Biff Vernon

First global heating related extreme weather event of 2025 comes from Manchester.

For the first time ever all the producers of operational surface temperature products will coordinate their 2024 releases on Jan 10.

This includes NASA, NOAA, Hadley Centre/CRU, Berkeley Earth and Copernicus (ECMWF).

Congratulations to Prof. Phil Jones (UEA) for receiving an OBE for services to climatology!

Well deserved and long overdue recognition for his efforts over many decades to collate and analyse observational records of climatic changes.

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Global mean surface temperature anomalies for each year from 1891 to 2024. There is interannual variability and a long-term warming trend. 5-year running means and a long-term linear trend line are also shown (0.77°C per century).

🚨 The first preliminary analysis from the Japan Meteorological Agency highlights 2024 as the warmest year on record globally (since at least 1891 in this data).

Additional climate rankings will be released on 1/10/2025 for other datasets.

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It's all very well people saying nice things about Jimmy Carter now, but shame they didn't listen and act accordingly at the time.

small hours big time can't sleep / you know there are moons out there you pull focus / try to zoom those trees get in the way - you can't sleep

30/12/24 - nocturn

We don’t talk enough about the importance of standard components in a greener economy. Engineers always say “but *our* design for battery/connector/module is 2% better than a standard one”, missing the point that it’s far worse for repair, reuse, recycling & minimising extra “stuff”. It’s maddening.

Defra scraps England deadline to register thousands of miles of rights of way Campaigners jubilant after government heeded warning 2031 cutoff would mean loss of precious footpaths

Excellent to see Labour getting rid of the arbitrary deadline to register all historic rights of way.

Landowning lobbyists had got the Tories to put in a deadline of 2031 to register 49,000 miles of lost paths.

Next step: a right of responsible access, please!

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How do they know to grow upwards?

30 million pilgrims walking to Rome would be quite a thing. 30 million folk flying there is not going to be so good. #Jubilee

How Atlantic circulation will respond to warming has been an active topic of study for many decades.

Each new individual study should be taken within the larger context of that field. That’s why I follow @rahmstorf.bsky.social and I recommend his latest talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm_Y...

Carole Cadwalladr leaves the Observer following Tortoise Media buyout Pulitzer finalist Carole Cadwalladr has confirmed that she will be leaving the Observer after 19 years following Tortoise sale.

"We have just lost a liberal independent newspaper", Cadwalladr said.
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Whoever controls production, and the surplus we produce, determines the shape and direction of our civilisation. If we do not have democratic control over our surplus then we can hardly say we live in a democracy.

This Natural Life - Delia Smith - BBC Sounds Martha Kearney meets much-loved cook Delia Smith to learn about her love of nature.

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This is a person who Kemi Badenoch thinks should sit in the House of Lords.

The tweets start in 2009 - Young was 45 at the time.

Appalling misogyny, casual homophobia... the lot

UK to ban bee-killing pesticides but highly toxic type could still be allowed Ministers set out plans for outlawing neonicotinoids but considering application by farmers to use Cruiser SB

Just ban the effing things you idiots - all of them, all the time

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"I don't care if its tainted money" Lincs debates nuclear waste dump. Local Authorities now entirely suborned

Climate change intensified the series of five typhoons and a tropical storm that impacted the Philippines over 23 days in October and November.

Our study found that a greater number of typhoons landfalling in the country are reaching Category 3-5 levels as fossil fuel emissions heat the climate.

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How to take back control of COP from the world's biggest polluters From scrutinising participants to tightening up the rules on which countries can host them, there are ways to clean up a COP from polluters

From scrutinising participants in UN climate summits more closely to tightening up the rules on which countries can host them and the deals they do, there are ways to clean up COPs
www.climatechangenews.com/2024/12/18/h...

Dungeness: 'Long journey ahead' for nuclear plant clean-up The turbines at the Dungeness B nuclear power station have been idle since 2018.

SEVEN HUNDRED PEOPLE still "working" in UK nuclear power station,7yrs after it CLOSED!
Insane immorality of nuclear power.
Dumping cost of toxic waste from 30yrs of electricity,on all future generations.
Just like carbon pollution.
We need renewables,storage,efficiency.
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dark out / candle on Breakfast for sons x 4 ( butterscotch porridge ) Eno on - airport / On Land have you got your P.E. kit? blowing the gulls out there coats on etc - time for school

18/12/24

Such pleasure to work with Amnesty for #InternationalMigrantsDay to share this simple, but too often silenced message:

How we treat people matters.
It always will.

Please share :)👇

The Church of England and its tolerance for abusers is a disgrace.
And these bishops who put the safety of children last, well behind their concern for the Church's reputation and fell feeling for their abusing colleagues, should absolutely not be in the House of Lords.

UK inland bathing sites polluted with ‘perfect storm’ of chemical cocktails A new study reveals UK rivers are polluted with harmful chemicals and antibiotic resistance genes, endangering health and ecosystems

Disgusting. A new University of York study has found that sites popular with swimmers around the UK to be suffering from pollution with bacteria and chemicals alongside resistance genes that could limit the effectiveness of modern medicine.

If? When.

"People who care about the future will cherish this smart volume, which will turn them into far more effective advocates; it is a genuine gift to the world."' -Bill McKibben, Author of The End of Nature

The UK edition of THE LANGUAGE OF CLIMATE POLITICS is out on Thursday!

@amywestervelt.bsky.social: "This is one of the best explanations...of how the heck the climate crisis has gone unchecked for so long."

Publishers Weekly: "A revelatory study" (starred review).

Bill McKibben👇

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YouTube video by Another Europe is Possible Georgia Uprising - Updates from the ground

Given the magnitude of what has been happening in Georgia it's amazing how little we hear of it.

Today Alex Skrivener provided analysis & explanation of the immense protest movement over an apparently stolen election & the fight between the EU & Putin's imperialism www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GWx...

Just an observation: If the ruling political party were taken over by our worst foreign enemy and weaponized to destroy our nation from within, this is exactly that that would look like:

From the US to Uganda, how climate activism has been criminalised in 2024 In this week’s Down To Earth newsletter: The global crackdown against climate activists and groups is clearly part of the fossil fuel industry’s strategy to crush dissent and keep burning the planet • Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign…

From the US to Uganda, how climate activism has been criminalised in 2024

Red diesel? Farmers don't like paying taxes.