Victor Venema

@VariabilityBlog

Scientist. Works on homogenization (accuracy of climate trends) & open post-publication peer review . My blog: Variable Variability

Bonn, Germany
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Joined December 2013
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  1. Aug 21

    Nancy green dream or whatever Pelosi opposes , a main champion of the . The Pelosi who made the rule that opposing incumbents would get anyone blacklisted trying to stop uncorrupted challengers. This corporate hypocrite blacklisted herself.

    Nancy Pelosi's endorsement of Joe Kennedy for Senate is an embarrassment for her and the Democratic establishment. Here's our full statement:
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    Aug 20

    "I have taken the Pledge because when I go to Washington I want you to know that you can trust me to look out for you."— Neal refused to take the pledge, raises hundreds of thousands from Big Oil, and won't back the

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    "On climate, is stuck in the 80s"
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  3. Aug 18

    In total 162,400 American died of COVID, that is 55 times the death toll of 9/11. In Germany the total is 3 times 9/11. (The USA is 4 times larger.) At the moment: 🇩🇪 5 🪦 per day 🇺🇸 1000 🪦 per day Trump:

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    Aug 11

    Early release of our new study is now in GRL. By including the total effect of Arctic amplification (compared to only sea-ice loss), we find a clearer role of Arctic-midlatitude climate linkages. + [Open summary] + [Paper]

    Vertical cross-section graph (latitude by pressure (height)) of air temperature trends in ERA5 reanalysis over the 1979 to 2019 period for December-February. This figure is adapted from Labe et al. (2020, GRL).
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    Aug 17

    "Point of no return" on Greenland melt? () Nope. My colleague Richard Alley provides context: "models show...sustained temperature above some threshold will cause..ice sheet to lose most of its mass, but...warming to date..probably not enough"

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  6. Aug 17

    I like variability, but one day records are just one value, just weather. Still for the other 99% of humanity: a good article about the recent temperature "record" in Death Valley.

    From me - Death Valley temperature rises to 54.4C – some meteorology experts think the Earth's hottest reliably recorded temperature may have been broken
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  7. Aug 17

    I should become better at marketing. We should not have called the federated social network for scientists "FediScience", but the Intellectual Dark Web. But well:

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    Aug 14

    This bullshit about immunity lasting only three months is everywhere tonight. It's a total misunderstanding. What the CDC said: people are unlikely to get reinfected in the first 3 months. What the news reported: people *are* likely to get reinfected after the first 3 months.

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  9. Aug 16

    If Trump were ruling another country, Americans would say he is butchering his own people. While billionaire-funded Trump, the billionaire-funded Republicans & the billionaire-funded disingenuous pundits keep on fighting for policies to make the massacre worse.

    New covid-19 deaths, yesterday: France: 18 Australia: 14 Spain: 12 UK: 11 Japan: 10 Germany: 8 Canada: 5 USA: 1,120
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  11. Aug 16

    This is a wonderful explainer on how we go from all the different surface temperature measurements to estimates of the changes in global mean temperature. As well as why we do it like that. It is from 2011, but the basics do not change. Very worthwhile.

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    Aug 15

    Trump’s calculated dismantling of USPS proves one thing clearly: He is WELL AWARE that we do not want him as our president. He’s chosen to blatantly cheat and put millions of Americans’ lives at risk in an effort to hold on to power.

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    Aug 14
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    Employees of the US government violated the Constitution and lied to Congress and the American people about it. exposed them. This is bigger than him. If he’s punished for his service to the Constitution, there will be more violations of the Constitution, and more lies.

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  14. Aug 14

    It should be more than clear by now: People who vote Trump in November vote to abolish democracy in America, vote against the founding fathers, vote against the Constitution. Any other policy differences can be resolved later, ending democracy is final.

    President Trump admitted in an interview he plans to block additional funding for the U.S. Postal Service in order to prevent increased voting by mail.
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  15. Aug 14

    🇿🇦🇧🇷🇩🇪🇺🇸🇺🇸 Five National Academies of Science Call for a Global Compact on Air Pollution and Health "The scientific evidence is unequivocal: air pollution can harm health across the entire lifespan...It damages lungs, hearts, brains, skin & other organs"

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  16. Aug 14

    We still have the tragedy of the commons on a local scale. The owner of a power plant makes a profit by causing harm to others. The new numbers say that all over we become poorer. Theoretically we have democratic national governments to solve this local tragedy.

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  17. Aug 14

    Air pollution is so damaging that it changes the nature of the global climate negotiations. Investments in climate protection benefit everyone. Cleaner air creates mostly local benefits. Together they are worthwhile even if theoretically other countries would not collaborate.

    My new post: the latest research on air pollution is jaw-dropping. Scientists now believe its effects on health & mortality are roughly *double* previous estimates. If that’s true, air-quality benefits alone will easily pay for the clean-energy transition.
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    Aug 13

    Let’s make a deal, Mr. President: You release your college transcript, I’ll release mine, and we’ll see who was the better student. Loser has to fund the Post Office.

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    Trump on AOC: "AOC was a poor student ... this is not even a smart person, other than she's got a good line of stuff. I mean, she goes out and she yaps."
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    Aug 12

    ... that virtually ANY substitution away from fossil fuel combustion is "worth it" when total social costs/benefits are taken into account. Air pollution is so insidious that the market "cost" of FF could be practically $0 & they *still* wouldn't pencil out.

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    Aug 12

    "Post-electoral violence by police has become a regular feature of politics in Belarus, where all forms of peaceful dissent are brutally suppressed.” We stand with peaceful protesters in Belarus 💛

    We stand with peaceful protesters in Belarus
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