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Peter Stott

@stottpeter.bsky.social

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Climate Scientist at Met Office and University of Exeter. Author of Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial

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Peter A. Stott MBE is a climate scientist who leads the Climate Monitoring and Attribution team of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research at the Met Office in Exeter, UK. He is an expert on anthropogenic and natural causes of climate change. .. more

Environmental science 54%

Geography 18%

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 4d

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The more I think about it, the more I incline to the opinion that the most important thing of all is not to lose hope and faith in life itself.
Anyone who does so is lost, regardless of what good fortune may befall him. And so, from the bottom of my heart, my New Year's wish is that you not lose your hope, faith and ability to delight in the world-even if the world is the way it is. If you can manage that, everything else will come; if you give in, nothing can help you.
Václav Havel
Letter to his wife, Olga
21st December 1980

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Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 5d

Some reflections after returning back from a conference at which I and 20,000 colleagues learned that the Trump administration intends to dismantle #NCAR. This outrage should not happen. deepconvection.substack.com/p/save-ncar

Save NCAR

Field notes from New Orleans, where I and 20,000 colleagues learned that Trump intends to destroy the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 6d

Read this from Ben Santer (very famous climate scientist for those who don’t know) about what NCAR means and what dismantling it will do.

Threatening NCAR, Trump administration seeks to extinguish a beacon of climate science

The Trump administration’s world view is that the US doesn’t need a climate science brain trust because it doesn’t like what the brains say.

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Reposted by Brigitte Nerlich, Peter A. Stott, Wim Thiery , and 3 more Brigitte Nerlich, Peter A. Stott, Wim Thiery, Suzana J. Camargo, Rosie A. Fisher, Halley E. Froehlich

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 9d

I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.

Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center

Russell Vought, who directs the White House Office of Management and Budget, announced plans to split up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, citing concerns about “clima...

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 10d

Am on a train to Amsterdam. Lady opposite me on phone (for some reason on speaker carriage can hear every word of conversation) discussing some travel issue - her interlocutor "Thanks to f***ing brexit" then follows some great complicated story about travel issues due to "f***ing brexit".

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14d

One of the most random things on YouTube

Had to share it for lovers of Liz Truss

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Two Thirds of Our Cheese (That Is A Disgrace) - Ft. Liz Truss

YouTube video by Sung Speeches

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 14d

This is the only parody song about geophysical fluid dynamics you’ll ever need:

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Call Me Charney: A GFD Parody

This was so fun to make!! #lamontdoherty #lamont #atmosphere #science #charney #GFS #vallis #geostrophic #quasigeostrophic #hydrostatic #rossby

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 22d

Excellent news, congratulations and absolutely right not to be humbled!

Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 24d

It was a pleasure to meet these guys and discuss the ins and outs, highs and lows, challenges and rewards of communicating science.

Steve Simpson @profstevesimpson.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks to #ProfPeteFalloon @metoffice.gov.uk for hosting our wonderful @bristolbiosci.bsky.social MSc Science Communication for a Better Planet students. Great to hear from the #KnowledgeIntegrationTeam, @stottpeter.bsky.social & #JenniferWeeks, and visit @alexdeakin.bsky.social in the weather room

Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 24d

Who says art doesn't have anything to contribute to science (or vice versa)? Booked tickets to go see Arcadia next year at the Old Vic. Very excited.

Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 24d

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 24d

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Steve Simpson @profstevesimpson.bsky.social · 24d

Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 25d

If some-one wants to write a lay-person's translation for me the interview is at 7:20 on Today today www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Radio 4 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds

Listen live to Radio 4 on BBC Sounds

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 25d

Scientists are expected to be somewhat comprehensible on #r4rtoday but financial folk like CEO of Peel Hunt come on and spout all sort of incomprehensible jargon-nonsense: "backfoot vulnerability starting to wobble", "corporate mood-show", "secondary blocks", "domestic bias" - no me neither.

Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 26d

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The Reith Lectures - Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution - 1. A Time of Monsters - BBC Sounds

Dutch historian Rutger Bregman delivers his first BBC Reith Lecture: Moral Revolution.

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 26d

Brilliant Reith Lecture by Rutger Bregman seems to hit the nail on the head for me. The rise of authoritarian populists, most of the brightest and best going into bs jobs and the question - how is it that small groups of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world for good?

Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · Nov 14

Good news. My local councillor Ed Hill (voted in as Reform but since expelled from the party) told me he would only ask for the flags to be removed once all the drains had been unblocked, all the hedges cut and all the weeds had been dealt with. Removing them was his "absolute lowest priority".

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · Nov 8

I hosted a great discussion of it all here too:

Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · Nov 5

Overheard in Space, a terrific poem by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social and read by him as part of the wonderful Hot Poets initiative, has just been released today - find it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=KquX...

Overheard In Space by Michael Rosen I Hot Poets Ignite

YouTube video by Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · Oct 28

I really enjoyed working with the children of St Sidwell's Primary School in Exeter telling new stories about climate change with the international cardboard theatre company Hamishibi as part of the Schools Across the Ocean programme. It was a very inspiring day. news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

Climate science workshop brings together schoolchildren and world-leading researchers

Pupils at an Exeter school have engaged with some of the world’s most renowned climate scientists at a special day-long workshop. Year six children from St Sidwell’s Church of England Primary and Nurs...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · Oct 25

"we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us" I still believe Jo Cox was right. Despite what happened to her, and what I saw today. Which was a group of people, draped in a flag that is just as much mine as theirs, using it to divide us.

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · Oct 25

Big turnout at the Exeter is For Everyone rally today that was held to oppose the far-right march through the town centre. Music, singing, chanting and a whole lot of love for diversity.

Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · Oct 25

Well done people of Exeter for turning up and opposing the far right marching on our streets. My Swiss immigrant wife and I met several other non-Brits today who have made their home here and who were also part of the "This is what community looks like" brigade.

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James A @exeterdormouse.bsky.social · Oct 25

Exeter is anti-racist.
#ExeterIsForEveryone
#StandUpToRacism

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Oct 21

Q&A: How do climate models work? | @hausfath.bsky.social @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org #CBarchive

Read here: bit.ly/3mEf6KH

Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · Oct 19

When I was in Elgin at the Moray Climate Action Network (CAN) Climate Conference I learnt about this brilliant initiative with hairdressing students to help them talking with their clients about environmental changes called Under The Scissors www.moray.uhi.ac.uk/research/und...

Research - Under the Scissors CEF Project

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Oct 18

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Oct 12

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies

The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of computing?

www.theguardian.com

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Oct 11

Here is a closer look at the record low #Arctic sea ice around Svalbard currently. This coincides with the record warmth as well (check out my earlier post). Earlier last week temperatures in parts of Svalbard were more similar to July than October.

Graphic produced by cryo.met.no/en/sea-ice-i...

Line graph time series of Svalbard sea ice area for 2025 compared to 2012 2020, and the 1981-2010 average with percentiles shown. There is a large seasonal cycle.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · Oct 7

FACTCHECK: What the Climate Change Act actually means for the UK – and what is a load of old nonsense

Really enjoyed putting this together with colleagues, inc learning new things about the fascinating backstory to the Act

Feat. OG authors of the Act & more

www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

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