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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

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

Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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...

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A New Regulatory Framework for University Cuts

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 12/05/2025

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...

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 12/05/2025

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.

Map showing hot much warmer than usual it is right now

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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.

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Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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?

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Andrew King (he/him) @andrewkingclimate.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

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-...

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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

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

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...

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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...

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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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/...

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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

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Have also heard of US friends removing anything climate-related from email signatures etc. if they have fed clients :-(

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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

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Rebecca Willis @bankfieldbecky.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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...

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"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!

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Heather Price @drheatherprice.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

🚨 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

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Improving indoor air quality and health through data-supported behaviour changes | Research | University of Stirling

Explore a co-funded PhD opportunity in Improving indoor air quality and health through data-supported behaviour changes.

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

See also this thread for a link to Lucy Easthope's book: bsky.app/profile/ruth...

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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...

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BBC Sounds - At Your Own Peril - Available Episodes

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

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

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

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

"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....

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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 ...

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The impact of #stormEowyn in Morecambe, NW England 😱 Pic is from my son who is on a work placement in a light industrial estate.

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

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...

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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…

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

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...

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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...

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Joeri Rogelj @joerirogelj.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

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)

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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · 10/01/2025

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.

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.

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Tim Osborn @timosbornclim.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

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)

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

😸😸 Is there a logo competition already!? C(h)atGPT has this effort...

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

ICYMI - Report on 2024 weather extremes, by World Weather Attribution with Climate Central: www.worldweatherattribution.org/when-risks-b...

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When Risks Become Reality: Extreme Weather In 2024 – World Weather Attribution

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

This is a great thread! With more time, I might have something more to say about private sector cat modelling and the challenges of openness etc. ...Meanwhile, I'd like to say that my preferred name for this intercomparison would be CatMIP :-)

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Who knew there are (or were) more shipping forecast areas than the standard ones? This old map has also got some different names (e.g., Finisterre for Fitzroy). Source: Royal Museums Greenwich FB page (c) Crown Copyright. Photo: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

Shipping forecast areas ("Great Britain Fleet Forecast Areas") for the Northwest Atlantic. Map from the Admiralty List of Radio Signals, Vol III. Dated 27th April 1956.

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Weather watchers and music lovers! You will likely enjoy listening to Cerys Matthews talk to Elizabeth Rizzini and @drbecky.bsky.social from this past Sunday, covering weather folk tales and journeying into space. Available for 28 days. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Cerys Matthews - A Joyous Exploration: heading up and away! - BBC Sounds

Cerys goes up and away with astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst.

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Michael Ferragamo @ferragamowx.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

It's finally done. Over 3 days of hand-plotting 173 years' worth of data. The end result is unbelievable. What an incredible dataset to look at.

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

What we think we know about ENSO and its effects on global weather patterns might need to be revised 👇🏼

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Peter Watson @peteragwatson.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

PhD opportunity at Bristol: "Machine Learning for Understanding Extreme Weather in a Changing Climate". Please share with potential applicants. Deadline is Jan 31 12:00. www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/co... www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar...

Example of realistic rainfall simulations generated by a machine learning model over England and Wales (Addison et al., 2024)

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

New pre-print! We argue and demonstrate that catastrophe models are good tools to help quantify climate change loss and damages. Work led by Lizzy Galloway (Exeter) who was interning with us, plus great colleagues and academics. Available for free: eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

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Catastrophe risk models as quantitative tools for climate change loss and damage: A demonstration for flood in Malawi, Vietnam, and the Philippines

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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 13/12/2024

Fully-funded PhD project in the dynamics of atmosphere-ocean interactions in the Southern Ocean, supervised by @gmacgilchrist.bsky.social, @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social and me, within the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences @uniofstandrews.bsky.social www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

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World-Leading Scholarship 03 Earth Sciences - Study at St Andrews - University of St Andrews

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

News is not good for UK unis. Saw lots of colleagues across diff unis and departments recently. Often, promotions & research leave are cancelled and voluntary redundancy schemes are in place (no tenure in the UK). If you have academic friends, give them a hug x www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - The Briefing Room, How much trouble are UK universities in?

Domestic fees haven't risen with inflation and foreign student visas are set to curbed.

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

A reminder that earth.nullschool.net is a great resource for visualising the weather now. #StormDarragh visible in the surface image below; going to different pressure levels will help you see the jet stream. (Thanks @cambecc.bsky.social!)

Image of mean sea-level pressure and 1000 hPa winds centred on the UK, from earth.nullschool.net

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Thanks to RMetS, Matt Collins and all speakers for an excellent event yesterday! General reflections: Climate models are an extraordinary achievement in terms of science and computation, with some exciting future prospects for AI/ML to help. For local change and adaptation, there is work to do.

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

If you're in London tomorrow (Weds 4th) afternoon, you'll see me at this Royal Met Soc event on climate models in Piccadilly. I think you might be able to register still, if you send them an email - see link below. www.rmets.org/event/histor...

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The History of Climate Modelling

Climate models have been central in journey of climate change from a scientific curiosity to the leading global geopolitical issue - from understanding and simulating basic climate processes, to detec...

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Saw this at the Bay International Film Festival in Morecambe this weekend, made by my friend Juliet Riddell. If you've got teenage kids, this could be a good way to start a conversation about social media! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UY2...

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Capture, who's looking after the children? | FT Film Standpoint

YouTube video by Financial Times

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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Air Quality Stripes have long-term trends of air pollution in many cities across the world. Here is London. Nice work @jimmcquaid.bsky.social & @kirstypringle.bsky.social. airqualitystripes.info/stripes/?con... h/t @edhawkins.org

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Philip Stier @philipstier.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Our Intelligent Earth Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for the Environment @intelligentearth.bsky.social @universityofoxford.bsky.social is accepting applications! > 20 fully-funded PhD studentships available. Deadline 8 January. Virtual open day on 26 Nov: intelligent-earth.ox.ac.uk/how-apply

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Flood defences have been on the news in UK. Reminded me of report below, written by colleagues in 2021. Two key conclusions: 🔑 Benefit of river flood defences: £568m / year 🔑 Maintaining defences: saves £6 for every £7 that would have to be spent on replacements 📜 www.abi.org.uk/globalassets...

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Sounds like we're pushing for the same things! This is all good for vector addition, right? :-)

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Great! This sort of thing is why I have been trying to popularise storylines in our industry...

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