Climate scientist, University of Exeter & Met Office. Expert Adviser to Adaptation Committee of the Climate Change Committee. Lead author IPCC AR4, AR5, AR6 & AR7. Live music lover, supporter of grassroots venues. Cycles a lot, rock climbs occasionally.
Prof Richard Betts
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"I've been a #climate scientist for 33 years and we're seeing exactly the kinds of things that we were warning back then... [although] these records are perhaps more extreme and coming sooner than we had expected," @richardabetts.bsky.social
Great to join @ruthmottram.eurosky.social on Radio 4 Today this morning, discussing the UK heatwave, emerging El Niño and impacts of human-caused climate change
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (02:35:30)
Heatwaves will keep getting more severe if we keep heating the planet by burning fossil fuels
Perhaps the fact that we are conducting an unprecedented experiment with the only home we have, by digging up and burning massive amounts of fossil fuels that is driving global change at rates 10X faster than the most recent warming of this magnitude that occurred oh about 55 million years ago? 🧐
The combined effects of a heat dome and climate change have brought extreme warmth to western Europe.
How many more studies does your city need proving that people on bikes and on foot spend more on shopping streets than people in cars?
Bike-lanes mean business. #UrbanTruth
Climate heating is making heatwaves hotter, longer and more frequent. Breaking records by 2C is unusual - as is this kind of heat this early in the year.
We’ve provisionally broken the UK record for the highest May minimum temperature for the third night in a row 🌡️
Camborne only fell to 21.4°C overnight, making for another ‘tropical night’ (above 20°C).
Meanwhile, Loch Glascarnoch in Scotland dropped to 1.1°C
I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline.
“Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet.
Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming.
Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”
The combined effects of a heat dome and climate change have brought extreme warmth to western Europe.
"'Pressure' shows why Eisenhower trusted scientists over blowhards —and why we should too" by @rozsa.bsky.social for @alternet.org: www.alternet.org/pressure-mov...
Prof Richard Betts
At one point in “Pressure,” meteorologist James Stagg (Andrew Scott) explains to General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Brendan Fraser) that an impending storm will make it impossible for the Allied troops to ...
Scientists have reached a consensus that human behavior is a big driver of climate change—but Americans aren't buying it.
Michael E. Mann
Today is now the hottest day in May on record with Heathrow and Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 35°C
Until yesterday the highest temperature in May was 32.8 °C, but we've now exceeded that record on consecutive days by a full two degrees Celsius 🌡️
Scientists have reached a consensus that human behavior is a big driver of climate change—but Americans aren't buying it.
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Met Office - weather and climate
European Commission
HISTORIC HEAT IN ASIA :51.5c Dadu,PAKISTAN
10 stations 50C+ in Pakistan,Iran and Kuwait
Turbat for the 1st time in May
Hundreds of records smashed allover West,South and Central Asia
‼️47.6 BAHRAIN HOTTEST DAY EVER ‼️
SAUDI ARABIA
49.3 Al Ahsa
48.5 Dammam
Min 33.1 Qaysumah
