This is so much fun 😀 I've been spotting bugs, beasties and plants all day 🦋🌿🪲🦟🦉The challenge lasts until midnight Monday - join in and help York to win!

Fab to be out in Fulford tonight with Cllr Claire Douglas. Lots of support for The Labour Party York & N Yorks Mayoral candidate David Skaith Less than a week to go! York Labour

The brilliant York RLFC Foundation are running two multi sports sessions on the Millennium Field (Fishergate side of Millennium Bridge) on the Tuesdays in Easter holidays 2-4 pm. No booking needed.
Suitable for children 5 and over.
See you there!

Mapping changes in temperature: every year from 1850 to 2023

2023 was the warmest year on record.

This 'small multiples' representation of observed changes in temperature show how the planet is heating rapidly almost everywhere.

Come and have your say on transport in York this Weds @ 6:30pm, Heslington village meeting room.

Excited to have The Guardian feature my research on the timing of animal origins! Thanks to Kate Ravilious for the write up.

theguardian.com/science/2023/o…

University of Oxford | Oxford Earth Sciences | Oxford University Museum of Natural History | The Royal Society | Christina R. Woltz Susannah Porter

Really inspiring to see the amazing outdoor classroom spaces Lord Deramore's have created and hear about their community projects. Delighted to be able to support this work with some ward funding and really looking forward to seeing what happens next!

There are now four ‘Heat Domes’ around the world causing record breaking temperatures globally #ClimateCrisis

Have the last 30 years of international #climatechange negotiations been a success or a failure?

Fiona Harvey, John Lang and I discuss this and what might happen COP28 UAE in our latest paper

Open access paper

ucl.scienceopen.com/hosted-documen…

York folks please make this bike too hot to handle and let's find it before it is damaged. Stolen from York University at 1:30 this afternoon. Contact the police immediately if spotted.

Greatly concerning to see such strong evidence for raw sewage release on the River Foss. And even more concerning that Environment Agency - Yorkshire & North East and Yorkshire Water 💧 are not committing to investigating further. Luke Charters for York Outer York Labour

📰 AMS in the News
During heat waves in Bavaria, ambulance calls for cardiovascular emergencies increase by more than 1/3, according to an Weather, Climate, and Society study by Universität Potsdam researchers.

🏥 Read about this study (Guardian article by Kate Ravilious): bit.ly/3D4kfFM

Can volcano magma help meet the green economy’s demand for metal? My latest Terrawatch for The Guardian. theguardian.com/science/2023/j…