Dear 21 year old Anna, Congratulations on handing in your dissertation! Today your dream came true and a shortened version of it has been published in @routesjournal! You also got mentioned in the editorial - WINNER! Love, Pennington 2022 routesjournal.org/2021/12/18…

Breaking Greenland! The additional runoff of meltwater & small icebergs in October has a disastrous effect on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Glaciers south of Jakobshavn & Kangerlussuaq Glacier are now melting up to four times faster than just seven years ago.

AMOC are the four most important letters in my life. Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is the main ocean current system in the Atlantic Ocean. Scientists are predicting its collapse. That means the UK would cool by an average of 10°C and Norway by 15°C. A new ice age. As much as half of the world’s viable area for growing corn and wheat could dry out. Even if we truly understood even a little of what is at stake, we would be spending days unable to speak - traumatised by horror and terror. And then we would know what we are going to be doing for the rest of our lives. Doing whatever it takes to stop this from happening.

10 week term 3 ✅ all that is left between me and the summer hols is an 8 week term 😍

Tomorrow, everyone on Earth will get an equal amount of daylight and darkness. The amount of daylight doesn't change much for countries in the tropics. Another great visualization by @neilrkaye

I am running out of words to describe how absurd August 2024 was in Svalbard. Reaching an average temperature of 11°C in August would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. This is totally bonkers.

So here's how we should look at all this temperature stuff. The fundamental thing to understand is that there is a cut off point where the human body dies in 6 hours (Wet Bulb Effect)- around 35C to 50C, depending on the humidity. As I keep reminding people, when people die they do not come back - unlike just being ill. These are the two key facts. The biggest social shock of human history is going to be when the first mass mortality event happens suddenly and what I have written in this post will become the most important information in the world. And then everyone will go - oh fuck fuck fuck. The door of the gas chamber has closed. THE AVERAGE is completely irrelevant - the horror is in how often the long tail happens - how often a place hits the "all humans die in one day" point. In case you are interested in how this has worked in history you can read the "general crisis" on the 1C drop in temperatures in the seventeenth century when the global population dropped by a third. You can see that the mass death events happened all in one go when extreme climate events happened - droughts and extreme cold temperatures. When these happened two years in a row it took generations for the population to recover. And it did of course. But this time round it will never change. It will just get worse. The researchers concluded: “The geographic range and frequency of non-compensable heat extremes will increase rapidly, given only moderate continued increase in global average temperatures. This implies that, in the near future, a substantial portion of the world’s population will be exposed to these non-compensable environmental conditions.” “a real risk” of widespread exposure with “hundreds of millions of people” affected before they were sufficiently heat-adapted to avoid attendant increases in deaths and illness." theguardian.com/environment/……….

Finally getting around to reading this Christmas present which is a great knowledge refresh, lots of throwbacks to my dissertation reading and journal article and reminding me how much I love the beach! ❤️🏖️ @Dr_Rip_SOS

Finally ticking off one of the items on my NZ bucket list of skiing in July. Queenstown here I come!

I might be in NZ but DELIGHTED to have been part of the plan to vote out the current government. 🎉

I was so proud of myself for not getting my license until I was 25 . I actively try to have car lite days and walk when I can. I miss the community from needing a lift from friends but love giving them now.

I have reached new heights of friendship with one of my best friends who is my proxy voter so I can exercise my democratic right despite being in NZ!

Week 9 of term hits differently. I have to say I do miss the length of UK terms.

#geographyteachers if you're looking to #showyourstripes @The_GA have this pair of lovely #climatestripes socks to give away. To be part of our free-draw just RT this tweet. & if you're displaying @ed_hawkins climate stripes in your classrooms pls do inc pics of that too.

Agriculture cannot survive at 48C air temperatures and ongoing severe droughts for very long. The bread baskets of #India have been hitting these temps for nearly 40 days straight. There is no #civilization without #Agriculture. Billions of people at risk #Delhi #heatwave

I’m not saying I’m marking this year but I am saying that I will be at my laptop for the next three weeks.

🗳️The voter registration deadline for the UK #GeneralElection is 18 June. There are approximately 8 million people missing or incorrectly registered - who might miss out. That’s less than a month away. Make a start on getting the missing millions registered by telling everyone to register here: gov.uk/register-to-vote

LOVING the discussions from the group of us using @EvidenceInEdu trial platform at school ❤️ its rexcited me about my teaching practise !

Please be patient, we're from the 1800s. Happy birthday to us!

Thankful for @geotayler drawing physical book which I taught directly from today with Y11 in Glacier week. what a book!!