Peter Murray-Rust

RECORD HEAT FROM SAUDI ARABIA TO JAPAN Insane record heat continues allover Asia with continous record hot nights in Indonesia,Philippines,Thailand (mins still >30C),India,Sri Lanka,etc. All tropical countries are breaking heat records,even before The Nino has been declared.

These countries absorb more carbon than they emit. We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #ItCanBeDone #ClimateCrisis #climate #energy #renewables #rewilding #nature

I briefly mentioned in the post below that this is a record heat dome. Let me illustrate: See that red? That’s where the ridge of upper level high pressure / heat dome is “record intensity” for May. It does not necessarily mean the surface will experience widespread all-time May records (there will be some) but numerous daily heat records will be broken.

1.8-2°C WARMING CATASTROPHE if emissions keep rising/stay at current levels: by 2020s-30s if emissions rapidly decline starting in 2020: by 2020s-40s if emissions decline extremely rapidly starting in 2020: by 2020s-50s Emissions in 2026: still rising to extreme record levels

Publication Day 💥 THE FATE OF THE WORLD #FOTW Did I mention I had a new book out 😊 @ChrisGPackham @GreenRupertRead @TonyJuniper @RHarrabin @RogerHallamCS21 @fionaharvey @BBCScienceNews @newscientist

Parts of Spain/Portugal will approach 40°C next week, and we are still only in MAY. This is not “just summer arriving early”. Europe is heating faster than almost any continent on Earth. European agriculture, ecosystems & infrastructure were not built for these extended extremes.

Jurgen Klopp has this to say after the defeat against Aston Villa at Villa park 🏞️ 🗣️ "Look, even from a distance, it’s impossible not to feel it. It’s hard to watch from the outside when you’ve spent so many years in the heart of that fire. People ask me, 'Jurgen, what’s happening?' and I tell them: football is like life, you have seasons of rain before the sun comes back. This club, these fans... they are built from a different kind of metal. They don't just 'get by,' they overcome. I see the struggles, yes, but I also see the soul of Liverpool. It’s still there. It just needs that one spark, that one moment where the 'Doubters' remember they are 'Believers.' My heart is no longer in the dugout, but it’s still in the stands. I know they will rise, not because it’s easy, but because they are Liverpool. And Liverpool always finds its way back to the top. Keep going, keep fighting, because you never, ever walk alone. Wake up, Reds! ❤" #EPL #YNWA #LFC #JurgenKlopp

If it hits 98, it will break the hottest May peak temp for DC Dulles and Philadelphia. 1-in-100 year + events for both cities in a historical climate. But these records are now a lot more possible - in fact probable - as our #climate heats. #heatwave

Respectfully @rburgessbbc please can @bbcnews cover this? theguardian.com/environment/20… Please can the BBC tell the public that one of our leading climate scientists Prof @HayleyJFowler has warned the public that the U.K. could at any time see a catastrophic 2/3 of a years rainfall in one day, enough to drown the tube system and wash homes and cars away

Water temperatures around Australia's Great Barrier Reef were the warmest they've been in over 400 years this year, according to new research. Scientists say the reef is facing "catastrophic damage." No time to waste. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables

An absolutely insane run for next week from the GEM this morning, low to mid 30s almost EVERYWHERE across England! That is record breaking heat and literally unheard of for the time of year, where the current record stands at around 32c A reminder that we are still in meteorological spring, and we're staring down the barrel of mid summer heat * This is **not** a forecast

The 2026 El Niño is developing unusually fast — and it may rival the strongest ever recorded. NOAA says there is now an 82% chance of El Niño developing between May and July, with early projections suggesting the Pacific warming event could intensify into a very strong event by the end of the year. Some forecasts show echoes of the devastating 1876-78 El Niño, which contributed to severe global droughts and famine. This time, the event is unfolding in a world already warmed by greenhouse gas emissions — raising fears of extreme heat, droughts, wildfires, coral bleaching and pressure on food and health systems. downtoearth.org.in/climate-change… Story by @bluewrit, visual by @PulahaRoy

NOAA’s latest projections indicate that a powerful, potentially record-breaking El Niño is rapidly developing in the Pacific and could push global weather patterns into dangerous territory. Sea surface temperatures in key regions of the equatorial Pacific are forecast to climb as much as 4.5°F (2.5°C) above average by late 2026, rivaling the strongest El Niño events on record. El Niño occurs when unusually warm water spreads across the central and eastern Pacific, weakening trade winds and dramatically altering global atmospheric circulation. The consequences are far-reaching: some areas face extreme rainfall, devastating floods, and intensified tropical storms, while others endure severe drought, heat waves, wildfires, and agricultural losses. Fisheries can collapse, disease patterns often shift, and food security is frequently threatened worldwide. What makes this event particularly concerning is that it is emerging against the backdrop of a planet already at or near its warmest levels in recorded history due to human-caused climate change. Superimposing a strong El Niño on this elevated baseline is expected to significantly amplify extreme weather events. Scientists have drawn comparisons to the catastrophic 1877–1878 El Niño, one of the most destructive in modern history, which triggered widespread droughts, famines, and disease outbreaks that claimed millions of lives globally. While forecasts still carry uncertainty and the final intensity will depend on how ocean conditions evolve, current models are increasingly alarming. If the projections hold, the developing El Niño could serve as a severe stress test for societies and ecosystems already strained by climate extremes.

Great piece by @fionaharvey on the new CCC report flagging how poorly the UK is prepared for the extreme weather that is now baked-in Typically, the government response is - we are already doing some stuff So that's alright then theguardian.com/environment/20…

Record (literally) Heat Dome for May builds over West-Central #Europe the next several days. Peak temperatures will reach 15° above normal in Spain, France and Germany as well as surrounding areas. Maximum temperatures will reach 39°C/ 102°F into next week, with the highest in SW Spain. #heatwave

🙌🏾 Did you know that two initiatives by @OKFN are officially recognised as digital public goods (DPGs)? This means these are tools that help advance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. 👇🏾🧶

Audio up! New article on Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica today claims that the ice shelf is deteriorating much faster now leading the team at the British Antarctic Survey to write an obituary for it. These quotes sound alarming, and they are. But deep in the article they mention that this is a “gradually developing crisis rather than an immediate emergency.” Still with comments like this from scientists it’s a good reminder that a whole lot of ice and sea level is sitting behind very fragile ice shelves at the bottom of the World! "Suddenly, large areas are just falling to pieces," says Christian Wild, from the University of Innsbruck in Austria. "It looks like a windscreen that's shattering." “Massive cracks have emerged around the pinning point, where an underwater ridge once anchored the floating ice in position.” "It's essentially in free fall now," says Mr Wild, noting the pace has quickened further over the past five months. “Fresh rifts have appeared along the grounding line, where the glacier transitions from land to floating ice.” Here’s a video I made explaining the ice shelf holds back the Glacier and how the grounding line is destabilizing. Audio up! Article in thread… 1/

FORECAST FOR DECEMBER 2026 The map shows a forecast for December 2026 with temperature anomalies in parts of the Arctic exceeding 10°C in December 2026 for the SSP5-8.5 model. This suggests strong decline of the snow and ice cover in the Arctic with the danger that huge amounts of greenhouse gases including methane will be released from the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean and from thawing terrestrial permafrost, with huge albedo changes as well as loss of the latent heat buffer, further accelerating the temperature rise over the years. There are further contributors to a rapid and potentially huge temperature rise. Some suggest that the IPCC should no longer consider the SSP5-8.5 model, because it had become "implausible, based on trends in the costs of renewables, the emergence of climate policy and recent emission trends". Sure, the cost of renewables and sales of coal have fallen, but the temperature rise is accelerating and feedbacks are threatening to kick in with greater ferocity, as discussed at facebook.com/groups/arcticn… In short, the danger seems not only plausible, but it may actually be an underestimation to consider that radiative forcing could reach 8.5 W/m² by 2100. From the post 'Northern Hemisphere heating up', at: arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/05/northe…

Donald Trump again says climate change is a hoax. A lot of people are going to die because of it as properties are flooded, disease explodes and the food system is disrupted. How many? We don’t know but we know it’s coming. It’s already begun.

worth knowing: we're just 4 to 8 years away from cataclysmic global warming of 1.8-2°C and rising towards unsurvivable 2.8-3°C by the 2040s-60s