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10 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
“A new 46-person federal scientific integrity task force with members from more than two dozen government agencies will meet for the first time on Friday. Its mission is to look back through 2009 for areas where partisanship interfered with...”
apnews.com/article/donald…
The idea presented in this piece that the politicization of science by presidents started with Ronald Reagan is laughable

Here is an Eisenhower anecdote from our science advisors project

The politicization of science in the White House has deep roots

sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publicat… Image
Siri, what is “irony”?

President Biden’s OSTP political appointees just reassigned the climate scientist leading the US National Climate Assessment in order to present a “less nuanced” view of climate change Image
There is a lot of good that can be done by the new White House Science Integrity Task Force

Here are some ideas:

rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/scientific-i…

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8 May
This is an incredible story of science gone wrong

Does ocean acidification alter fish behavior? Fraud allegations create a sea of doubt sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/d…
This remarkable passage quoting an IPCC co-chair reveals a major pathology in climate science ... critique is not welcomed
Some of the language in the (overall excellent) Science article is interesting

A critique of published work is not an “attack” — it is science working exactly as it should

Who cares if the scientists are “young”?
How tall are they? What kind of shoes do they wear?
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7 May
A short 🧵 on uncontrolled orbital debris re-entry . . .

Heads Up! A Used Chinese Rocket Is Tumbling Back to Earth This Weekend. nytimes.com/2021/05/06/sci…
Back in 2001 I led a NASA workshop on the risks and benefits of (a) a controlled re-entry of the TRMM (precipitation measurement) satellite vs (b) extending the mission, collecting more data and having the satellite re-enter in uncontrolled fashion
sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/about_us/meet_…
At our workshop NASA estimated risk of injury of uncontrolled re-entry to be ~2 in 10,000 (0.021%) w/ significant uncertainties

This was based on a 35 deg orbital inclination, estimates of the debris field and estimated 2004 global population densities

sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/about_us/meet_…
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5 May
Daily dose of RCP8.5

Apocalypse porn (L) axios.com/antarctica-ice…

New Paper (R) nature.com/articles/s4158…

Of course, NDCs as BAU do not remotely equal RCP8.5 ImageImage
This is pretty poor and I'm surprised it wasn't caught in review

"a +3C scenario representing current policies" is being used here as a euphemism for RCP8.5-as-BAU

By "+3C scenario" it simply means that the scenario passes through +3C on its way to 8C in 2500

LOL
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In 2500 RCP8.5 is actually RCP12.0
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4 May
Hot off the press
The latest from Vaclav Smil on the energy transition via @jpmorgan
am.jpmorgan.com/us/en/asset-ma…
Smil on Will Ferrell and Norway's EVs
The US EV challenge is large
But if EVs can succeed in the US, they can succeed everywhere
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30 Apr
A great paper by @JessicaWeinkle
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

"the extent to which the insurance industry directs, funds & validates the production & use of science for estimating risk is itself a full blown political enterprise that functions to prioritize industry interests"
Weinkle documents the co-optation of scientists by the insurance industry to create regulatory-friendly research that appears to be "independent"
The use of the resulting research by industry goes unchallenged and in fact, legitimizes the work of the (no so) "independent" experts as authoritative because industry is using it ... so a mutually reinforcing legitimization circle
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29 Apr
Biden Has Elevated the Job of Science Adviser.
Is That What Science Needs?

Excellent stage setter for Lander hearing today by @WilliamJBroad

nytimes.com/2021/04/29/sci…
You can watch the Lander OTSP confirmation hearing here in about 1 hour: commerce.senate.gov/2021/4/nominat…
Here are five policy questions that I recommended be put to Lander at the hearing:
rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/five-questio…
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