ML is revolutionising satellite retrieval. We show ML Rain over Africa beats not only other real-time rainfall estimates, but also high-quality GPM IMERG! Great for nowcasts+warnings. Fantastic work from Simon Ageet, @dougparkermeteo.bsky.social et al. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Evaluation of Satellite Rainfall Products for Nowcasting Over Southern Africa Using Rain‐Gauges and Lightning Data

Three satellite-based rainfall nowcasting products used in the WISER EWSA testbeds, CRR, IMERG-HQ and the new machine-learning-based Rain over Africa (RoA), were evaluated against high-resolution rai...

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Floods but again no mention of #ClimateCrisis on BBC (or of Crete floods as fa as I can see). There is a failure of journalism outside of the Climate/Env section of BBC to address climate crisis @mattmcgrathbbc.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Two people killed as floods hit Spain's Catalonia region

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says the situation in Catalonia remains "very complicated".

bbc.co.uk

Banning journalists from Conservative conference with no explanation - anyone who thinks our democracy is weakened and under threat needs to wake up

Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Picking on Byline Times sends a message to other political journalists: Be careful. Don't be too critical. We can do the same to you." @adambienkov.bsky.social speaks to LBC's @mrjamesob.bsky.social about Byline Times' ban from Conservative Party Conference.

Welcome to the bleak new world where AI assesses grant proposals. I think we should push back on this - certainly until they can prove it works www.resultsense.com/news/2026-09...

In an article on UK energy prices rises, BBC quotes someone urging gov to back Jackdaw and Rosebank, and doesn't say that won't help prices at all. To me, that is failing to do what journalists should do www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... please complain.

Household energy bills forecast to see biggest rise in four years

A typical household faces an annual gas and electricity bill of £1,999 from January, based on a key forecast.

bbc.co.uk

Buried on BBC Asia page (not on climate page) - Bangkok disaster zone, $330 million damage, 0.3% off GDP, hundreds of thousands affected - and no mention of why! Climate Crisis driven by burning fossil fuels .... @mattmcgrathbbc.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bangkok roads submerged as flood disaster declared

Authorities said the heavy rains have subsided but the flooding is not yet over.

bbc.co.uk

Thanks @yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk for discussion of El Nino. The Pacific may feel far away, but our world is interconnected in so many ways & they affect us. Floods, droughts, heat, food & water availability get worse until we have phased out fossil fuels. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/weather...

Leeds professor on how El Niño could impact UK’s weather and disrupt food supply

John Marsham, Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Leeds, explains the El Niño and how the record-breaking phenomenon could impact the UK.

yorkshirepost.co.uk

Great work engaging people in Ilkley. Most people underestimate how concerned others are. Most MPs underestimate how much people support action on climate. Time for a @nebriefing.bsky.social . Time to write to your MP if they are not already supporting it.

Steve Peel@steve-peel.bsky.social · last wk.

Another great day getting people's views in Ilkley. Overwhelmingly recognising more extreme weather & loss of nature. Large majority wanting public and MPs to be better informed and wanting a televised national briefing. @nebriefing.bsky.social @johnmarsham.bsky.social

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Most people underestimate how concerned everyone else is about climate crisis. Number-1 most read on BBC news...

Everyone agree this is simply a lie? When did media stop holding MPs to account? 1. High gas prices are not a result of Labour approach to N Sea. Set internationally. No amount of gas from UK waters could make a signicant difference. Taxes etc are a small fraction, and cant explain increases 2.

Sea level rise often ignored as 'far future', but good to see recognised as existential. See also our Nature commentary, www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We need a global assessment of avoidable climate-change risks

To understand the urgency of emissions reductions, policymakers and citizens need a full analysis of what is at stake.

nature.com

Bob Kopp@bobkopp.net · 2w ago

Happening now: UN high-level meeting on sea-level rise

South Sudan is dealing with drought, but faces flooding from upstream sources as Lake Victoria may reach a record high panafricanvisions.com/2026/09/sout... all sadly consistent with risks highlighted in @carolinewainwright.bsky.social 's 2020 paper rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Extreme rainfall in East Africa, October 2019–January 2020 and context under future climate change

The 2019 October–December rains over East Africa were one of the wettest seasons on record, with many locations receiving more than double the climatological rainfall, leading to floods and landslide...

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Why do BBC headlines always seem to be "What Reform says about what's happening", not "What is actually happening"?!

Good work from @eciu.net on the double-whammy that is possibly UK lowest harvest on record followed by record El Nino. UK media so far I think more focused on El Nino impacts on UK storms - I guess the food price story will grow as impacts appear. eciu.net/media/press-... eciu.net/media/press-...

UK harvest even worse than previously thought – new data

Updated figures released by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) suggest the UK's arable harvest is now expected to be even smaller than previously forecast.

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Top 10 uni courses for subject contentment are all vocational except 'Earth & marine sci'. Is it as 'vocational' for many who study to address environmenatl crises. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Open letter in dupport of RNLI 38d.gs/zjos

An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI

This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...

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Reflects (1) A near complete failure of media, including BBC, to hold politicians to account on severity of climate crisis & cost (in fact savings) of net zero. Note Conservatives guilty too (2) Huge private & fossil-fuel donations to parties - which have to stop www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-re...

Factcheck: Reform UK’s 45 false or misleading claims about climate and energy - Carbon Brief

Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, has emerged as a major force in UK politics in recent years – pushing…

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I just emailed the UK Gov to demand: - #TellTheTruth: issue & publicise the full, unredacted National Security Assessment - Hold a UK wide briefing on Climate & Nature Risks - #ActNow: mitigate against the serious threats to UK security - actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

Demand the UK Government Tell the Truth and Act Now!

Join us to email the UK Government and show support for the three demands of Extinction Rebellion’s Love & Rage event. Our demands: - #TellTheTruth by issuing and publicising the full, unredacte...

actionnetwork.org

One of the challenges of communicating the seriousness ClimateCrisis, is the fact that is affects far far more than people realise, "11% of UK homes could be at risk" from resultant subsidence, thene there's floods, sea-level rise ... www.theguardian.com/business/202...

‘We can see into the other room’: insurers face surge in subsidence claims

Stressed UK homeowners tell of cracks opening up in the walls around them after two record-hot summers

theguardian.com

From the new Private Eye

I'm clearly an optimist. I thought for a minute that, according to BBC, Farage was "ready for departure": I'm certainly ready for his departure from UK politics

If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...

An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI

This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...

act.38degrees.org.uk

Disgraceful that the RNLI have to say this today, but here we are 😞. If you would like to donate👇🏻. rnli.org/support-us/g... #RNLI #RNLISavesLives

It won’t stop these reprehensible, cowardly pieces of shit attacking the RNLI, but here is a handy link to donate rnli.org/support-us/g...

Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Louis 〓〓@louishenwood.bsky.social · 4w ago

Over on X, the far-right British Patriots have launched a hate campaign against the RNLI They are recording RNLI volunteers in order to dox them, reveal their identities and publish details of where they and their families live These men are dangerous

Remember when this would have been a big headline? We've normalised climate breakdown - but impacts on food & nature are now really beginning to hit

The Final Report@firehorse249791.bsky.social · 4w ago

France records unprecedented September high as temperatures top 40°C amid heat wave www.trtworld.com/article/1e68... #FossilFuels #Meat #Dairy #Collapse #Climate #Europe

45.7 in September. Imagine how hot August could be....https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/09/04/spain-matches-september-heat-record-at-457c-as-extreme-heat-grips-country

Spain matches September heat record at 45.7C

The unseasonably high September temperatures follow a series of extreme summer heatwaves across Europe, which scientists say have been intensified and prolonged by human-driven climate change. #Europe...

euronews.com

@bbc-politics.bsky.social this 100% should have "outdated conventions" in quotes - and how can BBC just broadcast one party's view & be imartial anyway?

UK is far from only country where mis/dis-info is rife. In Indonesia, vulnerable to El Nino, mis-info is circulating about causes of El Nino - when the cause of amplified impacts is clear - burning fossil fuels. Thanks @afp.com for quoting me & pushing back mis-info factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Indonesian politician baselessly claims HAARP behind supercharged El Nino

As Indonesia dealt with wildfires and a dry season turbocharged by a powerful El Nino, posts shared a clip of a former Jakarta gubernatorial candidate saying the weather phenomenon and rising global t...

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Please complain to @BBC on this www.facebook.com/reel/1822099... no challenge to dis-info in interview & weak in article. It doesn't break impartiality to point out someone is wrong when they are. e.g. No challenge on: 1 Its co2 from fossil fuels, not sun or volcanoes....