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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Fed up with people shirking responsibility by arguing that the UK causes just 1% of emissions? Here are two fantastic analogies from a primary school teacher, Mark in Coventry, who called Sheila Fogerty on @lbc.co.uk - one involving dog poo 😆 Other arguments here: www.nebriefing.org/mp-dialogue

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BusinessGreen @businessgreen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

'From bad to worse': Report warns 'worst harvest on record' could cost UK farmers £550m businessgreen.com/ne...

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 13/08/2026

Temperatures have now provisionally exceeded 37°C 🌡️ Before 2026, the UK had recorded 37°C or higher on only six occasions. This year alone, we've already reached that mark three times.

A table of top temperatures so far. The highest currently at 37.6°C at Charlwood.

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 11/08/2026

From one extreme to the other ☔☀️ To start 2026, Cardinham in Cornwall saw 55 consecutive days of rain Now it's the opposite, with Wisley experiencing 55 days without rain The longest dry spell on record is 73 days, observed at Mile End in London from 4 March to 15 May 1893

Days without rain (10 10 Aug)

Wisley, Surrey = 55 days
Heathrow, London = 49 days
Odiham, Hampshire = 49 days
Coningsby, Lincolnshire = 46 days
Andrewsfield, Essex = 45 days
Swanage, Dorset = 42 days

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 03/08/2026

Today is the 20th day of the year in which a temperature of 32 °C or higher has been recorded in the UK - this exceeds the previous record of 19 days in 1995 📈

A map of the UK showing the maximum temperature in the UK on Monday 03 August 2026. This is provisionally 33.5 Celsius in Wisley Surrey.

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 31/07/2026

In our latest press release we take an early look at the July stats: just how dry has it been? bit.ly/45xyDEF

A map of the UK for showing the total rainfall amount for the 1 - 30 July 2026 compared with the average for the full month.
You would normally expect a total of around 97% of average at this point in the month, but the UK is currently tracking its third driest July on record with only 35% of average rainfall.

England and Wales have seen less than 20% of their average rainfall for the month.

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/07/2026

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Mike Barry @planamikebarry.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

England has received 7% of its normal rainfall in July. Over 50% of the country now designated in drought; 20m people with hose pipe bans; farming facing enormous challenge; wildfire risk growing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

One in six cropland areas has already lost more than 10% of its potential productivity over the past two decades. Climate change isn’t a distant threat. The question is no longer whether agriculture must adapt, but whether we’ll adapt fast enough. www.euronews.com/2026/07/16/i...

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The map predicting agricultural decline from climate change

A CSIC team in Barcelona has developed CADI, a platform that forecasts, on a 10‑kilometre grid, how much farmland will lose productivity to climate change by 2100; Spain’s interior fares worse than the Cantabrian coast.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 04/07/2026

Hotter and hotter and hotter www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New records set in many European countries

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Mike Barry @planamikebarry.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Lovely view en route for a very hot London #LCAW

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Mike Barry @planamikebarry.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

And what happens in the Arctic, most definitely does not stay in the Arctic ...

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 13/06/2026

A look at temperature departures around the world averaged over the last three months... 🟥 warmer than average 🟦 colder than average Data from data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

Global map showing surface air temperature anomalies for the March 2026 to May 2026 period. Most all areas are warmer than average. Anomalies are calculated in reference to a 1951-1980 climate baseline using GISTEMPv4.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 24/05/2026

I swear I really do listen to all of your comments (good & bad), and this new blog features a data viz that has been requested by many of you. In my latest entry, I share an animation of temperature departures by latitude for every month from 1950 to 2025. Check it out! zacklabe.com/climate-viz-...

Screenshot of the a data visualization video for zonal mean temperature anomalies on my climate viz of the month blog page at https://zacklabe.com/climate-viz-of-the-month/.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 23/05/2026

It's time for your monthly climate change indicator update: 🫣 + Global temperature: 📈 + Carbon dioxide (CO₂): 📈 + Methane (CH₄): 📈 + Nitrous oxide (N₂O): 📈 Download at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

This graphic shows four line graph time series and each are monthly from January 1984 through May 2026. The first graph is a 12-month running mean of global mean surface temperature anomalies. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1991-2020 baseline using ERA5 data. The second graph is monthly carbon dioxide abundance. The CO2 graph is the Keeling Curve. Current levels are 431 ppm. The third graph is monthly global methane abundance. Current levels are 1940 ppb. The fourth graph is monthly global nitrous oxide abundance. Current levels are 340 ppb. The three greenhouse gases show seasonal cycles and long-term increasing trends using data from NOAA GML. The global mean surface temperature anomaly record also exhibits decadal variability and a long-term increasing trend. All graphs are rising and shown in four different colors, including white, yellow, orange, and pink.

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Record (literally) Heat Dome for May builds over West-Central #Europe the next several days. Peak temperatures will reach 15° above normal in Spain, France and Germany as well as surrounding areas. Maximum temperatures will reach 39°C/ 102°F into next week, with the highest in SW Spain. #heatwave

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Mike Barry @planamikebarry.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Meanwhile in other news - 60% of US in drought conditions after the hottest 12 month span (April 25 to March 26) in 132 years. Noting @data.ft.com as source of maps

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

France 🇫🇷 doubles electrification support to €10bn/year through 2030 — EVs, heat pumps, industry. The reason? The Strait of Hormuz crisis making fossil fuel dependence impossible to ignore. Geopolitical shocks don’t just raise prices. They change what’s politically possible.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 23/11/2025

Not looking great for Santa's workshop 😳

Polar stereographic map of a region across Siberia and the Barents-Kara Seas of the Arctic. The map shows temperature anomalies with red being warmer than average and blue being colder than average relative to a 1981-2010 baseline using ERA5 data. Most places are warmer than average during this month of October 2025.

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Mike Barry @planamikebarry.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

The storm came .. and went ☔️🌈

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The Food Foundation @foodfoundation.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

🙌 Great to see DEFRA launching the Good Food Cycle plan to transform Britain's food system. As our Executive Director Anna Taylor points out - the real challenge now lies in delivering it! Read more: ➡️ bit.ly/3TFBJkc #goodfoodcycle @ffc-commission.bsky.social @biteback2030.bsky.social

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Spain records highs of 46C and France under alert as Europe swelters in heatwave - Extreme heat ‘the new normal’, says UN chief, as authorities across the continent issue health warnings #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Spain records highs of 46C and France under alert as Europe swelters in heatwave

Extreme heat ‘the new normal’, says UN chief, as authorities across the continent issue health warnings

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 29/06/2025

Heatwave in the UK peaking on Monday and Tuesday. 1) Drink water. Stay cool. Check on vulnerable people. 2) You can monitor temperatures hour by hour across the country, and see how much warmer than normal it gets. istheukhotrightnow.com

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Is the UK hot right now?

See live UK temperatures vs average, with detailed stats, daily trends, and historic comparisons from official UK sites.

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The Food Foundation @foodfoundation.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

🚨 As London Climate Week spotlights urgent action across the food system, a new paper from @planeatryalliance.bsky.social shows: Shifting diets can prevent up to 24% of unnecessary deaths globally while delivering 'gigatonne scale' emissions reductions. 🔗 tinyurl.com/mryzztzh #LondonClimateWeek

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Mike Barry @planamikebarry.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

www.planeatryalliance.com/whitepaper Delighted to launch our White Paper on Healthy and Sustainable Diets l We interviewed 10 global food leaders to identity 15 barriers to shifting diets and ten practical solutions to overcome them

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White Paper — Planeatry Alliance

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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

From policy gaps to practical levers for change, the paper reveals how businesses, policymakers, and civil society can collaborate to redesign food systems for people and planet. Explore the full findings: www.planeatryalliance.com/whitepaper @alimorpeth.bsky.social @planamikebarry.bsky.social

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White Paper — Planeatry Alliance

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 18/06/2025

21st June: #ShowYourStripes day 1) Download your warming stripes: www.ShowYourStripes.info 2) Use the graphics to start conversations about climate change risks, how you are already experiencing the consequences and what you are doing about it 3) Encourage others to do the same

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 04/06/2025

Wherever you live in the world, your climate is getting warmer. 21st June is #ShowYourStripes day when we encourage everyone to use the warming stripes graphics to talk about climate change and how we are all already experiencing the consequences. Download your stripes: www.ShowYourStripes.info

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 27/05/2025

The warming stripes have been updated to show the atmosphere and the ocean! www.fastcompany.com/91339154/thi... Paper: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

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This viral climate graphic just got a troubling update

The updated 'climate stripes' graph now visualizes the impact of climate change on oceans and the atmosphere. Some parts may surprise you.

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Met4Cast @met4cast.net · 25/05/2025

This is phenomenal. Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment. It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 12/05/2025

Updated Climate Visuals (1) Warming stripes for atmosphere and ocean (2) Climate indicators (adding land humidity for 2024) (3) UK climate indicators (adding some 2024 data) ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Bluesky is collegial and interesting, the way Twitter used to be. Bonus: most people can spell.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 07/04/2025

I swear it's not a graph of the stock market... 📉 + High resolution version: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... + Figure reproduced from doi.org/10.1038/natu... + Overview: climate.gov/news-feature...

Line graph time series of reconstruction Arctic sea ice extent over the last 1,450 years. There is some multi-decadal variability, but a sharp decreasing trend in the last part of the time series due to human-caused climate change. This reconstruction is from Kinnard et al. 2011.

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Mike Barry @planamikebarry.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Insurance sector is the true ‘canary in the capitalist coal mine’ - it knows that 3C heating breaks society and the economy that’s meant to serve it

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

“At 3C of global heating, climate damage cannot be insured against, covered by governments, or adapted to. That means no more mortgages or new real estate devt, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function and capitalism ceases to be viable.”

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Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer

Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

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Mike Barry @planamikebarry.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Plenty of quiddlers around, looking ‘down’ not ‘up’

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 04/04/2025

Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 2nd lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 480,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 870,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,420,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 1,840,000 km² below the 1980s mean Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🧪

Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between February and May by looking at the decadal average line positions.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 18/03/2025

All definitions of the #Arctic revealed significant warmth in February 2025, but the largest anomalies were found in the northernmost areas close to the North Pole. Graphic updated monthly at: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe.... Data from ERA5 reanalysis.

Heat map-style graphic showing 2025's monthly temperature anomalies for different regional averages in the Arctic Circle, such as 60-90°N latitude up to 85-90°N latitude. Red boxes are shown for warmer than average months, and blue boxes are shown for colder than average months. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1981-2010 baseline. The graphic shows anomalies through February 2025.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Word of the day is ‘whiffling’ (17th century): fickle, inconstant, and making it up as you go along.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 06/03/2025

Last month was statistically tied for the 3rd lowest #Antarctic sea ice extent on record for the month of February This was 860,000 km² below the 1981-2010 February average. Data from NSIDC at nsidc.org/data/seaice_... 🌊

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 06/02/2025

The extreme winter warming event continues in the northernmost portions of the #Arctic. This is related to a temporary surge of heat and moisture that was transported northward and is related to the orientation of the large-scale atmospheric circulation. Graph from zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...

Line graph time series of daily Arctic temperatures north of 80°N latitude for every year from 1958 through 2025. There is a long-term warming trend for every day of the year and a clear seasonal cycle. 2025 is currently much warmer than average.

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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 06/02/2025

Latest data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social shows: January 2025 was the warmest January globally on record 🌡️ 1.75ºC above pre-industrial level 🌊 Second highest global SST, 0.19°C below January 2024 #ClimateAction 🧪⚒️🌍

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