Simone Schleper 🟥

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Environmental Historian, Science/Knowledge Scholar, tenured @maastrichtu.bsky.social Regional Representative BeNeLux @eseh.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief @jhokjournal.bsky.social Twin mom of three.

Please circulate: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/call-ap... Seeking 10 Early Career Fellows to participate in 2 summer academies to be held in Berlin June 14–18, 2027 & June 26–30, 2028: SCIENCE IMAGINES ITS FUTURE. How have scholars deliberated about investing scarce resources in an uncertain future?

Call for Applications: Summer Academy on "Science Imagines Its Future" | MPIWG

Call for Applications: Summer Academy on "Science Imagines Its Future" (Deadline November 1)

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A first year above 2C in the mid-2030s now looks plausible. 0.5C was first passed in 1980, 1.0C in 2010 and 1.5C in 2024. The 15-year trend runs at 0.42C per decade. The 2026 and 2027 points for the current El Nino are estimates. We're not remotely ready!

Line chart titled "A first year above 2 C in the mid-2030s looks increasingly plausible". It shows global mean surface temperature from 1940 to 2050 as the annual anomaly against the 1850 to 1900 baseline, in degrees C. Data is ERA5 from Copernicus, running to 31 July 2026.

A thin gold line shows individual years, wobbling around a thick dark blue smoothed trend. Both sit near 0.2 C through the 1940s to the early 1970s, then climb steadily from the mid-1970s onward.

Three red dots mark the first year each threshold was passed. 0.5 C in 1980, 1.0 C in 2010 and 1.5 C in 2024. Labels beneath note the gap of 30 years between the first two and 14 years between the second and third. Everything above 1.5 C is shaded pink.

Two dashed lines run forward from 2025. A blue line follows the 15-year trend of 0.42 C per decade and reaches 2 C in 2037. A fainter grey line follows the 30-year trend of 0.27 C per decade and reaches 2 C in 2044.

Two orange circles mark estimates for the developing El Niño, at about 1.5 C for 2026 and about 1.7 C for 2027.

Europe burns: a visual guide to the #wildfires - Ferocious flames continue to rage in parts of France and Spain, with no sign of abating. We chart the destruction in graphics and pictures #climatecrisis Story by me with Guardian colleagues www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Europe burns: a visual guide to the wildfires

Ferocious flames continue to rage in parts of France and Spain, with no sign of abating. We chart the destruction in graphics and pictures

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Four African wild dogs traveled nearly 300 kilometers from Zambia to Malawi's Kasungu National Park, marking the endangered species' first sighting there in over a decade. Experts say the natural return highlights the success of transboundary conservation corridors in healing ecosystems.

First sighting of African wild dogs in Malawi national park in more than 10 years

Four African wild dogs were recently spotted in Kasungu National Park in Malawi, making it the first confirmation of the endangered species in the park in more than a decade. The wild dogs appear to…

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We are 200km from the wildfires in Gironde but the air here is full of smoke, such a strong smell it woke us. Announcements from the fire service on social media not to call them, it’s because the wind has changed direction. Must be unbearable nearer in, on top of the fear and destruction 😢

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

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