And ... not another one:

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A whole year of record breaking ocean temperatures.

This warmth has significant effects on ocean ecosystems. A large fraction of the world’s human population rely on protein from the ocean to live. Disruption to life in the ocean does affect us all.

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The sheer scale of the flooding in the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre, Brazil, which is home to over 4 million people, is hard to comprehend. Thousands of homes flooded, towns cut off, dozens killed, hundreds missing.

Credit: Jornal Razão - heliturtaxiaereo

Under the mighty Menai Bridge waiting to go live on the ⁦BBC Radio 4 Today⁩ programme to talk about the extraordinary run of record global sea temps over the last year.

Update to ERA5 2m air temperature on a '51 - '80 baseline. April 2024 is +1.31°C above that baseline.

Another month setting a new record for global sea surface temperature... this time for April

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Nice weather is transformative 👍

Time series of April SSTs in the Mediterranean Sea. There's something different about the 2024 value.

📈 The upward trajectory continues!

💚 We now have 809 councillors on 174 councils following last week's elections.

The most realistic scenario of life on the Red Planet...

Latest from European model notches the warmth up this weekend with 25C (77F) in London area on Sunday.

24 years ago: enjoying my first post-victory pint with the Green Party's Margaret Wright (sadly no longer with us) following my election to the London Assembly and the start of a sixteen-year stint in frontline politics. I do look happy!

Another big annual jump in CO2 concentration - 3.2ppm in the year to April 2024:

Another deluge today here in #Essex - now beginning to ease.
Forecasters saying a dry week ahead with a fair amount of Sun.
Yes please.

Just what the world needs - another genocidal dictator making nuclear threats.
So much hangs on so-called 'leaders' of countries, individuals with the fate of millions in their hands.
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Sunspot Number is currently 152, with 2 large Active Areas:

We may never know. If species like us (radio telescopes etc) are rare, we may never know another one exists nor they that we exist as distances so great. For civilisation in galaxy 500M light yrs away (relatively local in Universe) it would take 1 billion yrs to exchange signals.

Right wing Tory MPs and commentators respond to #LocalElection2024 losses by calling for tax cuts, public spending cuts, reducing action on #climate and flag waving.
Have they actually looked at the election results ?

So many councils are still over-mowing public grassy areas. Wildflowers - crucial lifelines for pollinators - mown down to lifeless, 'tidy' grass deserts. Who wants their council to join those increasingly giving nature a chance instead?

Total vote share in the 2024 London Elections, by party:

LAB 41%
CON 29%
GRN 10%
LDEM 8%
RUK 6%

OTH 7%

London Green Party have beat the Liberal Democrats by over 120,000 votes and are still London's third party!