#COP30: Imperial researchers react to ‘deeply disappointing’ climate talks In the aftermath of the agreement, Imperial experts Dr Nathan Johnson, Dr Robin Lamboll, Prof Joeri Rogelj, Dr Alaa Al Khourdajie, Dr Emily Theokritoff and Dr Caterina Brandmayr have weighed in 🧵 ow.ly/9CSZ50XwZzs

Amid escalating climate disasters like #HurricaneMelissa, which was made four times more likely by climate change, finance for #LossAndDamage must be drastically scaled up, say climate experts. ▶️ www.imperial.ac.uk/news/271133/...

💡Already planning your abstract(s) for #EGU26? We look forward to receiving your submissions relevant to climate litigation!

If we do not seriously move away from burning fossil fuels, hurricanes like Melissa will only become worse. Already today Melissa tested the limits of what preparedness and adaptation can do. These limits are very real for everyone in the Caribbean. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

🎬 With #COP30 just days away, we’re delighted to share our new film, Inside COP: Science, Politics and the Fight for Loss & Damage. Told through the eyes of negotiators and scientists, it reveals the story behind the historic agreement to establish Loss and Damage Fund. 👇 youtu.be/IeA6ggnq6yk?...

One of the most powerful Atlantic storms on record, Hurricane Melissa has killed dozens of people and inflicted billions of dollars in damage. Warming made the deadly hurricane four times more likely, a new analysis finds.

Climate Change Made Hurricane Melissa Four Times More Likely: @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social study via @en.afp.com "Adaptation to climate change is vital but it is not a sufficient response to global warming. The emission of greenhouse gases also has to stop." www.barrons.com/news/climate...

This is how climate injustice unfolds. There is both an economic logic to cutting emissions now & a moral imperative to rapidly scale up international finance for loss and damage and adaptation in the most vulnerable countries.

#HurricaneMelissa was made about four times more likely by the #climatecrisis It's real, it's us, and it's here www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/res...

The Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster dataset is back and now at @climatecentral.org! Through the first half of 2025, there were 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters across the United States, costing $101.4 billion. 1/2 www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

⚠️Climate change was behind 36% of damage inflicted by Typhoon Ragasa in China, a rapid impact attribution study from Imperial College London estimates. The study also found that climate change boosted Typhoon Ragasa’s winds by 7% and rainfall by 12% at landfall🧵

@eea.europa.eu report finds that the costs of extreme weather events in Europe have more than doubled this decade, averaging €44.5 billion annually between 2020-2023. It also records over 240,000 fatalities from climate-related disasters between 1980-2023. More info ⬇️

📈Climate change-driven summer heat led to an additional 16,500 deaths in 854 European cities, a new study led by the Grantham Institute and the @lshtm.bsky.social estimates 🧵 Watch Dr @clairbarnes.bsky.social from @ic-cep.bsky.social & @gkonstantinoudis.bsky.social explain the findings.

🚨 Important paper in Nature: "Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors". www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New starter pack with @ipcc.bsky.social #AR7 scientists (bureau, authors, REs)! Full list: apps.ipcc.ch/report/autho... For SR cities scientists see separate starter pack! @dianaurge.bsky.social @sherilee.bsky.social @siir-kilkis.bsky.social @janfuglestvedt.bsky.social go.bsky.app/2FuXb3Y

Valérie Masson-Delmotte : « La situation climatique va encore empirer, mais le danger vient aussi d’un déni collectif »

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

🙌Imperial has more authors contributing to a crucial climate report than any other organisation in the world. Once finished, the IPCC Assessment Report 7 (AR7) report will help shape policies to tackle climate change throughout the 2030s 🧵 📰 ow.ly/BlYz50WIMpk

A small team of us at Columbia (Sen Pei, Qing Yao, and me) collaborated with @washingtonpost.com to create a data-driven story about Hurricane Helene flooding and lack of evacuation added to the severe impacts: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

⚖️Climate litigation is entering a new era 🌏 Thanks to attribution science, courts now have the tools to link climate impacts, such as floods, wildfires and extreme heat to major polluters — and assign legal responsibility. 🧵 📒 imperial.ac.uk/stories/polluters-on-trial

First analysis to estimate number of #heatwave deaths linked to #ClimateChange Analysis by LSHTM's Pierre Masselot & Malcolm Mistry with @granthamicl.bsky.social warns #ExtremeHeat can be 'silent killer' if not prepared for. www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

Heat kills, more than we think and we can see. Heat intensified by climate change kills even more. For the 1st time, we conducted a rapid impact attribution study looking at the additional deaths that occurred due to climate change across 12 cities in Europe, in close to real-time: shorturl.at/mv6ms

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 🧵

Just found this map for #London Cool Spaces for summer 2025: apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/

A team of scientists at @granthamicl.bsky.social is developing new methods to pinpoint how much of the impacts of extreme weather events on lives and societies can be attributed to climate change. The answer is laying bare the costs of climate action. Story 👇 www.imperial.ac.uk/Stories/true...

New @wwattribution.bsky.social rapid analysis shows that the current heatwave probably wouldn't have qualified as a heatwave without a boost from all that fossil fuel pollution - www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

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.

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

🗞️ Read this hot off-the-press feature by journalist @chloefarand.bsky.social to learn more about our ongoing climate damage tracking efforts at the @granthamicl.bsky.social of @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social!

In case anyone is confused by the different headlines on carbon budgets today, the Guardian's 2 years value is based on a 66% chance, the 3 years comes from a 50% chance.

⚠️Global warming caused by humans is advancing at 0.27°C per decade – the highest rate since records began. This is one of the indicators updated every year by over 60 international scientists in the annual Indicators of Global Climate Change report – published today. doi.org/10.5194/essd... /1

Following @ipcc.bsky.social approval of the outlines for its three Working Group contributions to the Seventh Assessment cycle, we hosted a day-long event to explore the Working Group outlines & research priorities to support the IPCC assessment: ow.ly/QUQA50W0Ijb Here's what we covered 🧵

🔓 : Current #adaptation planning must be extensively evaluated against a wider set of future global #climate outcomes, incorporating risks of transgressing local limits to adaptation and #overshoot, find @etheokritoff.bsky.social‬ @carlschleussner.bsky.social @adellethomas.bsky.social et al. ⬇️

⚡️ ⚖️ Precedent-setting #climatelitigation victory this morning in #SaulvsRWE 🙌 🎉 A victory for #climatejustice and corporate accountability 🧵🧑‍⚖️ A short thread to unpack the key legal principles reaffirmed by the judges of the Higher Court of Hamm 🇩🇪 ⬇️ 1/8

⚖️ 🌐 #ClimateLitigation turning point: A German Court is expected to take a precedent-setting decision that cld shatter big polluters' impunity. 🔍 Follow in real time @ #SaulvsRWE 📆 10 AM: reading of the Court's decision 📆 4 PM: debrief by Saul & his lawyers anmeldung.germanwatch.org/update-saul-...

🔥 ⚖️ #ClimateLitigation history happening right now at Higher Court of Hamm🇩🇪: follow with us this precedent-setting ruling in #SaulvsRWE. 🗣️ Today's decision cld be a turning point in efforts to make polluters pay for climate harms. 🧵 thread with context, insights from the Court & legal arguments👇

In this new paper just published in @climate-policy.bsky.social, we look at what overshoot would mean for #local #adaptation #planning.

📈📉 At 1.3°C of global warming, the topic of #overshoot is gaining prominence. If we surpass the 1.5°C Paris Agreement's temperature goal and technological advancements allow, we may be able bring global temperatures back down to ensure a more livable future in the long-term 🧵

📈📉 At current 1.3°C of global warming, the topic of #overshoot is gaining prominence. If we surpass the 1.5°C Paris Agreement's goal and if sustainable technological advancements allow, we will want to bring global temperatures back down again to ensure a more liveable future in the long-term.

Will you live an unprecedented life? In our new paper in @nature.com and accompanying @savethechildren.org report, we detect who will face unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes (🧵) 1/n Report: resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/bor... Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For 2025, we again expect high hurricane activity in the Atlantic. Most seasonal forecasts (including ours) estimate an accumulated cyclone energy of more than 120 ACE. Thanks to seasonalhurricanepredictions.bsc.es/forecast for collecting and publishing the forecasts!

Two important attribution studies were published today. I covered both for @carbonbrief.org 1️⃣ Shows that heat/drought extremes are overwhelmingly caused by the wealthiest 10%: buff.ly/0Se78bM 2️⃣ Finds that younger generations will face "unprecedented exposure" to climate extremes: buff.ly/Qxw80Un

New study on linking wealth-based emissions to climate impacts: We find that 2/3 of global warming is attributable to the wealthiest 10% and so are climate extremes. Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @iiasa.ac.at, @usyseth.bsky.social 1/

The trending topic of climate litigation is back at the #EGU25 conference this year again! 🎇 @rosapietroiusti.bsky.social @imenke.bsky.social @Noah Walker-Crawford

🎧 Resources Radio @rff.org 🗣️ Dr Emily Theokritoff breaks down the emerging science of climate damage attribution, the challenges posed by a lack of historical data, and dealing with uncertainty when linking human activity and climate change to extreme weather events ⛈️ 🔥 🌡️

📢 Event: Exploring Research Priorities for the IPCC 7th Assessment Report This event will bring together the climate research community to explore the AR7 outlines & identify research priorities & evidence gaps. If you are a UK-based climate researcher, register your interest:✍ buff.ly/0fNO2dA

Extreme weather is becoming more common due to #ClimateChange, and scientists are studying this connection. @etheokritoff.bsky.social (@granthamicl.bsky.social) joined Resources Radio to discuss attributing damage from extreme weather to climate change. Tune in 🎧 www.resources.org/resources-ra...

🌍 SAVE THE DATE! Excited to announce that we'll be hosting the first-ever Climate Overshoot Conference at @iiasa.ac.at from Sep 30th - Oct 2nd, 2025. Thrilled to bring this critical conversation to Laxenburg/Vienna. 1/ iiasa.ac.at/events/sep-2...