Damien Irving

@DrClimate

Climate scientist, activist, data science educator.

Hobart, Tasmania
damienirving.github.io
Joined September 2011
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Mar 18

    🚨New paper🚨 Everything you wanted to know about drift (and mass and energy conservation) in the latest generation of coupled climate models.

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  2. May 26

    We've got experience (e.g. North East Bioregional Network), big exciting projects (e.g. ), and an industry in need of transition (native forest logging). Tassie could really kick ass at landscape restoration and rewilding.

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  3. May 26

    "Fundamentally, the number of private vehicles must reduce, the distance travelled must shrink, and alternative forms of transport (including electric buses and bikes) must substitute for car trips... to take serious amounts of carbon out of transport."

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    May 17

    A new guide has been published attempting to answer the question 'How reproducible should research software be?'. It defines four levels of and recommends practices to reach them:

    Graph showing research software impact increases with the levels of reproducibility
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  5. Retweeted
    May 23

    They knew. The bastards knew. Big coal, oil & gas corporations knew as far back as 1977 their products would cause climate collapse. But like tobacco & asbestos, they went on selling. I just intro’d a Bill to make them pay, making them liable for climate damage they caused.

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    May 23

    Interested in a welcoming community across region? Excited about learning, teaching, sharing, & supporting open source ? Regular meet-ups starting in June. Sound good? Sign up to help shape 📨

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  7. May 23

    Forestry Tasmania (trading as "Sustainable Timber Tasmania") has lost $1.3bn over 20 years.

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  8. May 20

    Sage words from : "This might be the most important thing you ever do... unless you become a cartoonist."

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    May 19

    Happening right now: The Pangeo Workshop at the Distributed Summit! Talks by , , , , Haiying Xu, and . Thanks to Paige Martin and for organizing!

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  10. Retweeted
    May 17

    Australian universities are dying and no one is coming to save them

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  11. May 16

    Just to clarify, the we witnessed during the previous term of parliament was the "hard left" version?

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  12. May 13

    Nice piece from on what's sane (and what's not) in the anthropocene.

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  13. May 12

    Sailing towards multiple icebergs (climate, housing health, etc) and all we've managed to do is shuffle the deck chairs.

    After took place a year early, here’s what we’ve ended up with: New: Janie Finlay LAB, Dean Winter LAB, Kristie Johnston IND, Adam Brooks LIB. Defeated: Jennifer Houston LAB, Alison Standen LAB, Sue Hickey IND, Felix Ellis LIB. Ogilvie switch: IND to LIB
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  14. Retweeted
    May 11

    The Liberal spinners will be working overtime to make this budget seem like anything other than a brown paper bag full of handouts to billionaires and big corporations. Here’s what’s hiding in , how it will affect you, and how we should do better. 👇

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    May 11

    They’re hoping you won’t read the fine print in the Budget 👇

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  16. Retweeted
    May 11

    In the 38 minutes the Treasurer took to deliver his budget speech, the Liberals handed out $831,744 in subsidies to coal, oil and gas corporations.

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    May 11

    Good evening everyone. While the Treasurer makes his budget speech, I thought it would be useful to translate what he actually means. Join me below 👇

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  18. Retweeted
    May 9

    It doesn’t get much worse than this. ‘Since 2009 one company alone, Buru Energy, has cleared more than 14,000 kilometres in a straight line of native Kimberley bush without needing a permit – that’s the equivalent of the distance between Perth and London.’

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  19. Retweeted
    May 10

    In the middle of a climate crisis, the Budget looks set to give public money to new coal and gas. This Budget will make the climate and environment crisis worse.

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    May 6

    “The global North drains from the South commodities worth $2.2 trillion per year, in Northern prices ... enough to end extreme poverty, globally, fifteen times over.” — by Jason Hickel, Dylan Sullivan & Huzaifa Zoomkawala

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  21. May 4

    Personal news: I finished up my postdoc with a little over a month ago to take up a data science / software development role with this new Australian Climate Service. Exciting times!

    The National Recovery and Resilience Agency will start operations from July. Its work will be informed by a new Australian Climate Service - a collaboration between the , , and .
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