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LATEST ARTICLES ( 57 )

• Let’s Hear More from the Women Who Leave Academia.

  "On International Women's Day", I wrote on 8 March, "why don't we instead highlight women who left the workforce due to structural barriers? The current approac... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2021 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, WEATHER

• Talking, Typing, and the Social Model of Disability

  I wrote this article for Redefining Stammering, an excellent blog run by Sam Simpson (a speech therapist) and Patrick Campbell (a doctor and person who... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2020 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, WEATHER

• We Need Your Help! Share Your Views on Climate Change with Us.

  This blog is collaborating with researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, who are conducting a survey of readers of climate blogs. They are... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2019 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, WEATHER

• Ice Sheet Melting: It’s Not Just About Sea Level Rise

  Climate change is causing the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets to melt, which releases cold, fresh meltwater into the nearby ocean. This meltwater causes sea... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2019 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, WEATHER

• How I Became a Scientist

  For the first fourteen years of my life, I thought science was boring. As far as I could tell, science was a process of memorising facts: the order of the... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2019 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, WEATHER

• How Does the Weddell Polynya Affect Antarctic Ice Shelves?

  The Weddell Polynya is a large hole in the sea ice of the Weddell Sea, near Antarctica. It occurs only very rarely in observations, but is extremely common in... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2019 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, WEATHER

• Climate Change and Compassion Fatigue

  I'm a climate scientist, and I don't worry about climate change very much. I think about it every day, but I don't let it in. To me climate change is a... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2018 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, WEATHER

• The Silver Lining of Fake News

  What exciting times we live in! The UK is stockpiling food and medicine as it charges willingly into a catastrophe of its own choosing. The next Australian prim... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2018 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, WEATHER

• Future Projections of Antarctic Ice Shelf Melting

  

  Climate change will increase ice shelf melt rates around Antarctica. That’s the not-very-surprising conclusion of my latest modelling study, done in... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2018 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, WEATHER

• Life After PhD

  To continue my tradition of trying out all the Commonwealth countries, since my last post I have moved to the UK and begun a postdoc at the British Antarctic... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2018 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, WEATHER

• Interview at Forecast

  I’ve just given an interview at the Forecast podcast, hosted by Nature’s climate change editor, Michael White. Head over to the Forecast website to check it out. Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2018 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, WEATHER

• At the Library

  The DOI system is great and all, and I love being able to access nearly the entire scientific literature without having to leave my desk. Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2018 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, WEATHER

• On Model Development, and Sanity

  When I was a brand-new PhD student, full of innocence and optimism, I loved solving bugs. I loved the challenge of it and the rush I felt when I succeeded. Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2018 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, WEATHER

• Apparently Climate Science Can Stop Now

  

  For many years politicians said, “We’re not even sure climate change is real, so why should we waste money studying it?”And seemingly overnight, the message... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2016 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, WEATHER

• Cracking the Mystery of the Corrosive Ocean

  Around 55 million years ago, an abrupt global warming event triggered a highly corrosive deep-water current to flow through the North Atlantic Ocean. Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2015 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, WEATHER

• The Best of Denial101x – Week 1

  The Best of Denial101x - Week 1 May 17, 2015 by climatesight The latest brainchild of John Cook is the free online edX course Denial 101x. This course, tacklin... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2015 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, WEATHER

• We Just Published in Nature Geoscience

  It turns out that when you submit a paper to a journal like Nature Geoscience “just in case, we have nothing to lose, they’ll probably reject it straight... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2015 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, WEATHER

• My Research with Steve

  

  Almost four years ago I took a job as a summer student of Dr. Steve Easterbrook, in the software engineering lab of the University of Toronto. Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2015 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, WEATHER

• The Most Terrifying Papers I Read Last Year

  

  An ice sheet forms when snow falls on land, compacts into ice, and forms a system of interconnected glaciers which gradually flow downhill like play-dough. Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2015 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, WEATHER

• With a Little Help from the Elephant Seals

  

  A problem which has plagued oceanography since the very beginning is a lack of observations. We envy atmospheric scientists with their surface stations and... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2015 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, WEATHER