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A study in @NatureClimate finds that the urban heat island effect has net positive impact by reducing more cold-related mortality and highlights the necessity of place-based adaptive cooling strategies. go.nature.com/3Gkq7j6
This is figure 2, which shows the impacts of the UHI effect on cold- and heat-related mortality in global cities.

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In @NatureClimate, we show that a year above 1.5 °C signals that Earth is most probably within the 20-year period that will reach the Paris Agreement limit. nature.com/articles/s41558-0…

A year above 1.5 °C signals that Earth is most probably within the 20-year period that will reach...

Nature Climate Change - What a first year with temperature 1.5 °C above the pre-industrial baseline implies for long-term temperature goals is unclear. Here the authors show that such a...

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Two papers in @NatureClimate suggest that exceeding 1.5 °C in 2024 may indicate that we have entered a multi-decadal period of 1.5 °C average global warming and that stringent climate mitigation efforts are needed to keep the Paris Agreement goals within reach. go.nature.com/41bnxnD go.nature.com/4gxmxOV
This is figure 2 from “A year above 1.5 °C signals that Earth is most probably within the 20-year period that will reach the Paris Agreement limit.” It shows strong warming trends place the first 1.5 °C year within the 1.5 °C 20-year period.

ALT This is figure 2 from “A year above 1.5 °C signals that Earth is most probably within the 20-year period that will reach the Paris Agreement limit.” It shows strong warming trends place the first 1.5 °C year within the 1.5 °C 20-year period.

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Ice ridges in Arctic sea ice are becoming smaller and less common, according to new research in @NatureClimate. Comments from @jenyasalganik and others; story by @nathanielscharp. eos.org/articles/arctic-ice-…

Arctic Ice Is Getting Smoother and Moving Faster - Eos

A decrease in pressure ridges over the past 3 decades is making the ice more uniform, with unclear consequences.

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How the carbon stocks of the Arctic–Boreal Zone change with warming is not well understood. A study in @NatureClimate shows that wildfires and large regional differences in net carbon fluxes offset the overall increasing CO2 uptake. go.nature.com/3CjkRL0
This is figure 1, which shows a spatial variability in Arctic–boreal CO2 fluxes.

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🚨 New Article: Farhan Akhtar and I reflect on the first global stocktake under the Paris Agreement, highlighting key findings and innovations. @NatureClimate @UNFCCC @iGST @ClimateWorks @IPCCCH Read full paper nature.com/articles/s41558-0… summary thread here bsky.app/profile/haraldwinkl…
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My PhD student Ashley Dancer and I wrote a commentary in @NatureClimate on the nice new paper by van de Ven et al., incl. @idasogn & @Peters_Glen, which documents how the IPCC scenarios have changed their assumptions over time. 1/🧵 nature.com/articles/s41558-0…

Keeping emissions scenarios current

Nature Climate Change - Climate change research and policy rely on emissions scenarios to project future warming and its impacts. Now, a study highlights both progress and challenges to keeping key...

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Our recent piece at @NatureClimate (w/@TimWapps, @HeikeKluever & Lukas F. Stoetzer) is summarised in this @LSEEuropp blog post!
LSE EUROPP blog@LSEEuroppblog10 Dec 2024
💥 New: There is little evidence extreme weather events spur political action on climate change ✍️ @TimWapps @AntValentim @HeikeKluever & Lukas Stoetzer @NatureClimate @LSEEI blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2…

There is little evidence extreme weather events spur political action on climate change - LSE...

There is no evidence of a shift in the political attention paid to the environment in the aftermath of extreme weather events like flooding and wildfires.

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New paper @NatureClimate finds humid heat during the 2024 Hajj pilgrimage neared human tolerance limits. Analysis (by @minderoo, including CCRC’s Steven Sherwood @StevenSherwood4 and Katrin Meissner @KatrinJM) warns that further warming would rapidly threaten more people.
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WCS team members contributed to an insightful article in @NatureClimate on human physiological limits to critical thresholds of humid heat focusing the mass mortality event at 2024 Hajj pilgrimage. nature.com/articles/s41558-0… @drfahadsaeed @mariam_skhan @AnwarSadadKhan @Attawenclims

Humid heat exceeds human tolerance limits and causes mass mortality

Nature Climate Change - The hottest boreal summer on record has driven widespread humid heat mortality across every continent of the Northern Hemisphere. With critical physiological limits to human...

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Nicholas Wu@NicholasWuNZ31 Oct 2024
Increasing land drying & drought will threaten water-sensitive species such as frogs 🐸. We examine the potential exposure risk under different warming scenarios | nature.com/articles/s41558-0… | @NatureClimate
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Climate change may have increased the proportion of wildfire smoke-related human deaths by about tenfold between the 1960s and 2010s, suggests a paper in @NatureClimate. go.nature.com/3C27M86
This is figure 5, which shows the relation between attribution to climate change (ACC) of fire mortality and ACC of relative humidity or air temperature during the 1960s to 2010s.

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A study in @NatureClimate shows that climate change is increasing burned areas in most regions, particularly during periods of peak fire activity. Changes in population and land use are mitigating some of the effects of climate change. go.nature.com/3YyVGwk
This is figure 1, which shows the contribution to burned area from climate change, direct human forcings and all combined.

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UKCEH@UK_CEH24 Oct 2024
Findings, published in @NatureClimate , showed that the amount of burned area is, on average, around 16% greater than it would be if the world’s climate was similar to pre-industrial times. See the full paper: nature.com/articles/s41558-0…

Global burned area increasingly explained by climate change

Nature Climate Change - Complex interactions between drivers have hampered efforts to understand observed changes in fire behaviour worldwide. Here fire model ensembles and impact attribution show...

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Whale sharks may be up to 15,000 times more likely to collide with a shipping vessel at the end of the century, under a high-emissions scenario, according to a study in @NatureClimate. go.nature.com/3zKOOCr
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#ClimateResearcher Prof. Lisa Schipper @schipper_lisa explains in the @NatureClimate commentary why #science also needs #emotions. Commentary: doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-0…. Interview: uni-bonn.de/en/news/201cconc…
Prof. Dr. Lisa Schipper from the Institute of Geography at the University of Bonn. As a scientist, she was involved in the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC.

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Whale sharks may be up to 15,000 times more likely to collide with a shipping vessel at the end of the century, under a high-emissions scenario, according to a study in @NatureClimate. go.nature.com/3zKOOCr
Underwater photograph of a whale shark swimming gracefully in the deep blue ocean. Stock image.

ALT Underwater photograph of a whale shark swimming gracefully in the deep blue ocean. Stock image.

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David Sims@TheSimsLab7 Oct 2024
New in @NatureClimate – Climate-driven global redistribution of whale #sharks predicts increased threat from shipping, making possible increased mortality from lethal collisions & greater under High Emissions scenario @FreyaWomersley @thembauk OA here: nature.com/articles/s41558-0…
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A Comment article in @NatureClimate discusses how viewing scientists’ opinions and fears about climate change as irrelevant suggests that science is separate from society, and argues that this perspective weakens climate science. 🔒 go.nature.com/3YklvjH
A quote from "Nature Climate Change" reading, "Looking at the data and suggesting that the situation is grave should not be equated with being doomist or alarmist." The text is set against a plain blue background.

ALT A quote from "Nature Climate Change" reading, "Looking at the data and suggesting that the situation is grave should not be equated with being doomist or alarmist." The text is set against a plain blue background.

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MCC Berlin@MCC_Berlin4 Oct 2024
PAPER OUT! With careful policy design, we can address both #ClimateChange and economic inequality. Important study using 8 large-scale models. Co-authored by Simon Feindt & Ulrike Kornek @MCC_Berlin, led by @CmccClimate, published today @NatureClimate . nature.com/articles/s41558-0…
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