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Nathanael Melia

@nathanaelmelia.bsky.social

Climate Scientist Climate variability, climate emergence, impacts. Founding Director @ Climate Prescience ; Adjunct Senior Research Fellow @ Victoria University of Wellington, NZ. British by birth, NZ citizen by choice.

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Be kind to yourself, burn out takes forever to recover from. Impactwise, there are very few professors who have more impact than you, the rest just purpetuate the student loan ponzi scheme. What you are doing feels scary, because it is, money is a necessary evil.

Go well Dr Gilbz.

31.10.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Gilbz, congratulations, you have seen what everyone refuses to act on. Accedemia is utter bull shit for the reasons you have concluded. You have put value on your work hours and your mental health, that took me a long time to do and I still fall back into that trap.

31.10.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not as much as a good part of the country having to take the day off because of school strikes I imagine.

22.10.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

😍 Feeling nostalgic πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§

21.10.2025 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜…βœŒοΈ

10.10.2025 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

AI is not useful for weather forecasting. It's what LLMs are to literature. It's like hallucination is a feature in AI weather, just all the research is to control the realism level of the hallucination. Navier–Stokes turning in thier graves.

10.10.2025 07:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Of course. I'm just joking that it is inevitable that this govenment will make a regression

10.10.2025 03:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
a man wearing sunglasses and a suit is saying it is inevitable ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a suit is saying it is inevitable

I reserve the right to provide this as my expert reaction to the SMC.

10.10.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately, cycling is, for the cyclist, more likely to get you unalived than climate change. (completely unfounded reckon). Another stupid argument could be cycling uses up ~+500kcal per day, that 500kcal has a carbon footprint.

30.09.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait. I think this crisis might be a great way to advertise myself and my beliefs and gain followers and advocate that my worldview is the future. Wait. I think this crisis might be a great way...

29.09.2025 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, how I like you more now. I'm sorry, did pragmatic realism get in the way of 1960s psychedelia? Heat pumps are made of plastic, KATE. Only flax heat pumps powered by the water wheel of Victorian children's novels are an acceptable path forward if we are to defeat *insert* injustice.

29.09.2025 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the job of any GWP/GTP metric. GWP* just happens to be the newest and most fit for purpose. The framing, goal and associated ethics and assumptions are always going to change how they are used. GWP* is used exactly like you want, how to set separate targets in a fair way between sectors.

07.09.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Embarrassing

06.09.2025 04:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I still can't believe they said its NASA clouds and LINZ (the official DEM mapping etc department) data. Like you would have to go out of your way to use this data and alter it to the extent required to make this abominablly hallucinated replica of NZ.

01.08.2025 09:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It was ment to be a bit tounge in cheek. And a bit sticking up for the numerous scientist that work on weather, land, satellites, modelling etc at this institution that could have designed somthing closer to the truth. I fear it's damaging to these scientists credibility.

01.08.2025 09:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I posted on the potential use of an AI generated image, it struck a chord and a few laughs. I was NOT expecting the newly minted Public Research Organisation to deny that AI was used. Are. Are they, lying? πŸ€₯ www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

01.08.2025 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Berri - The Sunshine After The Rain (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by London Records Berri - The Sunshine After The Rain (Official Music Video)

Much more sophisticated than where I've ended up, πŸ˜…

youtu.be/FsEHPYVfrxs?...

30.07.2025 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Opus III 'It's A Fine Day' | The Making Of A Dance Anthem
YouTube video by DJ Mag Opus III 'It's A Fine Day' | The Making Of A Dance Anthem

And by fluffy white clouds, I assume this is what you have in mind?
It's a Fine Day - Opus III β€§ 1992
youtu.be/C7g4k-QkNzs?...

30.07.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Grace - not over yet, another more common one.

Another pretentious fact, the 2004 10th anniversary reissue is very similar but mixed without the M People tracks, because they got heaps of radio time so too commercial to be cannon 🀣

30.07.2025 10:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The entire series is arguably the start of the progressive house movement and best as a mix, for example the first three tracks are different mixes of Leftfield - song of life layed over each other (yes progressive house is very pretentious). Having said that: Sunscreem - perfect motion is a jam.

30.07.2025 10:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Renaissance: The Mix Collection

Is 1994 Gen X prime time or too late?

30.07.2025 04:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One of the worst maps in living memory. Four lines do not constitute the need to adapt the London tube style. And if one is going to put these stops so egregiously out of place, don't use a base map that highlights this fallacy.

25.07.2025 23:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh no, they're going to destroy Windsor, Victorian, Georgian, Stuarts, Elizabethans, Tudors, Plantagenets, Normans, Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, Roman, country.

14.07.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

*said in time with banging fists on table*

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10.07.2025 07:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/nath...

07.07.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_o...

06.07.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 1

Does Texas etc have an emergancy broadcast system that pushes information to mobile phones. Here in NZ our phones whil siren an emergancy text on screen even if the phone is on silent. Not much help if dire forecast wording is only seen by the centers the write them.

06.07.2025 10:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Didn't take long for the US government's operational meteorology cuts to turn deadly.

06.07.2025 03:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Sure. I was confusingly making two points. The SA comparison being a group of unorganised militant thugs.

03.07.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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