Ken Rice
@theresphysics
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Interested in #scicomm, in particular about climate change. Professor of Computational Astrophysics and Head of IfA, Univ. of Edinburgh. Views own, of course.
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Joined April 2013
I do think it would be good if more people appreciated what this figure was illustrating.
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🧵 (I see that Andrew Montford still doesn't understand this topic, even though he's writing about it for almost 20 years. 🙄 )
Some people are mis-using IPCC Table 12.12 to falsely claim that the latest IPCC assessment is that most types of extreme weather have not increased. Thread to explain why they're wrong.
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@TedNordhaus @RogerPielkeJr 2C seems like a stretch to me. I know Roger is a big fan of spontaneous decarbonization these days, but getting global emissions to zero ~2090 under a current policy world seems a bit implausible to me, unless we include a (likely) future strengthening of policy in BAU:
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RT @skepticscience: Fact Brief #17: Q: Is more CO2 a good thing because it’s plant food? A: NO - While CO2 is necessary for plant growth,…
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From our back garden.
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Blaming climate scientists for the world overshooting 1.5C is deeply silly. We are not the ones who set us up for failure with unrealistic targets here.
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@rahmstorf @RogerPielkeJr @MLiebreich FYI the recommendation that scientists be honest brokers turns out to inherit some political deficits: the problems of ingratiation and adaptive preference formation.
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RT @skepticscience: Words cannot really do justice to express our sadness at losing our team member John Mason. ht…
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@Willard1951 @CDCollins5269 @JediMasterCoggy @NickAPalmer Because the don't actually understand the basics of the Greenhouse Effect.
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@JediMasterCoggy @CDCollins5269 @NickAPalmer Sigh, I did wonder if you'd get pedantic. You also don't understand the basics of the greenhouse effect.
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@JediMasterCoggy @CDCollins5269 @NickAPalmer About 850 J/kg/K. Okay, now why do you think that is relevant?
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@JediMasterCoggy @CDCollins5269 @NickAPalmer Asking a question, rather than answering, is not a great start, but for dry air cp is about 1000 J/kg/K.
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@MattyHODL @M3othra012 Yes, we're technically in an ice age, but also in an inter-glacial period.
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@jan_selby I'm not necessarily arguing against making them, just that it seems - to me at least - that this topic is full of complexities that make it difficult to construct arguments that can't be exploited. 2/2
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@jan_selby It seems that one of your arguments is that the HCN narrative can be exploited by bad faith actors. Do you not think that your paper might run the same risk?
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