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Tag: floods

  • A pingdemic and flood warnings

    The pandemic has turned into a “pingdemic” in the UK because as new cases soar to over 50,000 a day, so too has the number of people getting pinged as a close contact and having to self-isolate for ten days. It’s so bad that many shops can’t open due to staff shortages. We have been…

  • Is climate change responsible for recent flooding in the UK?

    I’m not going to answer this question because I can’t but you can help to answer another question which is has climate change made extremely wet winters like the last in the UK more likely? Oxford University early this month launched the weather@home project which seeks to answer this question. The winter of 2013/2014 was…

  • Physiological forcing

    I learnt a new word (or two) this week: physiological forcing. Sounds ominous doesn’t it? It’s like radiative forcing but relates to plants. I’m aware that some people who read my blog won’t know what is meant by radiative forcing so let’s deal with that first. The Earth gets energy from the sun in the…