Ed Hawkins
@edhawkins.org
Climate scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading | IPCC AR6 Lead Author | MBE | Views own | https://edhawkins.org
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Ed Hawkins
@edhawkins.org
· Oct 8
Monitoring changes in UK temperature
Multiple sources of data agree on long-term observed trends
climatelabbook.substack.com
Monitoring changes in UK temperature
To (almost) no-one’s surprise, multiple sources of data agree on the long-term trends in UK temperatures.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/monitoring...
To (almost) no-one’s surprise, multiple sources of data agree on the long-term trends in UK temperatures.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/monitoring...
Two exciting postdoc positions available!
Historical windstorms - working with two insurance companies to explore UK wind risks: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Extreme event storylines - working as part of a EU collaboration on event attribution: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Historical windstorms - working with two insurance companies to explore UK wind risks: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Extreme event storylines - working as part of a EU collaboration on event attribution: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Two exciting postdoc positions available!
Historical windstorms - working with two insurance companies to explore UK wind risks: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Extreme event storylines - working as part of a EU collaboration on event attribution: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Historical windstorms - working with two insurance companies to explore UK wind risks: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Extreme event storylines - working as part of a EU collaboration on event attribution: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Climate variations over the last 2000 years provide valuable context and help answer questions about how unusual the recent changes are.
Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch...
Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch...
Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Climate variations over the last 2000 years provide valuable context and help answer questions about how unusual the recent changes are.
Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch...
Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch...
Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
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It’s almost like something dramatically changed after the Industrial Revolution! (figure via Ed Hawkins)
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It’s almost like something dramatically changed after the Industrial Revolution! (figure via Ed Hawkins)
Climate variations over the last 2000 years provide valuable context and help answer questions about how unusual the recent changes are.
Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch...
Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch...
Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Climate variations over the last 2000 years provide valuable context and help answer questions about how unusual the recent changes are.
Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch...
Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch...
Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
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In October 2021, we brought Climate Canopy - an immersive representation of climate change - to COP26 in Glasgow.
By bringing art and science together, Climate Canopy acknowledged that climate change is not only a scientific problem but a human problem 💙
By bringing art and science together, Climate Canopy acknowledged that climate change is not only a scientific problem but a human problem 💙
November 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
In October 2021, we brought Climate Canopy - an immersive representation of climate change - to COP26 in Glasgow.
By bringing art and science together, Climate Canopy acknowledged that climate change is not only a scientific problem but a human problem 💙
By bringing art and science together, Climate Canopy acknowledged that climate change is not only a scientific problem but a human problem 💙
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Should we start historical climate simulations in 1750 (or 1800) rather than 1850?
Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century
Ballinger, Schurer et al.: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century
Ballinger, Schurer et al.: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Should we start historical climate simulations in 1750 (or 1800) rather than 1850?
Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century
Ballinger, Schurer et al.: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century
Ballinger, Schurer et al.: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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How much carbon budget do we have left if we want to stay below 1.5˚C?
Just 2 more years at current rates. It is essentially impossible to avoid global temperature rise exceeding 1.5˚C.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-shrink...
Just 2 more years at current rates. It is essentially impossible to avoid global temperature rise exceeding 1.5˚C.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-shrink...
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
How much carbon budget do we have left if we want to stay below 1.5˚C?
Just 2 more years at current rates. It is essentially impossible to avoid global temperature rise exceeding 1.5˚C.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-shrink...
Just 2 more years at current rates. It is essentially impossible to avoid global temperature rise exceeding 1.5˚C.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-shrink...
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Great to welcome Envision Formula E team to the university campus yesterday!
Envision showed off their racecar climate stripes livery to the students, and give them a opportunity to try the race simulator and to hear from sustainability careers experts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Envision showed off their racecar climate stripes livery to the students, and give them a opportunity to try the race simulator and to hear from sustainability careers experts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reading University's climate stripes feature on Formula E car
The graphic, first released in 2019 to track climate change features on the Envision Formula E car
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Great to welcome Envision Formula E team to the university campus yesterday!
Envision showed off their racecar climate stripes livery to the students, and give them a opportunity to try the race simulator and to hear from sustainability careers experts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Envision showed off their racecar climate stripes livery to the students, and give them a opportunity to try the race simulator and to hear from sustainability careers experts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
How much carbon budget do we have left if we want to stay below 1.5˚C?
Just 2 more years at current rates. It is essentially impossible to avoid global temperature rise exceeding 1.5˚C.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-shrink...
Just 2 more years at current rates. It is essentially impossible to avoid global temperature rise exceeding 1.5˚C.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-shrink...
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
How much carbon budget do we have left if we want to stay below 1.5˚C?
Just 2 more years at current rates. It is essentially impossible to avoid global temperature rise exceeding 1.5˚C.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-shrink...
Just 2 more years at current rates. It is essentially impossible to avoid global temperature rise exceeding 1.5˚C.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-shrink...
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Please pass this on to any potential PhD applicants. Thanks.
The closing date for applications is 10 December.
The closing date for applications is 10 December.
Looking for a PhD in climate science?
Great opportunity to help modernise one of the iconic climate time series - Central England Temperature.
Led by @timosbornclim.bsky.social, with myself and Met Office collaborators: www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
Great opportunity to help modernise one of the iconic climate time series - Central England Temperature.
Led by @timosbornclim.bsky.social, with myself and Met Office collaborators: www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
PhD Redeveloping Central England Temperature: Modernising a Historic Climate Series, CASE project with Met Office (OSBORNT_U26SCI) 2026/27 | UEA
PhD Redeveloping Central England Temperature: Modernising a Historic Climate Series, CASE project with Met Office (OSBORNT_U26SCI) 2026/27 | UEA
www.uea.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Please pass this on to any potential PhD applicants. Thanks.
The closing date for applications is 10 December.
The closing date for applications is 10 December.
Great to welcome Envision Formula E team to the university campus yesterday!
Envision showed off their racecar climate stripes livery to the students, and give them a opportunity to try the race simulator and to hear from sustainability careers experts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Envision showed off their racecar climate stripes livery to the students, and give them a opportunity to try the race simulator and to hear from sustainability careers experts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reading University's climate stripes feature on Formula E car
The graphic, first released in 2019 to track climate change features on the Envision Formula E car
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Great to welcome Envision Formula E team to the university campus yesterday!
Envision showed off their racecar climate stripes livery to the students, and give them a opportunity to try the race simulator and to hear from sustainability careers experts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Envision showed off their racecar climate stripes livery to the students, and give them a opportunity to try the race simulator and to hear from sustainability careers experts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Looking for a PhD in climate science?
Great opportunity to help modernise one of the iconic climate time series - Central England Temperature.
Led by @timosbornclim.bsky.social, with myself and Met Office collaborators: www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
Great opportunity to help modernise one of the iconic climate time series - Central England Temperature.
Led by @timosbornclim.bsky.social, with myself and Met Office collaborators: www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
PhD Redeveloping Central England Temperature: Modernising a Historic Climate Series, CASE project with Met Office (OSBORNT_U26SCI) 2026/27 | UEA
PhD Redeveloping Central England Temperature: Modernising a Historic Climate Series, CASE project with Met Office (OSBORNT_U26SCI) 2026/27 | UEA
www.uea.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Looking for a PhD in climate science?
Great opportunity to help modernise one of the iconic climate time series - Central England Temperature.
Led by @timosbornclim.bsky.social, with myself and Met Office collaborators: www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
Great opportunity to help modernise one of the iconic climate time series - Central England Temperature.
Led by @timosbornclim.bsky.social, with myself and Met Office collaborators: www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
Reposted by Ed Hawkins
In three days, #COP30 starts in #Belém, Brazil, let’s remember that climate action isn’t just about climate - it’s also a good way to clean the air we breathe.
Many of the steps we take to tackle #climatechange can also bring immediate air-quality benefits.
Many of the steps we take to tackle #climatechange can also bring immediate air-quality benefits.
November 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
In three days, #COP30 starts in #Belém, Brazil, let’s remember that climate action isn’t just about climate - it’s also a good way to clean the air we breathe.
Many of the steps we take to tackle #climatechange can also bring immediate air-quality benefits.
Many of the steps we take to tackle #climatechange can also bring immediate air-quality benefits.
Should we start historical climate simulations in 1750 (or 1800) rather than 1850?
Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century
Ballinger, Schurer et al.: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century
Ballinger, Schurer et al.: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Should we start historical climate simulations in 1750 (or 1800) rather than 1850?
Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century
Ballinger, Schurer et al.: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century
Ballinger, Schurer et al.: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Looking for a #PhD in #ClimateExtremes?
We are advertising a project attributing causes of recent #droughts using counter-factual storylines.
Based in #Edinburgh, working with Andrew Schurer, me, @gabihegerl.bsky.social, & @edhawkins.org
tinyurl.com/5n7b52fr
We are advertising a project attributing causes of recent #droughts using counter-factual storylines.
Based in #Edinburgh, working with Andrew Schurer, me, @gabihegerl.bsky.social, & @edhawkins.org
tinyurl.com/5n7b52fr
November 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Looking for a #PhD in #ClimateExtremes?
We are advertising a project attributing causes of recent #droughts using counter-factual storylines.
Based in #Edinburgh, working with Andrew Schurer, me, @gabihegerl.bsky.social, & @edhawkins.org
tinyurl.com/5n7b52fr
We are advertising a project attributing causes of recent #droughts using counter-factual storylines.
Based in #Edinburgh, working with Andrew Schurer, me, @gabihegerl.bsky.social, & @edhawkins.org
tinyurl.com/5n7b52fr
At a workshop today discussing improving historical weather & climate reconstructions for the British & Irish Isles.
Key questions: if you had a high resolution reanalysis for these islands, what would you want to use it for? What complementary observational datasets should be prioritised?
Key questions: if you had a high resolution reanalysis for these islands, what would you want to use it for? What complementary observational datasets should be prioritised?
November 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
At a workshop today discussing improving historical weather & climate reconstructions for the British & Irish Isles.
Key questions: if you had a high resolution reanalysis for these islands, what would you want to use it for? What complementary observational datasets should be prioritised?
Key questions: if you had a high resolution reanalysis for these islands, what would you want to use it for? What complementary observational datasets should be prioritised?
Reposted by Ed Hawkins
HadCRUT5 global temperature dataset now updated to Sep 2025.
As usual, data can be downloaded from CRU/UEA website: crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/tem...
And from Met Office/hadobs website: www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcr...
@climateuea.bsky.social @colinmorice.bsky.social
As usual, data can be downloaded from CRU/UEA website: crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/tem...
And from Met Office/hadobs website: www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcr...
@climateuea.bsky.social @colinmorice.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
HadCRUT5 global temperature dataset now updated to Sep 2025.
As usual, data can be downloaded from CRU/UEA website: crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/tem...
And from Met Office/hadobs website: www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcr...
@climateuea.bsky.social @colinmorice.bsky.social
As usual, data can be downloaded from CRU/UEA website: crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/tem...
And from Met Office/hadobs website: www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcr...
@climateuea.bsky.social @colinmorice.bsky.social
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New study in Nature by Lin et al shows how the sea-level rise from the melting Ice Age ice (a total of 120 meters rise) ended thousands of years ago.
Until our fossil fuel use started a new phase of rising seas.
Graph shows the global mean rate of sea level rise.
🌊
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Until our fossil fuel use started a new phase of rising seas.
Graph shows the global mean rate of sea level rise.
🌊
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
New study in Nature by Lin et al shows how the sea-level rise from the melting Ice Age ice (a total of 120 meters rise) ended thousands of years ago.
Until our fossil fuel use started a new phase of rising seas.
Graph shows the global mean rate of sea level rise.
🌊
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Until our fossil fuel use started a new phase of rising seas.
Graph shows the global mean rate of sea level rise.
🌊
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A damaging hurricane in a warmer world
How would a major hurricane that hit Jamaica in 1903 be different today, in a warmer world?
It would drop more rain. (At least)
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/a-damaging...
How would a major hurricane that hit Jamaica in 1903 be different today, in a warmer world?
It would drop more rain. (At least)
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/a-damaging...
November 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
A damaging hurricane in a warmer world
How would a major hurricane that hit Jamaica in 1903 be different today, in a warmer world?
It would drop more rain. (At least)
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/a-damaging...
How would a major hurricane that hit Jamaica in 1903 be different today, in a warmer world?
It would drop more rain. (At least)
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/a-damaging...
A damaging hurricane in a warmer world
How would a major hurricane that hit Jamaica in 1903 be different today, in a warmer world?
It would drop more rain. (At least)
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/a-damaging...
How would a major hurricane that hit Jamaica in 1903 be different today, in a warmer world?
It would drop more rain. (At least)
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/a-damaging...
November 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
A damaging hurricane in a warmer world
How would a major hurricane that hit Jamaica in 1903 be different today, in a warmer world?
It would drop more rain. (At least)
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/a-damaging...
How would a major hurricane that hit Jamaica in 1903 be different today, in a warmer world?
It would drop more rain. (At least)
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/a-damaging...
Including how a major hurricane that hit Jamaica in 1903 would have dropped more rain in today’s warmer world: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/a-damaging...
October 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Including how a major hurricane that hit Jamaica in 1903 would have dropped more rain in today’s warmer world: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/a-damaging...
Reposted by Ed Hawkins
Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane:
STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food
RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor
SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise
PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food
RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor
SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise
PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane:
STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food
RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor
SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise
PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food
RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor
SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise
PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
Reposted by Ed Hawkins
As Hurricane #Melissa approaches Jamaica, we look back to a similar event in August 1903.
The rainfall from that storm would have been more intense in today’s warmer climate.
#Melissa will likely drop more rain now than it would have done a century ago.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/a-damaging...
The rainfall from that storm would have been more intense in today’s warmer climate.
#Melissa will likely drop more rain now than it would have done a century ago.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/a-damaging...
A damaging hurricane in a warmer world
The value of considering historical extreme storms
climatelabbook.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
As Hurricane #Melissa approaches Jamaica, we look back to a similar event in August 1903.
The rainfall from that storm would have been more intense in today’s warmer climate.
#Melissa will likely drop more rain now than it would have done a century ago.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/a-damaging...
The rainfall from that storm would have been more intense in today’s warmer climate.
#Melissa will likely drop more rain now than it would have done a century ago.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/a-damaging...
As Hurricane #Melissa approaches Jamaica, we look back to a similar event in August 1903.
The rainfall from that storm would have been more intense in today’s warmer climate.
#Melissa will likely drop more rain now than it would have done a century ago.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/a-damaging...
The rainfall from that storm would have been more intense in today’s warmer climate.
#Melissa will likely drop more rain now than it would have done a century ago.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/a-damaging...
A damaging hurricane in a warmer world
The value of considering historical extreme storms
climatelabbook.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
As Hurricane #Melissa approaches Jamaica, we look back to a similar event in August 1903.
The rainfall from that storm would have been more intense in today’s warmer climate.
#Melissa will likely drop more rain now than it would have done a century ago.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/a-damaging...
The rainfall from that storm would have been more intense in today’s warmer climate.
#Melissa will likely drop more rain now than it would have done a century ago.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/a-damaging...