Steven Sowden

Investment & risk Consultant @Mercer. Interested in responsible investment and climate change as well as using ALM to manage risk in an integrated way.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Does the UK government oppose genocide?

An urgent letter to the Foreign Secretary from the Independent Alliance.

[Steven Sowden @ClimateActuary]

Thinking about insurance is key to climate crisis scenario analysis. A crisis in insurance could flow into a crisp in real estate, banking or bond markets.

[Streetinsider.com @Street_Insider]

Piper analysts say Hurricane Milton may change the insurance market
https://t.co/tLzDfKAQQs

[Brendan May @bmay]

Tears live on air from this hurricane specialist and meteorologist @JohnMoralesTV

Everything that scientists predicted is coming true, and those who wilfully denied or hid it, and still do, have committed nothing less than crimes against humanity.

https://t.co/o8STGz5QlZ

[Ed Hawkins @ed_hawkins]

Today it is the UK's turn to experience serious flooding due to intense rainfall.

A reminder that UK rainfall intensity has increased markedly over the past 60+ years. All consistent with the physics of a warming atmosphere which is now more humid.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Just so we are clear: Israel causing thousands of pagers to explode across Lebanon — with zero means of even *pretending* to know who was holding the device at that specific moment, or where they were, or possible collateral damage — is, as you’d expect, a serious war crime.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

I have signed a letter in disgust over the draconian sentences for climate protestors.

What is the bigger crime: destroying our planet for profit, or asking the world to wake up and act?

We cannot let this miscarriage of justice stand. Sign here: https://t.co/xVryrUZFFg

[Steven Sowden @ClimateActuary]

@HigherEdActuary Finding the policy to get momentum behind heat pumps is a challenge. I’d like to see all new homes from date X have to be gas-free.

[Ed Hawkins @ed_hawkins]

To all UK journalists: the climate crisis needs to feature more in this election campaign. You have an opportunity to put climate change on the front pages tomorrow.

Ask @UniofReading for the images you can use.

#ShowYourStripes

[Steven Sowden @ClimateActuary]

The magnificent seven are reduced to six

[Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT 🍖 @MikeZaccardi]

5 stocks account for 60% of S&P 500 return YTD

[Steven Sowden @ClimateActuary]

*technology not iconology. Hopefully we don’t rely on iconology.

[Steven Sowden @ClimateActuary]

When we compare events of the last 10-20 years with climate scientists’ projections of how to limit the climate crisis… policy has underperformed and iconology outperformed. Going forward we need policy to catch-up.

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

UK election 2024: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change | @MollyLempriere

Read here ➡️ https://t.co/0vbrvZKcUP

[Ed Hawkins @ed_hawkins]

Next Friday (21st June) is #ShowYourStripes day!

Join a free-to-attend conversation about the Warming Stripes between myself & @t0mclark3. Learn about how they became a global climate symbol.

In person in Reading:
https://t.co/zPIdIiTjRg

Watch online:
https://t.co/Wx6GA7XbMv

[Steven Sowden @ClimateActuary]

@HigherEdActuary @piersforster @hausfath Weather according to @ed_hawkins

[Ed Hawkins @ed_hawkins]

We often get these temperatures in the UK in early June.

2015 and 2019 are two recent examples.

We have short memories for what we expect from the weather.

[Steven Sowden @ClimateActuary]

Another example of why GDP growth may not be a good measure of success.

Better success measures would help in dealing with the climate crisis.

[Tej Parikh @tejparikh90]

My latest for @FTAlphaville. A thought: could bad health and healthcare prop-up GDP? America may offer an answer: https://t.co/UciDmh8nkc…

It is world-leading in health expenditure 1/3

[Steven Sowden @ClimateActuary]

A great graphic from FT showing the extent of the current temperature anomaly.
World must exit ‘highway to climate hell’, UN boss warns, as records are again broken (https://t.co/JPeQQGRRAK)

[Steven Sowden @ClimateActuary]

This is a very clear infographic. It shows that a limit of 1.5C is becoming increasingly hard to maintain.

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

NEW – Guest post: Tracking the unprecedented impact of humans on the climate | @piersforster Debbie Rosen

Read here: https://t.co/tMKUfQY97w

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

NEW – Guest post: Tracking the unprecedented impact of humans on the climate | @piersforster Debbie Rosen

Read here: https://t.co/tMKUfQY97w

[Climate Change Committee @theCCCuk]

We are pleased to see the Government follow our advice and not carry forward the overachievement of the Third Carbon Budget. As ever, the aim should be to meet and outperform carbon budgets through actions to reduce emissions.

[Steven Sowden @ClimateActuary]

A very clear infographic. The message: the climate is spiralling out of control. The remaining budget for a 1.5 degree limit is now less than FOUR YEARS of current emissions . From here any 1.5 degree scenario needs (a) disruptive policies (b) overshoot and return.

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

Truly grim reading: How key climate indicators have changed since IPCC AR6 WGI in 2021

🌡️Decadal warming at 1.19C, up from 1.09C
🛰️CO2 at 419ppm, up from 410ppm
🏭Emissions at 54GtCO2e, up from 53
📉Remaining carbon budget 150Gt, down from 500

https://t.co/U58wYZYvQb