Communicating changes in the intensity of UK heatwaves Communicating how a global warming of ‘just’ 1°C affects people is challenging. The hottest UK summer days have warmed more than 3 times faster than the rate of global warming in the past century, ca...

Communicating changes in the intensity of UK heatwaves

Global warming of ‘just’ 1°C does not necessarily sound like a problem. But in the UK, the hottest summer days are warming much faster than typical summer days, changing our experience of heatwaves

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The fuel blockades are reason number 1 million we need to move away from fossil fuels and export focused agriculture

Horticulture Following the news of the collapse of carrot producers Hughes in Kilkenny last week, Philip talks to another horticulturalist, Kenneth Keavey of Green Earth Organics in Co. Galway about the issues fac...

Farmers growing fruit and veg has dropped from 600 to 73 since the noughties. Which was also when then Trade Minister Micheál Martin removed the ban on below cost selling.

It’s not the only problem they face, but it didn’t help says one indie producer.

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Extraordinary and prolonged March heatwave to break records and decimate mountain snowpack across U.S. Southwest, including much of California - Weather West March 11, 2026 - Daniel Swain - "Winter" 2025-2026 warmest on record across most of Western U.S., including SoCal & Sierra Nevada Well, now it's official: Winter (Dec-Feb) 2025-2026 was the warmest on record across the majority of the American West, and a top-3 warmest winter nearly everywhere that it didn't quite cinch the record. That includes nearly all of the Colorado #

Similarly, my Weather West post from earlier is also still on track. This will be a "double peaked" heat event, with "lesser" peak centered over Southern California today before a minor pullback this weekend. Then, next week, the main event begins...

A map of Ireland showing the locations of Mountmellick and Ballitore.

Quaker families also operated businesses in meteorologically data sparce regions of Ireland including Mountmellick, Co. Laois, and Ballitore, Co. Kildare. Mountmellick had breweries, bakeries, and a famous embroidery industry. The papers of these industries may have weather data within them. 4/

Research Assistant position closing 25th: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr... to work on the @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social contract on access to global land meteorological holdings.

Extreme weather events to become more frequent in Ireland 2025 was the year climate scientists agreed it would be impossible to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

2025 was the year climate scientists agreed it would be impossible to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels

A digitized image taken from Dublin Magazine (1820) showing a meteorological table containing observations for barometeric pressure, precipitation, max and min temperature, and wind direction. The observations were taken by a J. Pim at 55 City Quay, Dublin.

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/

2/ The Zooniverse project is unlocking more data which will allow us to carry out research like which was published in a recent paper analysing two devasting cyclones that impacted Madagascar in March 1959. The paper can be read here doi.org/10.1002/joc....

Thanks to all who have contributed!

The climate crisis in 2025: When scientific and political realities diverged ‘Climate adaptation’ became the new buzzwords but there was much evidence of business as usual

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p... @codohertynews.bsky.social telling some hard home truths here with a guest quote from @clairebergin.bsky.social and some of the usual nonsense from me.

Looking back at 2025 (through mid-December): a snapshot of the climate fingerprint on the UK’s unusual, at times excessive, heat.

The Climate Shift Index signal ramps up in spring, then flickers on and off in waves into early September. Notice how it shows up again throughout November.

Anger after re-opening of Co Wexford-Waterford train line is omitted from government spending plan Campaigners have said lengthy efforts to reopen the line may have been ‘erased overnight’.

Good coverage on the apparent cancellation of future work on Wexford-Waterford line by @thejournal.ie this morning. We urgently need some clarity from the Department of Transport and the Minister.

www.thejournal.ie/rail-review-...

New data raises questions about how much the Earth has warmed | CNN New climate data raises questions about how much the Earth has warmed

Article on the new GloSAT dataset and implications by @chriscmooney.bsky.social for @cnn.com

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New estimates of surface temperature change since the late 18th century Releasing an observation-based global temperature dataset extending back to 1781

The new GloSAT temperature dataset extends our observational estimates of global temperature change back to 1781

Blog: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/new-estima...

Paper by Morice et al.: essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

New: strong language from the National Weather Service this morning regarding flood risk in western Washington today: "Locally catastrophic flooding impacts are possible along the Skagit and Snohomish Rivers." #WAwx

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1/ The Weather Archive Africa @zooniverse.bsky.social project is continuing to return important data that helps us to learn more about the climate of Africa. If you havn't contributed yet, please click the above link. A few minutes will rescue invaluable data

You might be interested in a recently-launched citizen science project aiming to rescue historical weather records from Africa.

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@peterthorne.bsky.social @simonj1967.bsky.social

2/ The Zooniverse project is unlocking more data which will allow us to carry out research like which was published in a recent paper analysing two devasting cyclones that impacted Madagascar in March 1959. The paper can be read here doi.org/10.1002/joc....

Thanks to all who have contributed!

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1/ The Weather Archive Africa @zooniverse.bsky.social project is continuing to return important data that helps us to learn more about the climate of Africa. If you havn't contributed yet, please click the above link. A few minutes will rescue invaluable data

TII says there's nothing it can do to fix the traffic on the M50.

They could try building Metro West.

From Archives to Insights: Extreme Weather Events and Socio‐Economic Impacts in Madagascar From Newly Digitised Historical Climate Records (1949–1966) The CliDaR-Africa project engages undergraduates in digitising historical African weather records, rescuing over 300,000 observations from Madagascar and the Central African Republic (1949–1966). Ana...

New paper by @simonj1967.bsky.social @healionk.bsky.social on the second year data rescue activities in @maynoothuniversity.ie Geography methods class rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Troy Parrott. Echos of Robbie Keane's goal against Germany in 2002. What a moment. #COYBIG 🇮🇪

After government abandons plan to make city speed limit 30km/h by default, council returns to slog of doing it bit by bit At a meeting of Dublin City Council’s transport committee on Wednesday, councillors and council managers expressed frustration with the long road ahead.

Now that the government has abandoned a plan to make city speed limits 30km/h by default, the Dublin City Council is returning to the slog of doing it bit by bit. At a meeting Wednesday, councillors and council managers expressed frustration with the long road ahead.

This project has had great engagement so far with tens of thousands of classifications.

We'd love for even more help to improve our understanding of the past and future climates of Africa. Click on the link in the quoted message to get involved and spread the word! #datarescue

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...

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

Could China, the world’s largest GHG emitter, have already reached or passed its carbon peak thanks to large-scale solar and wind rollouts?

Analysis shows their CO2 emissions have been flat or declining over the past 18 months.

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LNG ‘can’t happen fast enough’, says Taoiseach as Cop30 grapples with ending fossil fuels Martin indicates that liquefied natural gas a security imperative for Ireland

LNG ‘can’t happen fast enough’, says Taoiseach Micheál Martin as Cop30 grapples with ending fossil fuels.

Micheál Martin has absolutely no credibility when it comes to climate action.

29th September 2025 - A pine marten checking out the camera YouTube video by Ardclough Biodiversity Group

A pine marten can tell that somebody was about and stops to check out the scents around our trail camera in Ardclough, Co. Kildare
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