23rd July - Today's News: Storms Follow Hottest Day for 7 years

Well that was fun!   First decent thunderstorm in ages - even saw some CG lightning.   With varying intensity it lasted the best part of 3 hours and produced over 28mm of rain. Storms follow hottest day for years and plenty of pictures in the Daily Mail as summer ends with a bang (although summer is far from over!)





Rescue teams in China's quake-hit Gansu - death toll currently 94

New Zealand tectonic fault larger than thought


David Shukman asks why has global warming stalled?  I ask, who says it has?   Meanwhile a long piece by Andrew Neil on Ed Davey climate change interview critics.

Oh, and in other news, someone had a baby yesterday .....  Congratulations to Mr & Mrs Wales and welcome to our future King.

Comments

  1. Anonymous23 July 2013 at 13:46

    The Shukman article was on a briefing by several climate scientists (inc. Piers Forster and Ed Hawkins) with the SMC (Science Media Center). The Telegraph and Mail also covered it.

    Here's the briefing note: http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/SMC-Briefing-Notes-Recent-Slowdown-in-Global-Temperature-Rise.pdf (pdf)



    Dana Nuccitelli has responded to Andrew Neil's piece here:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/jul/23/climate-change-andrew-neil-bbc-errors-take2?CMP=twt_gu

    Cheers,
    skanky

    ReplyDelete
  2. Anonymous23 July 2013 at 14:03

    More here too: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/news/recent-pause-in-warming

    skanky

    ReplyDelete
  3. Anonymous24 July 2013 at 22:28

    More on the "pause" articles.
    This is interesting and very worth a read: http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/communicating-the-slowdown/

    ReplyDelete
  4. Anonymous25 July 2013 at 15:24

    Last one: http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2013/recent-slowdown/

    skanky

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

23rd September - Today's News: Climate Change Impacts "Accelerating"

 Climate change: Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather for UN talks with the five warmest years on record occurring in the past 5 years.   Meanwhile on the Pizol glacier: Swiss hold funeral for ice lost to global warming After heavy rain in Northern Ireland, Sion Mills residents return home following 'worst flooding' in years Last week saw the first snow falls as winter arrives in northern Sweden Japan's latest typhoon leaves 30 injured; downgraded to extratropical cyclone 5 deaths now linked to flooding in Texas after Tropical Storm Imelda Magnitude 5.6 earthquake rocks buildings in Albania The UK's climate change: 800 years tracked using oak tree rings And how Enceladus causes snowfall on other moons of Saturn
Read more

11th October - Today's News: Race on to Protect Bangkok from Floods

Thailand races to defend Bangkok from floods How our Indian summer is set to make pumpkins a little less pumped for Halloween San Antonio keeps water flowing amid a deep drought whilst Colorada empties popular lake to pay its water bill . Hurricane Jova closes in on western Mexico Antarctic lake mission targets life and climate signs Glacier lakes: growing danger zones in the Himalaya It looks like there has been an underwater volcanic eruption near Spanish Canary island Michael Hanlon makes a fool of himself by building a great big man of straw and asking Mini Ice-Age or global warming: Why can't they make their minds up? Does he really not realise that it's the media he works for that keep coming up with these daft predictions, not the scientists who invariably are saying something very, very different (the recent 'ice age' claims being a case in point). Shame on you Michael. Or maybe that was the point? To further mislead the public and champion the cause of
Read more

25th July - Today's News: Fatal Chinese Bullet Train Crash Caused by Lightning

A weekend of extremes: Lightning sparks Chinese train crash, 33 killed whilst the heaviest rainstorm in 13 years hits Beijing, two suspected killed by lightning. In NZ, wintry blast brings worst snow in over a decade And in the US, East coast cools but millions of Americans still suffering under stifling heatwave whilst for Chicago the rainiest day since 1871 causes power outages and mayhem on roads Floods displace 3,000 in eastern region of Ghana
Read more