WMO report shows every climate indicator broken The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) “State of the Global Climate 2023” report confirms that last year broke every single climate indicator to be, by far, the warmest year on record. The report finds that, in 2023, concentrations of greenhouse gases continued to rise; ocean heat content and sea […]
Met Office statistics – May 2020 Sunniest on record extremely low rainfall Rainfall weekly reports – Environment Agency – May 29th BBC Severn Trent: ‘High demand’ leaves thousands without water Thousands of people have been left without water because lockdown and the warm weather have led to a surge in demand, a supplier has said. […]
This newsletter – sign up here provides an important oversight to global changes on climate change. Five of the articles carried in the latest edition include: 2018 was the 4th hottest year on record for the globe Ice shelves buckle under the weight of meltwater lakes 2018’s billion-dollar disasters in context Warm temperatures and significant […]
Harvey, like Sandy & Katrina before it is rewriting our understanding of ‘extreme’ weather events and the language we use to describe these. As one American put it, ‘a 1 in a 1000 year storms can occur today and we are watching play out’. The power and energy of these major storms have each had […]
Just as Germany break records for its renewables output and UK breaks its solar output record the UK Government show their true colours on climate change trying to weaken European climate change proposals. Leaked documents show UK Government lobbying to weaken EU climate targets despite Brexit Energydesk, Greenpeace ‘On the very day Theresa May triggered […]
CEH ‘A relentless sequence of storms, record rainfall and sustained very high river flows in parts of the UK meant that December was an extraordinary month in both meteorological and hydrological terms, with wet conditions across the north contributed to the wettest calendar month on record for the UK (in a series from 1910). Slow-moving […]