Peter Stott
Climate Scientist at Met Office and University of Exeter. Author of Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial
- Reposted by Peter Stott‘HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS,’ EMILY DICKINSON famously wrote, and that often leads to pictures of doves sitting quietly and looking sweet, but what if hope is an albatross that can soar for years without stopping, or an osprey that can haul a thrashing salmon out of rough waters?
- Reposted by Peter StottTo reiterate: (The fact that he had a gun he never drew is immaterial; the videos show that they attacked him before they knew it; they murdered him after they confiscated it.)
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- Great to see climate attribution studies featuring as one of the 21 best ideas of the 21st century in today's @newscientist.com . Net zero is another of the best ideas. With me on my Italian summer holidays and Dave Frame and Myles Allen running a climate model on the train to @metoffice.gov.uk
- Taking train to Bristol to spend 4 hours being scanned (again) as part of the Biobank project. Feels good to be doing something positive by adding some extra data points to this extraordinary project that is improving healthcare. The power of evidence led scientific research! www.ukbiobank.ac.uk
- It's all a bit noisy having your brain and then your heart scanned but it's good to be part of this. My dad had dementia (which I attribute to heading too many leather footballers as a young man) and it's good to feel that my brain might help cure such a horrible disease in future.
- Reposted by Peter StottAtmospheric chemist Susan Solomon was born #OTD in 1956. Solomon, working with colleagues at NOAA, proposed/confirmed the cause of the Antarctic ozone hole, chlorofluorocarbons. She led the Nat'l Ozone Expedition to Antarctica to collect evidence & was the only woman on the team. #WomenInSTEM (1/2)
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- Ben Santer, an outstanding scientist and historically significant figure in the development of understanding of climate change, is relocating to the UK. Very much looking forward to him visiting the @metoffice.gov.uk to talk about our common research interests.
- NEW – Prof Ben Santer: Trump administration is ‘embracing ignorance’ on climate science | @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org Read here:
- Reposted by Peter StottAs a climate scientist, I know heatwaves in Australia will only get worse. We need to start preparing now | Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick #Climate
- Reposted by Peter StottHow grotesque the mixture of ambivalence and retreat into useful lies has been to see from news shows , bigots , bots and right wing politicians talking about Renee Nicole Good
- Reposted by Peter StottExcellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the “evidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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- Really enjoying reading the biography of Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social. Got me thinking about archives and collecting an archive of the International Detection and Attribution Group (see my book Hot Air). Here are four key members - Wehner, Allen, Hegerl, Tett at an IDAG meeting in the 1990s.
- I'm an age when a former time seemed much easier. In the 80s I went to Anfield with my dad with paper tickets bought by post. Today I bought a ticket for FA Cup vs Barnsley but got into a tangle with my NFC pass on my phone that remains unresolved with help desk so as it stands can't use my ticket 😒
- Now fixed. I was able to download the pass this morning and import my ticket into my wallet. This was either because a) the nice chap on the LFC chat (not a bot!) did contact the IT guys who fixed it b) the system (which system?) re-sets over night c) everything's better after a good night's sleep.
- Turned out it was option (a). 😀
- Reposted by Peter StottSome 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
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- Reposted by Peter StottI 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.
- Reposted by Peter StottThis is the only parody song about geophysical fluid dynamics you’ll ever need: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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- It was a pleasure to meet these guys and discuss the ins and outs, highs and lows, challenges and rewards of communicating science.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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/...
- 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?
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- 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...
- 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...
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- 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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- 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...
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- Reposted by Peter StottFACTCHECK: 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...
- Trust me to be giving a talk at the Moray Climate Action Network Climate Conference on the day a severe storm arrives in the area. I'll be talking about the influence of climate change on storms in this part of Scotland as well as my experiences with climate change denial. www.moraycan.org.uk
- Reposted by Peter StottThis is fantastic by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social Articulates so well our (intentional?) societal regression
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- Lovely to see the Prince and Princess of Wales visiting my old school today (Churchtown Primary) and the school my cousins went to (Farnborough Road) after the tragic events of last summer. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- The people I work with are not stupid people and our climate predictions of 30 years ago of global warming have proved to be accurate. Just saying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...
- Reposted by Peter StottIn a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.
- I'm doing an @arvonfoundation.bsky.social masterclass tomorrow evening (Tuesday) where there'll be some fun writing exercises and I'll talk about some of the tips I've picked up on writing for a general audience and about getting published. Still time to join! www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
- I asked my local councillor (elected as Reform) about flags illegally placed on lampposts and painted on roundabouts locally - he replied "Removing [a flag] from any location will always be my absolute lowest priority"
- "Once the official road markings have been replaced, the drains have been unblocked, the hedges have been cut, the weeds have been dealt with, and any offensive graffiti has been removed, I will ask the relevant team to remove the flags and repaint the roundabouts. But not before."
- New analysis from @metoffice.gov.uk showing that the record-breaking hot UK summer of 2025 has been made much more likely by human-induced climate change and such a hot summer would be expected about once every 5 years in current climate. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
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- Weather in Devon a bit meh today thanks to smoke from fires in the over-heated continent turning what would have been a nice sunny day (like yesterday) into a rather drab murky affair. Another impact of climate change...
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- Reposted by Peter StottNEW – Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @leohickman.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/AvcB7Aw
- Here is a picture of my mum, dad and me (sitting down) and my English teacher, Mr TB Johnson, and his wife, in Bermuda at the last night party of our stay at our beachside hotel during which we played bingo. The story is that my English teacher one day (during 2nd year at secondary school) asked
- us all to write an essay on the subject of "Why we would like to visit America". He chose to enter my essay, which began "I would like to visit America to see whether it is as bad as it is made out to be", into a national essay competition, putting in £1 of his own money as the entry fee. It won,
- in my age category, which meant I got to go and get a silver cup from the then Prince of Wales at St James's Palace and I also won for me and my family and my English teacher and his wife (he having subbed the £1 entry fee) a trip on the QE2 to New York followed by 5 days in Bermuda. Unfortunately
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View full threadThe irony with the winning essay of course is that I never did get to go to America and it was only several years later, as an undergrad student, that I travelled round America on a greyhound bus and found out whether it really was as bad as it was made out to be.
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- Curious that docket number DOE-HQ-2025-0207 - which is the reference number under the instructions as to how to comment on the rather unscientific US climate science report - is not found on the US regulations website. So it's not clear how anyone can comment on it. www.energy.gov/topics/climate
- Reposted by Peter StottSo what makes a climate assessment? In short: not this new Energy Dept report, which rehashes contrarian greatest hits with areas of known uncertainty -- that climate scientists talk about all the time. It's all a little grim. Who needs 721 authors when you have 5?
- Reposted by Peter StottNEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —
- A committee consisting of John Christy, Judith Curry, Steven Koonin, Ross McKitrick and Roy Spencer appears to have supplanted @ipcc.bsky.social as the source of climate science assessments for the US Administration. www.energy.gov/topics/climate
- I'll be teaching an online masterclass for the @arvonfoundation.bsky.social for academics wishing to write for a general audience. Expect fun writing exercises and some tips from me I've learnt along the way writing my book Hot Air. Everyone welcome, not just academics! www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
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