Prof Richard Betts

Fab week in Paris kicking off the writing of the IPCC 7th Assessment Report, and especially good to have authors from all 3 Working Groups together. I’m in Working Group 1 Chapter 6 (Global projections) - we have a great team led by @flimsin.bsky.social, Vimal Mishra and Tianjun Zhou. Let’s go!! 😀

Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.

Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist

My final talk of COP30

And more! 😊

More Amazon sustainability science at COP30 today!

Our next COP30 event -
tomorrow (Saturday)

Global Carbon Budget
AmazonFACE
Science Panel for the Amazon
Science Panel for Borneo
Science Panel for the Congo Basin

Every day!

Our next COP30 event -
tomorrow (Saturday)

Global Carbon Budget
AmazonFACE
Science Panel for the Amazon
Science Panel for Borneo
Science Panel for the Congo Basin

Today!

If you’re at COP30 please join us to discuss what the world would be like without forests! UK pavilion Thursday 16:30 - 18:00 including food and drink after 😃

If you’re at COP30 please join us to discuss what the world would be like without forests! UK pavilion Thursday 16:30 - 18:00 including food and drink after 😃

Thanks! Hadn’t heard he’d died cos out of touch travelling otherwise yes it would have been obvious!

Who? Sorry if this should be obvious!

The sad thing is, I remember sketching changes in temperature and heavy precip distributions in exactly this way in the early 2000s, just to now watch it play out.

The animation very much reminds me of an angry beast pulling on its chains; and they are tearing loose...

YouTube video by Folha de S.Paulo Como funciona o AmazonFACE, megaexoerimento inédito com torres gigantes que 'cospem' CO2 na Amazônia

Our big experiment in the Amazon rainforest

AmazonFACE will use Free Air CO2 Enrichment ("FACE") methods to study the effect of elevated CO2 on the forest

We'll study the impacts on carbon, water and nutrient cycles and biodiversity, and use this to improve models

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaq0...

YouTube video by Folha de S.Paulo Como funciona o AmazonFACE, megaexoerimento inédito com torres gigantes que 'cospem' CO2 na Amazônia

Our big experiment in the Amazon rainforest

AmazonFACE will use Free Air CO2 Enrichment ("FACE") methods to study the effect of elevated CO2 on the forest

We'll study the impacts on carbon, water and nutrient cycles and biodiversity, and use this to improve models

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaq0...

*** 1 metre of rain ***

*** 1 metre of rain ***

Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm, is forecast to bring catastrophic damage to parts of the Caribbean

The mountains of Jamaica could receive 1 metre of rain, resulting in life-threatening flash flooding and landslides

Destructive winds and storm surges are also likely

Exeter: Van filmed being driven through traffic protest Police investigate after it was reported that a Safe Streets Now protester was struck by the van.

Last year the driver of this van illegally passed through a bus gate, deliberately drove at people holding a “Safe Streets Now” banner, hit one of them, then drove off

Today at Exeter Crown Court he was found guilty of dangerous driving and banned for 12 months

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Exeter: Van filmed being driven through traffic protest Police investigate after it was reported that a Safe Streets Now protester was struck by the van.

Last year the driver of this van illegally passed through a bus gate, deliberately drove at people holding a “Safe Streets Now” banner, hit one of them, then drove off

Today at Exeter Crown Court he was found guilty of dangerous driving and banned for 12 months

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Of course! Leaving the EU was a huge mistake. It took away our freedom of movement, created extra bureaucracy and damaged trade, and didn’t “save money” as falsely promised. The UK is quite clearly worse off as a result. We should rejoin as soon as possible 🇪🇺

www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

Yes the CO2 rise 2023-2024 was faster than we predicted at Mauna Loa and was a record rise there - now the WMO confirm the global mean rise was also a record

Also the rate of CO2 rise is now above the IPCC scenarios that limit global warming to 1.5C

www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...

Yes the CO2 rise 2023-2024 was faster than we predicted at Mauna Loa and was a record rise there - now the WMO confirm the global mean rise was also a record

Also the rate of CO2 rise is now above the IPCC scenarios that limit global warming to 1.5C

www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...

Happy to reshare our new Annual Review paper, which explores what it really means to exceed and return to 1.5 °C.

For many in the Global South, overshoot isn’t a temporary “phase” but an existential condition.

This piece asks what it means for justice, recovery & resilience in a world above 1.5 °C

📣 2025 volume of the Annual Review of Environment and Science is online! Most read article is "Overshoot: A Conceptual Review of Exceeding and Returning to Global Warming of 1.5°C" arevie.ws/3IF0OKf @andyreisinger.bsky.social @janfuglestvedt.bsky.social @chrisd-jones.bsky.social

Yep all good thanks!

Photo of the front of the Eurostar train at a station platform, with grey, blue and yellow livery

Just boarding the Eurostar at Brussels myself now! Arrived from Munich via Frankfurt. Glad you had a good trip, and thanks for promoting international rail travel! 🚆😀

The green cross code is the most disastrous public information campaign in history. It has made generations believe that pedestrians are responsible for avoiding crashes. Crashes are actually the responsibility of the operators of the massive motorised lumps of metal.

This is a good corrective to the BS narrative flowing through the Pielke/AEI/NYP/EID/DOE nexus. Their argument is designed so that we can never ever attribute extreme events to emissions - even singular events that would have *never* [for some suitable finite approximation] have happened before.