Krishna AchutaRao
@makrishna.bsky.social
Climate scientist, father.
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$170,000 a minute: Why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
The desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by me
1/7
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The desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by me
1/7
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
$170,000 a minute: Why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
The desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by me
1/7
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by me
1/7
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
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Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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November 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
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Interesting data highlighted by the Hindu on attitudes to climate change.
November 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Interesting data highlighted by the Hindu on attitudes to climate change.
“I wish we could ignore Bill Gates. Unfortunately his economic and political power makes that impossible. But unlike him, we can recognise that this power exists and, when it speaks, it does so on its own behalf.”
We should vote only for those who promise to make billionaires history.
We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.
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We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.
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I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
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November 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“I wish we could ignore Bill Gates. Unfortunately his economic and political power makes that impossible. But unlike him, we can recognise that this power exists and, when it speaks, it does so on its own behalf.”
A must read for all who are interested in event attribution!
So, I hate to be this guy, but as the director of Yale’s new program on attribution science (!?), uh, most of the commentary on Bluesky about Hurricane Melissa and climate change has been… not quite right
October 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM
A must read for all who are interested in event attribution!
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Rapid attribution study by @climameter.bsky.social @davifaranda.bsky.social of hurricane #melissa
More at climameter.org
More at climameter.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Rapid attribution study by @climameter.bsky.social @davifaranda.bsky.social of hurricane #melissa
More at climameter.org
More at climameter.org
To seed or not to seed?
Here’s a piece Shahzad Gani @shahzadgani.bsky.social and I wrote for The Hindu newspaper.
Here’s a piece Shahzad Gani @shahzadgani.bsky.social and I wrote for The Hindu newspaper.
October 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
To seed or not to seed?
Here’s a piece Shahzad Gani @shahzadgani.bsky.social and I wrote for The Hindu newspaper.
Here’s a piece Shahzad Gani @shahzadgani.bsky.social and I wrote for The Hindu newspaper.
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Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out.
Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.
Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.
DOEresponseSite
On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding. In response, over 85 scientists have come together to write a comprehensive review, which is
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September 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out.
Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.
Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.
New Orleans has been on my mind these last couple of days- more than usual. Hurricane Katrina was 20 years ago and the city that I still consider my spiritual home had been devastated.
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Hurricane Katrina in photos, 20 years after the "slow-motion catastrophe"
While Hurricane Katrina's toll didn't become clear for days, the storm ultimately led to nearly 1,400 deaths, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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August 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
New Orleans has been on my mind these last couple of days- more than usual. Hurricane Katrina was 20 years ago and the city that I still consider my spiritual home had been devastated.
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Heavy monsoon rains have led to more than 300 deaths in Pakistan since late June. Climate change increased the downpours by about 15% 📈
Our latest study, focusing on the hardest-hit north of the country, was published this morning 🧵
Our latest study, focusing on the hardest-hit north of the country, was published this morning 🧵
August 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Heavy monsoon rains have led to more than 300 deaths in Pakistan since late June. Climate change increased the downpours by about 15% 📈
Our latest study, focusing on the hardest-hit north of the country, was published this morning 🧵
Our latest study, focusing on the hardest-hit north of the country, was published this morning 🧵
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright says Trump admin is altering previous National Climate Assessments. These were produced by hundreds of climate scientists and mandated by Congress. (1/2)
August 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Energy Secretary Chris Wright says Trump admin is altering previous National Climate Assessments. These were produced by hundreds of climate scientists and mandated by Congress. (1/2)
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Surprise!
- Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot Has Started Reciting Climate Denial Talking Points
www.scientificamerican.com/article/elon...
- Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot Has Started Reciting Climate Denial Talking Points
www.scientificamerican.com/article/elon...
Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot Has Started Reciting Climate Denial Talking Points
The latest version of Grok, the chatbot created by Elon Musk’s xAI, is promoting fringe climate viewpoints in a way it hasn’t done before, observers say
www.scientificamerican.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Surprise!
- Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot Has Started Reciting Climate Denial Talking Points
www.scientificamerican.com/article/elon...
- Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot Has Started Reciting Climate Denial Talking Points
www.scientificamerican.com/article/elon...
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📣 ANNOUNCEMENT!!
WCRP endorses CMIP 7 scenarios proposed by ScenarioMIP as part of the @wcrp-cmip.org Project suite of experiments, featuring 6 future climate scenarios.
🔗 Read and download the endorsement here: loom.ly/zS29hMU
#ClimateChange #ClimateAction
WCRP endorses CMIP 7 scenarios proposed by ScenarioMIP as part of the @wcrp-cmip.org Project suite of experiments, featuring 6 future climate scenarios.
🔗 Read and download the endorsement here: loom.ly/zS29hMU
#ClimateChange #ClimateAction
Joint Endorsement Statement on the Process and Proposed Scenarios for CMIP7
WCRP Joint Scientific Committee (JSC) has formally endorsed the process and scenarios proposed by ScenarioMIP as part of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) suite of experiments. Click he...
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February 20, 2025 at 8:03 AM
📣 ANNOUNCEMENT!!
WCRP endorses CMIP 7 scenarios proposed by ScenarioMIP as part of the @wcrp-cmip.org Project suite of experiments, featuring 6 future climate scenarios.
🔗 Read and download the endorsement here: loom.ly/zS29hMU
#ClimateChange #ClimateAction
WCRP endorses CMIP 7 scenarios proposed by ScenarioMIP as part of the @wcrp-cmip.org Project suite of experiments, featuring 6 future climate scenarios.
🔗 Read and download the endorsement here: loom.ly/zS29hMU
#ClimateChange #ClimateAction
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Not that we really need more ways to show how unusually warm 2024 was...
Here's the joyplot updated with the past year.
Here's the joyplot updated with the past year.
January 15, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Not that we really need more ways to show how unusually warm 2024 was...
Here's the joyplot updated with the past year.
Here's the joyplot updated with the past year.
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New on The Climate Brink: Los Angeles is 🔥, what you should know
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Los Angeles burns: What you need to know
This is terrible. This is climate change.
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January 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
New on The Climate Brink: Los Angeles is 🔥, what you should know
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With all the news about the latest data showing that temperatures in 2024 were 1.6°C warmer than pre-industrial levels, many have asked what this means for the 1.5°C of the UN Paris Agreement.
A short 🧵that aims to distinguish the signal from the noise (1)
A short 🧵that aims to distinguish the signal from the noise (1)
January 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
With all the news about the latest data showing that temperatures in 2024 were 1.6°C warmer than pre-industrial levels, many have asked what this means for the 1.5°C of the UN Paris Agreement.
A short 🧵that aims to distinguish the signal from the noise (1)
A short 🧵that aims to distinguish the signal from the noise (1)
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How extreme was the weather this year? Is a question we, @wwattribution.bsky.social , get asked every year. Looking back at the events we studied in detail & some new stats, we try to give an answer www.worldweatherattribution.org/when-risks-b... - in short: it was pretty bad, but things can change!
December 27, 2024 at 12:41 PM
How extreme was the weather this year? Is a question we, @wwattribution.bsky.social , get asked every year. Looking back at the events we studied in detail & some new stats, we try to give an answer www.worldweatherattribution.org/when-risks-b... - in short: it was pretty bad, but things can change!
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A visual illustration of the case for geological net zero.
November 23, 2024 at 11:14 AM
A visual illustration of the case for geological net zero.
An important piece by my colleague Shahzad Gani.
November 21, 2024 at 3:48 AM
An important piece by my colleague Shahzad Gani.
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Redrawing the global warming stripes.
In a new paper led by Sebastian Sippel published in Nature today, we show that the early 20th century global ocean surface temperatures and thereby global mean surface temperature were warmer than previously thought.
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In a new paper led by Sebastian Sippel published in Nature today, we show that the early 20th century global ocean surface temperatures and thereby global mean surface temperature were warmer than previously thought.
Thread... (1/13)
November 20, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Redrawing the global warming stripes.
In a new paper led by Sebastian Sippel published in Nature today, we show that the early 20th century global ocean surface temperatures and thereby global mean surface temperature were warmer than previously thought.
Thread... (1/13)
In a new paper led by Sebastian Sippel published in Nature today, we show that the early 20th century global ocean surface temperatures and thereby global mean surface temperature were warmer than previously thought.
Thread... (1/13)
“You shouldn’t ask scientists how to galvanize the world because clearly we don’t have a fucking clue” - Gavin Schmidt
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World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say
Scientists say goal to keep world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is not going to happen despite talks at Cop29 in Baku
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:06 PM
“You shouldn’t ask scientists how to galvanize the world because clearly we don’t have a fucking clue” - Gavin Schmidt
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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At least 24 previously impossible heatwaves have struck communities across the planet, a new assessment has shown, providing stark evidence of how severely human-caused global heating is supercharging extreme weather www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal
Exclusive: Analyses are stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity
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November 18, 2024 at 7:14 AM
At least 24 previously impossible heatwaves have struck communities across the planet, a new assessment has shown, providing stark evidence of how severely human-caused global heating is supercharging extreme weather www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 19, 2024 at 7:06 PM