Treading water.. 😅

We see here a self-styled "honest broker" with decades of experience in downplaying climate change presenting an age-old climate denial trope: using *annual* rainfall data as argument against an increase in *extreme* rainfall. Does he *really* not know better? Brief 🧵1/4

What scientists have predicted since the 1980s is an increase in heavy rain at the expense of days with light or no precipitation. And that is indeed observed. See nature.com/articles/nclim… Reto Knutti That is because warmer air can hold more moisture (Clausius-Clapeyron law). 2/4

That means an air mass saturated with water will hold 7% more water per degree of warming, so 7% more can rain out, all else remaining the same. Heavy rain gets that much stronger. Why doesn't that apply to annual rainfall totals? Because those are ruled by different physics. 3/4

For annual rainfall, whatever goes up comes down. Globally that's ruled by evaporation, which only increases 2% per degree warming. So as the atmosphere loses more water in heavy rain, days with no or light rain decrease to balance that, and annual totals hardly increase. 4/4

We've seen a lot of dramatic finishes in Test match cricket. This has to be right up there.

A predictable rainfall radar for the day the Midlands officially goes into full drought status. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

RETWEET if you stand with Stephen Colbert after Paramount/CBS fired him.

Very sad news.

CBS’s billionaire owners pay Trump $16 million to settle a bogus lawsuit while trying to sell the network to Skydance. Stephen Colbert, an extraordinary talent and the most popular late night host, slams the deal. Days later, he's fired. Do I think this is a coincidence? NO.

Best be keepin’ a weathered eye on this..

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286,000 people have already signed the very brilliant SOS Whitstable's petition. They would like to get it to 300,000. You know what you need to do my friends, get cracking.

27 July 2012. The spectacular Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics took place in the Olympic Stadium in London. It was directed by Academy Award-winning British film director, Danny Boyle. Newspaper reviews praised it as a “masterpiece” and “a love letter to Britain”.

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This is absolutely astonishing & historic. Finland has recorded 20 consecutive days of temperatures >30°C. The previous record was 13 days in 1972.

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Unbelievable. I had assumed this was a change within the current building.