With each year that passes, the impacts of climate change become increasingly evident. Now, more than ever, is an exciting time to consider a ‘green career’; to start building yours download the free Royal Meteorological Society guide 👇 rmets.org/careers-climate

These colourful diagrams show how air quality has changed in over 100 countries around the world since 1850 theconversation.com/these-colourfu…

Fantastic to work on this with Kirsty Pringle and many others, it shows what a great team can produce. Thanks to Gary Fuller for the words. Obviously inspired by Ed Hawkins original #climatestripes. Also via The Conversation theconversation.com/these-colourfu…

Cleaner air = healthier people & ecosystems Policies like reducing coal burning and, more recently, moving away from petrol & diesel for transport can make real differences. Find your city: airqualitystripes.info/stripes Well done to Kirsty Pringle & Jim McQuaid 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 for this fantastic tool.

COMMUNICATING WITH STRIPES Climate: showyourstripes.info Biodiversity (Miles Richardson): biodiversitystripes.info Ocean acidification (Niki Gruber & Luke Gregor): oceanacidificationstripes.info Air quality (Kirsty Pringle & Jim McQuaid 🇺🇦 🇪🇺): airqualitystripes.info

This is getting ridiculous. It is still technically winter in the Southern Hemisphere but today’s high temperature at Oodnadatta in South Australia soared to an unbelievable +39.4°C (103°F).

Huge shout-out to the The Guardian production team for creating this full page on McQuaid and Pringle's #airquality stripes project, with words by me. (Jim McQuaid 🇺🇦 🇪🇺, Kirsty Pringle , Ed Hawkins)

The reaction to #airqualitystripes has been fantastic, lots of plaudits as well as a number of interesting ideas to take forward. Given the huge overlap between Climate/Net Zero and #airquality, the team from The Conversation put together a great article theconversation.com/the-new-climat…

Finally, a really new global temperature dataset! New-global-temperature-dataset day is better than Christmas. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2024/09/01/fin…

Summer 2024 was the coolest in a decade. 40 years ago it would have been anomalously warm for many areas. Shifting perceptions in a rapidly warming climate.

Please remember the rule, folks: Some summers are hotter than others, but every summer is now warmer than if the same weather patterns happened decades ago. The summer of 2024 was still warmer than the vast majority of the summers of Julia's childhood.

The UK summer has been cool compared to ones from the last 10 years, but it would have been the warmest summer in the 1960s, the third warmest in the 1970s and the 4th warmest of the 1980s. This #dataviz shows the summer versus other summers since 1884. #globalwarming

Summer 2024 was the hottest on record both globally and for Europe according to Copernicus ECMWF data 🌡️ It is increasingly likely that 2024 will be the warmest year on record 💙🤍💙🤍💛🧡💛🧡❤️❤️❤️💔 More: climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-sum… #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction

Interesting blog post from Met Office describing their approach to ML-based weather forecasts. Combining ML models trained on ERA5 & on past UKV high res forecasts will allow local scale ML predictions, with ensembles. blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2024/09/05/on-…