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Peter Stott
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Climate Scientist at Met Office and University of Exeter. Author of Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial

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Peter A. Stott MBE is a climate scientist who leads the Climate Monitoring and Attribution team of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research at the Met Office in Exeter, UK. He is an expert on anthropogenic and natural causes of climate change. .. more

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6h
Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of computing?
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 1d
Here is a closer look at the record low #Arctic sea ice around Svalbard currently. This coincides with the record warmth as well (check out my earlier post). Earlier last week temperatures in parts of Svalbard were more similar to July than October.

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Line graph time series of Svalbard sea ice area for 2025 compared to 2012 2020, and the 1981-2010 average with percentiles shown. There is a large seasonal cycle.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 5d
FACTCHECK: 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

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 6d
Thanks Doug and great to see. I was part of the team (a small part in my case) that got this mural commissioned as part of the We Are The Possible initiative. I often use this image in talks, like iin Elgin on Friday at the Moray Climate Action Network greenfutures.exeter.ac.uk/our-impact/w...
We Are The Possible: COP28 · GreenFutures
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 9d
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
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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 14d
This is fantastic by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social Articulates so well our (intentional?) societal regression
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 19d
Climate change is not a con-job. If you want to know more about the evidence for and causes of #ClimateChange, head to our website: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...
Climate change: evidence and causes | Royal Society
Supplementary information for the project 'Climate Change: Evidence and causes'.
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 19d
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...
Kate and William visit Southport families
The Prince and Princess of Wales met bereaved families from last year's deadly knife attack.
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 19d
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...
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 22d
In 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.
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 27d
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!

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Masterclass: from Academic to General Non-Fiction | Writing that connects | Arvon
If you have an academic background, how do you find a place for creativity in your writing? Academics often capture fascinating stories in their research and archival work, but they don’t necessarily ...
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 27d
You're not alone! Was struck by this from Russell T Davies "What we will do in Elon Musk’s world, that we’re heading towards, is what artists have always done, which is to meet in cellars, and plot, and sing, and compose, and paint, and make speeches, and march.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Russell T Davies: gay society in ‘greatest danger I’ve ever seen’ after Trump win
Exclusive: Doctor Who writer says he feels ‘a wave of anger heading towards us’ and hostility in UK as well as US
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · Sep 10
I noticed painted bollards as well yesterday (red cross on white square). I think I'm pretty mainstream patriotic and pro British flags where appropriate but I don't like the message of this eruption of flag-ism: immigrants (like my wife as it happens) are not welcome here....
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · Sep 9
Driving past here on the way from my home to the Lake District (up the M6) was a part of my childhood!
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · Sep 9
"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."
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · Sep 9
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"
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · Sep 1
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...
Summer 2025 is the warmest on record for the UK
Provisional Met Office statistics confirm that summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · Aug 26
Provisional statistics from the Met Office show that summer 2025 will ‘almost certainly’ be the warmest summer on record for the UK.

It would move 2018 off the top spot and relegate 1976 out of the top five warmest summer in a series which dates back to 1884.
👉 www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
Photograph of bright sun in a clear blue sky with clouds at the bottom. Text reads: 'Met Office NEWS RELEASE 26 August 2025 – This summer will ‘almost certainly’ be warmest on record for the UK.'
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · Aug 16
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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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · Aug 16
Noticed the sky isn't as blue today?

Smoke from wildfires in Spain & Portugal, plus Saharan dust, has drifted over the UK

Expect enhanced sunsets & sunrises in the coming days — deeper reds & oranges thanks to light scattering 🔥🌄
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · Aug 16
Noticed the sky isn't as blue today?

Smoke from wildfires in Spain & Portugal, plus Saharan dust, has drifted over the UK

Expect enhanced sunsets & sunrises in the coming days — deeper reds & oranges thanks to light scattering 🔥🌄
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Aug 14
NEW – 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

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Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · Aug 13
The 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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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · Aug 13
general audience aimed at people from an academic background wanting to find a place for creativity in their writing. So as I'm starting to plan the session I'm thinking back to my English teacher and the opportunity he gave me all those years ago. www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
Masterclass: from Academic to General Non-Fiction | Writing that connects | Arvon
If you have an academic background, how do you find a place for creativity in your writing? Academics often capture fascinating stories in their research and archival work, but they don’t necessarily ...
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · Aug 13
well and truly in. But maybe the luckiest thing of all was that I had Mr TB Johnson as my English teacher as he encouraged me to take creative writing seriously and to have fun with it as well. Next month I'll be tutoring an @arvonfoundation.bsky.social masterclass on writing non-fiction for a
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · Aug 13
and founder of Miss World, and Billy Butlin of Butlin's Holiday camps, hence it was that I travelled to Bermuda with a load of serious bingo players so it was quite funny that on the final night party - with bingo obviously - I got to win the first line at my first ever bingo session. So my luck was
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · Aug 13
however, just before we were due to sail, there was a fire on the QE2 which meant we never made it to New York but instead flew directly to Bermuda on a Jumbo Jet that was mainly full of lucky winners at Bingo at Mecca Ballrooms. The essay competition had been sponsored by Eric Morley, boss of Mecca
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · Aug 13
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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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · Aug 13
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,
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · Aug 13
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
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