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Tag Archives: climate change
Natural variation and the influence on global temperature
2021 was another warm year globally – consistent with ongoing warming from greenhouse gases. The global average surface temperature in 2021 was 0.76 ± 0.04 °C above the 1961-1990 average according to the Met Office and University of East Anglia’s … Continue reading
Met Office science: narrowing the range of climate uncertainty
The United Nations has today (Thursday 16 September, 2021) published a synthesis report on the perils of climate change and the need for urgent climate action. The report features hard-hitting forewords from both Antonio Guterres – Secretary-General of the United … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, climate science, Met Office, Met Office Hadley Centre, UNEP, WMO
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Invoking the oak – nature’s veteran recorder helping scientists understand the rate and scale of climate change
Ancient oak trees – individuals more than 400 years old – extend back into the deep and dark recesses of history. During that time, these senior trees will have been surrounded by huge fluctuations in climate; to say nothing of … Continue reading
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Tagged citizen science, climate change, Met Office, phenology, Woodland Trust
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Met Office science at the heart of climate assessments
The Met Office Hadley Centre – which celebrated its 30th anniversary last year – has a long and proud history of working and supporting the IPCC. Indeed, one of the foremost scientists who propelled the IPCC, serving as co-chair and … Continue reading
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Tagged AR6, climate change, ipcc, Met Office
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Europe needs to prepare for temperatures of 50C in future
Syracuse, in Sicily, has provisionally exceeded the previous European highest temperature with a record of 48.8°C yesterday. If the record is confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization, this temperature will break the previous record of 48.0°C in Athens in 1977. … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate attribution, climate change, climate science, heatwave, Met Office, Peter Stott, World Meteorological Organization
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Bank of England applies Met Office UK climate projections in its Climate Biennial Exploratory Scenarios
More extreme heatwaves, droughts, drier summers, wetter winters and rising sea levels are all consequences of climate change which each UK citizen will have to continue to endure. It is easier to contemplate the increasing impacts of climate change on … Continue reading
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Tagged Bank of England, climate, climate change, climate projections, flooding, Met Office, Met Office Hadley Centre, National Severe Weather Warning Service, severe weather, UKCP, weather
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Met Office climate projections assess impact on global sports
Climate change is affecting every dimension of society. From the food production of the food we eat and the water we drink, and from how we earn our livelihoods to how we spend our leisure time. And climate projections – … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, climate, climate change, climate science, Met Office, Met Office Hadley Centre, skiiing, tennis, UKCP18, Wimbledon
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Climate Data Challenge – working in partnership for innovation
As Governments, organisations and individuals around the world seek to tackle the challenges of climate change, creativity and innovation are key to finding ways to improve our resilience to weather and climate. Our scientists work at the forefront of global … Continue reading
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Tagged British Red Cross, Centre for Disaster Protection, climate, climate change, climate science, Commonwealth & Development Office, Foreign, hackathon, Marine Environment Data & Information Network, Met Office, Met Office Hadley Centre, National Oceanography Centre, National Severe Weather Warning Service, Natural Environment Research Council, Ordnance Survey, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, The James Hutton Institute, UK Climate Reslience Programme, UK GBC, UK Hydrographic Office, UKRI
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Atmospheric carbon dioxide passing ‘gloomy’ milestone
This year the climate is passing a gloomy threshold. The concentration of carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere is reaching 417 parts per million: an increase of 50 per cent since humans embarked on the industrial revolution and began to emit greenhouse … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, climate science, CO2, hawaii, Mauna Loa, Met Office, Met Office Hadley Centre, Richard Betts
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Did the weather fuel climate-changing forest fires in the Amazon in 2019?
In 2019 there was a sudden spike in Amazon fires that captured the world’s media attention. Between them the blazes destroyed 906,000 hectares of rainforest – an area larger than the island of Corsica. The thousands of fires produced around … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon Rainforest, climate, climate change, IUCN, Met Office, Met Office Hadley Centre, pied tamarin, rainforest, UKCEH, wildfire
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