Being British, there is little I like more than a nice weather forecast. For our final Climate Week blog trick, here are a few for you to enjoy – if you have any favourites of your own, let us know. Oh boy! The Jim Kosek style of forecasting is really what this country lacked during … Continue reading
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Three curious climate change clues
We’ve read a lot about ice cores, sediments, isotopes – but evidence for climate change can come from some unlikely places. After yesterday’s ‘four strange effects of climate change’, as part of our Climate Week series we present three very curious climate clues… Continue reading
Four Strange Effects of Climate Change
You may be preparing yourself for rising sea levels and more extreme weather events, but as part of our Climate Week blog series, here are four peculiar effects of climate change you may not have anticipated… More Pizzly Bears Although Pizzly (or Grolar) bears – that is, Grizzly-Polar bear hybrids – have occasionally been bred in captivity, … Continue reading
The first evidence for climate change
In the first of our Climate Week blogs, we look at Shen Kuo, the 11th century Chinese scientist and statesman who might be considered the very first palaeoclimatologist… In Yanzhou, in around 1080, a large landslip occured on the banks of a nearby river. The entire riverbank collapsed, revealing a small forest of petrified bamboo … Continue reading
