Professor of Climate Science @BristolUni | Joint Met Office Chair in climate hazards | Turing Fellow | extreme weather & climate | #SciComms

University of Bristol
Joined June 2017
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NEW – Q&A: The evolving science of ‘extreme weather attribution’ | @AyeshaTandon w/ comment from Peter Stott @ClimateDann @ETheokritoff @Linimie @nickleach0 Kevin Trenberth @WimThiery @RupertS_Smith Delta Merner @FrediOtto Read here: buff.ly/4hRt4Gc
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Govt decision to keep regressive Tory fuel duty freeze & to choose to penalise bus users is utterly nonsensical. What happened to promoting public transport? And all the Green rhetoric? Cost of capping bus fares at £2 tiny compared with revenue lost through freeze #Budget2024
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🏆 Angelina Widmann is the @stanchart Young Weather Photographer of the Year 2024! Angelina captured this shot at an open-air performance of Madame Butterfly in Bregenz, Austria. Bregenz is one of the wettest spots around Bodensee, due to its proximity to the mountains.
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Who will be this year's Standard Chartered Public Favourite Weather Photographer of the Year? Vote for Resilience in the Rain by Aung Chan Thar at rmets.org/weather-photograph….
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Which climate hazards can we expect this century—and where? Read our explainer on regional climate impacts from the equator to the poles, summarizing a new article by @mat_collins, @ClimateDann, @emilyshuckburgh, @CharlesHSimpson, @TimWoollings, @ClimateVikki & more ⬇️

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Folks – we're 72 hours away from the approach, and eventual landfall, of a potential major hurricane in Florida. If you're in Florida between Tampa and Tallahassee at the coast, begin reviewing your plan and have a go bag ready.
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This - from Private Eye - illustrates why it was reasonable to question the sentence lengths given to the Stop Oil protestors @RestIsPolitics
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🗳️ It's polling day 🗳️ Today, the people of Bristol Central can make history You live in one of the only seats in the country where you can elect a Green MP today. Your vote here REALLY matters We need voices that can challenge the new Labour government to do better #GeneralElection24
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Voting tactically in Bristol Central? The choice is clear... 💚
If you want to vote tactically in Bristol Central, vote Green for Carla Denyer! 💚 As Tactical Vote explains, because "there is no risk of a Tory win, we are calling for a vote for the Greens here." tactical.vote/bristol-centra…
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Research in @NatureComms by @EuniceLoClimate, @ClimateDann and @AGasparrini75 shows more people died from hot or cold weather extremes than COVID-19 in parts of UK during peak of pandemic. Find out more 👉 brnw.ch/21wK3Ob #ClimateCrisis #Heatwave #WeatherExtreme
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Dann Mitchell retweeted
📢NEW REPORT! Last year @wellcometrust commissioned a landscaping report to synthesise the evidence on gaps, barriers, and opportunities for attributing anthropogenic climate change impacts on human health. The report, led by @ColinJCarlson is live now bit.ly/3V0MbTJ
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Want to know how to downscale nightlights data from ~500m resolution to ~30m resolution? Here are the exact steps and codebase in R: #rstats
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Last year, @wellcometrust asked a group of experts to write a new report on the emerging state of the art for the formal methods that climate scientists use to measure the human health impacts of human-caused climate change. That report is out now 👇 wellcomeopenresearch.org/doc…
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We are looking for the next Tyndall director! The position is available from 1 October 2024 for 5 years on a full-time basis. The role also comes with an indefinite appointment at Professorial level at UEA. @TyndallManc @CAST_Centre @ueaenv @ClimateUEA_ vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancie…
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"Cat 6 hurricanes have arrived" | My #PNAS commentary on the new @PNASNews article by @MichaelFWehner & Jim Kossin: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
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2 days to go to put your name in the hat and come and work as PVC (Research and Innovation) at @BristolUni! looking for a friend, and an inspiring reserach leader 😇. Come and join us.. 🔜 ⏱️minervasearch.com/current-op… – at Melbourne, Victoria
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Dann Mitchell retweeted
Interactive: What is the climate impact of eating meat and dairy? | Daisy Dunne Tom Prater Joe Goodman #CBarchive Read here: buff.ly/3xiJILR
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