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Peter Stott

@stottpeter.bsky.social
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Climate Scientist at Met Office and University of Exeter. Author of Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 26/09/2026
Mary Beard, Chair of the Booker Prize 2026 judging panel, on why she dislikes the phrase ‘I really love reading’. This clip is provided courtesy of the Southbank Centre, and you can watch the full Booker Prize 2026 shortlist event on their YouTube channel: youtube.pulse.ly/axkmrdaxr9
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 25/09/2026
How hot & dry was your UK summer? Excellent interactive tool to explore how hot this summer was: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK summer 2026: BBC postcode lookup shows how hot and dry it was
Most of us experienced drought and heatwaves - but temperatures and rainfall were not the same everywhere.
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 23/09/2026
The actual best website on the internet by a country mile.
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I talk about my extraordinary experience in Moscow in 2004 in the latest edition of the Totally Cooked podcast as well as other aspects of my career in climate science. Includes extra details to what I wrote about in Hot Air including the Russian prostitutes. 21centuryweather.org.au/totally-cook...
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Peter Stott: Heatwaves, Show Trials & Climate Denial
Climate scientist Peter Stott on pioneering extreme-weather attribution, a Soviet-style Moscow show trial, Climategate and the fight against denial.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 08/09/2026
Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and maths are equivalent to about two years of lost schooling.
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Just read Togetherness by @rowhoop.bsky.social (in two days). Really enjoyable, informative and profound, including for my thinking about the climate crisis: "We are symbiotic creatures at the deepest levels of our cells, living in a world entirely shaped and powered by symbiotic processes".
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The ‘British values’ brigade in action.
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’ve had a fabulous time in gorgeous weather hiking the 4-day Kesch trek from hut to hut in Switzerland - the Swiss mountains are my happy place - but I grieve for the disappearing ice seen here from the Kesch hut. The glaciers are disappearing thanks to our fossil fuel emissions.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
He is literally saying "reality is not my ideology." He has gone to war against science; science as a description of reality will win in the long run because science as reality doesn't go away even if you close your eyes and yell.
"The National Academies seem dead set on using taxpayer dollars to push their radical climate agenda and influence court decisions, but not on my watch. My office flagged their fraudulent behavior back in February and gave them the chance to make things right, but instead they doubled down and created yet another biased
document to force their ideology on Americans,"
- Attorney General Austin Knudsen
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Faced with cancer, one of the world’s top climate scientists speaks about his feelings and about how the orchestrated anti-science backlash will affect all of us. Listen to this very moving podcast episode! www.climateone.org/audio/cancer...
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A Cancer Diagnosis Reframed How Ben Santer Thinks About Climate Science
Atmospheric scientist Ben Santer pioneered the research that connects human activity to specific climate events. Now, pursuing treatment for a rare type of lymphoma, he sees his own diagnosis and his ...
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The BBC sand sculpting competition has prompted me to dig out the records of my illustrious career in the practice. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
In the very week that after a long deep dive rabbit hole (books/podcasts/counselling) I discover at age 64 that I have an ADHD brain and that awareness explains and helps me a whole lot, Channel 4 do a whole documentary to supposedly demonstrate it's all a myth and I'm a fraud.
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Neil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 17/08/2026
29th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London!
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Bravo to the @smclondon.bsky.social for once again stepping up and providing evidence-based scientifically informed commentary on a societally important topic that is being mis-represented in the media. I find the comments from Dr Rachel Moseley particularly insightful and informative.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 13/08/2026
Past greenhouse gas emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels, means that peak temperatures in the UK today are hotter (by around 3°C) than they would otherwise have been. Future burning of fossil fuels means heatwave temperatures will get hotter and hotter until we reach net-zero emissions.
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Fire apparently burning out of control in Mincinglake Valley Park in Exeter with smoke visible from our house and 16 fire engines in attendance. After this hot dry summer climate change from burning fossil fuels and its effects have come uncomfortably close to home. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
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Huge fire at popular Exeter park as 16 fire engines battle blaze
Smoke can be seen from across the city
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
European summers aren't what they used to be! Grey curve is the climate of 1950-90. Every coloured line is a summer since 1991. Every one since 2005 sits beyond the 95th percentile of the curve. This isn't a shifting #climate. It's already a new one! 🤯🥵 Plot inspired by Barriopedro et al. 2011
Distribution of European summer temperature anomalies, June to August, over 25°W-40°E, 35-70°N, land only, the region used by Barriopedro et al., relative to 1961-1990, from ERA5. Grey bars show the 41 summers from 1950 to 1990, with a normal curve fitted through them, centred near zero. Coloured vertical lines show every summer from 1991 to 2025, shaded yellow through dark red by year, and almost all of them fall to the right of the grey distribution. The ten warmest are labelled, with 2024 furthest right at 2.74°C and 2022 next at 2.54°C. A dotted line marks the 95th percentile of the 1950-1990 distribution at 0.76°C.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
2003 was once exceptional. Now it's average. 2024's record will be average by the mid-2040s. The extreme summers of the 2040s don't bear thinking about! 🌡🥵😬 #ClimateEmergency After @edhawkins.org & @stottpeter.bsky.social using ERA5 + CMIP6.
European summer temperature, June to August, over 10°W-40°E, 30-50°N, the region Stott et al. used for the 2003 heatwave, relative to 1961-1990. The black line shows ERA5 observations from 1950 to 2025, rising from about zero in the mid-twentieth century to 2.75°C in 2024. Grey shading is the 5-95% range of 34 CMIP6 models over the historical period, blue shading the same models under SSP2-4.5 to 2100, with the running median in white. Two dotted lines mark the 2003 summer at 2.06°C and the 2024 summer at 2.75°C, each dropping to the year the model median reaches that level: 2027 and 2045. Model region approximated by the IPCC AR6 Mediterranean and West & Central Europe regions, weighted 0.75 to 0.25.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Climate change sceptics have lost the plot as Europe burns - Reading the Telegraph, it’s hard to work out whether their climate columns are a work of satire, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social #climatecrisis www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
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Climate change sceptics have lost the plot as Europe burns
Reading the Telegraph, it’s hard to work out whether their climate columns are a work of satire
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 31/07/2026
The missing words in the climate conversation are not human-caused climate change, but fossil fuel emissions. By Hayley Fowler and myself: theconversation.com/was-this-hea...
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‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question
Instead of asking whether climate change caused a heatwave, we should ask how much hotter it became because of fossil fuel emissions.
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Breaking news: it's raining in Exeter and it's a joy - and not just for our garden!
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I had a great weekend at Womad where I experienced the extraordinary talent and "fierce political anger" from powerful female musicians including Daniela Mercury from Brazil, Kankawa Nagarra from Australia, Oumou Sangare from Mali and Ganna from Ukraine. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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Womad festival review – ​hugely welcome return of joyous planet-spanning music fest
​In a new home after a year off, there’s a thread of fierce political anger running alongside the spirited musical performances – including standout sets from Barrington Levy and Daniela Mercury
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Yet again tonight's BBC coverage of drought and fires fails to mention cause. News At Ten reporting by Justin Rowlatt omits to say the words "due to burning of fossil fuels". Continued refusal of BBC to call out cause of climate change is why we wrote to editors pressgazette.co.uk/news/climate...
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Climate scientists say news coverage ignores cause of UK heatwave
Connection between greenhouse emissions and extreme heat in UK 'indisputable'.
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Repost from @sound_odyssey3 • James Taylor & Carole King — You’ve Got a Friend BBC In Concert · 1971 "Pure comfort in song form. Written by Carole King and shared here with James Taylor, You’ve Got a Friend feels less like a performance and more like a promise. (Cont'd in comments)
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Spot on take from @theguardian.com Jonathan Liew - the defeat was nothing to do with English footballers' DNA; it was down to a dreadful coaching decision made at the 2nd half hydration break. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Tuchel would rather put down the English game than admit to his own cowardice | Jonathan Liew
England’s coach said ball possession is not in the team’s DNA – it’s an opinion that should disqualify him from the job
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"hang off our own cross bar like a team of bats" - spot on analysis from Tim Vickery, South American football expert. on BBC. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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World Cup 2026: Thomas Tuchel criticised after England beaten by Argentina in semi-final
All the latest from the 2026 Fifa World Cup as Thomas Tuchel's England bow out to Argentina in the last four.
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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 15/07/2026
"The average hottest day of the year has warmed by over 4.5°C in a swathe from Kent to Lincolnshire for the most recent decade, 2016-2025, compared to 1961-1990" From the State of the UK Climate in 2025, first published yesterday.
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Why climate scientists need to talk more about the very worst-case scenarios and why uncertainty in what lies ahead is a spur for action and hope not despair and denial. My new article published today in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/why-climate-...
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Why climate scientists need to talk more about the very worst-case scenarios
London probably won’t disappear beneath the waves. But we still need to understand the most dangerous outcomes that remain possible – and avoidable.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Why don't most Europeans have air conditioning? Dumb? Woke? No - WE DID NOT NEED IT UNTIL FOSSIL FUEL BURNING CAUSED THE CLIMATE CRISIS More info 👇 www.carbonbrief.org/eight-facts-...
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Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief explains why AC rates in parts of Europe are relatively low and clarifies some of the misleading claims about the technology.
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
New paper in the Quarterly Journal of the @rmets.org by Daniel Cotterill, @climatedann.bsky.social, me, Paul Bates, Youtong Rong and Leanne Archer advances climate attribution by finding increasing urban flash flood risk attributable both to climate change and development. doi.org/10.1002/qj.7...
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A good informed response to people who say 1976 was worse but we all coped fine back then (as somebody said to me at the weekend).
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Climate.us @climate.us · 23/06/2026
Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 25/06/2026
Temperatures have reached 36.4°C at Yeovilton, provisionally making it the hottest June day on record, surpassing both the previous record set yesterday and the longstanding record from 1976 🌡️
A map showing Yeovilton reaching 36.4°C making it the UKs hottest June day on record, surpassing both the previous record set yesterday and the longstanding record from 1976.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 25/06/2026
So, people of Reading, did you struggle to sleep last night? It was the warmest night on record for the town. The minimum (20.9°C) was warmer than typical June daytime maximum temperatures. Burning fossil fuels has made this heatwave hotter than it would have been without those emissions.
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
On this hot hot day, there is a great opportunity to help support the incredible Hot Poets and their ground-breaking initiative bringing fun, hope, science and poetry into schools, in the service, ultimately, of climate action before it's too late. Sign up at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hot-poets-...
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Support vital climate education in UK Schools
Help Hot Poets bring hopeful, science-backed climate education to more UK Schools.
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 24/06/2026
++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"
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Grantham Research Institute at LSE @granthamlse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
We told you these heatwaves were coming but ghg emssions not yet going down (Stott et al, Nature , 2004 showing 2003 heat as regular occurrence). We're now saying West Antarctic ice sheet in imminent peril and huge irreversible sea level rise would result: would be good idea to listen this time.
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Gareth S Jones @garethsjones.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Fantastic memories of them filming A Very Peculiar Practice in my halls of residence at Birmingham uni, being allowed to stay in our room while Peter Davison (in pjs) filmed in the corridor - and being told to be quiet as we made too much noise - and chatting to the nuns in a stairwell!
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 06/06/2026
Professor Piers Forster CBE FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. An atmospheric physicist by training, he has made important contributions to understanding the causes of climate change, changes in the Earth’s energy budget, and the climate response. #RSFellows bit.ly/4oe2P0i
A man with curly hair and glasses smiles at the camera in front of a plain background. He is wearing a dark jacket and white shirt.
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Doug McNeall @dougmcneall.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Can I just give a shout out to the @ethz.ch researchers who initialised an AI weather model with a cat picture. 👏🐱
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I've really enjoyed reading Ruskin Park by @rorycj.bsky.social - a wonderfully touching biography and memoir based on a treasure trove of letters left by his mother and research in BBC archives.
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Fascinating article including 2006 clip of the iconic walk through of climate models on the floor of Tate Modern explaining past warming with @coxypm.bsky.social. Bringing up to date, BBC iplayer still has the 2019 documentary with David Attenborough I was part of. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Climate Change - The Facts
After one of the hottest years on record, Sir David Attenborough looks at the science of climate change and potential solutions to this global threat.
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The site of Banksy's new statue could be underwater under a scenario in which, blinded by wilful ignorance, humanity fails to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and we step off the edge into irreversible polar ice melting and multi-metre sea level rise. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
There's a terrific new article by @carbonbrief.org on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation with some great animations. Strongly recommended. I've been reading it ahead of giving a lecture on the risks of climate change tomorrow. interactive.carbonbrief.org/amoc-explain...
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AMOC: Is global warming tipping key Atlantic ocean currents towards ‘collapse’?
The AMOC is under threat from human-caused climate change, as warming seas, melting ice and increased rainfall upset the temperature and salt balance of the North Atlantic.
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
💖 cats just wanna have fun 💛💙🩷🤎 #caturday 💛💚🩷💜
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
R.I.P. Andy Kershaw who I listened to a lot back in the day. Currently playing one of my treasured LPs - and my introduction to the fabulous Orchestra Baobab (Homage à Tonton Ferrer from their 2002 album Specialist in All Styles to feature in my Desert Island tracks if I get asked).
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
For the first time ever, heat pumps outsold gas boilers in Germany in 2025. 48% of all new heating systems installed last year were heat pumps. Gas fell to just 39%. A decade ago, heat pumps had a 7% market share. The transformation has been remarkable.
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Angus Sawyer @aardgoose.info · 31/03/2026
Off topic, but a trade "immortalized" in recent pop music . youtu.be/zcDu9LY2-oU?...
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Dunt Tha Want Mi
YouTube video by EPBbros
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Elizabeth Fairest married Edward Mappin on 6th March in 1836 in Sheffield parish church. In 1851 they were living in a "court" (a cramped cul-de-sac with a single water tap and privy) in Bedford Street and their 14-year old daughter, Harriet was a spoon buffer. globe-works.co.uk/news/heritag...
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Heritage artwork at the Globe Works: The Buffer | Our News | Globe Works
Find out more about the Globe Works artwork 'The Buffer'
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