Thread by @Weather_West

As a climate scientist, one aspect of #DontLookUp that resonates strongly is notion that an otherwise solvable planetary crisis will go away if we just ignore it--or that a silver bullet solution will magically present itself. Spoiler alert: it won't. @davidsirota @GhostPanther

https://twitter.com/ayanaeliza/status/1475257735184891909

Also highly relatable was the impassioned and exasperated rant by @LeoDiCaprio's character. There's a reason why much of the climate science community has responded to this film in a similar way--variations on a theme of "yep, that's all uncomfortably familiar."

It can become exhausting to constantly be the bearer of bad news when many folks simply don't want to hear it. "Why are you always so negative? You always focus on the harm from climate change, not the economic opportunities! Scientists are such pessimists."

Virologists, epidemiologists, immunologists, public health scientists and frontline health workers in the COVID era: welcome! (And my sincere condolences.)

Also, I think the "planetary protection" angle is a better analogy than many folks realize. A civilization-ending comet impact is clearly a different problem than climate change, but it makes issues that are more subtle in a climate context quite obvious.

https://twitter.com/Weather_West/status/1461071419786158080?s=20