Final post of the series. Safeguarding rarely arrives with sirens. Children already care. Risks are now formally recognised. Schools sit inside these systems. What does 'reasonable responsibility' look like?
#Safeguarding #ClimateLiteracy #Education #DutyOfCare #ChildWellbeing

http://geogramblings.com/2026/02/01/climate-literacy-as-safeguarding-what-reasonable-professional-responsibility-looks-like/

A new UK national security assessment quietly frames ecological collapse as a long‑term planning risk. This isn’t a call to panic—or prophecy. But it does shift context. Safeguarding is about foreseeability, not certainty. #ClimateRisk #Safeguarding #EducationPolicy #Preparedness #ClimateLiteracy

When ecological risk becomes a...

A new UK national security assessment quietly frames ecological collapse as a long‑term planning risk.
This isn’t a call to panic—or prophecy. But it does shift context. Safeguarding is about foreseeability, not certainty.
#ClimateRisk #Safeguarding #EducationPolicy #Preparedness #ClimateLiteracy

http://geogramblings.com/2026/01/30/reading-the-national-security-assessment/

New evidence from Natural England shows just how emotionally meaningful nature already is in children’s lives—and how uneven access remains.

This matters for safeguarding. Not panic. Not pressure. Care.

Post 2 explores what this means for anyone working with young people. https://wp.me/p829C1-38h

#ChildWellbeing #SafeguardingInEducation #Equity #Nature #ClimateLiteracy

This is what you say when you have little to no #ClimateLiteracy.

As we continue to heat lack of climate literacy is going to get people killed. It already has at ~1.5°C

https://apnews.com/article/trump-warming-denial-fact-check-winter-storm-49eeee83a8acd35c89bcf33d346b9b38

NEW mid January IRI ENSO forecast:

“According to the January 2026 CCSR/IRI ENSO plume forecast, the probability of La Niña conditions persisting during Jan–Mar (JFM) 2026 is 31%, while ENSO-neutral conditions are the next most likely outcome, with an estimated probability of 69%.”

Source: https://iri.columbia.edu/our-expertise/climate/forecasts/enso/current/?enso_tab=enso-iri_update

#ClimateLiteracy

Reminder:

Today 8 datasets drop their 2025 analysis.

ECMWF (ERA5) ✅
JMA (JRA-55) ✅
NASA (JRA-55)
NOAA (NOAAGlobalTemp v5)
UK Met Office (HadCRUT.5.0.1.0) ✅
Berkeley Earth
UK/USA (DCENT)
China (CMST)

I will add them below as they become available.

#ClimateLiteracy #ClimateCrisis

Thanks for a great episode today! #ClimateQuestion #climateliteracy #SciComm
@akshatrathi
@bbcworldservice
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct702z

"...Daily Mail published an article around the time of the 2019 youth climate strike headlined: “Net zero hero! How being carbon neutral will help the planet”. Fast forward to 2024, and in September the Mail published the headline “Bonkers’ net-zero target could cost 1 MILLION jobs, union chief warns”, which included four mentions of net zero but no mention of climate change..."
#NetZero v problematic, but deliberate obfuscation? #mediatellthetruth #climateliteracy
https://theconversation.com/we-analysed-73-000-articles-and-found-the-uk-media-is-divorcing-climate-change-from-net-zero-272527

A group activity in my #ClimateLiteracy courses - ranking a handful of nation-states by total territorial, then per capita territorial, then per capita consumption-based emissions. Australia so often surprised participants (should maybe also include Canada?!? And rounding off with historical/cumulative is important, as a segue into future scenarios...)

Carbon-neutral roadbuilding?!?!? There's #greenwash all over the #LowerThamesCrossing
#climateliteracy
@TheWarOnCars
@WalterMenteth
https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/lower-thames-crossing/nature/cutting-carbon/

#FarmersWeekly in need of #climateliteracy - #UKFoodsecurity gonna crumble with #climatebreakdown
#GHGEmissions
"The government has quietly shelved proposals to announce a UK-specific pledge at the COP30 climate summit to cut methane emissions from livestock by 30% by 2030..."
https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/environment/lucky-escape-as-government-shelves-cop30-methane-pledge

"Fossil fuel interests in the classroom
Branch said there have been "systematic attempts to provide teachers with misinformation about climate change in the hopes they will relate it to their students," with material coming from "very strongly ideologically motivated" climate change denial think tanks, such as the Heartland Institute, as well as from the fossil fuel industry itself."
Hunger for #climateliteracy easily fed with misinformation from #fossilfuelindustries
https://p.dw.com/p/52eO8

@peterdutoit Thanks for this!
And here's a handbook (partly prompted by the Ladybird book from our unelected head of state, which omitted explanation of carbon, energy and stuff or fossil fuel industries) https://bit.ly/CLNZine
#ClimateLiteracy

"...the Subtropical Front – the boundary between cold subantarctic water and warmer subtropical water that is biologically and economically significant – has moved 120km west, the report said, noting it was the first time a shift in large-scale ocean circulation around New Zealand had been observed..."
#oceansystems #climatebreakdown
Shall we do something about #GHGEmissions, or not bother? #Climateliteracy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/08/new-zealand-oceans-warming-34-per-cent-faster-than-global-average?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

"The platform has said it will counter the Trump administration's war on climate science through a collaboration between experts, educators, organizations, universities and civic leaders" #climateliteracy #Scienceunderthreat
https://www.dw.com/en/fired-climate-scientists-crucial-extreme-weather-data-cut-us-president-donald-trump-v3/a-73977766

An aspect of #ClimateLiteracy that isn't normally considered, and maybe should be.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/spanish-schools-to-give-lessons-in-coping-with-natural-disassters?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

@CelloMomOnCars Great idea - #mediatellthetruth #climateliteracy #journalism #bringsciencetopolitics

I can't emphasise this enough. #ClimateLiteracy is fast becoming a 21st Century "mission critical" skill!

Urgent need for climate litera...

Here is another *excellent* thread from @weatherwest.bsky.social Also follow him for more of the same insights! #ClimateLiteracy

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