Wow, okay. My comment in The Guardian has a lot of wing nuts foaming at the mouth. Nothing good can come from attacking scientists — we are speaking up because we care about what’s happening to our planet. No amount of hate will stop us from trying to protect the places we love.

My latest in The Saturday Paper: 'I’ve come to realise that denial is a position of the privileged: people who have their homes swallowed by floodwaters, torn apart by wind or burnt to the ground aren’t afforded the luxury of turning away'.

On tonight. .

Northern Rivers peeps! I'll be speaking at this free community event in Tweed Heads on 29 April. Please come along and pass on the invite to your friends. Bookings here:

View of our neighbour’s place across the road this morning. There will be scenes like this all along the coast today. Heartbreaking 💔

What a mess. Around a quarter of a million people without power mostly in northern NSW and SE Queensland. Damage will become clearer as day breaks. Impacts will be felt for years.

If you can bear to watch this video on the impacts of tropical cyclones please do, and then pass it on to anyone you know who is in Alfred's path. This system is no joke. Produced by the Bureau of Meteorology in partnership with Get Ready Queensland

Coastal communities from Ballina all the way north to the Queensland border are now under evacuation orders. Severe storm surge will break through dunes and inundate homes in many areas. This is going to be a historic storm. My heart is breaking for our beautiful region 💔

The stuff of nightmares 😱

Latest cyclone track map:

I live in between these two data points. Either way, I'm terrified of what Cyclone Alfred is going to do to our beautiful region. So many people in the Northern Rivers have already been through so much. It's heartbreaking. Hope our home holds up 🙏

Update on the cyclone's trajectory:

Feeling sick to my stomach about Tropical Cyclone Alfred approaching SE QLD. Around 4 million people live in this area. Buildings this far south are not built to withstand cyclones. How much do we need to lose before we take climate change seriously?.

Lake Mac and Newcastle peeps! There are a few places left for my free talk tomorrow night at Windale Hub. Talking about climate change in a coal mining region is bound to be interesting! Hope to see you there.

If people think that Trump is a joke, think again. Blocking the participation of US scientists in the IPCC process will have global consequences. Hard to know what to say about this.

“This is what 30 years of denial and delay have brought us”. Tim Winton on coming to terms with the bleaching of Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia 💔

Free talk, on tomorrow morning!.

Evening 'in conversation' event with Dr Bonnie McBain from the University of Newcastle on 27 February:

Family-friendly day being run by the Lake Macquarie City Council this Saturday 22 February. I'll be giving a 30min talk followed by a panel discussion with a few local legends. There's also free ice cream for the kids!