Veronika Huber
@veronikahuber.bsky.social
Climate change & health, RyC Fellow at Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), opinions my own
The German Federal Statistical Office has released death count data for the week of extreme heat in June. Mortality was up 30%, with around 5500 excess deaths. No time to lose to put emission reductions as the top priority, and become very serious about adaptation to worst-case outcomes.
🇩🇪🌡️ Germany 2026 vs 1961–1990 normal: Jan −0.5°C, Feb +2.6°C, Mar +3.1°C, Apr +2.3°C, May +2.8°C, Jun +4.5°C. Yesterday: 29.9°C — +13.4°C above normal. The anomaly is accelerating. #ClimateData #Rstats #dataviz
Vuelve la calor, en Sevilla hoy se alcanzarán los 36 grados, y seguro que hay quién piensa que siempre hace calor en Sevilla y es mentira. El promedio de temperaturas altas en Sevilla a 15 de junio es de 31-32ºC. Así que por mucho que le cueste a admitirlo al PP y VOX, no hace el calor de siempre.
The Mediterranean is a hotspot of climate change, not only due to more heat, droughts and wildfires, but increasingly severe rainstorms led to catastrophic flooding this winter, highlighting again the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels. www.worldweatherattribution.org/increasingly...
🆕 New global evidence shows heatstroke is highly heterogeneous and often under‑recognized. Our MCC study across 34 countries finds mortality ranges from <1 to nearly 6 deaths per million, with heatstroke representing only a small share of total heat‑related deaths. #heatstroke #climate
Just published a post on our recent paper in Nat Comm with colleagues from @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social. The study suggests that gains in life expectancy in Germany have partly masked the imprint of climate change on heat-related mortality. More info here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
#epidemiology #climatechange #populationhealth #publichealthresearch #researchexcellence | Epidemiology at Helmholtz Munich
How are heat-related deaths evolving in a warming climate and how much of today’s burden can already be attributed to climate change? 🌍🌡️ In our study titled "𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐫𝐢...
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We offer a 2-year postdoc position in Climate Change Epidemiology at Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD) in Sevilla, Spain, to work in the international Wellcome project BREATHE. Application deadline is 18 January 2026. Interested? See further details here: www.ebd.csic.es/sites/defaul...
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Climate variations over the last 2000 years provide valuable context and help answer questions about how unusual the recent changes are. Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch... Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Los tres años más calurosos registrados hasta ahora en el planeta son 2023, 2024 y 2025. #CumbreClimática #Belém #CambioClimático
Los tres años más calurosos registrados hasta ahora en el planeta son 2023, 2024 y 2025
La cumbre climática de Belém se inicia con la advertencia de António Guterres (ONU) contra los “líderes” que están “cautivos de los intereses de los combustibles fósiles”
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Hoy nos hemos manifestado para pedir el fin del genocidio en Gaza. Animamos a otros centros a contribuir con este tipo de acciones a incrementar la presión social sobre las instituciones y empresas que tienen capacidad para parar esta barbarie. #EBDxPalestina #CSICxPalestina #FreePalestine
We offer a 4-year PhD position on climate change, cyanobacterial blooms and human health impacts at Estacion Biologica de Doñana @ebdonana.bsky.social in Sevilla, Spain. Together with @drandygreen.bsky.social The official call is now out: sede.csic.gob.es/tramites/con... Deadline: 1st October
Yet another report of the stark impact of human-induced climate change on recent heat-related mortality in Europe. We need to promptly get out of fossil fuels and become very serious about adaptation to prevent further escalating trends.
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine@lshtm.bsky.social · 11mo ago#ClimateChange-driven summer heat caused 16,500 additional deaths across Europe, study estimates Malcolm Mistry & Pierre Masselot explain that cities & societies need to adapt to #ExtremeHeat but reducing greenhouse gas emissions is critical. @lshtm-dash.bsky.social www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
Out now: our new study shows that climate change caused nearly 1,700 heat-related deaths in Zürich over 50 years. We assessed the effects of changing vulnerability to heat, heat-mortality within and outside of heatwaves, and the contribution of individual companies' emissions to heat deaths.
📢🌍 Como parte de la red de centros y unidades de excelencia SOMMa, desde la @ebdonana.bsky.social queremos hacer un llamamiento urgente y ofrecer nuestra ayuda para abordar la emergencia climática con políticas basadas en la evidencia científica. Manifiesto: www.ebd.csic.es/divulgacion/...
More and more trees are going to burn each year until we stop burning fossil fuels.
2025 on track to beat UK record for wildfires, warn firefighters
Professional body says firefighters ‘pushed to brink’ by climate crisis-fuelled blazes, as wildfire in North Yorkshire continues to burn
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Bird populations in the tropics have dropped by roughly a third since 1980 due to intensifying heat extremes from #ClimateChange, with some species declining by over 50 percent, according to new study published in @natecoevo.nature.com. 👇 youtube.com/shorts/Gfx-U... #biodiversity
NEW STUDY Tropical bird populations have declined by one-third since 1980 due to climate change
YouTube video by Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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I normally post on climate science, which is my expertise. But this is too important to look away, so I want to share this from the Washington Post. Please read. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Column | As Gaza starves, Israel’s far right sees a dream coming true
Members of Israel’s government embrace the Trump-inspired vision of a Gaza of gleaming towers, ritzy tourism and pristine neighborhoods, but without Palestinians.
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“Just outside Gaza, tons of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter items & fuel sit untouched with humanitarian organisations blocked from accessing or delivering them," write 109 aid agencies today. Israel is committing Palestinian genocide and it is monstrous. Credit: Anatolu/Getty Images
Das »nur zwei Prozent der globalen CO2-Emissionen«-Argument reflektiert nicht nur Verantwortungslosigkeit, Rücksichtslosigkeit und Ignoranz, sondern auch eine extreme Kurzsichtigkeit. Wer die Gründe dafür noch nicht verstanden hat: Bitte den Artikel lesen! ⬇️ www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
Meinung: Friedrich Merz’ Bundestagsrede: Ein Zechpreller als Bundeskanzler – Kolumne
Friedrich Merz findet, Deutschland müsse erst einmal nicht mehr so viel für die Zukunft der Menschheit tun: Unser Anteil an den Emissionen sei doch so klein. Das ist ein sehr schlechtes Argument.
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I highly recommend this thread. The abnormally high sea surface temperatures in the Western Mediterranean might be an early warning of record heat extremes to unfold over Europe this summer, similarly to 2003.
Robert Rohde@rarohde.bsky.social · last yr.The Western Mediterranean has been record warm recently, shown here for the June averages from ERA5. This much warmth in the Mediterranean may predict a brutally hot summer for Europe. 1/ 🧵🧪🌊
El Mediterráneo arde y seguimos pensando que esto del cambio climático no va con nosotros, que no nos tocará, que es lo del oso polar, los pingüinos, el Amazonas o la India. Pues va a ser que no.
EL PAÍS@elpais.com · last yr.El agua del Mediterráneo arde: de Málaga a Sicilia supera los 28 grados. En algunos puntos es peor: el 30 de junio, la boya de Dragonera (Baleares) marcó 30,55 ºC. “Son temperaturas de mares tropicales; si seguimos así, no sé qué va a pasar en agosto” social.elpais.com/7i1g25
4128 muertes atribuibles al calor 🌡️ en JUNIO para toda España según nuestra aplicación #MACE. 3.404 por calor moderado y 724 por calor extremo. #oladecalor En comparación junio de 2022 fueron 2859 y 879, respectivamente 🥵 @csic.es @mbgcsic.bsky.social 🔗https://ficlima.shinyapps.io/mace/
Heute werden in einigen Teilen Deutschlands bis zu 40°C erwartet. Diese extreme Hitze kann lebensgefährlich sein! Am 20. Juli 2022 wurde in Hamburg der bisherige lokale Hitzerekord von 40,1°C erreicht. Das führte zu einer deutlichen Zunahme der Sterbefälle, für jede(n) ersichtlich in den Daten.
Climate change also makes peaceful protest more difficult. The march on the occasion of the UN summit in Sevilla last night started out at 40C. But seeing the ‘global village’ demanding climate justice and dept cancellation was worth the sweat.
📢🌍 From @ebdonana, we urge world leaders to take urgent action on biodiversity loss and climate change at the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development. Press release: www.ebd.csic.es/en/outreach/... Statement: www.ebd.csic.es/sites/defaul...
El calor extremo (para la época) de estos días en gran parte de la península ibérica es de órdago. El índice "Climate Shift" alcanza impresionantes valores de 5: indica que el cambio climático ha hecho este evento 5 veces más probable de ocurrir que en periodo preindustrial. Influencia excepcional.
And the heat will only get worse. In Spain we have been experiencing anomalies of 5-10 degrees in June. Birds are falling from their nests. My 10-year-old daughter told me last night that she was so sorry for all the animals suffering due to humanity's fault. It is heart-breaking.
Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · last yr.‼️WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN ALL NIGHT >40 DEGREES IN OMAN & EMIRATES Dawn at 40C at Fujairah and Dhudna Min 35.8 Rustaq,35.5 Sohar Majis:Hottest night ever INSANITY IN PAKISTAN🇵🇰 MINIMUMS 34C 1200m and 30.6C at 1500m (Bunji) WORLD RECORD HOT NIGHT AT THAT ELEVATION
El calor mata, nos deja enfermar, afecta nuestra capacidad cognitiva y nuestras emociones. Y cada vez más a menudo por el cambio climático. De esto y más hablo con @jesusdelaosa.bsky.social, invitad@s por @drotorrent.bsky.social en su podcast 'Hablando en Clima' go.ivoox.com/rf/149299737
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Just your regular reminder of where global CO2 emissions are tracking compared to scenarios that keep warming to below 1.5C in 2100, with "no or low overshoot" (maximum temperature around 1.6C). journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... C1/
