📈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...

When climate science meets drama! 🎭🌪️ It was a pleasure to curate two workshops with Tie-Dye Drama and the Public Engagement Team of @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social this week. 20 families got to learn more about climate change and extreme weather! Turns out it is quite hard to mimic the weather..

Thanks again to everyone who joined our Climate Research Showcase! Watch our special lecture w/@joerirogelj.bsky.social, @gregdt.bsky.social, Larissa Kunstel-Tabet & Alyssa Gilbert, on: 📈 Current climate targets 🔋 The energy transition 🎓 Harnessing academia for climate innovation buff.ly/42CBWKp

Human-caused #ClimateChange worsened the deadly LA #wildfires by reducing rainfall, drying out vegetation, and increasing the overlap between flammable drought conditions and strong Santa Ana winds, @wwattribution.bsky.social has found. @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social's Dr Clair Barnes explains.

LA is in a high fire risk region & fire weather conditions are complex. So we @wwattribution.bsky.social looked at many lines of evidence. All show: our burning of fossil fuels increased the likelihood of such extreme fire weather conditions www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

📅Join us on 22 Jan for our Climate Research Showcase! Sign-up to meet our research community, with opportunities to foster collaboration & support climate action with: 🔬 An all-day exhibition 📚 Peer-led workshops 🎤 Seminars + special lecture 🖱️https://ow.ly/wpq350UAfPQ

Hurricanes, fires and other disasters caused $320bn in losses in 2024, or about a third more than the year before, highlighting the toll taken by climate change and property development in areas hit by extreme weather, the world’s largest reinsurance group said. www.ft.com/content/76d1...

🚨1 week left to submit your abstracts - we look forward to your contributions!

Very nice to see an interactive and beautified version of GAMI (the Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative) that was undertaken for the @ipcc.bsky.social AR6. I am curious to see what approach AR7 will take to synthesise the new adaptation literature from 2020 onwards!

People need to plan for climate risks. The research is there, but the usability for stakeholders can be limited. We introduce the reversal of the impact chain approach for actionable climate information that allows linking local risk levels directly to GHG emission. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨Human-caused climate change intensified Tropical #CycloneChido’s destructive winds, elevating it from a category 3 to a category 4 storm when it struck Mayotte, a rapid study from Imperial College London has found. 🧵 ow.ly/B7qA50UsxMh

Le cyclone #Chido, classé en catégorie 4, a dévasté l’archipel de Mayotte le 14 décembre 2024, avec des vents soufflants à plus de 220 km/h. C’est le cyclone le plus important depuis 1934. Le dernier cyclone majeur datait de 1984. Un 🧵 [1/24] 👇

🌍 Join us on 22 Jan for our inaugural Climate Research Showcase! Explore exhibitions, peer-led workshops & connect with the Imperial climate research community. 🗓️ Submissions to contribute to the showcase are open until 18 Dec. 📢 More info: ow.ly/1bmr50UfCvZ