Under Mayor Sadiq Khan, London’s Cycleway has quadrupled in length, from 90km in 2016 to 360km today. Cycling numbers are up 20% since 2019.

Mayor Khan won a third term in office today, w/ 43.8% of the vote, 11 points above his nearest challenger.

3/2 BONUS POST

This shows the overall City level % vote share.

%s almost exactly the same as 2023 City elections.

At Oct 2023 HATOC a local Cllr told the Cttee that the City Council would see an electoral tsunami over safe streets.

Last night that party lost a ward.

ANALYSIS // Exeter bucks national trend as Labour support falls 6% and party loses vote share in all but one ward

Independent group, Greens and LibDems all take seats and Conservatives increase share in four wards as Labour stays in control of council

exeterobserver.org/2024/05/03/202…

Exeter Council Result #LE2024 :

LAB: 8 (-2)
GRN: 2 (+1)
LDM: 1 (+1)
CON: 1 (-1)
IND: 1 (+1)

Council Now: LAB 24, GRN 7, LDM 4, CON 3, IND 1.
Labour HOLD.

New paper! Tiffany Shaw et al. Regional climate change: consensus, discrepancies, and ways forward frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… Part of the WCRP collection on the future of climate research. #OpenAccess Roxy Koll ⛈

This snowflake has blocked me because I asked him what is causing sunshine hours to increase, and why the temperature is more strongly correlated with CO₂ concentration than with sunshine hours.

hal-an-tow, jolly rumbelow
we were up long before the day-o
to welcome in the summertime
to welcome in the May
for summer is a-coming in
and winter's gone away

youtu.be/9Ruvmo5bCGg?si…

New(ish) blog/post: *Causing an Anthroposcene*
[some post #EGU24 thoughts on the recent Anthropocene decision]

gaiaexmachina.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/cau…

#Anthropocene #Climate #Extinction #Geology

'It's so hot you can't breathe'

Extreme heat hits the Philippines

'It's surprising our pools are still empty. You would expect people to come and take a swim, but it seems they're reluctant to leave their homes because of the heat.'

japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/04/2…

Hurry up!

You have just 10 days to let Devon County Council know you 😍 quiet streets for all to live, work, play & move on.

If you want these kids & others to grow up being active & safe then act today!
devon.gov.uk/roads-and-tran…

Congo’s peat remains threatened by oil exploration even after the 2023 law banning industrial activities on peat. This also threatens the livelihood of the local population who rely on peat forest for fishing. @congopeat Simon Lewis

Andrew Neil Hi Andrew Neil

Jim Dale does not work for the Met Office

On GB News he was credited to “British Weather Services” (which I had not heard of until today)

The Met Office did not forecast a “sweltering April”

Will you post a correction?

We've got a new paper in Communications Earth & Environment led by Jan Esper and Jason Smerdon. We argue that the IPCC's focus on a single Common Era temperature reconstruction was an 'insufficient summary of our understanding of temperature variability' and we provide a broader context

Andrew Neil Hi Andrew, which Met Office forecast are you referring to exactly?..would love to see it.. I work for the organisation and no forecast I'm aware of was forecasting a sweltering April!

If you think it’s been chilly for the last couple of weeks, you’re right. But this graph really shows how much more often warm spells approach the record versus cold ones. It’s still been a warm three months compared even to the most recent 30 year UK average.

Great to see Devon & Cornwall Police taking action against bus gate violations in the Exeter Trial

Removing through traffic reduces pedestrian casualties by about 7x.

So extra good that some of the violations are being reported on devices funded by Vision Zero South West Thks Alison Hernandez 👍

🟢 #LecturaRecomendada
En nuestra reciente visita a Bogotá, La Silla Vacía entrevistó a nuestros Co-presidentes Carlos Nobre y Marielos Peña-Claros. No te pierdas sus opiniones invaluables sobre el contexto amazónico actual.

Visita: lasillavacia.com/silla-nacional…

#LaAmazoníaQueQueremos

1/4 This is a very good development. We have been raising this issue since the scenario details were made public by the IPCC after the publication of the AR6 working group reports. The paper quoted in the article can be found here. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Edward Kodzis Carbon Brief You must be doing a terrible job then. Here’s efficiency data from recent high quality installs. Heat Geek heatgeek.com/the-secret-to-…