How much the global mean temperature will change in response to increases in carbon dioxide is of high uncertainty in climate models but is critical for future planning and climate…Read More >
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Meteorological Masterclass: Heatwaves and Climate Change in Urban Microclimates
Wednesday 24 March 2021: Heatwaves and climate change in urban microclimates Professor Sue Grimmond, University of Reading The focus of this talk is on heatwaves and how urban areas can…Read More >
What can the arts show us about climate change?
Climate change requires an urgent and radical reconsideration of the relationship between humans and the earth, how we live and how we shape, and are shaped by, the more-than-human world….Read More >
Climate change is making extreme cold much less likely, despite the UK plummeting to -23°C
The UK, along with large parts of northern Europe, is in the grip of an unusually cold period of weather thanks to a flow of cold easterly winds from Siberia….Read More >
Overshadowed by COVID: the deadly extreme weather of 2020
The year 2020 will no doubt go down in history for other reasons, but it is also on target to be one of the warmest on record. And as the…Read More >
Why COVID-19 has left the UK especially vulnerable to flooding this winter
Winter is here and, as a researcher who monitors flooding, I find it more daunting than ever. The UK faces a formidable trend of warmer and wetter winters, which already increase the…Read More >
Beware Floods Ahead!
Join us at in the ExplorerZone Digital of the Oxford Science and Ideas Festival on Saturday 17 October – from 8am to 8pm from the comfort of your own home. …Read More >
Oxford Science and Ideas Festival
The Beware: Floods Ahead! exhibit is going online at the Oxford Ideas Festival. Mixing maths with poetry and climate science with geography: be the flood judge, create your ‘climate stripes’,…Read More >
Meteorology Masterclass: The impact of climate change on winter storms
SPEAKER | Len Shaffrey: University of Reading / NCAS Professor of Climate Science Royal Meteorological Society / University of Reading webinar series on Winter Storms in European Weather and Climate…Read More >
Heatwaves are an invisible killer – and the UK is woefully unprepared
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause suffering around the world, but another killer has silently struck in summer 2020. With relatively little by way of official warning or advice on…Read More >
