Paleoclimatologist Jessica Tierney recently published a global temperature record covering almost the past half-billion years. According to her model, 50 million years ago, inland temperatures approached 122 degrees Fahrenheit. www.quantamagazine.org/climate-extr...

Vale Prof Emma Johnston AO FAA FTSE The Academy is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of one of our Fellows, Prof Emma Johnston AO FAA FTSE. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2022 recognising her leadership in the field of marine ecology, 🧵 vimeo.com/762105195

My #1 Xmas25 prezzie now up on the wall..!

100% pure. Clean and green. Just don't go swimming or drink the tap water.

Don't become a bookless statistic this year 😥 #pukapuka

"Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist" by Bob Ward & yours truly in today's @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Did a wrap-up post for my blog/mailing list ExcursionSet today. Looking back I realised that I ended 2024 with a list of things I would write about but wrote about other things instead... excursionset.com/blog/2025/12...

Luxon has a plan. It looks like this. 6 plates for him, 1 plate between 5 at the other end of the divide he’s widened. I don’t misunderstand him. I see him. #nzpol #hoarder interactives.stuff.co.nz/the-side-eye...

Pleased to invite abstract submissions for our session on Atmospheric Blocking at #EGU2026 Link for submission: www.egu26.eu/session/56308 Please share or tag anyone who might be interested & spread the word! 🙌 @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social @timwoollings.bsky.social @seraphinehauser.bsky.social

I got visited by three ghosts last night, who were all experts in English grammar.

Please note that oil and gas are allowed to claim the 45Q tax credit without any verification that they actually captured the CO2 they said they did — and certainly without having to sequester the carbon 🤡

#ClimateChange already existential in Kashmir & Himalayas. Hundreds of millions depend on these glaciers for drinking water. Its going to be a rough road, the next few decades. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Years in the making, the 3rd Edition of Meteorology and Climate of the Southern Hemisphere is published on 18 December, available as an eBook and in physical format. Thanks to Andréa Taschetto, Thando Ndarana & Tercio Ambrizzi for making it happen! Check out www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren @ellecordova.bsky.social

Paging Erica Stanford #nzpol

The best time to plan for your retirement is when you’re 64

"It is our view that a detailed framework for post-2050 reductions and removals is best developed closer to 2050." - wrong. We need action now to avoid disaster in 2050. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

🍃🌹🌿voting NZ #Greens “Green Budget” is fully costed & fantastic. Free GPs & Dentists & childcare. Less tax for the majority of NZers, a little more for the richest few, who mostly avoid paying now, & the wealth tax is v similar to Australia’s! #Hope #nzpol www.greens.org.nz/green_budget...

Fun job to get: can design for a new Garage Project beer celebrating the incredible work of old mates Capital Kiwi Project bringing brown kiwi back into the hills of Wellington. Legends

Perhaps the smartest #ClimateAction investment in cities is in public transit. While others make excuses, Paris is building a WHOLE NEW METRO NETWORK CONNECTING SUBURBS. “…the Grand Paris Express, a new 200km system with 4 new lines & 68 new stations.” #ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social

This is a really good comprehensive overview of the current evidence on Devon being the cradle of world civilization Well worth your time, good maps too

People Watching: Opening party for 'Pop to Present: American Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki on a Friday night

Thread time. These proposed local government reforms are being reported as the end of Regional Councils but actually they're probably the end of a lot of rural and smaller district councils in New Zealand. Not sure what I mean?

I’ve written about #COP30 for The Transition(s) Lab. When the gavel came down in Belém, there was no major diplomatic breakthrough, but that’s not all that COPs are about these days. In a multipolar world, that’s likely a good thing. Read more here: the-transitions-lab.ghost.io/the-shift-2-...

#COP30 "exposed the world as it is — haltingly and slowly tackling climate pollution, and fragmented by rising economic nationalism and protectionism, rather than the united, optimistic community of nations that produced the Paris climate agreement 10 years ago." www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

cox orange apples, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1905

""I think the current government is really unappealing for a younger generation..." www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

My favorite piece of content today.

"No agreement looked likely, however, on the core issue of a 'transition away from fossil fuels', with the conference split into two large blocs." THE CORE ISSUE. NO AGREEMENT, after 30 years. What is the point of these COPs? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What’s the most significant advice you received from a teacher? I had a Geology prof who always said “have strong opinions, loosely held” Be passionate, assess alternatives with conviction, take sides. But don’t fall so in love with your opinions that you can’t change them with better data.

Lovely article from PhD student Ciaran Doolin at @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social on the ice-age debates of the 19th century. theconversation.com/nzs-earliest...

Spread the word. Sign-ups close on the 19th

Yes, all this! And let’s get writing and talking to our MPs.

Did an interview with bFM on #climatechange and health - thanks Sara Mckoy and the bFM team! 95bfm.com/bcast/climat...

Record high ocean temperatures continued across the North Pacific in October 2025, with recent warming really amplifying since the early 2000s. This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every October from 1854-2025 using NOAA ERSSTv5 data (psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...).

It would be nice to see a bit more incredulity about AI generally.

This is a criminal government. Vote these clowns out & we can start from scratch in a year's time. Sigh. newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...

they are destroying US climate science on purpose, and it hurts my heart. but take it from an MIT-trained nerdass: all most of us need to know is that we have to stop burning stuff stop burning stuff for heat stop burning stuff for make car go stop burning stuff for power we have the tools

I was a climate reporter I got so tired of writing the same 3 paragraphs different ways in every single story it boils down to: stop burning stuff yes, it matters yes, us here, us too

NZ’s climate law to change – Expert Reaction

What is going on with this government? www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta...

I'm really looking forward to Catherine Knight's talk on her book "An Uncommon Land", at the Paraparaumu Boating Club, Tuesday 11 November from 6:30. Register at www.kapiticoast.govt.nz/do-it-online...

What AI hype, its hour come at last, slouches towards LinkedIn to produce statistically average thought leadership pieces.

You might have seen that Siouxsie won her legal battle against the UoA, but even after the damages were awarded she ended up massively out of pocket. So she's asking for help - There's been lots of support already, which is cool to see - Siouxsie deserves it! www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...

Spread the word: Labour's CGT is a simple, targeted tax on residential & commercial property to fund 3 free doctor's visits for every Kiwi. The family home is exempt. Farms are exempt. KiwiSaver is exempt. Businesses are exempt. Nine in 10 Kiwis will not pay a dollar on any property they own #nzpol

Global methane action pays for itself at least six times over And for fans of GHG metrics: "[...] Lastly, although the best basis for comparing methane and CO2 abatement should be relative social costs, we have found that the convention of using GWP100 is a reasonable approximation."

This is just mind-bendingly wrong-headed. ‘Let’s just adapt, tech will save us’ has always been a reckless strategy, but as evidence mounts that natural carbon sinks are failing it really does start to sink into a form of climate denialism. www.newsweek.com/bill-gates-d...

Rising heat killing one person a minute worldwide, major climate report reveals - The biggest analysis yet finds millions are dying each year due to the failure to tackle global heating @lancetcountdown.bsky.social #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

But hey, all good #climatechange is a big con. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings