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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 6h

Sign up for this public debate, which addresses two of our most pressing challenges: the existential risks posed by #AI and #ClimateChange, and the adaptive measures humanity must take.

🗣️ @rupertread.bsky.social and Dr Jake Newman
📅 Sat 22 November, 4pm
📍 Norwich
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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 10h

Last chance to enrol on the "Climate risks and resilience CPD course" at @newcastleuni.bsky.social: buff.ly/l6lNPMS

By Monday, join a course to:
⚡understand #ClimateChange risks to society & infrastructure
⚡identify sustainable adaptation strategies
⚡understand developing climate risk assessments

Course Detail · CPD Portal

This 8-week CPD course introduces the concept of risk in the context of natural meteorological hazards in a changing climate. The impacts of climate change on different sectors are explored and…

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 13h

Climate models: fewer hailstorms in central and northern Europe by 2100, but southern Europe may face a higher risk of rare, destructive hail ➡️ tyndall.ac.uk/news/climate...

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 1d

New high-res climate models show Europe may face fewer severe hailstorms by 2100, but southern regions could see more of the largest, most damaging hail: tyndall.ac.uk/news/climate...

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 1d

📹 Tyndall Centre's Asher Minns took questions from pupils in Hertfordshire on subjects from transport and wildlife to climate anxiety and their own contributions. Have a watch via ITV Anglia:

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 1d

Flood risks along coastlines aren't solely linked to #ClimateChange. New findings in Nature Climate Change suggest that land-use strategies and urban planning will be crucial for China's future adaptability: a lesson that holds importance worldwide. Full story:

Policy decisions, not just climate change, will shape China’s future flood risk - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

Land-use and development decisions may have a greater impact on coastal flood exposure in China than sea-level rise itself, according to a major international study.

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 2d

"Climate change is an all-encompassing issue that we cannot ignore, waste time being inactive or argue about... We cannot wait or deliberate because we are already missing our chance to protect this region and our planet’s future. The co-benefits of climate action are considerable.”

Leading climate research centre celebrates 25th anniversary

Twenty-five years of leading climate research for policy was celebrated at the University of East Anglia last week with a major conference that addressed the opportunities and challenges for climate…

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 2d

Europe may see fewer severe hailstorms by 2100 but the larger, most damaging hailstones could become more common in the south of the continent.

@meteogreen.bsky.social @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social

New study suggests: risk is shifting, not disappearing 🔗 tyndall.ac.uk/news/climate...

A red car on a road after a hailstorm, with rainwater and hailstones to the side of it. Photo by David Trinks via Unsplash

Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 2d

Report highlights how food systems are pushing Earth's limits ➡️

Landmark report warns food systems breach planetary limits

A major report published today finds that shifting global diets could prevent approximately 15 million premature deaths per year.

www.uea.ac.uk

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 5d

New findings highlight how climate change-induced heatwaves and storms could challenge Britain's future #NetZero energy infrastructure. Adaptability in electricity usage timing and methods will be crucial for resilience. #ClimateAction

Read more:

Extreme weather and climate risks to Britain’s Net Zero power grid - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

A new study in Carbon Management warns that extreme weather could disrupt Britain’s future electricity system, even with planned network upgrades, and highlights “demand flexibility” as a critical…

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John Kenny @johnkenny.bsky.social · 6d

New paper with @lucasgeese.bsky.social at @commsearth.nature.com

UK MPs + publics in Britain, Canada, Chile & Germany underestimated the urgency of peaking global GHG emissions when surveyed in 2023.

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@climateuea.bsky.social

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Publics and UK parliamentarians underestimate the urgency of peaking global greenhouse gas emissions

Communications Earth & Environment - UK members of parliament overestimate the time available to mitigate climate change, with notable partisan differences, and a similar lack of knowledge is...

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University of East Anglia (UEA) @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social · 6d

A new UEA study has found that UK Members of Parliament (MPs) and the public overestimated the time left to meet a critical deadline for limiting global warming. 

Read more 👉 bit.ly/3KAs1y2

#UKParliament #MPs #ClimateChange
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View of the Palace of Westminster and Big Ben next to the River Thames under a partly cloudy sky.

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 6d

A striking new study finds that China's policy and planning decisions will play a greater role than sea-level rise in shaping future #FloodRisk.

Development choices could determine whether millions of people and trillions of dollars of assets remain exposed.

🔗 tyndall.ac.uk/news/policy-...

Photo of watery landscape with river, sea and fields in Dishui Hu in Shanghai, China, by Collins Zhao via Pexels

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 7d

Coastal flood risk is not only about #ClimateChange.

New research in Nature Climate Change shows that land-use policy and spatial planning will be decisive in China's future resilience - a message with global relevance.

Full story:

Policy decisions, not just climate change, will shape China’s future flood risk - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

Land-use and development decisions may have a greater impact on coastal flood exposure in China than sea-level rise itself, according to a major international study.

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University of East Anglia (UEA) @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social · 8d

As part of a special programme on ITV Anglia schoolchildren asked Asher Minns from the @tyndallcentre.bsky.social at UEA about climate change, from causes to solutions.

Watch here 👉 www.itv.com/watch/news/w...

#ClimateChange #ClimateScience

@climateuea.bsky.social

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 8d

Blackpool defies expectations - its ambitious climate action plan showcases what local leadership can achieve with the right evidence and strategy:

How a “left-behind” town is leading the way on climate action – Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

New research highlights how Blackpool – an English seaside town once dismissed as a “left-behind place” – is succeeding where others have struggled: by creating an ambitious, high-quality climate…

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 8d

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Tyndall Centre has just hosted its largest ever climate conference on the UEA campus in Norwich, UK - ‘The Critical Decade for Climate Action':

Why Norwich continues to be at the heart of climate change research

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 8d

A must-read study in changing how we think about coastal vulnerability 🌊 New research shows that China's land-use + development decisions could be the dominant factor in future flood exposure for millions. A powerful reminder that policy choices today build (or protect) the future ⬇️

Policy decisions, not just climate change, will shape China’s future flood risk - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

Land-use and development decisions may have a greater impact on coastal flood exposure in China than sea-level rise itself, according to a major international study.

tyndall.ac.uk

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 9d

Early Career Researchers: The Tyndall Centre is dedicated to trans-disciplinary research, actively blending researchers from the social and natural sciences and engineering to develop sustainable responses to climate change.

We need your unique skills🤝 tyndall.ac.uk/about/ #ECRs

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 9d

New research in @natclimate.nature.com reveals a critical finding for coastal resilience: development policy, not just SLR, is the main driver of China's coastal flood risk by 2100. Securing the future requires reducing emissions * and * integrated spatial planning ➡️ tyndall.ac.uk/news/policy-...

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 9d

Climate action isn't just about emissions; it's about justice. Our research explores the equitable distribution of climate responsibilities and risks, ensuring a just transition is central to future planning: tyndall.ac.uk/tyndall-rese...

Mother and baby seated on a bed, above a flooded floor in their small home, possessions raised above the water in Kolkata, Eastern India. Photo by Joydeep Mukherjee / Climate Visuals Countdown under Creative Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks to everyone who made the Critical Decade for Climate Action Conference such a success, earlier this month. Still to come: session briefings, standout posters, further insights & a new Collection of Publications. Let's continue to push #ClimateAction forward🌍

➡️ tyndall.ac.uk/events/criti...

Speakers and delegates at the Critical Decade for Climate Conference on the UEA campus, hosted by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research from 8-10 September 2025, stand smiling on the steps leading to the New Science Building, with their arms in the air

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Prof Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE @lwhitmarsh.bsky.social · 15d

Key message from our new report: cutting methane is "the *fastest & most cost-effective lever* to slow warming within our lifetimes".
And behavioural change is central to this - making plant-based food more accessible and cheaper; and changing choice environments to cut food waste.

Climate Crisis Advisory Group @climatecrisisag.bsky.social · 15d

NEW: Methane emissions could lock in 0.3°C of extra warming – pushing societies towards collapse.

Our new report outlines proven, low-cost solutions across energy, agriculture, and waste that could cut emissions by 45% – protecting health, food and livelihoods.

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 13d

New journal article identifies 'a gap between ambitious climate commitments and the depth of systemic change being pursued': risking delayed emissions reductions and increased residual emissions⚠️

Access the article:

Reconfiguring industry in the United Kingdom. Global lessons for ambition versus policy on the path towards net-zero

High-emitting industrial processes are often concentrated in clusters that share infrastructure to maximise efficiency and reduce costs. These cluster…

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 13d

Four key research areas drive our mission:

🌍 Accelerating social change
🌱 Achieving wellbeing
🥬 Boosting adaptation and resilience
♻️ Reaching net zero emissions

Stay informed about our #ClimateResearch projects and updates: tyndall.ac.uk/research ⬇️

Research Areas - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

Research Areas Archive - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

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