Dann Mitchell
Professor of Climate Science | University of Bristol | Joint Met Office Chair | Alan Turing Fellow | Leading the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment on Health and Wellbeing | IPCC AR6 | extreme weather & impacts
- Reposted by Dann MitchellMany congratulations 🎉 to @eunicelo.bsky.social and @climatedann.bsky.social who have been jointly presented with the RMetS Award for Impact 2024! Climate change is affecting our health - University of Bristol research is helping us understand and adress these impacts. More: tinyurl.com/3e9e3rcf
- Abstract submission now open for the UK National Climate Impacts meeting. Climate and health focus on one day, and a general impacts/risks focus on the other. We would love to see you. @eunicelo.bsky.social @richardabetts.bsky.social @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social www.climatebristol.org/projects/nci...
- Really exciting climate conference covering key science aspects on the approach to #COP30. Some very high profile speakers, and lots of time for engagement. Me & @richardabetts.bsky.social are running the Extremes, Impacts & Adaptation session 🥵🧊🏥 exeterclimateforum.com @coxypm.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dann MitchellListen to climate scientist Professor Lizzie Kendon talking about predicting the future climate on the Festival of Tomorrow podcast. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/fes... @metoffice.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dann MitchellWhat is the fate of a pulse of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere? After release, the CO2 is gradually taken up by land & ocean, roughly in equal parts for the first 50 years, but the land saturates while the ocean continues to take up carbon. acp.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
- Anyone interested in climate attribution, check out how the latest models will look. The design and implementation is particularly exciting, as we move from 'concentration driven' to 'emissions driven' models. Comments on our paper are very welcome egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
- Reposted by Dann MitchellFloods and landslides in Indonesia leave at least 20 dead #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- The weather and climate advisory committee to @metoffice.bsky.social disbands early for some of us, as the Chief Scientific Officer does his first ever forecast, warning us to change travel plans in light of the red warning alert they have just announced
- Reposted by Dann MitchellPulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement will harm American lives. My paper showed that there would be many thousands of extra heatwave deaths a year. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Dann Mitchell"The health burden of climate change is much larger than we have realized," says @climatedann.bsky.social "Persistent exposure to heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and more will take a toll on people’s bodies. We must learn how this will manifest" #climatecrisis www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Why don’t we know the full human health cost of climate change yet? In this @nature.com short paper published today, I share some thoughts on long-exposures, slow onset events, and other invisible health tolls www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- How did we ever have some leading our country who would deny basic science 🤔? I am desperately trying to think that Liz Truss was a mildly better PM than Boris Johnson, but she is making it very hard for me. Thanks to Keir Starmer for not being either of them
- Nigel Farage and Liz Truss attend UK launch of US climate denial group #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Well done to my amazing colleagues at Bristol, who have made it into the @carbonbrief.org 10 most talked about climate papers for the second year running. Good work @climatesamwell.bsky.social and Paul Valdes! www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-the...
- Some amazing climate and health researchers in this starter pack. If you'd like to be added, please reach out!
- I've created a starter pack for researchers looking at weather, climate, and linking through to different aspects of human health. I've certainly missed loads of very relevant people - so please let me know if you would like to be added. go.bsky.app/VmEFso3at://did:plc:wln2l6gkweiba57jy3mh36qn/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lc3mpuj7cl2p
- "Words are easily misunderstood" - climate scientists have standardise some; 'likely' means >66%. But for MI5 'likely' means 55-75% - and they are communicating this better than we do, with "likelihood of needing a coffee refill" @ipcc.bsky.social @valmasdel.bsky.social @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social
- Wildfires in London in 2022 destroyed properties - and we've looked at just how unprecedented they were. Not at all relevant for anything else going on, in, say, LA, at the moment 🙄 - well done to @vikkithompson.bsky.social for leading such an important study
- Wildfires aren’t a problem in the UK, right? Wrong. Not on the same scale as we are seeing in LA, but there are thousands of wildfires every year in the UK. In the heatwave of July 2022 wildfires broke out in London. Our new paper explores the risks: doi.org/10.1002/cli2...
- An outstanding video from some of the team here in Bristol on having a career in extreme weather. Featuring @ailishcraig.bsky.social Regan and Sana www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrFR...
- Definitely worth following @simonoxfphys.com - one of the best climate communicators out there. Check out the YouTube stuff in particular
- Hello Bluesky! If you've not seen my stuff before, I make YouTube videos about various topics in climate. Here's my latest, exploring possible causes for global glaciation in the past: youtu.be/lYE6LkS_2Go
- Detection & attribution of human health is one of the fasting growing fields in climate science - and you can be part of our team working on exactly that - you only have 5 days remaining to apply though 😀 www.climatebristol.org/contact/
- The next UK National Meeting on Climate Impacts and Risks will be held at Bristol on 18/19th Sep 2025. Day1 is all impacts/risks, and Day2 is health focussed. Academic, industry and policy makers all welcome. Stayed tuned for updates and sign up @richardabetts.bsky.social @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social
- New postdoc positions in climate attribution and health with our team. They will be 2-3 years in length, and you get to work with amazing climate and epidemiology colleagues across the world. More positions coming too. @eunicelo.bsky.social RT www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find-in...
- Today we have been speaking with A&E doctors about #StormDarragh - some insight (from a single region) - A&E visits were lower than usual on the storm night - A&E visits were higher the day after, as people had waited for longer - Hospitals put nothing in place when a weather warning is issued
- #StormDarragh showed me how unprepared my family – and Britain – are for disaster, says @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- So much cool science to be uncovered at the interface between #fungifriends and #climatechange - in the meantime here are some Porcelain's in a copse just outside our village 🍄
- Reposted by Dann MitchellHello, I’m excited to use my first post here to share that I’ve been awarded an Emerging Leaders Prize in Climate Change and Health by the Medical Research Foundation! I’m grateful for the support from my group, colleagues & friends. Receiving the award at @royalsociety.bsky.social was a dream.
