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Reto Knutti

H-index: 99
Environmental science 51%
Geography 16%
"What used to be basically impossible 20 years ago has become almost mainstream these days". Watch Climate Extremes: Extreme Weather to learn about climate change and extreme weather from leading scientists such as @retoknutti.bsky.social! youtube.com/watch?v=X6VC...
#extremeweather #climatechange

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What are the mechanisms that generate precipitation? What is the relationship between extreme weather events and climate change? Watch Climate Extremes: Extreme Weather to learn from leading scientists such as @retoknutti.bsky.social! youtube.com/watch?v=X6VC... #extremeweather #climatechange

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The doubling of the rate of global heating in recent decades has surprised the scientific community so needs to be better understood yet our capability to measure Earth's energy imbalance is at risk: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
Time series showing growing Earth energy imbalance (greater heating) this century Earth's energy imbalance needs to decline to stabilise global temperatures but it is growing

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Next Tuesday evening, we are delighted to have one of the most remarkable and inspiring scientists as our guest. If you've never heard Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social (Harvard University) in person, this is your chance at ETH Zürich as part of the SPEED2ZERO Perspective series.
The US brain drain.
Cutting science, innovation and education is an incredibly short-sighted strategy. The loss in competitiveness, innovation, leadership and economic value to society is large, long-lasting and almost certainly exceeds the short-term savings by far.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: a Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drain
A trawl of job views and application data suggests jobseekers are looking abroad as the Trump administration’s cuts to science take hold.
www.nature.com
What a project! A group students talking to climate scientists. It was a pleasure to be part of this and share my views on climate and the role of scientific information in society.

Open access.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Conversations on Climate: The People Behind the Science
This is an open access book which presents interviews with high-profile climate scientists about state-of-the-art research questions
link.springer.com

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Powerful words from the American Geophysical Union.

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Stand Up for Science protests are happening Friday, March 7th in over 30 US cities.
standupforscience2025.org
We've computed high-resolution extinction risk maps for aquatic & terrestrial species across Switzerland.

🌍🔬 They highlight the importance of each pixel for conserving species richness at the national scale.

🏞️🐟 #SPEED2ZERO #Biodiversity #Conservation
When facts are inconvenient or don't matter any more, we can simply get rid of science.

The US shows what can happen if you weaken the public's understanding and relevance of science, technology and innovation.

www.science.org/content/arti...
‘My boss was crying.’ NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts
Trump could propose slashing agency’s budget by two-thirds
www.science.org

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Wissenschaftsjournalismus bei SRF stärken – Petition jetzt unterschreiben und teilen! 🙏

www.openpetition.eu/ch/petition/...

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Offener Brief aus der Wissenschaft: lesen, unterschreiben, und teilen!

Denn Wissenschaftsjournalismus ist
👉 wichtig für den Forschungs- Bildungsstandort Schweiz
👉 Kernaufgabe des Service Public
👉 notwendig für eine funktionierende direktdemokratischen Schweiz

www.openpetition.eu/ch/petition/...
Engagieren Sie sich weiter!
Offener Brief aus der Wissenschaft an SRF Sehr geehrte Direktion der SRG, sehr geehrte Geschäftsleitung von SRF, sehr geehrte Medien- und Wissenschaftspolitiker:innen Mit grosser Besorgnis haben wir z...
www.openpetition.eu
📺 📻 🗞️ Petition: SRF Wissensjournalismus stärken!

Innovation, KI, Medizin, Klima, Energie... In einer immer komplexeren Welt mit mehr Fakenews ist eine starke SRF Wissenschaftsredaktion unverzichtbar.

Offener Brief aus der Wissenschaft unterschreiben und teilen!

openpetition.eu/!sciencejour...
Fakten statt Falschinformationen: Für einen starken Wissenschaftsjournalismus! - Online-Petition
Offener Brief aus der Wissenschaft an SRF Sehr geehrte Direktion der SRG, sehr geehrte Geschäftsleitung von SRF, sehr geehrte Medien- und Wissenschaftspolitiker:innen Mit grosser Besorgnis haben wir z...
openpetition.eu

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In 2018, @blkahn.bsky.social said that the warming stripes graphic 'belongs in a damn museum', even suggesting that it was 'fit for the Museum of Modern Art' (see gizmodo.com/this-climate...).

Well...

Later this month, they will appear in the Museum of Modern Art: press.moma.org/exhibition/p...
This Climate Visualization Belongs in a Damn Museum
Essentially all inhabited places on the planet were warmer in 2024 than the recent baseline. Most of the ocean area too.

About 1/3 of the planet experienced record high temperatures.

We know why.

And we know how to fix it.

@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

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