Alfonso Sánchez Carrasco
@alfsan.bsky.social
Professor at Universidad Pablo de Olavide. A political scientist who studies the impacts of climate change on human security.
Editor-in-Chief for @worldfoodpolicy.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief for @worldfoodpolicy.bsky.social
Cientos de delfines muertos por los 41 grados de récord en las aguas amazónicas: cuando la temperatura aumenta, las aguas pobres en oxígeno se vuelven aún más hipóxicas. En zonas donde el agua es naturalmente ácida, se vuelve todavía más ácida. Es una combinación letal”
elpais.com/clima-y-medi...
elpais.com/clima-y-medi...
Cientos de delfines muertos por los 41 grados de récord en las aguas amazónicas: “Estaba tan caliente que no tenían refugio”
Un estudio documenta la temperatura extrema de los lagos de la Amazonia durante la sequía histórica de 2023, que golpeó a las especies acuáticas y dejó aisladas a comunidades ribereñas
elpais.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Cientos de delfines muertos por los 41 grados de récord en las aguas amazónicas: cuando la temperatura aumenta, las aguas pobres en oxígeno se vuelven aún más hipóxicas. En zonas donde el agua es naturalmente ácida, se vuelve todavía más ácida. Es una combinación letal”
elpais.com/clima-y-medi...
elpais.com/clima-y-medi...
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📢 CfP | IWFC 2026
📍 Sevilla, 8–9th May 2026
👉🏽 10 different thematic panels.
📅 Deadline: 30 January 2026
📧 Submit proposals at www.wfpconference.org
📍 Sevilla, 8–9th May 2026
👉🏽 10 different thematic panels.
📅 Deadline: 30 January 2026
📧 Submit proposals at www.wfpconference.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
📢 CfP | IWFC 2026
📍 Sevilla, 8–9th May 2026
👉🏽 10 different thematic panels.
📅 Deadline: 30 January 2026
📧 Submit proposals at www.wfpconference.org
📍 Sevilla, 8–9th May 2026
👉🏽 10 different thematic panels.
📅 Deadline: 30 January 2026
📧 Submit proposals at www.wfpconference.org
Reposted by Alfonso Sánchez Carrasco
Stay tuned…
Se vienen cositas…
Se vienen cositas…
October 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Stay tuned…
Se vienen cositas…
Se vienen cositas…
En 🇪🇸 existen 1.126 centros escolares, 112 hospitales y 82 puntos radiactivos en zonas vulnerables a inundaciones graves
37% en Cataluña,
16% en Galicia,
8% en el País Vasco,
7% en Andalucía,
6% en Castilla y León,
5% en Murcia y,
4% en Comunidad Valenciana y Aragón.
elpais.com/clima-y-medi...
37% en Cataluña,
16% en Galicia,
8% en el País Vasco,
7% en Andalucía,
6% en Castilla y León,
5% en Murcia y,
4% en Comunidad Valenciana y Aragón.
elpais.com/clima-y-medi...
En España existen 1.126 centros escolares, 112 hospitales y 82 puntos radiactivos en zonas vulnerables a las inundaciones más graves
Un informe del Observatorio de Sostenibilidad estima que 10.197 instalaciones del país se verían afectadas en caso de crecidas con un periodo de recurrencia de 500 años
elpais.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
En 🇪🇸 existen 1.126 centros escolares, 112 hospitales y 82 puntos radiactivos en zonas vulnerables a inundaciones graves
37% en Cataluña,
16% en Galicia,
8% en el País Vasco,
7% en Andalucía,
6% en Castilla y León,
5% en Murcia y,
4% en Comunidad Valenciana y Aragón.
elpais.com/clima-y-medi...
37% en Cataluña,
16% en Galicia,
8% en el País Vasco,
7% en Andalucía,
6% en Castilla y León,
5% en Murcia y,
4% en Comunidad Valenciana y Aragón.
elpais.com/clima-y-medi...
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Our latest Editorial examines the urgent question of the right to food in Gaza, highlighting the humanitarian, legal & ethical dimensions of food access in the conflict.
Open text available in English, Spanish and Mandarin 👇🏽
#RightToFood #Gaza #HumanRights
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/79WTG7...
Open text available in English, Spanish and Mandarin 👇🏽
#RightToFood #Gaza #HumanRights
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/79WTG7...
September 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Our latest Editorial examines the urgent question of the right to food in Gaza, highlighting the humanitarian, legal & ethical dimensions of food access in the conflict.
Open text available in English, Spanish and Mandarin 👇🏽
#RightToFood #Gaza #HumanRights
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/79WTG7...
Open text available in English, Spanish and Mandarin 👇🏽
#RightToFood #Gaza #HumanRights
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/79WTG7...
Reposted by Alfonso Sánchez Carrasco
🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@aemet.es confirma que España ha vivido el verano más cálido desde que hay registros - elpais.com/clima-y-medi...
Aemet confirma que España ha vivido el verano más cálido desde que hay registros
El estío de 2025, en el que se han registrado dos largas olas de calor en la Península, desbanca por 0,1 grados al de 2022
elpais.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
@aemet.es confirma que España ha vivido el verano más cálido desde que hay registros - elpais.com/clima-y-medi...
After 9 years at Universidad Loyola Andalucía, I'm starting a new chapter as a professor of political science at @pablodeolavide.upo.es
Here's to new beginnings! 🚀
Here's to new beginnings! 🚀
September 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
After 9 years at Universidad Loyola Andalucía, I'm starting a new chapter as a professor of political science at @pablodeolavide.upo.es
Here's to new beginnings! 🚀
Here's to new beginnings! 🚀
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Fires followed by floods followed by contaminated drinking water: “It feels like I’m running a restaurant through the apocalypse.”
First came the wildfires, then the floods and the water crises
“It’s just one thing after another.”
www.motherjones.com
July 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Fires followed by floods followed by contaminated drinking water: “It feels like I’m running a restaurant through the apocalypse.”
🗣️New OA publication!
Our study underscores the critical role of trust in policy-implementing institutions in mitigating emigration intentions among individuals who perceive an intensification of drought severity in Africa 👇🏽
#EnvironmentalMigration
Free 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our study underscores the critical role of trust in policy-implementing institutions in mitigating emigration intentions among individuals who perceive an intensification of drought severity in Africa 👇🏽
#EnvironmentalMigration
Free 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🗣️New OA publication!
Our study underscores the critical role of trust in policy-implementing institutions in mitigating emigration intentions among individuals who perceive an intensification of drought severity in Africa 👇🏽
#EnvironmentalMigration
Free 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our study underscores the critical role of trust in policy-implementing institutions in mitigating emigration intentions among individuals who perceive an intensification of drought severity in Africa 👇🏽
#EnvironmentalMigration
Free 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A politician, an ambassador, a technocrat, an economist, and two special envoys walk into a panel on climate change at #Ff4D and have a thought-provoking discussion on climate finance and strategies to better align the cause with everyday challenges faced by the public. #COP30
July 2, 2025 at 10:14 AM
At #FfFD4 in Sevilla @mfespinosaec.bsky.social suggests that we should reform how the #COP system works—and she’s absolutely right.
June 30, 2025 at 11:41 AM
At #FfFD4 in Sevilla @mfespinosaec.bsky.social suggests that we should reform how the #COP system works—and she’s absolutely right.
Our report on climate change perceptions and migration in Honduras is finally here!
Here is a 🧶 with some of out main findings and the free link to the report (in Spanish) 👇🏽
hdl.handle.net/20.500.12412...
Here is a 🧶 with some of out main findings and the free link to the report (in Spanish) 👇🏽
hdl.handle.net/20.500.12412...
June 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Our report on climate change perceptions and migration in Honduras is finally here!
Here is a 🧶 with some of out main findings and the free link to the report (in Spanish) 👇🏽
hdl.handle.net/20.500.12412...
Here is a 🧶 with some of out main findings and the free link to the report (in Spanish) 👇🏽
hdl.handle.net/20.500.12412...
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Reposted by Alfonso Sánchez Carrasco
💔 for my children: “The Trump administration has dismissed the hundreds of scientists and experts who had been compiling the federal government’s flagship report on how global warming is affecting the country.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...
National Climate Assessment Authors Are Dismissed by Trump Administration
The Trump administration told researchers it was “releasing” them from their roles. It puts the future of the assessment, which is required by Congress, in doubt.
www.nytimes.com
April 28, 2025 at 11:37 PM
💔 for my children: “The Trump administration has dismissed the hundreds of scientists and experts who had been compiling the federal government’s flagship report on how global warming is affecting the country.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...
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NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.
By @abrahm.bsky.social
By @abrahm.bsky.social
White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On
Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.
www.propublica.org
April 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.
By @abrahm.bsky.social
By @abrahm.bsky.social
Spotted in DC
I’m on board with the sentiment, and I get that it rattles MAGA Republicans & exhilarates Democrats—but in the long run, does it actually help narrow the party polarization gap, or does it just make it worse?
#ICouldn’tHelpButWonder👨🏽💻
#PoliSci #PolScience
I’m on board with the sentiment, and I get that it rattles MAGA Republicans & exhilarates Democrats—but in the long run, does it actually help narrow the party polarization gap, or does it just make it worse?
#ICouldn’tHelpButWonder👨🏽💻
#PoliSci #PolScience
April 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Spotted in DC
I’m on board with the sentiment, and I get that it rattles MAGA Republicans & exhilarates Democrats—but in the long run, does it actually help narrow the party polarization gap, or does it just make it worse?
#ICouldn’tHelpButWonder👨🏽💻
#PoliSci #PolScience
I’m on board with the sentiment, and I get that it rattles MAGA Republicans & exhilarates Democrats—but in the long run, does it actually help narrow the party polarization gap, or does it just make it worse?
#ICouldn’tHelpButWonder👨🏽💻
#PoliSci #PolScience
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“A huge 89% majority of the world’s people want stronger action to fight the climate crisis
but feel they are trapped in a self-fulfilling ‘spiral of silence’
because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority, research suggests”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
but feel they are trapped in a self-fulfilling ‘spiral of silence’
because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority, research suggests”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
“A huge 89% majority of the world’s people want stronger action to fight the climate crisis
but feel they are trapped in a self-fulfilling ‘spiral of silence’
because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority, research suggests”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
but feel they are trapped in a self-fulfilling ‘spiral of silence’
because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority, research suggests”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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So this interview lasted 2 hours so this “you’re scaring me” part might seem like an overreaction or fearmongering to someone without that context.
There’s a lot of evidence to support my hypothesis that a potential H5N1 pandemic would be worse than COVID.
There’s a lot of evidence to support my hypothesis that a potential H5N1 pandemic would be worse than COVID.
April 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
So this interview lasted 2 hours so this “you’re scaring me” part might seem like an overreaction or fearmongering to someone without that context.
There’s a lot of evidence to support my hypothesis that a potential H5N1 pandemic would be worse than COVID.
There’s a lot of evidence to support my hypothesis that a potential H5N1 pandemic would be worse than COVID.
“Más de un millón de personas en España residen en puntos críticos por contaminación por nitratos en el agua del grifo.”
Veneno en el grifo: ruta por la España sin derecho al agua potable.
Europa se enfrenta a un grave problema con sus aguas subterráneas dañadas por nitratos y pesticidas. Una investigación de DATADISTA revela la magnitud del problema y cómo afecta a miles de personas en...
especiales.datadista.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“Más de un millón de personas en España residen en puntos críticos por contaminación por nitratos en el agua del grifo.”
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Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for.
In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
March 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for.
In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
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We know that economic anxiety & conspiracy beliefs are related. Often this is used to argue that it is key to fix economic conditions to avoid widespread conspiracy beliefs.
But a new study shows that causality runs the other way. The conspiracy beliefs drive the anxiety: doi.org/10.1111/pops...
But a new study shows that causality runs the other way. The conspiracy beliefs drive the anxiety: doi.org/10.1111/pops...
March 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
We know that economic anxiety & conspiracy beliefs are related. Often this is used to argue that it is key to fix economic conditions to avoid widespread conspiracy beliefs.
But a new study shows that causality runs the other way. The conspiracy beliefs drive the anxiety: doi.org/10.1111/pops...
But a new study shows that causality runs the other way. The conspiracy beliefs drive the anxiety: doi.org/10.1111/pops...