Geoff Hunter

📈Climate change-driven summer heat led to an additional 16,500 deaths in 854 European cities, a new study led by the Grantham Institute and the @lshtm.bsky.social estimates 🧵

Watch Dr @clairbarnes.bsky.social from @ic-cep.bsky.social & @gkonstantinoudis.bsky.social explain the findings.

Scores of Climate Experts Condemn Trump Climate Report as ‘Junk Science’ A 435-page review found the authors used standard climate denier tropes to produce a report riddled with errors.

Important, rear-guard work. Thanks to these scientists.

www.desmog.com/2025/09/02/8...

Anti-Offshore Wind Network | CDL

These were two policy briefings and a peer-reviewed article produced by undergraduates under my supervision in 2023 and 2024. The letter demands that Brown take the work off its websites. Here's the work:

www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/anti-offshor...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Time series of Earth's global average temperature over time, between 1850 and 2024, as calculated by the Berkeley Earth research group. It depicts the Earth's average temperature as having risen to near or above 1.5C above the late 1800s average by 2023-2024.

And now: A thread regarding my thoughts on "1.5°C"--not only as a Paris Agreement target, but also re: relevance to recent #climate events & overlaps (or not) w/geophysical realities. (This was originally written as a response to a journalist, who used excerpts in their article.)

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15639576; Smith et al., 2025a) to produce updated estimates for key indicators of the state of the climate system: net emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, the Earth's energy imbalance, surface temperature changes, warming attributed to human activities, the remaining carbon budget, and estimates of global temperature extremes. This year, we additionally include indicators for sea-level rise and land precipitation change. We follow methods as closely as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One report. The indicators show that human activities are increasing the Earth's energy imbalance and driving faster sea-level rise compared to the AR6 assessment. For the 2015–2024 decade average, observed warming relative to 1850–1900 was 1.24 [1.11 to 1.35] °C, of which 1.22 [1.0 to 1.5] °C was human-induced. The 2024-observed best estimate of global surface temperature (1.52 °C) is well above the best estimate of human-caused warming (1.36 °C). However, the 2024 observed warming can still be regarded as a typical year, considering the human-induced warming level and the state of internal variability associated with the phase of El Niño and Atlantic variability. Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate that is unprecedented in the instrumental record, reaching 0.27 [0.2–0.4] °C per decade over 2015–2024. This high rate of warming is caused by a combination of greenhouse gas emissions being at an all-time high of 53.6±5.2 Gt CO2e yr−1 over the last decade (2014–2023), as well as reductions in the strength of aerosol cooling. Despite this, there is evidence that the rate of increase in CO2 emissions over the last decade has slowed compared to the 2000s, and depending on societal choices, a continued series of these annual updates over the critical 2020s decade could track decreases or increases in the rate of the climatic changes presented here.

Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim:

⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C
⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade
⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance
⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2

essd.copernicus.org/...

It is shocking that 22 years after the US, UK and Australia went to war in Iraq based on the WMD lies, we see mainstream media headlines today running Trump's Iran "weeks away" from a nuclear weapon claim without explicitly framing it as directly contradicted by his own intelligence community

Huge implications from this: Microsoft cut off the email of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, because of his work on Israel www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/t...

Looks interesting. To read.

Warming Stripes showing changes in global temperature from 1850-2024. One stripe per year. Colours represent the temperature of that year. Reds are hot. Blues are cold.

Next week it is time to #ShowYourStripes again.

We encourage everyone to download their warming stripes graphics and use them to start climate conversations on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st June.

www.ShowYourStripes.info

Graphic: Change in global average temperature from 1850-2024.

SOS! the volunteers on 'Madleen' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces.

Greta Thunberg is a Swedish citizen.

Pressure the foreign ministries and help us keep Greta safe!

Web: government.se/contacts/

X : @SweMFA

FB : @SweMFA

IG : swedishmfa

#AllEyesOnMadleen

Please share and amplify #FreedomFlotilla #ShipToGaza

Israel’s Defense Minister has once again threatened unlawful force against civilians, attempting to justify violence with baseless smears. We will not be intimidated.

The 'Madleen' is a peaceful civilian vessel, unarmed and sailing in international waters with humanitarian aid and ...2/

Take one minute: go to bit.ly/IsraelOnNotice and send a letter to the Israeli government, UN officials, and diplomatic missions demanding that Israel abide by international law and refrain from attacking, sabotaging or otherwise interfering with the #Madleen and her mission.

💔 Environmental justice is global justice.

We can’t fight for a sustainable future while ignoring war crimes, genocides, apartheid, famine, and ecocide in Gaza, South Sudan, DRC, Ukraine and beyond.

"We were displaced from our home and ended up on the street 🏚️💔. No shelter, no safety 🛌🚫. My belongings are scattered and I have nowhere to go 😔. I’m only asking for a bit of kindness 🙏. Please help in any way you can 😢. May God ease your hardships as you ease 😔
gofund.me/9032c3ef

Stop the ongoing genocide!

The Israeli government's blockade on humanitarian aid and its projects of ethnic cleansing in Gaza must stop immediately

FFS, it's still so complicated, convoluted AND expensive to figure out who's "land" you are on in Scotland. It's no wonder I feel detached from (well is it?) my own land.

Building or Extracting Community Wealth? Shetland as a Test for a Just Energy Transition This briefing is adapted from the ‘Shetland, community benefit and energy transition’ report

Shetland built significant community wealth from oil. Given this precedent, should the isles accept business-as-usual approaches for renewables?

This briefing dives into the ownership of renewables in Shetland, drawing on lessons from the isles as an early test case example for a just transition.

To my mind, no good will come of your current actions, none at all. It will only serve to stoke a fire that should never have been lit. Peace, and love to you all.

I'm not racist and never will be. I'm 59 and Scottish. My heart is breaking over what is happening in #Gaza to a people I know little about, except that they are powerless. Nor do I know much about #Israel but please #Israel stop. They are people, just like you and me. Good and bad.

Frustrated with the lack of academic leadership, faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research are committing to break ties with Israeli institutions complicit in illegal occupation, apartheid, and genocide.

uppsaladeclaration.se

Working less is the most underrated climate solution Fewer work hours can lower emissions. So why isn’t the climate movement fighting for our collective right to relax?

Longer working hours have been linked to higher emissions, yet the climate movement seems reluctant to join the campaign for a four-day week—a potential strategic error given the social, health and climate benefits of working less.

My latest for Sower ⬇️🧪.

Lithium is the fuel of the future — and one of the biggest lithium deposits in all of Europe resides in Cornwall.

The “white gold rush” has already begun, but the public are set to pay for its development while private firms pocket the profits.

We can fix that. Here's how. 🧵

🚨 JOB KLAXON 🚨

Oxford Engineering seeks a Postdoc (full/part-time) for the Energy Demand Observatory & Lab.

Develop/test IoT & sensor solutions to study energy use in 2,000 UK homes. 2-year post, based in Oxford.

Apply by 2 June 2025: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Silenced Science Stories Explore the people and groundbreaking science research affected by federal firings, budget cuts, and grant terminations. Featuring scientists via art.

The U.S. is facing an unprecedented dismantling of science, research, and higher education.

As scientists are fired + research is frozen, so too are all the resources and outcomes that would have benefited society.

In their own words, the stories of scientists whose work has been abruptly ended:

This is terrible and I really wish scientists had heeded the warnings from colleagues in the liberal arts

Spain's LNG imports from the US soar, represent 35% of all gas supply Imports of liquefied natural gas from the United States rose to 35% of Spain's total gas imports in the first four months of this year from just over 20% a year ago, while imports of Russian LNG declined, data showed on Friday.

Did not foresee Spain just out here actualizing the MAGA fever dream.

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Donate to Help Nisreen's Family Rebuild Their Home in Gaza, organized by Tara Connolly Hi, my name is Tara and I'm Irish, living in Belgium. I'm fundrai… Tara Connolly needs your support for Help Nisreen's Family Rebuild Their Home in Gaza

"Honestly, my dear, the 100 euros here is not enough for two days of food". This is part of a message Mohammed sent me this morning.

Please donate if you can to help stop Mohammed and his family from starving while we hope the blockade is ended soon.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-nisre...