Douglas Maraun

Autumn impressions from Graz. My walk to work and the central Campus. @wegenercenter.bsky.social

Das #CCCA hat heute eine Stellungnahme zu den geplanten Kürzungen in der #Klimaforschung veröffentlicht. 📣 Unser Vorstand appelliert an alle Entscheidungsträger:innen, eine nachhaltige & den aktuellen Herausforderungen angemessene Finanzierung sicherzustellen. #ACRP 👉 ccca.ac.at/fileadmin/CC...

Early October morning from the Hochschwab plateau.

Der Klimawandel – Vergangenheit, Ursachen und mögliche Zukünfte | Public Talk mit @dmaraun.bsky.social im Rahmen des OePG CMD Joint Meeting 2026 📆 22.09., 18:30 | HS P1 @tugraz.bsky.social, Petersgasse 16 Alle Infos > www.uni-graz.at/de/veranstal...

Excited to share our new perspective on Usable Compound Event Research: nhess.copernicus.org/articles/26/... We provide principles to navigate the pressing needs for more granular climate risk information in times of increasingly complex extreme weather events. @iiasa.ac.at @riskkan.bsky.social

Kürzungen bei Klimaschutz, Anpassung und Wissenschaft gefährden unsere Zukunft. Österreich braucht mehr Investitionen in Innovation und Klimaschutz, nicht weniger. Wer heute spart, zahlt morgen doppelt. Hier ist die ganze Stellungnahme zum Nachlesen: ccca.ac.at/news/detail/....

Rainfall intensity matters as much as how much rain falls. New in Nature: Corey Lesk and I show that daily-scale concentration of precipitation dries the land over the long-run, an effect as strong as total precipitation is climatological wetting. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Study with us @uni-graz.at to navigate #ClimateChange! 🎓🌱🌏 Join us for an info event on our MSc programme "Climate Change and Transformation Science" and get insights into the programme and chat with lecturers & students. 📆 18.05., 3pm CEST | online All info 👉 wegcenter.uni-graz.at/ccts

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The Royal Meteorological Society @rmets.org recently wrote a piece celebrating influential women in weather and climate. It’s well worth a read on any day, not just on International Women’s Day www.rmets.org/metmatters/t...

What is the State of the World’s Human Rights today? Our report examines 144 countries and paints a picture of States playing with a fire that threatens to scorch the future for generations to come. Read more: amn.st/63321B6A1y7

Working on climate storylines and climate risk? Then check out our new collection with @janasillmann.bsky.social, Martha Vogel & Massimiliano Pittore in Env. Res. Clim., now open for submissions: iopscience.iop.org/collections/...

This year, we were early enough. After a warm spell, followed by a cool and rainy day, we found several female Fire Salamanders on their way to give birth to their larvae.

Heute war der erste Jour Fixe der neuen Vorstandsperiode, und ich freu mich auf die neue Aufgabe als Obmann des #CCCA - gemeinsam mit @alinabrad.bsky.social @dmaraun.bsky.social et al. im Vorstand und einem großartigen Team im Servicezentrum und der Geschäftsstelle!

#DidYouKnow many conservation policies lack strong scientific evidence? The @ipbes.net #BizBiodiversity report highlights the urgent need for better data on what works and what doesn’t. Let's build a future where decisions are evidence-based! More with @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sir Ian McKellen ist für eindrucksvolle Filmrollen bekannt. Nun hat er in Stephen Colberts »Late Show« gezeigt, was er von der aktuellen US-Politik hält – mithilfe eines 400 Jahre alten Theatermonologs.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The latest European Grassland Butterfly Indicator is out. It shows that grassland butterflies have declined by 47% since 1991, indicating a huge loss of grassland biodiversity. The data come from 16,150 transects & 15,000 volunteers. We are calling for urgent action. www.bc-europe.eu/documents/69...

"Deforestation is accelerating, underscoring Indonesia’s reputation as a big GHG emitter...Gross deforestation in Indonesia in 2025 was on track to at least match 2024’s tally, which reflected the most extensive losses since 2019." news.mongabay.com/2026/01/afte... news.mongabay.com/2026/01/afte...

After a long journey: why user values, power relationships and language have to be accounted for to construct user-relevant trustworthy climate information: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... @wegenercenter.bsky.social @stefansobo.bsky.social @laurap18.bsky.social @leabdiaz.bsky.social

Putting Trump's year one into perspective. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

To be clear: the CEO's of HateAid have recently been awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit for their support of human rights and dignity. Concepts rather alien to the Trump administration. US bars five Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints online

Paper in @natcomms.nature.com: Applying fairness in subnational carbon budget allocations. Teresa Lackner, Lukas H. Meyer, Stefan Nabernegg, @karlsteininger.bsky.social & Keith Williges 👇

Trump is damaging climate science. Trump is destroying American leadership. Trump is screwing up his country and the future of its children.

Inspiring book. Lots of wisdom, humbleness and respect for nature as well as local communities and their knowledge. www.hachette.co.uk/titles/david...

Finally published: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal... Hope this paper led by @stefansobo.bsky.social will become the new standard in designing regional climate model ensembles.

📢 Don't miss #IMC25 FS 3.127 on 'Mountain futures – Assessing challenges & co-producing solutions to mountain-social-ecological futures' 🗓️ Talks: 17+18 Sept 2025 | 📍 Venue: Theologie – MS 🖼️ Posters: 17 Sept, 15:00–16:00 LT | 📍 Venue: SOWI – Garden 🔗 buff.ly/cfP74x2 👉 Join us! #OurChangingMountains

Here‘s a rare and excellent career opportunity for outstanding physical oceanographers at the Potsdam Institute (PIK) and the University of Potsdam, in beautiful surroundings just outside Berlin. Tell qualified friends or colleagues! 🌊 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

The future of climate science is more diverse, more connected, and more collaborative. We need every voice, every perspective, every mind to solve what’s ahead. WCRP is building a climate science community that reflects the world it serves. https://loom.ly/N9MP6_g #TheHeartOfClimateScience #WCRP

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As record heat continues to impact communities across the nation, this is what is in that proposed budget: 🌡️ "With this termination, NOAA will no longer support the National Integrated Heat Health Information System" (aka NIHHIS or heat[dot]gov) Page 186: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth. www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

The tongue of Rhone #Glacier ten days after my last visit. Can you guess how much ice melted away? 1️⃣ meter in terms of thickness! 1️⃣0️⃣ days... And that's just the beginning of the summer season. We know the times are bad for the ice, but still it is hard to accept these numbers!

Der neue österreichische Klimasachstandsbericht #AAR2 - schon beeindruckend, dass ein kleines Land mit einer kleinen Forscher:innen-Community so ein umfassendes und rigoroses Werk auf die Beine stellt. Freue mich, Teil davon zu sein. @ccca.ac.at @wegenercenter.bsky.social

Interested in our MSc programme with possibilities to specialise in #climate physics or social transformation? Join our info event! @wegenercenter.bsky.social @uni-graz.at

Had an inspiring talk from Dave Stainforth from @granthamlse.bsky.social today at @wegenercenter.bsky.social. What can you learn from models? How to design ensembles? And how to spend our money?

We had a really interesting talk by Mathias Rotach from @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social here at @wegenercenter.bsky.social. He showed us the complexity in modeling the mountain boundary layer, and that it is still a long way to robustly represent climate change in local mountain valleys.

When walking through the forest searching for Salamanders I thought for some seconds that nature doesn't really care about what we and politicians and Trump are doing. But while this is correct, the idea of nature as an untouched idyll is dangerously wrong and misleading kitsch.

Just got mine. Totally expected, but it still sucks. Probably the most for all the work that so many of us put in on behalf of US taxpayers that is now wasted and will never come to fruition.

Leider so stark gekürzt, dass man nur - und nur teilweise - erahnen kann, was unter robuster Information verstanden wird.

Jenseits der im Artikel geäußerten Kritik an Klöckner sollte die Frage legitim sein, ob ein Tempolimit nicht einen kleinen aber relevanten Beitrag zur Bewahrung der Schöpfung leisten kann, dieses Thema also auch aus Klöckners Sicht eines für die Kirche sein könnte.

The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research, the scientific backbone that keeps weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective. This would have disastrous consequences. Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC

Europe is fastest warming continent noted in @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social report & greenhouse gas heating +changing wind patterns are driving excess warming, particularly in winter, while less solar shading from declining aerosol particle pollution is adding to summer warmth: doi.org/10.1038/s416...

I have complained about both of my alma maters frequently so I want to share praise where praise is due. I'm proud of Harvard for finding their backbone. It's a big deal because everyone else looks to them. And godspeed to them in fighting this shakedown bullshit from the Trump administration.

Yep, I still don't think people realize how dire the situation actually is internally...