1/ How should the UK respond to mounting pressure from climate change, health problems, and global instability? Our Roadmap for Resilience report calls for rapid and urgent action on food, at a scale not seen since WW2. Full report: tinyurl.com/369s6wuy #UKFoodPlan2050 #AFNRoadmap

🌏A major new report from @afnnetwork.bsky.social calls for biggest transformation of UK food since World War 2. News story here ▶️ bit.ly/472Ltwt and key recommendations in thread below 👇 @timgbenton.bsky.social @globalfoodleeds.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social #WorldFoodDay

Report calls for largest transformation of UK food since Second World War

Rapid and urgent action on food is needed if the UK is to reboot its flagging economy, save the NHS billions, ensure national food security, and meet climate commitments, according to a new report.

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Root and Reason (formerly AFN Network+)@rootandreason.bsky.social · 10mo ago

1/ How should the UK respond to mounting pressure from climate change, health problems, and global instability? Our Roadmap for Resilience report calls for rapid and urgent action on food, at a scale not seen since WW2. Full report: tinyurl.com/369s6wuy #UKFoodPlan2050 #AFNRoadmap

Fantastic workshop yesterday led by @timgbenton.bsky.social imagining our possible environmental futures with a team from across the university. Thought provoking and sobering. A rare moment of how I always imagined university should be! You know it has been good when 4 hours goes in a flash

Not even close 😥 I tried to show the size of removals given a delay in this animation 👇 related to the amount of BECCS assumed in size of EU (note that this is for a 67% chance not a 50% chance as per Glen's figure). Used Climate Action Tracker for the national targets.

Glen Peters@glenpeters.bsky.social · 2y ago

How much longer can we keep using the IPCC AR6 1.5°C scenarios (limited overshoot) for percentage reductions, net zero years, etc, given that we are currently not even remotely on track? Starting today, the percentage reductions will be higher, net zero year earlier (all else equal).

Summer UK temperatures have warmed faster than global average temperature. But the very hottest days have warmed 4x faster than the global average, especially in south-east England. Global warming is not "just" 1°C or 2°C. The effects of climate change are non-linear, especially for extremes.

New paper by Sebastian Sippel and colleagues provides evidence that the SST component of most current global temperature datasets is too cold during (roughly) 1900-1930. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Early-twentieth-century cold bias in ocean surface temperature observations - Nature

Independent statistical reconstructions of the global mean surface temperature from either ocean or land data show that existing estimates of early-twentieth-century ocean surface temperatures are too...

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Important new study shows that current climate models underestimate the human-caused slowing of the #AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation), because they neglect freshwater influx from Greenland melt and other sources. /1 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation driven by subarctic freshening since the mid-twentieth century - Nature Geoscience

Fresh meltwater entering the Labrador and Irminger seas has resulted in a slowing of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation since the 1950s, according to a combination of modelling approaches...

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Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world | @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org 🎨 Kerry Cleaver, Tom Pearson @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org Read here: https://buff.ly/4eFnQus

If you want to find out what #COP29 could mean for food and farming, read our latest briefing. Co-lead Tim Benton spoke to our knowledge exchange fellow Jez Fredenburgh to give us his assessment. 👉 tinyurl.com/22j7fm46

DIGEST: What does COP29 mean for food and farming? - AFN Network+

As UNFCC COP29 kicks off in Azerbaijan, an oil-producing, authoritarian state. What could negotiations this year, mean for food and farming?  Our co-lead, Prof Tim Benton, has spent much of his career...

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