On this day in 1415, Richard of Conisbrough, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, and Lord Henry Scrope were beheaded outside the Bargate for their supposed role in the ‘Southampton Plot’ against King Henry V. 1/4
For unknown reasons the Number 10 media team still doesn't have anything official on Bluesky so I spent 15 mins vibe-coding up this which automatically shares @andyburnham.bsky.social 's Instagram and TikTok posts. @unofficialandy.bsky.social #AndyBurnham Please share - thanks!
The Floating Bridge service had been carrying people across the River Itchen since 1836. Its days are numbered in this photo as the Itchen Bridge is built alongside it. The Floating Bridge service came to an end when the Itchen Bridge opened in 1977.
I'm really pleased to be taking on the role of Co-Chair of the @soosocean.bsky.social Observing System Design capability working group. 😃 🇦🇶 ⭐ We're looking for a new ECR and members of the leadership team, please consider nominating yourself or a colleague and share widely! soos.aq/opportunitie...
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'Everett F. Wells', Swan Hunter shipyard, Leslie Street, Wallsend, 1977, photo by Graham Smith.
The extreme weather we have now is not the new normal. It’s going to keep getting worse as long as we continue to burn fossil fuels.
‘Unprecedented’ changes in UK climate are normalising extremes, report says
Annual State of the UK Climate analysis finds last four years in UK are in top five hottest on record
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Two very different views from the same place on top of Southampton’s medieval walls.
Framing the causes of hotter heatwaves The recent reductions in aerosol emissions have acted to unmask the warming that was already caused by past greenhouse gas emissions climatelabbook.substack.com/p/framing-th...
Framing the causes of hotter heatwaves
Fossil fuels or human-induced climate change?
climatelabbook.substack.com
Folks skeptical of human-driven warming like to point to a period of somewhat less rapid warming from 1900-1945. In a new analysis at TCB, I dig into the different factors driving it, and find that humans, natural factors, and variability all played an important role: www.theclimatebrink....
Castle Hall was a two-storey stone-built house situated in the south-west corner of the Southampton Castle grounds. It was originally built in the late eleventh or early-to-mid twelfth century at the base of low natural cliff on the shoreline. 1/5
The global surface temperature record is one of the most iconic figures in climate science. We now have 12 different groups of researchers from the US, UK, EU, Japan, and China (among others) that have calculated it and found nearly identical results:
Women making Spitfire parts at the Supermarine works in Woolston, early 1939. This factory in Southampton, where the Spitfire was originally designed and first built, would be targeted by the Luftwaffe during two daylight air raids in September 1940. 1/2
The Arcades, part of Southampton’s fourteenth century defensive wall, photographed in the early 1900s.
One thing I've learned about paradoxes: often the answer to the riddle of "how can this one thing have such a contradictory set of features and effects?" is "it's not one thing, it's *two* things*." 1/
Announcement: the new version of CRU-TS (v4.10) running through to December 2025 is now released. This is the first update we've completed since the retirement of Ian 'Harry' Harris who maintained CRU-TS for many years. Andrew Friedman has now taken on this role. crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/
CRU-TS high-resolution gridded climate datasets Climatic Research Unit (CRU)
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June 20 is #ShowYourStripes Day! Use this graphic from @uniofreading.bsky.social & @ncas-uk.bsky.social to raise awareness of the rise in the Earth’s temperature. buff.ly/YUgbECW #GeoKky #Climate #ClimateChange #ShowYourStrips #ClimateSky
@microsoft.com - Does this screen serve any purpose whatsoever? I've yet to notice any change despite years of making different choices. I tick the box and say "Yes" purely as a Pavlovian reflex to Windows dialogues, but without any conscious expectation that, this time, things will be different.
Will you look at that @icarus-maynooth.bsky.social in the talk on the new era6 reanalysis given by Hans Hersbach of @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
Trump regime takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network. Ships will be dispatched this month to remove the more than 900 deep-sea instruments that comprise the network, one of the world’s most trusted sources of climate and oceanic data. www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...
Trump administration takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network
The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade
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On this day in 1937, SS Habana arrived in Southampton from Bilbao. On board were around 3,840 Basque children who had been evacuated from the Spanish Civil War. They were taken to a volunteer-run camp at North Stoneham before being relocated to homes across the country.
NSF is closing down most of the Ocean Observatory oceanobservatories.org/2026/05/anno...
Announcement on NSF OOI Descoping - Ocean Observatories Initiative
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has initiated descoping of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Major Facility. This plan includes the removal of all in-water infrastructure from the Ir...
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Modern Mooch visits Southampton's famously brutalist Wyndham Court estate ... modernmooch.com/2026/05/11/w...
The Royal Meteorological Society @rmets.org recently wrote a piece celebrating influential women in weather and climate. It’s well worth a read on any day, not just on International Women’s Day www.rmets.org/metmatters/t...
Ten influential women in weather and climate - past and present
To mark International Women’s Day, here are some of the influential women who changed weather and climate science globally, from scientific breakthroughs to public communication.
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11/ OBSERVATIONS - Also published just this week: data from four mooring arrays along the western Atlantic shows a consistent decline in deep overturning transport across all latitudes over the past 20 years. The models predicted decline. We're now measuring it.
Science | AAAS
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Apropos of nothing here’s a picture of global cooling (it’s that tiny little dip at the end).
Earth is warming as ther's more energy arriving than leaving driven by rising greenhouse gases & this imbalance is growing rather than shrinking as needed to limit #climate change. Our recent contributions to this in @ioppublishing.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1088/1748... doi.org/10.1088/1748...
Reconciling Earth’s growing energy imbalance with ocean warming
Reconciling Earth’s growing energy imbalance with ocean warming, Allan, Richard P, Merchant, Christopher J
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World Meteorological Organization@wmo-global.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe Earth’s energy imbalance has reached a new high. In a stable climate, incoming energy from the sun is about the same as the amount of outgoing energy. But increasing greenhouse gas concentrations have upset the equilibrium. 🆕 #StateOfClimate 2025: bit.ly/StateOfClima... #WorldMetDay
ARCHER2, the UK national supercomputing service, has delivered an eightfold return on investment to the economy according to independent analysis. Operated by EPCC, it has enabled more than £4.2bn in benefits to the UK economy since launching in 2021: edin.ac/47JGMHB
