Nithin Krishna
@rainzealand.bsky.social
Climate Scientist, Aotearoa New Zealand🥝.
PhD (University of Otago).
Interests : Extreme rainfall⛈️, Climate change impacts🌍⛈️🌡️ ☀️🌧️🌬️❄️ 🍃
PhD (University of Otago).
Interests : Extreme rainfall⛈️, Climate change impacts🌍⛈️🌡️ ☀️🌧️🌬️❄️ 🍃
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Nithin Krishna
@rainzealand.bsky.social
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This.
Storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rain – and the consequences could be global
theconversation.com/storms-in-th...
theconversation.com/storms-in-th...
Storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rain – and the consequences could be global
The Southern Ocean is the engine room of global heat and carbon uptake – and it’s changing faster and more dramatically than we thought.
theconversation.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rain – and the consequences could be global
theconversation.com/storms-in-th...
theconversation.com/storms-in-th...
The Indian Ocean disaster is a climate tragedy — and needs more attention
A region unused to tropical cyclones has had three in a week. The world needs to ask why this happened, not look away.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A region unused to tropical cyclones has had three in a week. The world needs to ask why this happened, not look away.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The Indian Ocean disaster is a climate tragedy — and needs more attention
A region unused to tropical cyclones has had three in a week. The world needs to ask why this happened, not look away.
www.nature.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The Indian Ocean disaster is a climate tragedy — and needs more attention
A region unused to tropical cyclones has had three in a week. The world needs to ask why this happened, not look away.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A region unused to tropical cyclones has had three in a week. The world needs to ask why this happened, not look away.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Tl;dr: no!
I think most of us left for our mental health because who wants to argue with trolls and bots?
I think most of us left for our mental health because who wants to argue with trolls and bots?
The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?
Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?
The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy
www.newstatesman.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Tl;dr: no!
I think most of us left for our mental health because who wants to argue with trolls and bots?
I think most of us left for our mental health because who wants to argue with trolls and bots?
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The records observed in the past years were often “so striking that we’ve occasionally had to stop and triple check the data to make sure it was accurate” says scientist J. Nicolas.
Very nice @data.ft.com piece about this 🤩 viz with
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social data.
www.ft.com/content/67ec...
Very nice @data.ft.com piece about this 🤩 viz with
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social data.
www.ft.com/content/67ec...
September 26, 2025 at 7:32 AM
The records observed in the past years were often “so striking that we’ve occasionally had to stop and triple check the data to make sure it was accurate” says scientist J. Nicolas.
Very nice @data.ft.com piece about this 🤩 viz with
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social data.
www.ft.com/content/67ec...
Very nice @data.ft.com piece about this 🤩 viz with
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social data.
www.ft.com/content/67ec...
How Bill Gates is playing both sides of the climate crisis – video www.theguardian.com/world/video/...
How Bill Gates is playing both sides of the climate crisis – video
Think Bill Gates is fixing the climate crisis? Not if you follow the money. While he funds green innovation and talks about cutting emissions, Gates also invests in dirty industries such as coal, oil ...
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
How Bill Gates is playing both sides of the climate crisis – video www.theguardian.com/world/video/...
Climate change is causing ever more disruption. Can Australia’s new adaptation plan help?
theconversation.com/climate-chan...
theconversation.com/climate-chan...
Climate change is causing ever more disruption. Can Australia’s new adaptation plan help?
At long last, Australia has a national climate adaptation plan to guide public and private responses to intensifying threats.
theconversation.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Climate change is causing ever more disruption. Can Australia’s new adaptation plan help?
theconversation.com/climate-chan...
theconversation.com/climate-chan...
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AI’s evangelists are promising a future of almost unimaginable prosperity. There’s good reason to be sceptical.
👉 theconversation.com/if-ai-t...
👉 theconversation.com/if-ai-t...
August 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
AI’s evangelists are promising a future of almost unimaginable prosperity. There’s good reason to be sceptical.
👉 theconversation.com/if-ai-t...
👉 theconversation.com/if-ai-t...
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The temperature at Thredbo Top Station (1957 m AMSL) fell to -13.2°C on Monday morning. That's just 0.3° short of the station's coldest temperature on record (-13.5°C on 8 July 1987).
August 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The temperature at Thredbo Top Station (1957 m AMSL) fell to -13.2°C on Monday morning. That's just 0.3° short of the station's coldest temperature on record (-13.5°C on 8 July 1987).
Unbelievable footage from NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters inside the eye of Hurricane Erin.
Simply incredible.
Simply incredible.
August 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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A special ep of Totally Cooked is brewing, tackling common misconceptions about all things weather and climate.
Please post any ideas you'd like to see cooked (can be anon too) below.
Eg. “El Nino always means dry weather or drought in Australia, and La Nina always mean wet weather or flood.”
Please post any ideas you'd like to see cooked (can be anon too) below.
Eg. “El Nino always means dry weather or drought in Australia, and La Nina always mean wet weather or flood.”
August 13, 2025 at 1:35 AM
A special ep of Totally Cooked is brewing, tackling common misconceptions about all things weather and climate.
Please post any ideas you'd like to see cooked (can be anon too) below.
Eg. “El Nino always means dry weather or drought in Australia, and La Nina always mean wet weather or flood.”
Please post any ideas you'd like to see cooked (can be anon too) below.
Eg. “El Nino always means dry weather or drought in Australia, and La Nina always mean wet weather or flood.”
NZ is indeed a welcoming country with only few pockets of racism in my experience. Its not about a Kiwi becoming Air India CEO or Indian origin guy becoming Air NZ CEO. Why must we keep judging people based on colour, ethnicity or religion? Live & let live www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
The racist backlash against Air NZ’s new CEO
Opinion: When Air New Zealand announced Greg Foran’s replacement, a Kiwi-Indian, the internet couldn’t handle it.
www.stuff.co.nz
July 31, 2025 at 8:29 PM
NZ is indeed a welcoming country with only few pockets of racism in my experience. Its not about a Kiwi becoming Air India CEO or Indian origin guy becoming Air NZ CEO. Why must we keep judging people based on colour, ethnicity or religion? Live & let live www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
Donald Trump’s war on climate science has staggering implications
Even a policy of “drill, baby, drill” would imply more climate research, not its evisceration, says Ralph Keeling
www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
Even a policy of “drill, baby, drill” would imply more climate research, not its evisceration, says Ralph Keeling
www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
Donald Trump’s war on climate science has staggering implications
Even a policy of “drill, baby, drill” would imply more climate research, not its evisceration, says Ralph Keeling
www.economist.com
July 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Donald Trump’s war on climate science has staggering implications
Even a policy of “drill, baby, drill” would imply more climate research, not its evisceration, says Ralph Keeling
www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
Even a policy of “drill, baby, drill” would imply more climate research, not its evisceration, says Ralph Keeling
www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
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A Wall Street Journal editorial welcomes Trump admin plans to repeal the "endangerment finding" behind US climate regulations
Titled "Climate Regulation Liberation Day", it questions the "dubious proposition that GHGs pose a clear and present danger"…
Titled "Climate Regulation Liberation Day", it questions the "dubious proposition that GHGs pose a clear and present danger"…
July 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
A Wall Street Journal editorial welcomes Trump admin plans to repeal the "endangerment finding" behind US climate regulations
Titled "Climate Regulation Liberation Day", it questions the "dubious proposition that GHGs pose a clear and present danger"…
Titled "Climate Regulation Liberation Day", it questions the "dubious proposition that GHGs pose a clear and present danger"…
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The truth here is so ever relevant, is so simple and profound. I think I might pop it into my next book. Sharing yet again:
July 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The truth here is so ever relevant, is so simple and profound. I think I might pop it into my next book. Sharing yet again:
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⚠️ Scientists urge eastern Australia to plan for more dangerous floods as climate warms
A rapid study by @wwattribution.bsky.social found the wettest 4-day rainfall events in a year are about 10% more intense in NSW compared to the preindustrial climate 🧵
ow.ly/ylh350W3iBO
A rapid study by @wwattribution.bsky.social found the wettest 4-day rainfall events in a year are about 10% more intense in NSW compared to the preindustrial climate 🧵
ow.ly/ylh350W3iBO
June 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
⚠️ Scientists urge eastern Australia to plan for more dangerous floods as climate warms
A rapid study by @wwattribution.bsky.social found the wettest 4-day rainfall events in a year are about 10% more intense in NSW compared to the preindustrial climate 🧵
ow.ly/ylh350W3iBO
A rapid study by @wwattribution.bsky.social found the wettest 4-day rainfall events in a year are about 10% more intense in NSW compared to the preindustrial climate 🧵
ow.ly/ylh350W3iBO
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In our new paper we discuss how communication of post-net zero climate changes needs to improve and go much further than global average temperature @chrisd-jones.bsky.social @sarahinscience.bsky.social @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Enhancing communication of climate changes under net zero emissions - Communications Earth & Environment
Much of the public discourse around climate changes under net zero carbon dioxide emissions has been focused on global mean temperature changes after emissions cessation. More attention needs to be pa...
www.nature.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
In our new paper we discuss how communication of post-net zero climate changes needs to improve and go much further than global average temperature @chrisd-jones.bsky.social @sarahinscience.bsky.social @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Surprisingly its NZ 😡😮 A dangerously opaque strategy based on unverified methodology.
Scientists raise questions about startup's plan to save the ocean | apnews.com/article/clim...
Scientists raise questions about startup's plan to save the ocean | apnews.com/article/clim...
An Israeli startup says its new technology will save the planet. Scientists have doubts
A startup called Gigablue claims to have reached a milestone by selling 200,000 carbon credits for its ocean-based carbon capture technology.
apnews.com
July 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Surprisingly its NZ 😡😮 A dangerously opaque strategy based on unverified methodology.
Scientists raise questions about startup's plan to save the ocean | apnews.com/article/clim...
Scientists raise questions about startup's plan to save the ocean | apnews.com/article/clim...
This.
Check out my "Climate Change Downunder" starter pack for all things climate change related in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Includes scientists, academics and professionals who work in the climate change space in Oz and NZ.
Hit me up with any accounts I should add!
go.bsky.app/TK2pwCz
Hit me up with any accounts I should add!
go.bsky.app/TK2pwCz
July 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This.
"And yet somehow, this adopted name, bestowed by men who didn’t even disembark, has become sacrosanct to some, while Aotearoa, a name used to describe this land for centuries before Tasman turned up, is treated by some as irrelevant," www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Sir Ian Taylor: Winston, let’s talk passports and getting the focus back to what matters
OPINION: It seems, somehow, that the order of two words on a travel document now ranks among the great political battlegrounds of our time.
www.stuff.co.nz
July 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"And yet somehow, this adopted name, bestowed by men who didn’t even disembark, has become sacrosanct to some, while Aotearoa, a name used to describe this land for centuries before Tasman turned up, is treated by some as irrelevant," www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
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Check out my "Climate Change Downunder" starter pack for all things climate change related in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Includes scientists, academics and professionals who work in the climate change space in Oz and NZ.
Hit me up with any accounts I should add!
go.bsky.app/TK2pwCz
Hit me up with any accounts I should add!
go.bsky.app/TK2pwCz
November 21, 2024 at 1:25 AM
Check out my "Climate Change Downunder" starter pack for all things climate change related in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Includes scientists, academics and professionals who work in the climate change space in Oz and NZ.
Hit me up with any accounts I should add!
go.bsky.app/TK2pwCz
Hit me up with any accounts I should add!
go.bsky.app/TK2pwCz
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🌧️ #NewReport: the July 2025 Texas floods were up to 2 mm/day wetter (+7%) than similar past events — mainly due to human-driven climate change. Natural variability alone can't explain this. 📎 Read the report 👉 www.climameter.org/20250704-texas-floods
@ipsl.bsky.social
@ipsl.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
🌧️ #NewReport: the July 2025 Texas floods were up to 2 mm/day wetter (+7%) than similar past events — mainly due to human-driven climate change. Natural variability alone can't explain this. 📎 Read the report 👉 www.climameter.org/20250704-texas-floods
@ipsl.bsky.social
@ipsl.bsky.social
[2024] - Weakening or collapse of a major Atlantic current has disrupted NZ’s climate in the past – and could do so again #AMOC theconversation.com/weakening-or...
Weakening or collapse of a major Atlantic current has disrupted NZ’s climate in the past – and could do so again
Earth’s climate system is connected across hemispheres. When the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakens and Europe cools, warming in New Zealand and southern mid-latitudes accelerates.
theconversation.com
July 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
[2024] - Weakening or collapse of a major Atlantic current has disrupted NZ’s climate in the past – and could do so again #AMOC theconversation.com/weakening-or...
".. Cruz ensured a reduction in funding to the NOAA efforts to improve future weather forecasting of events that cause the sort of extreme floods.."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding
Senator on vacation abroad while Texas was hit by deadly floods, a disaster worsened by forecasting cuts, critics say
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
".. Cruz ensured a reduction in funding to the NOAA efforts to improve future weather forecasting of events that cause the sort of extreme floods.."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Warmest June sea surface temperature (SSTs) on record for the Mediterranean Sea (compared to all Junes). 36% of the Mediterranean Sea had the single warmest June SSTs (since 1940).
July 7, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Warmest June sea surface temperature (SSTs) on record for the Mediterranean Sea (compared to all Junes). 36% of the Mediterranean Sea had the single warmest June SSTs (since 1940).
'We are a nation unprepared for extreme temperatures '
July 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
'We are a nation unprepared for extreme temperatures '