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November 15, 1958 – Academic Paper on “Changes in Carbon Dioxide Content of Atmosphere and Sea Due to Fossil Fuel Combustion” submitted allouryesterdays.info/2022/11/14/n...

The 2025 update of the Global Carbon Budget is out.​​ While fossil CO2 emissions rise again and carbon sinks are weakened by climate change, deforestation emissions are down and many countries decarbonise their energy. No global emissions peak yet though. theconversation.com/the-worlds-c...

Looking for a PhD in climate science? Great opportunity to help modernise one of the iconic climate time series - Central England Temperature. Led by @timosbornclim.bsky.social, with myself and Met Office collaborators: www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

Happy birthday to the only two women with elements named after them on the periodic table: #MarieCurie & #LiseMeitner. As I do every year, I will once again repeat my proposal that November 7 should be International #WomenInSTEM Day! #histSTM #chemistry #physics #OnThisDay #OTD #PeriodicTable👩‍🔬🗃️📜

📣 #StateOfClimate Update 2025 is out now 🌡️ From January to August 2025, average temperature was +1.42°C hotter than pre-industrial level, on track to be second or third hottest year on record. 🔗 Press release: https://bit.ly/3LoawS9 🔗 Full report: https://bit.ly/4qZR52q

Should we start historical climate simulations in 1750 (or 1800) rather than 1850? Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century Ballinger, Schurer et al.: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

A reminder of what happened last time a UK govt tried to reduce bills by "cutting the green crap" Analysis: Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015 www.carbonbrief.org/...

@greenjennyjones.bsky.social spoke last night at the launch of the National #Oceanography Centre’s strategy for the next decade, held at the #ScienceMuseum. These people are doing great work! jennyjones.org/2025/11/04/n...

Happy Halloween! Courtesy of the ocean techs at @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social

Southampton’s West Bay, early 1900s. Southampton West (now Central) railway station can be seen on the left. The bay disappeared when the land was reclaimed here in the 1920s and 1930s in order to create the vast Western Docks. 1/2

UK Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) has just published the latest rolling update on anthropogenic climate change effects on sea temperature 🌊🌡️. This update was led by NOC's Dr Richard Cornes. Read the full report here 👇 www.mccip.org.uk/temperature

Robert Lavers was tea dealer, grocer, and fish sauce manufacturer, with premises at 5 Prospect Place on Above Bar Street, opposite Commercial Road. In this 1835 advert, he boasts of his Lavers’ Celebrated Southampton Sauce. 📸: Hampshire Advertiser, 16 May 1835 1/5

Due to unstable access to #SSMIS data, we are suspending today the distribution of our #SeaIce concentration interim climate data record based on it (OSI-430-a). We advise all users to switch to our #AMSR2 based climate products. for more info: osi-saf.eumetsat.int/community/li...

The work on extending the calculation of normals for the land station data in GloSAT was done by @timosbornclim.bsky.social and his team at UEA

This is definitely something worthy of quantitative analysis and experiments. It is very hard to know otherwise how much of the error was due to the lack of weather balloons. Forecast failures happen, and tropical cyclones moving into the extratropics are a common source of these.

Unseasonal #drought and heat combine with unusual fuel buildup from previous wet years to intensify wildfires as a consequence of human caused warming of #climate

A request for weather interested volunteers! Met Eireann would like to rescue millions of weather observations taken in Ireland over many decades that are still stuck on paper. #WeatherRescue Anyone can help: www.zooniverse.org/projects/met...

On the early train again. This time to Southampton to run my Play your PhD workshop with the Flood CDT students. Really looking forward to this one.

As we prepare for the Arctic Circle #Assembly2025 we're highlighting NOC's Arctic work. 🌡️ The Arctic may be ice-free in summer by 2050, with global impacts. 🌍 Projects like CANARI focus on how this affects extreme weather and the UK. 🇬🇧🌦️ More on our Arctic projects here: noc.ac.uk/science/arct...

An atmospheric general circulation model you can run on a Python Jupyter notebook?! Heck yeah! Check out this project- both an educational tool for undergraduates/graduate students, and a research tool for scientists interested in idealized climate modeling. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

I’ve recently begun a PhD, part of which is to discover missing historical meteorological observations recorded across Ireland. Meteorological tables contained within the short-lived Dublin Magazine of 1820 were recently found. The observations were taken by a J. Pim at 55 City Quay, Dublin 1/

Open Ocean #11 Playing whack-a-mole with some interesting artefacts in the data and interpolation. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o...

Pretty good sign that the work is both impactful and effectively communicated.

Learn more about our new Heritage funding opportunity. Join us on October 9th in the morning or afternoon to find out more about the eligibility criteria and application process. Morning session, 10:00 - 11:00 (BST): loom.ly/aR1PLTo Afternoon session, 14:00-15:00 (BST): loom.ly/2oFOyH4

The people I work with are not stupid people and our climate predictions of 30 years ago of global warming have proved to be accurate. Just saying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

This memorial remembers the crew members who lost their lives in the Titanic disaster in April 1912. It was paid for by the widows, mothers, and friends of the crew. Of the 908 crew members on board, 720 had signed on with a Southampton address. 542 out of 720 perished in the sinking. 1/3

After a brief (ahem) hiatus, the HadCRUT5 global temperature dataset has now been updated to June 2025 by @metoffice.gov.uk @climateuea.bsky.social and @ncas-uk.bsky.social

Originally unveiled in 1915 next to Cemetery Road on Southampton Common, in 1972 the memorial was moved to the bombed-out ruins of Holyrood Church on the High Street, which had been made a permanent memorial to the Merchant Navy in 1957. 3/3

Call for blogposts on maritime history - several of the topics related to marine climate, data transcription, visualisation - apparently no need to moderate your enthusiasm

CS-MACH1: help shaping the future of #marine #CitizenScience data! Contribute to the online survey 👉http://bit.ly/45KKlwH. More info 👉https://bit.ly/3JJlMaL

Call for blogposts on maritime history - several of the topics related to marine climate, data transcription, visualisation - apparently no need to moderate your enthusiasm

Useful info about the CRU-TS global climate dataset. Producing the CRU-TS dataset is an NCAS @ncas-uk.bsky.social and UEA @climateuea.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social activity.

New analysis from @metoffice.gov.uk showing that the record-breaking hot UK summer of 2025 has been made much more likely by human-induced climate change and such a hot summer would be expected about once every 5 years in current climate. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Foolish, reckless and politically desperate: www.bbc.com/news/article...

RMS Queen Mary at Southampton.

A privilege to have helped in putting this report together, working alongside fantastic colleagues from around the world to measure, describe and place in context what the climate was like in 2024. #StateoftheClimate #StateoftheClimate2024

▶️ UPDATE: The 2024 #BulletinAMS State of the Climate Assessment is now available! Check out the highlights in our press release: bit.ly/45tFO0g #StateoftheClimate #StateoftheClimate2024

The BAMS State of the Global Climate report 2024 reveals the year was record-breaking for both atmospheric water vapour levels and global temperature. Find out more in our press release: www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Balmoral, a paddle steamer built in 1900 for the Southampton, Isle of Wight & South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. She would carry tourists on excursions to various seaside towns along the South Coast as well as northern France. Pictured here at Southampton’s Royal Pier. 1/4

Opinion: If scientific databases in the Earth and environmental sciences are not adequately supported, we risk losing and potentially needing to replace these resources, an extremely costly, yet preventable, outcome. buff.ly/WTgm4IC Read more: bit.ly/Eos-Jul2025

York Gate was cut into the northern stretch of Southampton’s medieval wall in 1769. There was a little garden on top of the wall for many years. The gate was demolished along with the garden in 1961 in order to widen the road.

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth. www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

Awful. More horrible science news "The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing & delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025."

Some illustrations I worked on last year for the GloSAT project are now available from Figshare in case you find them of interest or use. glosat.org/illustrations

Today is #ShowYourStripesDay I made a high resolution version of the global warming stripes by using monthly rather than annual temperatures.

I was consulted, a while ago, on whether a clock that counted down the estimated carbon budget for 1.5°C would be a good idea. I asked them what they planned to do when it went past zero? I did not get an answer, and they didn’t ask me anything again. 🤷

On this day in 1939, 288 Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in Nazi Germany arrived at Southampton Docks. 📸: Birmingham Daily Gazette, 22 June 1939 1/11

Really chuffed that my good friend and colleague, Gabi Hegerl, has been awarded a CBE in the King's Birthday Honours. She and Ben Santer were the pioneers who detected human-induced climate change in the mid 1990s as I wrote about in my book Hot Air and why it was such a crucial advance at the time.