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Ben Clarke @bennethclarke.bsky.social · last mo.

1976 comes up time and time again when new heatwaves happen and climate change is mentioned - I have explored what it really looked like and compared it to recent experiences of summers in the 2020s. As is often the case, the picture is nuanced! Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/theclima...

“But what about 1976?” – How does the iconic heatwave stack up to those of today?

And what can this extraordinary event tell us about extreme heat in our warming world?

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · last mo.

Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...

A map of Europes with dots for all 854 cities analysed, pink dots for the cities that broke humid heat records, grey dots elsewhere. Pink dots conentrated over Southern UK, Germany, Poland and Benelux.

Ben Clarke @bennethclarke.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Mind-boggling out-of-season heat in western North America right now - our new rapid study found it's been made much hotter by climate change. Check out our @wwattribution.bsky.social study, but I also made a handy figure to illustrate the bonkersness. www.worldweatherattribution.org/record-shatt...

A chart showing the seasonal cycle of daily maximum temperatures averaged over a large part of the western US (smoothed over a running 5-day mean). The average seasonal cycle from 1950-1979 (what we used to expect) is shown in blue, and the average from 1996-2025 (what we expect now) is in red. The red line is always above the blue line, and in March is several degrees higher. A black line shows the temperatures recorded this year, which reached more than ten degrees C above what we would expect in March, a level described by scientists as 'what the frickadoodles?'

World Weather Attribution @wwattribution.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨 NEW STUDY: As Australia prepares for another heatwave, our latest study found the early January heatwave which hit SE Australia was made 5x more likely due to climate change. What was once a relatively rare 1-in-25-year event is now expected about every 5 years. 🧵 1/6

Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · last yr.

⛈️ Climate change made record-breaking downpours behind deadly Midwest and South US flooding 9% more intense. Co-authors Dr Ben Clarke & @frediotto.bsky.social from @ic-cep.bsky.social & @shelwinkleywx.bsky.social at @climatecentral.org explain the results below 🧵👇