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Climate newsletter |
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Issue 52 | 23 August 2023 |
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Spotlight on 'Climate science for decision making' |
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The evidence on climate change is clear, and the impacts are and will be felt by all parts of society. This month we have been exploring how Met Office climate science helps provide useable and useful information to help society make better decisions around climate action to prepare for the future.
Working with the Wildlife Trust
We have recently partnered with the Wildlife Trust (our corporate charity) to build climate awareness into their decision making. Groups of nature-enthusiastic Met Office volunteers are applying their expertise in a series of areas identified by the Wildlife Trust as potential climate risk areas for British wildlife.
Talking climate science for decision making
Join us on Thursday 7 September for a Spaces live conversation on X (formerly known as Twitter) on this topic - Met Office meteorologist and presenter Alex Deakin will be speaking with colleagues and guests.
Follow @metoffice to listen to their conversation which will also be available on-demand following the event.
Follow #GetClimateReady
Follow the #GetClimateReady hashtag on X (formerly known as Twitter) to see more examples of how climate science is used for decision making, as well as other climate science information.
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Hilary bringing a year's worth of rain in a single day
Earlier this week, Tropical Storm Hilary brought intense rainfall to the South Western United States. In this blog post, Met Office expert on tropical cyclones, Dr Julian Heming, explained the weather impacts being felt in the region. The blog post also explains how climate modelling suggests that tropical cyclones could become more intense as a result of climate change. But further research is needed to fully understand the impact of climate change on tropical cyclones.
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Adaptation: taking evidence-based action
 We have now published a written summary of the webinar on adaptation we hosted in July. Our speakers considered the current level of implementation in the UK as well as the latest UK Government vision for adaptation. We also heard about examples of adaptation in practice.
You can watch and listen to our speakers from the Met Office, Marsh McLennan/Grantham Research Institute/Climate Change Committee, Defra, Clinton Devon Estates and JBA Consulting in our on-demand video and read the written summary on our website.
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Climate data training
Are you confident analysing climate data?
The importance of utilising climate data to inform climate reporting and decision-making continues to grow. Our online course ‘Assessing your climate risk’ is designed for consultants, analysts, or those in similar roles, who wish to be able to confidently use climate data to carry out climate change risk assessments, limit exposure or protect infrastructure & operations.
Our next course is running in September and some of the areas it can help you understand are:
- How to identify climate hazards and the associated organisational impacts, risks and opportunities
- Where to find easily accessible climate data
- Key factors to effectively communicate climate data and uncertainty.
You can find more, including dates, on our website and there is still time to register your place for our September course.
Webinar - climate tipping points
In September, we will be hosting the next in our series of climate webinars. The topic of this event will be tipping points which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) defines as, ‘a level of change in system properties beyond which a system reorganizes, often abruptly, and does not return to the initial state even if the drivers of the change are abated. For the climate system, it refers to a critical threshold when global or regional climate changes from one stable state to another stable state’.
The provisional date for this event is 26 September from 15:00-16:00 BST. If you would like to receive details of the event in order to register in due course, please contact us with your name and email address.
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