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The idea is to create something that captures and helps record #ClimateChange in all its different manifestations, large and small, throughout the world. We all (most of us) know it's happening, but it's so slow, so on and off, that it's often really hard to grasp. And whilst #ExtremeWeather events are recorded, smaller changes, and how people experience them and how it affects their lives, is largely completely unrecorded, uncaptured. It would be good to try and do this, I feel 2/4

At the same time, a collective #ClimateDiary might also help emotionally - in the way that all diary writing helps to work through emotions, but also by sharing and connecting across the world, especially if you feel alone and isolated in thinking about climate in your own community and family. It might be quite therapeutic to be able to share and connect your thoughts and feelings

So let's try this! Use #ClimateDiary in your toot whenever you want to make a Climate Diary post, and 3/4

if you feel like it, also follow the #ClimateDiary hashtag yourself. I will myself follow, search and re-toot all #ClimateDiary posts and can be a sort of hub, at least initially. And if it takes off, @bridgetmck and I have been discussing perhaps linking this with the #ClimateMuseum #ExtremeWeather Experiences project (check out the climate museum as a whole, it's really great) 4/4

https://climatemuseumuk.org/digital-museum/exploring-the-planetary-emergency/

@pvonhellermannn @bridgetmck Excellent (if depressing that it's necessary) initiative. I'm following the hashtag now and it's already got me thinking about the 'little' things I've noticed in daily life, locally (Denmark). 'Little' unnerving signs that we've accepted for want of knowing what to do about them. Like crocuses appearing in January.

@CiaraNi @bridgetmck thank you Ciara! Yes I saw some daffodils starting to bud a few weeks ago, which seemed far too early - though it also made me reflect on my lack of botanical/ecological knowledge, far too sporadic observation, and of course forever shifting baselines- so much to unpack but for now seems good to just record and share what we see #ClimateDiary (could be almost a bit of a #CitizenScience project too though not qualified to run that!)

@CiaraNi @bridgetmck @pvonhellermannn I find #ClimateDiary a powerful and low effort way of understanding climate change as experienced by people, penetrating the “mundaneness” of environmental disaster. Making one notice the otherwise subtle. It reminds me of phenology, I was introduced to by Michelle Bastian. Phenology is an outsider branch of biology that observes and record plants seasonal cyclical relating to the climate. It is not only biologists who record but is a form of citizen science

@s_lundsteen @CiaraNi @bridgetmck thank you for all this, also the Barbara Adams book which i hadn’t heard of at all - just looked it up

@pvonhellermannn @CiaraNi @bridgetmck Likewise! And thank you both for this important initiative that has already sparked great conversations and connections.

@s_lundsteen Seconded

@bridgetmck @CiaraNi @pvonhellermannn The walk sounds fantastic! If I’m in the area in the future I will definitely look it up.

@s_lundsteen @CiaraNi @pvonhellermannn Next one will be in April. Monthly walking group from then on. Or they can be booked by groups.