Martin Hodson
@martinjhodson.bsky.social
Work at both universities in Oxford, UK. Teach climate and biodiversity loss. Research in plant, archaeological and environmental science. Investigating carbon sequestration in phytoliths within the soil. Principal Tutor for www.cres.org.uk
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Martin Hodson
@martinjhodson.bsky.social
· Jun 21
Environmental scientist spends more than four decades researching a potential climate game-changer - Oxford Brookes University
In the ongoing fight against climate change, one remarkable discovery has gained significant attention over the past years: phytoliths.
www.brookes.ac.uk
🧪 I am very grateful to Oxford Brookes University for publishing a blog post about my phytolith and plant silica work. 43 years working on it and counting! www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...
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NEW | The world has achieved nearly a tenfold increase in solar power in the ten years since the #ParisAgreement ☀️
Solar rose from providing 1% of global electricity in 2015 to 8.8% in the first half of 2025.
Emerging economies now lead this growth 📈
https://loom.ly/tlCvBso
Solar rose from providing 1% of global electricity in 2015 to 8.8% in the first half of 2025.
Emerging economies now lead this growth 📈
https://loom.ly/tlCvBso
November 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
NEW | The world has achieved nearly a tenfold increase in solar power in the ten years since the #ParisAgreement ☀️
Solar rose from providing 1% of global electricity in 2015 to 8.8% in the first half of 2025.
Emerging economies now lead this growth 📈
https://loom.ly/tlCvBso
Solar rose from providing 1% of global electricity in 2015 to 8.8% in the first half of 2025.
Emerging economies now lead this growth 📈
https://loom.ly/tlCvBso
Christians and Climate Change. We are speaking at Tring this Sunday!!
November 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Christians and Climate Change. We are speaking at Tring this Sunday!!
Phew! I was a bit worried about this! Need not have!
BY ELECTION RESULT!
Ridgeway (Vale of White Horse District Council)
LDM: 43.1% (-14.9)
CON: 24.4% (-17.6)
RFM: 19.9% (New)
GRN: 11.9% (New)
LAB: 0.8% (New)
Lib Dem HOLD
Well done to new Cllr Hannah Griffin!
Ridgeway (Vale of White Horse District Council)
LDM: 43.1% (-14.9)
CON: 24.4% (-17.6)
RFM: 19.9% (New)
GRN: 11.9% (New)
LAB: 0.8% (New)
Lib Dem HOLD
Well done to new Cllr Hannah Griffin!
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Phew! I was a bit worried about this! Need not have!
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Global EV sales are up 23% YTD, with 1.9M sold in October — and historically, the record month every year is December as quotas, fleets, and subsidies all pile in (especially in China). 2025 is the first time September’s 2.1M might actually beat December… but history says December loves to surprise.
Global EV sales remain up YTD at 23% following 1.9 million EVs sold in October
The number of electric vehicles sold globally in October 1.9 million, according the data revealed by leading EV supply chain research and insights company Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.
electriccarsreport.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Global EV sales are up 23% YTD, with 1.9M sold in October — and historically, the record month every year is December as quotas, fleets, and subsidies all pile in (especially in China). 2025 is the first time September’s 2.1M might actually beat December… but history says December loves to surprise.
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📢Global Carbon Budget 2025📢
Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength.
The key findings are covered in two reports this year:
* ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
* Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/
Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength.
The key findings are covered in two reports this year:
* ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
* Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
📢Global Carbon Budget 2025📢
Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength.
The key findings are covered in two reports this year:
* ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
* Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/
Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength.
The key findings are covered in two reports this year:
* ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
* Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/
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NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
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Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says
- 10bn tonnes must be captured from the air per year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- 10bn tonnes must be captured from the air per year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says
10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says
- 10bn tonnes must be captured from the air per year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- 10bn tonnes must be captured from the air per year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Like Australia. It's all about bums on seats. There's already a short fall of graduates - plant science majors walk straight into jobs
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Like Australia. It's all about bums on seats. There's already a short fall of graduates - plant science majors walk straight into jobs
Really stupid decision.
🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝🌿🌳🍅🍞🥦Botanical University Challenge to inspire the next generation of botanists.
University of Nottingham, UK, plans to close Plant Biology for new students from autumn 2026. Current students want to know more. Read more here:
www.change.org/p/reconsider...
University of Nottingham, UK, plans to close Plant Biology for new students from autumn 2026. Current students want to know more. Read more here:
www.change.org/p/reconsider...
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Really stupid decision.
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This continued warmth means that it is likely that 2025 will end up more or less tying 2023 as the second or third warmest year since records began in 1850.
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This continued warmth means that it is likely that 2025 will end up more or less tying 2023 as the second or third warmest year since records began in 1850.
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As COP30 nears, there is still a chance to avoid the worst of the climate crisis & limit global heating to 1.5C if gov't's take urgent action, a new assessment argues. The report calls for the rapid scaling-up of renewable energy & electrification of key sectors. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Still a chance to return to 1.5C climate goal, researchers say
Report calls for scaling-up of renewable energy and electrification of key sectors to limit peak of global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
As COP30 nears, there is still a chance to avoid the worst of the climate crisis & limit global heating to 1.5C if gov't's take urgent action, a new assessment argues. The report calls for the rapid scaling-up of renewable energy & electrification of key sectors. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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NEW | Renewable capacity additions grew 29% annually since 2023 – outpacing the 21% growth needed to triple global renewables by 2030
With just 12% annual growth from now to 2030, backed by more ambitious national targets, #3xRenewables is still possible
ember-energy.org/lat...
With just 12% annual growth from now to 2030, backed by more ambitious national targets, #3xRenewables is still possible
ember-energy.org/lat...
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
NEW | Renewable capacity additions grew 29% annually since 2023 – outpacing the 21% growth needed to triple global renewables by 2030
With just 12% annual growth from now to 2030, backed by more ambitious national targets, #3xRenewables is still possible
ember-energy.org/lat...
With just 12% annual growth from now to 2030, backed by more ambitious national targets, #3xRenewables is still possible
ember-energy.org/lat...
Some fantastic graphs in this report! rmi.org/wp-content/u...
rmi.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Some fantastic graphs in this report! rmi.org/wp-content/u...
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I have now read so many analyses about Bill Gates' climate memo. Yes, we can hate him because he is too rich and seems arrogant, and dislike his memo because he is suggesting that climate change take a back seat on the agenda. But I think the real reason why we should be really angry is...
November 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I have now read so many analyses about Bill Gates' climate memo. Yes, we can hate him because he is too rich and seems arrogant, and dislike his memo because he is suggesting that climate change take a back seat on the agenda. But I think the real reason why we should be really angry is...
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NEW – Q&A: COP30 could – finally – agree how to track the ‘global goal on adaptation’ | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from Portia Adade Williams @bethan-laughlin.bsky.social Ana Mulio Alvarez
@lisaschipper.bsky.social Emilie Beauchamp
Read here: buff.ly/yEmFscA
@lisaschipper.bsky.social Emilie Beauchamp
Read here: buff.ly/yEmFscA
November 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
NEW – Q&A: COP30 could – finally – agree how to track the ‘global goal on adaptation’ | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from Portia Adade Williams @bethan-laughlin.bsky.social Ana Mulio Alvarez
@lisaschipper.bsky.social Emilie Beauchamp
Read here: buff.ly/yEmFscA
@lisaschipper.bsky.social Emilie Beauchamp
Read here: buff.ly/yEmFscA
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How to Avoid A Climate Disaster
1. Ignore Bill Gates on climate
2. Repeat #1
thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
1. Ignore Bill Gates on climate
2. Repeat #1
thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
November 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
How to Avoid A Climate Disaster
1. Ignore Bill Gates on climate
2. Repeat #1
thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
1. Ignore Bill Gates on climate
2. Repeat #1
thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
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Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:
October 31, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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Hoo boy this is a biggie. I have been tracking ultra large heat pumps and these are the most powerful individual modules I have ever heard of... two of them, 82.5 megawatts each.
Unless someone can correct me!
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/31/w...
Unless someone can correct me!
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/31/w...
World’s largest heat pump under development in Germany
The 162 MW project is being developed by German utility MVV Energie. The system will use water from the Rhine river as a heat source and is expected to generate heat with temperatures of up to 130 C.
www.pv-magazine.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Hoo boy this is a biggie. I have been tracking ultra large heat pumps and these are the most powerful individual modules I have ever heard of... two of them, 82.5 megawatts each.
Unless someone can correct me!
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/31/w...
Unless someone can correct me!
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/31/w...
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Last year, @michaelfwehner.bsky.social and Jim Kossin made the scientific case for a Cat6 cyclone. This week, Hurricane Melissa became the 6th storm in recorded history to smash through that threshold, with max winds of 216mph. And conditions leading to these storms are on the rise.
Read more:
Read more:
The growing inadequacy of an open-ended Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale in a warming world | PNAS
Global warming increases available sensible and latent heat energy, increasing the
thermodynamic potential wind intensity of tropical cyclones (TCs...
www.pnas.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Last year, @michaelfwehner.bsky.social and Jim Kossin made the scientific case for a Cat6 cyclone. This week, Hurricane Melissa became the 6th storm in recorded history to smash through that threshold, with max winds of 216mph. And conditions leading to these storms are on the rise.
Read more:
Read more:
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It's horrifying to see #Melissa intensifying right up to landfall - I dread to think what will happen in Jamaica, with up to a metre of rain forecast 🧪
But it's clear why Melissa is so powerful - it was fuelled by waters made abnormally warm by global heating:
www.newscientist.com/article/2501...
But it's clear why Melissa is so powerful - it was fuelled by waters made abnormally warm by global heating:
www.newscientist.com/article/2501...
Hurricane Melissa is being fuelled by exceptional ocean heat
The monster hurricane pummelling Jamaica is powered by abnormal sea surface temperatures in the Caribbean, which were made at least 500 times more likely by global warming
www.newscientist.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It's horrifying to see #Melissa intensifying right up to landfall - I dread to think what will happen in Jamaica, with up to a metre of rain forecast 🧪
But it's clear why Melissa is so powerful - it was fuelled by waters made abnormally warm by global heating:
www.newscientist.com/article/2501...
But it's clear why Melissa is so powerful - it was fuelled by waters made abnormally warm by global heating:
www.newscientist.com/article/2501...
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As a phytolith researcher mainly working in the NE, it is frustrating that my usual assemblages are cereals (with wetland plants). Combined with macro remains, we don’t get the whole picture of what people ate. Barley and lentils can get a bit boring tbh 1/
🏺🧪 #AncientBluesky
🏺🧪 #AncientBluesky
What did the first farmers eat? #NationalFoodDay
Traditionally, 8 'founder crops' are thought to have been initial staples, but archaeobotanical remains suggest a much more diverse diet combining farmed and gathered resources.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Traditionally, 8 'founder crops' are thought to have been initial staples, but archaeobotanical remains suggest a much more diverse diet combining farmed and gathered resources.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
October 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
As a phytolith researcher mainly working in the NE, it is frustrating that my usual assemblages are cereals (with wetland plants). Combined with macro remains, we don’t get the whole picture of what people ate. Barley and lentils can get a bit boring tbh 1/
🏺🧪 #AncientBluesky
🏺🧪 #AncientBluesky
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‘Still angry’: more than 50,000 protest in Valencia on first anniversary of floods
‘Still angry’: more than 50,000 protest in Valencia on first anniversary of floods
Demonstrators call on regional leader to resign over handling of one of Europe’s deadliest natural disasters in decades
More than 50,000 people took to the streets of Spain’s eastern city of Valencia on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of last year’s deadly floods and denounce the authorities’ handling of the disaster.
Demonstrators, many carrying photos of the victims, called on the regional leader, Carlos Mazón, to resign over what they say was the slow response to one of Europe’s deadliest natural disasters in decades. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
‘Still angry’: more than 50,000 protest in Valencia on first anniversary of floods
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If you're a newer arrival to Blue Sky and looking for a leg-up for some Church of England related accounts to follow, look no further:
(As always, suggestions for additions welcome)
#StarterPack #Church
bsky.app/starter-pack...
(As always, suggestions for additions welcome)
#StarterPack #Church
bsky.app/starter-pack...
January 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
If you're a newer arrival to Blue Sky and looking for a leg-up for some Church of England related accounts to follow, look no further:
(As always, suggestions for additions welcome)
#StarterPack #Church
bsky.app/starter-pack...
(As always, suggestions for additions welcome)
#StarterPack #Church
bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Distributed energy working its magic. One more area of the world that won't be burdened with a network of pipes of methane (natural gas).
"Figures published by the ministry say the electrification program has already built 350 solar plants, bringing electricity access to 27,500 households."
"Figures published by the ministry say the electrification program has already built 350 solar plants, bringing electricity access to 27,500 households."
Cameroon, Zambia electrify villages with solar
Cameroon and Zambia are implementing government programs that bring solar minigrids to communities without stable electricity access. Cameroon recently switched on two solar installations to power two...
www.pv-magazine.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Distributed energy working its magic. One more area of the world that won't be burdened with a network of pipes of methane (natural gas).
"Figures published by the ministry say the electrification program has already built 350 solar plants, bringing electricity access to 27,500 households."
"Figures published by the ministry say the electrification program has already built 350 solar plants, bringing electricity access to 27,500 households."