Yeah, makes sense - I have felt slightly more suggestable today....

How slashing university research grants impacts Colorado’s economy and national innovation – a CU Boulder administrator explains Federal funding cuts in the billions have impacted dozens of universities in the US.

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

A New Regulatory Framework for University Cuts

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...

Map showing hot much warmer than usual it is right now

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?

Flooding in the Sahara, Amazon tributaries drying and warming tipping over 1.5°C – 2024 broke all the wrong records The atmosphere now has the highest carbon dioxide levels in the last 800,000 years – and global heat records have toppled yet again. Coincidence? Of course not

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-...

The Invisible Doctrine This book is dynamite' - Caroline Lucas | 'Fantastic' - Mark Ruffalo We live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives: our education and our jobs; our healthcare and our leisure; our...

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...

Outcry as Trump withdraws support for research that mentions ‘climate’ US government stripping funds from domestic and overseas research amid warnings for health and public safety

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 :-(

Probably could sell but would not likely cover the cost of replacing and reinstalling!

Option 2 seems attractive. However, the scary array of cabling, controls, and wired plates makes me think it's a job for someone with money for an entire home re-wiring.

🤔

3/3

One blind now doesn't work. For repair, call out fee and first hour is ~£130+VAT.

Which option?

1) It's probably rare (first time in ~4 years) and it's easier to suck up the cost.

2) Beware sunk cost fallacy. It's going to always cause problems and we should go back to a "dumb" system.

2/3

"March 24th Early Careers in Sustainability Workshop" at Imperial College London Tickets are now available for March 24th Early Careers in Sustainability Workshop at Imperial College London, Grantham Institute Climate Change. on Monday 24th March 2025 at 9:30AM. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

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

See also this thread for a link to Lucy Easthope's book:

bsky.app/profile/ruth...

BBC Sounds - At Your Own Peril - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of At Your Own Peril on BBC Sounds.

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...

See also this though 👇🏼
bsky.app/profile/mich...

Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Public Well-Informed? Global temperature leaped more than 0.4°C (0.7°F) during the past two years, the 12-month average peaking in August 2024 at +1.6°C relative to the temperature at the beginning of last century (the ...

"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

Gallagher Re on LinkedIn: Gallagher Re Event Response - Southern CA Wildfires Please see below for event commentary relating to the ongoing devastation from the Southern California / Los Angles #wildfires including financial loss…

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...

Advancing Collaboration between the Insurance Sector and Academia This workshop offers a platform for researchers in the insurance and catastrophe modelling industries to share their ongoing research and associated challenges with other natural catastrophe researche...

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)

Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.

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)

😸😸 Is there a logo competition already!?

C(h)atGPT has this effort...