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The UK’s National Emergency Briefing on the Climate and Nature Crisis

Sadly I missed the advance publicity for this event, part of which looked like this:

I’ve belatedly discovered that on November 27th at Westminster Central Hall:

Ten of the UK’s leading experts briefed an invite-only audience of around 1,250 politicians and leaders from business, culture, faith, sport and the media with the latest implications for health, food, national security and the economy.

According to the National Emergency Briefing’s web site:

These briefings are the clearest, most up-to-date picture of the climate and nature crisis in Britain. For the first time, the UK’s top experts give one integrated, unfiltered account of the risks and the solutions. This is the baseline the national conversation must now start from. Every policymaker needs to see it.

The talks will be available on our YouTube channel in the coming days…

A 45 minute documentary is now in production for release early next spring.

Whilst we wait for the official videos, here’s a summary of the event via Dave Borlace’s “Just Have a Think” YouTube channel:

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Facts About the Arctic in May 2025

JAXA/ViSHOP extent is no longer “lowest for the date”! After “flatlining” for most of April the metric is now in the midst of a close knit group of the other years in the 2020s:

The high pressure area over the Central Arctic persisted through the second half of April, and so did the consequent drift of ice from the Pacific side of the Arctic to the Atlantic periphery:

AWI’s sea ice area for the Greenland Sea is currently “highest for the date” in the AMSR2 record that started in July 2012:

The offshore winds along the Laptev Sea coast have continued, and sea ice area is now “lowest for the date”:

The first signs of a break in the high pressure dominance are appearing. GFS currently forecasts that a low pressure area will enter the Central Arctic, bring above zero temperatures over the Kara Sea on Sunday:

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