Rasmus E. Benestad
@brasmus.bsky.social
Climate scientist, physicist, statistics nerd, and code developer. Contributor to RealClimate.org and leader of Tekna Klima. Working for the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.
🌍 How can climate projections become useful for local planning? @brasmus.bsky.social explains how the SPRINGS weather generator creates realistic daily weather data from climate projections to support climate adaptation. Read more: bit.ly/3TynxN3 #SPRINGSProject
We're Getting Better at Knowing When Climate Change Is to Blame, National Academies Report Says eos.org/research-and...
We're Getting Better at Knowing When Climate Change Is to Blame, National Academies Report Says - Eos
Scientists have gotten much better at parsing how severe events are linked to climate change, a long-awaited report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has found. The re...
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Wonder when people will understand the link between these events and exploitation of coal, oil and gas... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Wildfires rage across Washington as drought and heat fuel painful summer: ‘It’s not normal’
Hundreds of structures damaged as firefighters battle to contain 15 major wildfires amid extreme heat and drought
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Ingen som tar ansvar? Hvorfor er det slik? Hva tror de om klimaendringene? www.energiogklima.no/nyhet/brusse...
Oljenæringen slipper unna mesteparten av klimaregningen – kan betale enda mindre snart
Norske olje- og gasselskaper betaler halvparten så mye for CO2-utslipp som tyske gasskraftverk. Regjeringen undersøker om kostnadene kan kuttes enda mer.
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06-2026: Abdelkader Mezghani, Øivind Hodneborg, Rasmus E. Benestad, Frode Stordal, Kajsa M. Parding, Janna Sillmann, & Sukumaran Sandeep Projected mean temperatures over India under RCP scenarios. A comparison of statistical and dynamical downscaling: www.met.no/publikasjone...
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130° in Death Valley this Weekend? Not probable, but certainly possible! NOAA’s forecast is for 129 - 1° short of the highest temperature ever “reliably measured” on Earth, also set in Death Valley in 2021. Believe it or not… 1/
The decreacing fraction of global surface area with daily precipitation is also consistent with more droughts.
Rasmus E. Benestad@brasmus.bsky.social · last wk.It seems that many colleagues are not aware of our analysis suggesting that the fraction of Earth's surface receiving daily precipitation is decreasing. Which means more concentrated and intense where it rains. DOI:10.1038/s41612-024-00794-z @theguardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It seems that many colleagues are not aware of our analysis suggesting that the fraction of Earth's surface receiving daily precipitation is decreasing. Which means more concentrated and intense where it rains. DOI:10.1038/s41612-024-00794-z @theguardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘We have lost everything’: extreme rainfall across Asia brings flash floods and typhoons
From Afghanistan to Taiwan, unprecedented deluge highlights devastating impact of climate breakdown
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I have known Le Porge since I was a child. Much of it is now ash. We were warned this would come. We kept burning fossil fuels anyway. Adapting to this is not a plan. Stopping the cause is.
🌎 El Niño preparedness is back on the health agenda. PAHO's new analysis flags cholera, waterborne & vector-borne disease risks across the Americas through 2026–2027. 756 hospitals face flooding exposure. 🔎 bit.ly/4yEQ4At #ClimateHealth #ElNino #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #Preparedness
PAHO publishes analysis on the potential health impacts of the El Niño phenomenon in the Americas
Washington, D.C., 7 July 2026 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has published a new Public Health Situation Analysis on the El Niño climate event (2026–2027), which examines the pot...
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Thousands flee wildfires in France and Spain as temperatures reach extreme levels in southern Europe
France asks EU for help while Spain declares national emergency around Madrid, as marine heatwave sees parts of Mediterranean Sea 5C hotter than normal
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There is an iron curtain today, and that's between business leaders, boardroom members, finance people, politicians on the one side, and scientists on the other. I think there is too little dialogue across these parts of our society. Instead, everybody seems to be lost in AI hallucinations.
I would like to discuss this with the CEO and the boardroom members of major oil companies, as well as politicians. I just don't think they understand. The artist Sting sang the song 'Russians' in the 1980s, but the new title with new lyrics should be 'Leaders'. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate crisis-driven heat ‘sucking soils dry’ as extreme drought hits Europe
Analysis shows how heatwaves are making atmosphere thirstier, damaging water supplies, food production and power generation
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