Prof Richard Betts
@richardabetts
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Climate scientist, University of Exeter & Met Office. IPCC lead author, Expert Advisor to Climate Change Committee. @richardabetts.bsky. social
Devon, UK
Joined January 2010
Approaching 1.5°C: how will we know we’ve reached this crucial warming mark? . The Paris Agreement does not define "temperature rise", so recognition of 1.5°C being reached may be delayed . In @nature we propose the Current Global Warming Level metric.
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Nature - Assessing global mean temperature rise using the average warming over the previous one or two decades will delay formal recognition of when Earth breaches the Paris agreement’s 1.5 °C...
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RT @DrEmilyGrossman: 📢Calling all scientists / science postgrads! .Can you spare even just half an hour next Tuesday at 12pm to join me, Ch….
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🥼📹 Click here to watch your invitation from Chris Packham 📹🥼 IMPORTANT! 🚨 All activities focus on peaceful, constructive engagement acting within UK law. More on this here. 🥼 We need as many...
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RT @BrentToderian: A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats o….
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RT @MoragMitchell3: I just read this on Facebook:. Someone asked "Why do many British people not like Donald Trump?". Nate White, an articu….
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RT @AndrewFeinberg: Trump’s calls with British leaders reportedly left staff crying from laughter
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Trump has not yet spoken with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer since taking office on Monday
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RT @CarbonBrief: Met Office: Atmospheric CO2 rise now exceeding IPCC 1.5C pathways | @richardabetts @metoffice . Read here ➡️ https://t.co/….
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RT @CarbonBrief: NEW – Met Office: Atmospheric CO2 rise now exceeding IPCC 1.5C pathways | @richardabetts @metoffice . Read here ➡️ https:/….
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RT @ClimateDann: The next UK National Meeting on Climate Impacts and Risks will be held at Bristol on 18/19th Sep 2025. Day1 is all impacts….
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RT @theCCCuk: The COP29 successfully negotiated key agreements on finance and carbon markets but has left a huge amount of work on both mit….
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Acknowledgements The Committee would like to thank the team that prepared this report and its analysis. This was…
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RT @MetOffice_Sci: A range of global datasets, including @metoffice HadCRUT5, contribute to the temperature section of #StateOfClimate glob….
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As COP29 gets underway in Baku, Azerbaijan, the WMO has released its annual update on the State of the Global Climate. This year the report contains an update on the current level of global warming.
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RT @piersforster: Cop29: world leaders must be held to account on climate with scientific evidence @PriestleyCentre….
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Climate scientists call for global leaders to double down on efforts to cut emissions with their full attention and unwavering commitment at the UN’s climate summit, Cop29.
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RT @AndrewDessler: as mainstream climate science leaves twitter, climate denial here will deflate like a balloon. there is no alternative s….
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RT @richardabetts: Very pleased to be working with the Climate Change Committee @theCCCuk as an Expert Advisor. I'm advising the CCC's Adap….
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Very pleased to be working with the Climate Change Committee @theCCCuk as an Expert Advisor. I'm advising the CCC's Adaptation Committee on the preparation of the 4th UK Climate Change Risk Assessment
The Adaptation Committee has three new members. They will cover infrastructure, farming and health. They will support our work on assessing progress and advising the Government on the risks of climate change.
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RT @CarbonBrief: More than half a trillion hours of work lost in 2023 due to ‘heat exposure’ | @AyeshaTandon w/ comment from @ollie_jay13 @….
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Valencia: ."heavy 1-day rainfall events, as intense as the one observed, are about 12% more intense and about twice as likely in today’s climate, that is 1.3°C warmer than it would have been in the cooler preindustrial climate without human-caused warming".
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RT @NASAEarth: Insufficient rainfall in 2023-2024 has taken a toll on vast areas of South America. GRACE-FO data shows shallow groundwate….
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RT @BrentToderian: THIS IS HUGE. Paris City Hall has announced that starting on Monday, Paris will limit (not ban) car traffic in the city….
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