Clair Barnes

@clairbarnes.bsky.social

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Stats/data nerd and researcher at www.worldweatherattribution.org. Mostly handmade. She/her.

Infographic showing 100 people. 42 of them are in a darker shade, representing the 42% of the heat-related excess deaths that are attributable to extra heat from human-caused climate change
A chart showing the seasonal cycle of daily maximum temperatures averaged over a large part of the western US (smoothed over a running 5-day mean). The average seasonal cycle from 1950-1979 (what we used to expect) is shown in blue, and the average from 1996-2025 (what we expect now) is in red. The red line is always above the blue line, and in March is several degrees higher. A black line shows the temperatures recorded this year, which reached more than ten degrees C above what we would expect in March, a level described by scientists as 'what the frickadoodles?' Image credit goes to @bennethclarke.bsky.social
Caption: South Korea's fires in March alone have more than tripled the previous record for annual burned area The figure shows a bar chart of the total burned area in South Korea for each of the last thirty years. Most of the bars are very small; the previous record of 26,000 hectares in 2000 is highlighted, as is the 25,000 hectares burned in 2022. Both of these are dwarfed by March 2025, when more than 100,000 hectares are reported to have burned.
GEOMAR students taking a well-earned break from working on their super-rapid attribution studies