Prof Richard Betts
@richardabetts · Devon, UK · joined 01 Jan 2010
Climate scientist, University of Exeter & Met Office. IPCC lead author, Expert Advisor to Climate Change Committee. @richardabetts.bsky. social
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Very pleased to be working with the Climate Change Committee @theCCCuk as an Expert Advisor
I'm advising the CCC's Adaptation Committee on the preparation of the 4th UK Climate Change Risk Assessment https://t.co/IywD5kGM6Z
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The Adaptation Committee has three new members. They will cover infrastructure, farming and health. They will support our work on assessing progress and advising the Government on the risks of climate change. https://t.co/MqS5weambq
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Valencia:
"heavy 1-day rainfall events, as intense as the one observed, are about 12% more intense and about twice as likely in today’s climate, that is 1.3°C warmer than it would have been in the cooler preindustrial climate without human-caused warming"
https://t.co/KWOQAZoOuP
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Ed Hawkins is at the University of Reading
Taylor Swift is from West Reading*
Is this really just a coincidence??!!! 🧐
*Pennsylvania
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Very pleased to have written the chapter on climate change impacts and the need for adaptation in the Parliamentarian's Guide to Climate Change, being launched in the House of Lords today
https://t.co/jcJNtCJsSQ
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Latest #QuickCOP update on @richardabetts’s proposal for a new measure of global warming, which is attracting a lot of attention here at #Cop28 https://t.co/cT729f271i
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1:09
@Nature Open access link https://t.co/TT7c2WWKSt
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@richardabetts @Nature Interesting.
We are already crossing some milestones..
https://t.co/zQwi1hgNow
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As the paper shows, estimates of (present and) future aerosols are important in the assessment of when (already?) we reach 1.5°C!
To be sure:
"the first year with a global temperature anomaly above 1.5°C in one or more data sets" will likely be 2023.
In @RARohde's @BerkeleyEarth
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Approaching 1.5°C: how will we know we’ve reached this crucial warming mark?
The Paris Agreement does not define "temperature rise", so recognition of 1.5°C being reached may be delayed
In @nature we propose the Current Global Warming Level metric
https://t.co/3XLf3cNTS9
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
88.1K1 Dec
37.2K
707
2.1K
3.7K2 Dec
2.1K
2.1K16 Oct
1.1K28 Oct
1.7K5 Nov
7.6K7 Nov
3.7K
Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.47%1 Dec
0.14%
0.85%
0.87%
0.80%2 Dec
0.33%
2.77%16 Oct
0.76%28 Oct
0.99%5 Nov
0.34%7 Nov
1.15%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.
What the audience does
Likes54.4%402 in total
Reposts20.7%153 in total
Replies13.0%96 in total
Quotes3.4%25 in total
Bookmarks8.5%63 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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