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David A. McKay
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Climate & Earth system scientist; Lecturer Sussex Uni's School of Global Studies; sci-comm inc. climatetippingpoints.info. Into Earth, life, & societies as […]

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I had a great chat with the smartcookies podcast a little while back, covering climate change, denialism, doomism, tipping points, and geoengineering.

Watch here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoxHZnv0ads or listen via wherever you get your podcasts! […]
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mstdn.social
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I had a great chat with the smartcookies podcast a little while back, covering climate change, denialism, doomism, tipping points, and geoengineering.

Watch here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoxHZnv0ads or listen via wherever you get your podcasts! […]
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mstdn.social
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Apropos of recent AMOC news, I've finally gotten round to updating this AMOC tipping explainer from a couple years back with some of the flurry of papers published since then - check it out if you'd like some more background:

https://climatetippingpoints.info/2023/08/15/amoc-collapse-explainer/ […]
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August 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Apropos of recent AMOC news (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/28/collapse-critical-atlantic-current-amoc-no-longer-low-likelihood-study), I've finally gotten round to updating this AMOC tipping explainer from a couple years back with some of the flurry of papers published since […]
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August 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Seen a #tippingpoints story recently about the SMOC (the ocean's overturning circulation around Antarctica, i.e. AMOC's southern sibling) abruptly reversing?

Thankfully, it's not true (seems a press release got overenthusiastic).

Want to know what the paper behind it really said? Read this […]
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July 9, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I was on BBC Radio Scotland last week talking about whether the recent very sunny & dry followed by wet weather in Scotland & rUK has been a case of "weather whiplash" - you can listen in here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002cpq0, & read my write-up: https://medium.com/p/82e39321740c […]
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June 2, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Going to @EuroGeosciences #egu25 today? I'll be speaking remotely about Holocene climate stability (and whether or not it means we're in a self-stabilising climate attractor, or just got lucky) & the #hothouseearth hypothesis at 1620 CEST in Room F1 / online […]
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April 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I recently spoke with @jessimckenzi at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists for their interesting new special issue on climate hashtag#TippingPoints - lots of great pieces & different views, and you can check out the full interview with me here (including conjuring a new meta-metaphor!) […]
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March 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM