌸
- Check out the new ERA explorer from @ecmwf.int Snapshot from Svalbard - one of the fastest warming places on our planet. Explore your own location and understand local climatologies and changes era-explorer.climate.copernicus.eu 🧪⚒️🌏🌐🌊📈
- Check out our new @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social explorer! ERA5 data to explore at your fingertips #dataviz 🌏🛰️⚒️🧪🌡️
- I came across this wiki list which is a fantastic initiative but woefully underrepresented! Help me out #bluesky, #academicsky, #climatesky, #feministsky Let’s add hundreds more names to this list 🧪⚒️🌊🌍🛰️🗺️📢
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- Yes, February 2025 was *only* the 3rd warmest February, but we are no longer in a La Niña phase
- Latest @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social data shows One of the consequences of a warmer world is melting sea ice. 📉 Daily global sea ice extent reached a new all-time minimum 🌡️ February 2025 was 3rd warmest February globally, 1.59°C above the 1850-1900 average 🌍🛰️🌡️⚒️🧪🌊 #ClimateAction
- Reposted by Sam BurgessHi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week. "...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
- Reposted by Sam BurgessOne of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.
- Cracking #dataviz by the @theguardian.com team with insights and data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social Julien Nicolas Stand out statistic for me from the analysis: 🌍 In 2024, 65% of the Earth’s surface had at least one month hotter than ever recorded 🛰️🧪⚒️🌊🌡️ #climateaction
- The @ecmwf.int AI forecast model is now operational 🙌 🌐 AIFS outperforms physics-based models for many events, including tropical cyclone tracks, with gains of <20% 🆓 AIFS is open and has 24/7 support for our community Congratulations to @fpappenberger.bsky.social and all involved 🌏🛰️🧪⚒️
- It's been quite a start to 2025... and we're still only 5 weeks into the year Carl Sagan made this speech in 1990, the wisdom of these compelling arguments still holds true 35 years later. 🧪⚒️🌡️🔥⛈️ The evidence is clear, the risks are real, our choices matter 💙💙🤍💛🧡❤️♥️💔
- Reposted by Sam BurgessNEW RESEARCH: The amount of tiny, shard-like particles of plastic, especially polyethylene, is rising in human brain tissue in tandem with their rising concentration in the environment and is higher in the brains of people with dementia. Maybe…let’s fund science? 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Latest data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social shows: January 2025 was the warmest January globally on record 🌡️ 1.75ºC above pre-industrial level 🌊 Second highest global SST, 0.19°C below January 2024 #ClimateAction 🧪⚒️🌍
- Science save lives! Defunding science and deleting data that has been paid by the public through taxes is this millennium's version of burning books #opendata 🧪🌐
- This #art exhibition in #Melbourne (Narrm) looks amazing - but it's only on for 10 days. The #Climatecrisis is: 📈 caused by humans 🔥 increasing the intensity and severity of #fire weather Art reaches people in ways that #science and #opendata can not 🌏🌡️🧪⚒️🌐🛰️🔥
- Reposted by Sam BurgessThe most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
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- Reposted by Sam BurgessDid climate change contribute to the LA wildfires? Yes "human-induced warming from burning fossil fuels made the peak January Fire Weather Index more intense, with an estimated 6% increase in intensity, and 35% more probable" Barnes et al (2025) www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
- Great resources listed to protect data at risk of deletion #opendata 🧪⚒️🌊🗺️🛰️⚕️
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- Science saves lives! #weather warning for #stormeowyn from Met Eireann Potential Impacts: Danger to life Unsafe working conditions Many fallen trees Significant power outages Impacts to communications networks Wave overtopping Coastal flooding Stay safe everyone 🌀⛈️🧪🌍⚒️
