Tim Osborn
@timosbornclim
Climate variability and change | Professor of Climate Science & Director of Climatic Research Unit | @ueaenv | UEA | Views expressed here are my own, not UEA's
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http://interpretingcc.wordpress.com 29-11-2013 22:33:04
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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
Colin McCarthy And look at the dew point, 88°F! Persian gulf is notoriously known for extremely high dew points in summer.
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…
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
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 🧵
#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…