It was the driest July on record at Kew since 1800 [caveat of likely a variety of different station placements since then], which also recorded no measurable rainfall - very impressive for the area. Local records go back to 1697.
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July 2026 was an exceptional month for the UK's climate statistics, with records challenged or broken for rainfall, temperature and sunshine. Read more in our press release ⤵️ www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
"The #climate we live in today is the least extreme climate you will experience in your lifetimes because of ongoing fossil fuel emissions."
Ed Hawkins@edhawkins.org · 5d agoThe missing words in the climate conversation are not human-caused climate change, but fossil fuel emissions. By Hayley Fowler and myself: theconversation.com/was-this-hea...
The missing words in the climate conversation are not human-caused climate change, but fossil fuel emissions. By Hayley Fowler and myself: theconversation.com/was-this-hea...
‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question
Instead of asking whether climate change caused a heatwave, we should ask how much hotter it became because of fossil fuel emissions.
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Heat waves come, and heat waves go, but burning fossil fuels make them hotter, more frequent, and longer.
Ed Hawkins@edhawkins.org · 5d agoThe missing words in the climate conversation are not human-caused climate change, but fossil fuel emissions. By Hayley Fowler and myself: theconversation.com/was-this-hea...
The missing words in the climate conversation are not human-caused climate change, but fossil fuel emissions. By Hayley Fowler and myself: theconversation.com/was-this-hea...
‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question
Instead of asking whether climate change caused a heatwave, we should ask how much hotter it became because of fossil fuel emissions.
theconversation.com
UK drought now extends across Wales with headlines about the driest July in records that stretch back 190 years. How do we know how much it rained in Wales in each July back to 1836? Answer - a volunteer army: www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...
UK's rainfall records rescued by volunteer army
We now have a clearer idea of when these islands were sodden or parched going back almost 200 years.
bbc.co.uk
Plug-in solar panels are coming to the UK from August 27th! It's been in the pipeline for a while & it's already common in Germany. But it's BRILLIANT because it opens up these technologies to renters & ppl w/o their own roof. Plugs into a normal socket & supplies ~ 10-20% of household needs. ☀️🎉
UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August
Law change means renters and flat owners may be able to cut bills as energy costs soar amid Iran war
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Short-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
bbc.co.uk
I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
bbc.co.uk
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 3w ago“What will the Lovell Telescope discover/enable 20 yrs from now? I can’t tell you, and that’s the point. It will either be something extraordinary that none of us can yet predict, or we will defund it and leave Cheshire with a rusting monument to unfulfilled potential and discoveries never made.” 🔭🧪
Are these heatwaves made hotter by greenhouse gas emissions, aerosol reductions or both? Framing the causes of hotter heatwaves: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/framing-th...
Framing the causes of hotter heatwaves
Fossil fuels or human-induced climate change?
climatelabbook.substack.com
Are these heatwaves made hotter by greenhouse gas emissions, aerosol reductions or both? Framing the causes of hotter heatwaves: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/framing-th...
Framing the causes of hotter heatwaves
Fossil fuels or human-induced climate change?
climatelabbook.substack.com
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
The 13 biggest myths about heatwaves – and how to bust them Every heatwave and every summer is hotter than it would otherwise have been without past greenhouse gas emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The 13 biggest myths about heatwaves – and how to bust them
With some still unable to accept humanity’s role in climate chaos, we tackle common misconceptions and deceptions
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The 13 biggest myths about heatwaves – and how to bust them
The 13 biggest myths about heatwaves – and how to bust them
With some still unable to accept humanity’s role in climate chaos, we tackle common misconceptions and deceptions
theguardian.com
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
In the 20th century, there were many years where the temperature never exceeded 30°C *anywhere* in the UK. In 1974, the highest temperature was a mere 28.0°C, which really underscores how extreme 1976 was for the time. That climate no longer exists.
Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 4w agoWhy is AC so rare in much of Europe? Well, until recently it simply wasn't hot enough to need it. Here is the average number of days above 30C (86F) for major cities over time:
Temperatures peaked at 35.2°C today at Coton in the Elms, Derbyshire This means 2026 has now broken even more temperature records 🌡️
France just broke it's all time record for night-time minimum temperature: 30.6°C at Vives Is this an 'infernal night'? meteofrance.com/actualites-e...
Canicule : retour de très fortes chaleurs et nuits chaudes | Météo-France
Cette fin de semaine et ce week-end, la chaleur monte encore d'un cran, avec des nuits chaudes sur la majeure partie du pays. En journée, les températures s’intensifient en particulier dimanche, à l'o...
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Temperatures have exceeded 34°C today for the 8th day this year 🌡️ That makes it a record for the most number of 34°C or higher in a calendar year 👇 The record was previously set in 1976 and 2020 for 7 days
M&S saw the plausible weather forecast for 2056, peaking at 45°C, that we produced with the Met Office and made the decision to invest in upgraded refrigeration. This comes after some of their fridges brown down during the recent heatwave. www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
Extreme marine heatwave forecast for the coasts around the UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Extreme' marine heatwave expected for parts of UK with risk to sea life
Scientists fear that high sea temperatures could have wide-ranging consequences for marine life.
bbc.co.uk
The UK ‘only’ contributes 1% of global emissions – in our new article for @theconversation.com we show why it doesn't make us exempt from climate action. theconversation.com/uk-only-cont... @chlobrim.bsky.social @eciu.net @bas.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk
UK ‘only’ contributes 1% global emissions – but alongside many other countries, that all adds up
If many countries take the stance that ‘we’re only contributing 1% of global emissions’, responsibility dwindles and action stalls.
theconversation.com
Yesterday marked 70 years since the UK Clean Air Act 1956 - the first national legislation to tackle air pollution, introduced in response to the devastating Great Smog of London in 1952. The graphic below is courtesy of airqualitystripes.info. 🧵 1/5
Our heatwaves will get hotter and hotter and hotter until we get to global net zero greenhouse gas emissions and so stabilise the climate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Comparing the UK heatwaves of June 1976 and June 2026... Daytime maximum & night minimum temperatures were much hotter in 2026. Details: maxima over 21st-30th June in both years. Uses provisional 2026 HadUK-Grid data from Met Office NCIC. Note the difference scale is larger for night minimums.
Comparing the UK heatwaves of June 1976 and June 2026... Daytime maximum & night minimum temperatures were much hotter in 2026. Details: maxima over 21st-30th June in both years. Uses provisional 2026 HadUK-Grid data from Met Office NCIC. Note the difference scale is larger for night minimums.