Would you like a free school, library or bookshop visit from the writer, climate journalist and sociologist @dominicmhinde.bsky.social? Follow this link for more information: tinyurl.com/5yyn3sc4 #climate #booksky

If you are a bookshop, school or library and would like a free workshop on writing climate change and how we get from here to where we need to be, sign up here forms.cloud.microsoft/e/uW3R5ypHY8

Here is a little piece about my new book, released this Friday www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2026/02/20/w...

Thanks to everyone who came to last night’s chat in Dollar at the fantastic Wee Bookshop. Was very happy to be able to make it up.

Regeringen har just ändrat regelverket för statligt stöd till fossilexport. Så nu ska våra skattepengar gå till att få länder att satsa på fossilgas. Ändringen kom efter en lobbykampanj från Siemens, som DN har kartlagt i detalj www.dn.se/sverige/rege...

Ny rapport: Europa värms upp dubbelt så snabbt som det globala genomsnittet o att vi måste förbereda oss på en värld med 3 graders uppvärmning inom detta sekel. Det är utanför ”livets korridor” - temperaturen som säkrar mänsklig civilisation. Läs @sverker.bsky.social www.dn.se/varlden/rott...

If you have read Drifting North or attended one of the launch events, please also take two minutes to fill in this survey for the University of Glasgow uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

If you’re in Fife, Clacks, Stirlingshire or West Lothian a little event for you tomorrow evening.

There are two events this week linked to Drifting North - First up is the sold out Festival of Politics panel on the upcoming election and net zero in Holyrood on Monday, and on Friday in conversation with Gabriella Bennett at the Wee Bookshop in Dollar www.weebookshop.co.uk/events/drift...

The Dawlish - Teignmouth railway line feels like the absolute front line of climate adaptation in Britain (a test we are not passing so far). And yet somehow, somehow, this article manages to go in-depth on the problems with the line without mentioning the climate once. The sea is literally higher!

BBC's Arabic radio service in Lebanon closed after 85 years as part of a £28.5m savings drive. 'Just months later, in October 2023, the Russian state-owned Sputnik news agency took over the frequency. Its news bulletin opened with “This is Moscow”, replacing the previous “This is London” intro.' 🙄

There are two events this week linked to Drifting North - First up is the sold out Festival of Politics panel on the upcoming election and net zero in Holyrood on Monday, and on Friday in conversation with Gabriella Bennett at the Wee Bookshop in Dollar www.weebookshop.co.uk/events/drift...

Drifting North has been longlisted for the 2026 Highland Book Prize. Very humbled to find this out and thank you to everyone who has supported the project.

"We don’t entirely understand how the Earth’s system would react to removing carbon dioxide. Is there some kind of hysteresis loop. This hysteresis, or lag effect, could mean that even if temperatures are lowered, the planet may not return to its previous state." www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

If you are a school or library group and would like to host a talk or afternoon writing workshop on climate change, or a bookshop interested in an author visit, please fill in the form below. forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Event info for an extra event in Dollar at the end of the month. Joined by writer and journalist Gabriella Bennett.

I've been rather quiet as a combo of a very intensive book tour and university events absolutely floored me. Just wanted to say thankyou all for your support with Drifting North this year and especially to those of you who came to the tour events. Need to recover a bit, but see you all in 2026.

Looking back to @wwattribution.bsky.social studies in 2025 showed again, in stark terms, how unfairly the consequences of human-induced climate change are distributed. The world does not have to be like this, we have a lot of agency to make it better. www.worldweatherattribution.org/unequal-evid...

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Where are global CO2 emissions heading? Middle-of-the-road? But just because we have followed the SSP2-45, SSP4-60 path for 10 years, does not mean we follow it for the next 70 years. Policy & technology have pushed the world away from the high-end, but 2.7C in 2100 & rising is not a good outcome!

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Good response to this story so far!

The word of the year is “Parasocial”. Perhaps not unrelated to last year’s “Brainrot”? 🧐 Look out for the *How to Stay Smart* issue of @newhumanist.bsky.social, OUT TOMORROW

I drove home through the freezing night after leaving Hampden yesterday and for a little slice of time everything felt right with the world.

Crazy to wake up to the news that the Mossmorran plant owned by Exxon is closing in Fife. I was there during the research for Drifting North, talking to people who lived with the impacts of the plant. After Grangemouth and this you wonder what is next, but this isn't decarbonisation either!

Thanks to all who came to the streamed Norway event this afternoon. A recording should be available at some point.

Why US home insurance is unaffordable, even in places without wildfires or hurricanes Areas with the most hail risk are seeing some of the fastest growing home insurance prices in the US... via @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/11/13/n...

When I finished my travels, never in my lifetime had Scotland felt so adrift and cut off from itself, writes @dominicmhinde.bsky.social for @scotsman.com here: www.scotsman.com/news/opinion... His new book 'Drifting north' is out now! #Scotland #booksky

I’ve put the full text of the paywalled piece I wrote at the weekend on Instagram here www.instagram.com/p/DRJoBzTAmA...

COP30 COMPLAINTS: At the "subsidiary bodies" closing plenary earlier, many countries were "concerned" & "disappointed" over conclusions that failed to endorse IPCC as "best available science" & failed to fully reflect latest research Here's what they said 🧵

Thankyou to Clifton Lit Fest and all the volunteers who made today’s event happen. Here is a picture of the suspension bridge.

A reminder that I am appearing at Clifton Lit Fest tomorrow in Clifton Village, Bristol, and then doing a big free open online talk hosted by the Greenhouse Centre at University of Stavanger on Monday www.uis.no/en/research/...

The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...

In the same week, both the University of Nottingham and the University of Leicester announced closing their Modern Languages departments. Disastrous for the sector as a whole and for the ML landscape in the Midlands: c.org/4X7VMy9MPD

"A frank summarising of our ambivalent relationship with energy, past, present and (perhaps) future." Good review in @scotsman.com of 'Drifting North' - a book that explores Scotland's relationship with energy and climate change by @dominicmhinde.bsky.social www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

Thanks to The Scotsman for this review of Drifting North. Illuminating but not always cheerful is how many have described me. www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

Funding alert: @grist.org is offering grants of up to $5,000 for reporting on rural climate issues and environmental justice in the United States. Newsrooms and freelancers are welcome to apply. Please share! grist.org/updates/gris...

Absurder Vorgang.

I really enjoyed this honest piece from @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social on the moment you realise you can't get up off the sofa and you should probably stop. My neurologist straight up told me he thought I should quit my job. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/lives/...

If you’ve read Drifting North you may recall a handsome and enigmatic character who joins me in the North Sea on the trip to an oil rig. Well that very same man has a very exciting book out himself later in the year www.amazon.co.uk/Injury-All-U...

Here's something to cheer. I just found out there's something called the Hinde Potential Energy Surface, a maths construct used to plot the potential energy of a system. Invented by a guy called Robert J Hinde (no relation).

Wealthy polluting states want Cop30 to be business as usual… read my explainer on the landmark ICJ climate ruling on why this would be a violation of international law www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Come and see me talk about climate and landscape in Bristol this weekend!

#COP30 AGENDA FIGHT: Battle looms over which issues to discuss at COP30 (an "agenda fight") Proposed late additions to agenda: * trade * finance * deforestation * ambition * reporting Hence, now on 4th version of agenda (!) This must be resolved before negotiations begin 🧵 1/

This is the kind of gold we are building data centres to produce.

At the turn of the 20th century, two Swedish sisters dreamt of an existence free from male oppression and built an all-female co-living residence as a safe haven for single women over 35. Watch how its community endures more than 75 years later in this documentary by director Fanny Rosell

I took this photo 18 months ago, sailing through the Sound of Mull on a near empty boat as snow clouds dipped and swirled over Lismore. Was on my way to do interviews for the Drifting North project, praying the car would make it.

There’s a scam going round with someone pretending to be Wigtown book fest contacting writers to obtain money for fictional events.