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Helen Millman

@helenmillman.bsky.social

Glaciologist / Ice Sheet Modeller currently remotely sensing permafrost. Postdoc at Exeter Uni @gsiexeter.bsky.social‬ helenmillman.co.uk

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Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · last wk.

Here's Nick Bridge – the UK's former special representative on climate change under last Tory govt – on Channel 4 News citing @carbonbrief.org analysis about the extreme and relentless anti-climate action campaigning by some UK newspapers "Some of the media is shocking on this..."

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 2w ago

Holiday 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.

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Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · last mo.

Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."

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James Dyke@jamesgdyke.info · last mo.

Gave an interview to @news.sky.com earlier this evening about heatwaves. I said I gave a very similar interview 10 years ago (that time to BBC) about heatwaves. Politicians have failed to act. Societies have failed to adapt. And here we are. We are in dangerous climate change.

Abbey@abbeyarletto.bsky.social · last mo.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Leo Barasi@leobarasi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Extreme heat in the UK is hotter, faster, than climate models projected. This wasn't supposed to happen so soon - even 35C was supposed to be very unusual by now. Only last year the Met Office said there was a 50-50 chance of another 40C day in the next 12 years. Looks like underestimate now surely

Met Office report details rising likelihood of UK hot days

New study highlights how UK heatwaves could become longer and hotter due to escalating climate trends.

metoffice.gov.uk

Bob Kopp@bobkopp.net · 2mo ago

The thing about solar geoengineering is that there is zero evidence that humankind is currently capable of the sort of global governance needed to deploy it responsibly and ethically, and if it were capable, it probably would not be needed.

Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 2mo ago

‘Termination shock’: trust our expert warnings on geoengineering’s planetary risks | New op-ed in @theguardian.com by Ray Pierrehumbert (@climatebook.bsky.social), Julia Slingo, @valmasdel.bsky.social & yours truly: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Richard Vaughan@richardvaughan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This Dartmoor pony cull story is bizarre and, it appears, completely made up. I was in this morning's lobby briefing today when it was raised with the PM's spox, meaning a line had to be cleared in No10 to refute claims the Govt is killing ponies! Just surreal. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Dartmoor ponies could be put to death under biodiversity plans

Natural England has demanded 75 per cent of livestock grazing on the land must go, forcing farmers to chose between tradition and livelihoods

thetimes.com

Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · 2mo ago

Recommended watch: BBC News reported on a coastal community in Nigeria where the ocean has "already swallowed more than half of the town".

BBC News Africa on Instagram: "'We have lost about 80% of the houses in this community'⁣ ⁣ In Ayetoro, a coastal community in Ondo State, south-west Nigeria, residents say the sea has already swallowed more than half of the town.⁣ ⁣ As rising sea levels and stronger ocean surges hit Nigeria’s Atlantic coastline, people in the community say they are watching their homes, livelihoods and history slowly disappear beneath the water. Reporter: @EstherOmopariola Produced by: @abayomiadisa Filmed: @Daddygift"

2,090 likes, 85 comments - bbcafrica on May 28, 2026: "'We have lost about 80% of the houses in this community'⁣ ⁣ In Ayetoro, a coastal community in Ondo State, south-west Nigeria, residents say the…

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Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I live just down the road from this weather station, and can confirm from my own scientific observations that it was at least a gazillion degrees. And to be more sombre about this: any politics that doesn't start from the existential nature of the climate crisis is just not a serious contribution.

MetJam@metjam.co.uk · 2mo ago

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

Spaghetti chart showing Oxford Radcliffe Observatory daily maximum temperatures for every day of the year from 1815 to 2026. 211 years of historical data are shown as very faint grey lines tracing a seasonal cycle from around 5°C in winter to a summer peak of roughly 25–30°C in July and August. A blue smoothed 30-day mean line highlights the average annual temperature cycle. The 2026 line is shown in bold red, running from January through to late May before spiking sharply upward to reach 33.7°C on 26 May, well above the entire historical grey envelope for that time of year. A single dashed red reference line marks the previous May record of 30.6°C set on 29 May 1944. The 2026 reading exceeds this by 3.1°C and, in statistical terms, is the 6th most anomalous maximum temperature in Oxford's 211-year record, ranking as the most anomalous May maximum ever observed and coming within 0.6°C of the all-time June record of 34.3°C set in 1976.