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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 5d

Very exciting “job” I’ll have over the coming months. Can’t wait to see how & where this dearly needed field of fiction is moving. 📕📗⚖️🔥

climate-fiction.bsky.social @climate-fiction.bsky.social · 6d

2026 Climate Fiction Prize Announce Stellar Judging Panel as Submissions Open!

📚 @arifa.bsky.social
📚 Jessie Greengrass
📚 @kitdewaal.com
📚 @frediotto.bsky.social
📚 @savidgereads.bsky.social

Publishers have until 13th November to submit novels published between 1 Sept 2024 – 31 Aug 2025.

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 9d

Terrible headline on a good article. It’s the world’s taste for MEAT that’s fuelling Amazon destruction. The soya is cattle feed.

How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon

Cultivation of the crop has made a few wealthy but at a huge cost to untouched forest as it spreads across vast areas of former wilderness

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 12d

Planetary boundaries sound very abstract & high level, this year, for the first time @eraju.bsky.social & I contributed a chapter how breaching these boundaries has affected people around the world: losing lives, livelihoods, health… & for whom the limits of adaptation have been reached.

PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 14d

Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 13d

I was wrong! @eraju.bsky.social is here!

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 15d

After almost a decadal hiatus, back at KMD in Nairobi, running a @wwattribution.bsky.social workshop with three superstars: @clairbarnes.bsky.social, Joyce Kimutai & Emmanuel Raju (who somehow didn't make it to blue sky yet).

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Michael Scoates @mikescoates.bsky.social · 21d

Just quoting the final key point, which very few leaders seem to be acting on:
"While policies are needed to protect people from heat, a rapid shift away from fossil fuels is the most effective way to avoid hotter and deadlier summers."

Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 21d

The summer is over - and for about 16,600 people across 854 European cities that doesn't mean autumn comes, but death. People who would still be alive if it wasn't for our burning of fossil fuels. - New study with @lshtm.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 21d

The summer is over - and for about 16,600 people across 854 European cities that doesn't mean autumn comes, but death. People who would still be alive if it wasn't for our burning of fossil fuels. - New study with @lshtm.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

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Rupert Stuart-Smith @rupertstuartsmith.bsky.social · 28d

Out now: our new study shows that climate change caused nearly 1,700 heat-related deaths in Zürich over 50 years.

We assessed the effects of changing vulnerability to heat, heat-mortality within and outside of heatwaves, and the contribution of individual companies' emissions to heat deaths.

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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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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hosted by @meteoleipzig.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @tropos-de.bsky.social , ECO-N research training group funded by @dfg.de
Great lectures by @sebastian-sippel.bsky.social @frediotto.bsky.social @mdebrito.bsky.social @zscheischlerjak.bsky.social and more!

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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · Sep 4

The current Advanced Training Module on "Climate Attribution", joinly by our interdisciplinary research training group "Economics of Connected Natural Commons" and the Leipzig Graduate school on Clouds, aerosols and radiation sparked large interest: 65 PhD researchers from 7 countries!

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World Weather Attribution @wwattribution.bsky.social · Sep 4

📣Job alert!

We're hiring a Media Relations Manager at Imperial College London. Applications are closing tomorrow.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK861/m...

Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · Aug 22

Do you want to be part of our amazing team @wwattribution.bsky.social team? If you are a science/comms expert, you can! Please do consider applying - www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · Aug 28

Innocent! Eating kale.

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · Aug 28

One of the strongest, clearest increases in likelihood & intensity, attributable to climate change, I've seen in a complex index like fire weather - the more intense & frequent events in Greece & Türkiye are already outpacing efforts to adapt.
www.worldweatherattribution.org/weather-cond...

map of the Aegean coast depicting change in vapour pressure deficit due to climate change

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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · Aug 27

One of the best climate science comms jobs around, helping journalists explain how climate change has influenced extreme weather events, working with a top bunch of scientists at @wwattribution.bsky.social including @frediotto.bsky.social. London based, closes 5 Sep

Media Relations Manager (World Weather Attribution and Grantham Institute) at Imperial College London

Explore professional services job openings, including the Media Relations Manager (World Weather Attribution and Grantham Institute) position, on jobs.ac.uk. Apply today and discover more about this r...

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · Aug 22

Do you want to be part of our amazing team @wwattribution.bsky.social team? If you are a science/comms expert, you can! Please do consider applying - www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · Aug 14

In July Fennoscandia was hit by a heatwave similar to one that hit the region in 2018. In just seven years, similar events have become almost twice as likely due to increased global temperatures from 1.1 to 1.3°C.

Every fraction of a degree matters! www.worldweatherattribution.org/intense-two-...

Sunset over the sea with a big rock in the sea, distorting the light reflecting from the setting sun

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Simon Pirani @simonpirani.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thanks @theecologist.org for publishing my review of Climate Injustice by @frediotto.bsky.social. It's a great contribution to desperately-needed dialogue between climate scientists and social movements. theecologist.org/2025/aug/06/...

Climate breakdown 'an injustice multiplier'

Simon Pirani reviews 'Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change', by Friederike Otto (Greystone Books, 2025)

theecologist.org

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · Aug 7

Heavy, deadly monsoon rainfall in Pakistan has become more intense with climate change - about 15%, but it could be as high as 40 - 80%: www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

population density over the study region

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Dr Claire Bergin @clairebergin.bsky.social · Aug 6

A short article on our 'mini-heatwave' study has been published by @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social. This is the first report by the new @wasitusie.bsky.social project with @peterthorne.bsky.social. Funded by EPA and in conjunction with Met Éireann and @wwattribution.bsky.social

RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · Aug 6

Are hot Irish days worsening due to climate change? A climate attribution study has examined if last month's mini-heatwave can be linked to human-influenced climate change. Analysis by @clairebergin.bsky.social & @peterthorne.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Are hot Irish days worsening due to climate change?

A climate attribution study has found that last month's mini-heatwave can be linked to human-influenced climate change

www.rte.ie

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · Aug 5

My book - ClimateINJustice is shortlisted for the @wainwrightprize.bsky.social ! Really happy about this, as it's not traditional conservation writing - but conserving & fighting for us humans & our rights wainwrightprize.com/shortlist-20...

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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · Jul 25

🌍📜 Licensing and subsidising fossil fuels can now "constitute internationally wrongful acts,” write Dr @frediotto.bsky.social and ‪Dr Alaa Al Khourdajie.

Read their commentary on why The ICJ's new advisory marks a turning point for climate accountability: ow.ly/7aix50WvkuM

The ICJ’s climate ruling goes far beyond legal battles between small states and big polluters

Written by Professor Friederike Otto, Professor in Climate Science at the Centre for Environmental Policy and Dr Alaa Al Khourdajie, Research Fellow at Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London. O...

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · Jul 25

@dralaaclimate.bsky.social‬ & I were part of a small team of scientists talking to the judges as part of the process. To see how much emphasis on the science is in this AO highlights how much we know & that there is really no justification to hide behind uncertainty instead of act.

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · Jul 24

yes! The causality is clear, from GHG to extreme weather!

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · Jul 23

Advisory opinion from ICJ is big (in more then 1 sense), but this summaries a lot:"The Court is of the view that a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a precondition for the enjoyment of many human rights, such as the right to life, the right to health ..." www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...

peace palace in the Hague in November in the dark

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