#Helium The Future of Helium as a Natural Resource (eds. William J. Nuttall, Richard H. Clarke and Bartek A. Glowacki) www.routledge.com/The-Future-o... is still a go-to source if you want to know where helium comes from, how much helium gas is left, what helium is used for now and in the future...

#Helium is a vital high tech gas. Its importance is growing. Rising prices drive diversity of supply. Helium is a now global business. Much He is wasted e.g. in Algerian natural gas piped to Europe. Balloons (don't release!) are usually filled with transfill waste gas www.nature.com/articles/485...

#Helium since the US Helium Privatization Act 1996, there have been periods of helium supply glut / shortfall but, as we showed in this article, we not about to run out of helium any time soon. Indeed, the high helium prices have spurred helium 'pure play' mining www.researchgate.net/publication/...

#Helium has a vital role in advanced technologies ranging from #MRI medical imaging to #aerospace, #semiconductors, #quantumcomputing. Reflecting this, Grade-A 99.996% helium prices keep rising in line with our estimate. Ultra-pure liquid helium costs much more www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Helium If the Russian helium recovery facility at Amur (E. Siberia) is fully online by 2030, that may mark the point of #peakhelium production according the to Helium Resources research project 2005-2009; Z. Cai, W.J. Nuttall, R.H. Clarke, B.A. Glowacki, N. Ward www.researchgate.net/publication/...

#Helium 12 years ago I gave a keynote at Creon's Helium 2013 Moscow summit. I predicted by 2030 the centre of global helium production would be Eastern Siberia. Recent reports agree en.igascn.com/global/detai... In 1963, it was Texas Panhandle/Cliffside. Thanks to LNG, Qatar was the centre in 2015.

#LSEEvents launch of Pete Betts' #ClimateDiplomat. Lord Stern invites Fiona Betts up, as book editor Grace Pengelly, and former & current ministers Ed Davey, John Selwyn Gummer (Lord Deben) & Ed Miliband look on. A shared understanding of the science demands global action, an industrial revolution!

Last week these groups came to the 'Global Tipping Points' Conf, Exeter, UK. #AMOC #Amazon #foodsystems #GIS #WAIS #CoralReefs #mindsets these are the concerns of leading scientists www.carbonbrief.org/experts-whic... My poster "Economic Impacts of Acute Physical Risk Under a Prompt AMOC Collapse"

What a great idea!

Forecasts for tomorrow morning show that smoke from the prairie province fires will have already crossed the border -- affecting visibility across the north-central states and air quality closer to the border. Air quality in northern Saskatchewan remains terrible.

What's the chance the world will warm more than 3°C? An #EDHEC report indicates that #IPCC expert opinion (15%) lags the science (35-40%). This matters a lot. If IPCC scientists underestimate risk, it reduces our capacity to prepare for it. EDHEC lnkd.in/enhYHjNB The Guardian survey lnkd.in/e3SpBmcE

In Trump 1.0, Scott Pruitt, E.P.A Administrator (until forced to resign) imposed a non-sensical 7% discount rate on the #socialcostofcarbon, a tool used by planners and courts to assess the environmental damage from CO2. In Trump 2.0, they just killed the whole thing! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/c...

#Electricity is having a rough week! What with #Spain #Portugal & #TonyBlairInstitute. Here I’m on a train to London Paddington. Line overheating & power trip. Are we going backwards? Or is this a bump on the road to the future? Too many eggs in one basket? www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Very high tariffs are being imposed on some of the most economically and environmentally vulnerable countries. What did they do wrong? The parties involved, the suppliers, buyers and customers freely entered into contracts to trade. The US' problems stem from decades of bad policies by both parties.

People in Delta, Ohio, want "a level playing field"*. I get that. How do these vindictive, random tariffs, that cut in today, help achieve that? China (yellow), EU can fight back. But #Lesotho, #Cambodia, #Laos, #Madagascar & #Myanmar? These countries need supporting. * www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is it just a coincidence that atmospheric methane concentration started escalating around the time that US shale gas production took off? I don't think so... fugitive CH₄ emissions can make natural gas worse than coal! US Gov has removed fugitive emission controls: www.linkedin.com/posts/peters...

What decarbonisation tools remain in a hostile climate policy space? @profmarkmaslin.bsky.social and I explore the ways in which professional #engineers could use virtual carbon pricing as they build the new energy, transport and built environments we now need. journals.uclpress.co.uk/ucloe/news/72/

We have taken our Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS) into operations today to run side by side with our physics-based weather forecasts. The #AIFS outperforms traditional models for many measures, at a fraction of energy use. ➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med... #AI #MachineLearning

Using data through Feb. 23, 2025 and assuming warming is accelerating, the planet is now set to cross the 1.5°C line in mid-2026.

Cutting the UK's #overseasaid budget from 0.5% GDP to 0.3% is not what is needed - Sky News lnkd.in/eexizRTd Worsening #extremeweather means UK's share should now be 0.7% (the pre-Covid goal). Unless warming is limited to 2°C, the % of GDP needed increases. Nature Comment shows why lnkd.in/ewxFbKA5

This is a really good job for someone who might be a bit disenthraled with academia. A job that will really make a difference - we need a difference. climatelitigationnetwork.org/recruitment/

The UK produces 60% of its own food, 114% of its lamb and mutton, but only 16% of its fruit. There's huge scope to increase the amount of fruit and veg that we produce –– and in a way which is very land efficient, @tommlancaster.bsky.social tells @alexisconran.bsky.social. @eciu.net

Whiplash #hydroclimate #volatility is seen in acute physical risk / extreme weather modelling. Emerging in the 1980s, it is evident in oscillations: periods of excess rainfall HYD flooding, plant growth followed by periods of drought CLIM boosted wildfires www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/cl...

A factor behind the Los Angeles #firestorms: "Hydroclimate volatility refers to sudden, large and/or frequent transitions between very dry and very wet conditions. This review examines how #hydroclimate #volatility is anticipated to evolve with anthropogenic warming" www.nature.com/articles/s43...

What does climate change have to do with wildfires? Our latest research finds that the risk of wildfires is growing due to higher temperatures and more frequent and intense droughts linked to climate change. Explore the data: lancetcountdown.org/explore-our-...

Another shocking extreme weather disaster in the US. First responders can do little to contain these huge fire events until the wind drops, and water reserves in LA are running low...

As the UK freezes, it's challenging for #NHS and the #nationalgrid. My observations: Cobble stones are less slippy than tarmac. Gas may not be as sooty as coal but, when the wind drops, power prices surge. Frozen-over solar was just a blip today grid.iamkate.com We need long term #energystorage.

The plant #1trilliontrees by 2030 idea is not about sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere. Instead, " www.1t.org is part of the World Economic Forum’s efforts to accelerate nature-based solutions and was set up to support the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration" www.climateinteractive.org/blog/trillio...

"Climate change intensified 26 of the 29 extreme weather events studied by #WWA and had a stronger influence than #ElNiño on many high-impact weather events that were so damaging to lives, livelihoods and ecosystems." says Celeste Saulo, Sec-Gen, World Met. Org. www.worldweatherattribution.org

PhD opportunity at Bristol: "Machine Learning for Understanding Extreme Weather in a Changing Climate". Please share with potential applicants. Deadline is Jan 31 12:00. www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/co... www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar...

Twenty years ago, the Boxing Day #Tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean. In the aftermath, population trends changed in the severely hit coastal cities. For some, moving to an inland refuge may have been an option; for others it was too far, or there was no refuge #WUP www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's better to avoid emissions, either by using non-polluting energy sources (best) / using carbon capture and storage (2nd best). This article doesn't mention the huge amount of energy needed to recover CO2 from the atmosphere! Where's that power going to come from? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/c...

“We are now in an era of [climate] consequences. We are no longer talking about polar bears or green jobs. We are talking about a true economic punch in the face for regular Americans, with a prospect of a massive economic collapse in potentially very near future."

Great summary of why the world warmed up faster than expected. Is this a jump followed by a reversion to trend, or is it an emerging divergence from trend? By 2030, I estimate this will increase weather disaster losses by >US$30bn. We have already started to do #geoengineering intentionally or not.

There is also a huge potential for scale. We found that there is enough available land in the SW US alone that is close to roads and gas pipelines to build 1200 GW of offgrid solar microgrid datacenter capacity, far more than will be needed for the foreseeable future:

The rise of AI datacenters risks driving rapid emissions growth if not powered by clean energy. In a new report, we (Scale Microgrids, Paces, and Stripe) provide a detailed analysis of one promising solution: off-grid solar and storage. www.offgridai.us/

An important new study, out today, uses the latest physical & social science -- also meta-review machine-learning something something -- to reassess the social cost of carbon. TL;DR: it's $280/ton, way higher than EPA's $190. www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...

In small island states, only a small part of the flood risk comes from the sea. 19.5% of the population – about 8.5 million people – are exposed to once-in-100-year floods in the current situation, of which 81% is due to inland flooding. www.climatechangepost.com/news/in-smal...

COMING SOON | In 2023, the UK relied on fossil fuels for nearly 40% of its power⚡ 🗓️Tomorrow, we present the UK’s generation trends in 2024 and see how renewables fare against fossil fuels Until then, here’s our analysis of the UK’s coal phase-out: ember-energy.org/lat...

Convincing and clear about what we need to do about climate an the energy transition in the UK

The Seven Stages of climate denial: 1. It's not real 2. It's not us 3. It's not that bad 4. We have time 5. It's too expensive to fix 6. Here's a fake solution 7. It's too late: you should have warned us earlier Trolls use all of these stages to deny reality of #climatechange on Ex-Twitter 🤣

Why has there been a global temperature 'blip' since May 2023? There was not a major El Nino event but the unexpected temperatures have boosted physical risk events such as Hurricane Helene and wildfires... Here may be part of the explanation - published yesterday www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In most places in the world, power from new renewables is now cheaper than power from new fossil fuels. Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? The answer: learning curves.

South Africa’s high court has upheld a legal challenge to the government’s plans to develop 1,500MW of new coal-fired power, says #Bloomberg Risks to health & planet of #coal are well known www.climatechangenews.com/2015/06/23/s... Despite that, why is per capita use in #China & #India increasing?

Elegant chart on electric truck sales from BloombergNEF: Key points: • Global electric truck sales on track to set record in 2024 • Subsidies lifted China sales; CO2 rules to drive EU, US uptake NB: BNEF is speaking specifically of sales of medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission trucks

A bit surprised that my fab new Dell 34" curved monitor has a 'G' energy rating. Have the standards become tighter, or are production innovations slipping? On the face of it, a power consumption of 32W for a big screen seems OK to me... www.energylabel.org.uk/the-new-labe...

Under the political headlines, viewed from the perspective of #cities the world looks very different - they have more in common = growth, housing, health, transport, climate, poverty, education, food and diet, ageing, culture, heritage, energy, governance, security, pollution... did I miss anything?

An interesting discussion about an important topic - what has caused the recent surge in global warming and intense, #extremeweather events? I have added some ideas to the comments...

We now see, clearly, the impacts of extreme heat & #extremeweather on food prices. This is at 1.5°C of warming. Depending on income, the impacts range from inconvenience to hunger. Water scarcity is an amplifier. It's time to reinstate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qullqa www.theguardian.com/business/202...