Danny McCulloch

PhD student | at @ExeterUniMaths | Busy with my head in the clouds, but that's OK because I'm trying to better understand them with climate models

[Danny McCulloch @TheMartianSub]

My first academic paper & the first application of the #UnifiedModel by @MetOffice_Sci to #Mars has just been published in @EGU_GMD! Massive thanks to the other coauthors (@meteodenny & @exoclimatology) for helping to make McCulloch et al. a reality!
https://t.co/2G2m6Wcy9s

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

FLASHBACK

1993-In congressional testimony, Donald Trump said that Native casino owners didn't deserve special status because “they don’t look like Indians to me.”

[Danny Wallace @dannywallace]

I just can’t choose between her and Therese Coffey

[Scott Bryan @scottygb]

It has been quite the election, so here are my WTF TV election moments from 2024 ✨

[Ajit Niranjan @NiranjanAjit]

two ipcc authors wrote a paper for kids that was peer-reviewed by some teenagers and the level of frankness is something a lot of climate scientists could learn from

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff of Starship!

[Brendan May @bmay]

“How shall we start the campaign?”

“Speech in the rain whilst Steve Bray plays the anthem that reminds people of Labour’s 1997 landslide.”

“OK. And in the evening?”

“Kick Sky out of your launch event but make sure they film it before you cut the line.”

[Simon Oldridge @SiOldridge]

This article from the Gov’s ‘Net Zero’ Secretary @ClaireCoutinho is insidious fossil fuel propaganda and needs challenging:
1️⃣ No. The Gov’s own expert adviser says “expansion of fossil fuel production is not in line with Net Zero” https://t.co/o8ze2fNXi2

[Danny McCulloch @TheMartianSub]

Been playing with #Pyvista/#Geovista doing some data #visualization. WIP, but you can see cloud fraction shown in blue. Data using the @MetOffice_Sci #UnifiedModel. You can play with the plot yourself here: https://t.co/UcZr94H2xK

[Jess Phillips @jessphillips]

If this is the case then it's probably a good time for him to have an election.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Good to see Count Binface beating the Facists!

[The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone]

Easy win for today’s best St George’s Day tweet…

[Helena Horton @horton_official]

Unsure why @bbclaurak had a climate sceptic on this morning. Luke Johnson has referred to "the 'climate emergency' delusion" and "the green elite’s fake claim that there’s a ‘climate emergency’". What qualifications does a bakery owner have to pontificate on climate on the bbc?

[Danny McCulloch @TheMartianSub]

☁️☁️☁️ Interested in learning how tropical deep convection affects subtropical low clouds via large scale circulation? Then come along to my #EGU24 | #EGU24 talk at 17:20 in room 0.11/12 ☁️☁️☁️

[Danny McCulloch @TheMartianSub]

Scientists in their natural habitat - in the shadow of #Nature. #EGU24 bound with @meteodenny @meteo_dan and Nell

[Clover Hogan @cloverhogan]

This is terrifying.

Not the headline... I'm familiar with the science. No, what's terrifying is how far I had to dig through my news notifications to find this story.

What's terrifying is that this headline is not #trending on every social media platform.

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[Danny McCulloch @TheMartianSub]

A reminder that 57 producers are responsible for 80% of all #FossilFuels and cement CO₂ emissions since 2016. Individual action is vitally important - but its a drop in the ocean compared to industrial action

https://t.co/PnW6LamT1g

[PeterBosshard @PeterBosshard]

GOOD NEWS: Responding to strong campaign pressure, @Zurich, one of the world’s biggest fossil fuel insurers, just excluded any further support for new oil and gas extraction and for new metallurgical coal projects. A quick 🧵 on why this is important.

[Robert McSweeney @rtmcswee]

FACTCHECK

The @Telegraph reported today that @networkrail’s £2.8bn plan to cope with extreme weather has been “undermine[d]” because “weather-related train disruption has decreased over the past few years”.

Let’s have a look at that claim:

THREAD 🚂

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[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

It seems @mattwridley thinks @Telegraph readers are idiots

Let's run the numbers:

244,000km2 = area of the UK
5-10% = share of UK Matt says would need to be covered with solar to meet electricity demand in June

40MW = solar capacity per km2
500-1,000GW = solar capacity, if covering 5-10% of UK
300% = share of total UK electricity demand that would be generated by 1,000GW of UK solar
650GW = current solar capacity of China, roughly half the global total
<30GW = actual UK summer peak demand

15GW = current solar capacity of UK, of which ~10GW ground mounted
0.1% = current solar land take
70GW = UK govt solar target, because no one thinks we can run the country on solar alone
<1% = future land take

>20% = reduction in UK gas imports if govt solar target is met

Zero = credibility of Matt's article