I’ve finally finished my fourth and fifth “Little colouring books of climate mindfulness”. It’s been six months since I first got my hands on the pilot booklet of “Winter Blues”.
Over the summer, I added “Summertime” (of course) and “Middle Course”, and now you can also get hold of “Grandchildren” and “Worst Case” – please get in touch if you would like to purchase any.
What’s in each booklet? Because the UK Climate Projections are so multi-dimensional, I had the choice of cutting the projections in many different ways to fill the 14 A6 pages excluding covers:
- Scenarios for how much carbon we will continue to emit
- Levels of probability, eg 10% or ‘very unlikely to be less than’, 33% or ‘unlikely to be less than’, to 90% ‘very unlikely to be greater than‘
- Periods of time in the future, eg 2020s, 2050s, 2080s.
- Times of the year, eg spring, summer, autumn, winter, all year
- Locations in the UK, eg regions, 25km grid squares
- Variables, eg temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, humidity
- Variable measures, eg mean, mean daily maximum and minimum, extremes, absolute value or difference from long-term mean
Here’s what I came up with.
‘Dimensions’ of each booklet…
| Emissions scenario | Probability level | Future period | Time of year | Locations | |
| “Winter Blues” | Medium | 50% | 2050s | Winter | 25km grid |
| “Summertime” | Medium | 50% | 2050s | Summer | 25km grid |
| “Middle Course” | Medium | 50% | 2050s | Whole year | 25km grid |
| “Grandchildren” | Medium | 50% | 2080s | Whole year | 25km grid |
| “Worst Case” | High | 90% | 2050s | Whole year | 25km grid |
…and their contents
“Winter Blues” and “Summertime”:
- Daily mean temperature (°C)
- Change in daily mean temperature (°C)
- Mean daily maximum temperature (°C)
- Change in mean daily maximum temperature (°C)
- Mean daily minimum temperature (°C)
- Change in mean daily minimum temperature (°C)
- Change in temperature of the coolest day (°C)
- Change in temperature of the warmest day (°C)
- Change in temperature of the coolest night (°C)
- Change in temperature of the warmest night (°C)
- Change in precipitation (%)
- Change in precipitation on the wettest day (%)
- Change in total cloud (%)
- Change in relative humidity (%)
“Middle Course”, “Grandchildren” and “Worst Case”:
- Change in Spring daily mean temperature (°C)
- Change in Summer daily mean temperature (°C)
- Change in Autumn daily mean temperature (°C)
- Change in Winter daily mean temperature (°C)
- Change in temperature of the coolest Summer day (°C)
- Change in temperature of the warmest Summer day (°C)
- Change in temperature of the coolest Winter day (°C)
- Change in temperature of the warmest Winter day (°C)
- Change in Spring precipitation (%)
- Change in Summer precipitation (%)
- Change in Autumn precipitation (%)
- Change in Winter precipitation (%)
- Change in precipitation on the wettest Summer day (%)
- Change in precipitation on the wettest Winter day (%)
