One for the climate scientist! 🌐

📃 In our latest paper we provide an overview of the climate projections used in the National Communications of the 16 countries in the SADC region.

Find the full table in the paper: lnkd.in/e-kT9ngA

How is climate science used to inform national-level adaptation planning in southern Africa?

We analysed 16 National Communications & interviewed experts for answers!

Read the paper in Climate Policy or guest post in Carbon Brief for more..
📜 Paper: lnkd.in/gi-3dktt
📰 Guest post: lnkd.in/gNXBeGWD

🔓 : #Climate data analysis in policy documents is often limited to average temp and rainfall, & the average of many models, which may underestimate risks, find @ailishcraig.bsky.social et al. @bristoluni.bsky.social in new study on how climate science informs adaptation planning in southern Africa🌍

A really insightful paper that I implore all researchers that focus on Africa to read but especially 'Global North' researchers. It's a short paper with specific action points at the bottom.
"the onus is on Northern academics to educate themselves"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

🌍 Exciting Open Call! 🌍

WCRP RIfS is launching an Africa Task Team to tackle climate challenges with region-specific data. The Task Team will be co-chaired by African researchers for a global impact.

🔗Details: loom.ly/c6lycYI

#ClimateAction #Africa #ClimateResearch #ScienceforSociety

This really isn’t news, but it’s important to keep drumming home. We don’t need to increase production of commodity crops. We need diversity & parity. We also need to integrate externalities into the cost of food.

A few years ago, my friend, outspoken climate scientist Peter Kalmus @climatehuman.bsky.social, moved his family out of LA because he could extrapolate from the data. This week the house where he raised his kids burned down.

His words for us all (gift link):

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www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...

Climate change scepticism almost extinct from UK national press

But newspapers are instead increasingly arguing against the need to take action to slow climate change.

pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

A fun day of filming to inspire teens to stay studying science!

The data is in. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the pre-industrial period.

More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements, made by thousands of people over many decades, have been condensed into a single number.

Happy New Year! Back in my Bristol office, with a new route in walk in along the harbourside 🌅

If anyone wants a short, interesting read to get the year started you may have missed this great blog about Tropical Cyclone Chido: theconversation.com/climate-migr...

Great list! Would like to join please (if still possible!)

Catching up on my "to read list"
This really resonated with me "emotions can help ensure that these changes are not normalized; that is, the idea of the ‘new normal’ should not include accepting loss of species, habitats, ecosystem functioning or human lives as normal"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Back in the UK after 3 productive months in southern Africa! Data collected, papers submitted, networking & lots of learning. Excited to return to Cape Town with CSAG in 2025. This year has taught me the power of embracing complexity—can’t wait for what’s next! 🌍✨

New post docs at Bristol with my research group! Great opportunity- happy to chat with anyone who has questions about the group/Bristol