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++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

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.

We told you these heatwaves were coming but ghg emssions not yet going down (Stott et al, Nature , 2004 showing 2003 heat as regular occurrence). We're now saying West Antarctic ice sheet in imminent peril and huge irreversible sea level rise would result: would be good idea to listen this time.

Fantastic memories of them filming A Very Peculiar Practice in my halls of residence at Birmingham uni, being allowed to stay in our room while Peter Davison (in pjs) filmed in the corridor - and being told to be quiet as we made too much noise - and chatting to the nuns in a stairwell!

Professor Piers Forster CBE FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. An atmospheric physicist by training, he has made important contributions to understanding the causes of climate change, changes in the Earth’s energy budget, and the climate response. #RSFellows https://bit.ly/4oe2P0i

Can I just give a shout out to the @ethz.ch researchers who initialised an AI weather model with a cat picture. 👏🐱

I've really enjoyed reading Ruskin Park by @rorycj.bsky.social - a wonderfully touching biography and memoir based on a treasure trove of letters left by his mother and research in BBC archives.

Fascinating article including 2006 clip of the iconic walk through of climate models on the floor of Tate Modern explaining past warming with @coxypm.bsky.social. Bringing up to date, BBC iplayer still has the 2019 documentary with David Attenborough I was part of. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

The site of Banksy's new statue could be underwater under a scenario in which, blinded by wilful ignorance, humanity fails to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and we step off the edge into irreversible polar ice melting and multi-metre sea level rise. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

There's a terrific new article by @carbonbrief.org on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation with some great animations. Strongly recommended. I've been reading it ahead of giving a lecture on the risks of climate change tomorrow. interactive.carbonbrief.org/amoc-explain...

💖 cats just wanna have fun 💛💙🩷🤎 #caturday 💛💚🩷💜

R.I.P. Andy Kershaw who I listened to a lot back in the day. Currently playing one of my treasured LPs - and my introduction to the fabulous Orchestra Baobab (Homage à Tonton Ferrer from their 2002 album Specialist in All Styles to feature in my Desert Island tracks if I get asked).

For the first time ever, heat pumps outsold gas boilers in Germany in 2025. 48% of all new heating systems installed last year were heat pumps. Gas fell to just 39%. A decade ago, heat pumps had a 7% market share. The transformation has been remarkable.

Off topic, but a trade "immortalized" in recent pop music . youtu.be/zcDu9LY2-oU?...

Elizabeth Fairest married Edward Mappin on 6th March in 1836 in Sheffield parish church. In 1851 they were living in a "court" (a cramped cul-de-sac with a single water tap and privy) in Bedford Street and their 14-year old daughter, Harriet was a spoon buffer. globe-works.co.uk/news/heritag...

My resignation letter

I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

Wild set of interviews, one with 1966 kids predicting 2000 and then 1986 kids predicting 2020 so many of them relate to nuclear war and population anxiety www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih3L...

Went to see this yesterday and it was wonderful! Performed in the round, at its beating heart the relationship between Thomasina Coverly and Septimus Hodge, beautifully played by Isis Hainsworth and Seamus Dillane. Our performance was being filmed so a chance to see it in cinemas later perhaps.

In this week's Nature we argue there is a pressing need for a global assessment of avoidable climate-change risks. To understand the urgency of emissions reductions, policy makers and citizens need a full analysis of what is at stake including the worst-case scenarios. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS,’ EMILY DICKINSON famously wrote, and that often leads to pictures of doves sitting quietly and looking sweet, but what if hope is an albatross that can soar for years without stopping, or an osprey that can haul a thrashing salmon out of rough waters?

To reiterate: (The fact that he had a gun he never drew is immaterial; the videos show that they attacked him before they knew it; they murdered him after they confiscated it.)

Another day , another caring person murdered #minneapolis #poetry #fury #love

Great to see climate attribution studies featuring as one of the 21 best ideas of the 21st century in today's @newscientist.com . Net zero is another of the best ideas. With me on my Italian summer holidays and Dave Frame and Myles Allen running a climate model on the train to @metoffice.gov.uk

Taking train to Bristol to spend 4 hours being scanned (again) as part of the Biobank project. Feels good to be doing something positive by adding some extra data points to this extraordinary project that is improving healthcare. The power of evidence led scientific research! www.ukbiobank.ac.uk

Atmospheric chemist Susan Solomon was born #OTD in 1956. Solomon, working with colleagues at NOAA, proposed/confirmed the cause of the Antarctic ozone hole, chlorofluorocarbons. She led the Nat'l Ozone Expedition to Antarctica to collect evidence & was the only woman on the team. #WomenInSTEM (1/2)

Just saw this and had to share - PS22 Chorus performing The Cure - goodnight m.youtube.com/watch?v=7KtW...

Ben Santer, an outstanding scientist and historically significant figure in the development of understanding of climate change, is relocating to the UK. Very much looking forward to him visiting the @metoffice.gov.uk to talk about our common research interests.

As a climate scientist, I know heatwaves in Australia will only get worse. We need to start preparing now | Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick #Climate

How grotesque the mixture of ambivalence and retreat into useful lies has been to see from news shows , bigots , bots and right wing politicians talking about Renee Nicole Good

Excellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the “evidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

The US has some of the world’s best climate scientists (and more of them than anywhere else) & has contributed disproportionately to understanding the climate system. It’s idiotic for the US to withdraw from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change & the IPCC but it’s on brand for this regime.

Srsly, @uk.diplo.de , very well played indeed. Your understanding of a UK audience is excellent.

Really enjoying reading the biography of Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social. Got me thinking about archives and collecting an archive of the International Detection and Attribution Group (see my book Hot Air). Here are four key members - Wehner, Allen, Hegerl, Tett at an IDAG meeting in the 1990s.

I'm an age when a former time seemed much easier. In the 80s I went to Anfield with my dad with paper tickets bought by post. Today I bought a ticket for FA Cup vs Barnsley but got into a tangle with my NFC pass on my phone that remains unresolved with help desk so as it stands can't use my ticket 😒

Some reflections after returning back from a conference at which I and 20,000 colleagues learned that the Trump administration intends to dismantle #NCAR. This outrage should not happen. deepconvection.substack.com/p/save-ncar

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Read this from Ben Santer (very famous climate scientist for those who don’t know) about what NCAR means and what dismantling it will do.

I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.

This is the only parody song about geophysical fluid dynamics you’ll ever need: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

One of the most random things on YouTube Had to share it for lovers of Liz Truss www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbB6...

It was a pleasure to meet these guys and discuss the ins and outs, highs and lows, challenges and rewards of communicating science.

Who says art doesn't have anything to contribute to science (or vice versa)? Booked tickets to go see Arcadia next year at the Old Vic. Very excited.

Scientists are expected to be somewhat comprehensible on #r4rtoday but financial folk like CEO of Peel Hunt come on and spout all sort of incomprehensible jargon-nonsense: "backfoot vulnerability starting to wobble", "corporate mood-show", "secondary blocks", "domestic bias" - no me neither.

Brilliant Reith Lecture by Rutger Bregman seems to hit the nail on the head for me. The rise of authoritarian populists, most of the brightest and best going into bs jobs and the question - how is it that small groups of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world for good?

I hosted a great discussion of it all here too:

Overheard in Space, a terrific poem by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social and read by him as part of the wonderful Hot Poets initiative, has just been released today - find it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=KquX...

I really enjoyed working with the children of St Sidwell's Primary School in Exeter telling new stories about climate change with the international cardboard theatre company Hamishibi as part of the Schools Across the Ocean programme. It was a very inspiring day. news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

"we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us" I still believe Jo Cox was right. Despite what happened to her, and what I saw today. Which was a group of people, draped in a flag that is just as much mine as theirs, using it to divide us.