Chandru Wadhwani

⛪️ Good news: In the U.K., over 100 church leaders are calling out climate misinformation, making the moral case for why it causes real harm and delays action. 🐍 Not so good news: Climate change is shifting where species live—and in the case of venomous snakes, a new global study finds rising temperatures could increase the likelihood of dangerous encounters for millions. 🌱 What you can do: In the Netherlands, nearly 13M pavement tiles have been replaced with plants through a nationwide “tile flipping” challenge that's cooling neighborhoods, reducing flood risk, and restoring habitat. Looking for more good news? From California to Germany, Canada to South Africa, Talking Climate readers shared their top sources of encouraging climate updates. I have the full list here! talkingclimate.ca/p/faith-leader…

Almost as if the climate is changing

Temps >8 °C above normal in England again today. The jet stream is wavering, stalling, bending into deep loops. That “waviness” means we’re not just getting weather… we’re getting extremes in waves: heat → cold → heat again. This is what a destabilising climate looks like.

A collapse of the #AMOC could flip the Southern Ocean from carbon sink to source, potentially adding ~0.2°C of extra global warming, PIK scientists find. In their new study @CommsEarth, they simulated such a collapse under stable climate conditions: pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest…

Without bees, we’ll lose at least one-third of the food we eat. They pollinate 66% of the world’s crops.

Germany Power Prices Plummet via Renewables Surge. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The people who got this wrong are still noticing how incredibly weird capitalism's relationship is to our planet. Even though water, soil, and oxygen are essential to life, capitalism treats them like nothing, like garbage, because they're literally priceless.

Hold on to your hats..

This is exactly what has happened. 👇

You’ll be hearing a TON about El Niño over the next year because it’s gonna be a behemoth- possibly the strongest on record judging by our seasonal models. So a short lesson here… Take a look at this side by side. Left: January with cool tropical Pacific waters in the central & east Pacific. That was our fading La Niña. Right: Now waters are warming near Peru… that’s often where we first see signs of El Niño emerging. Those warm red colors will continue to fill in over the east, then central Pacific. The warmth is coming eastward from the Pacific’s warm water warehouse called the “Indo-Pacific Warm Pool”. This displacement of warm water may seem meager, but the Tropical Pacific itself is HUGE because it’s on the Equator (where the ocean is widest) in the biggest basin on Earth, so when heat moves from one side to the other, builds up, and is released into the atmosphere there, it changes global weather patterns significantly. Because it’s predicted to be so strong, the warming there will likely overwhelm the adjacent areas, like the Caribbean and much of the Atlantic Basin. So I do expect a slower than normal Atlantic #hurricane season. Then as the El Niño grows into next fall/ winter the subtropical jet should fuel heavy rain and severe weather for the Deep South, Gulf and #Florida. Beyond our local impacts, El Niño can be a God sent for certain areas (good monsoon rain this summer in the arid US SW) or it can be the devil, with punishing drought (Indonesia) or floods (Peru) and it decimates fishing in Peru as well as life in the Galápagos Islands due to reduced food supply.

This is absolute nonsense Yours sincerely A microbiologist

New El Niño forecast just dropped… and it’s a whopper! Maybe the strongest on record. For real! The European model seasonal forecast just released and it shows record Aug-Oct tropical Pacific sea surface temperature warmth at 2-3°C above normal (~ +5°F) in the central-east Pacific. The record for Aug-Oct is +2.2°C in 2015. Euro hints we surpass this (3.4 region). So what does this mean for #Florida and the South? First, good news: look at the Atlantic, it’s cool-ish relatively speaking. “Relative” matters big time in weather. Odds are this means a pretty quiet hurricane season overall and a lower likelihood of US landfalls. 2nd: next fall and winter may be Very active with rounds of severe weather, tornadoes and heavy rain/ flooding due to an invigorated subtropical jet stream. Central Florida’s largest tornadoes happen in El Niños (1966 and 1998 for example). Lastly, El Niño takes warm water stored deeper in the oceans, brings it to the surface and releases it into Earth’s atmosphere. This gives a big jolt to Global average surface temperatures. 2027 will be the warmest year on record for Earth in the history of modern humans, but even 2026 now has a chance of eclipsing that record by December. #elnino

Refusing blood transfusions from vaccinated donors comes from a place of utter ignorance.

Whatever noise you hear around the issue, or however much Reform supporters and climate deniers foam at the mouth because we are not sucking up more oil and gas, this is the reality The only way to have a secure energy system is by going faster and further with renewables. Fact.

Do you think most people know this is hotter than it’s been in over 100,000 years and in such crisis scientists say it may soon be unable to support complex human civilisation? #artemis2

Close your eyes Ignore the industrial pipe in the background Imagine the Sumatran tiger standing in the wild savanna Happily eyeing the vast wilderness and its prey There’s nothing to worry about A beautiful Sumatra riau.indozone.id/news/248669564…

Important article by @fionaharvey exploding yet another of the myths behind the growing campaign by politicians and pundits to drill in the North Sea. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Good news for this little guy! Thousands of acres of koala habitat (8,400 hectares (21,000 acres) of forest) are now protected and offlimits to logging in New South Wales: buff.ly/3Ph34q0 Nature is amazing. Protect it. #ActOnClimate #climate #biodiversity

The white man you posted is uneducated in tumorigenesis, molecular biology, and protein synthesis. There is no relationship between mRNA covid vaccines and cancer. Happy to provide a science lesson when you have time

I treated Covid cases from day 1 of the pandemic I'm an Infectious Diseases specialist doctor I chose to get the Covid 19 vaccine Why do you think I would have done that?