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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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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 · 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 · 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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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 · 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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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Great to see climate attribution studies featuring as one of the 21 best ideas of the 21st century in today's @newscientist.com . Net zero is another of the best ideas. With me on my Italian summer holidays and Dave Frame and Myles Allen running a climate model on the train to @metoffice.gov.uk

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

It's all a bit noisy having your brain and then your heart scanned but it's good to be part of this. My dad had dementia (which I attribute to heading too many leather footballers as a young man) and it's good to feel that my brain might help cure such a horrible disease in future.

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Really enjoying reading the biography of Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social. Got me thinking about archives and collecting an archive of the International Detection and Attribution Group (see my book Hot Air). Here are four key members - Wehner, Allen, Hegerl, Tett at an IDAG meeting in the 1990s.

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I'm an age when a former time seemed much easier. In the 80s I went to Anfield with my dad with paper tickets bought by post. Today I bought a ticket for FA Cup vs Barnsley but got into a tangle with my NFC pass on my phone that remains unresolved with help desk so as it stands can't use my ticket 😒

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Well done people of Exeter for turning up and opposing the far right marching on our streets. My Swiss immigrant wife and I met several other non-Brits today who have made their home here and who were also part of the "This is what community looks like" brigade.

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The people I work with are not stupid people and our climate predictions of 30 years ago of global warming have proved to be accurate. Just saying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

well and truly in. But maybe the luckiest thing of all was that I had Mr TB Johnson as my English teacher as he encouraged me to take creative writing seriously and to have fun with it as well. Next month I'll be tutoring an @arvonfoundation.bsky.social masterclass on writing non-fiction for a

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

in my age category, which meant I got to go and get a silver cup from the then Prince of Wales at St James's Palace and I also won for me and my family and my English teacher and his wife (he having subbed the £1 entry fee) a trip on the QE2 to New York followed by 5 days in Bermuda. Unfortunately

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Here is a picture of my mum, dad and me (sitting down) and my English teacher, Mr TB Johnson, and his wife, in Bermuda at the last night party of our stay at our beachside hotel during which we played bingo. The story is that my English teacher one day (during 2nd year at secondary school) asked

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Really chuffed that my good friend and colleague, Gabi Hegerl, has been awarded a CBE in the King's Birthday Honours. She and Ben Santer were the pioneers who detected human-induced climate change in the mid 1990s as I wrote about in my book Hot Air and why it was such a crucial advance at the time.

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Preparing a talk on Thursday @climateactionbovey.bsky.social I've been finding the latest book by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social inspirational. Crucially that the future is not yet written and to embrace uncertainty is part of the effort to take hope.

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Great night with Sophie Ellis-Bextor in Plymouth last night!

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Really sorry to hear that. We lost our Esme three weeks ago today who had been with us since 2015 after also being rescued and she was also a huge blessing to us. Pierrette and I send our thoughts and condolences.

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Snowy scene in Exeter this morning. According to the Swiss resident of the household, this is "proper snow" falling. Don't think that's an official @metoffice.bsky.social categorisation but we did go to bed last night knowing there was a @metoffice.bsky.social weather warning for snow this morning.

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Nancy Campbell, tutor on a recent Arvon Foundation writing course I went on, introduced us to Staying with the trouble by Donna Harraway and I'm enjoying it very much so far and finding it helpful.

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

We said goodbye to our cat Esme yesterday (cancer) and I'm feeling very sad about that. We had a wonderful nine years together so there are lots of memories to look back on. But the house is very quiet today without her. Here is a picture from April 2017.

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

In 2000 we published a paper showing how well our climate model simulated past temperatures. We also included a future projection. Now when we compare observed temperatures to 2023 (in black) with the projection (red) it does remarkably well! Thanks to @garethsjones.bsky.social who updated the plot.

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