Woah
Well this is all a little bit sudden.
Hi. Lots of you already know me, but in case you don’t: I’m Tim Baxter and I’m an Australian climate and energy policy researcher and advocate. That’s the polite and professional way of putting it. The more accurate version is that I’m a nerd who has spent over a decade figuring out the mess that is the climate crisis and the systems that make it worse. All that while trying to be the best and most helpful version of myself and also lifting people up along the way.
I have built a solid reputation for diving deep into the technical and arcane details of climate data and climate policy to provide the kinds of insights that drive impact.
I am a passionate supporter of intellectual rigour and integrity. I have a particular talent for exposing the outright nonsense and convenient lies spread by those who seek to slow, delay or avoid the necessary – and necessarily rapid! – transition of the social and energy systems that are driving the superheating of the planet.
If you would like to explore ways to collaborate, let’s chat!
You can find me online at all of these places.
What’s with the name “Naru Research”?
This is a bit soppy.
At least fifteen different colleagues and friends have asked why I chose the name “Naru Research”, so I reckon I should put a little bit about that here. It will just keep coming up.
In 2018, my best friend passed away at the terribly young age of 30. Only those who knew Jem alive can understand the acute impact that she had on so many people in that short time. Suffice it to say that while she was undoubtedly my best friend, I am one of at least half a dozen different folks who would say the same thing about her. She had a lot more best friends than most.
Jem was a force for care and holding those she loved tightly, while simultaneously also being a fierce advocate for justice: big and small. The Australian climate movement is seeded with a generation of folks whose passion for a better world is stronger because they were touched by Jem during her much too short life, and I am one of them.
I don’t much want to go into the specifics of why I chose “Naru” – those who know will know and if you really want to know you can ask privately – but it is in tribute to Jem, and a life that never got to be all that it could have.
I wouldn’t feel right talking about Jem without one inserting one of her favourite truisms:
What you do today is important. You are exchanging a day of your life for it.
Like her, it is no less essential, no less important and no less correct for sometimes being a little bit naff. 💛
