The following Pinboard feed contains links to climate change news items, scientific articles and other information that I have bookmarked recently.
Halve UK pesticide use to save insects, say conservationists | Environment | The Guardian
Halve UK pesticide use to save #insects, say conservationists. Note the danger to agriculture (our food), and host of other things we rely on (in our towns as well). Risk is made much worse with #ClimateChange. #nature @ReadingCAN (date: 08/07/2020)
Japan's devastating rains move north as millions told to evacuate | World news | The Guardian
Japan's devastating rains move north as millions told to evacuate. #climate #extremeweather (date: 08/07/2020)
Rare night clouds may be warning sign of climate crisis | Climate change | The Guardian
Rare night clouds may be warning sign of climate crisis. Consequence of methane emissions. #ClimateChange #Science (date: 07/07/2020)
Algae turn Italian Alps pink, prompting concerns over melting | World news | The Guardian
Algae turns Italian Alps pink, prompting concerns over melting. #ClimateChange #cryosphere (date: 07/07/2020)
Chancellor set to announce £3bn green investment package | Economic policy | The Guardian
£3bn green investment package. It's a start by we need a lot more. Note from Greenpeace that Germany is investing £36bn - which is more like it! #ClimateEmergency #zerocarbon (date: 07/07/2020)
At least two people die as record heavy rain lashes Japan | World news | The Guardian
At least two people die as record heavy #rain lashes Japan. #ClimateEmergency #exremeweather (date: 05/07/2020)
UK risks missing net zero target in Covid-19 recovery, Labour warns | Environment | The Guardian
UK risks missing net zero target in Covid-19 recovery, Labour warns. #climateemergency #emissions #Politics (date: 03/07/2020)
The Guardian view on France's green wave: seizing the moment | Editorial | Opinion | The Guardian
The Guardian view on France's green wave: seizing the moment. #ClimateEmergency #COVID19 #politics (date: 03/07/2020)
Air pollution likely to make coronavirus worse, say UK government advisers. #AirPollution #Covid19 #climate (date: 01/07/2020)
RT @ReadingCAN: Don't be late! Last chance to submit your feedback on the #RDGUK #ClimateEmergency strategy ... (date: 25/06/2020)
Italian team covers glacier with giant white sheets to slow melting | Glaciers | The Guardian
Crazy, unsustainable and very sad. “Italian team covers glacier with giant white sheets to slow melting.” #ClimateEmergency #cryosphere (date: 22/06/2020)
Britain still failing on climate crisis, warn advisers | Environment | The Guardian
Committee on Climate Change report coming: “..committee will highlight the fact that virtually no progress has been made over the past year to tackle the misery that will be brought by #climatechange..” #adaptation #politics (date: 21/06/2020)
Extreme Events and Climate Change presentation 2016
New URL weblink for my presentation (date: 21/06/2020)
A farewell to ice | Peter Wadhams | TEDxUHasselt - YouTube
A farewell to ice (date: 18/06/2020)
#Climate #emission killer: construction begins on world’s biggest liquid air battery. #energy (date: 18/06/2020)
Climate crisis: alarm at record-breaking heatwave in Siberia | Environment | The Guardian
#ClimateCrisis: alarm at record-breaking heatwave in Siberia. Nizhnyaya Pesha hitting 30C on 9 Jun. Khatanga, usually daytime temperatures of around 0C at this time of year was 25C in May! #ExtremeWeather #cryosphere (date: 18/06/2020)
Deadly #heat is killing Americans: A decade of inaction on #climate puts lives at risk. Risk is also increasing here. #extremeweather #adaptation (date: 17/06/2020)
Coronavirus: UK has legal duty to review #airpollution targets, say lawyers. #climate #COVID19 (date: 17/06/2020)
Emissions from 13 dairy firms match those of entire UK, says report | Environment | The Guardian
#Emissions from 13 dairy firms match those of entire UK, says report. #ClimateChange (date: 15/06/2020)
His book got me started on understand climate change (date: 15/06/2020)
Sadly noticing a marked rebound in carbon #emissions post-lockdown. It's such a shame public #transport has to be avoided...hoping people won't go back to car-centric habits. #ClimateEmergency #zerocarbon @ReadingCAN (date: 14/06/2020)
Atmospheric CO2 levels rise sharply despite Covid-19 lockdowns
The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere reached 417.2 parts per million in May, 2.4ppm higher than the peak of 414.8ppm in 2019, according to readings from the Mauna Loa observatory in the US. (date: 13/06/2020)
Climate worst-case scenarios may not go far enough, cloud data shows
Worst-case global heating scenarios may need to be revised upwards in light of a better understanding of the role of clouds, scientists have said. Climate sensitivity up from 3 to 5degC - big concern limiting potential to mitigate extreme climate change (date: 13/06/2020)
Fast-growing mini-forests spring up in Europe to aid climate
Often sited in schoolyards or alongside roads, the forests can be as small as a tennis court. They are based on the work of the Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki, who has planted more than 1,000 such forests in Japan, Malaysia and elsewhere. Advocates for the method say the miniature forests grow 10 times faster and become 30 times denser and 100 times more biodiverse than those planted by conventional methods. (date: 13/06/2020)
Climate crisis to blame for $67bn of Hurricane Harvey damage – study | World news | The Guardian
Climate crisis to blame for $67bn of Hurricane Harvey damage – study. #ClimateChange #extremeweather #attribution (date: 13/06/2020)
Catchment Climate Change Risk Assessment - Enviropedia
These Catchment Climate Change Risk Assessments (CCCRAs) are a ground-breaking piece of work that that was done between December 2014 and September 2015. * They are light-touch risk assessments of the updates to the draft River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs), which went out to public consultation on 1 October 2014. * They will help us to understand where climate change impacts pose a risk of us failing to maintain good ecological status or even to hold the line with the measures proposed in the plans. * These risk assessments will be publically available in the online appendix to the River Basin Management Plans. To find out more please see link to CCCRA microsite (date: 12/06/2020)
May 2020 Water Situation Report
For the South East England: May was the third consecutive month of below average monthly rainfall. Only 5mm of rainfall was recorded across the South-east of England during May which equates to 9% of the long term average. There was an average of 28 dry days during the month and most of the areal units had the driest or second driest May on record. The dry weather resulted in the soil moisture deficits almost doubling during the month to well above the long term average and there was virtually no recharge anywhere in the South-east of England. River flows and groundwater levels fell throughout the month, but most of the key indicator sites ended the month at normal levels or higher, with a few exceptions. (date: 12/06/2020)
Coronavirus: Home insulation 'could create cheap jobs' - BBC News
Advice to government on #economic benefit of #GreenRecovery. This will be a great start and what we need in #rdguk. @ReadingCAN #zerocarbon2030 #energy #ClimateEmergency (date: 11/06/2020)
RT @UniRdg_SustBE: Still time to respond to #rdguk climate change strategy consultation @ReadingCAN @ReadingCouncil @traceyrc #ClimateEmergency (date: 11/06/2020)
River Basin Management Plans (RBMP) (part 2) 2015
The additional information document for the RBMP 2015. On page 22 it mentions 'Initial light touch assessments for each management catchment in England have been undertaken by the Environment Agency...', these are the Catchment Climate Change Risk Assessments that I lead on with the environmental planning teams in the Environment Agency. (date: 09/06/2020)
Interesting article on tackling 2 emergencies at the same time. Good example of #Adaptation and #emergencyplanning in Bangladesh. #ClimateEmergency (date: 04/06/2020)
UK electricity coal free for first month ever | Business | The Guardian
UK electricity coal free for first month ever. #ClimateChange #emissions #energy (date: 02/06/2020)
Football pitch-sized area of tropical rainforest lost every six seconds | Environment | The Guardian
Football pitch-sized area of tropical rainforest lost every six seconds. #ClimateChange #deforestation (date: 02/06/2020)
UK weather: Sunniest spring since records began - BBC News
More #extremeweather. UK weather: Sunniest spring since records began. Easy to forget the flooding a few months ago. Interesting to see the affect on our rivers. #climatechange (date: 31/05/2020)
'A summer unlike any other': #heatwaves and #Covid19 are a deadly combination. Something that concerns me here too. @readingcan #adaptation #climateemergency (date: 30/05/2020)
US south-west in grip of historic 'megadrought', research finds | Environment | The Guardian
US south-west in grip of historic 'megadrought', research finds. #ClimateChange #extremeevents (date: 29/05/2020)
'The human fingerprint is everywhere': Met Office's alarming warning on climate
Article on Met Office Hadley Center, and the great work it's done since opening 30 years ago (0.5degC climate change!) (date: 28/05/2020)
We now have the proof: greening the economy doesn't come at the price of prosperity. #ClimateChange #zerocarbon #recovery (date: 22/05/2020)
The XDI Platform brings together asset level data sets with extensive climate models to provide deep analysis of an organisation’s exposure to climate change and extreme weather risk. Five key products provide powerful on-demand quantitative insights for decision makers, financial managers and investors. From high level assessment to granular detail. From probabilities of failure to a business case for adaptation. From 1990 until 2120. By area, by asset, by business or by hazard. XDI is your partner on the journey from risk to resilience. (date: 20/05/2020)
Climate Assembly UK concludes in world transformed by coronavirus | Environment | The Guardian
It will be interesting to see the #ClimateAssemblyUK findings in a couple of months. #ClimateEmergency #zerocarbon #covid19 #globalreset (date: 16/05/2020)
The end of the Arctic as we know it | Environment | The Guardian
Less oxygen and ice, more acid and heat. Jonathan Watts joins an expedition studying what this means for the planet. The demise of an entire ocean is almost too enormous to grasp, but as the expedition sails deeper into the Arctic, the colossal processes of breakdown are increasingly evident. (date: 12/05/2020)
Potentially fatal bouts of heat and humidity on the rise, study finds | Environment | The Guardian
Potentially fatal bouts of heat and humidity on the rise, study finds. #extremeweather #climatechange (date: 08/05/2020)
Climate change: Could the coronavirus crisis spur a green recovery? - BBC News
As we think about exiting lockdown - this is the right kind of thinking. We need global and national plans...but also for our towns. In #rdguk please help us by joining @ReadingCAN and feeding back on our new #ClimateEmergency strategy. @RCCP2020 (date: 06/05/2020)
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RT @RCCP2020: A reminder on #EarthDay to have your say on the #RDGUK #ClimateEmergency strategy and action plan. To ensure everyb… (date: 22/04/2020)
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RT @ReadingCAN: RT @RCCP2020: A reminder on #EarthDay to have your say on the #RDGUK #ClimateEmergency strategy and action plan. To… (date: 22/04/2020)
I hope everyone’s ok. My blog if you have time for a read – on #ClimateChange and a bit of hope in these dark times… (date: 05/04/2020)
How Airplane Contrails Are Helping Make the Planet Warmer - Yale E360
New research shows that condensation trails from aircraft exhaust are playing a significant role in global warming. Experts are concerned that efforts to change aviation engine design to reduce CO2 emissions could actually create more contrails and raise daily temperatures even more. (date: 02/04/2020)
Chair’s blog – Silver linings in these dark times – ReadingCAN
RT @ReadingCAN: Chair’s blog - Silver linings in these dark times . #rdguk #climatechange #COVIDー19 (date: 02/04/2020)
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