Martin Hodson

Creation Care and Christian Mission.

Creation Care and Christian Mission. The course is online, and is taught by me & Margot Hodson, with guest speakers. It will begin on Tues 13th Jan. 2026 at 2pm (for between 1.5 and 3 hours a week) and run for 10 weeks out of the next 11. For more information: www.allnations.ac.uk/courses/crea...

🎉🆕📰🎉: Deep learning black box and pattern recognition analysis using Guided Grad-CAM for phytolith identification
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

🚨 JUST PUBLISHED: CARBON BRIEF’S #COP30 SUMMARY 🚨

It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting…

–Global mutirão
–Adaptation finance
–Fossil-fuel roadmap
–China
+Much more

Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast

www.carbonbrief.org/...

An entirely new type of biomineralization. Could be quite an important discovery. I was involved in some earlier work on this topic, and it seems that silicon is involved in detoxification of REEs in some fern species.

I once met her brother, Carl, who was a top plant physiologist at Cornelly. Pretty amazing family!!

Forgotten women of paleontology: Estella Bergere Leopold. Paleoecological records suggest that the transition to agriculture marked a pivotal turning point in the environmental history of our planet. Tropical forests have been reduced by agricultural expa…

Forgotten women of paleontology: Estella Bergere Leopold ⚒️🧪

paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/f...

An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜

🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)

5 Charts Show Climate Progress as Paris Agreement Turns 10 The 2015 Paris Agreement forged a path for the world to stave off the worst climate change scenarios. Here’s where we stand 10 years later

COP30 just wrapped and the Paris Agreement turns 10 this year. Here's where we are on climate: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

#COP30 in extra day - Adaptation finance is nowhere near what vulnerable nations need. This is the red line for LDCs. We need strong LDC Fund replenishment & a commitment to triple adaptation finance by 2030. Immediate 1.5 °C action required.

#LDCs #ClimateAction

Image 1: Matrix found at La Brea Tar Pits.

Text "Of the more than 50,000 Ice Age fossils dug up in Project 23, the smallest by far are pollen grains! One gram of sediment can contain hundreds to thousands of these tiny particles, identifiable beneath microscopic lenses." on top of an image of cells on the surface of a fossil leaf from Project 23, Box 1 as seen on an fluorescent microscope.

Image of a grass phytolith from Project 23, Box 9.

🪏😱 We're digging up the best of Project 23!

Hidden in the tar are fossils too small to see with the naked eye: pollen grains.

These microscopic time capsules preserve clues about Ice Age landscapes, revealing what plants grew in ancient L.A. and how ecosystems shifted over thousands of years.

Europe's electricity system is changing rapidly and often in places that don't make the headlines.

Look at Estonia - not that long ago and fossil fuels dominated around 90% of electricity generation.

Today solar and wind eat more and more into the share of fossil fuel-generated electricity.

I imagine most people prefer enhanced rock weathering. Tinkering with ocean acidity directly looks more likely to have hidden consequences.

South Korean decision to close all coal-fired power plants by 2040 sounds alarm for Australian exports Decision announced at Cop30 climate conference signposts risks for Australia’s reliance on fossil fuel exports, analysts say

Coal isn't cost-effective anymore, and countries recognize it. Huge, since South Korea has been relying on coal for ~30% of their electricity.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Sheer cruelty on display in the Home Secretary's proposed new asylum laws, which could see refugee families with children suddenly uprooted and deported after spending years rebuilding their lives in Britain. Shameful capitulation to Reform's agenda at the expense of the most vulnerable.

10 years ago, 59% of new solar capacity was deployed in rich countries.

Today, emerging economies lead the charge.

#China, #India and #Brazil have together delivered 60% of all new solar capacity since 2015 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇧🇷

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Bar chart showing estimates of remaining carbon dioxide budgets that give a 50% likelihood of staying below each temperature level, relative to pre-industrial levels. A baseline label shows global emissions in 2025 at 42 gigatonnes (Gt) per year. Three vertical bars show remaining CO2 budgets: stay below 1.5°C — 170 Gt, labeled as 4 years of current emissions, with a note that if emissions stay at 2025 levels the 1.5°C budget will be exhausted within 4 years; stay below 1.7°C — 525 Gt, labeled as 12.5 years of current emissions; stay below 2°C — 1055 Gt, labeled as 25 years of current emissions, with an annotation saying that by 2050 we will have exhausted the 2°C budget unless emissions are reduced now. Footer note states these estimates have uncertainty and depend on changes in non-CO2 greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxide. Data sources listed as IPCC, Forster et al. (2025) and Global Carbon Project (2025). License CC BY.

How much CO₂ can the world emit while limiting global temperature rise?

NEW | The world has achieved nearly a tenfold increase in solar power in the ten years since the #ParisAgreement ☀️

Solar rose from providing 1% of global electricity in 2015 to 8.8% in the first half of 2025.

Emerging economies now lead this growth 📈
https://loom.ly/tlCvBso

Yes, I remember we walked half a mile to the shops in Modesto, and everyone stared at us as if we were mad! Much better in Davis, where walking and cycling seem normal like in the UK!

Christians and Climate Change.

Christians and Climate Change. We are speaking at Tring this Sunday!!

Phew! I was a bit worried about this! Need not have!

Global EV sales remain up YTD at 23% following 1.9 million EVs sold in October The number of electric vehicles sold globally in October 1.9 million, according the data revealed by leading EV supply chain research and insights company Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.

Global EV sales are up 23% YTD, with 1.9M sold in October — and historically, the record month every year is December as quotas, fleets, and subsidies all pile in (especially in China). 2025 is the first time September’s 2.1M might actually beat December… but history says December loves to surprise.

📢Global Carbon Budget 2025📢

Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength.

The key findings are covered in two reports this year:
* ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
* Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned

Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)

What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts

www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...

Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says 10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström

Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says

- 10bn tonnes must be captured from the air per year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström

#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Environmental scientist spends more than four decades researching a potential climate game-changer - Oxford Brookes University In the ongoing fight against climate change, one remarkable discovery has gained significant attention over the past years: phytoliths.

Another idea for carbon removal. Why not cereals?? www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...

Very wise decision!!

I know. Over here everyone wants to do sports science. Fine, but you only need so many people doing that. And yes, if you take plant science and are halfway decent you will get a good job. Only up side is ancient people like me are still needed!?!

Like Australia. It's all about bums on seats. There's already a short fall of graduates - plant science majors walk straight into jobs

Really stupid decision.

Totally true!