Max Dugan-Knight
@maxduganknight.bsky.social
📈 Climate Data Scientist
💼 at Deep Sky
🇨🇦 based in Toronto
👀 https://www.deepskyclimate.com/research
also Arsenal ⚽️ and hip hop 🎧
💼 at Deep Sky
🇨🇦 based in Toronto
👀 https://www.deepskyclimate.com/research
also Arsenal ⚽️ and hip hop 🎧
It's always refreshing to read analysis of a real risk that few are talking about.
A new report from Ortec is more clear-eyed than most about institutional investors' dangerous exposure to climate risk.
"A failed low-carbon transition could wipe 33% off pension fund returns worldwide by 2050".
A new report from Ortec is more clear-eyed than most about institutional investors' dangerous exposure to climate risk.
"A failed low-carbon transition could wipe 33% off pension fund returns worldwide by 2050".
October 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It's always refreshing to read analysis of a real risk that few are talking about.
A new report from Ortec is more clear-eyed than most about institutional investors' dangerous exposure to climate risk.
"A failed low-carbon transition could wipe 33% off pension fund returns worldwide by 2050".
A new report from Ortec is more clear-eyed than most about institutional investors' dangerous exposure to climate risk.
"A failed low-carbon transition could wipe 33% off pension fund returns worldwide by 2050".
Got it! Thanks for the tip 🙏
October 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Got it! Thanks for the tip 🙏
Interesting! Thanks for clarifying @kellyhereid.bsky.social - that does feel like it is often mis-represented.
I feel like I frequently see Cat models described as forecasting future events. Like Moody's does here.
How near-to-present are we talking?
I feel like I frequently see Cat models described as forecasting future events. Like Moody's does here.
How near-to-present are we talking?
August 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Interesting! Thanks for clarifying @kellyhereid.bsky.social - that does feel like it is often mis-represented.
I feel like I frequently see Cat models described as forecasting future events. Like Moody's does here.
How near-to-present are we talking?
I feel like I frequently see Cat models described as forecasting future events. Like Moody's does here.
How near-to-present are we talking?
What hundreds of millions have experienced even if they live nowhere near these fires is the smoke 💨
Smoky air has real health effects. It also hints at a vicious cycle where climate change causes wildfires, and wildfires then emit enormous quantities of CO2 which contribute to climate change.
Smoky air has real health effects. It also hints at a vicious cycle where climate change causes wildfires, and wildfires then emit enormous quantities of CO2 which contribute to climate change.
July 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
What hundreds of millions have experienced even if they live nowhere near these fires is the smoke 💨
Smoky air has real health effects. It also hints at a vicious cycle where climate change causes wildfires, and wildfires then emit enormous quantities of CO2 which contribute to climate change.
Smoky air has real health effects. It also hints at a vicious cycle where climate change causes wildfires, and wildfires then emit enormous quantities of CO2 which contribute to climate change.
Hot and dry conditions have pushed risk to new levels and new parts of Canada 🥵
I'm particularly worried about worsening conditions in more densely populated areas like southern parts of BC, Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.
I'm particularly worried about worsening conditions in more densely populated areas like southern parts of BC, Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.
July 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Hot and dry conditions have pushed risk to new levels and new parts of Canada 🥵
I'm particularly worried about worsening conditions in more densely populated areas like southern parts of BC, Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.
I'm particularly worried about worsening conditions in more densely populated areas like southern parts of BC, Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.
This may be very millennial of me.
But a magazine feels like "real news" in a way that online articles still don't.
So it was a bit shocking to see my research cited in TIME Magazine the other day.
But a magazine feels like "real news" in a way that online articles still don't.
So it was a bit shocking to see my research cited in TIME Magazine the other day.
July 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This may be very millennial of me.
But a magazine feels like "real news" in a way that online articles still don't.
So it was a bit shocking to see my research cited in TIME Magazine the other day.
But a magazine feels like "real news" in a way that online articles still don't.
So it was a bit shocking to see my research cited in TIME Magazine the other day.
Great article from @pilitaclark.bsky.social out today on the potential for climate financial shock.
www.ft.com/content/9e5d...
www.ft.com/content/9e5d...
June 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Great article from @pilitaclark.bsky.social out today on the potential for climate financial shock.
www.ft.com/content/9e5d...
www.ft.com/content/9e5d...
The Trout and Buck fires burning in New Mexico right now are precisely in the darkest red part of Western NM that our report identified.
Evacuations have been ordered and a state of emergency declared.
Thinking of all affected.
www.deepskyclimate.com/blog/insurer...
Evacuations have been ordered and a state of emergency declared.
Thinking of all affected.
www.deepskyclimate.com/blog/insurer...
June 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The Trout and Buck fires burning in New Mexico right now are precisely in the darkest red part of Western NM that our report identified.
Evacuations have been ordered and a state of emergency declared.
Thinking of all affected.
www.deepskyclimate.com/blog/insurer...
Evacuations have been ordered and a state of emergency declared.
Thinking of all affected.
www.deepskyclimate.com/blog/insurer...
...or raising prices.
June 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
...or raising prices.
How insurance markets respond to this kind of risk tells us a lot about how financial markets broadly are going to react to the climate crisis.
And insurers are simply exiting the riskiest markets.
And insurers are simply exiting the riskiest markets.
June 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
How insurance markets respond to this kind of risk tells us a lot about how financial markets broadly are going to react to the climate crisis.
And insurers are simply exiting the riskiest markets.
And insurers are simply exiting the riskiest markets.
Canada also faces elevated risk across Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba.
Manitoba fires have already evacuated thousands, killed 2, and have filled our air with dangerous levels of smoke.
These underlying risk conditions show this is only the start.
Manitoba fires have already evacuated thousands, killed 2, and have filled our air with dangerous levels of smoke.
These underlying risk conditions show this is only the start.
June 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Canada also faces elevated risk across Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba.
Manitoba fires have already evacuated thousands, killed 2, and have filled our air with dangerous levels of smoke.
These underlying risk conditions show this is only the start.
Manitoba fires have already evacuated thousands, killed 2, and have filled our air with dangerous levels of smoke.
These underlying risk conditions show this is only the start.
We have not seen this levels of spring fire risk in the last 10 years.
This does not bode well for the coming summer.
This does not bode well for the coming summer.
June 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We have not seen this levels of spring fire risk in the last 10 years.
This does not bode well for the coming summer.
This does not bode well for the coming summer.
Severe drought in the US Southwest is driving record fire risk across large swathes of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Southern California as well as Midwestern states: Nebraska, South Dakota, and others.
June 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Severe drought in the US Southwest is driving record fire risk across large swathes of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Southern California as well as Midwestern states: Nebraska, South Dakota, and others.
Working on a wildfire report right now and this smoke concentration data explains the haziness out my window 💨
Smoky conditions are going to be hanging around for a while.
Wildfire report coming soon 👀
Smoky conditions are going to be hanging around for a while.
Wildfire report coming soon 👀
June 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Working on a wildfire report right now and this smoke concentration data explains the haziness out my window 💨
Smoky conditions are going to be hanging around for a while.
Wildfire report coming soon 👀
Smoky conditions are going to be hanging around for a while.
Wildfire report coming soon 👀
The latest satellite data tracking global sea levels came online today from CNES/AVISO 🌊
144 mm may not sound like a lot but climate scientists have shown -- and you can see for yourself if you look closely -- the rise it's accelerating 📈
www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
144 mm may not sound like a lot but climate scientists have shown -- and you can see for yourself if you look closely -- the rise it's accelerating 📈
www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
May 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The latest satellite data tracking global sea levels came online today from CNES/AVISO 🌊
144 mm may not sound like a lot but climate scientists have shown -- and you can see for yourself if you look closely -- the rise it's accelerating 📈
www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
144 mm may not sound like a lot but climate scientists have shown -- and you can see for yourself if you look closely -- the rise it's accelerating 📈
www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
This means no more updates to this chart. Devastating
May 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This means no more updates to this chart. Devastating
Another record daily temperature on Friday: 1.61 degrees above the pre-industrial average.
2025 global temps remain worryingly high.
2025 global temps remain worryingly high.
May 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Another record daily temperature on Friday: 1.61 degrees above the pre-industrial average.
2025 global temps remain worryingly high.
2025 global temps remain worryingly high.
We’re back in record daily temperature territory.
Thursday was the hottest April 24th in modern decades.
It reached 1.56°C above the pre-industrial average.
The previous record holder was 2020.
www.deepskyclimate.com/research
Thursday was the hottest April 24th in modern decades.
It reached 1.56°C above the pre-industrial average.
The previous record holder was 2020.
www.deepskyclimate.com/research
April 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We’re back in record daily temperature territory.
Thursday was the hottest April 24th in modern decades.
It reached 1.56°C above the pre-industrial average.
The previous record holder was 2020.
www.deepskyclimate.com/research
Thursday was the hottest April 24th in modern decades.
It reached 1.56°C above the pre-industrial average.
The previous record holder was 2020.
www.deepskyclimate.com/research
We just hit a new global temperature record.
Thursday was the hottest April 10th in modern decades.
It was 1.67°C above the pre-industrial average.
(The second highest was 2024 at 1.65°C.)
www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
Thursday was the hottest April 10th in modern decades.
It was 1.67°C above the pre-industrial average.
(The second highest was 2024 at 1.65°C.)
www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
April 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
We just hit a new global temperature record.
Thursday was the hottest April 10th in modern decades.
It was 1.67°C above the pre-industrial average.
(The second highest was 2024 at 1.65°C.)
www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
Thursday was the hottest April 10th in modern decades.
It was 1.67°C above the pre-industrial average.
(The second highest was 2024 at 1.65°C.)
www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
Always channeling his calmness in the face of climate crisis. Such resilience, bravery despite the terrifying data on the monitor next to him.
April 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Always channeling his calmness in the face of climate crisis. Such resilience, bravery despite the terrifying data on the monitor next to him.
April 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
If you thought I was going to be left out of the posting scary line charts bonanza on here today...
And hot take: this is scarier.
www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
And hot take: this is scarier.
www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
April 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
If you thought I was going to be left out of the posting scary line charts bonanza on here today...
And hot take: this is scarier.
www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
And hot take: this is scarier.
www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
The @climate.noaa.gov data on billion dollar weather disasters is critical for understanding climate change.
Really hope we don't lose this dataset.
www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
Really hope we don't lose this dataset.
www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
April 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The @climate.noaa.gov data on billion dollar weather disasters is critical for understanding climate change.
Really hope we don't lose this dataset.
www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
Really hope we don't lose this dataset.
www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
Global oceans continue to be very, very warm.
So far 2025 is in second place only to last year.
The direction of that little red line will tell us a lot about the health of our oceans and where we're headed.
www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
So far 2025 is in second place only to last year.
The direction of that little red line will tell us a lot about the health of our oceans and where we're headed.
www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
April 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Global oceans continue to be very, very warm.
So far 2025 is in second place only to last year.
The direction of that little red line will tell us a lot about the health of our oceans and where we're headed.
www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
So far 2025 is in second place only to last year.
The direction of that little red line will tell us a lot about the health of our oceans and where we're headed.
www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
🚨 Tuesday hit a new temperature record for that date. 🚨
It was the hottest March 20th in modern decades.
2025 is off to a worryingly hot start.
Have a look for yourself: www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
It was the hottest March 20th in modern decades.
2025 is off to a worryingly hot start.
Have a look for yourself: www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
March 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
🚨 Tuesday hit a new temperature record for that date. 🚨
It was the hottest March 20th in modern decades.
2025 is off to a worryingly hot start.
Have a look for yourself: www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...
It was the hottest March 20th in modern decades.
2025 is off to a worryingly hot start.
Have a look for yourself: www.deepskyclimate.com/data-dashboa...