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24 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
That isn't what your reference says. It is dated 25 April 2020. Once again, I said April was unusually hot and sunny, followed by a pattern from May onwards of the odd very hot day, followed by a much longer period of dull weather.
I have repeatedly clarified what the weather was actually like. Nothing you have said or linked to has contradicted this. The fact that April was the sunniest month, actually confirms the point I made and doesn't contradict it.
I was making a point about unusual weather patterns persisting. The actual pattern of weather in 2019, 2020 and now 2021 has actually been different. In 2018 it was unusually hot and dry, with day after day of baking hot sunshine.
I was making a point about persistent stuck in weather patterns. This did happen in 2020 and so far you've offered no evidence to the contrary. Your claim that June was hot and sunny is contradicted by you saying April was the sunniest month. Normally June is sunnier than April.

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24 May
Let me deal with this separately. I did not say this year was the same as last year. I devoted tweets to explaining the subtleties, rather than crude parameters. I will explain the ecological relevance below.
I do a lot of Odonata recording, often getting the first and last records for species for the whole of the UK. 2020 started off with good numbers of Odonata, especially damselflies. There have been very poor survival rates in recent years because of this weather.
Extremely hot days, followed by days where there is very little to no sun at all, is very bad for Odonata and other sun dependent insects, and their populations rapidly decline.
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24 May
1) In this mini thread, in responses to my tweet below, I lay out irrefutable proof, that 50 years ago, world leaders were well aware that our economies and societies had to radically change direction to avoid an ecological crisis in the future.
2) In an Orwellian re-invention of history world leaders, politicians and other establishment figures peddle the lie that we have only recently discovered the depth of the climate and ecological emergency, and that is why we have taken no action until now.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwellian
3) As the UN documents and conferences I link to in that mini-thread make crystal clear, our state of knowledge about the ecological crisis was well enough established 50 years ago, to understand that we had to radically change direction to avert a future crisis.
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23 May
1) We need a conversation about stuck in weather patterns, and their effect on populations of animals i.e. biodiversity. Currently, the UK has had to endure a pattern of adverse spring weather which has lasted almost 2 months.
science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate…
2) By a stuck in weather pattern, I mean an unusual pattern of weather for that area and season, which persists over a long period of time, often months. In the UK, such weather patterns are very unusual because the weather has been typically very variable.
3) I know there is a lot of discussion and research about the cause of this, usually attributed to climate change and the jet stream. However, rather than focusing on this, aside from acknowledging it seems a climate related effect, I want to focus on biodiversity impacts.
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22 May
Let us Swiftly address the biodiversity crisis and to reverse the declines in biodiversity. We need to start now, in a big way. No more tokenism. #BiodiversityDay @IPBES @GretaThunberg @HollyWildChild @GreeneIndy @GreenFGeorge @BBCSpringwatch @ChrisGPackham @MeganMcCubbin
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8 May
1) This animated graphic shared shared by @GretaThunberg illustrates something quite profound about the cause of not only the climate crisis, but the whole ecological crisis.
2) It illustrates how one country, the UK, that then had a great world wide empire in which it was exploiting other people countries to create wealth for it's wealthy few, created industrial production fuelled by fossil fuels, to exploit the natural resources of the world.
3) It illustrates how this modus operandi spread at first to other wealthy countries, and that the US a much bigger more populous country overtook the UK in it's fossil fuel burning and carbon emissions.
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1) Since the 1990s I've been saying that unless a politician/government is willing to take significant, and not token action, in their current term of office, they/it should be seen as obstructing action to address the crisis.
2) We must stop dealing with the climate crisis as separate from the ecological crisis. It was a big mistake.

"We cannot solve the threats of human-induced climate change and loss of biodiversity in isolation. We either solve both or we solve neither."
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
3) Originally the climate crisis was separated from the general ecological/sustainability crisis, 30 years ago, in the hope of a quick agreement similar to the successful Montreal Protocol over CFCs and the hole in the ozone layer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_…
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