The head of Norway's oil fund is going to flip out when someone tells him what fossil fuels do 🧐🧐🧐🧐
Clair Barnes
@clairbarnes.bsky.social
Stats/data nerd and researcher at www.worldweatherattribution.org. Mostly handmade. She/her.
Can't wait for this, one of my favourite films of all time
Some Like It Hot: Men Reading Newspapers
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Lucy Jane Santos@lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 4d agoNot sure if I have the discipline but gonna attempt to post something Some Like It Hot related every (most) days in the run up to publication of Nobody’s Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot at the end of August. It’s been a real labour of love and appreciate any support you can give the project!
The way we stop upland fires is dramatic rewetting and rewilding of our hills and reducing emissions like it's a life or death situation... Using every lever available to the state domestically and internationally to immediately cut emissions everywhere. It's literally the only way we can stop them
The missing words in the climate conversation are not human-caused climate change, but fossil fuel emissions. By Hayley Fowler and myself: theconversation.com/was-this-hea...
‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question
Instead of asking whether climate change caused a heatwave, we should ask how much hotter it became because of fossil fuel emissions.
theconversation.com
Climate change is making Europe hotter and drier, and that's massively increasing the fire risk - this is the third study from @wwattribution.bsky.social in recent weeks looking at this triple threat. And things are only going to get worse until we drastically cut our emissions to get to net zero.
World Weather Attribution@wwattribution.bsky.social · 5d agoHuman-induced climate change made the extreme fire weather that fuelled the recent destructive wildfires at least twice as likely in France and at least 20 times more likely in Spain, according to our new study.
++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
#ClimateChange is ridiculously expensive! — more so than phasing out fossil fuels. A new study says that NY State will surpass half a trillion dollars on infrastructure spending related to climate change by 2050. Now this is just one state. And one type of cost! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/n...
New York Faces Half a Trillion in Storm Prevention Costs, Report Finds (Gift Article)
A study from a group called Rebuild by Design estimates that the money will be needed to repair the effects of climate change in the next 24 years.
nytimes.com
Yesterday afternoon 14:09 in Lacanau Océan in France. A pale red sun through the smoke tinged everything in Mars style orange. Welcome in the climate emergency! Despite all denial of the fossil fuel lobby, it’s scientific fact: CO2 emissions heat up Earth & make fires worse. 🔥🔥🔥
Some sensible soul has started a petition on banning the sale of disposable BBQs. Given the number of wildfires we've had in the UK and have seen over in Europe, this is an absolutely obvious thing to do.
Petition: Ban on sale of disposable BBQs
We want the Government to introduce a nationwide ban on the sale of single-use disposable barbecues. Disposable BBQs are increasingly linked to preventable wildfires, which poses a serious risk to pu...
petition.parliament.uk
Voyager 1 can't phone home because we burned down one of the three receivers it can talk to. When Voyager launched in 1977 atmospheric CO2 was at 334 ppm.
Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. 📷 via Infues Avila
Climate change is making extreme weather events more frequent and more dangerous, even in Europe. It's not something that happens to other people. It's not something that will happen in the future. It's happening now, TO ALL OF US, and it will keep getting worse until we decide to act.
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 2w agoHoliday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.
Yet again tonight's BBC coverage of drought and fires fails to mention cause. News At Ten reporting by Justin Rowlatt omits to say the words "due to burning of fossil fuels". Continued refusal of BBC to call out cause of climate change is why we wrote to editors pressgazette.co.uk/news/climate...
Climate scientists say news coverage ignores cause of UK heatwave
Connection between greenhouse emissions and extreme heat in UK 'indisputable'.
pressgazette.co.uk
➡️ Climate change is driving drought in Europe - but not how you might expect. While there isn't a clear signal for climate change impacting the dry weather, extreme heat is sucking more moisture out of the landscape. (1/3)
The claim that "pink elephants cannot fly" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that pink elephants can fly. 🙄
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Yale Program on Climate Change Communication@yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social · 2w agoOnly about one-quarter of the 2,500 online articles about last month’s heatwave mention the words “climate” or “global warming.” Less than 5% of stories included information about the UK’s climate goals. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
More people can fit on to the top deck of a London bus than will be directly employed on the new #Jackdaw gasfield in the North Sea, industry documents show #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Jackdaw gasfield would create only 27 direct full-time jobs, documents show
Campaigners say field will bring minimal benefit for UK economy, as industry lobbies Burnham for go-ahead
theguardian.com
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) put out a little infographic for International Moon Day. It compares the diameter of Australia to the diameter of the Moon. This always throws me because in my mind, the Moon is actually bigger!
Deeply irresponsible. We're in a climate crisis. This is such a terrible start. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.
bbc.co.uk
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS
Spent the past two weeks making graphics about sweltering night-time temperatures while struggling to sleep because of those same hot nights... NEW: Tropical nights come to Europe w @attractamooney.bsky.social and @nassosstylianou.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/4929ae6c-e...
Why don't most Europeans have air conditioning? Dumb? Woke? No - WE DID NOT NEED IT UNTIL FOSSIL FUEL BURNING CAUSED THE CLIMATE CRISIS More info 👇 www.carbonbrief.org/eight-facts-...
Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief explains why AC rates in parts of Europe are relatively low and clarifies some of the misleading claims about the technology.
carbonbrief.org
🧵 Heatwaves in the UK might conjure images of ice cream on the beach - but our new study estimates that more than 2,700 people died from heat-related causes during the May and June heatwaves in England and Wales - with 42% of those due to the extra heat added by human-induced climate change.
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
⚠️More than 2,700 excess deaths estimated in England and Wales during May and June heatwaves 🌡️ Climate change added between 3-4°C to maximum temperatures and is estimated to be responsible for about 42% of the deaths across both heatwaves 🧵
Scan your local news today. How many stories are about something climate change is making worse...without saying so? I counted 8 of those in my feed today, vs just 1 that named climate change directly. Why does this matter? Research shows that making this connection changes how people see it.
Record breaking series of extreme temperatures in the UK But it seems this is no longer headline news Relegated to weather pages or just ignored www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
UK weather: Heatwave peaks at 35C as millions under hosepipe bans
On Thursday, temperatures exceeded 34C for the eighth day this year, breaking the previous record of seven days in a calendar year.
bbc.co.uk
My favourite thing about Haaland is that he spent 1.3 million Norwegian kroner of his football money on a rare 1594 edition of Viking chronicles - a record book sale for Norway - and then donated it to his regional library. www.reuters.com/lifestyle/ha...
Haaland trades goals for sagas with record-breaking Viking book
Manchester City striker Erling Haaland has donated a rare 16th-century manuscript of Viking sagas to his home municipality in Norway.
reuters.com
Mark Ham wowed the world with this picture. But then someone wowed me even more by pointing out that the moon always has the same phase when it's in a rainbow! (1/2)
