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Prof of Atmospheric Sciences & climate scientist @ Texas A&M; AGU and AAAS Fellow; Native Texan; find out what I think at https://t.co/UNGW2rqvbo

Sep 23, 2021, 8 tweets

Cleaning my desk and finding a lot of interesting stuff. Turns out that things go from interesting to trash and back to interesting over 12 years.

I really need to clean off my desk more often. I am not sure this has been on my desk buried since 2007, but it’s possible.

Also on my desk: in 1989, Fred Singer sent this document to my father trying to get his support for this piece on “misuse of environmental science”. He gave it to me 10-15 years ago. I need to scan that in.

Hey @SciGuySpace, remember this? June 2007.

Also, @biogeochem is in the photo

What office would be complete without a big box of 2 TB drives that still work but no one wants

Remember when the Heartland Inst. sent out these little nuggets of denial? They sent one to just about every Earth Sci faculty member. I went around and grabbed as many copies as I could b/c I planned to use them in class when analyzing climate denial. Never got around to it tho

Now this is a real deep cut. A 10th grade chemistry assignment. Circa 1980. Yes, I got a 75 on it. Why is it my office? I brought it here years ago when I was trying to digitize all my old papers. Have not yet gotten around to doing it.

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