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Our new article in Nature's Scientific Reports shows that the latest climate models project even larger increases in persistent summer weather extremes:

So honoured, humbled, delighted, stunned....I heard this morning I've been awarded the ZSL Silver Medal. Amazing news. Wow. Thank you ZSL zsl.org/news-and-event… Curlew Action

A very sad decision - BBC HARDtalk is known watched and admired right around the world - it’s a place where world leaders have been held to account like no other - what is the @bbc thinking? And Stephen Sackur is a great presenter

The problem with policymakers funding research Is that they usually want research that feeds into current policy Not research that tells them where the current policy is going wrong (And that simplistic solutions won’t work)

COMING SOON: ELIZABETH CREAK DISTINGUISHED GUEST LECTURE Thursday 24 Oct 2024 Join the School of Life Sciences and renowned scientist Tim Benton to explore the global challenge of navigating food security in an increasingly volatile world. Register at bit.ly/4eLBigx

Over 800mm of rain in under 48 hours at one location in southern France, over 500mm in several places. The biggest rainfall event in the area for at least 20 years.

🧵1 It's been a year since #StormBabet, and after the wettest 18 months on record, the impact is still deeply felt across our farms and communities. We need smarter, nature-based solutions 🌱 to tackle flooding head on. farming.co.uk/news/environme…

New UNEP emissions gap report highlights a "massive gap between rhetoric and reality" and calls for a "quantum leap" in ambition to deliver Paris goals, as the world is way off-track today. I cover the details over at Carbon Brief: carbonbrief.org/unep-new-clima…

The other take out from today’s depressing UN Environment Programme report is that we need to be taking dramatic actions now to adapt to what’s coming. The predicted changes for us are eye watering. We are nowhere near ready.

Malus sylvestris (Crab Apple), 30x40cm Giclee print on archival photo rag These works are made outdoors with a simple desktop scanner - creating beautiful images with very shallow depth of field, super hi resolution and depth of colour and deep black backgrounds.

Trump’s election comes days before the COP29 climate summit, framed as a vital financial staging post in a three year ‘reset’ for global climate action. Trump has promised to withdraw the USA from Paris Agreement. What does his victory mean for our planet? @chathamhouse🧵 1/11

The short duration rainfall totals near Valencia last week are jaw dropping. More than double previous national records. We need to completely reassess what we consider worst case flooding is. Because history is no guide. Via Víctor M. González

I have a new analysis at Carbon Brief that 2024 will very likely be the first year above 1.5C in most surface temperature groups – Berkeley, Hadley, and Copernicus/ERA5, as well as in the aggregate of records used by the WMO and IPCC: carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-c…

Trying out the other place as an antidote to X. If you also pop across, here's my address: timgbenton.bsky.social

Article: Fresh meltwater entering the Labrador and Irminger Seas has resulted in a slowing of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation since the 1950s UNSW Climate Change Research Centre Australian Centre for Antarctic Science (ACEAS) UNSW Science UNSW Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences nature.com/articles/s4156…

A veritable whos-who of the scientists behind our physical climate understanding of net-zero have a new paper in Nature, making the case for "Geological Net Zero" where fossil CO2 can only credibly counterbalanced by permanent removal: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Starling murmuration in Italy. This unique phenomenon, where each bird's move influences seven others. Nature's stunning synchrony. Nature is amazing. Protect it. #ActOnClimate #climate

“This is a vicious circle. Climate change is making geopolitics less stable, which harms climate action. This will worsen climate change, meaning more geopolitical instability, and so on.” theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-of…

Here is how daily global surface temperatures have changed since the 1940s. Note that global temperatures show a modest seasonal cycle due to a higher proportion of land are in the Northern Hemisphere.

🚨 Global Temperature Report for 2024 🚨 2024 was the hottest year since instrumental measurements began. 3.3 billion people had their locally warmest year. The warming rate appears to have increased, likely due to reductions in man-made aerosol pollution and cloud cover. 🧵