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Reposted by: Tim G. Benton

gawenjenkin.bsky.social
Fantastic workshop yesterday led by @timgbenton.bsky.social imagining our possible environmental futures with a team from across the university. Thought provoking and sobering.

A rare moment of how I always imagined university should be! You know it has been good when 4 hours goes in a flash
A future scenario for planet Earth - self-sufficiency for security. An unstable conflict-ridden world with countries retreating into isolationism. What I called the 1984 scenario
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Reposted by: Tim G. Benton

profpaulbehrens.bsky.social
Not even close 😥 I tried to show the size of removals given a delay in this animation 👇 related to the amount of BECCS assumed in size of EU (note that this is for a 67% chance not a 50% chance as per Glen's figure). Used Climate Action Tracker for the national targets.
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by Ed Hawkins — Reposted by: Tim G. Benton, Carl J. Percival

edhawkins.org
Summer UK temperatures have warmed faster than global average temperature.

But the very hottest days have warmed 4x faster than the global average, especially in south-east England.

Global warming is not "just" 1°C or 2°C. The effects of climate change are non-linear, especially for extremes.
Maps showing warming for each UK county for typical summer days (left) and hottest days (right), with darker reds and faster warming for the hottest days especially in south-east England.
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Reposted by: Tim G. Benton

timosbornclim.bsky.social
New paper by Sebastian Sippel and colleagues provides evidence that the SST component of most current global temperature datasets is too cold during (roughly) 1900-1930.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Early-twentieth-century cold bias in ocean surface temperature observations - Nature
Independent statistical reconstructions of the global mean surface temperature from either ocean or land data show that existing estimates of early-twentieth-century ocean surface temperatures are too...
doi.org
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by Stefan Rahmstorf — Reposted by: Tim G. Benton

rahmstorf.bsky.social
Important new study shows that current climate models underestimate the human-caused slowing of the #AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation), because they neglect freshwater influx from Greenland melt and other sources. /1 🌊
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation driven by subarctic freshening since the mid-twentieth century - Nature Geoscience
Fresh meltwater entering the Labrador and Irminger seas has resulted in a slowing of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation since the 1950s, according to a combination of modelling approaches...
www.nature.com
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Reposted by: Tim G. Benton, Nathalie Pettorelli, Gordon Walker

carbonbrief.org
Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world | @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org

🎨 Kerry Cleaver, Tom Pearson @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org

Read here: https://buff.ly/4eFnQus
Studies of almost 750 events and trends reveal the impact of climate change on extreme weather.
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Reposted by: Tim G. Benton

afnnetwork.bsky.social
If you want to find out what #COP29 could mean for food and farming, read our latest briefing. Co-lead Tim Benton spoke to our knowledge exchange fellow Jez Fredenburgh to give us his assessment.
👉 tinyurl.com/22j7fm46
DIGEST: What does COP29 mean for food and farming? - AFN Network+
As UNFCC COP29 kicks off in Azerbaijan, an oil-producing, authoritarian state. What could negotiations this year, mean for food and farming?  Our co-lead, Prof Tim Benton, has spent much of his career...
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