I find the obsession with Global Mean XYZ meaningless. Societally irrelevant.

GMT was necessary when change wasn't as obvious, ie in the 1980s or 1990s.
Today, regional impact stats and collapse thresholds are societally relevant. Both, to inform policy and to inform the public.
1.5°C stays relevant as enshrined binding international law. And maybe for climate litigation; all countries' governments in Paris accepted damages from up to 1.5°C.

I imagine a parallel world where climate scientists KNOW that #ClimateChange is an accepted fact, and Copernicus doesn't title a "Warmest year on record", trapped in the forever-loop of trying to convince climate trolls.

But instead, Copernicus has the intellectual free space for societally relevant scoops: "Year where C-C shatters the most livelihoods in South America" or
"Year of largest harvest loss in both, East Europe and South Asia".

#RCPcollapse #GlobalMean #Globalwarming #ClimateCommunication #SciCom

A masterclass in #SciCom from the #sendungmitdermaus archive this morning! I honestly think my 4 y.o. now knows how ion exchange resin in our washing machine works

https://www.wdrmaus.de/filme/sachgeschichten/spuelmaschine.php5

Over the last half year, I created short form videos on #scicom and AI for the german broadcaster SWR. The show now goes into a short break between seasons:

https://ard.social/@ki_und_koffein/116255110080411514

My first cover of 2026
"Spontaneous behavior is a succession of self-directed tasks"
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

#sciArt #Scicom #illustration #neuroscience #behavior #coverart

RE: https://mastodon.nudecri.unicamp.br/@comciencia/116155195607072189

"Durante muito tempo, a História enquanto disciplina científica apresentou uma visão muito limitada sobre aquilo que poderia ser utilizado como fonte de pesquisa. Não à toa, foi só no último século que os acadêmicos deixaram de olhar exclusivamente para fontes de pesquisa histórica consolidadas, como cartas, diários, jornais e legislações, e passaram a se abrir – ainda que a passos lentos – para o estudo do passado e do presente a partir de documentos de outras naturezas, como as histórias em quadrinhos (HQs), que mesclam textos e imagens de forma estilizada."

Bom demais o Dossiê que acabou de publicar a @comciencia sobre Quadrinhos.

#quadrinhos #scicom #jornalismocientifico

You probably all read the paper or an article about the new Hothouse paper
https://www.cell.com/one-earth/abstract/S2590-3322(25)00391-4

I was thinking... how come, the scientists involved still take the global and long-term perspective when they surely must know that it is incapable of getting the urgency across?

Alright the first Hothouse paper from 2018 was the one that shook ME awake https://pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1810141115 So another take along the same lines is warranted assuming that it can have a similar effect on a newly awakened citizenry.

But IMO, societally-relevant research and publications should no longer take the global and long-term perspective.

For example, look at the UK National Security Briefing where scientists (and a general) lecture us on the dire future for UK citizens. Everyone in the audience faces these threats in their own lifetime and in their own neighbourhood.
The presenting scientists deliberately chose the near-term worst-case scenario results (from peer-reviewed research).
My perception is that since the NE briefing, a growing group of British climate and ecology scientists are bolder in their messaging.

They let go the un-emotional, balanced, number- and uncertainty-laden "would" "could" "might" language. They let go the language of their professional pride, so to say.

In order to convey societally relevant research results.

#climateChange #SciCom #UKNationalEmergencyBriefing #Hothouseearth