💡New Study: Southern Africa was hit by intense rainfall this month. Our analysis has found that downpours in the region are now 40% more intense than they were in pre-industrial times. The resulting floods across Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Eswatini have been catastrophic. 🧵 (1/4)

While Australian heatwaves were some of the very first extreme events attributed to climate change, people still underestimate how much worse they got - killing more people than all other natural hazards combined. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

🚨 NEW STUDY: As Australia prepares for another heatwave, our latest study found the early January heatwave which hit SE Australia was made 5x more likely due to climate change. What was once a relatively rare 1-in-25-year event is now expected about every 5 years. 🧵 1/6

Great to see coverage of our first full @wasitusie.bsky.social study on RTE (and elsewhere). Kudos @clairebergin.bsky.social and Lionel swan as well as met Éireann colleagues and thanks as ever to @wwattribution.bsky.social for the hugely valuable collaboration www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

🚨 Wildfires in Spain & Portugal were made 40x more likely by climate breakdown, says @wwattribution.bsky.social “The sheer size of these fires has been astonishing,” adds CEP’s Clair Barnes (@clairbarnes.bsky.social) 🌍🔥 #ClimateCrisis #Wildfires

⚠️Climate change made the hot, dry and windy weather that fueled the deadly July wildfires in Spain and Portugal 40 times more likely 🧵 📝 ow.ly/SoRo50WPvih

The extremely hot, dry weather conditions that primed Spain and Portugal for this year's catastrophic wildfire season are no longer a rare occurrence thanks to human-caused warming. This probably shouldn't come as a surprise, but if it does, the full study is @wwattribution.bsky.social...

📣Job alert! We're hiring a Media Relations Manager at Imperial College London. Applications are closing tomorrow. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK861/m...

❗ El cambio climático hizo 40 veces más probables y un 30% más intensas las condiciones que alimentaron los incendios de España y Portugal, según un estudio de atribución realizado por el @wwattribution.bsky.social .

🌡️ Scientists from @wwattribution.bsky.social say this summer’s wildfires in Greece, Turkey & Cyprus were 22% more intense & 10x more likely due to climate change. Events that were once 1-in-100-year now happen every 20 years. 🔥 #ClimateCrisis #Wildfires

In an interview at @mongabay.com, @wwattribution.bsky.social researcher and environmental statistician @clairbarnes.bsky.social explains how attribution science, which helps scientists understand climate change’s impact on a particular extreme weather event, works.

One of the strongest, clearest increases in likelihood & intensity, attributable to climate change, I've seen in a complex index like fire weather - the more intense & frequent events in Greece & Türkiye are already outpacing efforts to adapt. www.worldweatherattribution.org/weather-cond...

🔥Climate change made the weather that drove deadly wildfires in Türkiye, Greece and Cyprus 22% more intense. The study, by @wwattribution.bsky.social, examined weather conditions in the months and days leading up to and during the worst blazes in June and July this year 🧵

The wildfires that raged across Greece, Turkey and Cyprus this summer were 22% more intense and 10 times more likely than they would have been in a world without climate change, according to scientists at @wwattribution.bsky.social FREE link via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

One of the best climate science comms jobs around, helping journalists explain how climate change has influenced extreme weather events, working with a top bunch of scientists at @wwattribution.bsky.social including @frediotto.bsky.social. London based, closes 5 Sep

Attributing extreme weather events to #climatechange is tricky But since 2014, the international network of researchers World Weather Attribution has pioneered methods that make it possible My @mongabay.com colleague spoke w/ @wwattribution.bsky.social's @clairbarnes.bsky.social to learn more:

🌍 Leading the charge on climate action @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social has 11 IPCC AR7 authors - the most of any institution! CEP’s Joeri Rogelj, Friederike Otto, Robin Lamboll & Jarmo Kikstra are shaping the science behind global policy. #IPCC #ClimateAction

In July Fennoscandia was hit by a heatwave similar to one that hit the region in 2018. In just seven years, similar events have become almost twice as likely due to increased global temperatures from 1.1 to 1.3°C. Every fraction of a degree matters! www.worldweatherattribution.org/intense-two-...

“Even if climate change plays a big role in the weather event, what turns weather into a disaster is always strongly shaped by vulnerability and exposure". Read @wwattribution.bsky.social Dr @frediotto.bsky.social's comments for @grist.org on the Texas Floods: grist.org/extreme-weat...

Our Senior Scientist @fahadiii.bsky.social speaks to BBC News about how the fatal floods in Pakistan were made 15% more intense due to climate change. "If you consider that Pakistan's role in total emissions is less than 1%, it's a big case of climate injustice," he says @wwattribution.bsky.social

Climate change made the relentless heatwave in Norway, Sweden and Finland about 2°C hotter and at least ten times more likely. Our latest study was published this morning. “This event should be taken as another reminder that no country is safe from climate change” - @frediotto.bsky.social 🧵

A new @wwattribution.bsky.social study shows climate change made Pakistan’s recent heavy rains 10-15% heavier, fuelling devastating floods that killed 300+ people and destroyed thousands of homes. It’s time to build resilient homes and slash emissions before it’s too late 🌍 #ClimateCrisis #Floods

Yet again, temperatures are pushing past 30°C in parts of the UK. This is the fourth heatwave of the year and climate change is making today's temperatures about 2-4°C hotter, says scientists at @wwattribution.bsky.social 🧵

Heavy monsoon rains have led to more than 300 deaths in Pakistan since late June. Climate change increased the downpours by about 15% 📈 Our latest study, focusing on the hardest-hit north of the country, was published this morning 🧵

Heavy, deadly monsoon rainfall in Pakistan has become more intense with climate change - about 15%, but it could be as high as 40 - 80%: www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

My book - ClimateINJustice is shortlisted for the @wainwrightprize.bsky.social ! Really happy about this, as it's not traditional conservation writing - but conserving & fighting for us humans & our rights wainwrightprize.com/shortlist-20...

New research from @wwattribution.bsky.social and ‪@fahadiii.bsky.social‬ shows that climate change made Pakistan’s deadly monsoon floods ~15% heavier. Flooding killed at least 300 people. Events like these underscore the danger of overshooting 1.5°C. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

Our first attribution study from WASITUS (yes we did torture that acronym) on the July heatwave in Ireland is out: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2.... The project aims to provide operational attribution on future noteworthy events and when not required nationally row in + support @wwattribution.bsky.social

A short article on our 'mini-heatwave' study has been published by @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social. This is the first report by the new @wasitusie.bsky.social project with @peterthorne.bsky.social. Funded by EPA and in conjunction with Met Éireann and @wwattribution.bsky.social

Extreme rainfall hit Colombia and Venezuela in late June. One landslide near Medellín killed 27 people. Our latest study couldn’t determine how climate change influenced the downpours. Why? A scarcity of data and poor model performance. 🧵 📷: Alcaldía de Bello

What caused deadly landslides in Colombia? Finding out, should be easier. Tropical climates are complex, but if data are held by companies & organisations hiding them behind walls of bureaucracy it becomes impossible. @wwattribution.bsky.social study: www.worldweatherattribution.org/growing-expo...

#climatecrisis tripled death toll in Europe’s June heatwave, study finds - Heat caused 2,300 deaths across 12 cities, of which 1,500 were down to climate crisis, scientists say theguardian.com/environment/...

About 1500 of the approx. 2300 people that will have lost their lives across 12 European cities last week would still live, if it wasn't for our burning of oil, coal and gas. If we care about the right to life, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

⚠️Climate change tripled death toll in 12 European cities during last week's heatwave rapid analysis by @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social & @lshtm.bsky.social estimates. 🌡️ The study also found that climate change increased heatwave temperatures up to 4°C across the cities 🧵

Without our continued burning of fossil fuels, the current heat in London & most of the UK would not have been a heatwave: www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan... Heatwaves are dangerous. Drink water, lots of it, stay cool, even if you feel invincible, you're probably not.

Heat kills. Our colleagues estimate nearly 600 people in England and Wales could die prematurely in the heatwave. We found that climate change made it 2-4°C hotter. The two real-time studies highlight that every fraction of a degree of warming will expose more people to potentially fatal heat.

The heat above 32°C in southeast England tomorrow will be 100 times more likely due to fossil fuel-driven warming 🌡️📈 Our super rapid study was published this morning. It is just the second time we’ve studied an event in real-time, using forecast data. It's been hot work. 🧵

🌡️ Saturday’s 32°C heat in SE England would’ve been a once in 2,500 year event without climate change. Now? 100x more likely Dr Ben Clarke & Dr @frediotto.bsky.social of @wwattribution.bsky.social, who led the research, are clear - this wouldn’t be a heatwave without human driven warming

A new initiative working to publish rapid damage attribution studies by our colleagues at the @granthamicl.bsky.social, @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social 👇

#Climatecrisis boosted Iceland & Greenland's temps by several degrees during record May heat wave, finds @wwattribution.bsky.social - raises concerns about the far-reaching implications melting Arctic ice has for weather around the world Story by Isabella O'Malley at AP apnews.com/article/icel...

In mid-May, temperatures soared in Greenland and Iceland. Climate change made the record-breaking heat about 3°C hotter. Our latest rapid study is a reminder that cold climate countries are also experiencing unprecedented heat and a warning that it is driving rapid ice loss ☀️🧊 🧵

@wwattribution.bsky.social - When climate change means every season holds the possibility of something worse than ever experienced, it leaves no doubt: reliance on fossil fuels – burned & exported – will only make weather more dangerous in Australia. www.worldweatherattribution.org/mixed-rainfa...

⚠️ Scientists urge eastern Australia to plan for more dangerous floods as climate warms A rapid study by @wwattribution.bsky.social found the wettest 4-day rainfall events in a year are about 10% more intense in NSW compared to the preindustrial climate 🧵 ow.ly/ylh350W3iBO

Climate change added an extra month of extreme heat for 4 billion people – attribution analysis by @wwattribution.bsky.social, Climate Central and Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre finds 🧵 📜 ow.ly/Gg6Y50W1tjJ #ClimateChange #HeatActionDay

🌍 June 2 is #HeatActionDay. A new report from @wwattribution.bsky.social, @ifrc.org, and @climatecentral.org reveals how climate change has fueled extreme heat over the past year. 🧵 on key findings: 👇 #BeatTheHeat

Hear from ‪our very own @clairbarnes.bsky.social‬ on the record-breaking UK spring weather 🌡️

The floods that killed at least 15 people in the US at the start of April were caused by rainfall made about 9% more intense by climate change. Our study highlights how layoffs at the National Weather Service could impact efforts to keep the public safe in future extreme weather. 🧵 📷: NASA

Historic floods in the Central Mississippi river valley dramatically showed that in an increasingly dangerous world of extreme weather, a well-resourced forecasting workforce is essential. The recent layoffs at the National Weather Service will kill. www.worldweatherattribution.org/effective-em...

⛈️ Climate change made record-breaking downpours behind deadly Midwest and South US flooding 9% more intense. Co-authors Dr Ben Clarke & @frediotto.bsky.social from @ic-cep.bsky.social & @shelwinkleywx.bsky.social at @climatecentral.org explain the results below 🧵👇

South Korea’s deadliest ever wildfires in late March were worsened by climate change 📈 Here's four charts to tell the story of our latest study, published last week.