Leverhulme ECR Fellow @sheffieldgeog, environmental geographer, Australian expat, Pacific climate adaptation, decolonisation, environmental governance.
University of Sheffield
Joined September 2011
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Stern & grumpy is something I'm usually very (too) good at. This time it was really hard to pull off though!
Climate scientists are tearing their hair out, so why are millions not in the streets demanding #ClimateActionNow?
Watch and share @MrNishKumar helping @FrediOtto rouse the masses in the latest punchy "Climate Science Translated" video! 🔥🌎
#NoNewOil #ClimateCrisis #Language
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political ecologists - we are looking for an exceptional, talented and dedicated person to join our picket line
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.…
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Did you know #Jordan 🇯🇴 was the first developing country to build end-to-end digital infrastructure to track and transact reductions in GHG emissions?
Learn about Jordan’s pioneering path to addressing the climate crisis: wrld.bg/UGr150KueAA #ClimateStories_WBG
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In VietNam’s central highlands & south-central coast, water insecurity + extreme weather are hitting crops. With @theGCF & @UNDP, farmers are being supported to adopt more climate-resilient practices & to access forecasts, credit & markets #ClimateAction ow.ly/G0TE50KxlVL
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Useful explanation of ruling that #NetZero policies "inadequate" and "unlawful".
"It’s like trying to run a marathon and then just slipping your shoes on, heading out the door and hoping you’ll cover the distance"
#ClimateEmergency
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🌡️ For the first time ever, 40 Celsius has provisionally been exceeded in the UK
London Heathrow reported a temperature of 40.2°C at 12:50 today
📈 Temperatures are still climbing in many places, so remember to stay #WeatherAware ⚠️
#heatwave #heatwave2022
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A British journalist and a Brazilian expert on Indigenous peoples have been reported missing deep inside the Amazon rainforest, after the expert’s organization said it had received threats for its work monitoring illegal mining and fishing in the area. nyti.ms/3aylH8e
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Lots of people not professionally involved in climate change may be finding it difficult to understand what is going on at COP26. Many of the people here have no idea either! So I have tried to summarise where we are with three days to go. Hope it may be helpful. 🧵/1
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Another great thing about OCTOber? Being able to celebrate OCTOpods...especially on #OCTOpusFriday!
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Right now our new Blue Paper for the High Level Panel on a Sustainable Ocean Economy on Critical Habitats and Biodiversity is being launched in Mexico. See the Report at: oceanpanel.org/blue-papers/c…
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Report reveals ‘massive plastic pollution footprint’ of drinks firms theguardian.com/environment/…
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Aberdeen: teetering between its high-carbon past and a green future
A city more reliant than most on oil and gas reserves hopes to profit from a shift to net zero #Stavanger
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Stephen Muecke was kind enough to translate into English the piece in AOC-Media 29-03-20 bruno-latour.fr/fr/node/851 "A little exercise to make sure that, after the virus crisis, things don’t start again as they were before".
Vanessa Burns retweeted
Mr Morrison, please stop pretending you don’t see this.
Our nation is on fire.
Cities and towns are smothered in smoke, lives lost and thousands of people are sick from the air pollution.
Australian’s deserve better than politicians with their heads in the sand.
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For anybody in Sydney today, this is a glimpse of what the sky would look like if we choose the crazy option of injecting aerosols into the stratosphere to cool our climate, instead of ditching fossil fuels. A brown hazy sky, a huge cost to maintain, and a new risk to climate.
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Internal industry documents (from the American Petroleum Institute) as far back as 1954 show oil industry leaders were aware that their products were causing CO2 pollution to accumulate in the planet’s atmosphere in a dangerous fashion blog.ucsusa.org/kathy-mulvey…
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Not only is the planet warming faster than at any time in the last 2,000 years, but this unique climate change really does have neither a historic precedent nor a natural cause. physicsworld.com/a/unique-cl…
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Countries that are home to one-fourth of Earth’s population face the prospect of running out of water. Climate change heightens the risk. nyti.ms/2yEyL5S
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With #SharkWeek now in full swing, we’ve compiled ten surprising facts about these ancient and diverse creatures to help get into the @SharkWeek spirit. bit.ly/2XzH0y3