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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We understand emotions and well-being and what humans need from each other in relationships better than at any time in human history, and the positive feedback loop from that is pretty powerful.

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Major problem - I have a dentist appointment in 30 minutes and don't want to brush my teeth because I can still taste the garlic-ginger-peanut butter-gochuchang sauce I had on my lunch and it's so good

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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Plant-rich diets are the food system's electrification. Petrol cars only see 18-25% of their fuel energy get to the wheels; EVs 87-91%. Heat pumps are 2 or 3 times more efficient. Food has its own combustion engine: a chicken turns about 13% of its feed calories into food, worse than a petrol car.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 22/09/2026

I have a new piece out in Nature today on the record-breaking 2026/2027 El Niño, what impacts we should expect, and how governments can prepare. The Niño3.4 region is currently running more than 1C hotter than any prior event on record, and we remain months away from the peak www.nature.com/artic...

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

OK fam suggestions for cat names? I'm not getting anywhere with convincing my partner to go for a name inspired by climate science like Eunice Foote or Svante Arrhenuis...

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 21/09/2026

When we stop talking about climate change like it’s a political issue and start talking about it as a shared challenge that we all need to work together to solve, that’s when we’ll finally be able to start talking about saving ourselves. That is our conclusion here!

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Great explainer of how El Niño interacts with climate change @andrewdessler.com & @johannawagstaffe.bsky.social - for more on the potential impacts in Canada see also this blog co-authored by colleagues including Bill Merryfield who was also on this episode climatedata.ca/news/what-th...

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What the developing exceptional El Niño means for Canada in 2026-27 – ClimateData.ca

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Earlier this month, Canada's Changing Climate Report 2026 was launched. What does this mean for planning, preparedness, resilience, climate risk assessment in our changing climate? I'm glad you asked. Welcome to a mega-thread on the "so what / what next" of #CCCR2026 findings and information 1/x

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Call me when you have an AI agent that can do my dishes, not my thinking.

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 06/09/2026

Unlike so many others, the @financialtimes.com nails the "OMG, 1.5℃ is gone" message: "Temperature overshoot requires urgent action" Yep. And every 0.01℃ matters. Reminds me of my NYT oped with @costasamaras.com: "The widely recited '12-year deadline' is wrong — and right." gwagner.com/12years

UN report: temperature overshoot requires urgent action to keep warming in line with Paris accord

With children, days might last forever, but years fly by. Something similar applies to climate policy. The current days of delay and debates can seem to drag on forever, but the next presidential election is right around the corner, and so is 2030. Concrete, realistic deadlines focus the mind and jump-start action. And jump-start we must.

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If you agree that no back to school list is complete without checking on climate change, then you're in luck: Canada's Changing Climate Report 2026 just dropped. Trends, projections, impacts, summarized by hazard, with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit case stories climatedata.ca/news/canadas...

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Canada’s Changing Climate Report 2026: The latest science supported by data – ClimateData.ca

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"This driver who was at 3 times the blood alcohol limit and actively using their phone crashed into a tree. It will be years before forensic experts can piece together the cause... let's run that with a headline of 'Loud concert across the street likely caused crash'..." - New York Times, probably.

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What the developing exceptional El Niño means for Canada - a great blog post on ClimateData.ca by Environment Canada colleagues climatedata.ca/news/what-th...

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What the developing exceptional El Niño means for Canada in 2026-27 – ClimateData.ca

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Get outside! A global analysis of more than 3,800 studies that involved over 10 million people shows that contact with nature has several positive impacts. Exposure to nature was linked to lower anxiety & depressive symptoms, and feelings of relaxation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

In case anyone was wondering, I'm here to tell you that yes, in fact, rhubarb bumbleberry crisp is incredible on toast.

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

OK so this is WAY too early in the year to post about this but it's showing up in stores already so a little rant about pumpkin spice. That's a bunch of warming spices. Pumpkin spice does not taste like pumpkin! That should be called pumpkin pie flavour. Fine thing to make but truth in advertising!!

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

2003 was once exceptional. Now it's average. 2024's record will be average by the mid-2040s. The extreme summers of the 2040s don't bear thinking about! 🌡🥵😬 #ClimateEmergency After @edhawkins.org & @stottpeter.bsky.social using ERA5 + CMIP6.

European summer temperature, June to August, over 10°W-40°E, 30-50°N, the region Stott et al. used for the 2003 heatwave, relative to 1961-1990. The black line shows ERA5 observations from 1950 to 2025, rising from about zero in the mid-twentieth century to 2.75°C in 2024. Grey shading is the 5-95% range of 34 CMIP6 models over the historical period, blue shading the same models under SSP2-4.5 to 2100, with the running median in white. Two dotted lines mark the 2003 summer at 2.06°C and the 2024 summer at 2.75°C, each dropping to the year the model median reaches that level: 2027 and 2045. Model region approximated by the IPCC AR6 Mediterranean and West & Central Europe regions, weighted 0.75 to 0.25.

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We're hiring at Canadian Centre for Climate Services. Several positions, closing soon (Aug 4), open to full time students - see all details here emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...

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Research Assistant - Climate Services

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Everything about the bikes in #Paris is amazing - reasonable bike rentals, part of the metro system: actually easier for my disabled wife to get around on than walking to bus stops or subway stations. Could have done without the police using the bike lane for zero apparent reason though.

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Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Recent French national average temperatures: - impossible in a pre-industrial world, - about 1 year in 40 years in a 1.5C world - 1 in 10 years in a +2 °C world - 3 degree world - happens every other year interactive/method/maps here (également en français): benmsanderson.github.io/futureevent/

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Last week I attended the 60th @cmos-scmo.bsky.social Congress. In debrief after w 10 colleagues, the favourite talk cited most was yours @katharinehayhoe.com "informative, interactive, engaging" I loved the slightly different questions posed there too - and your "math wouldbe easier" comment. (1/2)

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Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 12/06/2026

In this interview, I share my thoughts on modern Pride, the struggles of transmasculine people in sports and why I continues to fight for the rights of all trans people.

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Bsky users: are we ever getting an edit button? Bsky: here's group chat

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Eve Rickert (she/her) @everickert.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The Kickstarter for “the new Pojar & MacKinnon” only needs to sell ~11 more books before it reaches its funding goal and we can send out the early copies!

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This is so cool - Pojar and MacKinnon is the ecosystem bible for the PNW and it's getting an update that involves the OGs and passes the torch to the next generation. Time to dust off my Kickstarter account.

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

"The electrons implicated in posting NY Times stories online want to know why a newspaper insists on anthropomorphizing them" - a NYT headline, probably

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

For my medical appointment today I got a phone call and two texts. The texts told me to log into "MyHealth" which is (obviously) totally different from "AcessMyHealth" in "HealthGateway" which is meant to be a way to access all the different things but not this one. Finally got in to see ... 1/2

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Generally excellent post, but it also reveals why it was a mistake to call RCP8.5 “misleading.” “The damages projected in these earlier climate simulations remain very much in play.” This means there is legitimate research to be done w high forcing pathways, whatever the scenario underneath. 1/2

It is also wrong to say that the worst predictions of climate impacts this century can now be ruled out by this revision. High-end temperature projections for the end of the century are reduced compared to earlier IPCC assessments. Yet, the IPCC WII report found that risks across the five
"reasons for concern" it examines have all risen for a given level of global warming. So, even if the high-end emissions in RCP8.5 won't materialize, the damages projected in these earlier climate simulations remain very much in play.

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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

3 things to know about this: - Wheat is the 3rd largest crop in the US. - For the entire 12,000 year history of human agriculture, crops have never faced today's temperatures and conditions, created by pollution from burning oil, coal & gas. - Unlike food, there are replacements for fossil fuels.

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‘The worst time for wheat’: US farmers face losses to extreme heat and drought

Temperature swings have left crops across the Plains in terrible conditions, with some farmers opting not to harvest

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

PSA to folks organizing work things with food- you want double or triple the number of vegetarian options as people who told you they are vegetarian, and same ratio for vegan. Sitting in an event right now where vegetarians didn't all get fed but there's a massive stack of uneaten meat sandwiches.

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School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology @soest.hawaii.edu · 24/04/2026

Researchers from University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa created a simple ocean-based model to predict El Niño and La Niña 15 months ahead using ocean surface temperature and height data. It achieves forecast skill similar to complex models. The current forecast predicts a strong El Niño later this year. 🌊

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Simple ocean-based model forecasts El Niño skillfully, points to a strong event ahead

For decades, scientists have worked to improve predictions of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a climate powerhouse that can cause droughts, flooding, marine heatwaves, and more around the world

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Going back 2000 years really brings our current warming into perspective. Carbon pollution is remaking our climate. Thanks @edhawkins.org for the great visual.

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Putting my grandkid to bed, after the light being off for a few minutes: "Grandpa why can I see now?" "Well did you know your eyes have different kinds of" ... (pause for a second while I wonder how to explain cells in 3.5 year old) ... "Grandpa, I think my eyes adjusted" "Uh, yes"

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Okay okay JD, you have proven unequivocally and forever that it's possible to mansplain a man.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

How did your bike enrich your life, fix your finances, or change your family's daily routine? A Stanford study showed stories are 22x more memorable than facts. If we want to get people out of cars, throwing emissions stats at them won't cut it. Humans need stories. Tell me yours. 👇

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Post four records that represent the diversity of your taste - #Canadian version

Triumph- Allied Forces album cover featuring a metallic heavy metal guitar

Sarah McLachlan- surfacing album cover featuring the artist in sepia tones on a chair

Headpins - Turn it loud album cover featuring an old school speaker box with some of the speakers red apparently from heat of being so loud

Les Hay Babies - Boite aux lettres album cover featuring three young women in teal with fave paint looking through a round window in a fence

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Post 4 records that represent the diversity of your taste

Mötley Crüe - Shout at the Devil album cover

Ded Kennedys - Give me convenience or give me death - album cover

Pink floyd - dark side of the moon - album cover

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The Vancouver mulligan was introduced too late and replaced too soon

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

This is going directly into my facebook messenger group chat of mostly memes but also hilarious posts about current events that have existed since the early days of needing humour as a coping mechanism for the pandemic (and then everything since)

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Yeah that’s cool

(See the quoted post for more; it’s a septagonal patch with the astronaut names around the edges and pictures of mythic animals and a stylized bird image at center)

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Today is Trans Day of Visibility and I’m thinking about the trans people in my life- their courage, joy, and defiance in the face of a hostile government bent on erasure and elimination. Trans people deserve so much better. We all need to demand better for them.

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Here's the final version with all the bluesky responses added after I closed it just now. Some great responses here, including the few I disagree with (they are important perspectives to acknowledge). I'll argue about some of them a bit later.

Wordcloud of PollEV responses to the question "Adaptation is ______"

Answers as follows:
necessary
resilience
survival
public-good
civic-responsibility
politically-unpopular
moving-target
necessary
harder-than-we-think
second-best
nonnegotiable
life
not-optional
required
inevitable
Human
Wise
Survival
Realism
Love
Essential
Life
nonnegotiable
Evolution
adjuvant
Survival
how-we-survive
necessary
inevitable
Cool
living
Active-transport
Transport-planning
Building-regulations
Electric
Cheaper
Happening
Critical
Resilience
Essential
Inevitable
Lifegiving
Survival
Necessary
ignored
fluid
complex
Survival
Hard
Necessary
Hope
Necessary
Futile
crucial
Unavoidable
Epitaph
unavoidable
essential
Necessary
Essential
Resilience

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Lifehack: change laptop USB setting to always on and you can charge your phone even when it's closed / in sleep mode

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Some great responses - thanks to all who responded. I'll keep this open at pollev.com/cccs for the rest of today but this is perfect to illustrate what I was hoping for at the conference I'm presenting at Monday. I disagree with some of the responses but all are important perspectives to include.

PollEV responses to "Adaptation is ______": with necessary in the middle and biggest, with survival, essential, resilience, unavoidable, and inevitable the next biggest. Full response list is:

fluid
complex
Survival
Hard
Necessary
Hope
Necessary
Futile
crucial
Unavoidable
Epitaph
unavoidable
essential
Necessary
Essential
Resilience

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

"Adaptation is ______" - now on PollEV hat tip to @katharinehayhoe.com for this idea - y'all can respond directly at pollev.com/cccs for the weekend. Note it's a PollEV word cloud so single word answers only or add a dash between if your answer needs two words. Answer as many times as you like :)

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Ok #climatesky friends, need input for word cloud at an upcoming talk where I won't be able to poll the audience live. Adaptation is ______ ? What are all the ways you would complete that sentence? (Or if you've done a similar poll & are willing to share the results I would love to see that too)

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Trevor Murdock @tqmurdock.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I have a climate change joke but I'd rather keep making the same jokes I've always made than adapt my routine to include it.

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ᚆᚒᚌᚆ Hugh Sheehy @hughsheehy.com · 17/03/2026

Happy St Patrick's Day to everyone. A few things you might not know about Ireland. - Ireland is the only country whose national symbol is a musical instrument - Dublin and Cork are among the highest GDP/capita regions in the OECD. Cork possibly the highest. - Ireland is (on some metrics) the best..

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