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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 20h

The thing about attacks is true, for sure. Have a look under any random post of mine on X since Musk took it over.
But it has been going on ever since I started communicating publically about climate 30 years ago as a young postdoc.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 21h

In reality, the prevailing view of climate science has always been to expect global warming, and warming has been predicted correctly since we have numerical climate models. See e.g. www.realclimate.org/index.php/cl...

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 21h

I'm just preparing a talk on climate disinformation. Because Trump used it in his UN speech, I'm including the old story of the forged Time Magazine cover, supposedly showing that climate scientists predicted a coming Ice Age.
"Climate sceptics" don't have honest arguments so resort to fake news.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 1d

“Bivalve records are really amazing. They are like the tree rings of the sea. They offer a continuous, annually resolved record of ocean conditions.”
New study finds #AMOC destabilization since 1950 "suggesting that the region is moving toward a tipping point."🌊
insideclimatenews.org/news/0310202...

New Study Shows Disruption of Ocean Currents That Stabilize the Global Climate - Inside Climate News

Clam shell growth rings contain clues about the looming potential for a tipping point into climate collapse.

insideclimatenews.org

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent, well-informed new podcast! Like a ship entering a storm, we’re now entering the overshoot - a world above 1.5 degrees C #globalwarming. This requires a whole new mindset,
explored by Laurie Laybourn.

Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 2d

Overshoot Episode 1: Uncharted Territory

If the world didn’t win, has it lost?

We meet the underdog diplomats who helped the world set the 1.5°C goal, and the champion sailors who can help us set a course for navigating what comes next

Listen to episode one now: open.spotify.com/episode/1bJl...

PART 1: Uncharted Territory

open.spotify.com

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Özden Terli @terliwetter.bsky.social · 3d

Auf die Frage, was denn beim Extremwetterkongress über Trumps Äußerungen zur globalen Erhitzung gesagt wird....:

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 4d

Was die einen als “grüne Experimente” diffamieren können die Menschen in vielen anderen Städten längst als Lebensqualität genießen: Kopenhagen, Amsterdam, Wien, Barcelona, Paris, Utrecht, Helsinki…
Weniger Emissionen, weniger Stau für alle, die dann noch Auto fahren wollen & weniger Verkehrstote…

Ingwar Perowanowitsch @ingwarpero.bsky.social · Jul 31

Helsinki hat diese Woche das erreicht, wovon viele 🇩🇪 Städte nur träumen. In den letzten 12 Monaten gab es keinen einzigen tödlichen Verkehrsunfall und nur 277 Verletzte. Zum Vergleich: In der ähnlich großen Stadt Leipzig gab es 2024 über 4200 Verletzte und 38 Tote. Die 🇫🇮 Hauptstadt weitet...(1/2)

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 5d

ClimateAdam fact checks Trump’s UN speech, in his unique style: both enlightening and entertaining.
If you don’t yet subscribe to him, consider it!
youtu.be/lEEwAcQ-zpU?...

Climate Scientist Reacts to Trump's UN Speech

YouTube video by ClimateAdam

youtu.be

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 5d

“We are the most intellectual species to walk the planet, but we’re not intelligent. If you’re intelligent you don’t destroy your only home.”

Dr. Jane Goodall

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 5d

Vox understands color psychology. Fire=red.

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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 5d

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds

Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries

www.theguardian.com

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Seth Borenstein @borenbears.bsky.social · 5d

apnews.com/article/wild... Study shows the world is far more ablaze now with damaging fires than in the 1980s

Study shows the world is far more ablaze now with damaging fires than in the 1980s

A new study shows that the world's most damaging wildfires are happening four times more often now compared to the 1980s.

apnews.com

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 5d

There is "no room for indifference or resignation."

Pope Leo nails the climate message.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 5d

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Dr. Crystal A. Kolden @pyrogeog.bsky.social · 5d

Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires

Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

www.science.org

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 5d

Jane Goodall 😢
youtu.be/mpi6zAg_OII?...

Remembering legendary conservationist Jane Goodall

YouTube video by Good Morning America

youtu.be

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 6d

Having promised to peak emissions this decade, barely 50 years after it began to industrialise in earnest, China looks set to achieve that. And in the process, become a world leader in wind power, solar energy and electric vehicles. theconversation.com/when-china-m...

When China makes a climate pledge, the world should listen

Beijing has a track record of only promising what it plans to deliver. But too often the world’s attention is elsewhere.

theconversation.com

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 6d

What Hegseth said is an irresponsible denial of physical reality - whether due to stupidity, ideology or corruption by fossil fuel interests. That reality denial is a security risk for the US and thereby NATO. 😳

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 6d

"No more climate change worship", Hegseth tells US military leaders 🙄.
They know a lot better.
I know that first hand, having been invited to speak at a NATO workshop on Climate Change Security.
Climate science is not woke or religion or whatever, it’s hard-core physics and data analysis.

oldladylife.bsky.social @oldladylife.bsky.social · 6d

Our Navy has been warning us and they had to listen to a garbage dump of a loser.
climatefactchecks.org/climate-chan...
"No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses, no more climate change worship, no more division, distraction, or gender delusions, no more debris."
Pete Hegseth 9/30/25

Climate Change on the Frontlines: How the U.S. Military is Adapting - Climate Fact Checks

It’s almost ironic: on one side, President Donald Trump continues to downplay or deny the threat of climate change, while on the other, the U.S. military is facing the very real consequences of a warm...

climatefactchecks.org

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 6d

You can still apply!
If you know someone who might be interested, tell her or him about this! 🌊

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 29d

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...

Full Professorship (W3) for Physics of the Oceans - Potsdam-Mittelmark, Brandenburg (DE) job with Universität Potsdam | 12844582

Founded in 1991, the University of Potsdam has firmly established itself in the scientific landscape and has become an outstanding economic factor ...

www.nature.com

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 7d

Die Meere heizen sich auf, verlieren Sauerstoff und versauern, der Meeresspiegel steigt, die Meeresökosysteme sind immer stärker unter Druck.
Wir leben auf einem Ozeanplaneten, und was mit unseren Meeren geschieht, wirkt sich bereits auf uns an Land aus.
taz.de/Weltmeere-Hi...

Weltmeere: Hitzewellen in den Ozeanen

Die Meere erwärmen sich immer schneller, Nord- und Ostsee ganz besonders. Das geht aus dem Statusbericht des Copernicus Marine Service hervor.

taz.de

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 7d

The US became the world’s leading nation due to its science and technology, and it has now decided for a path of self-mutilation and handing world leadership over to 🇨🇳.
Why? 🙄

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 7d

As part of the budget proposal for NASA submitted earlier this year, the Trump admin proposed cancelling over 40 missions.

Agency employees have already been instructed to do the prep work for ending these programs, according to a NASA scientist.

More from @jessimckenzi.bsky.social. ⬇️

NASA missions at risk under the Trump administration

Some satellites slated for decommissioning are in the prime of life, and turning them off would be enormously wasteful, in addition to severely limiting scientists' ability to understand the planet.

thebulletin.org

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 8d

Was derzeit im Atlantik passiert könnte auch dein Leben erheblich verändern.
Beim Extremwetterkongress letzte Woche habe ich es in nur 12 Minuten erklärt. 🌊
youtu.be/2nqb03Mvflk?...

Atlantikströmung #AMOC vor dem Kipppunkt?

YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute

youtu.be

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 8d

Ich habe damals das englische Original gelesen; sehr eindrucksvoll!

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 10d

Eiertanz um Fleischfakten - www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...

Warum sich die zuständigen Minister beim Fleisch schwertun

Zu viel Fleisch schadet dem Klima. Doch weder Landwirtschaftsminister Rainer noch Klimaschutzminister Schneider wollen das offenbar klar benennen. Scheuen sie beim Thema Fleisch die Fakten? Von Oda La...

www.tagesschau.de

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