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Mar 20 • 9 tweets • 12 min read
1. IPCC presser.

@LeonSimons8 is right—climate-aerosol dynamics are explained incorrectly.

@RealTadzioM @ReiSteurer @JKSteinberger are right—natural scientists do stunning work, but are unfit for social science/#polsci or scicomm.
@LeonSimons8 @RealTadzioM @ReiSteurer @JKSteinberger 2. Fantastic thread, do share.
@LeonSimons8 @RealTadzioM @ReiSteurer @JKSteinberger Julia blocked me for some reason; it's rare for a thread of hers to appear in my timeline. Well worth reading.
@LeonSimons8 @RealTadzioM @ReiSteurer @JKSteinberger 3. Essential thread by Leon on what the synthesis report should have communicated with the highest urgency, because highest-risk (hazard x probability).
@LeonSimons8 @RealTadzioM @ReiSteurer @JKSteinberger 4. The IPCC presser did communicate climate tipping points as 'open questions to resolve with high urgency'. I didn't look deeper but appreciate the frame. Reference: nature.com/articles/d4158…
@LeonSimons8 @RealTadzioM @ReiSteurer @JKSteinberger 5. Thomas is right. I don't blame folks on 'Net zero'. What it really means:

"We convinced some bright PhDs not to join #WallSt for X times the salary. They tortured our supercomputers until we found 'net zero' scenarios. (No way it will work in reality)"
@LeonSimons8 @RealTadzioM @ReiSteurer @JKSteinberger 6. Probably smart, unless they are into surfing the tides on low-lying Brooklyn roads within decades. (I'd actually love that, so would totally move, but that's just me.)
@LeonSimons8 @RealTadzioM @ReiSteurer @JKSteinberger 7. Climate vs. Wall St career views not mine but @climate_ice's. Scientists struggle to recruit bright students for mathematically very demanding research.

IF that's you and you want to solve difficult problems that will help humanity, know where to turn!
@LeonSimons8 @RealTadzioM @ReiSteurer @JKSteinberger @climate_ice 8. The IPCC report is long and no one will read it; but no problem. (Thanks for great scientific work all involved! Not your fault!) - Fortunately the pandemic taught us how to do this: You show people what's ahead: 5.70 m SLR The Hague and call it 'mild'!

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If you haven’t, read this speech. We REALLY need to address these questions.
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Mar 21
1. Immunosenescence.

When stuck in a boring conversation just begin telling what’s ahead. Incredibly popular also at parties with young parents.

Always end on the note that we could end this any time by implementing IHR 2005. The international treaty was written for/after SARS.
2. Wikipedia is astonishingly good for such medical technical terms. For SARS-specific context however, reading a few threads helps.
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunosen…
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Mar 21
1. WHO can integrate climate-COVID policy analysis?

Thorsten is too pessimistic. The outlook on international cooperation is great. It's the only way to eliminate SARS-CoV. The only real question is how long to wait.

We estimated ~2.5 years. Many will be saved if we are faster.
2. Why 5 years since the start of pandemic spread (of which 2.5 years already passed)? The math, for those of us who can't run their own models for lack of supercomputers or data:
3. Many will suffer if we are slower than these 2.5 years.

I would highly recommend every Ministry, government - ideally every MP - to hire science-literate staff. Learn fast.

Global corporations are likely already onto this, they won't need much advice.
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Mar 21
Genius! 🖖 Idiopathic inflation from idiopathic cellular inflammAging, all thanks to the worldwide abandonment of century-old public health principles and modern diagnostics (PCR and T cell depletion tests). We might as well study and converse in Latin again!
My grandfather was fluent and among friends they chatted in Latin, so that’s a win for science. 🏆

Still recommend ending SARS for the SARS-associated neurocognitive disorder (SAND) …sry idiopathic brain fog

How? 🤝 always the same story: follow science
Make sure you see the parallels clearly:
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