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Dec 15 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
#NobelPrize (only) for climate-relevant work. - Needed for @NobelPrize to make up for Nordhaus, leading neoclassical climate economist awarded a “Nobel Prize” for flawed, influential work that has been downplaying the climate catastrophe since the 1990s. @sci_ffert @ProfSteveKeen
I called for a similar initiative: natural and systems scientists should challenge or do research with economists. Here tongue in cheek summarized by @W_Lucht. Good enough, as I deleted most teeets from first pandemic months, given slow rates of learning.
I restate this mostly to reair the wise words of @pkhaff, among the very notable scientific voices in the field.
All unfamiliar with climate economics and Nordhaus: the gaslighting has the same quality as in the SARS pandemic, only not for us alone but for all life on earth. They think Hothouse Earth will have a thriving economy. “We’ll all get private jets in hell,” jests @nephologue. 😂😭
Why we need to talk: (I’m still curious why so few of us do similar, effective work. - None of it is a secret. It’s all well known, by literally anyone with a good education)
Nordhaus in his own words: his Nobel Prize lecture. Recall, he assumes an global economy ten times larger than today 🤡 in climates that few of us could possibly survive. Beyond parody is putting it kindly, such delusion is dangerous because it guides state behavior and billions.
If this preprint by Hansen, this year’s most important climate paper, is right, we’ll reach 2°C within 1-2 decades. Avoiding catastrophic heating will require secular miracles.

It is why you should all work in or organize for climate, and why I view SARS through a climate lens.

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Me being very chill on a Thursday morning.

Normalize reminding people (kindly, no personal critique intended, @sehof 😂) that countless millions of lives are at stake in the decisions of the coming months.

Countless because many of these unborn lives lost will never be counted.
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Climate change and SARS are the Unthinkable. Both involve high-order nonlinear feedbacks that spill beyond the limits of our language and mental models in time and space.

Both bleeding-edge science: read arxiv.org/abs/2212.04474

The answer to both is the Precautionary Principle.
Background: sans doubt the climate paper of the year. Brilliant, and very accessible language - anyone can read this. @DrJamesEHansen @MakikoSato6 @LeonSimons8
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Dec 14
(1) This is why I use syndemic theory for health and climate. (2) SARS is the highest leverage point, vital to all countries and to all of us. (3) I’m stunned so few do the same. Do children not deserve livable futures? (4) Disagree on ‘distraction’ but Andy is right on strategy.
(5) Kind souls ask how to end the pandemic. Understandable, as every gov and most public health experts falsely claim it's impossible.

Dear all, here is how: IHR 2005, just like for SARS 2003, and for the SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan wildtype. who.int/health-topics/…
who.int/publications/i…
(6) Read this carefully, because your future depends on it.
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Dec 13
Always surprises me to see what kinds of cool thinkers, writers, profs follow me for some reason. However well this wild ride between China, SARS, climate, IR & zombie politics is working for you - we need to find more effective ways. At least I need to.

Thanks all, be well, 🙏
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Zombie politics a @dandrezner reference - yet there’s been VERY little meaningful analysis of SARS and climate from the IR department (not to criticize my alma mater, applies to the discipline as such). Folks the risk is real. We are years behind! Do we care to catch up or nah?
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Strategic litigation is the only way out for the west. When people ask what your exit strategy is: It’s right here. Until the insurance CEOs sue the airline CEOs, and we eradicate SARS by following WHO guidance, we’ll all go downhill.
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