This plea came across my timeline while most of the rest of Bluesky was speculating gleefully about the death of Donald Trump. One answer, I suppose, is to read my blog though I wouldn’t generally recommend that as any kind of solution to anything. I wrote not just one post on the comms around this, […]| Diagram Monkey
Two therapy dogs, Ghillie and Cecilia, getting ready for a child client One of the most frustrating parts of what I write about is getting people to realize that they don’t know stuff, and th…| It's About Empathy - Connection Ties Us Together
A “World View” published in natureorscience by Tim Palmer (TP from hereonin) is one of those odd but energetic articles senior academics write that one has to read multiple times to savour the full oddness. This one asked “Just how bad will climate change get?” and then added “The only way to know is to […]| Diagram Monkey
The “Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate” came out last week. I’ve made some broad comments on it already, but I’ve been reading the section on ocean acidification – they call it “The Alkaline Oceans” – in more detail, mostly because it is very short. I’m not an expert […]| Diagram Monkey
When I became a climate scientist nearly 22 years ago, I started accumulating books on the subject. One of the first was called something1 like “Global Warming: Apocalypse or Hot Air?” …| Diagram Monkey
The Paris Agreement calls on all Parties (the countries joining it) to publish Nationally Determined Contributions (to the global climate crisis response) every five years. The first were finalized in 2015, alongside the Paris Agreement; the 2nd round came in 2020 and 2021, some delayed by COVID; the third round are being released this year, […]| Climate Value Exchange
The SB62 round of United Nations Climate Change negotiations have concluded in Bonn, Germany. The key takeaway for many participants and observers seems to be: The SB62 advanced some…| Climate Value Exchange
A policy brief from Climate Civics and the Climate Value Exchange for negotiators at the SB62 round of United Nations Climate Change negotiations, in Bonn, Germany. As negotiators gather in Bonn, Germany, for the 62nd meeting of the Subsidiary Bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (SB62), they will be faced with […]| Blue Notes
Dipesh Chakrabarty The twenty-eighth Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change – or COP28 for short – recently took place in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The negotiations that go on at these COP … Continue reading →| In the Moment
“The 32C heat that will be endured by people in the south-east of England on Saturday will have been made 100 times more likely by the climate crisis, scientists said on Friday.R…| Diagram Monkey
May 2025 Climate Value Exchange actionable insights brief In May 2025, the global climate disruption challenge is intensifying. The most significant features of this critical moment are: The …| Climate Value Exchange
To close out Earth Month, we held a special virtual meeting with friends and allies of Climate Civics, on Wednesday, April 30. We had people joining from across Africa, as well as some in the Ameri…| Climate Value Exchange
By disrupting the Earth’s main heat transport system, humans risk creating a new Ice Age in Europe – while the rest of the planet overheats to intolerable levels. Far beneath the storm-tossed waves of the North Atlantic, a monster is stirring. A monster so vast and violent it could savage Western Civilization in ways not … Continue reading When the Oceans Run Amok…| Surviving C21
The vast wildfires now ravaging the world’s northernmost regions herald rising danger for all humanity, no matter where we live. To people worldwide desperately trying to rebuild their lives and homes following devastation by hurricane, flood, drought and sea-surge, what happens in the remote Arctic may seem of small importance. But it has the capacity … Continue reading Is Arctic methane stoking the climate crisis?| Surviving C21
Key points from Carbon Brief’s explainer of the UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2024. The good news: the world away from some of the darkest climate futures that seemed plausible before the Paris A…| David Bent
Being Part 3 of an ongoing series that is unlikely to reach any satisfying conclusion anytime soon. See Part 1 A multitude of possibly unsatisfying answers and Part 2 A panoply of trifling dis…| Diagram Monkey
Around the world, from India, to the Middle East, to southern Europe to North America, people are dropping in tens of thousands under the blazing heat of a Northern summer. Many die. In one of the …| Surviving C21
In which I wonder what would happen if time ran backwards and the globe cooled.| Diagram Monkey
Scherrer S.C et al. (2023) Estimating trends and the current climate mean in a changing climate. Climate Services vol 33. Scherrer et al. brings together a few of my favourite things1: data smoothi…| Diagram Monkey
