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Where did southern Australia’s record-breaking heatwave come from? Australia’s northwest is well known for its heat. But this furnace-like area can deliver heatwaves to the southeast, thousands of kilometres away.

Where did southern Australia’s record-breaking heatwave come from?
theconversation.com/where-did-so...

Australia’s heatwaves are getting deadlier – and renters are paying the price | Maiy Azize Some are trapped in a vicious cycle: rising rents, rising energy bills and falling standards. But this is not inevitable

Australia’s heatwaves are getting deadlier – and renters are paying the price www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Spain’s meteorologists subjected to ‘alarming’ rise in hate speech, minister warns Environment minister says attacks on social media affect perceptions of meteorology and denigrate researchers’ work

Spain’s meteorologists subjected to ‘alarming’ rise in hate speech, minister warns www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

5 charts to discover the Global Climate Highlights 2025 report The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) released its Global Climate Highlights 2025 report on 14 January. The assessment of the key climate variables of the year, prepared against the clock as the...

5 charts to discover the Global Climate Highlights 2025 report
climate.copernicus.eu/5-charts-dis...

NASA reports record heat but omits reference to climate change Don't say the c-word. Global temperatures soared in 2025, but a NASA statement published Wednesday alongside its latest benchmark annual report makes no reference to climate change, in line with Presi...

Don't say the c-word.

NASA reports record heat but omits reference to climate change phys.org/news/2026-01... via @physorg_com

"Immigrant populations commit crimes at lower rates than native-born populations, so if this is actually about crime, how do you answer for that?"

Katie Zacharia: "You are lumping in illegal immigrants and regular immigrants."

"Both commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans."

Some days ago, a magical sunset from Napier. #nofilter #newzealand #hawkesbay #napier

‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate? Defenders say AI can do good to fight the climate crisis. But spiralling energy and water costs leave experts worried

‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I posted on the potential use of an AI generated image, it struck a chord and a few laughs. I was NOT expecting the newly minted Public Research Organisation to deny that AI was used. Are. Are they, lying? 🤥 www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

New data raises questions about how much the Earth has warmed | CNN New climate data raises questions about how much the Earth has warmed

New GloSAT analysis extends global temperature records back to 1781, nearly 70 years earlier than usual instrumental baselines (like 1850).

Btw, where could have that mystery eruption in early 1800s taken place? www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/c...

Storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rain – and the consequences could be global The Southern Ocean is the engine room of global heat and carbon uptake – and it’s changing faster and more dramatically than we thought.

Storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rain – and the consequences could be global
theconversation.com/storms-in-th...

The Indian Ocean disaster is a climate tragedy — and needs more attention A region unused to tropical cyclones has had three in a week. The world needs to ask why this happened, not look away.

The Indian Ocean disaster is a climate tragedy — and needs more attention

A region unused to tropical cyclones has had three in a week. The world needs to ask why this happened, not look away.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tl;dr: no!

I think most of us left for our mental health because who wants to argue with trolls and bots?

The records observed in the past years were often “so striking that we’ve occasionally had to stop and triple check the data to make sure it was accurate” says scientist J. Nicolas.
Very nice @data.ft.com piece about this 🤩 viz with
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social data.

www.ft.com/content/67ec...

How Bill Gates is playing both sides of the climate crisis – video Think Bill Gates is fixing the climate crisis? Not if you follow the money. While he funds green innovation and talks about cutting emissions, Gates also invests in dirty industries such as coal, oil ...

How Bill Gates is playing both sides of the climate crisis – video www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

Climate change is causing ever more disruption. Can Australia’s new adaptation plan help? At long last, Australia has a national climate adaptation plan to guide public and private responses to intensifying threats.

Climate change is causing ever more disruption. Can Australia’s new adaptation plan help?
theconversation.com/climate-chan...

AI’s evangelists are promising a future of almost unimaginable prosperity. There’s good reason to be sceptical.
👉 theconversation.com/if-ai-t...

Observed minimum temperatures at Thredbo AWS and Perisher AWS on 18 August 2025.

Image showing Thredbo AWS and surrounds on 18 August 2025. https://www.ski.com.au/snowcams/australia/nsw/thredbo/thredbo-kosciuszkotrack.html

The temperature at Thredbo Top Station (1957 m AMSL) fell to -13.2°C on Monday morning. That's just 0.3° short of the station's coldest temperature on record (-13.5°C on 8 July 1987).

A special ep of Totally Cooked is brewing, tackling common misconceptions about all things weather and climate.

Please post any ideas you'd like to see cooked (can be anon too) below.

Eg. “El Nino always means dry weather or drought in Australia, and La Nina always mean wet weather or flood.”

The racist backlash against Air NZ’s new CEO Opinion: When Air New Zealand announced Greg Foran’s replacement, a Kiwi-Indian, the internet couldn’t handle it.

NZ is indeed a welcoming country with only few pockets of racism in my experience. Its not about a Kiwi becoming Air India CEO or Indian origin guy becoming Air NZ CEO. Why must we keep judging people based on colour, ethnicity or religion? Live & let live www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

Donald Trump’s war on climate science has staggering implications Even a policy of “drill, baby, drill” would imply more climate research, not its evisceration, says Ralph Keeling

Donald Trump’s war on climate science has staggering implications
Even a policy of “drill, baby, drill” would imply more climate research, not its evisceration, says Ralph Keeling

www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

A Wall Street Journal editorial welcomes Trump admin plans to repeal the "endangerment finding" behind US climate regulations

Titled "Climate Regulation Liberation Day", it questions the "dubious proposition that GHGs pose a clear and present danger"…

The truth here is so ever relevant, is so simple and profound. I think I might pop it into my next book. Sharing yet again:

⚠️ Scientists urge eastern Australia to plan for more dangerous floods as climate warms

A rapid study by @wwattribution.bsky.social found the wettest 4-day rainfall events in a year are about 10% more intense in NSW compared to the preindustrial climate 🧵

ow.ly/ylh350W3iBO

Enhancing communication of climate changes under net zero emissions - Communications Earth & Environment Much of the public discourse around climate changes under net zero carbon dioxide emissions has been focused on global mean temperature changes after emissions cessation. More attention needs to be pa...

In our new paper we discuss how communication of post-net zero climate changes needs to improve and go much further than global average temperature @chrisd-jones.bsky.social @sarahinscience.bsky.social @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

An Israeli startup says its new technology will save the planet. Scientists have doubts A startup called Gigablue claims to have reached a milestone by selling 200,000 carbon credits for its ocean-based carbon capture technology.

Surprisingly its NZ 😡😮 A dangerously opaque strategy based on unverified methodology.

Scientists raise questions about startup's plan to save the ocean | apnews.com/article/clim...

This.

Sir Ian Taylor: Winston, let’s talk passports and getting the focus back to what matters OPINION: It seems, somehow, that the order of two words on a travel document now ranks among the great political battlegrounds of our time.

"And yet somehow, this adopted name, bestowed by men who didn’t even disembark, has become sacrosanct to some, while Aotearoa, a name used to describe this land for centuries before Tasman turned up, is treated by some as irrelevant," www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Check out my "Climate Change Downunder" starter pack for all things climate change related in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Includes scientists, academics and professionals who work in the climate change space in Oz and NZ.

Hit me up with any accounts I should add!

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