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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 04/10/2026

The scariest straight line you'll see all day, via @financialtimes.com no less

Global sea level rise has a accelerated during the past decade

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Mediterranean is getting warmer, and marine heatwaves are a defining feature of that change. In 2024, it recorded its highest number of MHW days in two decades. Mean SSTs reached 1.23°C above the 1982–2024 baseline, rising at 0.32 ± 0.01°C per decade. eu-space.europa.eu/components/e...

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 04/10/2026

The last three months really highlight just how widespread the unusually warm sea surface temperatures are found. In addition El Niño, there are several large marine heat waves, with one of the largest departures still across the North Pacific. Data from www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/opt... 🌊

Global map showing sea surface temperature anomalies in July-August-September 2026 relative to 1982 to 2010. Most areas are warmer than average. Red is shown for warmer sea surface temperatures, and blue is shown for colder sea surface temperatures. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 03/10/2026

I often see people claim that because clean energy sources like solar, wind, or nuclear are manufactured using fossil fuels their emissions are high. But thats absolutely not the case: even accounting for full lifecycle emissions they are vastly better than burning coal or gas:

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The argument to give nature legal rights seems compelling, not because a declaration alone can solve climate and biodiversity crises, but because it can shift whose interests the law protects. The real test will be enforcement and turning recognition into action. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Nature has rights — it is time the world recognized them

Existing legal frameworks have not halted planetary crises. Recognizing the rights of nature could offer a different path.

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Giorgio Graffino @giorgiograffino.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

About damn time. Human-made climate change should be treated as an emergency, and be at the top of everyone's worry and every party's policy plan. Whatever issue we can think of (economy, war, immigration,...), climate change is making it worse. We can win this battle, but we must want to.

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CIRES @cires.colorado.edu · 18/09/2026

Warming due to climate change is melting ice that holds mountains together — "The mountains are crumbling globally." Ulyana Horodyskyj Peña, a glaciologist and communications lead for the North Central Climate Adaptation Center (NC CASC) at CIRES, in ScienceNews www.sciencenews.org/article/nepa...

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Nepal’s deadly debris flow points to risks in other high mountain regions

As human-caused climate warming destabilizes high mountain regions, the threat of rock-ice avalanches and other glacial hazards grows.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

1/ "Every fraction of a degree of warming matters." True, and a dangerous platitude. It quietly suggests warming is a smooth dial, where each tenth of a degree costs about the same as the last. It doesn't. The later ones cost far more. Here's why. 🧵

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Giorgio Graffino @giorgiograffino.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Emotionally engaging forms of communication are more effective than scientific facts alone in motivating climate action." Our brain is constantly washed with information. The only bit that sticks is the one which has meaning. Informing is the end, not the mean. Make your audience feel something.

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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

'Cop31: Forget climate pledges, countries like Nepal need actual cash. A fund that cannot send US$20 million to a grieving country in the time it takes to hold three high-level meetings is not yet a fund. It is a promise with a letterhead…' www.scmp.com/opinion/worl...

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Opinion | Cop31: Forget climate pledges, countries like Nepal need actual cash

No payout from the loss and damage fund has reached vulnerable nations. Cop31 must focus on delivering the money already promised.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 10/09/2026

Not only was August 2026 the warmest August on record globally, but this summer as a whole (June, July, August) was also tied with 2024 as the warmest on record in the Copernicus/ECMWF ERA5 dataset:

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Giorgio Graffino @giorgiograffino.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

When the dream of a "never-ending summer" turns to nightmare. Heatwaves increasingly occur outside traditional summer months. Heat early warning systems and cooling centres will become more and more a necessity, plus stopping burning fossil fuels obviously.

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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 10/09/2026

8 years ago, I tweeted side-by-side maps from NASA GISS showing global temperatures in 1976 and 2018 – both hot summers in the UK. It subsequently went viral and was printed in the Daily Mail! The 2026 version is stark. Two locally extreme summers separated by 50 years of global climate change.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think the way to read the UNEP report isn't "we'll miss the 1.5°C target so we need CDR to reach it", but "we'll miss the 1.5°C target, and we need to decarbonize ASAP because wherever we end up is where we will stay for a long time." www.unep.org/resources/li...

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

"This summer resulted in, for example, shrunken potatoes in the Netherlands, reduced carrot harvests in France, dried-up rice fields in Italy and scorched olive groves in parts of the Mediterranean region." We can't drink oil and eat money. #ClimateHeating www.carbonbrief.org/how-this-sum...

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How this summer’s heat and drought impacted crops in Europe – in six charts - Carbon Brief

In the six charts below, Carbon Brief provides a snapshot of the impact this summer’s extremes are considered to have had on crop production and yields across Europe.

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Giorgio Graffino @giorgiograffino.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The UN Climate Loss and Damage was set up at COP27 in 2022. It was created to help emerging economies to cope with the increase of extreme weather events caused by human-made climate change, to which they contributed almost nothing, like in Nepal last week. Via @drilledmedia.bsky.social

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Nepal Floods Put Climate Loss and Damage Fund to the Test

An interview with Raju Pandit Chhetri, a climate negotiator from Nepal, about the country’s demands for loss and damage financing and climate justice.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 06/09/2026

100 years of August sea surface temperature anomalies... wait for the last frame showing 2026, where the fingerprint of El Niño is becoming very prominent, even against the background warmth of long-term climate change. Data from NOAA ERSSTv6: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/ext... 🌊

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Global sea surface temperature (SST) departures for August 2026. It was the warmest August, and any month, SST on record. It was also the first time that any month had a global average SST over 19.0C. 🔥🔥🔥

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If you privatise the profits from fossil fuels, you can’t keep socialising the costs of the damage. Those who’ve profited should pay their fair share of the impacts. That’s why Spain’s push for an EU oil and gas tax to help fund climate adaptation is worth supporting. www.ft.com/content/86da...

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Spain pushes for EU oil and gas tax to pay for climate change response

Rising extreme weather costs fuel campaign ahead of new resilience strategy

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 03/09/2026

NEW: the UN's weather and climate agency issued a stark and historic warning this morning about the supersized El Nino, issuing what it says is the most certain forecast in the history of the organization about the strength of the building phenomenon:

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We’ve Got a ‘Supersized’ El Niño on Our Hands

The World Meteorological Organization is warning that the climate phenomenon that has the Pacific running a fever will last until at least February, with dire consequences for weather worldwide.

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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 02/09/2026

This summer, many, many news reports failed to make the connection between extreme weather events and climate change. So we wondered — have journalists made the connection between the deadly glacier collapse and flooding in Nepal and climate change? The good news? Many. Here's a thread...

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MTH @megt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Mediterranean is facing transformations that go beyond rising temperatures. The study itself highlights warming, acidification and the loss of oxygen among the main changes affecting the oceans, changes that can alter how they function and their ecosystems. 🌎 www.euronews.com/2026/09/02/h...

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How is the Mediterranean changing? 40 years of data reveal climate change impact

Spanish scientists and researchers from Europe and the US compiled data from 46 oceanographic campaigns carried out between 1976 and 2018 to study changes in the Mediterranean and the impact of climat...

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Giorgio Graffino @giorgiograffino.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's been in the air for a while, yet is quite impactful to read it on paper. We didn't manage to keep the long-term increase in global temperature below the 1.5C threshold. Now we must act fast to keep it below 2C degree and limit the overshoot. "Every fraction of a degree makes things worse."

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 01/09/2026

The emissions scenarios underlying the next generation of climate model runs that will be featured in the upcoming IPCC 7th Assessment Report are officially out! I have a big new explainer over at Carbon Brief taking an in-depth look at what they mean and whats changed: www.carbonbrief.org/...

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 01/09/2026

Summer 2026 is provisionally the UK’s warmest summer on record with the season’s mean temperature made around 130 times more likely due to human-induced climate change. Here, we delve into the numbers 🧵

Mean temperature for 2026 in the UK. The map shows widely above average temperature, particularly in the south.

Rainfall amounts in summer 2026 in the UK compared to average. The maps shows widely dry conditions, though the west of Scotland is slightly wetter than average

Sunshine duration in summer 2026 compared to average. The map shows widely sunny conditions in the season, with the south of the country particularly sunny.

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

🌊 Marine heat waves are only part of the story In many places, MHWs coincide with extreme acidity. The mechanism varies by region, stratification in some, upwelling in others The result...compound stress for marine life Ocean change doesn’t happen one stressor at a time. eos.org/research-spo...

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Why Marine Heat Waves and Acidification Strike Together - Eos

A chemistry tug-of-war between ocean acidity and carbon in warming oceans determines when and where these damaging events strike.

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Bob Henson @bhensonweather.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Still a lot to unravel in the ongoing calamity after Wednesday's glacier collapse and flood catastrophe in the Himalayas. It's clear enough that our human-warmed climate is destabilizing glaciers and permafrost. @climateconnections.bsky.social yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/08/the-...

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The worrying climate link to Nepal's avalanche and flood catastrophe » Yale Climate Connections

Glacier collapse, not an earthquake, was the direct cause of the disaster that has left thousands missing.

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Giorgio Graffino @giorgiograffino.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Your effort matters, even though it’s never going to be enough on its own." This is crucial to read for climate-aware people, and I'm glad someone put it on paper. The sooner we realise we can't win this fight on our own, the sooner we find the only way to win it: together.

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NPR @npr.org · 28/08/2026

As the climate continues to warm, scientists warn that the frequency of disasters like the floods in Nepal will increase. n.pr/46rrSof

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A melting glacier contributed to the deadly Nepal floods. We can expect more like this

As the climate continues to warm, scientists warn that the frequency of disasters like the floods in Nepal will increase.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🚨NEW from me: "Because we're burning fossil fuels." Professor Julia Cole tells me the story of how her team created a 1,000-year "thermometer" of coral, showing climate change has intensified El Niño. www.forbes.com/sites/davidr...

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Human-Caused Climate Change Is Making El Niño Stronger, Corals Show

Coral skeletons reveal El Niño is stronger than at any point in 1,000 years. Scientists say human-caused climate change is the reason.

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National Centre for Atmospheric Science @ncas-uk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The daily global average sea surface temperature reached a new high record in August, reflecting the continued long-term warming of the global ocean. ncas.ac.uk/oceans-are-w... _ #earth-science #SciComm 🧪

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Oceans are warming - what does it mean for the world? - NCAS

The world’s oceans are hotter than ever before, as climate change combines with a powerful El Niño.

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 26/08/2026

NEW – Climate change exposes 580 million children to 20 extra ‘heat-stress days’ every year ✍️ Written by @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org 💬 With comments from Rosa Pietroiusti, Qinqin Kong and @sciencedjv.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/lPjZyvg

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Giorgio Graffino @giorgiograffino.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Great study about the dangerous gamble of going above the 1.5C threshold. Even when nature has the potential to recover, human communities sometimes cannot. Further evidence that we should avoid overshooting crucial global and local temperature thresholds as much as we can.

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 22/08/2026

Recommended watch: Climate scientist Dr Kimberly Nicholas has launched “Climate Actually”, a new podcast to show that “your choices matter” on climate change.

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Climate Actually

You care about climate change. You're just not sure your choices actually matter. Climate Actually is here to show you they do, and exactly how to use them. Hosted by climate scientist Dr. Kimberly…

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The recommendations are great, but there’s a glaring omission: vote for climate action. Individual choices are important, but meaningful progress also relies on voting for politicians who prioritise tackling the climate crisis. Our votes are powerful tools. www.wildlifetrusts.org/about-us/wha...

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Things you can do about climate change | The Wildlife Trusts

There are simple and easy things that we can all do to reduce our carbon footprint and make a big difference to the natural world.

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Giorgio Graffino @giorgiograffino.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Most people support climate action (at least in principle). Yet, most think others don't. We are the majority and we don't know it. Politics turn their back to sustainability when it sees public support on it faltering. Let's make climate action relevant again. By @ingmar.wsocial.eu

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Why The 89% Climate Majority Keeps Losing

Why does an 89% climate majority keep losing? Because political power depends on more than numbers. The majority already exists. Now it must become visible.

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Giorgio Graffino @giorgiograffino.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The AMOC is a key piece of the Earth system, and climate change is threatening it. Turns out that the rate of CO2 change affects the AMOC possibly even more than temperature. At our current rate, the AMOC might collapse sooner than we thought. Remember "flatten the curve"? That's what we must do.

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Giorgio Graffino @giorgiograffino.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Amazing piece on the nature of climate change denial. Less made by bad actors driven by greed, and more made of our individual and collective mind struggling cope with the horror of the climate crisis. The good thing is that action is not only needed, but also possible and, above all, desirable.

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Ed Maibach @handle.invalid · 20/08/2026

If energy policymakers consider all relevant costs in their policy decisions — including health costs (expenses plus avoidable deaths and ill health) — I'm confident they will conclude that clean energy (solar, wind, geothermal, storage, etc.) is the best path forward for their nation.

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Health should be key to transitioning away from fossil fuels

The first conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels (Santa Marta, Colombia; April, 2026), co-hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands, convened representatives from 57 nations to advance a just...

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Giorgio Graffino @giorgiograffino.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“The total cost of a single fossil fuel price spike [like wars] is as large as the total net additional cost of meeting the pathway to net zero every year to 2050." It's much more convenient to implement swift climate action sooner rather than later.

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Economic Well-Being Depends on Swift Climate Action

Mounting evidence shows taking action now will be far cheaper than delaying it, say economic and sustainability experts in Canada and the UK.

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