Ayesha Tandon
@ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
Climate science journalist at @carbonbrief.org
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UPDATE: We have revamped the Global South Climate Database 🎉
I'm super excited to announce this huge update, which makes the database even quicker and easier to use. (Also prettier ✨)
Please check it out to find brilliant climate experts from the global south 🌏
🔗 bit.ly/GSClimateDatabase
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I'm super excited to announce this huge update, which makes the database even quicker and easier to use. (Also prettier ✨)
Please check it out to find brilliant climate experts from the global south 🌏
🔗 bit.ly/GSClimateDatabase
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UPDATE: We have revamped the Global South Climate Database 🎉
I'm super excited to announce this huge update, which makes the database even quicker and easier to use. (Also prettier ✨)
Please check it out to find brilliant climate experts from the global south 🌏
🔗 bit.ly/GSClimateDatabase
1/4
I'm super excited to announce this huge update, which makes the database even quicker and easier to use. (Also prettier ✨)
Please check it out to find brilliant climate experts from the global south 🌏
🔗 bit.ly/GSClimateDatabase
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November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
UPDATE: We have revamped the Global South Climate Database 🎉
I'm super excited to announce this huge update, which makes the database even quicker and easier to use. (Also prettier ✨)
Please check it out to find brilliant climate experts from the global south 🌏
🔗 bit.ly/GSClimateDatabase
1/4
I'm super excited to announce this huge update, which makes the database even quicker and easier to use. (Also prettier ✨)
Please check it out to find brilliant climate experts from the global south 🌏
🔗 bit.ly/GSClimateDatabase
1/4
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Today's @carbonbrief.org Daily Briefing factchecks the false climate claims in Donald Trump's tirade to the UN
www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/...
www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/...
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Today's @carbonbrief.org Daily Briefing factchecks the false climate claims in Donald Trump's tirade to the UN
www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/...
www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/...
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New – Warming due to tropical deforestation linked to 28,000 ‘excess’ deaths per year
✍️ @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from Dr Carly Reddington, Dr Nicolas Wolff, Dr Luke Parsons, Dr Vikki Thompson
🔗 Read here: buff.ly/e6ll2uM
✍️ @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from Dr Carly Reddington, Dr Nicolas Wolff, Dr Luke Parsons, Dr Vikki Thompson
🔗 Read here: buff.ly/e6ll2uM
August 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
New – Warming due to tropical deforestation linked to 28,000 ‘excess’ deaths per year
✍️ @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from Dr Carly Reddington, Dr Nicolas Wolff, Dr Luke Parsons, Dr Vikki Thompson
🔗 Read here: buff.ly/e6ll2uM
✍️ @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from Dr Carly Reddington, Dr Nicolas Wolff, Dr Luke Parsons, Dr Vikki Thompson
🔗 Read here: buff.ly/e6ll2uM
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Huge thanks to the dozens of climate scientists who sent us their rebuttals to the catalogue of outright falsehoods and misleading claims in Trump's new 'critical' climate report.
This factcheck is the longest article CB has ever published - 27,500 words already and likely to keep growing...
This factcheck is the longest article CB has ever published - 27,500 words already and likely to keep growing...
NEW – Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @leohickman.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/AvcB7Aw
Read here: buff.ly/AvcB7Aw
August 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Huge thanks to the dozens of climate scientists who sent us their rebuttals to the catalogue of outright falsehoods and misleading claims in Trump's new 'critical' climate report.
This factcheck is the longest article CB has ever published - 27,500 words already and likely to keep growing...
This factcheck is the longest article CB has ever published - 27,500 words already and likely to keep growing...
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NEW – Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @leohickman.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/AvcB7Aw
Read here: buff.ly/AvcB7Aw
August 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
NEW – Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @leohickman.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/AvcB7Aw
Read here: buff.ly/AvcB7Aw
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NEW ANALYSIS - English neighbourhoods that are home to the most minority-ethnic people are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat than the least diverse areas.
Heatwaves are getting more severe – but the effects of rising temperatures are not being felt equally...
➡️ buff.ly/boWI6M1
Heatwaves are getting more severe – but the effects of rising temperatures are not being felt equally...
➡️ buff.ly/boWI6M1
August 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
NEW ANALYSIS - English neighbourhoods that are home to the most minority-ethnic people are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat than the least diverse areas.
Heatwaves are getting more severe – but the effects of rising temperatures are not being felt equally...
➡️ buff.ly/boWI6M1
Heatwaves are getting more severe – but the effects of rising temperatures are not being felt equally...
➡️ buff.ly/boWI6M1
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🌊 Did you see the coverage last week of the paper led by Chris Stokes about long-term sea level rise from polar ice sheets?
It took me a while (cos, y'know, feelings), but here's my take on it: ▶️ youtu.be/sa9h_zVM1RY
It took me a while (cos, y'know, feelings), but here's my take on it: ▶️ youtu.be/sa9h_zVM1RY
We’re heading for tens of metres of sea level rise
YouTube video by Dr Gilbz
youtu.be
May 27, 2025 at 9:41 AM
🌊 Did you see the coverage last week of the paper led by Chris Stokes about long-term sea level rise from polar ice sheets?
It took me a while (cos, y'know, feelings), but here's my take on it: ▶️ youtu.be/sa9h_zVM1RY
It took me a while (cos, y'know, feelings), but here's my take on it: ▶️ youtu.be/sa9h_zVM1RY
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Will you live an unprecedented life?
In our new paper in @nature.com and accompanying @savethechildren.org report, we detect who will face unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes (🧵) 1/n
Report: resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/bor...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In our new paper in @nature.com and accompanying @savethechildren.org report, we detect who will face unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes (🧵) 1/n
Report: resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/bor...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Born into the Climate Crisis 2. An unprecedented life: Protecting children’s rights in a changing climate | Save the Children’s Resource Centre
The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it is a pressing reality that children are facing today. Despite having contributed the least to the climate crisis, the inherent intergenerational injustic...
resourcecentre.savethechildren.net
May 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Will you live an unprecedented life?
In our new paper in @nature.com and accompanying @savethechildren.org report, we detect who will face unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes (🧵) 1/n
Report: resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/bor...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In our new paper in @nature.com and accompanying @savethechildren.org report, we detect who will face unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes (🧵) 1/n
Report: resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/bor...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Two important attribution studies were published today. I covered both for @carbonbrief.org
1️⃣ Shows that heat/drought extremes are overwhelmingly caused by the wealthiest 10%: buff.ly/0Se78bM
2️⃣ Finds that younger generations will face "unprecedented exposure" to climate extremes: buff.ly/Qxw80Un
1️⃣ Shows that heat/drought extremes are overwhelmingly caused by the wealthiest 10%: buff.ly/0Se78bM
2️⃣ Finds that younger generations will face "unprecedented exposure" to climate extremes: buff.ly/Qxw80Un
Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’ - Carbon Brief
Of the 0.61C increase in global average temperatures over 1990-2020, a new study estimates that 65% was due to the emissions of the wealthiest 10%.
buff.ly
May 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Two important attribution studies were published today. I covered both for @carbonbrief.org
1️⃣ Shows that heat/drought extremes are overwhelmingly caused by the wealthiest 10%: buff.ly/0Se78bM
2️⃣ Finds that younger generations will face "unprecedented exposure" to climate extremes: buff.ly/Qxw80Un
1️⃣ Shows that heat/drought extremes are overwhelmingly caused by the wealthiest 10%: buff.ly/0Se78bM
2️⃣ Finds that younger generations will face "unprecedented exposure" to climate extremes: buff.ly/Qxw80Un
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It’s been a bit of a grim week hasn’t it?
But grateful for this expert summary of the biggest issues in climate right now by my colleagues @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org and @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org from EGU in Vienna
But grateful for this expert summary of the biggest issues in climate right now by my colleagues @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org and @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org from EGU in Vienna
What’s happened this week in climate change?
DeBriefed | Iberian blackout; Tony Blair’s ‘clumsy’ comments; Trump’s ‘cascading’ impact on European climate science
✍️ by @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org
📝 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org
➡️ buff.ly/XOPBy5d
DeBriefed | Iberian blackout; Tony Blair’s ‘clumsy’ comments; Trump’s ‘cascading’ impact on European climate science
✍️ by @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org
📝 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org
➡️ buff.ly/XOPBy5d
May 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It’s been a bit of a grim week hasn’t it?
But grateful for this expert summary of the biggest issues in climate right now by my colleagues @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org and @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org from EGU in Vienna
But grateful for this expert summary of the biggest issues in climate right now by my colleagues @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org and @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org from EGU in Vienna
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At #EGU25 in Vienna for the first time with the brilliant ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
👋 Come say hi or drop me a line - keen to hear what you're working on for @carbonbrief.org
👋 Come say hi or drop me a line - keen to hear what you're working on for @carbonbrief.org
April 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
At #EGU25 in Vienna for the first time with the brilliant ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
👋 Come say hi or drop me a line - keen to hear what you're working on for @carbonbrief.org
👋 Come say hi or drop me a line - keen to hear what you're working on for @carbonbrief.org
Back in sunny Vienna for #EGU25!
@ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org and I are in the hunt for exciting new science stories for @carbonbrief.org, so please do come and say hi if you see us 👋
@ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org and I are in the hunt for exciting new science stories for @carbonbrief.org, so please do come and say hi if you see us 👋
April 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Back in sunny Vienna for #EGU25!
@ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org and I are in the hunt for exciting new science stories for @carbonbrief.org, so please do come and say hi if you see us 👋
@ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org and I are in the hunt for exciting new science stories for @carbonbrief.org, so please do come and say hi if you see us 👋
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Voting is likely the most significant act an individual (living in a democracy) can do re: reducing emissions. Discuss.
NEW – Analysis: Conservative election win could add 800m tonnes to Canada’s emissions by 2035 | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social w/ comment from Emma Starke and Katya Rhodes
Read here: buff.ly/0HQhsZk
Read here: buff.ly/0HQhsZk
April 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Voting is likely the most significant act an individual (living in a democracy) can do re: reducing emissions. Discuss.
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April 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Global South Climate Database update 🎉
@arguedasortiz.bsky.social, @katherinedunn.bsky.social and I have reviewed and updated all 1000+ entries in the database.
Please use this free, searchable database to get in touch with climate experts from the global south 🌏
bit.ly/GSClimateDat...
@arguedasortiz.bsky.social, @katherinedunn.bsky.social and I have reviewed and updated all 1000+ entries in the database.
Please use this free, searchable database to get in touch with climate experts from the global south 🌏
bit.ly/GSClimateDat...
April 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Global South Climate Database update 🎉
@arguedasortiz.bsky.social, @katherinedunn.bsky.social and I have reviewed and updated all 1000+ entries in the database.
Please use this free, searchable database to get in touch with climate experts from the global south 🌏
bit.ly/GSClimateDat...
@arguedasortiz.bsky.social, @katherinedunn.bsky.social and I have reviewed and updated all 1000+ entries in the database.
Please use this free, searchable database to get in touch with climate experts from the global south 🌏
bit.ly/GSClimateDat...
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Really enjoyed appearing on UK icon Scroobius Pip's Distraction Pieces podcast to talk about my career as a climate journalist and the work of @carbonbrief.org
Please give it a listen! Ft. stories of polar bears and almost getting duped by a secret letter
open.spotify.com/episode/3VBK...
Please give it a listen! Ft. stories of polar bears and almost getting duped by a secret letter
open.spotify.com/episode/3VBK...
Climate journalist DAISY DUNNE (Climate Solutions For Realists miniseries Part 2) #613
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip · Episode
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April 9, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Really enjoyed appearing on UK icon Scroobius Pip's Distraction Pieces podcast to talk about my career as a climate journalist and the work of @carbonbrief.org
Please give it a listen! Ft. stories of polar bears and almost getting duped by a secret letter
open.spotify.com/episode/3VBK...
Please give it a listen! Ft. stories of polar bears and almost getting duped by a secret letter
open.spotify.com/episode/3VBK...
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NEW – Arctic sea ice winter peak in 2025 is smallest in 47-year record | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/JWu7dPy
Read here: buff.ly/JWu7dPy
March 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
NEW – Arctic sea ice winter peak in 2025 is smallest in 47-year record | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/JWu7dPy
Read here: buff.ly/JWu7dPy
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A lot to unpack from the @ipcc.bsky.social meeting last week!
Not least the continuing stalemate over the AR7 timeline, plus the US no-show, outlines for the working group reports and the CDR report + much more
Includes comments from IPCC chair @jimskeaclimate.bsky.social too ⬇️
Not least the continuing stalemate over the AR7 timeline, plus the US no-show, outlines for the working group reports and the CDR report + much more
Includes comments from IPCC chair @jimskeaclimate.bsky.social too ⬇️
NEW – IPCC report timeline still undecided after ‘most difficult’ meeting in China | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org
Read here ➡️ buff.ly/CgY4eot
Read here ➡️ buff.ly/CgY4eot
March 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
A lot to unpack from the @ipcc.bsky.social meeting last week!
Not least the continuing stalemate over the AR7 timeline, plus the US no-show, outlines for the working group reports and the CDR report + much more
Includes comments from IPCC chair @jimskeaclimate.bsky.social too ⬇️
Not least the continuing stalemate over the AR7 timeline, plus the US no-show, outlines for the working group reports and the CDR report + much more
Includes comments from IPCC chair @jimskeaclimate.bsky.social too ⬇️
Reposted by Ayesha Tandon
NEW – IPCC’s special report on cities is its first with majority-women authorship team | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/4gUNZXd
Read here: https://buff.ly/4gUNZXd
February 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
NEW – IPCC’s special report on cities is its first with majority-women authorship team | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/4gUNZXd
Read here: https://buff.ly/4gUNZXd
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Super thrilled Carbon Brief's @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org has been shortlisted for "Environment Journalist of the Year" at the Press Awards, widely seen as UK journalism's 'Oscars'.
He's the only journo from a specialist outlet, amid mainstream outlets such as Guardian, Express, FT, i, Politico
He's the only journo from a specialist outlet, amid mainstream outlets such as Guardian, Express, FT, i, Politico
February 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Super thrilled Carbon Brief's @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org has been shortlisted for "Environment Journalist of the Year" at the Press Awards, widely seen as UK journalism's 'Oscars'.
He's the only journo from a specialist outlet, amid mainstream outlets such as Guardian, Express, FT, i, Politico
He's the only journo from a specialist outlet, amid mainstream outlets such as Guardian, Express, FT, i, Politico
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How audiences follow news on climate change?
This is the question at the heart of a new report by @waqasejaz.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social based on survey data from 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇵🇰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
Read here: https://buff.ly/4jwvTNG
7 findings in thread
This is the question at the heart of a new report by @waqasejaz.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social based on survey data from 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇵🇰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
Read here: https://buff.ly/4jwvTNG
7 findings in thread
January 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
How audiences follow news on climate change?
This is the question at the heart of a new report by @waqasejaz.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social based on survey data from 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇵🇰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
Read here: https://buff.ly/4jwvTNG
7 findings in thread
This is the question at the heart of a new report by @waqasejaz.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social based on survey data from 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇵🇰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
Read here: https://buff.ly/4jwvTNG
7 findings in thread
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NEW – Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2024 | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/4heAVMH
Read here: https://buff.ly/4heAVMH
January 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
NEW – Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2024 | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/4heAVMH
Read here: https://buff.ly/4heAVMH
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NEW – Interactive: How the world is already adapting to climate change | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social
🎨 Kerry Cleaver, Tom Pearson @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/3W5Vinj
🎨 Kerry Cleaver, Tom Pearson @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/3W5Vinj
January 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
NEW – Interactive: How the world is already adapting to climate change | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social
🎨 Kerry Cleaver, Tom Pearson @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/3W5Vinj
🎨 Kerry Cleaver, Tom Pearson @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/3W5Vinj
Reminder - Oxford climate drinks is meeting at 6pm today!
Calling all Oxford climate folks!
Oxford climate drinks is back on Thursday 5th December. Come grab a pint, meet like-minded people and chat about all things climate 🌎 All welcome!
🗓 Thursday 5 December
🕕 From 6pm
🍻 The Victoria, Jericho
Oxford climate drinks is back on Thursday 5th December. Come grab a pint, meet like-minded people and chat about all things climate 🌎 All welcome!
🗓 Thursday 5 December
🕕 From 6pm
🍻 The Victoria, Jericho
December 5, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Reminder - Oxford climate drinks is meeting at 6pm today!
Calling all Oxford climate folks!
Oxford climate drinks is back on Thursday 5th December. Come grab a pint, meet like-minded people and chat about all things climate 🌎 All welcome!
🗓 Thursday 5 December
🕕 From 6pm
🍻 The Victoria, Jericho
Oxford climate drinks is back on Thursday 5th December. Come grab a pint, meet like-minded people and chat about all things climate 🌎 All welcome!
🗓 Thursday 5 December
🕕 From 6pm
🍻 The Victoria, Jericho
November 26, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Calling all Oxford climate folks!
Oxford climate drinks is back on Thursday 5th December. Come grab a pint, meet like-minded people and chat about all things climate 🌎 All welcome!
🗓 Thursday 5 December
🕕 From 6pm
🍻 The Victoria, Jericho
Oxford climate drinks is back on Thursday 5th December. Come grab a pint, meet like-minded people and chat about all things climate 🌎 All welcome!
🗓 Thursday 5 December
🕕 From 6pm
🍻 The Victoria, Jericho