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

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...

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?

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-...

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/...

Have also heard of US friends removing anything climate-related from email signatures etc. if they have fed clients :-(

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

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...

"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)

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)

ICYMI - Report on 2024 weather extremes, by World Weather Attribution with Climate Central: www.worldweatherattribution.org/when-risks-b...

Who knew there are (or were) more shipping forecast areas than the standard ones? This old map has also got some different names (e.g., Finisterre for Fitzroy). Source: Royal Museums Greenwich FB page (c) Crown Copyright. Photo: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

Weather watchers and music lovers! You will likely enjoy listening to Cerys Matthews talk to Elizabeth Rizzini and @drbecky.bsky.social from this past Sunday, covering weather folk tales and journeying into space. Available for 28 days. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

It's finally done. Over 3 days of hand-plotting 173 years' worth of data. The end result is unbelievable. What an incredible dataset to look at.

What we think we know about ENSO and its effects on global weather patterns might need to be revised 👇🏼

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...

New pre-print! We argue and demonstrate that catastrophe models are good tools to help quantify climate change loss and damages. Work led by Lizzy Galloway (Exeter) who was interning with us, plus great colleagues and academics. Available for free: eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

Fully-funded PhD project in the dynamics of atmosphere-ocean interactions in the Southern Ocean, supervised by @gmacgilchrist.bsky.social, @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social and me, within the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences @uniofstandrews.bsky.social www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

News is not good for UK unis. Saw lots of colleagues across diff unis and departments recently. Often, promotions & research leave are cancelled and voluntary redundancy schemes are in place (no tenure in the UK). If you have academic friends, give them a hug x www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A reminder that earth.nullschool.net is a great resource for visualising the weather now. #StormDarragh visible in the surface image below; going to different pressure levels will help you see the jet stream. (Thanks @cambecc.bsky.social!)

Thanks to RMetS, Matt Collins and all speakers for an excellent event yesterday! General reflections: Climate models are an extraordinary achievement in terms of science and computation, with some exciting future prospects for AI/ML to help. For local change and adaptation, there is work to do.

If you're in London tomorrow (Weds 4th) afternoon, you'll see me at this Royal Met Soc event on climate models in Piccadilly. I think you might be able to register still, if you send them an email - see link below. www.rmets.org/event/histor...

Saw this at the Bay International Film Festival in Morecambe this weekend, made by my friend Juliet Riddell. If you've got teenage kids, this could be a good way to start a conversation about social media! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UY2...

Air Quality Stripes have long-term trends of air pollution in many cities across the world. Here is London. Nice work @jimmcquaid.bsky.social & @kirstypringle.bsky.social. airqualitystripes.info/stripes/?con... h/t @edhawkins.org

Our Intelligent Earth Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for the Environment @intelligentearth.bsky.social @universityofoxford.bsky.social is accepting applications! > 20 fully-funded PhD studentships available. Deadline 8 January. Virtual open day on 26 Nov: intelligent-earth.ox.ac.uk/how-apply

Flood defences have been on the news in UK. Reminded me of report below, written by colleagues in 2021. Two key conclusions: 🔑 Benefit of river flood defences: £568m / year 🔑 Maintaining defences: saves £6 for every £7 that would have to be spent on replacements 📜 www.abi.org.uk/globalassets...

🔔🔔 Call for abstracts for a new session at EGU 2025 "Weather and Climate Science Insights for the Insurance and Financial Sectors" (NH11.4). Co-organised with @mattpriestley.bsky.social , Natalie Lord, @pjyng.bsky.social, and Nikolaos S. Bartsotas. Submit here: lnkd.in/e6MR69gk

Oh it's that time of year again.... The 7590 most puissant researchers of the year diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2021/11/17/t...

Today’s work view is a Netflix film crew. Joys of an office in an attractive Yorkshire country pile!

Great community service here! Great resource if you're a climate scientist out of industry and considering changing that, whatever level you're at. I'm always happy to chat and I'm sure it's the case for many others on this list. Thanks @scottstgeorge.paleohydrology.com!

For a number of years now, I’ve had a policy that I don’t submit to nor will I review for MPDI and Frontiers. This analysis supports that decision. It’s no reflection on the many excellent papers and studies that have been published in them, but rather on their editorial and business practices.

👇🏼 What Patrick said. If you ever want to read something I've (co)authored, please just drop me a line. Sure this must be true for anyone else I know too.

Left a faculty job for industry just over two years ago! Feels both more and less, but definitely no regrets. Here's my blog post from when I decided to leave. I keep saying I'll do a follow up, so perhaps I should. Happy to chat to those considering a move! medium.com/@pjyng/how-a...

📣 Calling climate risk industry/academia people! 📣 Going to EGU 2025? Please consider our session on "Weather and Climate Science Insights for the Insurance and Financial Sectors" meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... #EGU2025

2024 will almost certainly set another new record for the highest global annual average temperature since instrumental measurements began. That trend is brutal. From @berkeleyearth.bsky.social: berkeleyearth.org/october-2024...

The aftermath of the flood in Valencia. Photo by my cousin who lives there. She describes huge piles of cars cleared from the roads, how many children are having to be bused to different schools, and how the Metro won't be running until at least 6th December.

Hi everyone, NCAS is living and breathing atmospheric science on Bluesky! 👋 Polluted air, rapidly changing climate, damaging weather - we’re here to bring you our latest research findings, news, advice, and opportunities to study and work with us. linktr.ee/atmospherics...