🌊Average global sea surface temperatures reached a new June record in 2026, surpassing the previous June records set in 2023 and 2024. This animation shows sea surface temperature anomalies across the world's oceans, with dark red indicating sea surface temperatures up to 6°C above average.

Reform UK want to wind down climate action in West Norfolk because 'the UK is only 1% of emissions' But decarbonisation isn't a burdensome obligation to wriggle out of - it'll be a massive benefit to our region We'll have better health, energy sovereignty and a stronger economy Me in the EDP

Interviewed by CNN and Financial Times today, about the new record set for ocean temperatures.... concerning times! www.ft.com/content/857d... edition.cnn.com/2026/07/01/c... @bas.ac.uk @attractamooney.bsky.social @laurapaddison.bsky.social

We're now at day 28 of setting a new record daily global sea-surface temperature.

Looking at two parts of one of England’s fastest eroding coasts today at Easton Bavents and Thorpeness, Suffolk. #coastal #erosion #geology

My news feed has the best "tale of 2 hemispheres" juxtaposition today - extreme weather both north & south. But it can't be anything to do with climate change, right? #polycrisis

On average, global ocean temperatures right now are the hottest in our historical records for this time of year! Follow along at zacklabe.com/climate-chan... 🌊

I especially love this diagram.

If you'd like to find out what recent research has revealed about Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier and what this means for future sea-level rise, this is a good place to start. Great overview in @newscientist.com by Alison George. www.newscientist.com/article/2526...

Media reaction: How climate change intensified Europe’s record-breaking June heat www.carbonbrief.org/media-reacti...

At the end of the day, this visualization shows what's driving the rising risk of these dangerous heat waves. It's the human-caused burning of fossil fuels and the resulting increase in greenhouse gases. That's it. More climate change indicators: zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...

Guardian cartoon. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today has been another record breaking day, with a new provisional June temperature record of 37.3°C recorded at Santon Downham this afternoon

6 pm update. Home outdoor thermometer reading 34.7°C. Bedford Aerodrome @metoffice.gov.uk station 33.1°C @metoffice.gov.uk Cambridge next hour forecast 32°C (decreasing faster now - hurrah!). That next hour forecast is still equal to the June record for Cambridge prior to this year.

4 pm update. Home outdoor thermometer reading 35.3°C. Bedford Aerodrome @metoffice.gov.uk station 34.3°C @metoffice.gov.uk Cambridge next hour forecast 35°C (decreasing very slowly). Cambridge records obliterated. Seem to have passed the peak now but it still looks likely to be a sweaty evening.

2 pm update. Home outdoor thermometer reading 35.5°C. Bedford Aerodrome Met Office station 33.6°C Met Office Cambridge next hour forecast 36°C (now decreasing at last). So preliminary observations suggest today's maximum has exceeded Cambridge's June record from previous years by more than 3°C.

Noon update from the cauldron that is South Cambridgeshire today: Home outdoor (uncalibrated) thermometer reading 34.0°C. Bedford Aerodrome Met Office station (nearest posting real-time data) 33.1°C Met Office next hour forecast for Cambridge 36°C Records are undoubtedly crumbling here today.

It’s likely we will set a new all time June temperature record again today, this time somewhere across East Anglia with a high of 38/39°C. There is a small chance somewhere around Norfolk could reach 40°C this afternoon.

You couldn't make this up. In the middle of an unprecedented heatwave that scientific analysis shows couldn't have reached these levels without anthropogenic warming, idiot councillors voted to deny that there is a problem. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Records smashed on two days in succession. Tomorrow may make it a hat trick.

How the jobs figures pan out. Net zero: massive new employment. Return to fossil fuels: mass unemployment. Don't ever let these grifters persuade you they have your interests at heart. They dance to the tune of their funders. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Background to the carbon budget here

1976 and all that... Greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels, have caused global temperatures to rise 1°C since 1976, but comparable UK heatwaves are now 3°C hotter, and would peak at 38-39°C. (Oh look, same as this week's temperatures...) theconversation.com/we-recreated...

New paper led by Patric Simões Pereira presents evidence for a reduced West Antarctic Ice Sheet during late Quaternary interglacial periods from analysis of ice-rafted debris in Amundsen Sea sediments. doi.org/10.1029/2026...

Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat

Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.

Our infrastructure can't even cope with the conditions that have already been unleashed Yet climate policy aims to keep making things worse till 2050, and many people argue we shouldn't even do that

Best political comment of the day.

Latest @metoffice.gov.uk forecast for Cambridge is for maximum temperatures of 38°C on Tuesday and Wednesday. That's an anomaly relative to the average June daily maximum temperature (1991-2020) of more than +17°C 🥵

🟦🟥 It's #ShowYourStripes day! Tell the world that you care about climate change. You can explore the warming signal for your own city and create and share Ed Hawkins' climate stripes using the C3S ERA Explorer: era-explorer.climate.copernicus.eu

It's #ShowYourStripes day. Here are the lastest stripes for Cambridge, England, just a few km from where I live, presented as bars and with a relative temperature scale. Coincidentally, the forecast for the next few days here predicts the hottest days of the year so far, with anomalies up to +14°C.

Today is #ShowYourStripes day! This year, St Michael's Tower atop Glastonbury Tor is encouraging everyone to use the Climate Stripes to start a conversation about climate change and the actions they are taking. Thank you @nationaltrust.org.uk! Graphics: www.ShowYourStripes.info

In case anyone was in any doubt.

Do we really want to play dice with our planet? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For the third by-election in a row Reform UK offered voters the politics of rage and for the third time in a row they have been roundly rejected as a result. How Andy Burnham's massive victory in Makerfield shows the wheels are now coming off of the Nigel Farage project

Not even close, even if you put the votes for all the right wing parties together. Must be a disappointment to all the media pundits who were trying to build up Reform as presenting a serious challenge.

El Niño is here, which means it's time for me to dust off and refine my old collection of ENSO-related climate visualizations. Check out how much sea surface temperatures have already warmed this year across the equatorial tropical Pacific. Wow! Data from psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...

If you commemorate the Space X IPO by reading one article on Elon Musk today, make it this one from @edwardluce.bsky.social. It is a timely and hard-hitting reminder that the world's first trillionaire is also one of its very worst people. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

432 PPT. You read that right. scripps.ucsd.edu/news/annual-...

🧵🧪🌊 Today is #WorldOceansDay. My favourite parts of the ocean are those adjacent to Antarctica, Greenland and other locations where ice flows into the sea. Photo shows the vessel Bark Europa, taken during the voyage to the Antarctic Peninsula I joined earlier this year.

🧪🌊🧵 The oceans are undoubtedly under severe stress, but the figures quoted in this Guardian article for acceleration of mean sea-level rise here are misleading. 2 mm/yr before 2015 is only correct if you're taking an average of the previous 100 years. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Spending a fun couple of hours on platform 3 at Stevenage after failing to make an impossibly tight connection for a train to Edinburgh. A couple of northbound LNER trains have stopped here since but I'm told my Lumo ticket isn't valid for those. Privatisation eh? The gift that just keeps on giving.

Going through a box of old slides I found this view of the Mer de Glace taken from the terrace at Montenvers on a family holiday in August 1976. I'm the teenager by the railing carrying a small backpack. I had no idea of the amount of change that would take place here in my lifetime.

Here we go ... Niño3.4 SST heads off the charts.

A couple of days ago I had an interesting change of workplace for the day thanks to the Developing Business-Aware Academics project. business-aware-academics.org

In 1788, James Hutton sailed past Siccar Point, and discovered a gap in the rock record spanning around 60 million years. It was here that the study of geology took off. Today is Hutton's 300th birthday, and in his honour BGS baker Steve has baked an unconformi-cake. Happy birthday, James 🎂

🔥 Europe had their warmest spring (Mar-May) on record.

Some informative interviews in this video, but I cringe at the simplistic animations of flood level encroaching across maps of cities as sea level rises. Firstly, this assumes a lack of current or future coastal flood defences. It is also misleading about when and how flood potential develops.