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@ed_hawkins

Climate scientist at University of Reading | Creator of climate spirals & warming stripes | IPCC AR6 Lead Author | Leads | Views own

Reading, England
Joined September 2009

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    23 May 2018

    Visualising global temperature change since records began in 1850. Versions for USA, central England & Toronto available too:

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Central England Temperatures from 1772-2018. Each stripe is coloured according to the average temperature in that year, with the darkest blues representing <7.8°C & the darkest reds >10.8°C. Lots of variations from year-to-year, with a clear warming trend in modern times.

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  3. Retweeted
    Jan 4

    2018 was the 4th warmest year on record Graph below shows values compared to pre-industrial (1850-1900) average It uses HADCRUT4 data

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  4. Retweeted
    31 Dec 2018

    This is year 2018 (Jan 1 - Dec 30) as seen by on board . I wish everyone happy and successful new year 2019! hi-res 🎞:

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  5. 31 Dec 2018

    “Climate change isn’t a cliff we fall off, but a slope we slide down. And, true, we’ve chosen to throw ourselves headlong down the hill at breakneck speed. But we can always choose to begin the long, slow, brutal climb back up.” —

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  6. 24 Dec 2018

    ”The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.” - Jim Lovell, 50 years ago today

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  7. Retweeted
    24 Dec 2018

    Hadn’t realised that , the schoolgirl who is on strike over climate change and who spoke so eloquently at , is actually a descendant of Svante Arrhenius who first estimated climate sensitivity in 1896.

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  8. Retweeted
    15 Dec 2018

    ☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️ ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ Falling snow... ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ -------------------- >0 °C 💧💧💧💧💧 melts in warmer air... 💧💧💧💧💧 -------------------- <0 °C 💧💧💧💧💧 becomes supercooled 💧💧💧💧💧 in freezing air... 🏠🏡🏢🏬🏘️ turns to ice instantly

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  9. Retweeted
    13 Dec 2018

    Agree with two main points highlighted by : “Global heating” is a more accurate term than “global warming” to describe the changes taking place to the world’s climate, and "We should be talking about risk rather than uncertainty.”

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  10. 14 Dec 2018

    Mapping changes in UK annual temperatures from 1884-2017 (at 12km resolution)

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  11. 14 Dec 2018

    The have released a new UK gridded climate dataset. Data is available for daily, monthly, seasonal & annual timescales at spatial resolutions down to 1km, back as far as 1862 for some variables. All open access for anyone to download and use:

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  12. 13 Dec 2018

    Tonight is the traditional pantomime! For the 27th annual event, the PhD students have written ‘Oliver Twister’! Will be cast as the evil villain this year?

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  13. Retweeted
    12 Dec 2018

    I was asked to talk about communicating science to policy makers at . I don’t know how to communicate science to policy makers. But I’ve learned some stuff:

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  14. Retweeted
    12 Dec 2018

    The largest existing single-model ensemble, the from , is about to become accessible to everyone! Check out this thread to learn what are experiments and why do we need them.

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  15. 12 Dec 2018

    Andrea is also giving an invited talk in session GC32B this morning:

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  16. 12 Dec 2018

    Interested in how aerosols have influenced temperature change over the past 150 years? If so, chat with my postdoc Andrea Dittus at poster GC33H-1449:

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  17. Retweeted
    12 Dec 2018

    Una imagen muy significativa. Responsables políticos de la Comunitat Valenciana delante del gráfico de donde se muestra el aumento de la temperatura de la Tierra

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  18. 11 Dec 2018

    En route to to give a seminar about our project and our amazing 4000+ volunteers who have helped recover 3.3 million lost weather observations from the archives.

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  19. Retweeted
    9 Dec 2018

    Meteorologists: hold down the "0" key and the degree symbol shows up. You're welcome.

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  20. 10 Dec 2018

    6) Yes, it still gets cold sometimes 7) The natural world is telling us the planet is warming too 8) I prefer to use data & consider evidence instead of just believing 9) It's not too late, but the risks are lower if we start earlier 10) Talk about it

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  21. Retweeted
    9 Dec 2018

    What is so disturbing in our report (asked by governements at , and approved by governements at the last IPCC plenary session) that four governments cannot even "welcome" its findings ?

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