Andrew Dessler
Prof of Atmospheric Sciences & climate scientist @ Texas A&M; AGU and AAAS Fellow; Native Texan; find out what I think at http://theclimatebrink.substack.com
- Reposted by Andrew DesslerGavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless
- Reposted by Andrew Dessler"We're all trying to find the guy that did this." www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
- dangerous immigrant caravan approaches America
- this is a great article about the bubble in Florida real estate stocks.apple.com/AHa91r5VARcC...
- looks like I'm going to have to mute the word "abundance"
- the thing (I think) people have trouble with is that a 50% reduction followed by a 100% increase returns you to where you started. you need to understand that percents work *on a base* and the base changes.
- I can't tell you how fast I turn on captions on Netflix whenever I watch a British TV show.
- my latest in percentage illiteracy
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- Volcanoes are really good tests of our knowledge of climate change. When Pinatubo erupted in 1991, Hansen et al. published a prediction of what would happen to the climate. It looks pretty close to Zeke's plot and also pretty accurately matched reality. www.giss.nasa.gov/pubs/docs/19...
- Reposted by Andrew DesslerNSF-supported Unidata announced that almost their entire staff will be furloughed as of today. This is a huge threat to weather education and research at universities--Unidata provides crucial realtime data feeds of weather data, including satellite, radar, and observations.
- This is a seismic gut punch to the weather enterprise. It is impossible to overstate how important @unidata.bsky.social is in implementing many datasets/libraries (LDM, netCDF, THREDDS, metPy) we currently use in meteorological research & operations. www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...
- if you're in the area (London), this looks like a good way to make sure people understand the importance of science.
- Reposted by Andrew Dessler~45% of US corn production is now used to make ethanol, mostly for mixing into gasoline. That's ~13% of all US crop land already used for energy production. Using some of the same land for solar panels would capture 50-100 times more energy per acre.
- is it just me or do all these popes look the same
- Some scientists will leave and a lot more would leave if they could, but the scientific endeavor is much larger than it was the last time something like this happened, Nazi Germany in the 1930s. There's really no other country that has the scientific infrastructure to take many U.S. scientists.
- AGU GEC is looking for volunteers for the section awards committee. This is the award that gives out the GEC lectures, early career award, etc. This is a great way to give back to the community. If you want to serve, email me: adessler@tamu.edu.
- Reposted by Andrew DesslerOn my mental list of "consequential effects that we could foresee if we just think about it but probably won't do a good job of anticipating" is how much more it will cost to just keep infrastructure in good repair under a changed and changing climate.
- New on The Climate Brink: How climate change is raising your electricity bill, a case study from Texas Warming between the mid-20th century and the last decade increased the wholesale cost of electricity on the ERCOT market by 16%, $80 per Texan. 🔌💡 www.theclimatebrink.com/p/how-climat...
- Reposted by Andrew DesslerPretty sad that chemtrails just aren't enough for these people anymore.
- NOAA is warning of a group that views Doppler Radars as "weather weapons" and poses a potential threat to US weather infrastructure & personnel. www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/w...
- Reposted by Andrew DesslerMain Topic: Electricity Bills Raised Because of Higher Heat from Climate Change via @andrewdessler.com guyonclimate.com/2025/05/06/e... Extreme Temperature Diary WED- 5/6/2025 +new #climate #weather and record reports via @extremetemps.bsky.social/ @katharinehayhoe.com @michaelemann.bsky.social
- You know it’s raining hard when you see a trashcan floating down the street. #TXWX
- I do a terrible job picking keywords for my published work. Does it matter?
- New on The Climate Brink: How climate change is raising your electricity bill, a case study from Texas Warming between the mid-20th century and the last decade increased the wholesale cost of electricity on the ERCOT market by 16%, $80 per Texan. 🔌💡 www.theclimatebrink.com/p/how-climat...
- Reposted by Andrew Dessler🚨BREAKING: Federal District Court REJECTS Republican effort to overturn North Carolina Supreme Court election result. Orders the state to certify the results of the election and not proceed with the cure process. Congratulations to our clients, the ELG team, Justice Riggs and the voters of NC!
- in #astros game today, Jake Meyers misses the cycle because he didn't hit a single. 4-4, double, triple, 2 HRs, 7 RBIs.
- down 7-3 in the 9th inning with 2 outs, Jeremy Pena steals second. can anyone explain to me why that makes any sense at all? his run is not important. #astros
- If you're wondering what the impact of NSF cutting the overhead rate, I wrote something about this for The Climate Brink. This sounds boring but, make no mistake, this is an existential threat for the U.S.'s competitiveness in the 21st century. www.theclimatebrink....
- It appears that NCAR employee web sites have gone behind an authentication wall.
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- Reposted by Andrew DesslerEvery now and then I just pause and think that … we could have just elected Kamala Harris, and we’d still have an economy that was the strongest in the world; we’d still have an American-led trans-Atlantic order; we’d be assured that our universities would remain the envy of the world; … (1/x)
- Reposted by Andrew DesslerI want to be clear about this: Fighting for art and speech and jokes and generally not being a piece of shit is good for the soul, obviously. But it's also good for business. The places that abandoned their values to get in line and kiss the ring are fading. The Onion is growing.
- Great question for #energysky 🔌💡
- I hope people realize that many in the GOP don't care about Trump's poor polling numbers. They believe, perhaps correctly, that they can break the federal gov't enough that it will take decades to reconstruct.
- The people this article is written for are so weak. "You pull a brick of aged cheddar cheese from the depths of your fridge. There’s something green and fuzzy on one corner." Ooooooooh, scary! Come back to me when you've faced down 19-year old clam chowder. bsky.app/profile/andr...
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- Wow, this is some terrible reasoning. Also, @nytimes.com, you should add how much insurance is for each house. In L.A., a Young Family Wanted a House to Grow Into. Would $800,000 Be Enough? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- We had the first Texas Climate Conference at Rice last week. It was great to see so many Texas-based scientists working on climate, along with a fantastic keynote from @katharinehayhoe.com. Our plan is to make this a biennial occurrence, so look forward to the next TCC in 2027!
- Reposted by Andrew DesslerPhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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- a 100% discount means you're giving it away for free. "discounted by 652%" is not how math works.
- Reposted by Andrew DesslerNEW: Fossil fuel firms like Chevron and Exxon owe the world trillions of dollars. Today in @nature.com, @jsmankin.bsky.social and I show economic losses from rising heat waves directly traceable to these firms, providing scientific support for climate accountability. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- this is interesting (to me, at least): Nature journals now tracking chatGPT traffic to the site:
- Starting soon
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- After driving through China, I’m much less concerned they are the economic or military power that people say. I for one am not concerned.
