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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/

@bridgetmck 5/5 I am tagging a few of you now who I've already been talking to about this, or who might be interested, as well as people from different parts of the world. My #Mastodon network is still much less global than I would like, so if you could help spread, that would be really great! #ClimateDiary (see above thread) @wavesculptor @norcalgrandma@sfba.social @OnePlanet@home.social @mythopoetica @sy @clockwooork @bethsawin

@MarieVC thank you! No idea whether it will work but as it’s really so little effort i thought it’s definitely worth a try

@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!)

@bridgetmck @pvonhellermannn That nicely pinpoints what struck me especially about the #ClimateDiary initiative. It’s created a space for non-experts like me to share observations about niggling wee things that seem wrong based on lived experience. Some of them may turn out to be due to faulty memories (when a given flower buds) or naturally shifting baselines, others unfortunately real. It’s nice to have a collective space to share and to learn from other people’s observations elsewhere.

@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.

@s_lundsteen @CiaraNi @bridgetmck yes - i like it too as really thought-provoking. Abit along the lines of “slow violence”. Which i like too

@pvonhellermannn @CiaraNi @bridgetmck agreed. Slow violence is a generative and thought provoking concept. I am currently reading Barbara Adams amazing book “timescapes of modernity” published in 1998 where she argues along similar lines (almost identical at points at times). I find it much more interesting maybe because it’s less flashy. But again slow violence really conjures a specific and powerful image.

@bridgetmck @s_lundsteen @CiaraNi i was just going to say this too - how for all of us it can suddenly switch from slow to very fast, explosive violence, like in #NewZealand. A friend who lives there just now for a year described how a cousin’s dream house (in a forest, all eco etc) was swept away in a landslide and now they are in a flat with massive insurance and financial problems - all gone. #ClimateDiary can capture all this too - not just about the mild and mundane, but all together

@bridgetmck Hi Bridget, thank you so muxh for offering! I do have a medium account but a bit tied up today and this coming week, so if you do feel like doing a quixk one today that would be really good. But no worries at all if you don’t manage. I thought i could perhaps do one one or two weeks down the line, with extracts from the posts by other people? Thank you for your support, really appreciate it

@eswag oh thank you, that is really good advice. I have no idea how to do this, but will ask around!

@eswag @aral i don’t suppose you have any advice on how i might be able to do this? How to archive or somehow save all #ClimateDiary posts in one place? Or anyone who might know?

@pvonhellermannn @eswag @aral it sounds like this is pretty doable and @allochthonous knows how and I’m sure so do others

@annejefferson @pvonhellermannn @eswag @aral

The API lets you search for posts with a hashtag. The only wrinkle is that due to federation searching any single instance is unlikely to get everything in the Fediverse.
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/search/#v2.

I am actually working on some code for a robot that collates/boosts posts with particular hashtags.

@DamonHD that’s interesting! As you say, it’s really hard to be scientifc about this as a lay person (have been having various discussions about this here today; was briefly wondering whther #ClimateDiary could almost be a #CitizenScience project but “change” so hard to get right with bad memories etc. Stil, really interesting to bring water temperature into the conversation

@privateshufti @pvonhellermannn @YusufToropov I thought including the region that I was posting from was a good idea too for #ClimateDiary

@eyebee @YusufToropov Thank you! There is no restriction, people have been posting a really wide array of things. But i can’t see yours, just double checking, did you put in #ClimateDiary?

@pvonhellermannn @YusufToropov Yes, I used the hashtag in my post.

@eyebee @YusufToropov i am so sorry, i just can’t see it anywhere- not under your posts, not through hashtag… very strange

@pvonhellermannn @YusufToropov It must be something to do with the fediverse. It is definitely there. If I search the hashtag it comes up in the list of posts…

@eyebee @YusufToropov that’s so strange. Makes me wonder whether i miss quite a lot of posts when searching the hashtag. It really isn’t there for me! Will keep on checking though

@eyebee

Hello @feditips - i would be grateful if can you advise me on this: i recently started a new hashtag, #ClimateDiary do you know whether i am able to see all toots using it, or might i be missing some (eg @eyebee ‘s above?) If so, what should i do try make sure i see all?

@eyebee @feditips issue resolved! I can see the posts now - there must have just been a delay

@pvonhellermannn @feditips Well that’s good news. I did think it must be a fediverse issue, but I’m no Mastadon expert.

@CharityFeb thank you!

@Uwagbale @bridgetmck oh that’s great! And of course you are invited - everybody is, but you especially