Elise

@elisecutts
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Baby science journalist, recovering perfectionist, and language nerd with a blog | 🗣️ EN•DE 🧗‍♀️ IT•ES | Language corrections welcome

Baby-Wissenschaftsjournalistin, genesende Perfektionistin, und Sprachnerd mit einem Blog | 🗣️ EN•DE 🧗‍♀️ IT•ES | Sprachkorrektur willkommen

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EliseJul 28, 2022

One day I hope to have this energy but for now I speak in an unnatural way AND make mistakes 😂

RT @[email protected]

I think she was a "victim" of language education that over-emphasizes correctness. I'd rather speak in a more natural way and make mistakes than speak correctly in a limited way.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/david_anice_guy/status/1552631583441649666

David Guy on Twitter

“I think she was a "victim" of language education that over-emphasizes correctness. I'd rather speak in a more natural way and make mistakes than speak correctly in a limited way.”

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Show threadEliseJul 25, 2022

One researcher I talked to said that if you’d told him 20 years ago that it’d be 40 C in the UK, he wouldn’t have believed it.

Now it’s here.

Show threadEliseJul 25, 2022
What is clear is that climate change is here in Europe — and things will only get hotter. Preparations shouldn’t wait for climate models to catch up with reality.
Show threadEliseJul 25, 2022

Climate models predict that Europe will heat up more than the world average, but they haven’t caught up with reality when it comes to the frequency and severity of heatwaves there.

More research will be needed to figure out why exactly Europe is getting so hot

Show threadEliseJul 25, 2022
Fourth, a major Atlantic current is (probably) slowing down, which could be messing with the jet stream. But that probably wasn’t a factor in the ongoing heatwaves
Show threadEliseJul 25, 2022
Third, Europe is super dry. Heating up and evaporating water uses up a lot of energy that would otherwise heat up the air. Dry soils mean hotter days.
Show threadEliseJul 25, 2022

Second, the jet stream is messed up. Climate change is doing that.

This can also cause heatwaves in Europe, where the climate is strongly moderated by the jet steam

Show threadEliseJul 25, 2022
For one, temps are just higher. That makes extreme heat more likely.
Show threadEliseJul 25, 2022
There are a lot of possible explanations for why Europe is heating up so fast, and it’s probably not just one factor
Show threadEliseJul 25, 2022
(caveat: heatwaves in the tropics are usually more deadly and hit higher temps — the extreme thing in Europe is the change relative to pre-climate change norms, which is unusually strong)