Not immediately. Having personal experience of applying for EU funding, it's a long process and very time-consuming. It's a good point though and I will see what CPDN think.

Agreed, I was thinking long term with this.

It also helps to have a lot of European partners in your project.

It also helps to have a lot of European partners in your project.

It's only possible to apply with European partners. Unfortunately, having been out of the system, trust has been lost and it's not obvious European partners will want to risk bringing UK groups on board in case it damages their chances -- this is what happened before the referendum when Brexit was approaching, and who's to say if the UK government will change its mind. We'll see. Anyway, this is off topic, so I'll leave it there.

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It also helps to have a lot of European partners in your project.

It's only possible to apply with European partners. Unfortunately, having been out of the system, trust has been lost and it's not obvious European partners will want to risk bringing UK groups on board in case it damages their chances -- this is what happened before the referendum when Brexit was approaching, and who's to say if the UK government will change its mind. We'll see. Anyway, this is off topic, so I'll leave it there.

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Likewise. Kicked off project proposals on uncertainty grounds: we were repeatedly told by our long-time EU partners that they wouldn’t choose a company that might need to be got rid of later when there were plenty of companies that didn’t have that risk. Uncertainly matters. Not climate research but the same funding programmes.

Likewise also on applications. It was so awful we had to rotate the people completing the applications year to year, even though we knew from experience why the checks were necessary.

Let’s hope this settles down to something productive.

global warming accelerating Washington Post.

Tenth consecutive monthly heat record alarms and confounds climate scientists If the anomaly does not stabilise by August, ‘the world will be in uncharted territory’, says climate expert.

A warmer, wetter, world?
Extreme rain fell in parts of Berkshire (UK) on Sunday afternoon and overnight. Our unofficial rain gauge (the empty large yellow tub) had 12 cm of rainwater in it this morning. The secondary rain gauge (an empty builders bucket beside the house) had 10 cm of rainwater. Three half-full water butts couldn't cope with the deluge. The builders skip on our driveway will be the best part of a metric tonne heavier.

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The life Scientific Anna Korre will be known to many in the climate change science community.

UNEP report says we might have a temperature rise of up to 3.5C by the end of the century. (The upper limit of the uncertainty in the prediction.)

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453198-carbon-emissions-are-now-growing-faster-than-before-the-pandemic/
Carbon emissions rising faster now than before the pandemic

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Piece by Friederike Otto in the Grauniad on the floods in Spain and Global North's refusal to recognise Climate Change as an issue for us as well as the Global South.