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Mitchell Dickau, PhD @mitchelldickau.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy have played a small role in preparing Canada's Changing Climate Report 2026 Ch3: Overview of Future Changes in Climate. Check it out here

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Canada’s Changing Climate Report 2026 - Canada.ca

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"For highly irreversible #climate variables like permafrost and ocean changes, we show that the outcome of overshoot is linearly related to the time-integrated overshoot magnitude, which we define here as the degree-years of temperature overshoot." www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Irreversible climate changes driven by degree-years of temperature overshoot - Communications Earth & Environment

Degree-years of temperature overshoot, which represent the time-integrated overshoot magnitude, are proportional to the outcome of overshoot in some slow-responding climate variables, revealed by...

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Mitchell Dickau, PhD @mitchelldickau.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

How have the number of smoky days in Canada changed in the past decades? Inspired by @andrewdessler.com's blog post, I decided to adapt Andrew's code and run the same analysis for Canada.

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Mitchell Dickau, PhD @mitchelldickau.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Listened to @dwallacewells.bsky.social on The Gray Area @vox.com (megaphone.link/VMP9497961815). I'm a fan of David's work. But I noticed he says that 2.0°C is out of reach. Perhaps he misspoke – he's normally very well informed. As a climate scientist I'd like to correct the record.

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The “Godzilla El Niño” is coming by The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Mitchell Dickau, PhD @mitchelldickau.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Enjoyed doing this interview for the @PLOS Climate Latitude blog! I discuss some of my recent PhD research on climate overshoots and temporary carbon storage. Check out the full interview below:

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Mitchell Dickau, PhD @mitchelldickau.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Happy to announce that I passed my PhD defence yesterday!! Thanks to my supervisor @damonmatthews.bsky.social and the members of my examining committee — @nadinemengis.bsky.social, @gidden.bsky.social, Kirsten Zickfeld, and Sam Rowan

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Mitchell Dickau, PhD @mitchelldickau.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Don’t let anyone fool you into thinking carbon dioxide removal is the solution to climate change. It’s a small piece of the puzzle. But it won't be able to offset a substantial portion of our fossil fuel emissions 🧵

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Mitchell Dickau, PhD @mitchelldickau.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Just presented some of my ongoing research at #EGU25 in Vienna! A thread...

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Mitchell Dickau, PhD @mitchelldickau.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The land sink is uncertain in a changing climate. This is another reason why using nature-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) to offset fossil emissions can be sketchy...

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Mitchell Dickau, PhD @mitchelldickau.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We should point to the rising costs of insurance to demonstrate that climate change is dangerous and is worth mitigating against/ adapting to. I suspect that, for many folks, $$ is easier to understand than climate observations and projections. Informative podcast on insurance and climate change

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How Wildfires Destroyed California’s Insurance Market

Podcast Episode · Shift Key with Robinson Meyer and Jesse Jenkins · 2025-01-22 · 1h 12m

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Mitchell Dickau, PhD @mitchelldickau.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Great reads. I've always believed that changes in the insurance industry are a powerful tool for driving momentum for climate policy. Unlike many other industries, private insurance can't afford to ignore climate impacts or delay action (state-run insurance is a bit different)

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Mitchell Dickau, PhD @mitchelldickau.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

1/3 Another study showing why nature-based carbon removal, in which the duration of removal may only be years to decades at worst, should not be used to offset fossil emissions.

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Mitchell Dickau, PhD @mitchelldickau.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Susan Solomon's study, demonstrating that warming caused by CO₂ persists for thousands of years, and Damon Matthews' (my supervisor) study, showing that near-zero emissions are necessary to stabilize warming, were published 15 and 16 years ago, respectively. It seems the message still hasn't sunk in

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Mitchell Dickau, PhD @mitchelldickau.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Happy to have played a small part in @sethwynes.bsky.social newest paper! An interesting finding is that IPCC authors estimates' of peak warming and when we'll reach net-zero CO2 are inconsistent with climate modelling and scenario literature. We discuss some potential explanations

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