Yeah, makes sense - I have felt slightly more suggestable today....
11.07.2025 08:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yeah, makes sense - I have felt slightly more suggestable today....
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How slashing university research grants impacts Colorado’s economy and national innovation – a CU Boulder administrator explains
theconversation.com/how-slashing...
A circumzenithal arc? Anyway, nice clear skies on the Costa del Morecambe, but bracing for some “this is not normal, the world is on fire” weather this weekend
10.07.2025 18:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
If you're as concerned as me about the pace and scale of proposed staff cuts and department closures at UK universities, this piece arguing for a new regulatory framework is worth a read 👇
isrf.org/blog/a-new-r...
Updated Climate Visuals
(1) Warming stripes for atmosphere and ocean
(2) Climate indicators (adding land humidity for 2024)
(3) UK climate indicators (adding some 2024 data)
ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Map showing hot much warmer than usual it is right now
Coming soon: a website showing exactly how much warmer or cooler than usual the UK is right now.
If you live in the north-west of England it is currently a lot warmer than usual for the time of year and time of day.
Great to have extended the climate stripes up and down and to have documented their genesis!
Interested the stratosphere signal? See Box 5-1 of the 2018 WMO Ozone Assessment:
👉🏼 csl.noaa.gov/assessments/...
Thanks to NCAR's Bill Randel & John Starr for the extended stratospheric temperature data.
Just heard that staff are being told this morning that EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) will be completely shut down by the end of April.... because who needs research or development on environmental issues?
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In this article @lindenashcroft.bsky.social and I look at the latest WMO report on the climate in 2024. In a nutshell- the climate is moving further away from its pre-industrial state because of our greenhouse gas emissions. We need to get to net zero ASAP theconversation.com/flooding-in-...
19.03.2025 03:11 — 👍 25 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
With everything going on (*waves hands*), I've found this diagnosis from George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison a good read:
www.penguin.co.uk/books/455534...
You can hear George being interviewed on the Disorder podcast too:
open.spotify.com/episode/3lUM...
From @guardian-climate.bsky.social: The Trump administration is stripping away support for scientific research in the US and overseas that contains a word it finds particularly inconvenient: “climate.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
21.02.2025 15:09 — 👍 46 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 5Have also heard of US friends removing anything climate-related from email signatures etc. if they have fed clients :-(
13.02.2025 17:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Probably could sell but would not likely cover the cost of replacing and reinstalling!
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Option 2 seems attractive. However, the scary array of cabling, controls, and wired plates makes me think it's a job for someone with money for an entire home re-wiring.
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3/3
One blind now doesn't work. For repair, call out fee and first hour is ~£130+VAT.
Which option?
1) It's probably rare (first time in ~4 years) and it's easier to suck up the cost.
2) Beware sunk cost fallacy. It's going to always cause problems and we should go back to a "dumb" system.
2/3
It's only taken me about, ooh, five years to sort... but here we have it, a workshop for early career women in sustainability!
Come along and/or tell your friends. Brilliant speakers, great chance to meet some amazing people.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/she-is-susta...
🚨 New competitively funded PhD opportunity! 🚨
Applications are open for a 3 year funded PhD on indoor air quality, behaviour change and health.
🔬 Find out more here: www.stir.ac.uk/research/res...
#airquality #airpollution #behaviourchange
See also this thread for a link to Lucy Easthope's book:
bsky.app/profile/ruth...
Interested in the history, practice, and sociology of risk?
Lucy Easthope's "At your peril" series for the BBC is well worth a listen, especially at only 5 x 15 mins!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
See also this though 👇🏼
bsky.app/profile/mich...
"Global warming has accelerated: Are the United Nations and public well informed?"
New from from Jim Hansen et al, covering sci, policy, justice, and railing against GCM underestimates of change.
If you're in climate, I expect you'll be asked about it!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What's the energy mix for the UK's power right now? Last week? Last month? Since 2012?
Perhaps, like me, you're late to the party on these excellent visuals and resources from software dev Kate Morley:
grid.iamkate.com
The impact of #stormEowyn in Morecambe, NW England 😱
Pic is from my son who is on a work placement in a light industrial estate.
The jet stream that helped dump a foot of snow on the Gulf Coast is now accelerating over the Atlantic, helping fuel the strongest storm on record over Ireland with 100 mph gusts and 50 ft waves! It is so strong NOAA sent a hurricane hunter to Ireland to collect data!
#Eowyn
CA Wildfires: GallagerRe have completed an "event response", giving an overview and insurance angle regarding these horrific events.
For those unfamiliar, event response reports are often produced by the industry during/just after events with big $$ losses.
🔗 www.linkedin.com/posts/gallag...
Interested in how we can get academia/industry collaborations working?
I'll be drawing on experiences at JBA and my old academic life at this workshop in Reading tomorrow, while also learning from others.
If you're there too, let's introduce ourselves.
www.rmets.org/event/advanc...
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)
Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.
NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold.
We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940.
2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.
In 2024, all four domains (NH land, NH ocean, SH land, SH ocean) had their warmest annual temperatures on record.
(Based on the CRUTEM and HadSST datasets that go into HadCRUT)
😸😸 Is there a logo competition already!?
C(h)atGPT has this effort...
