Pretty stark illustration of how deadly the June heat dome was in BC. It was the deadliest weather event in Canadian history by roughly x3, per Dr. Sarah Henderson, Scientific Director of Environmental Health with BC Centre for Disease Control #bcpoli

The stark consequences of rejecting science and following propaganda, much more direct than in climate change.

The development of WWA from your invitation to join in 2014 to now has exceeded everything I could imagine at the time. wxrisk_sprectum worldweatherattribution.org

Since start of #Covid pandemic, #climate-related disasters have affected 140m people & killed 17,200 - says new analysis by IFRC & Climate Centre on 'compound impacts of extreme-weather events and Covid'; pic from report, Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) monsoon rescues - bit.ly/2XpSuWs

Het feit dat de grenzen om ons land krapper zijn getrokken dan om veel andere landen kan toch geen reden zijn om onze verantwoordelijkheid af te schuiven? Te meer daar wij nou niet echt voorop lopen - integendeel. (Plaatje via Mathijs Bouman) -BV

Did energy constraints really stop the Dutch from industrializing? A thread: 1/

So delighted to see #TIME100 recognize pioneering scientists Dr Friederike Otto and Geert Jan van Oldenborgh for their work on the cutting edge of extreme weather attribution: putting numbers on how much worse climate change made a given hurricane, heatwave or flood. 👏👏👏time.com/collection/100…

I try to follow or interact with people based on the quality of their work. Titles only very partially reflect that. I am only a prof because I am so absent-minded :-). So not sure adding these to my (already very long) name makes sense. But willing to give it a try for a while.

Historical runs to 2005, projections start in 2006.

The science of event attribution helps people understand how climate change affects them right now. But more warming means more extreme events than time in the day to analyse them. Dr Friederike Otto and I discuss the information disparity this inevitably creates bit.ly/2ZdOnOm

De oorzaak is nog niet duidelijk. WWA is een analyse begonnen.

Somebody at KNMI spent a lot of time thinking up a god solution. cdn.knmi.nl/knmi/pdf/bibli…. Is that useful?

With LOESS you run into problems further from the last point in your dataset, which is often the part you are most interested in. So a ruNning mean does have one advantage over LOESS. The combinations that Paul van der Valk created seem to work well.

Extensive interview with Dr Friederike Otto by David Aaronovitch in today's Times Magazine: "What really got me into this was actually a heatwave in Russia in 2010. It was huge and had a big impact on food prices.” thetimes.co.uk/article/4ff4f5…

As Dr. Leah C. Stokes [email protected] says, in The All We Can Save Project: “No one can unilaterally choose to live in a low carbon economy. The goal is not self-purification but structural change.”

How climate models got so accurate they earned a Nobel Prize & what we can do thanks to them now & that it still means we have to act! Prof. Katharine Hayhoe Geert Jan van Oldenborgh Prof Michael E. Mann nationalgeographic.com/environment/ar… via National Geographic

M'n debuut als podcasthost! Ik sprak de zieke, maar razend slimme KNMI-rekenmeester Geert Jan van Oldenborgh. volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/t/p…

Really nice portrait of me. But WWA is not me, it's Geert Jan van Oldenborgh and me & many more. Without Geert Jan it wouldn't exist, if I'm the heart he's the head. bloomberg.com/news/features/… via Bloomberg

“the cutting edge of climate science today”—individual event attribution, the specialty for which Dr Friederike Otto and Geert Jan van Oldenborgh were recognized in Time, which for the first time is able to draw strong links between climate change and specific weather events.