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@AndrewDessler
Sep 23, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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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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Mar 15, 2023
File this under propaganda. Last week, the TX Texas State Board of Education modified its operating rules. Now they have to teach things like this: Image
I wonder if they'll also teach how the reliance on fossil fuels weakens our national security. How the Ukrainian war is a war built on fossil fuels, how Saudi Arabia is interfering in our elections, how we actually invaded another country to secure the oil supply.
I also hope they emphasize how air pollution from fossil fuels kills millions of people every year.
hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/news/…
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Mar 14, 2023
A 🧵about tenure, a form of job security that is granted to professors and academic researchers after a certain period of employment. It provides protection against unjustified dismissal, so they can focus on their research and teaching without fear of reprisal.
It basically says that you can only be fired only for cause (eg, misconduct or not doing assigned responsibilities). You can read @TAMU's policies here: rules-saps.tamu.edu/PDFs/12.01.99.…
The purpose of tenure is to safeguard academic freedom by allowing professors to explore and present controversial ideas without the risk of losing their job. It's essential for the pursuit of knowledge and the advancement of science.
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Mar 11, 2023
Climate change played a role in this ongoing disaster. A short 🧵:
washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
To be clear, climate change is making hurricanes like Ian more destructive:
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Feb 6, 2023
My grad student, Jangho Lee, and I have a pre-print on future temperature-related mortality in U.S. cities. It is presently under review, so caveat emptor.
eartharxiv.org/repository/vie…
This follows up a 🧵 I did a week or so ago. Read that for background.
Our analysis covers mortality in 106 U.S. cities that contain 65% of the U.S. population. Let me emphasize that our results apply only to cities in the U.S. We cannot comment on, e.g., rural U.S. locations or other countries.
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Jan 31, 2023
I typically don't respond to comments like this, but this seems like a teachable moment. The comment, as written, reads like "Don't worry about climate change, we'll adapt." This is one of the most common arguments from climate dismissives.
First, note the way it's written "In reality, the MMT will adjust." It gives the impression that adaptation will happen automatically, with zero policy, and at no cost. It avoids the fact that adaptation is a choice we make.
Some people absolutely will adapt on their own, without any assistance from the gov't., and won't be negatively impacted by the cost. These people are rich.
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Jan 30, 2023
An explanation about why people argue about what kills more, extreme heat or cold:
A lot of work has been done on connecting mortality to heat. Probably the most famous is this paper by Gaspirrini et al.
thelancet.com/journals/lance…
These analyses produce plots of relative risk (RR) vs. temperature that look like this. RR is the number of temperature-related deaths at a particular temp divided by the number at the Minimum Mortality Temperature (MMT), the temp where deaths are lowest (19°C for London).
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