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Important things are more fun than fun things are important. Carbon stuff. "Lucid and occasionally disturbing." Pals around with . RT=PV/n.

Montclair, NJ
Joined December 2007

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    30 Apr 2019

    World War 2/climate change analogies are inadequate because in World War 2 we only had to fight Nazis, and today we have to fight climate change AND Nazis.

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  2. Retweeted
    6 hours ago

    Your regular reminder from Thomas Mann:

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  3. 8 hours ago
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  4. Aug 13

    Here's another, better way of stating the same dilemma:

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  5. Aug 13

    Chart of relationship between global average temperatures and the number of people who volunteer out-of-context in conversations that they are optimists. Normalized; 1880=0.

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  6. Retweeted
    Aug 13

    Why ‘certainty’ really matters in climate science. A nice piece on this week’s IPCC report from and

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  7. Aug 12

    What's the most incredible line of b.s. you've been fed today?

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  8. Aug 12
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  9. Aug 12

    "At one new condo project, 378 West End Ave., nine parking spaces open only to owners of the buildings’ priciest apartments are listed for sale at $550,000 each."

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  10. Aug 11

    🚨The decades-old conventions of the news business, governing story subject, framing, and placement, must continue to change quickly if coverage is to reflect the scale of the challenge and availability of the solutions. Critical advice for editors, publishers, and producers⤵️

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  11. Aug 11
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  12. Aug 11

    Your IPCC report will still be there tomorrow. Read this now. It's epic. ⤵️

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  13. Aug 10

    Okay, , let's see if you can guess this commodity curve.

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  14. Aug 10

    "Odyssey" reboot, 2021. Instead of telling the suitors she'll marry one of them after she completes the quilt she unravels every night, Penelope says she'll marry after she reads everything in her Pocket queue, and fills up the Pocket queue with Twitter links every night.

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  15. Retweeted
    Aug 10

    What's the thing that you know a lot about but you'd rather not know all that much about it? I'll start: US politics.

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  16. Aug 9

    And so, dear internet, we leave this historic day for science and society with a movie clip. The true-horror classic "Unchained Goddess," produced by Frank Capra in 1958:

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  17. Retweeted
    Aug 9

    The published the physical science report of the Sixth Assessment Report today. To hear directly from many of the authors who are right here on twitter, subscribe to this list of Scientists Who Do Climate:

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  18. Aug 9

    🔥🔥🔥 The Copernican Revolution reaches the East Coast. ⤵️ (Context: The IPCC released its massive report un-self-consciously and adamantly at 10 am CEST, which stands for... [rushes to google] Central European Summer Time.)

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  19. Aug 9
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  20. Aug 9

    Scientific Method: Here's a 4,000p report assessing 14,000 studies from at least 8 years that we fought over tooth-and-nail until we reached a powerful lowest-common-denominator consensus. Multiple Men Emailing Me This Morning *Using Identical Language*: Scientist groupthink!

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  21. Aug 9

    In fact, the reason that 's twitter handle is , is because Paul (N.) Edwards wrote a *phenomenal* book called "A Vast Machine" and climate people should read it:

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