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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 14h

Construction and commissioning is not the same as the plants actually being used to burn coal. Their coal plants are being used less and less - their capacity factor is dropping.
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Guest post: Why China is still building new coal – and when it might stop - Carbon Brief

Four common talking points surrounding China’s ongoing coal-power expansion and how and why the current wave of new projects might end.

www.carbonbrief.org

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19h

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 19h

More like ‘borrowed’ than ‘robbed’! 😉

Very happy that so many people are borrowing the stripes concept to start important environmental conversations.

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Jim McQuaid @jimmcquaid.bsky.social · 19h

A great thread about our #AirQualityStripes project, it has been fantastic to work with everyone making my idea (robbed from @edhawkins.org) a reality. We're going to run the whole lot again very soon to include the 2023 satellite data.

Carly Reddington @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social · 5d

🚨Our new paper introduces the #AirQualityStripes – a visual tool to show how outdoor air pollution (PM2.5) has changed in 🌍 cities since 1850. Inspired by the iconic #WarmingStripes. Led by @kirstypringle.bsky.social & @jimmcquaid.bsky.social
🔗 airqualitystripes.info
📄 doi.org/10.5194/gc-8...
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 20h

China remains way ahead in clean energy growth, adding more solar and wind capacity than the rest of the world combined.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 22h

The online version had an extra sentence. It is disappointing that the topic cut from the print edition was on the contribution of women observers:

"Although many rainfall recorders were men, there were also significant contributions from women, such as Lady Bayning in Norfolk in the 19th century."

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 22h

Our paper on historic rainfall observers was discussed in The Times weather column this week, highlighting the role of the thousands of (often) volunteers who dedicated decades to taking detailed measurements of the weather.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 1d

Yep - remember that! I think I vaguely recall the satisfaction of seeing (from Adrian Simmons?) the brand new ERA-Interim agree with CRUTEM back in 2009/10 times.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 1d

The @metoffice.gov.uk use weather station observations to reconstruct changes in UK average temperature since 1884.

@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social produce the ERA5 reanalysis which reconstructs global weather every hour back to 1950 using a weather forecast model.

Their estimates agree. Just sayin'.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 1d

Aside: Perhaps @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social should produce country-level averages for many different climate variables as a dataset from ERA5 or ERA5-Land? There may be 'political' reasons for not doing so but it would be valuable, especially for nations without extensive monitoring capabilities.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 1d

There are still some who try to dismiss weather station thermometer observations as being biased & unrepresentative of the true changes in temperature. The fact that the trends and variability match so well between these two datasets helps demonstrate that we are reliably measuring ongoing changes.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 1d

The @metoffice.gov.uk use weather station observations to reconstruct changes in UK average temperature since 1884.

@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social produce the ERA5 reanalysis which reconstructs global weather every hour back to 1950 using a weather forecast model.

Their estimates agree. Just sayin'.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 3d

Well done to the Warming Stripes La Rochelle team!

Starting climate conversations in France! 👏

Warming Stripes painted in the harbour area of La Rochelle, France

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 3d

There are still many volunteers who contribute manual daily rainfall observations and their sites are inspected to ensure reliable measurements. The proliferation of automatic weather stations is really helpful for real-time monitoring & nowcasting but perhaps not yet for long-term climate records?

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Charlie Westney @charliewestney.bsky.social · 5d

This is the *most* British science story.

Rain ☔️
Enthusiastic amateurs.
Quietly recording 1000s of records.
To be mirrored later by the volunteers who digitised each of those original hand written numbers.

Sometimes it’s not the data - it’s the people that make the story.

Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 6d

The Rainfall Observers

Over the past three centuries, thousands of people across the British & Irish Isles have recorded rainfall, often every day for decades. Here we recognise some of the individuals who made particularly important contributions.

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The rainfall observers

Over the past three centuries, thousands of people across the British and Irish Isles have regularly recorded rainfall, often every day for decades. Their efforts allow us to reconstruct long-term tr...

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 5d

This list is astonishing. Individuals recording rainfall for 50, 60, 70 years. 👇All hail the reliable people!

Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 6d

The Rainfall Observers

Over the past three centuries, thousands of people across the British & Irish Isles have recorded rainfall, often every day for decades. Here we recognise some of the individuals who made particularly important contributions.

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The rainfall observers

Over the past three centuries, thousands of people across the British and Irish Isles have regularly recorded rainfall, often every day for decades. Their efforts allow us to reconstruct long-term tr...

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 6d

We will regret not acting faster on climate change.

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Carly Reddington @drcarlyreddington.bsky.social · 5d

🚨Our new paper introduces the #AirQualityStripes – a visual tool to show how outdoor air pollution (PM2.5) has changed in 🌍 cities since 1850. Inspired by the iconic #WarmingStripes. Led by @kirstypringle.bsky.social & @jimmcquaid.bsky.social
🔗 airqualitystripes.info
📄 doi.org/10.5194/gc-8...
🧵👇

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 6d

We have highlighted the critical role of ‘amateur’ volunteer weather observers whose dedicated observations made over decades for altruistic reasons are so invaluable to us now. There are still many volunteer observers taking daily climate observations today. Thank you to every one of these people.

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Philip Brohan @brohan.org · 6d

A poster demomstrating an extension to the well-known climate stripes graphic.

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Doug McNeall @dougmcneall.bsky.social · 14d

Come and join us developing AI for solving climate problems. careers.metoffice.gov.uk/join-us/sear...

Met Office Careers

careers.metoffice.gov.uk

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 6d

If you’re a journalist writing about a certain piece of UK climate policy news this evening, please ask the Science Media Centre for the many reactions from expert climate scientists and then please include some of their quotes in your story. Thank you.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 6d

We will regret not acting faster on climate change.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 6d

Indeed

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 6d

The Rainfall Observers

Over the past three centuries, thousands of people across the British & Irish Isles have recorded rainfall, often every day for decades. Here we recognise some of the individuals who made particularly important contributions.

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The rainfall observers

Over the past three centuries, thousands of people across the British and Irish Isles have regularly recorded rainfall, often every day for decades. Their efforts allow us to reconstruct long-term tr...

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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