Robert McLeman
@rmcleman.bsky.social
Professor of Geography & Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada.
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It was so fun to talk about our book "Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate" with Hannah! You can listen to the conversation here. @universitypress.cambridge.org @rmcleman.bsky.social @kayly.bsky.social
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Kelsea Best, Kayly Ober, Robert A. McLeman, "Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate" (Cambridge UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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July 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It was so fun to talk about our book "Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate" with Hannah! You can listen to the conversation here. @universitypress.cambridge.org @rmcleman.bsky.social @kayly.bsky.social
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One of the more thoughtful and important commentaries I’ve read about what it’s like to be a young adult today, by NYTimes David Brooks. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/o...
Opinion | ‘We Are the Most Rejected Generation’
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May 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
One of the more thoughtful and important commentaries I’ve read about what it’s like to be a young adult today, by NYTimes David Brooks. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/o...
Listening to @barryglendenning.bsky.social & Guardian Football Weekly Monday mornings = best way to start week. Enjoy so much I included Barry in acknowledgments in my new coauthored book published by Cambridge U Press. Thanks Barry!
May 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Listening to @barryglendenning.bsky.social & Guardian Football Weekly Monday mornings = best way to start week. Enjoy so much I included Barry in acknowledgments in my new coauthored book published by Cambridge U Press. Thanks Barry!
First trillium in bloom this spring in my local woods, so far as I could observe. Waterloo County.
April 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
First trillium in bloom this spring in my local woods, so far as I could observe. Waterloo County.
New #NHLgreen article by RinkWatch’s @rmcleman about how this past winter ODR season compared with previous winters, with great photos from #rinkwatch participants & others. www.nhl.com/news/topic/n...
NHL Green essay: Outdoor rinks at risk despite cold winter of 2024-25 | NHL.com
Wilfrid Laurier University’s McLeman discusses importance, challenges of playing outside
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April 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
New #NHLgreen article by RinkWatch’s @rmcleman about how this past winter ODR season compared with previous winters, with great photos from #rinkwatch participants & others. www.nhl.com/news/topic/n...
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Undocumented migration isn’t driven by economics alone—weather matters too. New research finds that drought in rain-fed farming areas increases migration, while extreme rainfall makes migrants less likely to return.
In @TIMES: time.com/7272152/clim...
In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
In @TIMES: time.com/7272152/clim...
In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
April 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Undocumented migration isn’t driven by economics alone—weather matters too. New research finds that drought in rain-fed farming areas increases migration, while extreme rainfall makes migrants less likely to return.
In @TIMES: time.com/7272152/clim...
In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
In @TIMES: time.com/7272152/clim...
In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The @nytopinion.nytimes.com today features a #dataviz of our new global migration flow estimates.
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Using privacy protected records from three billion Facebook users, we estimated country-to-country #migration flows at monthly granularity for 181 countries.
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Using privacy protected records from three billion Facebook users, we estimated country-to-country #migration flows at monthly granularity for 181 countries.
Opinion | To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First
These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.
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April 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The @nytopinion.nytimes.com today features a #dataviz of our new global migration flow estimates.
nytimes.com/interactive/...
Using privacy protected records from three billion Facebook users, we estimated country-to-country #migration flows at monthly granularity for 181 countries.
nytimes.com/interactive/...
Using privacy protected records from three billion Facebook users, we estimated country-to-country #migration flows at monthly granularity for 181 countries.
Is there anything more Canadian than this? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...
Canada Reschedules Political Debate That Conflicted With a Hockey Game (Gift Article)
A big game, but still.
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April 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Is there anything more Canadian than this? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...
I’ve studied & written about #climatechange +migration for 20+ years, time to step aside. In what’s likely my final journal article on the topic, I summarize what researchers know & don’t know about climate & displacement. It’s open access. epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/ind...
View of Coming to Terms with Deep Uncertainty in the Study of Climate-Related Displacement
| Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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April 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I’ve studied & written about #climatechange +migration for 20+ years, time to step aside. In what’s likely my final journal article on the topic, I summarize what researchers know & don’t know about climate & displacement. It’s open access. epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/ind...
Pennywise and pound foolish. www.cbc.ca/news/science...
Canada will no longer cover travel costs of experts it nominates to UN's climate science body | CBC News
In a sudden and unexplained change from previous decades, the federal government has stopped covering the travel costs of Canadian experts volunteering for the next major global climate science assess...
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April 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Pennywise and pound foolish. www.cbc.ca/news/science...
Will you be teaching a course on #climatemigration? Pls consider adopting new book by @kelseabest.bsky.social, Kayly Ober & me, ‘Migration in a changing climate’, pub’s by Cambridge. See image for description & 20% discount code.
April 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Will you be teaching a course on #climatemigration? Pls consider adopting new book by @kelseabest.bsky.social, Kayly Ober & me, ‘Migration in a changing climate’, pub’s by Cambridge. See image for description & 20% discount code.
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Updated global #migration flow estimates to match new @UNDESA stock data
📄Bilateral: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
📄Bilateral by sex: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
🖥️Update details: guyabel.com/publication/...
📔Original @ScientificData papers: nature.com/articles/s41... & www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄Bilateral: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
📄Bilateral by sex: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
🖥️Update details: guyabel.com/publication/...
📔Original @ScientificData papers: nature.com/articles/s41... & www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 27, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Updated global #migration flow estimates to match new @UNDESA stock data
📄Bilateral: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
📄Bilateral by sex: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
🖥️Update details: guyabel.com/publication/...
📔Original @ScientificData papers: nature.com/articles/s41... & www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄Bilateral: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
📄Bilateral by sex: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
🖥️Update details: guyabel.com/publication/...
📔Original @ScientificData papers: nature.com/articles/s41... & www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New book "Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate" with the brilliant @rmcleman.bsky.social and Kayly Ober out in April and available for preorder! @cambridgeup.bsky.social
March 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
New book "Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate" with the brilliant @rmcleman.bsky.social and Kayly Ober out in April and available for preorder! @cambridgeup.bsky.social
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Delighted to share a new publication, with the amazing @kelseabest.bsky.social & Bishawjit Mallick, using pattern-oriented agent-based modeling to explore the importance of economic inequality in determining patterns of environmentally-driven migration in Bangladesh.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Economic inequality is a crucial determinant of observed patterns of environmental migration - Communications Earth & Environment
Levels of inequality within a community are important contributors to community-level patterns of migration, according simulations with an agent-based model of the influence of environmental shocks, l...
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March 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Delighted to share a new publication, with the amazing @kelseabest.bsky.social & Bishawjit Mallick, using pattern-oriented agent-based modeling to explore the importance of economic inequality in determining patterns of environmentally-driven migration in Bangladesh.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Meanwhile, on the other side of the pond…
Ireland’s power grid recorded its cleanest month yet in February 2025 thanks to a new sub-sea cable linking the country and Wales.
With data and analysis from @greencollective.io
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With data and analysis from @greencollective.io
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The power of interconnections: Ireland's electricity mix is cleaner than ever
The 190km Greenlink interconnector, commissioned in late January, "is creating a new normal for carbon emissions in Irish electricity."
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March 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Meanwhile, on the other side of the pond…
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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March 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Two students & I reviewed every #IPCC report since 1990, identified, summarized how migration/displacement were assessed. Resulting 33p report too massive for a journal article available free, open access here here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Evolution of climate-related migration and displacement in IPCC reporting
Concerns about climate change impacts on migration and displacement have been expressed regularly by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since
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March 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Two students & I reviewed every #IPCC report since 1990, identified, summarized how migration/displacement were assessed. Resulting 33p report too massive for a journal article available free, open access here here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Bill McKibben says Americans upset by the gutting of U.S. climate efforts need to move beyond despair.
In an interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, he reexamines the role of protest and explains why he sees reason for hope.
In an interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, he reexamines the role of protest and explains why he sees reason for hope.
Bill McKibben on Climate Activism in the Age of Trump 2.0
Activist Bill McKibben says Americans upset by the Trump administration’s gutting of U.S. climate efforts need to move beyond despair. In an interview with e360, he talks about rethinking the role of ...
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March 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Bill McKibben says Americans upset by the gutting of U.S. climate efforts need to move beyond despair.
In an interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, he reexamines the role of protest and explains why he sees reason for hope.
In an interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, he reexamines the role of protest and explains why he sees reason for hope.
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We are hiring for a Senior Climate Scientist at @ucsusa.bsky.social. Join us! apply.workable.com/union-of-con...
Senior Climate Scientist - Union of Concerned Scientists
Senior Climate ScientistPermanentClimate & EnergyUnion of Concerned ScientistsRemote Bargaining Unit Position: Yes Our Organization The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is an independent nonpro...
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February 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
We are hiring for a Senior Climate Scientist at @ucsusa.bsky.social. Join us! apply.workable.com/union-of-con...
I’ve cancelled May trip to econ conference in WA where I was to be keynote. I have other colleagues doing similar. Happy to support/collab with US colleagues online, but no grants or personal $ will be spent in US if tariffs in place. #academicchatter www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/w...
How Canadians Are Directing Their Ire at the U.S. Over Trump’s Tariffs (Gift Article)
Canadians are shunning American products and abandoning trips to the United States to protest the economic punishment President Trump has threatened to impose with tariffs.
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February 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I’ve cancelled May trip to econ conference in WA where I was to be keynote. I have other colleagues doing similar. Happy to support/collab with US colleagues online, but no grants or personal $ will be spent in US if tariffs in place. #academicchatter www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/w...
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📢📢 Only two weeks left to submit your abstract for the ECMN conference in Bonn (8-10 July 2025)! 86 colleagues have already submitted theirs! Here is a FAQ page and the submission form: www.climatemobilities.network/ecmn25/
Hope to see you along the Rhine River in Bonn this summer!!!
Hope to see you along the Rhine River in Bonn this summer!!!
February 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
📢📢 Only two weeks left to submit your abstract for the ECMN conference in Bonn (8-10 July 2025)! 86 colleagues have already submitted theirs! Here is a FAQ page and the submission form: www.climatemobilities.network/ecmn25/
Hope to see you along the Rhine River in Bonn this summer!!!
Hope to see you along the Rhine River in Bonn this summer!!!
Have been reading about crazy price of #eggs in USA. In Canada we have supply management system that ensures farms = well managed, not disrupted by bird flu, producers get fair income, consumers pay fair prices. Today’s price for 12 large eggs at my local store = C$3.93/US$2.75
February 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Have been reading about crazy price of #eggs in USA. In Canada we have supply management system that ensures farms = well managed, not disrupted by bird flu, producers get fair income, consumers pay fair prices. Today’s price for 12 large eggs at my local store = C$3.93/US$2.75
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@rmcleman.bsky.social, a professor of geography and environmental studies at @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social, warns that #ClimateChange is having a serious effect on this traditional pastime. RInkWatch draws awareness to the difficulties from climate change. www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/clim...
Can backyard hockey rinks survive climate change in Canada? - The Weather Network
RinkWatch draws awareness to the difficulties to outdoor hockey driven by climate change.
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February 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
@rmcleman.bsky.social, a professor of geography and environmental studies at @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social, warns that #ClimateChange is having a serious effect on this traditional pastime. RInkWatch draws awareness to the difficulties from climate change. www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/clim...
My university (Wilfrid Laurier U in Waterloo, Canada) is advertising a 12-month contract teaching position in urban environmental sustainability starting in Sept. Pls share with your networks. careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo...
Assistant Professor - Geography & Environmental Studies (1-year Limited Term)
Assistant Professor - Geography & Environmental Studies (1-year Limited Term)
careers.wlu.ca
February 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
My university (Wilfrid Laurier U in Waterloo, Canada) is advertising a 12-month contract teaching position in urban environmental sustainability starting in Sept. Pls share with your networks. careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo...