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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · Sep 4

Heat & very dry air that used to be rare, now very common in Spain & Portugal, putting huge strain on EU firefighting resources - at 1.3C global warming. Every additional ton of fossil fuels burnt will make European summers even more deadly & dangerous www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-fire...

a graph of high temperatures, daily severity rating and radiative power, showing how heat and DSR built up before fires broke out

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Raúl F. Millares @millares.bsky.social · Sep 3

Las imágenes de @pedroarmestre.bsky.social para @greenpeace.es tras los incendios de este verano son...

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Paisaje de montañas calcinadas con varias pistas y cortafuegos que destacan en color tierra sobre el manto negro.

Paisaje de montañas calcinadas con una pequeña zona arbolada aún verde en medio de del color gris negruzco de las cenizas.

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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · Sep 2

📷 | El fotógrafo Pedro Armestre, de la mano de Greenpeace, ha documentado gran parte de las zonas arrasadas por el fuego en Galicia y Castilla y León, con imágenes de lugares casi inaccesibles

Los incendios de Ourense, León y Zamora, fotografiados desde el aire

El fotógrafo Pedro Armestre, de la mano de Greenpeace, ha documentado gran parte de las zonas arrasadas por el fuego en Galicia y Castilla y León, con imágenes de lugares casi inaccesibles

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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · Aug 19

#Wildfires in Spain have reached record emissions in just one week according to our #CopernicusAtmosphere data. Heatwaves & drought are fueling fires, forcing evacuations & worsening air quality hundreds of km away. 🔥 Read the article for details
atmosphere.copernicus.eu/spain-below-...

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Madeleine Cuff @tinymaddie.bsky.social · Aug 8

Europe's current climate could produce a 'mega heatwave', feat. more than a month of +40C temps & intense drought

Extra scary fact: The worst-case heatwaves occur predominantly after another extreme heatwave. In other words, rolling waves of deadly heat

www.newscientist.com/article/2491...

Europe could face weeks of 40°C heat in current worst-case scenario

A perfect storm of conditions priming the atmosphere for extreme heat could result in devastating droughts and deadly temperatures lasting for weeks across Europe

www.newscientist.com

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Francesco Giardina @francescogiardina.bsky.social · Jun 19

Can we trust Earth system models to locate and quantify land-surface water stress?

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Thank you @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social, @ryanpad.bsky.social, Benjamin Stocker and Dominik Schumacher

Large biases in the frequency of water limitation across Earth system models - Communications Earth & Environment

CMIP6 Earth system models overestimate the frequency of water-limited conditions on land, by about 14% globally and 26% in the tropics, according to analyses using solar-induced fluorescence, satellit...

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Laura Suarez-Gutierrez @drlaurasuarez.bsky.social · Apr 29

Happening today! #EGU25

Laura Suarez-Gutierrez @drlaurasuarez.bsky.social · Apr 27

#EGU25 is about to start!

If you're there, check out our session on High-impact Climate Extremes on Tuesday, room 🟨 F1

🧪: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

With many exciting talks, including the CL Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by
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Lily-belle Sweet @lilybellesweet.bsky.social · Apr 28

Transdisciplinary coordination is essential for advancing agricultural modelling with machine learning. The opportunities are great, but to avoid pitfalls, we need to establish benchmarks, evaluation criteria and best practices. Our perspective: www.cell.com/one-earth/fu... @cp-oneearth.bsky.social

Transdisciplinary coordination is essential for advancing agricultural modeling with machine learning

Crop models play a key role in understanding and improving the climate-change resilience of food systems. If appropriately used, machine learning can help tackle some of the critical challenges of agr...

www.cell.com

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Laura Suarez-Gutierrez @drlaurasuarez.bsky.social · Apr 27

Co-convened by @erichfischer.bsky.social, @edhawkins.org, Henrique Goulart & Antonio Sanchez.

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Laura Suarez-Gutierrez @drlaurasuarez.bsky.social · Apr 27

#EGU25 is about to start!

If you're there, check out our session on High-impact Climate Extremes on Tuesday, room 🟨 F1

🧪: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

With many exciting talks, including the CL Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by
@kornhuber.bsky.social

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Carlos Calvo-Sancho @ccalvosa.bsky.social · Apr 25

Heading to #EGU25? Curious about how climate change boosted Valencia's floods in October 2024?

Don't miss our talk next Tuesday, April 29, at 09:45 AM in Session CL3.2.4 in Room F1! 🌍📢 #ClimateChange #StormDynamics

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Eduardo Alastrué de Asenjo @edualastrue.bsky.social · Apr 25

What better way to prepare for #EGU25 than to calculate the mean temperature in Vienna during the conference for each year since the @egu.eu was established 🤓📈 Considering the current weather forecast for next week, this edition we might have a record year 🌡️

Time series of daily mean temperatures averaged for each EGU General Assembly (2005-2024). Data: ERA5

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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · Mar 11

How to stop being surprised by unprecedented weather?

Transformative adaptation, foundation for long-term resilience, supported by incremental adaptation through upgrading existing infrastructure, and reactive adaptation - early action and disaster response.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How to stop being surprised by unprecedented weather

Nature Communications - Unprecedented weather events are increasingly impacting societies worldwide. This Perspective explores methods to anticipate such hazards, and it highlights the role of...

www.nature.com

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Timo Kelder @timokelder.bsky.social · Mar 11

1/ How to Stop Being Surprised by Unprecedented Weather

Our new @naturecomms.bsky.social paper provides our multi-author perspective on methods to anticipate extreme weather and reduce impacts, shifting from reacting with surprise towards resilience.

🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · Mar 11

It's hard to comprehend the scale at which supertrawlers are murdering life in the oceans.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · Mar 11

How to stop being surprised by unprecedented weather

Kelder et al. discusses a multitude of ways that we could anticipate unprecedented weather events that might otherwise be a surprise

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How to stop being surprised by unprecedented weather

Nature Communications - Unprecedented weather events are increasingly impacting societies worldwide. This Perspective explores methods to anticipate such hazards, and it highlights the role of...

rdcu.be

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Erich Fischer @erichfischer.bsky.social · Mar 11

We have seen many record-shattering and unprecedented weather extremes in recent years. In the paper led by @timokelder.bsky.social we review methods on how to stop being surprised by the next one.

Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · Mar 11

How to stop being surprised by unprecedented weather

Kelder et al. discusses a multitude of ways that we could anticipate unprecedented weather events that might otherwise be a surprise

rdcu.be/ecWQF

How to stop being surprised by unprecedented weather

Nature Communications - Unprecedented weather events are increasingly impacting societies worldwide. This Perspective explores methods to anticipate such hazards, and it highlights the role of...

rdcu.be

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ClimateDynamics @climatedynamics.bsky.social · Feb 23

We have described and made available through Nature Scientific Data our global high resolution bias corrected CMIP6 derived wet-bulb and wet-bulb globe temperature data and codes. This is currently the most accurate formulation of these metrics available. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A global high-resolution and bias-corrected dataset of CMIP6 projected heat stress metrics - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - A global high-resolution and bias-corrected dataset of CMIP6 projected heat stress metrics

www.nature.com

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Colin Raymond @regclimo.bsky.social · Feb 4

For extreme heat, each year seems to bring fresh examples of precedents being surpassed — in heat severity, but also in understanding of its physics and risks. A group of us led by Tom Matthews and Radley Horton have assembled a review of this knowledge whirlwind: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Extreme heat is increasing in magnitude and frequency, threatening human health. This Review assesses mortality risk associated with extreme heat, revealing that human thermal tolerances (that is, unc...

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · Jan 14

physics of climate impacts 101:
- Stuff gets hot (worse heatwaves)
- Hot air holds more water vapor (heavier rainfall)
- Hot air is thirstier air (higher drought risk)
- Warm water is hurricane food (stronger storms)
- Hot water expands and hot ice melts (sea level rise)

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Jan 15

NEW – Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2024 | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org

Read here: https://buff.ly/4heAVMH

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Flavio Lehner @climateflavors.bsky.social · Jan 15

Not that we really need more ways to show how unusually warm 2024 was...

Here's the joyplot updated with the past year.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Jan 14

This campaign is so good & so important. Please support it!

'Free Our Feeds' campaign aims to billionaire-proof Bluesky’s tech | TechCrunch

The initiative, Free Our Feeds, aims to protect Bluesky’s underlying technology, the AT Protocol, and leverage it to create an open social media ecosystem that can’t be controlled by a single company ...

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Laura Suarez-Gutierrez @drlaurasuarez.bsky.social · Jan 8

Are you working on High-impact Climate Extremes? Join our #EGU25 session!

🧪: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

With an exciting talk by invited speaker @vikkithompson.bsky.social, and co-convened @erichfischer.bsky.social, @edhawkins.org, Henrique Goulart & Antonio Sanchez.

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Wilson Chan @wilsonchan.bsky.social · Jan 8

📢 One week left to submit #EGU25 abstracts!

Join us if you're working on understanding how climate variability will shape future floods and droughts! 🌧️🏝️💧

🔗 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

Ft. exciting talk by invited speaker @drlaurasuarez.bsky.social

@ukceh.bsky.social

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