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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 8h

Basically, yes. I think I said (or should have) "the carbon of every wild...". This is a poem I wrote two years back and so a few lines change over time. I now generally cut the line about burning ourselves, and of course the final few lines need to be updated from time to time.

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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 18h

Ah, thanks for recording that! The missing words are actually "3 times each day we gather up" - we really burn a lot of carbon, and have seriously decreased the mass of wild animals! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals – study

Groundbreaking assessment of all life on Earth reveals humanity’s surprisingly tiny part in it as well as our disproportionate impact

www.theguardian.com

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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 4d

I do quite a lot of this. It's mostly poetry stuff (in which case I'm usually one of the artists, e.g. experimentalwords.bandcamp.com/album/experi...), but I've also worked with musicians and a modern dancer on some other projects. Hopefully more of it will hit the internet soon!

Experimental Words, by Experimental Words

10 track album

experimentalwords.bandcamp.com

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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 4d

The lead ballet dancer is also a researcher at Imperial working on plant sciences, and was looking around for related topics after she won the Dance your PhD contest a little while ago!

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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 7d

I'll do a little talk about the science of carbon budgets before a team of dancers lead by Eleonora Moratto and her team of dancers reinterpret science in ballet at this free event:
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/livin...

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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 26d

Performing at the Patras World Poetry Festival this week - quite a lot of it should be livestreamed in case people want to see it abroad! pwpf.gr

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Hamish Beath @hamishbeath.bsky.social · Sep 3

Sharing our new paper in #NatureCommunications on solar-based mini-grids interconnecting with national grids can boost reliability, cut costs + emissions, and reduce the risk of asset stranding, co-led by @benwinchester.bsky.social & with @shivmit.bsky.social, + others! @natureportfolio.nature.com

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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · Aug 20

🙌Imperial has more authors contributing to a crucial climate report than any other organisation in the world.

Once finished, the IPCC Assessment Report 7 (AR7) report will help shape policies to tackle climate change throughout the 2030s 🧵

📰 ow.ly/BlYz50WIMpk

Imperial researchers take leading role in major IPCC climate report | Imperial News | Imperial College London

Imperial has more authors contributing to a crucial report on climate change than any other organisation in the world.

ow.ly

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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · Aug 19

We actually did, it took ~5 days to finish off leftovers and we froze some.

Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · Aug 18

What's the best tiramisu recipe? Can people tell if you make vegan versions? We ran an "experiment" to find out. scienceisshiny.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/a...

An investigation into the optimal tiramisu

Introduction Tiramisus taste great. But which is the best one? We recently ran an experiment (or, as some might call it, party) to find the best tiramisu. The aims of this experiment were: to estab…

scienceisshiny.wordpress.com

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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · Aug 18

Honoured to be selected as a lead author in the upcoming IPCC report chapter on scenarios and projected temperatures (AR7 WG1 Ch5) - looks like we'll have a great team!
For the complete list of authors, see apps.ipcc.ch/report/autho...

A table of IPCC authors for WG1 Chapter 5

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Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial @ic-cep.bsky.social · Jul 23

If 1.5°C warming is the safety line and 2°C the cliff edge, how far into the danger zone can we go?

@joerirogelj.bsky.social and @robinlamboll.bsky.social say we need a clearer, stricter upper limit, around 1.7°C, to guide policy beyond 1.5°C

The question: how close to the edge is too close?

Is it time to aim for 1.7°C as the new limit for global warming?

With the world on the cusp of passing 1.5°C of warming, scientists are turning their attention to defining a new limit for temperature rises – but not everyone agrees that we should

www.newscientist.com

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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · Jul 22

Last summer I visited my cousin's wedding in Vanuatu, an intricate and fascinating event which involved a fairly high fraction of all living speakers of the endangered language Mele. I've written a description of events here: scienceisshiny.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/m...

Mele Wedding Customs

Intro In 2024 I attended the wedding of my cousin Serah, from the South Pacific nation Vanuatu. Vanuatu has a huge cultural and linguistic diversity, with its 80 islands containing over 130 languag…

scienceisshiny.wordpress.com

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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · Jul 22

Here's a little article on what the very small carbon budget means about 1.5C and what happens after we get there. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

We're within 3 years of reaching a critical climate threshold. Can we reverse course?

A report published in June found that the world only has three years before it crosses the 1.5 C climate target. So what should we do now?

www.livescience.com

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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · Jul 15

I'll be at Scenarios Forum in Leeds from tonight - let me know if you want to meet up to discuss things!

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Prof Elizabeth J Z Robinson @profejzrobinson.bsky.social · Jul 11

More frequent & intense heatwaves are already having a measurable effect on the UK's economy. Workers' health is not sufficiently protected, affecting productivity & putting pressure on health services.
We need adaptation + investment in a low-carbon economy & an equitable transition to net zero.

Climate Centre @climatecentreuk.bsky.social · Jul 11

“The increasing heat and heatwaves are definitely going to make it yet more challenging to achieve economic growth," @profejzrobinson.bsky.social tells @telegraphnews.bsky.social.

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Britain’s heatwave is burning the economy

Rising temperatures are hitting growth and smaller businesses are struggling

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Joeri Rogelj @joerirogelj.bsky.social · Jun 19

⚠️Global warming caused by humans is advancing at 0.27°C per decade – the highest rate since records began.

This is one of the indicators updated every year by over 60 international scientists in the annual Indicators of Global Climate Change report – published today. doi.org/10.5194/essd... /1

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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · Jun 19

In case anyone is confused by the different headlines on carbon budgets today, the Guardian's 2 years value is based on a 66% chance, the 3 years comes from a 50% chance.

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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · Jun 18

3. Questions and answers are more useful than lectures, so save extra time for that (you will have to repeat bits of your lecture in the Q+A anyway).

4. Be clear about your own ignorances, particularly regarding local affairs.

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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · Jun 18

1. When in person, assume good faith during any first exchange, but also show your work (put sources, etc.) - don't assume they will assume your good faith.
2. Minimise discussion of models. Climate change is immediately obvious from measurements and people (rightly) distrust models.

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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · Jun 18

Over the weekend I talked to people at Elmbridge's citizen's assembly, giving an introduction to climate change suitable for a general audience which included several climate change skeptics. I thought I'd share some principles I work from when giving these sorts of talks:

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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · Jun 12

🧪 Lead author Hamish Beath explains our paper with a system for evaluating scenarios for climate action in a thread here:

Multidimensional graph of two scenarios ranked against a range of environmental, fairness and feasibility metrics

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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · Jun 3

Dr Eleonora Moratto will show us how ballet can be used to tell science stories at the Great Exhibition Road Festival! Featuring nature and climate research by her, @mattcscience.bsky.social, @morenamills.bsky.social and me! www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk/event/dancin...

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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · May 17

I think that's about right. If we reach net zero by 2050, aerosols will be low (unless we emit them on purpose) and it ~doesn't matter when they drop for peak temp. If we keep emitting CO2, aerosol drop matters for temporary temperature.

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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · May 16

Depends on the drop, but atmospheric concentrations aren't held fixed, so I don't think it's a useful conversion. But for any conversion to GtCO2, the whole point of a budget is it doesn't matter when you emit the CO2. Almost all paths to net zero feature a drop in aerosols at some point.

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