Max Dugan-Knight

@maxduganknight.bsky.social

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📈 Data and climate guy 💼 Solutions Architect at Databricks 🇨🇦 based in Toronto ✍️ maxdk.substack.com also Arsenal ⚽️ and hip hop 🎧

Chart showing 33% pension losses by 2050 under "high-warming" scenario
Graph showing global temperature change from 1 year of emissions. The temperature impact is very persistent (1000+ years)
Fire risk map of Canada showing FWI anomaly at mid-July point
TIME magazine article citing Deep Sky Research's hurricane report
Map showing spring fire risk across the US. Highest risk parts are US Southwest - especially southwestern NM - and parts of Midwest.
Graph showing cost of home insurance in highest risk wildfire zip codes of California has shot up.
Chart showing that insurers are leaving wildfire prone areas of California. There are 19% fewer policies in extreme fire risk areas than there were in 2015.
Map showing fire risk in Canada. Fire weather index anomaly is the metric used.
Map showing spring fire risk across US. Metric is Fire Weather Index Anomaly.
Map of smoke concentrations across North America. Wildfires in western Canada are spreading smoke across the US and Canada.
Two charts side by side: one showing Arctic Sea Ice Extent decrease over time, the other showing Global Sea Level rise increase over time.
Daily global temperature chart showing 2025 hit a new record for that date on April 24th
Daily global temperature anomaly chart showing new record reached on Thursday, April 10th at 1.67°C above the pre-industrial average.
My dog sleeping
Annual temperature anomaly chart. 2024 was 1.6 degrees above pre-industrial temperatures.
Chart showing billion dollar weather disasters increasing over time. Data provided by NOAA/NCEI.
Daily sea surface temperature anomaly data visualization.
Global daily temperature chart.
CO2 PPM chart next to an annual global temperature anomaly chart. Both increasing.
Chart tracking CO2 atmospheric concentration using data from Scripps/ NOAA. Chart made and updated regularly by Deep Sky
Chart showing daily global temperature anomaly data. Saturday March 15 was 1.69°C above the preindustrial average.
Chart showing West Texas Fire Risk (Fire Weather Index) has hit record levels this week.
Max Dugan-Knight, climate data scientist at Deep Sky interviewed by CBS News Texas about wildfires.
Chart showing climate sensitivity S (also known as ECS) may be higher than we thought.
Chart showing climate sensitivity estimates over time
Screenshot of paper table of contents with Data availability and Code availability sections.
Chart showing extreme rainfall occurrences over time in Europe. These events are increasing.
Chart showing Fire Weather Index data over past couple years in LA area.
Snippet reads: However, human-caused Arctic climate change is making the Far North more accessible for development and shipping routes and could entice companies to explore for fossil fuel resources in coming years.
Map of Western US showing county-level wildfire risk. Created by Deep Sky Research.
Two consecutive skeets on my feed one showing projected climate disaster and the next of a flower saying "And breathe..."
Chart showing sea surface temperature anomalies by year in the north east Atlantic.
Chart made by Deep Sky Research showing increasing incidents of extreme rainfall in Europe.
Screenshot of python output with emojis.