The saddest trend of 2021 for me was the exponential rise in attacks from those who are panicked about climate change and decide to turn on each other. It used to be that 100% of my online trolls were climate dismissives. Now, it's down to 90% and dropping fast.
Just this morning, in four hours, the ratio was 1 (dismissive) to 5 (panicked) who were spreading false information about climate action, attacking me for advocating for hope, character attacks on other climate scientists). 😰
To paraphrase the unsinkable @CFigueres: "we are only ever as doomed as we believe ourselves to be."
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This is great news, but once again: climate 👏 change 👏 is 👏not 👏a 👏religion. When we use the word "believe" we subconsciously perpetuate this misconception and the implication that people have to choose between the religion of global warming versus another.
Devastating flooding across Vancouver & nearby areas that endured record heat & wildfires earlier this year. As climate change loads the weather dice against us, atmospheric rivers dump more rain, heatwaves are more intense, wildfires burn more area...and people suffer.
Climate change affects the safety of our homes, the air we breathe, the food we eat and everything we depend on for our health, and well-being, and life. That's why ...
And though we all suffer, we don't do so equally. Those who have contributed least to the problem, right here in North America as well as on the other side of the world, bear the brunt of the impacts. We see this in Texas ... texastribune.org/2021/02/19/Tex…
There's a lot going on at #COP26 and much of it is being live-streamed! Here's where you can find live streams of all the hundreds of "side events" each day inside the Blue Zone: unfccc.int/COP26/schedule… and see below for some of the events I'm participating in.
I spoke at one of the @TEDCountdown events this evening
Google flights will start showing people the carbon footprint of their flights. Talking with @lourdesgnavarro on @NPRWeekend, I offer 2 reasons why this is a good idea -- and 1 reason it's not! npr.org/2021/10/10/104…
Good reason #1 - simply making people aware of how many calories they're eating, kilowatts they're using ... or carbon they're burning ... causes many to reduce our consumption. Just knowing what we're doing can motivate change. Exhibit A: behavior.rare.org/wp-content/upl…
Good reason #2 - responsible consumers will be able to recognize and reward companies that are using waste-based biofuels or electric short haul flights as their carbon emissions will be much less than their competitors washingtonpost.com/news/energy-en…
AMAZING NEWS: an atmospheric and an ocean modeller have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for "physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming"
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I first learned about Manabe & Wetherald's research as an undergraduate student in the class that I originally took as a breadth requirement while completing my degree in astrophysics .. but which ended up completely changing the trajectory of my life. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/…
Using early computers (like these ones) they were able to turn the basic equations of non-linear fluid dynamics into code that was able to represent the general circulation of the atmosphere on a rotating sphere... the origin of "GCM" = general circulation model.