Dann Mitchell

L-r: Professor Dann Mitchell and Dr Eunice Lo

Many congratulations 🎉 to @eunicelo.bsky.social and @climatedann.bsky.social who have been jointly presented with the RMetS Award for Impact 2024!

Climate change is affecting our health - University of Bristol research is helping us understand and adress these impacts.

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Abstract submission now open for the UK National Climate Impacts meeting. Climate and health focus on one day, and a general impacts/risks focus on the other. We would love to see you. @eunicelo.bsky.social @richardabetts.bsky.social @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social www.climatebristol.org/projects/nci...

Really exciting climate conference covering key science aspects on the approach to #COP30. Some very high profile speakers, and lots of time for engagement. Me & @richardabetts.bsky.social are running the Extremes, Impacts & Adaptation session 🥵🧊🏥 exeterclimateforum.com @coxypm.bsky.social

I know Phil well from his Bristol time as PVC - he's a good one to have. Has a lot of time for atmospheric science too. You should do well by him Corwin :)

Listen to climate scientist Professor Lizzie Kendon talking about predicting the future climate on the Festival of Tomorrow podcast.

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@metoffice.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social

What is the fate of a pulse of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere?

After release, the CO2 is gradually taken up by land & ocean, roughly in equal parts for the first 50 years, but the land saturates while the ocean continues to take up carbon.

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I seem to have the same problem. Doing a science victory on civ 7 counts as work though

The Detection and Attribution Model Intercomparison Project (DAMIP v2.0) contribution to CMIP7 Abstract. The first version of the Detection and Attribution Model Intercomparison Project (DAMIP v1.0) coordinated key simulations exploring the role of individual forcings in past, current and futur...

Anyone interested in climate attribution, check out how the latest models will look. The design and implementation is particularly exciting, as we move from 'concentration driven' to 'emissions driven' models. Comments on our paper are very welcome egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

Looks great - did you look at any neurodegenerative markers? They have some in UK Biobank. And are you planning on looking at future climate change? We could really do with some of that in CCRA4. We could do this through BREATHE if you aren't already doing it

Thanks for this summary Ben - any idea when WG2 and WG3 will release their drafts?

Weather tracker: Floods and landslides in Indonesia leave at least 20 dead Bridges collapse and houses and cars buried in thick mud after intense rainfall triggers landslides in central Java

Floods and landslides in Indonesia leave at least 20 dead

#climatecrisis
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The weather and climate advisory committee to @metoffice.bsky.social disbands early for some of us, as the Chief Scientific Officer does his first ever forecast, warning us to change travel plans in light of the red warning alert they have just announced

Increasing mitigation ambition to meet the Paris Agreement’s temperature goal avoids substantial heat-related mortality in U.S. cities Increasing climate commitments to meet the Paris Agreement goal avoids large numbers of heat-related deaths in U.S. cities.

Pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement will harm American lives. My paper showed that there would be many thousands of extra heatwave deaths a year.

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"The health burden of climate change is much larger than we have realized," says @climatedann.bsky.social

"Persistent exposure to heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and more will take a toll on people’s bodies. We must learn how this will manifest"

#climatecrisis
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Why we still don’t know the mounting health risks of climate change Persistent exposure to heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and more will take a toll on people’s bodies. We must learn how this will manifest.

Why don’t we know the full human health cost of climate change yet? In this @nature.com short paper published today, I share some thoughts on long-exposures, slow onset events, and other invisible health tolls www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Compound mortality impacts from extreme temperatures and the COVID-19 pandemic - Nature Communications Extreme weather and pandemics are classified as two of the most serious risks facing the UK in its National Risk Register. Here, the authors investigate the compound mortality impacts of extreme high ...

I look forward to reading this important paper Christopher, thanks for sharing. Last year @eunicelo.bsky.social led a nice comparison of the interplay between non-optimal temperatures and COVID-19 mortality, that you might also find relevant www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How did we ever have some leading our country who would deny basic science 🤔? I am desperately trying to think that Liz Truss was a mildly better PM than Boris Johnson, but she is making it very hard for me. Thanks to Keir Starmer for not being either of them

Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2024 - Carbon Brief Thousands of peer-reviewed journal articles were published over 2024, helping shape online discourse around climate change.

Well done to my amazing colleagues at Bristol, who have made it into the @carbonbrief.org 10 most talked about climate papers for the second year running. Good work @climatesamwell.bsky.social and Paul Valdes! www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-the...

Some amazing climate and health researchers in this starter pack. If you'd like to be added, please reach out!

Compound mortality impacts from extreme temperatures and the COVID-19 pandemic - Nature Communications Extreme weather and pandemics are classified as two of the most serious risks facing the UK in its National Risk Register. Here, the authors investigate the compound mortality impacts of extreme high ...

Added - and great paper @fuldenbatibeniz.bsky.social ! Hopefully you've seen the similar paper led by @eunicelo.bsky.social focussing more on the weather timescales www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It was given as a gift to David Spiegelhalter when he gave a talk to MI5 on uncertainty - there is a good video on the Oxford Maths Youtube channel 😀

See lecture on Oxford Mathematics YouTube channel by Prof Spiegelhalter for more context on the MI5 part!

"Words are easily misunderstood" - climate scientists have standardise some; 'likely' means >66%. But for MI5 'likely' means 55-75% - and they are communicating this better than we do, with "likelihood of needing a coffee refill" @ipcc.bsky.social @valmasdel.bsky.social @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social

Wildfires in London in 2022 destroyed properties - and we've looked at just how unprecedented they were. Not at all relevant for anything else going on, in, say, LA, at the moment 🙄 - well done to @vikkithompson.bsky.social for leading such an important study

YouTube video by University of Bristol Careers in Extreme Weather

An outstanding video from some of the team here in Bristol on having a career in extreme weather. Featuring @ailishcraig.bsky.social Regan and Sana www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrFR...

Definitely worth following @simonoxfphys.com - one of the best climate communicators out there. Check out the YouTube stuff in particular

Detection & attribution of human health is one of the fasting growing fields in climate science - and you can be part of our team working on exactly that - you only have 5 days remaining to apply though 😀
www.climatebristol.org/contact/

The next UK National Meeting on Climate Impacts and Risks will be held at Bristol on 18/19th Sep 2025. Day1 is all impacts/risks, and Day2 is health focussed. Academic, industry and policy makers all welcome. Stayed tuned for updates and sign up @richardabetts.bsky.social @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social

I created a similar starter pack - so lots of relevant people you can add from there if it's useful 🙂 go.bsky.app/VmEFso3

New postdoc positions in climate attribution and health with our team. They will be 2-3 years in length, and you get to work with amazing climate and epidemiology colleagues across the world. More positions coming too. @eunicelo.bsky.social RT www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find-in...

Today we have been speaking with A&E doctors about #StormDarragh - some insight (from a single region)
- A&E visits were lower than usual on the storm night
- A&E visits were higher the day after, as people had waited for longer
- Hospitals put nothing in place when a weather warning is issued