@planamikebarry.bsky.social
Sustainable business transformer. Ex M&S Director of Sustainable Business (Plan A - because there is no Plan B for the one Planet we have). www.mikebarryeco.earth. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-barry-9b6ab722/
The storm came .. and went ☔️🌈
01.09.2025 20:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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🙌 Great to see DEFRA launching the Good Food Cycle plan to transform Britain's food system.
As our Executive Director Anna Taylor points out - the real challenge now lies in delivering it!
Read more: ➡️ bit.ly/3TFBJkc
#goodfoodcycle @ffc-commission.bsky.social @biteback2030.bsky.social
Spain records highs of 46C and France under alert as Europe swelters in heatwave
- Extreme heat ‘the new normal’, says UN chief, as authorities across the continent issue health warnings
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Heatwave in the UK peaking on Monday and Tuesday.
1) Drink water. Stay cool. Check on vulnerable people.
2) You can monitor temperatures hour by hour across the country, and see how much warmer than normal it gets.
istheukhotrightnow.com
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🚨 As London Climate Week spotlights urgent action across the food system, a new paper from @planeatryalliance.bsky.social shows:
Shifting diets can prevent up to 24% of unnecessary deaths globally while delivering 'gigatonne scale' emissions reductions.
🔗 tinyurl.com/mryzztzh
#LondonClimateWeek
www.planeatryalliance.com/whitepaper
Delighted to launch our White Paper on Healthy and Sustainable Diets l
We interviewed 10 global food leaders to identity 15 barriers to shifting diets and ten practical solutions to overcome them
From policy gaps to practical levers for change, the paper reveals how businesses, policymakers, and civil society can collaborate to redesign food systems for people and planet.
Explore the full findings: www.planeatryalliance.com/whitepaper
@alimorpeth.bsky.social @planamikebarry.bsky.social
21st June: #ShowYourStripes day
1) Download your warming stripes: www.ShowYourStripes.info
2) Use the graphics to start conversations about climate change risks, how you are already experiencing the consequences and what you are doing about it
3) Encourage others to do the same
Wherever you live in the world, your climate is getting warmer.
21st June is #ShowYourStripes day when we encourage everyone to use the warming stripes graphics to talk about climate change and how we are all already experiencing the consequences.
Download your stripes: www.ShowYourStripes.info
The warming stripes have been updated to show the atmosphere and the ocean!
www.fastcompany.com/91339154/thi...
Paper: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
This is phenomenal.
Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment.
It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.
Updated Climate Visuals
(1) Warming stripes for atmosphere and ocean
(2) Climate indicators (adding land humidity for 2024)
(3) UK climate indicators (adding some 2024 data)
ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Bluesky is collegial and interesting, the way Twitter used to be. Bonus: most people can spell.
23.04.2025 12:39 — 👍 81148 🔁 6414 💬 2372 📌 436Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.
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Line graph time series of reconstruction Arctic sea ice extent over the last 1,450 years. There is some multi-decadal variability, but a sharp decreasing trend in the last part of the time series due to human-caused climate change. This reconstruction is from Kinnard et al. 2011.
I swear it's not a graph of the stock market... 📉
+ High resolution version: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
+ Figure reproduced from doi.org/10.1038/natu...
+ Overview: climate.gov/news-feature...
Insurance sector is the true ‘canary in the capitalist coal mine’ - it knows that 3C heating breaks society and the economy that’s meant to serve it
05.04.2025 09:20 — 👍 146 🔁 55 💬 5 📌 3
“At 3C of global heating, climate damage cannot be insured against, covered by governments, or adapted to. That means no more mortgages or new real estate devt, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function and capitalism ceases to be viable.”
04.04.2025 07:01 — 👍 1183 🔁 515 💬 39 📌 65Plenty of quiddlers around, looking ‘down’ not ‘up’
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Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between February and May by looking at the decadal average line positions.
Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 2nd lowest on record (JAXA data)
• about 480,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 870,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,420,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,840,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🧪
Heat map-style graphic showing 2025's monthly temperature anomalies for different regional averages in the Arctic Circle, such as 60-90°N latitude up to 85-90°N latitude. Red boxes are shown for warmer than average months, and blue boxes are shown for colder than average months. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1981-2010 baseline. The graphic shows anomalies through February 2025.
All definitions of the #Arctic revealed significant warmth in February 2025, but the largest anomalies were found in the northernmost areas close to the North Pole.
Graphic updated monthly at: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe.... Data from ERA5 reanalysis.
Word of the day is ‘whiffling’ (17th century): fickle, inconstant, and making it up as you go along.
07.03.2025 16:48 — 👍 3121 🔁 656 💬 133 📌 71Last month was statistically tied for the 3rd lowest #Antarctic sea ice extent on record for the month of February
This was 860,000 km² below the 1981-2010 February average. Data from NSIDC at nsidc.org/data/seaice_... 🌊
Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
26.02.2025 07:59 — 👍 16990 🔁 5394 💬 466 📌 406Very well deserved Simon. Good luck 😀🫰
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How can retailers make #Sustainability and #HealthyEating choices easier for consumers? @planamikebarry.bsky.social of @planeatryalliance.bsky.social explains why retailers need to use data and AI to support this transformation at the basket level.
Interview: climatesolutions.news/spotlight/ho...
Line graph time series of daily Arctic temperatures north of 80°N latitude for every year from 1958 through 2025. There is a long-term warming trend for every day of the year and a clear seasonal cycle. 2025 is currently much warmer than average.
The extreme winter warming event continues in the northernmost portions of the #Arctic. This is related to a temporary surge of heat and moisture that was transported northward and is related to the orientation of the large-scale atmospheric circulation.
Graph from zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
Latest data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social shows:
January 2025 was the warmest January globally on record
🌡️ 1.75ºC above pre-industrial level
🌊 Second highest global SST, 0.19°C below January 2024
#ClimateAction 🧪⚒️🌍
Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between January and April by looking at the decadal average line positions.
Midweek ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data)
• about 690,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,330,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,910,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,330,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🌊
Remember that the increase of water holding capacity of our atmosphere is not linear: it increases exponentially with temperature. Physics 101: Clausius-Clapeyron law.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clausiu...
Dataviz of changes in Swiss temperatures using a mountainous landscape
Beautiful visualisation of changes in Swiss temperatures since 1864
www.meteoschweiz.admin.ch/ueber-uns/me...
Graphic by Simon Scherrer
