Climate adaptation specialist. Water, ecosystem restoration, climate information.
Bristol, England
Joined September 2015
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I wrote about the latest @theCCCuk report on coasts, and the emotional response I had to it. It's a great report and doesn't pull any punches - well done @ChiefExecCCC and all involved climateadaptation.cc/news-bl…
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I have PhD projects live on flood-cdt.ac.uk/ I am involved in supervising: "A sub-hourly quality controlled blended UK precipitation dataset to understand uncertainty in flood predictions" and "Understanding Record Breaking Flood Events"
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900mm of rain in 24 hours in North Carolina as Hurricane Helene tracked north.
Unsurprisingly, reports of devastating impacts on local infrastructure.
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🚨BREAKING: We are creating a new National Wealth Fund
This Fund will help get the economy growing by:
📈Unlocking investment
💼Supporting thousands of jobs
🇬🇧 Making every part of the country better off
ALT Text: NATIONAL WEALTH FUND CREATED Subheading: Kickstarting economic growth and maximising private investment in UK green industries
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Britain is not France. Le Pen (RN, dark blue) did well across all age groups. Reform and Tories disproportionately popular among the old.
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Seeing a lot of growing hysteria about Labour’s vote share. Overstated. This was the election where tactical voting finally happened in significant numbers. And it didn’t happen by accident. Was a major plank of Starmer’s strategy.
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NEW DATA: Sales of combustion engine cars are plunging as UK consumers turn to electric
⛽️petrol car sales down 7.8% yr-yr
🛢️diesel down another 17.2%
📈 EVs were up 7.4%, outselling diesels 3:1
🚘19% of new cars in June were EVs
🔌28% of new cars in June come with a plug
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Why is everything broken? @IPPR has the underlying answer. businessgreen.com/news/43242…
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"It's clear tonight" is a very bad analysis for such a senior journalist. It was only "clear" to anyone taken in by right wing bots and GB News/Guido Fawkes partisan pundits
No BBC journalist should ever boost that stuff
What's going on in the London Mayoral race? No votes have been counted yet, so hold on to your hats.. but it is clear tonight that the race is much much closer than some polls had suggested... teapaw.org/bbcsounds/status/17864…
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Here's a final map of the local election results. The results are also being added online at bristol.gov.uk/elections-res…
ALT Map of local election results
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KNOWLE TURNS GREEN!
GREEN WIN for @GreenCamHayward...
ALT Photo of Cam Hayward, with text saying: “Green Win! Cam Hayward. Knowle ward, Bristol.”
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BREAKING: The High Court rules Rishi Sunak's climate plan is unlawful, in major victory for green groups.
The campaigners argued that Grant Shapps signed off the government's climate plan to reach Net Zero without any evidence it could actually be achieved.
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Andrew knows perfectly well what the answer to this is, because it's been explained to him repeatedly
At this point his bleating about low wind periods, which –surprise!– actual grid engineers do know about, just looks like wilful ignorance
Tonight, despite our massive wind capacity, the turbines are generating only 5% of our electricity needs. Gas is providing 46% and nuclear 18%. Of course there are plenty of times when wind provides much more. But on a coldish night like tonight when it’s only 5%, if we had no gas or nukes, where would the power come from?
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Even the head of the OBR says their "headroom" calculation is based on meaningless numbers from govt ("worse than fiction")...
Press has to stop giving it any credence as a term.
thetimes.co.uk/article/ca8a6…
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This is a much underappreciated point from @CSkidmoreUK. The window for securing a share of the industries of the future will close. The decisions made now and over the next decade really matter.
