Giorgio Graffino

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Climate #SciComm wannabe expert. Blogger at http://giorgiograffinoclimate.earth. Part-time research scientist. Born in the fair country 🇮🇹 Based in the UK 🇬🇧 Lover of music, dance, films, books, and the outdoors.

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Nice article in The Conversation from Prof. Brian Tang on rapid intensification of hurricanes and how this connects to climate change. theconversation.com/...

Hurricane Beryl’s rapid intensification, Category 5 winds so early in a season were alarming: Here’s why more tropical storms are exploding in strengththeconversation.com Beryl’s strength and rapid intensification set records, raising alarms about what’s already expected to be a very active Atlantic hurricane season, as a meteorologist explains.

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Meanwhile, from my colleague Zia Wadud, moving all flights <1,000 miles to rail, gives a 5.6% reduction in emissions affecting only 0.17% of journeys. Limiting current flyers to 1 return flight abroad a yr has v high emissions sensitivity as so few journeys would be affected phys.org/news/2024-07...

True scale of carbon impact from long-distance travel revealedphys.org The reality of the climate impact of long-distance passenger travel has been revealed in new research from the University of Leeds.

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Quick update on how hurricanes (tropical cyclones) are affected by climate change. Hurricanes that form will be: 1) more intense 2) bring more rain 3) bring higher storm surge

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Nearly 2/3 of primary energy is wasted in energy production, transportation, and use before any benefit, underscoring the higher efficiency of renewable energy, localisation, electrification, and new solutions in the transition #BeyondFossilFuels. energypost.eu/the-fossil-f...

The Fossil Fuel system wastes 2/3rds of its energy before it gets to you. Inefficiency is driving it out (not just emissions) - Energy Postenergypost.eu Today’s fossil energy system is very inefficient: almost two-thirds of all primary energy is wasted in energy production, transportation, and use, before fossil fuel has done any work or produced any ...

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Hurricane #Beryl becomes the earliest #Category5 hurricane in the Atlantic basin on record, beating the previously held date in Hurricane Emily (2005) by over two weeks (July 17). #wx

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Which countries have the highest share of wind and solar? I turned Ember's data into this graph for you to find out.

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“This is missing physics, which isn’t in our ice sheet models" 🧪 www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/n...

New tipping point discovered beneath the Antarctic ice sheet - British Antarctic Surveywww.bas.ac.uk Scientists from British Antarctic Survey have discovered a new tipping point beneath the Antarctic ice sheet.

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The world has warmed around 1.3C since the mid-1800s. Effectively all of this warming is due to emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. But we'd have experienced substantially more – ~0.6C (0.2C to 1.2C) – if planet-cooling aerosols were not masking part of that warming:

These ideas are great, but the most effective one is to stop burning fossil fuels. 🌍

www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/c...

Three Ideas to Beat the Heat, and the People Who Made Them Happenwww.nytimes.com As temperatures soar around the world, practical experiments are emerging to protect people.

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NPR's special series, “The Undercount: The invisible death toll from climate change,” aims to answer this question. "We're undercounting the damage by an enormous amount," Borunda says. #ClimteMatters www.npr.org/series/g-s1-...

The Undercount: The invisible death toll from climate changewww.npr.org Climate change is deadly. Why do so many climate-related deaths go uncounted?

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Can we please just have a drawdown of fossil fuels and not whatever this is

Climate engineering off US coast could increase heatwaves in Europe, study findswww.theguardian.com Scientists call for regulation to stop regional use of marine cloud brightening having negative impact elsewhere

Climate adaptation for plants is needed to protect the most vulnerable of them from warmer, drier conditions. #ClimateSky #GreenSky

Frosty pockets in valleys across the world’s mountainous and hilly areas of the world could help protect some trees against climate change, functioning as “stepping stones” for vulnerable plants and trees, writes @shapersyris.bsky.social: buff.ly/3yvs3l3

A Buffer Zone for Treesbuff.ly How frosty pockets in valleys could help protect some trees against climate change.

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The discussion around climate disinformation is often limited to climate science denial, or arguments about the relative urgency of the climate crisis, but the fossil fuel industry is busily pushing a whole raft of new climate problems disguised as "solutions." drilled.media/investigatio...

False Solutionsdrilled.media Climate disinformation doesn’t begin and end with science denial. As the world moves towards climate action, the fossil fuel industry has begun using familiar tactics to advocate for solutions it know...

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Amazing tool to #ShowYourStripes + visualise generational effects of #ClimateChange from NASA @alexruane.bsky.social @edhawkins.bsky.social Even my great-grandmother experienced some warming, but much less compared to my own predicted experience! 🧪 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/webapps/clim...

For #ShowYourStripes day, here are the #WarmingStripes of my home country 🇮🇹 Thanks to @edhawkins.bsky.social The mean temperature anomaly for the last couple of years was around 2°C above average! Italian summers have become unbearable. This one won't be different 🥵 www.yahoo.com/news/italy-b...

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Thanks to a rogue move by Austria's climate minister, the European Union has passed a first-of-its-kind law aimed at protecting nature and restoring damaged ecosystems. Here's what it entails: theprogressplaybook.com/2024/06/19/e...

EU passes historic nature restoration law. Here's what it entailstheprogressplaybook.com The law requires member states to put measures in place to restore at least 20% of the bloc’s land and sea areas by 2030.

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Tips to beat the heat: 💧 Drink water 👕 Wear light and loose clothing 🏡 Stay indoors ✊ Dismantle the fossil fuel industry

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Today is a great day to remind folks in large swaths of the country that climate change is real.

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Excellent overview. Climate crisis: What we are up against. #greensky jksteinberger.medium.com/what-we-are-...

What we are up againstjksteinberger.medium.com Exposing the secret history of the making of the climate crisis should change everything about how we act to stop it.

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Our latest forum, led by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, is now live. Drawing on world-systems theorist Immanuel Wallerstein’s analysis of a “two-step” strategy to state politics, Táíwò argues that the defeat of fossil fuel is the first step to social justice: www.bostonreview.net/forum/climat...

Climate, State, and Utopia - Boston Reviewwww.bostonreview.net The defeat of fossil fuel interests is the first step to social justice.

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After a long political battle, EU Countries have just adopted the Nature Restoration Law (NRL) - thanks to Austria's last minute endorsement. 'Client Earth' explains that the adoption of this law is "a turning point for nature and society": www.clientearth.org/latest/press...

Historic win for EU's nature: EU Council seals the deal on Nature Restoration Law | ClientEarthwww.clientearth.org After a nail-biting last discussion, the EU Council finally adopted the Nature Restoration Law, marking the last step for this long-awaited proposal to become law.

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🌎🧪Why does #biodiversity matter? 🌱 Every day there are millions of interactions in #nature that are essential for a healthy, functioning planet. Losing even a small species can have massive impacts on ecosystems and on humans. 🦠 Find out more in this handy infographic.

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Your chance to spread the word about how quickly our climate is changing. There’s no better way to communicate this than with @edhawkins.bsky.social Warming Stripes. #ShowYourStripes day is THIS Friday! Download: showyourstripes.info Choose the type of visual / region and post away!

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N2O is responsible for 6% of human-caused warming. A new budget analysis finds that: * the EU has reduced its emissions 31 % * those of emerging economies have grown; China is #1 now * concentrations have exceeded all scenario projections, underscoring the importance of reducing N2O!

Global nitrous oxide budget (1980–2020)essd.copernicus.org Abstract. Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a long-lived potent greenhouse gas and stratospheric ozone-depleting substance that has been accumulating in the atmosphere since the preindustrial period. The mole fr...

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Unthinkable just a few years ago: For the first time renewables (wind, solar, hydro) produced more EU electricity than fossil fuels in 2023. 2/3 of EU electricity is from non-fossil fuel generation. Source Ember

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Summary of May globally, featuring the end of El Niño and another slew of heat records: yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/06/may-...

May 2024: Earth's 12th-consecutive warmest month on record » Yale Climate Connectionsyaleclimateconnections.org The year 2024 is being given a 50-75% chance of surpassing 2023 as Earth's warmest year on record.

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Recently we've seen a vibrant debate on when the world will firmly pass 1.5C. Over at @carbonbrief.org I weigh in with a new analysis, finding that it will most likely occur in the late 2020s or early 2030s in a world where emissions do not rapidly decrease. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-wha...

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Nitrous Oxide (N2O) is no laughing matter, atmospheric N2O has increased 25% due to human activities. Today the Global Carbon Project updates the Global Nitrous Oxide Budget, which helps us understand where the N2O comes from and where it goes. essd.copernicus.org/articles/16/... 1/

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Data from NOAA shows that while Arctic ice coverage has rebounded somewhat from historic lows last decade, the overall trend is still highly dangerous, with ice coverage retreating an average of 13% from year to year 🧪

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After another record month of global temperatures, are there signs that we are now over the 2023 hump? Possibly. 🧪 1. Temperatures are now much closer to prior expectations (based on ENSO and long term trends) than they have been.