Truly startling - across swathes of England and Wales, dozens weather stations recorded ZERO rainfall in July, for the first time in their history www.newscientist.com/article/2583...

Parts of the UK endure first ever month without any rain | New Scientist

For the first time since records began, there was no rain at all for parts of southern England and Wales in July, in a “truly exceptional” month of heat and sunshine

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In case anyone is still listening: 14.500 excess deaths have been recorded during the June heatwave in Germany alone. At least 70% (i.e. ~10.000 premature deaths) r due to man-made climate change in 1 week. The conservative RKI numbers r certainly a massive underestimate! www.rki.de/DE/Themen/Ge...

New paper alert ‼️ Changes in atmospheric circulation patterns are - to a large part - responsible for the observed summer drought trend in Europe since 1980. The exact cause for these shifts remains uncertain. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Uni press release: www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

Drought has increased in Europe since 1980s: climate change or natural climate variability? 🌍🌡️🌬️ István Dunkl shows that hifts in large-scale atmospheric circulation explain ca. 55% of the soil moisture decline and amplify drying induced by thermodynamic changes 👇 w/ @sebastian-sippel.bsky.social

Nature Geoscience@natgeosci.nature.com · 2w ago

⚒️ Article: Shifting atmospheric circulation patterns over Europe since the 1980s have been the major cause of increasingly severe droughts @sebastian-sippel.bsky.social @anabastos.bsky.social @meteoleipzig.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I've never seen anything like it. Salta, Argentina, has just recorded its hottest night on record during the climatologically coldest time of the year. The minimum overnight temperature did not fall below 26°C (78.8°F), pulverizing the previous monthly record by 7°C.

➡️ INTENSITÉ : C'est désormais acquis. La vague de chaleur de juin 2026 dépasse la canicule de 2003, jusqu'ici référence absolue, en termes de pic d'intensité. ➡️ DURÉE : Au 30 juin, nous en sommes déjà au 14ᵉ jour de canicule, se rapprochant des 16 jours de 2003. 1/8

The 2003 heatwave (record in terms of intensity in F), was shattered by the June heatwave, occurring 1.5 month earlier! 🔥 Wait... temp. will not even drop below thresholds marking the end of a heatwave before the arrival of a new one expected as early as this weekend! ☠️ Via @sergezaka.bsky.social

Who knew that climate change and massive asphalt highways in the middle of a large city might not be the ideal combination. But what do I know? Also, who sold them this cheap material? Clearly, more heat resistent materials exist. #ClimateEmergency #Glutofen

Irony is dead.

It shapes up to be a dangerously brutal and - likely - historic heatwave in Central Europe, especially France and its capital. #ClimateEmergency www.karstenhaustein.com/climate

Das ist übrigens eine Vermögens- und Erbschaftssteuer. Halt für Alle, die pflegebedürftig werden und deren Erben. Also Leute, die schlechter wohnen, weniger verdienen und härter arbeiten. Eigentum wird nur für Reiche geschützt.

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Weniger Schonvermögen und Zugriff auf Omas Häuschen: Zuletzt haben Unionspolitiker harte Sparvorschläge für Pflege und Gesundheit gemacht. Emmi Zeulner von der CSU gibt Kontra.

The most extreme heatwaves physically possible already today could dwarf all events in recent memory. And even more worrying, they occur successively after one or more extreme heatwaves in the same summer. 🔥 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43... @erichfischer.bsky.social @commsearth.nature.com

Chart of the day. The energy transition is happening in real time! 😍

Check out all the events in Leipzig during this weeks "Aktionswoche gegen Rechts" Initiated and organized by wissenschaft-gegen-faschismus.de/index.php/ve... There is also an online program provided by various Universities and institutions across Germany

Our institute will contribute with talks, a panel and a get-together on Thursday. Be part of the action! 🫵

Interesting new paper documents clearly how the IAEA has been overestimating the growth of nuclear time and time again. It's the inverse of what I've documented for solar and batteries. doi.org/10.1016/j.er...

Lilian Schuster @lilianschuster.bsky.social wins the Early Career Scientist Award given in recognition of significant scientific and/or community contributions to glaciology by an early career scientist. Full citation: www.igsoc.org/about/awards...

Yes, if AMOC shuts down, it may release hundreds of billions of tonnes of CO₂. You know what's guaranteed to release hundreds of billions of tonnes of CO₂ in the next few years? Our continued use of fossil fuels.

Collapse of key ocean current may release billions of tonnes of carbon

If the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation shut down, the knock-on effects could release hundreds of billions of tonnes of CO2, raising global temperatures even further

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"Our results show that non-survivable conditions are occurring during present-day heat events, all of which are below 35oC wet-bulb temperature. Of concern is regular exceedances of deadly thresholds for older people directly exposed across all events. " #ClimateEmergency

Deadly heat stress conditions are already occurring - Nature Communications

The authors use a physiological approach, finding recent extreme heat events had deadly heat stress conditions, particularly for fully exposed older people. Conditions were well below wet-bulb tempera...

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The climate #litigation pico session and splinter meeting are back at #EGU26! ⚖️ We’re looking forward to another round of enriching, highly interdisciplinary talks and discussions. Based on this year’s impressive line-up of abstracts and speakers, it’s set to be a great one.

Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’ | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @ember-energy.org Read here: buff.ly/XtaYP1D

Revisiting the near-term projection from IPCC AR5 climatelabbook.substack.com/p/revisiting...

Revisiting the near-term projection from IPCC AR5

A more technical diversion back to 2013

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Das Massensterben von Migranten auf See ging auch diese Woche weiter. Doch für unsere Mitmenschen dort gibt es keinen Liveticker und kein Mitleid.

Beavers can help mitigate the effects of #climatechange by creating carbon sinks! www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Beavers can convert stream corridors to persistent carbon sinks - Communications Earth & Environment

Beaver-induced hydrological change turned wetland into a net carbon sink with an approximate carbon storage of 100 tons per year, according to a comprehensive carbon budget analysis from a beaver wetl...

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I had a feeling this was going to happen. Sad news, especially given the poor state of sea ice after this winter. Looks like we won't be getting any more data for Arctic sea-ice thickness and volume for a while from PIOMAS. See: psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro...

New from us: how Pakistan's solar boom is dampening the impact of the Hormuz crisis on the country. Solar power allowed LNG&diesel imports to fall after the previous gas crisis in 2021-22, with the solar boom set to avoid $7bn in fossil fuel import costs this year.

Great visualisation tool for daily, monthly and annual mean global temperature pulse.climate.copernicus.eu

Climate Pulse - Near real-time updates of global climate variables

Interactive global climate monitoring with interactive visualisations of air temperature and sea surface temperature from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).

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New paper out in @ioppublishing.bsky.social : One specific southerly-flow regime accounts for the vast majority of heatwave days in Western Europe. Also, 70% of the observed ‘excess’ warming (relative to global mean) is attributed to an increase in this ... (1/2) iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

🌲 The #ForestNavigator Data Explorer is now live! Explore high-resolution EU forest data on climate mitigation, adaptation and forest health. Maps are freely downloadable. More Portal components coming soon! #ClimateAction 👉 fn-portal.iiasa.ac.at

New discussion paper just dropped that’s taken shall we say a little work to get this far … essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es... please be kind. Not on an at all sensitive topic in the slightest.

How well can we quantify when 1.5 °C of global warming has been exceeded?

Abstract. Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement agreed to limit the long-term increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C and pursue efforts to keep temperatures below 1.5 °C relative to p...

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