Peter Stott

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: https://youtube.pulse.ly/axkmrdaxr9

How hot & dry was your UK summer? Excellent interactive tool to explore how hot this summer was: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The actual best website on the internet by a country mile.

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...

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.

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".

The ‘British values’ brigade in action.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

Breaking news: it's raining in Exeter and it's a joy - and not just for our garden!

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...

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)

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...

"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...

"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.

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-...

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-...

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...

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).

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

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 🌡️

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.

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-...

++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"

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.

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.

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!

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 https://bit.ly/4oe2P0i

Can I just give a shout out to the @ethz.ch researchers who initialised an AI weather model with a cat picture. 👏🐱

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.

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...

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...

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...

💖 cats just wanna have fun 💛💙🩷🤎 #caturday 💛💚🩷💜

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).

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.

Off topic, but a trade "immortalized" in recent pop music . youtu.be/zcDu9LY2-oU?...