General UK Climate News and Stories

[PR1Berske]

 

[ska invita]

England drenched after the wettest 18 months since records began in 1836​

Warmer atmosphere will continue to hold more moisture and contribute to rainfall, scientists say
FT https://archive.ph/ryRH8#selection-1583.0-1589.96

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[teqniq]

Result here:

Judge throws out case against UK climate activist who held sign on jurors’ rights

 

[teqniq]

Result here:

Judge throws out case against UK climate activist who held sign on jurors’ rights

Fucking scumbag government is appealing:

Solicitor general to appeal over case of climate activist who held sign on jurors’ rights

Exclusive: Judge accused Robert Courts of ‘mischaracterising evidence’ against Trudi Warner

www.theguardian.com

 

[Karl Masks]

Fucking scumbag government is appealing:

Solicitor general to appeal over case of climate activist who held sign on jurors’ rights

Exclusive: Judge accused Robert Courts of ‘mischaracterising evidence’ against Trudi Warner

www.theguardian.com

Surely one for the Free Speech Union, no?

Does Trudi have grounds for a counter claim on grounds of vexatious litigation or whatever?

 

[PR1Berske]

The Sun and Daily Mail are reporting today that the Met Office has briefed the government that their modelling suggests we're in for "55 days of rain", the worst summer in over 100 years.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

2hats Anymore on this?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Fucking scumbag government is appealing:

Solicitor general to appeal over case of climate activist who held sign on jurors’ rights

Exclusive: Judge accused Robert Courts of ‘mischaracterising evidence’ against Trudi Warner

www.theguardian.com

You can appeal against a verdict you don't like, but to appeal against a case being thrown out altogether? Something you'd only do if you weren't paying the lawyers with your own money.

 

[2hats]

Rain (>=1mm anywhere in the UK is the UKMO definition of a 'day of rain') falls roughly 'every other day' during a typical year (last year 47% of days were rain days). So in a summer season of 93 days you would expect about 43-44 days of rain. The red top comics are apparently reporting '50 days of rain' (just over a 10% increase). This probably just reflects the growing thunderstorm (ie convective) rain risk in summer (AGW is anticipated to increase rainfall risk in NW Europe) coupled with the current teleconnections drivers.

Most likely it is from a contingency briefing to government, not a forecast as such, just advice on potential risk to factor into authorities' preparations.

e2a: UKMO comment...

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[bcuster]

$4,000.000 cow to satisfy carnivorous beef appetite

She's the world's most expensive cow, and part of Brazil's plan to put beef on everyone's plate

Brazil has hundreds of millions of cows, but one in particular is extraordinary. Her massive, snow-white body is watched over by security cameras and an armed guard.

apnews.com

Worth $4 million, Viatina-19 FIV Mara Movéis is the most expensive cow ever sold at auction, according to Guinness World Records. That’s three times more than the last recordholder’s price. And — at 1,100 kilograms (more than 2,400 pounds) — she’s twice as heavy as an average adult of her breed...

Climate scientists agree that people need to consume less beef, the largest agricultural source of greenhouse gasses and a driver of Amazon deforestation.

 

[bcuster]

Climate change and Wales: Where we are in charts

A quick guide to the state of Wales and its climate change challenges.

www.bbc.com

 

[Artaxerxes]

Something has gone wrong for insects, says Cambridgeshire charity

A conservation charity says that humans and other life forms could not survive without bugs.

www.bbc.co.uk

Noticed that many of plants have been struggling with both pollination and growing with the weird damp grey weather this year

 

[stavros]

This quite neat, capturing the tidal energy off the north coast of Scotland. I'm nowhere near qualified to say whether it's scaleable, or whether it has unforeseen negative consequences.

 

[stavros]

A bit more on stuff happening in Orkney, which sounds quite exciting.

 

[PR1Berske]

The 2024-25 Storm Names are released:

 

[DotCommunist]

Kayliegh, is it to late to say I'm sorry, and Kayliegh can we get back together again?

 

[taperoo2k]

This quite neat, capturing the tidal energy off the north coast of Scotland. I'm nowhere near qualified to say whether it's scaleable, or whether it has unforeseen negative consequences.

It looks like it's feasible to scale it up. I guess have to question if the turbine blades would be a threat to sea life or not.

 

[teqniq]

It's flying trampoline season again:

 

[steeplejack]

Scaldingly angry downpour shortens time added on in a football match between Mickleover Sports and Blyth Spartans at the weekend.

An almost Caribbean-style storm and would have been seen as a headline-generating anomaly fifteen years or so ago. Now everyone just shrugs.

 

[Artaxerxes]

British food firms successfully lobbied to defer £1.7bn plastic packaging tax

Exclusive: New scheme to improve recycling rates and tackle pollution was pushed back by Tories after industry complaints

democracyforsale.substack.com

 

[Humberto]

An Atlantic Ocean current system that keeps the UK temperate (Ireland too) rather than 'like Northern Norway', is said to be possibly at risk of no longer doing its thing. It's a 'serious possibility' within decades according to a group of scientists:

Climate scientists warn Nordic ministers of changing Atlantic Ocean current
link

Several studies have suggested that the risk of the Atlantic current changing has been greatly underestimated, the scientists said, adding that there was a serious possibility of passing the tipping point in the next few decades.
"If Britain and Ireland become like northern Norway, (that) has tremendous consequences. Our finding is that this is not a low probability," said professor Peter Ditlevsen at the University of Copenhagen, a signatory of the letter.

"This is not something you easily adapt to."
A collapse of the ocean-current system would increase cooling of the Northern Hemisphere, raise Atlantic sea levels, drop precipitation over Europe and North America and shift monsoons in South America and Africa, according to the United Kingdom's Met Office.

 

[ska invita]

An Atlantic Ocean current system that keeps the UK temperate (Ireland too) rather than 'like Northern Norway', is said to be possibly at risk of no longer doing its thing. It's a 'serious possibility' within decades according to a group of scientists:

Climate scientists warn Nordic ministers of changing Atlantic Ocean current
link

twenty years ago now....

 

[teqniq]

Please sign and share:

Petition: Run a public information campaign on the climate crisis

Communicate clearly: 1) the science behind the climate crisis - how & why for the first time in the last year we've averaged 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels 2) the implications of going beyond this and what needs to be done to address it globally, nationally, locally and individually.

petition.parliament.uk

 

[teqniq]

No shit:

GMB Weather Presenter Says Editors Tell Her to Only Highlight the Most Extreme Climate Disasters as There’s Too Many to Cover

"We have to [only] choose the ‘good’ ones that have the best pictures or the highest fatalities", says Laura Tobin

bylinetimes.com