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Steve Turner @steveturner.bsky.social · 8d

Heading to IAHS 2025 in Roorkee 🇮🇳? 🌏

I’m co-hosting a side event + giving a talk with the ROBIN Network!

Let’s talk reference hydrological networks, drought indicators & climate change detection!

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 17d

We used to think that deforestation in the Amazon would dry out the local climate, but the effects may be even more extreme and varied

Cutting down the Amazon will bring extreme rain, wind and heat

We used to think that deforestation in the Amazon would dry out the local climate, but the effects may be even more extreme and varied

www.newscientist.com

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Sep 5

On the same day in the Telegraph:

The Telegraph

Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement

Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty

Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence

[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]

Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent

29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph

Money > Property > Second homes

How to avoid tax on your second home

From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net

[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]

Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer

29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · Sep 3

curly hair is an adventure because sometimes you wake up and it looks great and sometimes you wake up and it looks incomprehensibly bad and there is no way to know what kind of day today is going to be until, like Perseus, you tiptoe to take a fateful look into the mirror

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Madeleine Cuff @tinymaddie.bsky.social · Sep 3

Much less CO2 can be safely stored underground than we thought, scientists warn

If we simply dump ongoing fossil fuel emissions underground, we may run out of space…

www.newscientist.com/article/2494...

We may have 10 times less carbon storage capacity than we thought

Storing carbon dioxide underground is seen as a way to mitigate climate change, but the world could run out of safe storage space within 200 years if we keep on burning fossil fuels

www.newscientist.com

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · Aug 28

Really wonderful visualisation by my old colleague @laorso.bsky.social, showing that we usually get either sun or wind in Britain.

Days where there's little sun or wind do happen and are difficult, but they're not that common...

ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Infographic shows a spread of days that are sunny and windy in Britain. It shows that most days are either windy or sunny, and that only 2% of days typically have both low wind and low sun.

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Aug 27

With exceptionally dry conditions in many parts of the UK this year, hydrologists at UKCEH address the question of whether #globalwarming is increasing severity of #droughts in a guest post for @carbonbrief.org

Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Aug 26

NEW – Guest post: Is climate change making UK droughts worse?

✍️ Jamie Hannaford, @wilsonchan.bsky.social, Lucy Barker, Stephen Turner

➡️ Read here: buff.ly/boBB8nU

Guest post: Is climate change making UK droughts worse? - Carbon Brief

The year 2025 has seen exceptionally dry conditions in many parts of the UK. At...

buff.ly

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Erich Fischer @erichfischer.bsky.social · Aug 22

Numerical weather prediction models (ECMWF IFS) still outperform AI weather models in forecasting record-breaking hot and cold extremes and unseen wind extremes

Preprint
arxiv.org/abs/2508.15724

with Zhongwei Zhang @erichfischer.bsky.social @zscheischlerjak.bsky.social and Sebastian Engelke

Numerical models outperform AI weather forecasts of record-breaking extremes

Artificial intelligence (AI)-based models are revolutionizing weather forecasting and have surpassed leading numerical weather prediction systems on various benchmark tasks. However, their ability to ...

arxiv.org

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Aug 15

🌟 We're excited to have our water science director Dr Glenn Watts as a keynote speaker at next month's Hydro-JULES conference, Land and water in a changing climate, at the Royal Society.

🖱️ Book your place! enterprise.mitingu.com/ceh-events/l... 🧪

Image of Dr Glenn Watts beside text Keynote speaker Dr Glenn Watts UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Climate change and water resources: seeking certainty in an uncertain world 24 Sep 2025 Royal Society, London

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Aug 5

Dr Ségolène Berthou @metoffice.gov.uk is a keynote speaker at the Hydro-JULES 'Land and Water in a Changing Climate' event on 24 September. Dr Berthou currently leads activities on the Regional Environmental Prediction collaboration...

Register here: buff.ly/UVhq3K4 🧪

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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · Jul 31

Climate models have underestimated the departure of high temperature extremes from monthly means.

If we assume these model biases persist in future projections, then the climate models are also likely underestimating the magnitude of future high temperature extremes.

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Historical model biases in monthly high temperature anomalies indicate under-estimation of future temperature extremes - Communications Earth & Environment

Models tend to underestimate mean monthly maximum temperature anomalies by 2-3% and extreme anomalies by 11-12% over the period 1980 and 2023, which could lead to temperatures 3 °C to 5 °C higher than...

www.nature.com

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Jul 30

💧 How can we plan for future droughts when past observations are limited?

UKCEH hydroclimatologist @wilsonchan.bsky.social explains how ‘hindcasts’ and the UNSEEN method can help us explore rare but plausible scenarios, filling gaps in observations.

New blog post: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪

Low water levels at Pontsticill reservoir, south Wales, in July 2025.

Graph showing unprecedented low summer rainfall found in one example realisation of the ECMWF hindcast archive (in red) compared to observed summer rainfall (in black). The light grey shading indicates the highest and lowest rainfall in the observations over this period.

Series of maps of UK illustrating four storylines of river flows given a dry or wet July combined with sustained settled or unsettled conditions as a result of a shifted jet stream to the north or south of the UK.

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · Jul 30

📰 Groundbreaking new partnership to deliver a world class public weather service announced

Read our news release 👇

www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · Jul 21

1) is #NERC seeking to limit the number of proposals it receives?

2) why is #NERC prohibiting the resubmission of rejected proposals; and

3) is 1) related to 2)?

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Prof Richard Betts @richardabetts.bsky.social · Jul 20

Yes climate change is already killing people

www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

Bar chart showing heat-related deaths in several European cities from 23 June to 2 July 2025, distinguishing between numbers due to human-caused climate change and those due to natural variability
Milan: 317 from human caused climate change, 182 natural
Barcelona: 286, 54
Paris: 235, 138
London: 171, 92
Rome: 164, 118
Madrid: 108, (then some relatively small number not given)
Athens: 96, 79
Budapest: 47, 24
Zagreb: 31, 25
Lisbon: 21, 71
Frankfurt: 21 (then some relatively small number not given)

Added text says two-thirds of heat deaths in London were attributable to climate change

Guardian graphic, source: World Weather Attribution, Grantham Institute, Imperial College London

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · Jul 19

This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice

Screenshot:

No room for wokeness!
@Wokenessisevil
Notice how no one, not a single soul, has ever complained about the female gaze in entertainment.

[photos show Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) and Alan Ritchson (Reacher) with ripped muscles]

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Jaishri Srinivasan 💧🔥 @jaishrijuice.bsky.social · Jul 17

Okay, I'm having trouble finding reviewers for an article on river morphology and its impacts. Lots declined and 1 late 21 days. Can anybody suggest a reviewer or volunteer to review? #AcademicSky #GeoSky

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Jul 9

What is the hydrological outlook for the UK in the weeks and months ahead? Steve Turner talks us through the likely situation for river flows and groundwater levels.

See the full outlook: hydoutuk.net/latest-outlook

🧵🧪 1/ #WaterResources @steveturner.bsky.social

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · Jul 9

BBC Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage is celebrating its 201st birthday episode on Thursday at 11am.

Questions include: 'so, climate change, are we screwed?' from Nish Kumar

Also featuring Brian Cox, @robinince.bsky.social, @deborahmeaden.bsky.social & Mel Giedroyc

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · Jul 2

1°C of global warming does NOT mean that heatwaves 'just' get hotter by 1°C.

Over large parts of the UK, global warming means that heatwaves are 3-4°C warmer, with worse consequences for people and ecosystems.

UK maps showing changes in temperatures for typical summer days and hot summer days.

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Mike Byrne @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social · Jul 8

As the UK prepares for an extended heatwave over coming days, interesting new @natgeosci.nature.com research suggests longer heatwaves as climate warms #climate #heatwave

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Accelerating increase in the duration of heatwaves under global warming - Nature Geoscience

The duration of long heatwaves increases at an accelerating rate with warming such that a large increase in the risk of long-lasting heatwaves results from relatively modest warming, according to an a...

www.nature.com

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Dr. Renato Braghiere @renatobrgh.bsky.social · Jul 8

New CliMA post about our study out in Nature Comms! We show that replacing fixed plant types with real leaf traits in climate models changes everything — from surface albedo to rainfall. Darker Amazon, brighter Siberia. Climate shifts follow.

#climate #remotesensing

Rethinking Vegetation Optics in Climate Models

By Renato Braghiere Vegetation plays a critical role in regulating Earth’s climate by absorbing sunlight, exchanging moisture with the atmosphere, and sequestering carbon. Yet, how vegetation is re…

clima.caltech.edu

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Jul 4

📣 Registration is now open for the HydroJULES 'Land and water in a changing climate' event.

This event on 24 September at the Royal Society will bring together modellers, industry and practitioners to share new developments and visions for the future.

🔗 enterprise.mitingu.com/ceh-events/l...

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · Jul 3

this was not me but I respect it

Daily mail screencap: Furious mother 'squirted her boob' at a woman who told her to move while she was breastfeeding because it was distracting her husband

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Jul 1

Long-term UKCEH research has been key to ensuring offshore wind developments are considered with minimal effects to #seabird populations.

A new study shows how NERC funding delivered via research centres has had a crucial role in developing the UK offshore wind industry.

tinyurl.com/bddafm87 🧪

Infographic from the study mentioned in the post that illustrates elements of how NERC funding has played a crucial role in the rapid development of the UK offshore wind sector over the last 25 years.

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