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Elizabeth Kent
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Ocean, climate, Southampton
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I gave a talk yesterday about monitoring, reporting, and verification for marine carbon dioxide removal and you can watch it here at 2x speed if you wish. 🌊
Global-ONCE Seminar 6: Monitoring, Reporting and Verification for marine Carbon Dioxide Removal
YouTube video by Yernar Sailybayev
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests | Mark Cunliffe
@markcunliffe76.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
A new survey reveals negative attitudes to Reform UK Ltd
Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions
centralbylines.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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November 15, 1958 – Academic Paper on “Changes in Carbon Dioxide Content of Atmosphere and Sea Due to Fossil Fuel Combustion” submitted

allouryesterdays.info/2022/11/14/n...
November 15, 1958 - Academic Paper on “Changes in Carbon Dioxide Content of Atmosphere and Sea Due to Fossil Fuel Combustion” submitted - All Our Yesterdays
On this day, November 15, in 1958 one of the first papers about, well, our current problem, was submitted for publication. 1958 Bolin and Eriksson’s classic paper         “Changes in the Carbon Dioxid...
allouryesterdays.info
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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The 2025 update of the Global Carbon Budget is out.​​
While fossil CO2 emissions rise again and carbon sinks are weakened by climate change, deforestation emissions are down and many countries decarbonise their energy.
No global emissions peak yet though.
theconversation.com/the-worlds-c...
The world’s carbon emissions continue to rise. But 35 countries show progress in cutting carbon
In 2025 the world has fallen short, again, of peaking and reducing its fossil fuel use. But there are many countries on a path to greener energy.
theconversation.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Looking for a PhD in climate science?

Great opportunity to help modernise one of the iconic climate time series - Central England Temperature.

Led by @timosbornclim.bsky.social, with myself and Met Office collaborators: www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
PhD Redeveloping Central England Temperature: Modernising a Historic Climate Series, CASE project with Met Office (OSBORNT_U26SCI) 2026/27 | UEA
PhD Redeveloping Central England Temperature: Modernising a Historic Climate Series, CASE project with Met Office (OSBORNT_U26SCI) 2026/27 | UEA
www.uea.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Happy birthday to the only two women with elements named after them on the periodic table: #MarieCurie & #LiseMeitner.

As I do every year, I will once again repeat my proposal that November 7 should be International #WomenInSTEM Day!

#histSTM #chemistry #physics
#OnThisDay #OTD #PeriodicTable👩‍🔬🗃️📜
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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📣 #StateOfClimate Update 2025 is out now

🌡️ From January to August 2025, average temperature was +1.42°C hotter than pre-industrial level, on track to be second or third hottest year on record.

🔗 Press release: https://bit.ly/3LoawS9

🔗 Full report: https://bit.ly/4qZR52q
November 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Should we start historical climate simulations in 1750 (or 1800) rather than 1850?

Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century

Ballinger, Schurer et al.: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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A reminder of what happened last time a UK govt tried to reduce bills by "cutting the green crap"

Analysis: Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015

www.carbonbrief.org/...
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Happy Halloween! Courtesy of the ocean techs at @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Southampton’s West Bay, early 1900s. Southampton West (now Central) railway station can be seen on the left. The bay disappeared when the land was reclaimed here in the 1920s and 1930s in order to create the vast Western Docks.

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October 31, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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UK Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) has just published the latest rolling update on anthropogenic climate change effects on sea temperature 🌊🌡️.

This update was led by NOC's Dr Richard Cornes.

Read the full report here 👇
www.mccip.org.uk/temperature
October 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Robert Lavers was tea dealer, grocer, and fish sauce manufacturer, with premises at 5 Prospect Place on Above Bar Street, opposite Commercial Road. In this 1835 advert, he boasts of his Lavers’ Celebrated Southampton Sauce.

📸: Hampshire Advertiser, 16 May 1835

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October 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Due to unstable access to #SSMIS data, we are suspending today the distribution of our #SeaIce concentration interim climate data record based on it (OSI-430-a).
We advise all users to switch to our #AMSR2 based climate products.
for more info: osi-saf.eumetsat.int/community/li...
October 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The work on extending the calculation of normals for the land station data in GloSAT was done by @timosbornclim.bsky.social and his team at UEA
I mean to say @colinmorice.bsky.social and the rest of the team.
October 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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This is definitely something worthy of quantitative analysis and experiments. It is very hard to know otherwise how much of the error was due to the lack of weather balloons. Forecast failures happen, and tropical cyclones moving into the extratropics are a common source of these.
Meteorologists are raising alarms that cuts made to weather balloon launches early in Trump's term may have directly contributed to poor forecasts of the catastrophic storm that recently hit western Alaska.

edition.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...
October 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Unseasonal #drought and heat combine with unusual fuel buildup from previous wet years to intensify wildfires as a consequence of human caused warming of #climate
🚨 Launched: State of Wildfires Report 2024-25

The Americas felt the harsh reality of what it means to live on a more fire-prone planet, with extreme #wildfire episodes made 2-3 times more likely by #climate change.

🔥 Full details via our brand new website: stateofwildfires.com/latest-report/
October 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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A request for weather interested volunteers!

Met Eireann would like to rescue millions of weather observations taken in Ireland over many decades that are still stuck on paper. #WeatherRescue

Anyone can help: www.zooniverse.org/projects/met...
October 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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On the early train again. This time to Southampton to run my Play your PhD workshop with the Flood CDT students. Really looking forward to this one.
October 16, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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As we prepare for the Arctic Circle #Assembly2025 we're highlighting NOC's Arctic work.

🌡️ The Arctic may be ice-free in summer by 2050, with global impacts. 🌍

Projects like CANARI focus on how this affects extreme weather and the UK. 🇬🇧🌦️

More on our Arctic projects here:
noc.ac.uk/science/arct...
October 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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An atmospheric general circulation model you can run on a Python Jupyter notebook?! Heck yeah! Check out this project- both an educational tool for undergraduates/graduate students, and a research tool for scientists interested in idealized climate modeling.
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
journals.ametsoc.org
October 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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I’ve recently begun a PhD, part of which is to discover missing historical meteorological observations recorded across Ireland. Meteorological tables contained within the short-lived Dublin Magazine of 1820 were recently found. The observations were taken by a J. Pim at 55 City Quay, Dublin 1/
October 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Open Ocean #11

Playing whack-a-mole with some interesting artefacts in the data and interpolation.

diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o...
Open Ocean #11
Playing whack-amole with some interesting artefacts in the data and interpolation.
diagrammonkey.wordpress.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Pretty good sign that the work is both impactful and effectively communicated.
October 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM