Table showing the climate projections that feature in the National Communications of each SADC countries. Columns include type of projections, timeframe, scenarios, number of models used, model names and year of document.

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

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

🔓 : #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....

Africa Task Team, WCRP RIfS Open Call: RIfS Africa Task Team   RIfS is launching an Africa Task Team for researchers living and working in Africa to define and address their...

🌍 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.

Opinion | As a Climate Scientist, I Knew It Was Time to Leave Los Angeles (Gift Article) After the Bobcat Fire, L.A. no longer felt safe.

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!

Warming stripes for 1850-2024, changing from blues to reds as the world rapidly warms up

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!)

Scientists have emotional responses to climate change too - Nature Climate Change The dominant paradigm holding that science is always objective needs to be challenged. When scientists’ opinions about climate change and their own fears are seen as irrelevant, it suggests that scien...

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