#Crowdsourcing personal #WeatherData can help with weather data scarcity. But, in England and Wales, more deprived areas are less covered, limiting the potential for climate adaptation of communities living in these environments nature.com/articles/s4146…

Carbon offsetting explained. #ClimateCrisis

Painting roofs white or making them reflective would be more effective at cooling cities like London than vegetation-covered “green roofs,” street-level vegetation or solar panels, finds a new study led by Dr Oscar Brousse UCL Energy Institute The Bartlett ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/jul/…

Painting roofs white to reflect the sun’s energy would be more effective at cooling London’s streets than covering them with plants, suggests research by Oscar Brousse and colleagues Meanwhile, mass aircon would raise street temps by 0.15C (!) Story 👇 thetimes.com/uk/environment…

Our AGU (American Geophysical Union) GRL paper is getting quite an attention from the press: - The Times and The Sunday Times by Adam Vaughan : tinyurl.com/45pcp8ej - Forbes by Anuradha : tinyurl.com/2mnavpxc - New Scientist by Madeleine Cuff : tinyurl.com/43xwxyju More to come !

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A warm day in perspective

Trending in #MultidisciplinaryGeosciences: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) Cool Roofs Could Be Most Effective at Reducing Outdoor Urban Temperatures 2) Contributions of core, mantle & climatological processes to Earth’s polar motion (Nature Geoscience) 3) Sea ice choke points reduce

Ever wanted to research mobility patterns but no idea where to start looking for data? Qingqing Chen, Matthew Zook and I are releasing a dataset originally based on geotagged social media posts by 2 mln users across the US, containing 1.2 bln data points sent between 2012-2019.

Our new paper on #heat related #deaths during the #extreme hot #summer of 2022 -- with Clare Heaviside and led by Charles Simpson -- is out in IOP Publishing ERL. UCL News UCL UCL Inst. for Environmental Design and Engineering