🧵🧪I believe this is the post at the mouth of the Great Ouse showing heights above the dock sill where the King's Lynn Conservancy Board have recorded tidal heights for decades. Their records are very useful to show how a relatively small rise is sea-level could be incredibly damaging to East Anglia.

Spoonbills, shelduck, hundreds of black tailed godwits and an avocet having an identity crisis at the @rspb.bsky.social Snettisham reserve yesterday.

Second homes like this one?

"And a 40 - 60cm rise by 2100 is massive wishful thinking" Indeed. The rate of global mean sea-level rise over the past decade is double what it averaged through the 20th century, and has increased more than 25% since the start of this century. There's every reason to expect this trend to continue.

Also worth pointing out that growth on its own is not a reliable indicator of a healthy economy. Look at how unemployment surged during the booms and busts of the Thatcher years. Benefits of growth were certainly not trickling down to people who lost their jobs. www.economicshelp.org/blog/glossar...

Another proud parent day. It's now official that all three of my kids are smarter then me. #Graduation #Cardiff

For a brief moment I thought Daft Punk were making a comeback.

Looking at two parts of one of England’s fastest eroding coasts today at Easton Bavents and Thorpeness, Suffolk. #coastal #erosion #geology

Except this isn't a temporary warming. It's an accelerating trend spanning decades.

New paper led by Patric Simões Pereira presents evidence for a reduced West Antarctic Ice Sheet during late Quaternary interglacial periods from analysis of ice-rafted debris in Amundsen Sea sediments. doi.org/10.1029/2026...

Latest @metoffice.gov.uk forecast for Cambridge is for maximum temperatures of 38°C on Tuesday and Wednesday. That's an anomaly relative to the average June daily maximum temperature (1991-2020) of more than +17°C 🥵

It's #ShowYourStripes day. Here are the lastest stripes for Cambridge, England, just a few km from where I live, presented as bars and with a relative temperature scale. Coincidentally, the forecast for the next few days here predicts the hottest days of the year so far, with anomalies up to +14°C.

In case anyone was in any doubt.

Not even close, even if you put the votes for all the right wing parties together. Must be a disappointment to all the media pundits who were trying to build up Reform as presenting a serious challenge.

🧵🧪🌊 Today is #WorldOceansDay. My favourite parts of the ocean are those adjacent to Antarctica, Greenland and other locations where ice flows into the sea. Photo shows the vessel Bark Europa, taken during the voyage to the Antarctic Peninsula I joined earlier this year.

The rate had already increased to more than 3 mm/yr by the first decade of this century. The decadal rate fluctuates a bit and has exceeded 4.5 mm/yr at times, but over the most recent 10 years it is a fraction under 4 mm/yr.

Spending a fun couple of hours on platform 3 at Stevenage after failing to make an impossibly tight connection for a train to Edinburgh. A couple of northbound LNER trains have stopped here since but I'm told my Lumo ticket isn't valid for those. Privatisation eh? The gift that just keeps on giving.

Now let's compare that with a map of important groundwater aquifers and think about what the consequences might be if pollutants migrate into the wrong geological layer (facilitated by the newly generated fractures). doi.org/10.1177/0309... Any thoughts on this @seismatters.bsky.social ?

Here's a photo from the same set taken during our visit in 1976, looking down the steps from Montenvers to the ice cave in the glacier.

Going through a box of old slides I found this view of the Mer de Glace taken from the terrace at Montenvers on a family holiday in August 1976. I'm the teenager by the railing carrying a small backpack. I had no idea of the amount of change that would take place here in my lifetime.

Yes. Here's a map of sea ice remaining in the Weddell Sea at the time of this year's Antarctic minimum sea-ice extent. It will outlast Arctic sea ice by a long stretch.

A couple of days ago I had an interesting change of workplace for the day thanks to the Developing Business-Aware Academics project. business-aware-academics.org

The sky looks on fire in South Cambridgeshire this evening.

The Sally B, the only airworthy B-17 Flying Fortress based in Europe, flying over my house a few minutes ago. A perk of living near IWM Duxford.

Storm approaching South Cambridgeshire.

Today is Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday. Here is the view I had in 2018 of the launch of the hull of the research ship bearing his name. Sir David can be seen waving as it goes down the slipway into the Mersey.

Many media outlets seem to be having difficulty communicating the scale of the gift that Farage neglected to declare compared to the amounts other politicians benefitted as a result of financial indiscretions recently, so here's a simple graphic to help.

It is now late autumn in Antarctica. The polar night, when the sun disappears below the horizon until spring, will soon extend over most of the continent. Yet there is still hardly any sea ice in the southern Bellingshausen Sea (lower left in the regional map below).

Also, one small advantage you have is that you live a little north of the part of the country where the surface is subsiding, so the rate a relative sea-level rise will be a fraction slower than in areas further south.

Yep. The massive difference in the relative level of impact was already difficult to represent graphically even before these new results. www.statista.com/chart/15195/...