Author Archives: Doug McNeall
Communicating climate science on social media 2024
I’ve updated my talk on Communicating climate science on social media, and the slides are here. I wrote a script that I didn’t use in the lecture this year, so everything that I forgot to say is here. It’s been a big year in social media. I’m using Twitter a lot less, as the risk/reward […]
Climate denial on TikTok
Social media is a really important means of spreading climate misinformation. I’ve been trying, in a small way, to spread *good* climate information on TikTok for about a year now, and I’ve learned a few things about how the platform works. Getting views The views on my videos have gone from a few hundred views […]
New CO2 viz from NASA
Nasa scientific vizualization laboratory have created this great new animation, looking at sources of CO2 into the atmosphere in 2021. It’s a mix of observations and modelling. The great thing is that it colours CO2 by source, giving us a fantastic insight into the behaviour of an invisible gas. I was asked for comment for […]
Abuse of climate scientists on social media
I was quoted in this piece in the Observer by Anna Fazackerly, on why climate scientists are being targeted for abuse on social media. Ed’s tweet about it generated lots of interactions, many of them (e.g.) – inevitably – conforming the report’s basic premise. I had an interesting chat with Anna, and I think she […]
Constraining the carbon cycle in a land surface model – a talk for EGU23
I’m attending the EGU 2023 assembly this week, and gave a talk on our latest paper Constraining the carbon cycle in JULES-ES1.0. Attending online works fine, but doesn’t give you all the bonuses of meeting in person, getting the lowdown on the coolest talks coming up, and catching up with old colleagues and friends. One […]
Communicating climate science through social media
I give various versions of this talk to students and other scientists. Get in touch if you’d like me to give it to your organisation – it usually gets lots of good discussions going. The fun thing this year is that TikTok is a mainstream thing now, and Twitter is dying. Going to be an […]
Communicating climate change through social media
I updated my previous talk for scientists on surviving social media for a more general audience – this time for MSc students. They were an engaging bunch, and a 50 minute lecture stretched into a two-and-a-half-hour mega discussion, which obviously I’m all for. One thing that came up is that one of the students was […]
Uncertainty quantification and exascale computing in climate science
I was asked to sit on a discussion panel at this meeting on uncertainty quantification (UQ) with exascale computing. I prepared a short statement (below) on future challenges for UQ at exascale, but I would have made a slightly a longer one (below that) if there was time. A great resource for thinking about the […]
Visualising input spaces using emulators
In a previous post, I looked at some of the ways we could visualise the input space of climate models, when they are constrained to produce behaviour that looks something like the real world. I used parallel co-ordinates plots and pairs plots to visualise the high (32) dimensional input space of the JULES land surface […]
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