Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
@rahmstorf.bsky.social
Climate scientist, professor of Physics of the Oceans in Potsdam. Dad. Opinions my own. Born at 317 ppm CO2.
“It’s time to make oil giants pay up to repair the climate breakdown they’re driving. Think how many fire and flood defences we could build, or how many solar panels we could install, if big oil paid their fair share in taxes.” www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
Highly informative article about the recent record-breaking heat and wildfires in Europe. It dives into the science about the causes, quoting several experts. Worth reading! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Europe pays the price in a summer where heat went off the charts
Stefan Rahmstorf was holidaying in southern France when he came face to face with the climate future he has tried to fight.
abc.net.au
It is much simpler: We know what we emitted since we know how much fossil fuel has been burned. And that’s twice as much as has accumulated in the atmosphere. So nature hasn’t been a source but a sink: oceans and forests took up half. And that’s also observed fact. www.climate.gov/news-feature...
How do we know the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is caused by humans?
Fossil fuels are the only source of carbon dioxide large enough to raise atmospheric carbon dioxide amounts so high so quickly.
climate.gov
Mein Video-Interview zu den massiven Waldbränden und zur Zunahme von extremem Feuerwetter durch unser fossilen Emissionen. www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/klim...
Klimaforscher: Extremes Feuerwetter wird in Zukunft immer häufiger
sueddeutsche.de
Here’s a classic piece of climate misinformation. Why it’s wrong: Those data are dominated by the very high carbon *turnover* of ocean & biosphere. This means that while we increase the *amount* of CO2 in the air for millennia, the *individual C atoms* of fossil origin get replaced quite fast.
A study I co-authored in 2023 found ExxonMobil’s predictions of global heating over the following decades to have been mostly accurate, as skilful as independent academic and government models, and also very much at odds with its public statements on the matter. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘We can’t make it better again’: what Europe’s wildfires tell us about the climate crisis
In this week’s newsletter: As France and Spain battle huge fires in this summer of relentless heat, will it be enough to spur us to take action?
theguardian.com
#GlobalHeating greatly increases #wildfire risk. That‘s been established scientifically for a long time (see IPCC reports) but has now been shown again for the current fires 🔥 in France and Spain in a new World Weather Attribution study. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
Climate change increases likelihood of compounding drivers of severe wildfire conditions in France and Spain – World Weather Attribution
worldweatherattribution.org
Die #Erderhitzung macht extreme Waldbrände viel wahrscheinlicher. Was allgemein längst wissenschaftlich unumstritten ist (siehe Berichte des IPCC) wurde in einer Studie jetzt nochmals konkret für die aktuellen Feuer in Frankreich und Spanien belegt. www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima...
Studie belegt den Einfluss des Klimawandels auf Feuerwetter
Hunderttausende Hektar sind seit Jahresbeginn in Europa verbrannt - und die Flammen wüten weiter. Eine neue Studie kommt zu dem Schluss: Der Klimawandel erhöht das Risiko für Waldbrände deutlich. Von ...
tagesschau.de
Die #Erderwärmung verschlimmert die Waldbrandgefahren, da steckt ein einfaches Gesetz der Physik dahinter. Mein Interview im Deutschlandfunk heute morgen. www.deutschlandfunk.de/interview-st...
Interview Stefan Rahmstorf, PIK: Wie lassen sich Waldbrände vermeiden?
deutschlandfunk.de
Verheerende Brände werden durch die #Erderwärmung immer häufiger - davor hat z.B. der Sonderbericht zu Klimawandel und Land des #IPCC schon 2019 gewarnt. www.tagesschau.de/video/video-...
Stefan Rahmstorf, Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung, zum Einfluss des Klimawandels auf Waldbrände
Stefan Rahmstorf, Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung, zum Einfluss des Klimawandels auf Waldbrände
tagesschau.de
Was wir in der Waldbrandregion bei Bordeaux erlebt haben, und was der Klimawandel damit zu tun hat. www.t-online.de/klima/leben-...
"Wie in dystopischem Film": Augenzeuge schildert Erlebnisse – Inferno in Urlaubsland
Schwere Waldbrände wüten unweit von Bordeaux in Frankreich, aber auch in Spanien und Italien. Ein Klimaforscher, der seit Jahren vor den Folgen der Erderwärmung warnt, kommt den Flammen gefährlich nah...
t-online.de
Fires in France have now burned over 91,000 acres, by far the most of any year since the satellite record started in 2006. Current area burned is about 34x larger than this date in a typical (median) year:
Meine Erlebnisse in der französischen Waldbrandregion. Um noch viel Schlimmeres zu verhindern, müssen wir schnellstmöglich raus aus fossilen Energien. www.zeit.de/wissenschaft...
Waldbrände in Frankreich: »Die Bademeister hissten die grüne Flagge, vom Himmel rieselte Asche«
Rauch über dem Meer, Asche im Sand, doch am Strand blieb alles erst seltsam normal: Klimaforscher Stefan Rahmstorf geriet im Frankreichurlaub in die schweren Waldbrände.
zeit.de
Watch my BBC World News interview of today on the record wildfires in France. youtu.be/9nGUMen7m7I
Wildfires in France - BBC World News
YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute
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Warum begünstigt Hitze Waldbrände? Hier schön von Lars Fischer erklärt: scilogs.spektrum.de/fischblog/hi...
Warum Hitzewellen Waldbrände begünstigen » Fischblog » SciLogs - Wissenschaftsblogs
Kaltes Holz brennt genau so gut wie warmes - trotzdem macht Hitze Waldbrände wahrscheinlicher. Schuld ist eine Exponentialfunktion.
scilogs.spektrum.de
My time lapse of the Gironde #fire near Bordeaux, viewed on Friday afternoon from about 20 km distance. One minute compressed into 5 seconds. #GlobalHeating
Die #Feuer in Frankreich gehen weiter: jetzt mussten schon über 250.000 Menschen evakuiert werden. Hier eine Karte der Lage am Sonntagmorgen und mein Foto von der Fahrt nach Bordeaux am Freitagabend. Warum die #Erderhitzung die Brandgefahr eskalieren lässt: scilogs.spektrum.de/klimalounge/...
Yesterday afternoon 14:09 in Lacanau Océan in France. A pale red sun through the smoke tinged everything in Mars style orange. Welcome in the climate emergency! Despite all denial of the fossil fuel lobby, it’s scientific fact: CO2 emissions heat up Earth & make fires worse. 🔥🔥🔥
141,000 people have so far been evacuated from the Gironde and Landes regions which lie close to Bordeaux. We’re waiting for our train to take us out of Bordeaux.
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 2w agoHoliday 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.
We decided to get out. Not sure whether we would have still made it tomorrow. The main road Lacanau-Bordeaux is already closed. #GlobalHeating #Wildfire
Urlaub in der Klimakrise. Keine KI, einfach ein Handyfoto, das ich vorhin am Strand von Lacanau (Frankreich) gemacht habe. In welchem Klima wird der kleine Junge aufwachsen? Es liegt in unserer Hand, aber die Zeit läuft uns davon.
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.
The smoke plume of the Gironde wildfire in France extends far out over the sea. Wildfires get increasingly uncontrollable as #globalwarming caused by fossil fuel emissions dries out plant matter faster.
Macron: „We will soon be able to count on reinforcements from two Croatian Canadair aircraft, two Portuguese Air Tractor planes, as well as two heavy Black Hawk helicopters from the Czech Republic and Slovakia.“ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Thousands flee wildfires in France and Spain as temperatures reach extreme levels in southern Europe
France asks EU for help while Spain declares national emergency around Madrid, as marine heatwave sees parts of Mediterranean Sea 5C hotter than normal
theguardian.com
The rise in temperatures from fossil-fuel-caused global heating makes plant matter dry out faster and burn more easily. 🔥 🔥 🔥 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Thousands flee wildfires in France as temperatures reach extreme levels in southern Europe
Some parts of Mediterranean Sea 5C hotter than normal, with air temperatures above 44C expected in Spain
theguardian.com
Es wird noch bunter: „Im Koalitionsvertrag sei aber vereinbart, kein allgemeines Tempolimit einzuführen.“ Das kann ich im Koalitionsvertrag aber gar nicht finden. Wer findet, wo das vereinbart sein soll? www.koalitionsvertrag2025.de/sites/www.ko...
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 2w agoWow. Aus der Bundestagsdebatte zum Tempolimit. Dieser letzte Satz. Warum wird nicht mit Entschlossenheit auf diese Bedrohung für die Menschen reagiert? Weil Koalitionsvertrag? Ernsthaft? www.bundestag.de/dokumente/te...
As long expected. It’s climate science 101. The vapor thirst of the atmosphere increases exponentially with temperature. A law of physics known since the early 19th C (Clausius–Clapeyron law). It causes more drought even if rainfall doesn’t decline. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate crisis-driven heat ‘sucking soils dry’ as extreme drought hits Europe
Analysis shows how heatwaves are making atmosphere thirstier, damaging water supplies, food production and power generation
theguardian.com
Reporting by @jonhenley.bsky.social “The French national health agency said on Wednesday that it had recorded 5,764 excess deaths between 17 June and 2 July, an excess mortality rate of 36%.” That is an average of ~384 deaths per day! Global heating has reached ~1.5°C above preindustrial
France recorded more than 5,700 excess deaths during June heatwave
Figures come as large parts of southern Europe endure another record-breaking period of extreme temperatures
theguardian.com
