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11th National Climate Dynamics Workshop UK Climate Dynamics Workshops are annual in-person events aiming to promote collaboration amongst the UK academic sector and the Met Office.

Registration now open for the 11th UK National Climate Dynamics Workshop.

22-24 June at University of Reading. Abstract deadline is 30 April.

www.rmets.org/event/11th-n...

US 'supports' UK deal to hand over Chagos Islands to Mauritius US Department of State says it supports the UK's decision to

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Chagos Islands: Do not give away Diego Garcia, Trump tells UK The president's comments come just a day after the US gave its official backing to the UK's Chagos deal.

A lot can happen in one day: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NASA Selects Two Earth System Explorers Missions - NASA These two missions were selected for continued development as part of NASA’s Earth System Explorers Program, which conducts principal investigator-led Earth

Every cloud has a silver lining. Great news for Earth observation. www.nasa.gov/news-release...

Hi Ed, with the levels of CFCs trending down and the ozone hole recovering how much do we expect the stratosphere temperature changes due to ozone recovery to counteract those due to increasing GHG concentrations?

QBOi El Niño Southern Oscillation experiments: assessing relationships between ENSO, MJO, and QBO Abstract. This study uses an ensemble of climate model experiments coordinated by the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation initiative (QBOi) to analyze the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) in the presence of eit...

For fans of the QBO, here is a new paper from Dillon Elsbury of the modelled connections between the QBO, MJO and ENSO. Other acronym connections possibly exist too! wcd.copernicus.org/articles/7/3...

2025 State of the Climate Report: Our Planet's Vital Signs are Crashing - Eos A yearly analysis of climate change’s progress and effects shows a “planet on the brink” of ecological breakdown and widespread crisis and suggests that only rapid climate mitigation able to avoid the...

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QBOi‐SNAP‐QUOCA workshop: improved simulations of the stratosphere for better predictions of weather, climate and extreme events - Mudhar - Weather - Wiley Online Library rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I may be cynical but will people remember a bust forecast of rain or no rain?

Gutted: clearly missed a Nobel nomination after having editor remove word “unprecedented” from paper title in 2016.

Scientists win Nobel Prize for groundbreaking immune system work The prize-winning discovery explains how the immune system attacks hostile infections, but not the body's own cells.

Ooh ooh it’s Nobel Prizes week! Scientists win Nobel Prize for discovering why immune system does not destroy the body www.bbc.com/news/article...

Whoa!

Presumably the haricot beans are cooked before they are covered in tomato sauce…

Why We Write in Science A hard look at today’s science system — why we publish, what’s gone wrong, and how we might recover the broken joy of writing.

The meaning(fulness?) of science. Read on: medium.com/@gcampsvalls...

Quarter of schools in England lack a physics teacher, analysis finds Institute of Physics says ‘critical’ shortage means 700,000 pupils are deprived of a subject specialist

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

They do say that it would attract 1.5M people annually and would all but pay for itself after one years operation. Could be worse though, it could be a Disney theme park.

Climate models need more frequent releases of input data — here’s how to do it Annual updates to ‘climate forcing’ data sets would allow simulations to keep pace as global warming accelerates.

Regular annual updates needed of climate forcers to enable prediction and attribution of environmental change www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Australian-made rocket crashes with Vegemite payload — The Telegraph Orbital rocket hovers off ground for 14 seconds before running out of steam

Australian-made rocket crashes with Vegemite payload left spread over wide area. apple.news/A3AMUiAV-S8S...

Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.

NASA cancels subscription to @nature.com as federal funding cuts have unexpected impacts www.nature.com/articles/d41...

For an analogy similar to the quantum well, one can think of a laser cavity. Light of a particular wavelength is amplified (via stimulated emission) in the laser tube. The ends of the tube are mirrors reflecting the light into the tube building power. But light leaks through the mirrors nonetheless.

Rossby waves reflect & evanesce when they travel in the atmosphere meeting winds they cannot pass through (like the polar vortex after it breaks down). This general characteristic of waves is called total internal reflection and waves can leak through if the barrier is thin.

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Lots of King’s Birthday Honours for UK climate scientists…

Many congratulations to Andrew Charlton-Perez, Jolene Cook, Gabi Hegerl, Tim Lenton, Peter Cox, and Emily Shuckburgh!

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Starmer unveils 'tighter' immigration policy promising numbers will fall significantly - live updates Proposed changes include English tests and cuts to recruitment of overseas care workers, as Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says Labour

UK universities face added head-winds with likely new levy on international students www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...

Doesn’t the ARIA programme require an act of parliament to be discontinued within 10 years of operation? That all being said, what evidence would the funding agencies require for any SAI research funding to be discontinued?

The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer | Raymond Pierrehumbert and Michael Mann Injecting pollutants into the atmosphere to reflect the sun would be extremely dangerous, but the UK is funding field trials

A likely outcome? "Scientists conclude solar geoengineering is a bad idea, please do not give us any further funds" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...