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Building resilience: climate solutions for a changing world
In an era defined by environmental uncertainty, the need to fortify our communities against the impacts of climate change has never been more pressing. Climate resilience – a term often heard in discussions surrounding climate action – refers to humanity’s … Continue reading
Making sense of climate change projections
Carbon budgets? Emissions scenarios? Degrees of warming? What does it all mean? If you are following the climate change conversation, you will have encountered information on future changes in climate. Carbon budgets, high- and low-emission scenarios, and future warming are … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon budget, climate science, emission scenario, global warming level, ipcc, Paris Agreement
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2023: on track to be Earth’s warmest year on record
Every month of 2023 has so far has exceeded 1.2°C above pre-industrial times [note], according to the HadCRUT dataset. These high values are influenced by the ever-rising temperatures driven by human-induced climate change, as well as the influence of the … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, climate science, global temperature record, HadCRUT5
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Seamless decision-making for climate adaptation
We all care about how future changes to the weather might affect us. This might be in our professional lives, where we think about risk from extreme weather to one industry, or this might be because we are all affected … Continue reading
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Tagged climate adaptation, climate change, climate science, Met Office
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The science of linking climate change to extreme weather events
“Would this heatwave or severe rainfall have happened without climate change?” This is the kind of question that policymakers and businesses are asking scientists. Climate attribution science can help us understand the answers to questions like this, as the probability … Continue reading
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Tagged #Get Climate Ready, Climate attribution, climate change, climate science, Loss and damage, Met Office, Met Office Hadley Centre
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Researchers point the way to managing climate change risks
The consequences of climate change are many and varied. However, most of them bring considerable risk to communities and ecosystems. Up until now climate scientists across the globe have largely focussed attention on those events most likely to happen, such … Continue reading
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Tagged atlantic meridional overturning circulation, climate change, climate science, Environment Agency, Ice sheet, Met Office, University College London, University of Exeter, university of reading
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‘Critical’ Global Stocktake counting down to help keep Paris promises
The current decade is a critical decade for climate action. What we do now will be a deciding factor in whether we can constrain global temperature rise to 1.5°C or below. The urgency is clear, but what keeps the ambition … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon budget, climate change, climate science, Global Stocktake, ipcc, Met Office Hadley Centre
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How will the summer end: ‘bang’ or ‘whimper’?
The summer 2022 has been remarkable on many fronts, says Paul Davies Met Office Fellow (Meteorology). We exceeded the 40°C threshold for the first time ever, and for England the January-July period has had 69% of average rainfall making it … Continue reading
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Tagged climate science, Met Office, public weather forecasts, severe weather, UK, weather
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Climate study backs up Met Office research
A study published today [Friday 29 July] by World Weather Attribution supports a previous Met Office study that was published before this summer and which looked at the prospect of 40°C in the UK. The Met Office study found that … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, climate science, July temperature record, Met Office, Met Office Hadley Centre, record breaking, UK heatwave
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Summer 2022: a historic season for northern hemisphere heatwaves
Today [Tuesday 19 July 2022] has been a momentous day for the UK’s climate. Professor Stephen Belcher – Met Office Chief Scientist – and Prof Paul Davies – Met Office Chief Meteorologist – put the UK’s and European heatwave into … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, climate science, heatwave, Met Office, Professor Paul Davies, Professor Stephen Belcher, UK heatwave
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