Peter Stott
@stottpeter.bsky.social
Climate Scientist at Met Office and University of Exeter. Author of Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial
Mary Beard, Chair of the Booker Prize 2026 judging panel, on why she dislikes the phrase ‘I really love reading’. This clip is provided courtesy of the Southbank Centre, and you can watch the full Booker Prize 2026 shortlist event on their YouTube channel: https://youtube.pulse.ly/axkmrdaxr9
How hot & dry was your UK summer? Excellent interactive tool to explore how hot this summer was: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK summer 2026: BBC postcode lookup shows how hot and dry it was
Most of us experienced drought and heatwaves - but temperatures and rainfall were not the same everywhere.
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The actual best website on the internet by a country mile.
National Library of Scotland@natlibscot.bsky.social · 3w agoEver wanted to see how a street looked 100 years ago - right where you're standing now? 🗺️ Our georeferenced maps let you do exactly that. We've got over 600 layers freely available online, with tools to filter, measure, draw, compare and export them.
I talk about my extraordinary experience in Moscow in 2004 in the latest edition of the Totally Cooked podcast as well as other aspects of my career in climate science. Includes extra details to what I wrote about in Hot Air including the Russian prostitutes. 21centuryweather.org.au/totally-cook...
Peter Stott: Heatwaves, Show Trials & Climate Denial
Climate scientist Peter Stott on pioneering extreme-weather attribution, a Soviet-style Moscow show trial, Climategate and the fight against denial.
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Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and maths are equivalent to about two years of lost schooling.
Just read Togetherness by @rowhoop.bsky.social (in two days). Really enjoyable, informative and profound, including for my thinking about the climate crisis: "We are symbiotic creatures at the deepest levels of our cells, living in a world entirely shaped and powered by symbiotic processes".
I’ve had a fabulous time in gorgeous weather hiking the 4-day Kesch trek from hut to hut in Switzerland - the Swiss mountains are my happy place - but I grieve for the disappearing ice seen here from the Kesch hut. The glaciers are disappearing thanks to our fossil fuel emissions.
He is literally saying "reality is not my ideology." He has gone to war against science; science as a description of reality will win in the long run because science as reality doesn't go away even if you close your eyes and yell.
Faced with cancer, one of the world’s top climate scientists speaks about his feelings and about how the orchestrated anti-science backlash will affect all of us. Listen to this very moving podcast episode! www.climateone.org/audio/cancer...
A Cancer Diagnosis Reframed How Ben Santer Thinks About Climate Science
Atmospheric scientist Ben Santer pioneered the research that connects human activity to specific climate events. Now, pursuing treatment for a rare type of lymphoma, he sees his own diagnosis and his ...
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The BBC sand sculpting competition has prompted me to dig out the records of my illustrious career in the practice. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
In the very week that after a long deep dive rabbit hole (books/podcasts/counselling) I discover at age 64 that I have an ADHD brain and that awareness explains and helps me a whole lot, Channel 4 do a whole documentary to supposedly demonstrate it's all a myth and I'm a fraud.
Robin Ince@robinince.bsky.social · 2mo agoBoth funny and acerbic oh and enlightening , here is @drdeanburnett.bsky.social ‘s review of The Guardian review of ADHD Myth? theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/a-review-o...
29th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London!
Bravo to the @smclondon.bsky.social for once again stepping up and providing evidence-based scientifically informed commentary on a societally important topic that is being mis-represented in the media. I find the comments from Dr Rachel Moseley particularly insightful and informative.
Science Media Centre UK@smclondon.bsky.social · 2mo agoexpert reaction to the TV show ‘The Great ADHD Myth?' www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react...
Past greenhouse gas emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels, means that peak temperatures in the UK today are hotter (by around 3°C) than they would otherwise have been. Future burning of fossil fuels means heatwave temperatures will get hotter and hotter until we reach net-zero emissions.
Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · 2mo agoTemperatures have now provisionally exceeded 37°C 🌡️ Before 2026, the UK had recorded 37°C or higher on only six occasions. This year alone, we've already reached that mark three times.
Fire apparently burning out of control in Mincinglake Valley Park in Exeter with smoke visible from our house and 16 fire engines in attendance. After this hot dry summer climate change from burning fossil fuels and its effects have come uncomfortably close to home. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
Huge fire at popular Exeter park as 16 fire engines battle blaze
Smoke can be seen from across the city
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European summers aren't what they used to be! Grey curve is the climate of 1950-90. Every coloured line is a summer since 1991. Every one since 2005 sits beyond the 95th percentile of the curve. This isn't a shifting #climate. It's already a new one! 🤯🥵 Plot inspired by Barriopedro et al. 2011
2003 was once exceptional. Now it's average. 2024's record will be average by the mid-2040s. The extreme summers of the 2040s don't bear thinking about! 🌡🥵😬 #ClimateEmergency After @edhawkins.org & @stottpeter.bsky.social using ERA5 + CMIP6.
Climate change sceptics have lost the plot as Europe burns - Reading the Telegraph, it’s hard to work out whether their climate columns are a work of satire, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social #climatecrisis www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
Climate change sceptics have lost the plot as Europe burns
Reading the Telegraph, it’s hard to work out whether their climate columns are a work of satire
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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.
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Breaking news: it's raining in Exeter and it's a joy - and not just for our garden!
I had a great weekend at Womad where I experienced the extraordinary talent and "fierce political anger" from powerful female musicians including Daniela Mercury from Brazil, Kankawa Nagarra from Australia, Oumou Sangare from Mali and Ganna from Ukraine. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
Womad festival review – hugely welcome return of joyous planet-spanning music fest
In a new home after a year off, there’s a thread of fierce political anger running alongside the spirited musical performances – including standout sets from Barrington Levy and Daniela Mercury
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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'.
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Repost from @sound_odyssey3 • James Taylor & Carole King — You’ve Got a Friend BBC In Concert · 1971 "Pure comfort in song form. Written by Carole King and shared here with James Taylor, You’ve Got a Friend feels less like a performance and more like a promise. (Cont'd in comments)
Spot on take from @theguardian.com Jonathan Liew - the defeat was nothing to do with English footballers' DNA; it was down to a dreadful coaching decision made at the 2nd half hydration break. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Tuchel would rather put down the English game than admit to his own cowardice | Jonathan Liew
England’s coach said ball possession is not in the team’s DNA – it’s an opinion that should disqualify him from the job
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"hang off our own cross bar like a team of bats" - spot on analysis from Tim Vickery, South American football expert. on BBC. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
World Cup 2026: Thomas Tuchel criticised after England beaten by Argentina in semi-final
All the latest from the 2026 Fifa World Cup as Thomas Tuchel's England bow out to Argentina in the last four.
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"The average hottest day of the year has warmed by over 4.5°C in a swathe from Kent to Lincolnshire for the most recent decade, 2016-2025, compared to 1961-1990" From the State of the UK Climate in 2025, first published yesterday.
Why climate scientists need to talk more about the very worst-case scenarios and why uncertainty in what lies ahead is a spur for action and hope not despair and denial. My new article published today in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/why-climate-...
Why climate scientists need to talk more about the very worst-case scenarios
London probably won’t disappear beneath the waves. But we still need to understand the most dangerous outcomes that remain possible – and avoidable.
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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.
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New paper in the Quarterly Journal of the @rmets.org by Daniel Cotterill, @climatedann.bsky.social, me, Paul Bates, Youtong Rong and Leanne Archer advances climate attribution by finding increasing urban flash flood risk attributable both to climate change and development. doi.org/10.1002/qj.7...
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