So on a par with the last El Nino in magnitude?

That is a foolish tactic from Streeting. As for the doctors they are justified in asking for better conditions but I'm not sure I support further pay increases so soon after the previous one.

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Context Expert Panel Investigation Steps Information to Stakeholders Publications & Documents Contacts Summary The final report of the Expert Panel on the 28 April 2025 blackout in continental Spain and Portugal identifies the causes of the blackout and outlines recommendations to strengthen the resilience of Europe’s interconnected electricity system. It was prepared by a technical Expert Panel of 49 members, including representatives from Transmission System Operators (TSOs), Regional Coordination Centres (RCCs), ACER and National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs), and was chaired by experts from two unaffected TSOs. The investigation concludes that the blackout resulted from a combination of many interacting factors, including oscillations, gaps in voltage and reactive power control, differences in voltage regulation practices, rapid output reductions and generator disconnections in Spain, and uneven stabilisation capabilities. These factors led to fast increases of voltage and cascading generation disconnections in Spain, resulting in the blackout in continental Spain and Portugal. Based on these findings, the Expert Panel sets out recommendations addressing each of the factors identified in the report to help prevent similar events in the future. These include strengthened operational practices, improved monitoring of system behaviour and closer coordination and data exchange among power system actors. The findings of the investigation also underscore the need for regulatory frameworks to adapt in order to support the evolving nature of the power system. The 28 April blackout was a first of its kind event, and the recommendations aim to strengthen system resilience with solutions that are already technologically deployable. This blackout highlights how developments at the local level can have system-wide implications and underlines the importance of maintaining strong links between local and European system behaviour and coordination, while ensuring that market…

Good news! The final ENTSO-E report into the Spain blackout is out

A complex stew of different factors, but "too much solar" is simply not even among them, let alone a major component.

As always: the narrative built by fossil/nuke advocates was wrong

www.entsoe.eu/news/2026/03...

This could be a Monty Python sketch

Goodness shocking when you bear in mind we are not in El Nino but a neutral phase..... 😬

RIP Paul R. Ehrlich

🚨 PHOEBE IS FREE AFTER 211 DAYS! 🧡 Phoebe Plummer has just been released from HMP Bronzefield after being imprisoned since 31st July. ⛓️ They were originally on remand after taking action at Heathrow... TikTok video by Just Stop Oil

No worries, it is very confusing looks like she was imprisoned for 2 years but was released early in Feb 25. Was quite hard to find the info! She had so many arrests it is hard to work out all court cases and sentences www.tiktok.com/@juststopoil...

That article is about the M25 action, not the Sunflowers painting tomato soup incident.

Watch out for the tortoises!

Collapse of this Atlantic current could change Europe's climate forever YouTube video by Channel 4 News

Great Channel 4 News report on the latest #AMOC monitoring.
"Trouble is: there is now growing scientific consensus that the AMOC is weakening."
@noc.ac.uk
youtu.be/JpOpsMOBsL4?...

I Forced 4 AIs to play 4 Player Chess...(it was bad) YouTube video by Croissant

Started off ok but then totally lost count.

LLMs playing chess is also rather bizarre....

youtu.be/uBa-t5Buz8Y?...

Climate Scientist Reacts to AI Overlords YouTube video by ClimateAdam

Quite an eye-opening video about the tech bros by the inimitable ClimateAdam. Watch it. youtu.be/py0XpKxAnNU

Is it helping or too early to say? I've never tried it properly (although I reduced sugar nearly to zero and stopped any processed food) for my ME/CFS but heard some find it beneficial.

I'm in SW UK, & it's been a huge change from the driest summer for a very long time, followed by an extremely wet autumn and winter (January broke all records). The v.dry, followed by very wet, plus storms hitting at high tide, has caused damage to roads & rail, & increased coastal cliff erosion.

Yeah, me too and the other duff argument that PR is bad as it would give Farage more seats....

Saw it faintly in Devon, quite a bit of thin cloud

The US is threatening to invade a European country 🇪🇺.

One small way to resist: use European alternatives to US big tech:

european-alternatives.eu

Thanks. I've made a start by starting to move from gmail to proton. Very helpful list for identifying other things to switch. The big challenge is getting governments to switch and build EU/UK web/tech/cloud infrastructure (currently 90% US).

Fascinating and a bit puzzling (but good) that quite a signficant chunk of those supporting Trump and opposing Biden must also think climate change is both a problem and man made. Suggests that not all Trump supporters buy into the climate denial that is rife in RW social media & media.

This is the critical problem. By relying on US tech and trade we are almost totally trapped as a vassal of the US. UK plus Europe needs to rapidly start separating itself from the US and plan for the long term without them.

Bloggers claim Met Office fraud! (Let's investigate....) YouTube video by potholer54

The superb science journalist Peter Hadfield debunks an attack on the met office by climate denying bloggers youtu.be/5IGnEbpCazw?...

Only part 5? 😉

Yeah, UK is in a tough spot. Not sure we can stop him invading Greenland if he really wants it. All we can do is keep trying to talk him out of it, plus maybe put troops on Greenland first with EU allies as a deterrent. Govt doing ok, not sure any Tory govts of past 15 years would do better.

Maybe only give him the prize if he also doesn't invade Greenland. Pretty sure Trump owning it would be bad for climate emissions...

Multi-dataset comparison of global temperatures from 1850-2025, with 2025 values highlighted in a separate panel for each individual dataset. Baseline is a combination of 1850-1900 means.

Most 2025 global temperatures are now out (degrees C above 1850-1900 baseline)

1.41 HadCRUT5
1.44 Berkeley
1.46 JRA-3Q
1.47 Copernicus
1.53 DCENT-I

NOAA and NASA GISS values will be public at 2pm UK time and but based on already public Jan-Nov data they will likely be between 1.3 and 1.4 degC.

I agree but UK + Europe may have no choice but to at least reduce their dependence and start building up its own infrastructure, at least for the most critical services. If the US remains potentially hostile it will be very difficult for UK and Europe for quite a long time though.

Mad, isn't it? I've just started looking to replace as much as I can of US online services/tech as I can with UK/EU, not easy. Europe needs to stick together or risk becoming vassals of either US, China or Russia.

How anyone can justify staying on X/twitter, I do not know.

In a new article over at Carbon Brief, I explore why the past three years – 2023, 2024, and 2025 – have been exceptionally warm. The main culprits turn out to be a combination of El Nino and internal variability, declining aerosols, and a strong solar cycle: www.carbonbrief.org/...

I have a new update to climate model-observation comparisons over at The Climate Brink, covering CMIP3, CMIP5, and CMIP6. Models perform well globally. The latest generation shows too much long-term warming but better reproduces recent trends: www.theclimatebrink....