Places that have never had to think about sleeping under mozzie nets, are going to launch full scale rebellion against the tent? Adapt… for crying out loud. It’s not going to get better.

Based on preliminary estimate, the meteorological spring (Mar-May) will be record-warm in Helsinki Kaisaniemi, Finland's longest running weather station (records kept since 1845). The mean temperature is estimated to be 6.9 °C that will break the long-standing record of 6.6 °C from 1921.

On respire enfin à Brest (mais je suis quand même en short dans mon bureau dans lequel il fait 28°C - c'est moins chaud qu'hier).

34.8ºC at Kew Gardens breaks its May AND June records by OVER 4ºC for its May record set in 1922 and by 0.2ºC for its June record set in 1976. Unprecedented heat for the UK in late May, and likely to be bettered tomorrow. A rounded 35ºC temperature should not happen in May.

"Daily maximum temperatures have topped 46°C in many locations, (...) 5–8°C above seasonal norms. The unrelenting heat has driven record demand for electricity in India as people turn on air conditioners – and worsened drought conditions affecting more than a million km2 across both countries."

This is heartbreaking (from the India subreddit)

In our latest paper with @manonberger.bsky.social, Lester Kwiatkowski, and @bopplaurent.bsky.social, we show that if we properly account for iron limitation and nutrient competition with phytoplankton, growing seaweed isn't really an effective technique for removing atmospheric CO₂. 🌊🧪

So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

C’est monstrueux. On ne meurt pas à 19 ans sur un chantier. On ne travaille pas avec une chaleur caniculaire sur un chantier. Ce n’est pas une question de planète ou d’écologie. On parle de d’un jeune homme de 19 ans.

I keep delaying reading papers related to the AMOC slowing down because I'm too afraid there is compelling evidence. (I've read a few 1 or 2 years ago)

D'après le dernier point de @meteofrance.com, les températures dépassent les 32 °C à Paris depuis samedi 23 mai et jusqu'à ce samedi. Une série de 8 jours consécutifs à plus de 30 °C est inédite en mai. Dépasser les 32 °C plus de 8 jours d’affilée n’est arrivé que trois fois, tous mois confondus

Lors de la canicule de 2003, la Seine-Saint-Denis, département le plus pauvre de France métropolitaine, a été parmi les plus touchés, avec une surmortalité de plus 160 %.

A reminder that this month's heat dome in Europe is just a harbinger of the future. For every increment of global warming, the same weather conditions get deadlier and deadlier, leading to thousands of deaths across Europe. From our paper last year: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm sorry but 78% of schools measured reaching more than 30°C in the past few days and only 7% adapting class timetables is terrible terrible terrible. These are measures done by teachers' Union btw. Not the public schools/govt.

People (here a very young worker) have died of heat this week in France. This "future" climate is not hypothetical. It's heartbreaking.

So in France there are school closures today. Because of the heat. In May : Spring. And because - whatever we say - we have made 0 (null) effort to adapt public infrastructure to climate change.

Rappel sur la canicule : comme démontré dans cette enquête cartographique @mediapart.fr, les quartiers urbains où la part de la population pauvre avoisine les 40% sont surexposés aux chaleurs extrêmes. L'inaction climatique est aussi une politique de classe. www.mediapart.fr/journal/ecol...

Le @snesfsu.bsky.social a lancé une météo des classes pour cartographier la vague de chaleur dans les collèges et les lycées. Résultats à la mi journée ! Et pendant ce temps, le ministère ? Ah oui, un protocole canicule arrive. Pour info, Roland Garros en a déjà un. www.snes.edu/article/la-m...

Mais ? C'est pas des "valeurs de la république" égalité, fraternité ? Quelle lutte écologique sans lutte anti-raciste ?

La qualité de l'air est dégradée à mauvaise sur l'ensemble de la Bretagne et même « très mauvaise » dans le secteur de Vitré. À cause de l'ozone, mais surtout des particules fines PM 10. Pour autant, les préfets n'ont pris aucune mesure concernant par exemple la circulation. Incurie totale.

Le record national de chaleur de mai a été dépassé/égalé avec une facilité déconcertante par 24 stations. Depuis le 22 mai, 1364 records de chaleur ont été battus. Du jamais vu. Le nouveau record national sera surement la station de Perpignan (37.4°C). Attendons l'expertise de Météo-France.

La situation en Inde et aux alentours est dramatique. Près de 2 milliards de personnes sont confronté à des températures dépassant les 40°C, avec un ressenti de près de 50°C pour certaines régions. Dans quelques espaces, le danger mortel de la température humide à 38°C se rapproche.

En 2014, Evelyne Dhéliat faisait 3 erreurs : - il n'a pas fallu attendre 2050 - la Bretagne est également concernée - c'est le 28 mai, pas le 18 août Vague de chaleur 2026 n°1 : en 2022 je proposais de leur donner le nom d'une entreprise responsable du réchauffement climatique.

La montée en puissance de l'anti-science aux USA sous la présidence de Trump n’est pas un phénomène spontané lié à une accumulation d’erreurs individuelles ou des croyances irrationnelles mais un système structuré, organisé et alimenté par des intérêts politiques, économiques et médiatiques. 1/10

"Since Q1 2025, the value of new gas-turbine orders intended to supply captive power for US-based data centres is greater than total orders in **any other country**" "Values indicate the project investment in the year or quarter the turbines are ordered." iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/4fda3...

It really does feel crazy experiencing climate change through extreme weather and have the gov cheerlead massive ai data centres and want to do away with net zero all together

Running machines for the sake of running machines cause the idea of running machines makes some people rich thats what we are betting the whole of future of the economy and the biosphere on. And we all know which is the one that matters more to the ruling class

JFC new IEA report shows: orders for fossil methane plants for data centres are bigger in the US than they for *any other country for any other reason* (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) "if data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026"

parce qu'évidemment c'est la vigilance individuelle qui va remettre des arbres/haies talues/dans le paysage limiter le bitume aux lieux strictement nécessaire fournir des stores a toute les fenetres isoler les batiments installer les pompes a chaleur etc etc etc

Kew Gardens recording 35.1ºC today breaks its previous May record in 1922 before this spell by NEARLY 5ºC and breaks its June maximum temperature record set in 1976 by 0.5ºC - this also beats the previous May UK maximum record by OVER 2ºC (32.8ºC, 1922/44). An incredible anomaly

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

Cette canicule est politique. Elle est fruit de 40 ans d'inaction, depuis les géants pétroliers qui savent depuis 1965 que leurs activités sont néfastes pour le climat aux derniers gouvernements sous Macron qui ont mis fin sciemment aux politiques écologiques au nom de l'austérité budgétaire.

Still haunted by this: last week I had a (rare!) conversation with a "private wealth manager" & I asked why they're still investing in fossil fuels when those companies are sitting on massive stranded assets (worthless because they'll never be able to extract & profit from them). He said [1/n]

ghibli inspired prints up thru April 21st :)

27 mai 1907 : Naissance de la biologiste et militante écologiste américaine Rachel Carson. Son ouvrage « Silent Spring », qui dénonce les dégâts des pesticides sur l’environnement, contribua à lancer le mouvement écologiste dans le monde occidental. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_... #CeJourLà

There are currently serious scientific debates unfolding regarding whether the Earth could ultimately warm *more* than previously expected, and/or whether certain key climate change impacts could unfold earlier than expected, even as our estimates of future emissions decline.

15/ We didn't dodge the worst case. We narrowed one route to it. Several others have gotten wider. But the worst case was never fixed. It's a function of what we do next. We can always take actions that make it less bad. That's the part the relief takes, and the doom takes, both miss.

14/ There's two ways to read this. One: we have less room for manoeuvre than we'd hoped. The other, & this matters, every link in the chain is also a link we can act on. Cutting emissions does more work than we thought. So does protecting carbon sinks. So does building resilience

12/ Tipping point thresholds have also been adjusted down considerably. It's now estimated that Greenland ice sheet collapse, West Antarctic ice sheet collapse, and warm-water coral reef die-off could be triggered at around 1.5°C of warming.

7/ And these feedbacks are already activating. Permafrost thaw & Arctic wildfires are eating about a quarter of the carbon budget for 1.5°C. This is already happening now, sooner than the standard scenarios assume.

3/ Getting from emissions to forcing to warming runs through a chain: emissions → concentrations → forcing → warming Each link carries its own uncertainty. And this uncertainty is not our friend!

You can get to a high-warming world without high emissions . That's the part of this week's "RCP 8.5 is implausible" discussion that's getting missed. A short thread on why the relief is premature 🧵

2/ #Climate scenarios are inputs to climate models, assumptions about future emissions, fed in to see what the climate does in response. But emissions aren't what the climate actually responds to. What it responds to is radiative forcing, the energy imbalance at the top of the atmosphere.

"we need to warm the planet more so we can use this great AI tool - to work more, in a warmer planet, die earlier and kill some other planet stuff" No better way to sell this AI revolution...

Most parts of Western Europe have extreme temperatures today, which #climatechange has made at least 5 times more likely 🥵 We are still in May! 🫠 📖 csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

"I've been a #climate scientist for 33 years and we're seeing exactly the kinds of things that we were warning back then... [although] these records are perhaps more extreme and coming sooner than we had expected," @richardabetts.bsky.social

Si vous, vos potes, vos enfants, vos vieux vivez actuellement dans un plat de lasagnes, n’oubliez pas que c’est politique, que des gens décident si c’est oui ou non acceptable, et que les gouvernement qui font des affichettes pour boire de l’eau pshitpshit se fout un peu de votre gueule.

"This is why being an AI booster requires you to debase yourself. You must accept becoming a dogshit dealer that loves accepting and receiving low quality goods"