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Richard H. Clarke
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Climate Risk Specialist, Ortec Finance | Model, write, campaign about the impacts of extreme weather | Fellow, Institution of Chemical Engineers | Fusion | Cryogenics | Co-Editor Future of Helium as a Natural Resource | Lake District, UK | views are my own
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A year ago today I was thrilled our Comment article was published in Nature in time for #COP28 #lossanddamage but despite all our efforts the funding fell through. Still working on ways to take this forward... #climaterisk #geospatialrisk www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Climate loss-and-damage funding: a mechanism to make it work
Compensating for the devastating impacts of heatwaves, hurricanes and floods after they occur is too slow. With climate risks accelerating, the world must predict who needs funds and when.
www.nature.com
#Helium The Future of Helium as a Natural Resource (eds. William J. Nuttall, Richard H. Clarke and Bartek A. Glowacki) www.routledge.com/The-Future-o... is still a go-to source if you want to know where helium comes from, how much helium gas is left, what helium is used for now and in the future...
October 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
#Helium is a vital high tech gas. Its importance is growing. Rising prices drive diversity of supply. Helium is a now global business. Much He is wasted e.g. in Algerian natural gas piped to Europe. Balloons (don't release!) are usually filled with transfill waste gas www.nature.com/articles/485...
Stop squandering helium - Nature
Establish a global agency to build a sustainable market for this precious commodity, say William J. Nuttall, Richard H. Clarke and Bartek A. Glowacki.
www.nature.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:57 AM
#Helium since the US Helium Privatization Act 1996, there have been periods of helium supply glut / shortfall but, as we showed in this article, we not about to run out of helium any time soon. Indeed, the high helium prices have spurred helium 'pure play' mining www.researchgate.net/publication/...
October 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
#Helium has a vital role in advanced technologies ranging from #MRI medical imaging to #aerospace, #semiconductors, #quantumcomputing. Reflecting this, Grade-A 99.996% helium prices keep rising in line with our estimate. Ultra-pure liquid helium costs much more www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
#Helium If the Russian helium recovery facility at Amur (E. Siberia) is fully online by 2030, that may mark the point of #peakhelium production according the to Helium Resources research project 2005-2009; Z. Cai, W.J. Nuttall, R.H. Clarke, B.A. Glowacki, N. Ward
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
October 24, 2025 at 11:58 AM
#Helium 12 years ago I gave a keynote at Creon's Helium 2013 Moscow summit. I predicted by 2030 the centre of global helium production would be Eastern Siberia. Recent reports agree en.igascn.com/global/detai... In 1963, it was Texas Panhandle/Cliffside. Thanks to LNG, Qatar was the centre in 2015.
October 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
#LSEEvents launch of Pete Betts' #ClimateDiplomat. Lord Stern invites Fiona Betts up, as book editor Grace Pengelly, and former & current ministers Ed Davey, John Selwyn Gummer (Lord Deben) & Ed Miliband look on. A shared understanding of the science demands global action, an industrial revolution!
September 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Last week these groups came to the 'Global Tipping Points' Conf, Exeter, UK. #AMOC #Amazon #foodsystems #GIS #WAIS #CoralReefs #mindsets these are the concerns of leading scientists www.carbonbrief.org/experts-whic... My poster "Economic Impacts of Acute Physical Risk Under a Prompt AMOC Collapse"
July 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
What a great idea!
🌊 My TEDx Talk is live!

And yes — it involves deep-sea robots, underwater sound, and the surprising role of wind in the fight against climate change.

Dive in!

🔗 youtu.be/mPi08_HC6cg?...

#TEDTalk #OceanScience #ClimateChange #ScienceCommunication #BGCArgo #PostdocLife #OceanResearch
LISTENING TO THE OCEAN’S CLIMATE CLUES | Louise Delaigue | TEDxEDHECNice
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
youtu.be
July 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Reposted by Richard H. Clarke
Forecasts for tomorrow morning show that smoke from the prairie province fires will have already crossed the border -- affecting visibility across the north-central states and air quality closer to the border. Air quality in northern Saskatchewan remains terrible.
May 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
What's the chance the world will warm more than 3°C? An #EDHEC report indicates that #IPCC expert opinion (15%) lags the science (35-40%). This matters a lot. If IPCC scientists underestimate risk, it reduces our capacity to prepare for it.
EDHEC lnkd.in/enhYHjNB
The Guardian survey lnkd.in/e3SpBmcE
May 29, 2025 at 11:06 PM
In Trump 1.0, Scott Pruitt, E.P.A Administrator (until forced to resign) imposed a non-sensical 7% discount rate on the #socialcostofcarbon, a tool used by planners and courts to assess the environmental damage from CO2. In Trump 2.0, they just killed the whole thing! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/c...
What’s the Cost to Society of Pollution? Trump Says Zero.
www.nytimes.com
May 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
#Electricity is having a rough week! What with #Spain #Portugal & #TonyBlairInstitute. Here I’m on a train to London Paddington. Line overheating & power trip. Are we going backwards? Or is this a bump on the road to the future? Too many eggs in one basket? www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
May 1, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Very high tariffs are being imposed on some of the most economically and environmentally vulnerable countries. What did they do wrong? The parties involved, the suppliers, buyers and customers freely entered into contracts to trade. The US' problems stem from decades of bad policies by both parties.
April 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
People in Delta, Ohio, want "a level playing field"*. I get that. How do these vindictive, random tariffs, that cut in today, help achieve that? China (yellow), EU can fight back. But #Lesotho, #Cambodia, #Laos, #Madagascar & #Myanmar? These countries need supporting.
* www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
April 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Is it just a coincidence that atmospheric methane concentration started escalating around the time that US shale gas production took off? I don't think so... fugitive CH₄ emissions can make natural gas worse than coal! US Gov has removed fugitive emission controls:
www.linkedin.com/posts/peters...
March 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
What decarbonisation tools remain in a hostile climate policy space? @profmarkmaslin.bsky.social and I explore the ways in which professional #engineers could use virtual carbon pricing as they build the new energy, transport and built environments we now need.
journals.uclpress.co.uk/ucloe/news/72/
In a hostile climate, keep on decarbonising with a virtual carbon price
Reaching the Net Zero 1.5°C goal now requires Direct Air Capture. With US climate action under siege, how can public bodies, corporations and individual engineers keep on track towards decarbonisation...
journals.uclpress.co.uk
March 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Reposted by Richard H. Clarke
We have taken our Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS) into operations today to run side by side with our physics-based weather forecasts. The #AIFS outperforms traditional models for many measures, at a fraction of energy use. ➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...
#AI #MachineLearning
February 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Reposted by Richard H. Clarke
Using data through Feb. 23, 2025 and assuming warming is accelerating, the planet is now set to cross the 1.5°C line in mid-2026.
February 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Cutting the UK's #overseasaid budget from 0.5% GDP to 0.3% is not what is needed - Sky News lnkd.in/eexizRTd
Worsening #extremeweather means UK's share should now be 0.7% (the pre-Covid goal). Unless warming is limited to 2°C, the % of GDP needed increases. Nature Comment shows why lnkd.in/ewxFbKA5
February 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Reposted by Richard H. Clarke
This is a really good job for someone who might be a bit disenthraled with academia. A job that will really make a difference - we need a difference. climatelitigationnetwork.org/recruitment/
Recruitment - Climate Litigation Network
Recruitment Science Advisor CLN is looking for a Science Advisor to support climate litigation efforts by ensuring that best-available science is fully integrated into legal and advocacy strategies ai...
climatelitigationnetwork.org
February 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Reposted by Richard H. Clarke
The UK produces 60% of its own food, 114% of its lamb and mutton, but only 16% of its fruit.

There's huge scope to increase the amount of fruit and veg that we produce –– and in a way which is very land efficient, @tommlancaster.bsky.social tells @alexisconran.bsky.social.

@eciu.net
February 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Whiplash #hydroclimate #volatility is seen in acute physical risk / extreme weather modelling. Emerging in the 1980s, it is evident in oscillations: periods of excess rainfall HYD flooding, plant growth followed by periods of drought CLIM boosted wildfires
www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/cl...
January 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
A factor behind the Los Angeles #firestorms:
"Hydroclimate volatility refers to sudden, large and/or frequent
transitions between very dry and very wet conditions. This review examines how #hydroclimate #volatility is anticipated to evolve with anthropogenic warming" www.nature.com/articles/s43...
January 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM