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Spotlight on 'Everyday actions on climate change' |
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England and Wales in particular have been experiencing high temperatures in recent days, with many areas hitting heatwave criteria and an Amber Extreme Heat warning in place from Sunday 17 July.
Extreme heat events do occur within natural climate variation due to changes in global weather patterns. However, the increase in the frequency, duration, and intensity of these events over recent decades is clearly linked to the observed warming of the planet and can be attributed to human activity. Dr Mark McCarthy is the head of the Met Office National Climate Information Centre. He said: “The highest temperatures experienced in the UK tend to occur when our weather is influenced by air masses from continental Europe or North Africa – as it will be at the weekend - there is already a strongly-embedded warming due to climate change across the continent, that is increasing the likelihood of challenging the existing UK temperature record.”
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Whilst we know that, even if all emissions stopped today, we cannot avoid further impacts like rising sea levels, the severity of those impacts depends on the emissions we put out from now onwards. All aspects of society can make a difference in what the future will look like, and at the Met Office we are starting to provide more information, backed up by our world-leading climate science, on actions that can be taken.
Our Get ClimateReady everyday actions webpage provides some simple information on actions you might want to consider around travel, recycling, home improvements and more. We also highlight some of the additional benefits of the suggested actions such as improved health and wellbeing, and reduced costs.
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In the latest episode of our Mostly Climate podcast, hosts Dr Doug McNeall & Dr Rosie Oakes are joined by three special guests for a look back at the IPCC's Working Group 2 climate report, with a particular focus on adaptation in the context of climate change.
Dr Joe Daron, Science Manager, International Climate Services at the Met Office talks about the holistic approach the Future Resilience for African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL) Project is using to help African cities build future resilience to climate change.
Lizzie Fuller is a Climate Science Communicator at the Met Office and currently on secondment at Defra, she explains how Met Office science informs government action on adaptation within the UK.
Prof Saiful Islam is Director at the Institute of Water and Flood Management at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and explains how non-structural adaptation measures will help Bangladesh better adapt to Climate Change.
To put current weather into context, at the start of each month we publish details of UK monthly climate averages and extremes on Twitter. Look out for these on @metoffice each month.
On 30 June, we hosted a Twitter Spaces conversation which wrapped up our June climate theme of storytelling through data. Weather presenter Alex Deakin was joined by Met Office climate scientists Dr Freya Garry and Dr Rosie Oakes plus Matthew Logan from Community Energy Scotland, to explore some of the methods that we can use to present climate data creatively.
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LACCW will be held from 18-22 July in Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic. This is a key step on the road to COP27 and will engage and empower stakeholders to drive climate action across countries, communities and economies.
On 28 July, the Royal Meteorological Society will publish the latest State of the UK Climate report, providing an up-to-date assessment on the UK’s climate for the year 2021. We will be sharing details about the report findings once it is published. Stay tuned to our social channels for the latest updates.
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