We need to do 3 things about climate change:

1) Mitigate - reduce emissions

2) Adapt - to changes that have already occurred, those we are committed to, and those we choose to occur because we don’t mitigate enough

3) Suffer - because we don’t do enough to mitigate or adapt

💧 Wondering why it's been really rainy where you are?

April 2024 was the moistest April on record for the planet, continuing a run of record-moist months that dates back to last year.

62% of Earth had above normal moisture content during the month, which is being strongly

Climate experts were increasingly saying that keeping heating below 1.5C is near impossible, yet it remains the global goal. So I asked hundreds of top IPCC scientists what they thought. What they said shocked even me…
🧵 1/n #ClimateCrisis

Today, we are formally launching the CoCentre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water.

This CoCentre involves 60+ researchers exploring solutions for climate, biodiversity & water issues on islands of Ireland & GB.

Co-Directors: Yvonne Buckley & Mark Emmerson
Deputy Director: Ed Hawkins

A whole year of record breaking ocean temperatures.

This warmth has significant effects on ocean ecosystems. A large fraction of the world’s human population rely on protein from the ocean to live. Disruption to life in the ocean does affect us all.

bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

I am hugely honoured & delighted to receive the inaugural Geographical Engagement Award from Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).

The climate stripes are only a globally recognised symbol because of all those who have used the graphics to create such impactful visual representations all across the world.

Help climate scientists learn about how global lightning activity varies by transcribing measurements about atmospheric electricity taken at Lerwick on the Shetland Isles from the 1920s-1980s.

Anyone can help!

zooniverse.org/projects/hrips…

I am hugely honoured & delighted to receive the inaugural Geographical Engagement Award from Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).

The climate stripes are only a globally recognised symbol because of all those who have used the graphics to create such impactful visual representations all across the world.

Expedition Sea Level! A new time travel game about #SeaLevelRise , #glacier and #ice sheet melting

Play here --> protect-slr.eu/expedition-sea…

Created for our sea level project Protect-slr

NEW CHART: How British electricity supplies are shifting decisively away from fossil fuels

Super pleased with this very beautiful graphic, by my colleague Tom Pearson and reminiscent of Joy Division's iconic “Unknown Pleasures” album cover

carbonbrief.org/chart-how-brit…

In April, the UAH satellite series set a new record high.

Satellite temperature data sets aren't the same as surface data. They average the lowest several kilometers of the atmosphere, and often show large delayed spikes from El Niño, as is likely here.

It would have been powerful to see Guy Callendar stand up at the Royal Meteorological Society in 1938 to share his finding that the world was warming...due to human greenhouse gas emissions.
#MyScienceMay

If you get invited to review (yet another) paper, and can't do it, that's fine.

But please do decline rather than just delete the email.

And, if you can make suggestions for other reviewers it is much appreciated by volunteer Editors who have invited 20 people already.

We are a part of nature, not apart from nature.
-- Sir David King at #innovationzero

Back in October, we launched a #WeatherRescue project to transcribe surface pressure observations taken at the Oxford Radcliffe Observatory, starting in 1828.

We have now QCd the first batch of data: 3x daily observations for 1828-1854 and 12x daily observations for 1855-1857.

How do AI models compare vs NWP ones in simulating an intense windstorm such as #StormCiarán ? While impressively accurate in predicting deepening and evolution, they do struggle with frontal fracture and peak wind speeds, thus underestimating impacts
Reading Meteorology
National Centre for Atmospheric Science

Where does it rain?

Total rainfall in ERA5 for 1950-2023

Range: 69mm (Sahara) to 2km (Papua)

Deadly floods in hyper-arid Dubai & Oman made more intense by climate change, El Nino and rapid urbanisation - new World Weather Attribution study
worldweatherattribution.org/heavy-precipit…