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
- 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
- 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...
- if you're in the area (London), this looks like a good way to make sure people understand the importance of science.
- 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.
- NEW: Europe and the UK want to lure US climate scientists. @zhirji.bsky.social @eroston.bsky.social and I looked into it and found it won't be so easy. Either way, the Trump administration's cuts are a huge loss to climate science FREE read via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
