January 2, 2020
Climate scientist Ed Hawkins appointed MBE
NCAS’ Professor Ed Hawkins has been recognised in the New Year’s Honours list for his services to climate science and science communication.
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December 13, 2019
12 news stories that defined our year
To mark the twelve days before Christmas, we’re looking back at our top twelve news stories from the past year.
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December 6, 2019
Slowdown in rising greenhouse gases does not negate the long-term trend, finds global carbon budg...
This year’s rise in greenhouse gas emissions continued to increase, meaning the world is still not on track to pursue the 1.5C goal of the Paris Agreeme...
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November 21, 2019
Rapid action needed to protect ozone layer against new source of illegal chemical emissions
Researchers from NCAS have assessed the impacts of a new source of an ozone-destroying chemical that poses a serious threat to the recovery of the ozone...
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November 7, 2019
Preserving historic weather records to help predict future climate
On World Digital Preservation Day (Thursday 7 November 2019) the data conservation community will come together to celebrate the collections they
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November 1, 2019
Latest weather data added to popular open-access dataset
Earlier this year the Met Office released the MIDAS Open database, a publically available version of a popular dataset containing ho...
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October 10, 2019
Why climate science needs to learn from risk assessment
Climate scientists need to spend more time considering all plausible future climate scenarios rather than just the most likely, argues Professor
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October 1, 2019
Methane measurements in the Arctic Circle may be critical to controlling global temperature rise
A team of researchers are working to uncover the causes of a mysterious rise in atmospheric methane, which threatens to derail
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September 18, 2018
Ed Hawkins’ warming stripes add colour to climate communication
Communicating about climate change can be challenging, but Professor Ed Hawkins has shown that simple data visualisations can capture people’s attention
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April 6, 2017
Climate change to increase severe turbulence
Strong turbulence could become twice or even three times as common because of climate change, according to a new study from the University