Dr Claire Bergin

Wooden thermometer under bright sun, showing high temperatures in Celsius and Fahrenheit, with a clear blue sky.

Human-caused climate change made the warm days experienced this summer nine times more likely, and the warm nights 40 times more likely, according to a new study from climatologists at ICARUS, MU's climate research centre, and Met Éireann.

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"Climate change turned a would-be average Irish
summer into a record breaker" - This was largely due to the high night-time temperatures which are 40 times more likely due to human-caused climate change. See our full report at mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20...

Ireland was set for average summer heat but climate change pushed temperature to record high Unusually high night-time temperatures saw June, July and August into the record books

Ireland was set for average summer heat but climate change pushed temperature to record high

Great to see our study featured by RTE.

The summer is over - and for about 16,600 people across 854 European cities that doesn't mean autumn comes, but death. People who would still be alive if it wasn't for our burning of fossil fuels. - New study with @lshtm.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

a graph of high temperatures, daily severity rating and radiative power, showing how heat and DSR built up before fires broke out

Heat & very dry air that used to be rare, now very common in Spain & Portugal, putting huge strain on EU firefighting resources - at 1.3C global warming. Every additional ton of fossil fuels burnt will make European summers even more deadly & dangerous www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-fire...

map of the Aegean coast depicting change in vapour pressure deficit due to climate change

One of the strongest, clearest increases in likelihood & intensity, attributable to climate change, I've seen in a complex index like fire weather - the more intense & frequent events in Greece & Türkiye are already outpacing efforts to adapt.
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Delighted to see a study I co-authored be highlighted by RTE news

Team Photo of WWA team

Do you want to be part of our amazing team @wwattribution.bsky.social team? If you are a science/comms expert, you can! Please do consider applying - www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Smoke from large fires over #Albania and #Greece in this Meteosat-12 image from 13 August, as #wildfires rage across the region.
High heat, dry air and high winds have fuelled the flames, leading to evacuations and challenging thousands of firefighters.
Read more at our website: bit.ly/3Utd42A

Climate change made the relentless heatwave in Norway, Sweden and Finland about 2°C hotter and at least ten times more likely. Our latest study was published this morning.

“This event should be taken as another reminder that no country is safe from climate change” - @frediotto.bsky.social

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Check out this interesting article by @wwattribution.bsky.social on the recent Fennoscandia heatwave

My book - ClimateINJustice is shortlisted for the @wainwrightprize.bsky.social ! Really happy about this, as it's not traditional conservation writing - but conserving & fighting for us humans & our rights wainwrightprize.com/shortlist-20...

A short article on our 'mini-heatwave' study has been published by @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social. This is the first report by the new @wasitusie.bsky.social project with @peterthorne.bsky.social. Funded by EPA and in conjunction with Met Éireann and @wwattribution.bsky.social

The heat above 32°C in southeast England tomorrow will be 100 times more likely due to fossil fuel-driven warming 🌡️📈

Our super rapid study was published this morning. It is just the second time we’ve studied an event in real-time, using forecast data. It's been hot work.

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