Category Media
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 […]
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 […]
More on surviving social media
I updated this talk [download slides] from last summer (time flies!), offering some personal thoughts on surviving a sometimes-hostile social media environment. [The sound gets better after I decide to hold the tiny mic rather than have it stuck in my shirt.] I was talking to my peers this time, so the mood is somewhat […]
Behind the scenes at the new podcast from the Met Office
I’m pretty excited to be part of the regular team for the new Met Office podcast, Mostly Weather. We’re trying to capture a fun, relaxed and hopefully interesting discussion of science, history and little-known facts about weather and climate. I’d like to think that we hit the nerdy-but-accessible sweet spot. We’ve a couple of episodes […]
On the existence of the hiatus
A new paper by Karl et al. in Science makes a spirited argument that there really is no “hiatus” or “slowdown” in global surface temperature warming. The paper focuses on some of the more technical details of bias correction in the temperature data record, rather than on the dynamics of the climate. It is from a […]
Small victories
This week, I was an author on an open letter to the climate science community, calling for and end to the use of the dreaded “Rainbow” colour palette for scientific visualisation (mirrored over at my data viz blog Better Figures). It was the busiest day ever at both CLB and BF, and we got lots […]
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