The storm came .. and went ☔️🌈

🙌 Great to see DEFRA launching the Good Food Cycle plan to transform Britain's food system. As our Executive Director Anna Taylor points out - the real challenge now lies in delivering it! Read more: ➡️ bit.ly/3TFBJkc #goodfoodcycle @ffc-commission.bsky.social @biteback2030.bsky.social

Spain records highs of 46C and France under alert as Europe swelters in heatwave - Extreme heat ‘the new normal’, says UN chief, as authorities across the continent issue health warnings #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Heatwave in the UK peaking on Monday and Tuesday. 1) Drink water. Stay cool. Check on vulnerable people. 2) You can monitor temperatures hour by hour across the country, and see how much warmer than normal it gets. istheukhotrightnow.com

🚨 As London Climate Week spotlights urgent action across the food system, a new paper from @planeatryalliance.bsky.social shows: Shifting diets can prevent up to 24% of unnecessary deaths globally while delivering 'gigatonne scale' emissions reductions. 🔗 tinyurl.com/mryzztzh #LondonClimateWeek

www.planeatryalliance.com/whitepaper Delighted to launch our White Paper on Healthy and Sustainable Diets l We interviewed 10 global food leaders to identity 15 barriers to shifting diets and ten practical solutions to overcome them

From policy gaps to practical levers for change, the paper reveals how businesses, policymakers, and civil society can collaborate to redesign food systems for people and planet. Explore the full findings: www.planeatryalliance.com/whitepaper @alimorpeth.bsky.social @planamikebarry.bsky.social

21st June: #ShowYourStripes day 1) Download your warming stripes: www.ShowYourStripes.info 2) Use the graphics to start conversations about climate change risks, how you are already experiencing the consequences and what you are doing about it 3) Encourage others to do the same

Wherever you live in the world, your climate is getting warmer. 21st June is #ShowYourStripes day when we encourage everyone to use the warming stripes graphics to talk about climate change and how we are all already experiencing the consequences. Download your stripes: www.ShowYourStripes.info

The warming stripes have been updated to show the atmosphere and the ocean! www.fastcompany.com/91339154/thi... Paper: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

This is phenomenal. Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment. It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.

Updated Climate Visuals (1) Warming stripes for atmosphere and ocean (2) Climate indicators (adding land humidity for 2024) (3) UK climate indicators (adding some 2024 data) ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

Bluesky is collegial and interesting, the way Twitter used to be. Bonus: most people can spell.

Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.

I swear it's not a graph of the stock market... 📉 + High resolution version: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... + Figure reproduced from doi.org/10.1038/natu... + Overview: climate.gov/news-feature...

Insurance sector is the true ‘canary in the capitalist coal mine’ - it knows that 3C heating breaks society and the economy that’s meant to serve it

“At 3C of global heating, climate damage cannot be insured against, covered by governments, or adapted to. That means no more mortgages or new real estate devt, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function and capitalism ceases to be viable.”

Plenty of quiddlers around, looking ‘down’ not ‘up’

Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 2nd lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 480,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 870,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,420,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 1,840,000 km² below the 1980s mean Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🧪

All definitions of the #Arctic revealed significant warmth in February 2025, but the largest anomalies were found in the northernmost areas close to the North Pole. Graphic updated monthly at: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe.... Data from ERA5 reanalysis.

Word of the day is ‘whiffling’ (17th century): fickle, inconstant, and making it up as you go along.

Last month was statistically tied for the 3rd lowest #Antarctic sea ice extent on record for the month of February This was 860,000 km² below the 1981-2010 February average. Data from NSIDC at nsidc.org/data/seaice_... 🌊

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

How can retailers make #Sustainability and #HealthyEating choices easier for consumers? @planamikebarry.bsky.social of @planeatryalliance.bsky.social explains why retailers need to use data and AI to support this transformation at the basket level. Interview: climatesolutions.news/spotlight/ho...

The extreme winter warming event continues in the northernmost portions of the #Arctic. This is related to a temporary surge of heat and moisture that was transported northward and is related to the orientation of the large-scale atmospheric circulation. Graph from zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...

Latest data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social shows: January 2025 was the warmest January globally on record 🌡️ 1.75ºC above pre-industrial level 🌊 Second highest global SST, 0.19°C below January 2024  #ClimateAction 🧪⚒️🌍

Midweek ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 690,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,330,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,910,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,330,000 km² below the 1980s mean Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🌊

Remember that the increase of water holding capacity of our atmosphere is not linear: it increases exponentially with temperature. Physics 101: Clausius-Clapeyron law. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clausiu...

Beautiful visualisation of changes in Swiss temperatures since 1864 www.meteoschweiz.admin.ch/ueber-uns/me... Graphic by Simon Scherrer

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

2024 @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social #climate data out today: 📈 2024 - first year more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial; for ERA5 it was 1.6ºC 🌡️ the past 10 years were the 10 warmest years on record 📈 2024 was warmest year for all continental regions, except Antarctica and Australasia 🌍🌡️🧪⚒️🌊

World shattered 1.5C safety limit in 2024 Los Angles burns Too many banks and corporates MIA Welcome to 2025 #climatecrisis

Hard to process the devastation I’ve witnessed in the last two days. Still in a state of shock for those who have lost so much in such a short period of time. #NoWords 💔

Sorry - a not so very good Sunday ice update. #Arctic sea ice extent is easily the *lowest* on record to kick off a new year (JAXA data)... 🌊 • about 610,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 2,160,000 km² below the 1980s mean Additional long-term sea ice graphs: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

🚨 December 2024 #Arctic sea ice extent was the *lowest* on record for the month... This was 1,420,000 km² below the 1981-2010 average. December ice extent is decreasing at about 3.43% per decade. Data: nsidc.org/data/seaice_... 🌊

Global sea-ice extent ranked by month from 1979 through 2024. Nothing blue since since 2015! Within the recent nine years, every month has experienced a record-low extent. 🌊🧪⚒️📉

+++NEW ANALYSIS+++ UK electricity was the cleanest ever in 2024, with emissions per unit falling by more than two-thirds in a decade Highlights: 🏭end of coal power after 142yrs 🔥fossil fuels at record-low 29% share 🌄renewables at record-high 45% www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/9

The ice at Santa's workshop is thinning away... #NorthPole 🎁🧑‍🎄 Check out my blog from November 2022 for more on this graphic: zacklabe.com/blog-archive...

NEW RECORD: 2024 is the first year in history when wind, solar and hydropower generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the UK.

A very flooded Thames this morning 😀

My November climate indicator update... Graphic available at zacklabe.com/climate-chan... ⚒️🧪🌊

Our precarious, 'just in time', 'head down not up', 'hope for the best' world is ill prepared for what's already unfolding #climatecrisis

Why I’m optimistic about the energy transition: Watch my recent keynote at the Euroheat and Power conference in Brussels in full. We tend to underestimate new technologies and innovation, and we tend to overestimate the inertia of incumbent technologies. foresightmedia.com/historie/syz...

Cheers Wayne 🙏😀

New Starter Pack on #Regenerative #Business, #Innovation & #Technology. Themes: #thriving, #netpositive, #regeneration, #circulareconomy, beyond #sustainability, the breakthrough movement to regenerate nature, society & the economy. Please let me know who else I should add. go.bsky.app/Q2XBwux

Changes in global temperature (1850-2023) Find similar graphics for your country or city: www.ShowYourStripes.info #ShowYourStripes

Starter packs are rad, but they tend to favor large, well-known accounts. This is a list of some of my personal go-to experts across a wide variety of climate-related fields - science, economics, policy, risk, beavers?? - who are still building their networks here. Have a look. go.bsky.app/NYzg9uw

A starter pack for people studying how human affect biodiversity and ecosystem functioning at global scale, across terrestrial and marine realms & conservation challenges. Sounds like Global Ecology ! sure I missed many people, reply to be added, and share to spread ! go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv 🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴

Here's a list of the political scientists working on climate I could find on here. Let me know if I missed you! go.bsky.app/C9L9xV

I am absolutely delighted that all my favorite climate scientist colleagues from social media are here on bluesky now. You will not regret following a single one of these smart and committed human beings who are fighting for a better future for us all.