@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social at @heatmap.news points out that the smoke days we're experiencing were not foreseen by climate models & so nobody has reckoned on their cost in lives, health, & economic disruption—which appear to be MORE than EVERY OTHER climate impact PUT TOGETHER.

This long BBC story on the UK heatwave - otherwise excellent - follows a recently observed pattern in that it DOES NOT mention that climate change is caused by human activity, such as emissions of greenhouse gases. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

IT’S JUST HOTTER NOW

If you live in a city, having an electric cargo bike is like a superpower. It’s also an all-time great parenting hack if you have young kids. Here’s school dropoff this morning - at least 6 in a row.

⚠️More than 2,700 excess deaths estimated in England and Wales during May and June heatwaves 🌡️ Climate change added between 3-4°C to maximum temperatures and is estimated to be responsible for about 42% of the deaths across both heatwaves 🧵

France just broke it's all time record for night-time minimum temperature: 30.6°C at Vives Is this an 'infernal night'? meteofrance.com/actualites-e...

Recent Belgian Heatwave Declared Deadliest on Record: “the situation during the peak weekend was so severe that excess mortality surpassed even the worst weekend of the COVID-19 pandemic. Between June 22nd and June 27th, a staggering 1,747 excess deaths were recorded.” #Belgium #heatwave #europe

AI weather prediction model Aurora 1.5 has been released. We're exploring how to use and modify it for Earth system uses. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

So we know the parliamentary authorities insist on a collar and tie. The burning question today is - where do they stand on bin-shaped helmets?

M&S saw the plausible weather forecast for 2056, peaking at 45°C, that we produced with the Met Office and made the decision to invest in upgraded refrigeration. This comes after some of their fridges brown down during the recent heatwave. www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...

A massive marine heat wave in the Pacific, spanning an area 8x the contiguous US, is expected to intensify storms, exacerbate heat waves on land, and raise sea levels, particularly along the California coast. Climate change will increase the frequency and intensity of marine heat waves.

Yesterday marked 70 years since the UK Clean Air Act 1956 - the first national legislation to tackle air pollution, introduced in response to the devastating Great Smog of London in 1952. The graphic below is courtesy of airqualitystripes.info. 🧵 1/5

June saw the highest ever temperatures recorded (for June) in the UK. Overall it was England's warmest ever. Overall it was sunny in England and duller in Scotland. The start of the month was cooler and wetter however. Here is the climate/weather for the past year. #climatechange #globalwamring

Yes it’s climate change, stop asking

@dougmcneall.bsky.social and I were just talking about how good this book is yesterday. Y’all should read it.

Robust attribution of global industrial-era glacier mass loss to anthropogenic climate change 🧊🔥 'Our central estimates are that the magnitude of the anthropogenic warming over the industrial era ranges from 91–98 % of the observed, depending on region' egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

I’m not saying The Discourse is broken, but a good chunk of TikTok is claiming that refusing air conditioning is worse than refusing gun control.

Globally, 84% of the heatwave days people were exposed to in 2020-24 would not have occurred without climate change. The rate of deaths associated with heat exposure increased by 23% from the 1990s, reaching 546,000 deaths annually. Look where people are dying. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

As further data from our observation network has been made available over the weekend, the provisional new UK highest June temperature on record is 37.7°C at Lingwood, Norfolk. 🌡️

MARKETING IDEA sell a drink called RAW MILK to health-conscious young people but make it safe.

Just seen what I assume is a dark money fossil fuel lobby group promote fossil gas as a way of making air conditioning cheaper 😬😬😬😬😬

Imagine if hundreds of people died in hurricane or floods smashing through Europe Heatwaves have already killed that many ppl. They are a silent killer in that they dont generate outrage or fear. Hope this by @economist.com helps save lives as Europeans wake up to danger bsky.app/profile/eate...

At a farm shop in Devon. Some nice young lads asking for raw milk 😬😬😬😬

Last night broke the record again for Reading - the temperature only dropped to 21.3°C. It’s now already over 26°C.

Interesting take, would be good to have this discussion.

Good to see the Chief Scientist out there. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I’m really glad this is getting attention- the new school rubbish/old school slightly better is our exact experience, with kids split across a Victorian/modern site. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Perfect no notes 👌

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

FFS I thought we'd moved past the ignorance of illustrating stories about deadly heatwaves with photos of people frolicking at the beach/in lakes/in fountains. Heatwaves are the deadliest agents of climate change. They kill nearly half a million people each year, and that's only going to increase.

50 years on from the start of the 1976 heatwave, we reflect on how extreme heat is changing. Using climate projections, a plausible 2056 scenario shows how a prolonged heat event like '76 could be more intense in future, with temps potentially reaching 45°C. ➡️ www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2026/uk...

We recreated the legendary heatwave of summer 1976 in today’s climate… …and it is essentially the same as the weather forecast for this week, on the 50th anniversary. We look set to smash the June 1976 temperature record by 3°C. Written with Hayley Fowler: theconversation.com/we-recreated...

At this event, a forecast for 2056 was shown for a heatwave in 2056 with more than a week of over 40°C over a large part of the UK. By burning fossil fuels, we’re creating an increasingly hot, chaotic, and dangerous world, sending our children and grandchildren there, and they’re never coming back.

We need to spend this whole week linking this damaging and likely deadly heatwave to its cause - human fossil fuel emissions, deforestation, food production.

Irony is dead.

Happy birthday to the heatwave of 1976 which began today 50 years ago, peaking at 35.9°C. If a comparable heatwave happened in the current climate it would be 3-4°C hotter, peaking at 38-39°C. And the actual forecast is for temperatures of 38-39°C in the next few days with a red heatwave warning.

Remember kids - this is one of the coolest summers of the rest of your life.

The ICT suite in my kids’ school is doing heavy lifting on keeping the kids cool today. We need to plan for much more of this.

Has anyone costed up buying air conditioning for 30 million buildings? Asking for a friend.

Today is #ShowYourStripes day! This year, St Michael's Tower atop Glastonbury Tor is encouraging everyone to use the Climate Stripes to start a conversation about climate change and the actions they are taking. Thank you @nationaltrust.org.uk! Graphics: www.ShowYourStripes.info

Yeah no shit www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

⚠️⚠️ Amber weather warning issued ⚠️⚠️ Extreme heat across southern parts of England and Wales Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 June Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️

I’m not sure we’re talking enough about how damaging to the environment building extra gas-fired infrastructure for running AI data centres could be.

Also, the first time I’ve seen a presenter presenting from a (presumably moving) car.

I’m presenting today “Challenges in Data-driven Climate Modelling” and my co-presenters are solving those challenges in real time lol.

Contains a useful warning to journalists about automatic adoption of the frame of climate denialists.

Interesting story on sea-ice-thickening research. Covers moral hazard, potential side effects, working with local stakeholders, scalability. Would like to hear from icy people on their take www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Meanwhile, sea surface temperatures across the wider tropical Pacific have set new daily record high levels since April, including a new *all-time* record for this region. 🔥 Graphic from climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-...

Cracking set of charts from the Guardian. If you’re looking at the U.K. and thinking “are they okay?”, these charts explain a lot. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...