Ali Duffey

Really helpful climate graphic—can't remember seeing a plot quite like this before. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/my-new-nyt...

“Nobody has ever studied this carefully” said the people who spent 10 years threatening to tank the carrier of anybody daring to studying that thing carefully and systematically. I’m going to have a brain aneurysm before 40.

Paper out today on high-latitude low-altitude stratospheric aerosol injection (HiLLA-SAI). It's long, with literally 100s of sub-plots, so TL:DR: HiLLA-SAI is a polar-focused but still global intervention, with ~40-70% the global cooling efficiency of "normal" SAI esd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

On Friday, I'm talking with the head of Reflective, a nonprofit trying to accelerate the responsible research of solar radiation modification (SRM), ie, blocking some sunlight from reaching earth in order to cool the atmosphere. Geoengineering! Got questions?

Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth. www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery

New paper on Marine Cloud Brightening in the Arctic! Our simulations show that the introduction of sea-salt aerosols brightens clouds in the Arctic and leads to substantial Arctic cooling, which also restores Arctic sea ice. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Reading back through @eaterofsun.bsky.social 's The Planet Remade and thought this snippet about German involvement in geoengineering research was interesting. 10 years later the opposite seems true. On the other hand, the description of GeoMIP conferences fits the recent ones pretty well..

This from @outrageoptimism.bsky.social is a great intro to recent solar geoengineering developments www.outrageandoptimism.org/episodes/jac...

Our paper is published! 🎉🎉🎉 If you want to understand changes in total rainfall under warming, give this a read! Happy to chat about it with people :) agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

In 2022, archaeologists at @uni-kiel.de's @neolithicbodies.bsky.social found 34 decapitated skeletons piled in a space the size of a parking spot. In the 3 years since, they’ve found 50 more. The mass grave is evidence for the collapse of the 1st pan-European culture 7,000 years ago. @science.org 🏺💀

@aliduffey.bsky.social and I have a new response to the Siegert et al piece on geoengineering published as a commentary in Frontiers (the online version is now properly edited with the figure).

Should we start historical climate simulations in 1750 (or 1800) rather than 1850? Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century Ballinger, Schurer et al.: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

In this opinion piece, two scientists argue that the growing commercial efforts to counter climate change by reflecting away sunlight will thwart responsible research in the field.

📝 Call for all Polar Researchers to take the Science under Pressure survey! Submissions deadline is 15 November 2025 Read more and take the survey: www.rug.nl/research/arc...

Interesting new paper from Exeter colleague Jim Haywood, and previous @exeter.ac.uk PhD student Alice Wells about geoengineering - specifically what would sulphate aerosol injection do with respect to high levels of global warming 1/2. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The NYT piece quoted here is amazing. Written over 70 years ago and reads exactly like articles about this summer's Texas Rainmaker conspiracy

love this chart. It's too late for 1.5, but the fight for 2C is very much still alive

wrote about this last year and sure I wasn't in any way the only one but imo people voting for populist politics in the 21st century *is* a sign that they do just have too much faith in institutions, as opposed to not enough - they want to have their little tantrum but assume things will just hold

One of the all-time great test matches. One of the all-time great series. Topsy-turvy, up and down and, in the end, perfectly balanced. Can't say fairer than that.

The Guardian will publish scary headlines about ice sheet and AMOC collapse on a Friday, then stuff like this on a Monday: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... How are people supposed to navigate this? Is climate change an urgent problem, or not?

New opportunity: Become a DSG Fellow and contribute to building critical expertise on solar geoengineering governance. Early- or mid-career and working in climate science, policy, ethics, law, or humanities with an interest in SRM? Apply now: www.sgdeliberation.org/our-work/res...

And remember that the peak temperatures you experience in SE England in the next couple of days will be 4-5°C warmer than they would have been with similar weather patterns in the climate of a century ago.

In today's post I catch up with some #geoengineering #metaphors which I have been observing since around 2009 blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingscienc...

Feels like the 1.5C date has been coming towards us faster than we have been going towards it over the last few years

Come for the acronym puns, stay for the SAI emulator trained on data from two different ESMs across a wide range of injection strategies (great new pre-print lead by Jared Farley) egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

A rare win for the UK government 🇬🇧