Rasmus E. Benestad

Rasmus E. Benestad

@brasmus.bsky.social

Climate scientist, physicist, statistics nerd, and code developer. Contributor to RealClimate.org and leader of Tekna Klima. Working for the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson
@climatecasino.net

Breaking News! Code: y-Axis Alert! Yesterday's Nino 3.4 preliminary sea-surface temperature anomaly set a new record high, at 3.48°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. To clearly show this anomaly, the y-axis max was raised to 4.0°C. Attention historians: this is gobsmackingly bananas.

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Zack Labe
@zacklabe.com

El Niño is everywhere in the headlines, but ultimately human-caused climate change is the key reason for the record global warmth. 📈 Curious about how these two climate stories relate? Learn more in our latest report: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

Rasmus E. Benestad
@brasmus.bsky.social

I think I see some contours of what may be fossil forces behind recent conflicts. Its industry is desperate because climate change is an existential question for them. What better then, is it to support Putin, Grump and disinformation campaigns? There is a track record on Merchants of doubt.

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comIn U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project EmergesInterviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.

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Eric Lipton NYT
@ericlipton.nytimes.com

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comIn U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project EmergesInterviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.

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Jeff Berardelli
@weatherprof.bsky.social

‼️ New: 50,000 Killed in #Europe’s worst summer #heatwaves on record! Two new peer-reviewed studies find: “Climate-driven impact: About 50,000 excess heat deaths are estimated to have occurred in 854 #European urban areas during summer 2026…

Rasmus E. Benestad
@brasmus.bsky.social

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iris.who.intGender, climate change and health: pathways to action in the Western Pacific RegionClimate change is a public health crisis with deeply gendered consequences. Across the WHO Western Pacific Region, rising temperatures, extreme weather events, food and water insecurity, displacement and environmental degradation are affecting health in ways that intersect with existing gender inequalities, creating disproportionate risks for women and girls while also shaping the health and well-being of men and boys.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson
@climatecasino.net

The latest update to region Nino 3.4 sea surface temperatures is not only a new record daily High, but also a new record anomaly, now 3.46 C above the 1991 to 2020 Baseline.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson
@climatecasino.net

There's excitement in the air! It now looks like the 4-year anomaly will break 1.50°C long before the date the Climate Casino previously gave of November 17th and could possibly break 1.50°C by the end of October! Winning!

Rasmus E. Benestad
@brasmus.bsky.social

This also shows that Europe is still quite important and EU has a great deal of soft power. That's the good side of this.

Rasmus E. Benestad@brasmus.bsky.social

I think that it's the people sitting in the board rooms of these companies that are the biggest problem, allowing for anti-environmental lobbying and anti-science campaigns. In other words, greed, ignorance and lack of responsibility for our planet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.comUS corporate lobbyists mounted ‘blitz’ to dilute landmark EU deforestation law, report findsEnvironmental watchdog Mighty Earth reveals two-year effort to postpone and weaken EU Deforestation Regulation
Rasmus E. Benestad
@brasmus.bsky.social

I think that it's the people sitting in the board rooms of these companies that are the biggest problem, allowing for anti-environmental lobbying and anti-science campaigns. In other words, greed, ignorance and lack of responsibility for our planet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.comUS corporate lobbyists mounted ‘blitz’ to dilute landmark EU deforestation law, report findsEnvironmental watchdog Mighty Earth reveals two-year effort to postpone and weaken EU Deforestation Regulation

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson
@climatecasino.net

The pre-industrial 1850-1900 baseline had 15.5°C as the average annual global maximum temperature. Times have changed. So far this year the planet has seen 160 days above 15.5°C, currently in a tie with 2024 for the most such days, followed by 2023 with 154 and 2025 with 152.

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Jeff Berardelli
@weatherprof.bsky.social

ECMWF had to change the color scheme to capture this El Niño.

Sam Burgess@oceanterra.org

Many versions of the current El Niño intensity have been shared… we’ve had to change the colour scale to appropriately show the strength of the anomaly.

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Jeff Berardelli
@weatherprof.bsky.social

El Niño Guides #Isaias & #Rachel to Landfall! It’s only October, but #ElNino is already in charge, influencing the Global pattern, interacting with #Hurricane Isaias and Cyclone Rachel. Heat from the Tropical Pacific is displacing & powering a VERY early season subtropical jet stream, impacting both

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson
@climatecasino.net

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 8, 2026 ~ Moloch! "A natural rainforest shouldn’t burn. It’s too wet. So even the fact that we create and see these fires that spread into the Amazon is already some kind of tipping point." insideclimatenews.org/news/0710202...

insideclimatenews.orgCompounding Climate Impacts Drive Tropical Forest Decline - Inside Climate NewsExtreme heat, drought and ozone from fire emissions are devastating the Amazon and other rainforests, new research shows.

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Jeff Berardelli
@weatherprof.bsky.social

EXTREMELY RARE: Tropical Storm Rachel threatens Southern California this weekend! While all eyes are on #Isaias, will there be a #California Hurricane? Not quite! This weekend Tropical Storm #Rachel will likely make a direct hit on #SoCal and the Desert SW. Thanks, El Niño!

Rasmus E. Benestad
@brasmus.bsky.social

Can we say that playwright Ibsen's Public Enemy lives on in a different shape? Money and shortsightedness rule.

Rasmus E. Benestad@brasmus.bsky.social

Norway in the headlines again: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.comThis is one of Norway’s most pristine fjords. So why is it being used as a dumping site for mine waste?The Norwegian government has given a permit to a mining company to release waste into Førde fjord despite a 17-year battle by campaigners and a supreme court ruling against it

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Zack Labe
@zacklabe.com

Well, actual sea surface temperatures have now passed 30°C (86°F) in the key Niño 3.4 monitoring region for the first time in this data record... 😱 Sign up for next week's state of the climate briefing: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi.... Bring your questions, like on this historic El Niño!