Ken Rice
@theresphysics
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Interested in #scicomm, in particular about climate change. Professor of Computational Astrophysics and Head of IfA, Univ. of Edinburgh. Views own, of course.
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Joined April 2013
I do think it would be good if more people appreciated what this figure was illustrating.
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I have a new update to climate model-observation comparisons over at The Climate Brink, covering CMIP3, CMIP5, and CMIP6. Models perform well globally. The latest generation shows too much long-term warming but better reproduces recent trends: https://t.co/K5DWiVhW1D
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Have you noticed that science communication is overrun with populist rhetoric? @TimHenke9 and I have. We are beset by influencers who rubbish institutions, prop up cranks, and mislead audiences about problems in science. We deserve better. Full video: https://t.co/F99WXAfws5
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In a 2024 paper criticizing the 'billion-dollar-disasters' database, Roger Pielke Jr. published analysis that is best described as a Russian-doll of errors. Here's my in-depth take down of his appallingly bad work. https://t.co/B8gqOwAVvO
economicsfromthetopdown.com
In a recent paper called Scientific integrity and U.S. āBillion Dollar Disastersā, Roger Pielke Jr. published a chart that's so bad I've devoted a whole essay to debunking it.
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The Northern Pacific Ocean is currently smashing temperature records. And it is reaching these levels far earlier than the current generation of climate models had expected. A short thread š§µ
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A new report by the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences concludes that the EPAās 2009 endangerment finding was accurate, has stood the test of time, and is now reinforced by even stronger evidence:
nationalacademies.org
The scientific community has been studying the question of how human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases are affecting the climate for well over a century. Much is known today, drawing on decades of...
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Ocean. Heat. Content!
@InfiniteEdgeKim @RogerPielkeJr The testimony says it correctly. I may have misspoke during the hearing, but thatās because I had five minutes and was rushed. The written testimony has it correct.
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People are starting to notice that a lot of the noise coming from some of our most prominent online sci commers is lazy contrarianism and culture war tropes reskinned with physics. Sadly, these messages are easier to digest than quantum field theory. https://t.co/MO224aXiPE
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Some people are mis-using IPCC Table 12.12 to falsely claim that the latest IPCC assessment is that most types of extreme weather have not increased. Thread to explain why they're wrong.
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@TedNordhaus @RogerPielkeJr 2C seems like a stretch to me. I know Roger is a big fan of spontaneous decarbonization these days, but getting global emissions to zero ~2090 under a current policy world seems a bit implausible to me, unless we include a (likely) future strengthening of policy in BAU:
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Fact Brief #17: Q: Is more CO2 a good thing because itās plant food? A: NO - While CO2 is necessary for plant growth, the negative impacts of climate change, driven by man-madeĀ CO2 emissions, far outweigh short-term productivity gains. [..] https://t.co/a0d4fYMuYW
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From our back garden.
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Blaming climate scientists for the world overshooting 1.5C is deeply silly. We are not the ones who set us up for failure with unrealistic targets here. https://t.co/SB7vmWQDcq
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