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What @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social said about the Paris Limit: - We are *now* at 1.4°C - We will reach 1.5°C *within* the next 5 years - 1.7°C will be crossed in the next ~10 years #ClimateChange = past extreme events (Canada, Ahrtal, Sevilla, Helene, LA, Melissa, SriLanka...) were comfortable...

"...we cannot be confident that temperature decline after #overshoot is achievable within the timescales expected today. Only rapid near-term emission reductions are effective in reducing climate risks."

I have an interactive website to explore El Nino impacts here! dashboard.theclimatebrink.com#impacts

Why don't companies building #datacenters understand that if they committed to building renewable energy systems, water-efficient cooling systems, and worked transparently with local communities there would be much less opposition to their plans?

United by the Shitfuckery. Brilliant

A lake at 4,000 metres? 🏔️💧 What seems unimaginable became a reality this summer at the Allalinhorn (4,027 m) above Saas Fee 🔥 Between 1 May and 30 September, the 0°C isotherm lay above 4,000 m for more than half the time (79 out of 152 days)! 🌡️ Insane. 📷 Patrick Gasser

Important thread for climate communicators: 👇🏻

1/ There’s an instructive debate underway in the open review pages of @egu.eu journal Ocean Science. It’s about whether we can tell if the #AMOC is already on a trajectory towards collapse. What I think it really teaches is how scientists judge evidence, & why that differs from assessing risk. 🧵

Interessante Studie zur Verschleppung von Klimaschutz durch Bullshit-Bingo mit "Technologieoffenheit". Mein Highlight: wie bereitwillig sich Medien in diesem unsinnigen Diskurs einspannen lassen und genau das verbreiten, was ahnungslose oder verlogene Politiker verbreitet sehen wollen.

El Niño is everywhere in the headlines, but ultimately human-caused climate change is the key reason for the record global warmth. 📈 Curious about how these two climate stories relate? Learn more in our latest report: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

If this death toll was the result of a terrorist attack, the world would be up in arms And remember, this is not the new normal From the perspective of 2100, or even 2050, the summer of 2026 will be one of the coolest www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We're headed for an El Niño that is — quite literally — off the charts. WMO's Global Seasonal Climate Update shows that El Niño is forecast to exceed the scale of global monitoring charts. Its impacts will be felt well into 2027. Read the full update: https://bit.ly/4z2MhwQ

"To deliver the Paris commitment to keep warming well below 2°C requires global CO₂ emissions to fall by around 8% annually, starting immediately. The rate would be higher for the UK and other developed countries if the equity dimension of the Paris Agreement were taken seriously."

Immerhin die @szde.bsky.social geht darauf ein und das deutlich: "Neu ist, dass auch das ebenfalls im Pariser Vertrag festgelegte Zwei-Grad-Ziel außer Reichweite gerät. [...] Dafür müssten alle Staaten ihre nationalen Klimaziele erreichen und auch ihre„Netto-Null-Versprechen“ rechtzeitig einlösen."

"The Paris Agreement’s 2 °C objective requires that more than 80% of all proven fossil fuel reserves become stranded resources, and investments in such resources may become stranded assets for industrialized & developing countries."

Collapse of the spectacular ice cave (that formed at the front of #Morteratsch Glacier in 2024) as a result of insane melting of the 2026 summer! 🧊🔥🌡️ 📷 @landervt.bsky.social

🌡+2,8°C mit den derzeitigen Maßnahmen: ⛔️ Das ist nur 0,2°C entfernt von +3°C, die Klimaforscher wie @michaelemann.bsky.social für "potentially civilisation-endingly bad" halten. Da wollen wir nicht hin!

„…ohne große Not an… Menschen vorbei-reformiert…“ ? www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Nach Radarauswertungen sind gestern mehr als 700 mm Regen an der Ostküste Korsikas gefallen. 😳

Die Erde hat keinen Autopilot. Die Erde WIRD auf 2,8 Grad zugesteuert! Seit Jahrzehnten. Und zwar von denen, die mit Öl, Gas und Kohle Billionen verdienen, von Politiker*innen, die ihnen nicht ins Lenkrad greifen - und von Medien, die auf der Rückbank schlafen…

@drgilbz.bsky.social establishes a new format I highly appreciate: The #InformativeRant about #ClimateChange We need more of this 🔥 👇 youtu.be/M1GCoi7l200

+2,8 bis 2100* *wenn die Erdsysteme nicht doch sensibler auf die Erhitzung reagieren und Kippelemente alles durcheinander bringen

Crime against Nature! 🤬 2 days ago Pitztaler Gletscher ski resort literally destroyed the front of the Mittelbergferner (2nd largest in Tirol) to build emergency exit slope for winter How much longer will (very) short-term economic interests continue to lead to such crimes? Boycott. 📷 Glacionaut

New @unep.org emissions gap report out today. The prognosis for climate is getting *worse*, not better. But things are always way better than what was expected back in 2015's projections US pollution rise was 17x that of China www.carbonbrief.org/unep-opportu... wedocs.unep.org/items/87c02c...

2019 hat die AfD intern darüber diskutiert, zumindest öffentlich den Klimawandel nicht mehr zu leugnen. Der zuständige Fachausschuss lehnte das u.a. deswegen ab, weil sich die AfD-Positionen dann kaum noch von der FDP unterscheiden würden.

"Rockström said it was "incredibly disturbing" to see lobbying for an easing of rules on phasing out ⁠internal ​combustion engine vehicles, pointing to subsidies ​for petrol and diesel that were undermining consumer demand for electric vehicles" #ClimateEmergency

It depends on decisions taken today. Renewables have grown 3x faster than anticipated, but a U-turn is needed on fossil fuels. Read the full report 🔗 bit.ly/4zzbJdc @louisejeffery.bsky.social @setupelz.bsky.social @sophieboehm.bsky.social

The 2026 UNEP Emissions Gap Report is out: The Point of Return. 🌍🌡️🔥 It's sobering but actionable. Decades of inadequate climate action have closed off opportunities to limit warming, but ambitious action today can still prevent much greater harm. A thread of some of the highlights 🧵

New job alert🪶 Bird Atlas 2027–31 Organiser with @btobirds.bsky.social Deadline: 4/11/26 Apply here: britishtrustforornithology.postingpanda.uk/job/964525 Read more about the Bird Atlas 2027–31 Partnership: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

The gap is stark: the new UN Emissions Gap Report finds that global emissions must fall 18% by 2030 and 45% by 2035, alongside a scale-up of carbon removal #CDR, to minimise 1.5°C overshoot and return below 1.5°C by 2100. Two chapters were led by PIK scientists: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

"The default position when it comes to communicating #overshoot should be that we expect temperatures to remain at whatever level for not just decades but centuries." #ClimateEmergency

The chance to keep global warming below 1.5°C with no overshoot is gone. But urgent action can still limit the overshoot and bring warming back to 1.5°C by 2100. Current policies, however, put the 🌎 on course for up to 2.8°C this century. New #EmissionsGap Report: https://ow.ly/SNHX50ZZz8l

Having successfully compromised the climate COPs, the fossil fuel sector and its allies are now targetting the IPCC climate reports themselves If they succeed, then we can finally say goodbye to any serious action to cut emissions The end game beckons www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rekord-Regenmengen in Solenzara im Südosten Korsikas. Der Regen begann um 5 Uhr morgens, ab 9 Uhr wurde es extrem: Hier die Regenmengen: 5 bis 9 Uhr: 40 mm 9 bis 10 Uhr: 123 mm 10 bis 11 Uhr: 189 mm (höchste jemals gemessene 1h-Regenmenge in Frankreich) 11 bis 12 Uhr: 105 mm Insgesamt 457 mm

Ich bin auch dafür, besonders schwere Naturzerstörung als sogenannten Ökozid im internationalen Recht zu verankern. www.taz.de/!6222590

In 10 minutes — tune in! 💚 www.kalw.org/show/your-ca...

While there is increasingly strong evidence that global warming is accelerating, we need to be careful about how we detect it. Unfortunately a newly published paper on the topic makes a number of mistakes in it approach, as I discuss over at The Climate Brink:

Meine Antwort, wenn mir jemand schreibt, ich sei "destruktiv": Ich sehe es als Aufgabe der Wissenschaft, zu sagen was ist - und sein wird. Bei den Fakten zur Klimakatastrophe ist für "Optimismus" kein ehrlicher Platz mehr. So zu tun, als hätten wir noch ne Chance auf eine sichere Zukunft <2C ist...

So many lines, all going in the wrong direction. Figure 1 from the paper linked in the quoted post.

“What's fascinating about the scenario is that it would have seemed embarrassingly over-the-top a few years ago, but now seems as plausible as a documentary.” Here’s the BBC review: www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

„... sind zutiefst besorgt über die bedrohliche #Geschwindigkeit, mit der die physischen Klima- und #Umweltrisiken zunehmen“ #KlimaWandel

The total amount of water stored in groundwater, lakes and rivers, soil moisture, vegetation and ice and snow – has been in decline since mid-2010s. Read the WMO #StateOfWater Report 2025 to learn about what this means for the water we depend on. https://bit.ly/WMOStateofWater2025Report

"Eines steht für den Fachmann fest: Die Zahl der #Felsstürze und #Murenabgänge im hochalpinen Gelände wird steigen. Wegen der #Klimaveränderung, wegen des tauenden Dauereises." #KlimaWandel #Permafrost #Alpen #Zugspitze #Krautblatter

Tamino has a good explanation of how much global warming has accelerated, also looking at it with or without jump. tamino.wordpress.com/2026/10/17/h...