If you've been lucky enough to jet off for your holidays this summer, you may have experienced some turbulence during your flight ✈️ But what causes it? And why is it becoming more common? We sent chesneyhawkes to find out. #TheOneShow 👉 bbc.in/3T22Sha

Three locations along the Persian Gulf have experienced heat indices of 150°F (65.6°C) or greater in the last 48 hours. A historic heatwave is baking the Middle East.

Colin McCarthy And look at the dew point, 88°F! Persian gulf is notoriously known for extremely high dew points in summer.

Heat indices are calculated by combining air temperature and humidity to produce a "feels like" temperature or how hot it actually feels to the human body. It's important to note that the heat index is calculated in the shade and direct sunlight can make it feel up to 15°F

Absolutely everything in these statements from Donald J. Trump is false, so it's difficult to know where to start, but let me try: 1. Scientists *did not* think the world was going to cool in the 1920s - first predictions of global warming were actually in the late 1800s. (1/3).

Can you imagine that? 😱 On #Sonnblick, at 3,169 m asl, there was not a single freezing temp during the whole month of August! Aug. 2024 is 1st month without frost since measurements began in 1886! 🔥 No need to tell you about ice in these conditions 😭 geosphere.at #NewEra

2023 temperatures fall in line with historical trends, with warm anomalies typical of El Niño, indicating dominance of sea surface temperature variability and regional forcing. Read this paper by Bjørn H. Samset et al. at: nature.com/articles/s4324…

📚🇬🇧 Very happy to see my book coming out in paperback in the UK today! It looks at 7 of our big environmental problems (not just climate) and charts the journey of how we got here, progress that has been made (yes, there has been some) and importantly, what we need to do next.

NEW on Wonkhe: It's (almost) the student data release you've been waiting for since the start of the year. David Kernohan plots what we have of the HESA Student data for 2022-23 wonkhe.com/blogs/hesa-stu…

Let’s see if anyone sees this. 🙃 Check out this link to follow nearly 100 journalists working on climate, energy, and the environment. go.bsky.app/2TNd1Ya

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

Clearly scrapping one word Ofsted judgements is a huge step in the right direction, long overdue and a show of serious intent by Bridget Phillipson to improve the well being of teachers and leaders - essential to their recruitment and retention. 🧵

Postdoc opportunity with me and colleagues at the University of Exeter and Met Office, modelling methane emissions from tropical wetlands as a potential impact on climate

I repeat: Do NOT get your climate science from a self-styled feline defecation! Get it from NASA instead: science.nasa.gov/earth/climate-…

Oh dear, some pretty major mistakes made in this The Telegraph article on the Government renewables auction results today. Some mistakes have been spotted and it's already undergone hefty revisions (see below) - but it remains fundamentally misleading. Here's what it got wrong 🧵

The high temperature in Phoenix has officially reached at least 100°F for 100 days in a row. Previous record was 76 days.

Here in the UK, the summer has been cooler than we have had recently (coolest since 2015). Rainfall and sunshine have been close to average. August was very wet in West Scotland. Here is a #dataviz of the weather/climate summary for the past year. #globalwarming #climatechange

#CopernicusAtmosphere aerosol alerts for 5 September showing atmospheric/#airquality impacts of the multiple intense fires burning across South America with high AOD & surface PM2.5 concentrations relative to climatology extending from Pacific to Atlantic …rosol-alerts.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/?autoplay=fals…

I'll be on next week's episode of The Life Scientific with Jim Al-Khalili on BBC Radio 4 . It was a great honour to be asked and a pleasure to be involved. I hope you enjoy the programme! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

NEW: UK battery EV sales climbed 11% in August claiming 22.6% market share – above the mandated level for this year under ZEV Meanwhile, petrol dropped 10% and diesel another 7% Year-to-date, BEV sales are UP by 10.5%, petrol flat and diesel down 13% File under: "EV sales are