mastodon 4.6.9Climate scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading | IPCC AR6 Lead Author | MBE | Warming Stripes: http://www.ShowYourStripes.info | Weather Rescue citizen science initiative: http://www.WeatherRescue.org | Partner to @OceanTerra@fediscience.org | Views own
Climate scientists: the climate has always changed, over very long timescales, due to many different natural factors
Everyone: yes, please tell me more…
Climate scientists: also, the recent rapid warming is primarily due to burning fossil fuels
Most people: thanks, perhaps we ought to do something about that?
Small minority and fossil fuel companies: it’s all a hoax… except the bit when you said the climate changed before
Graphic: https://ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visuals/indicators.html
Wherever you live in the world, your climate is getting warmer.
21st June is #ShowYourStripes day when we encourage everyone to use the warming stripes graphics to talk about climate change and how we are all already experiencing the consequences.
Download your stripes: www.ShowYourStripes.info
Mapping changes in temperature: every year from 1850 to 2023
https://climatelabbook.substack.com/p/mapping-changes-in-temperature-every
Dear Mastadon hivemind:
The http://www.BiodiversityStripes.info website is highlighting biodiversity loss, globally and regionally using a similar concept to the climate stripes.
We are looking for other sources of biodiversity data which can be turned into stripes to highlight this critical issue.
Any leads for long & coherent time series welcome!
Mapping changes in temperature: every year from 1850 to 2023
2023 was the warmest year on record.
This 'small multiples' representation of observed changes in temperature show how the planet is heating rapidly almost everywhere.
Ready for #ShowYourStripes on Friday?
1) Download your own stripes: http://www.ShowYourStripes.info
2) Share the graphics widely on 21st June
3) Start conversations about climate risks & actions to take
We develop a physically plausible ‘causal chain’ as one approach to demonstrate the connections between global carbon dioxide emissions & real-life events, using a case study of flood risk in one river basin in the UK.
Preprint in open review: https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2024/egusphere-2024-289/
The smallest climate graphic ever?
Annual temperature timeseries for Germany.
Just 0.2mm across.
Figure 11 in this paper:
https://pubs.aip.org/avs/jva/article/43/2/022412/3337519/Low-temperature-ALD-of-metallic-cobalt-using-the
(h/t @M@nerdculture.de)
@fasnix@iceshrimp.de Dresden
Carbon dioxide emissions -> Global warming -> Increase in UK temperatures -> More intense UK rainfall -> Higher risk of flooding
TWO EXCITING POSTDOC POSITIONS
Translating extreme weather events into different climates:
https://jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=13468
Improving climate observation datasets across UK & Ireland:
https://jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=13484
DEADLINE: 21st August
Quantifying exposure biases in early instrumental land surface air temperature observations
Very detailed work by Emily Wallis et al. to analyse potential biases in different types of method for measuring temperatures in the 19th century.
@carbonwoman@norden.social Late February is when we are usually able to update all the graphics after collating the various datasets.
@BenjaminBuse@climatejustice.social In this case it is average rainfall on wet days - a standard metric.