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You're going to hear a lot of nonsense from the usual suspects about how Biden's proposal to reduce emissions by 50% by 2030 will bankrupt us, destroy jobs, yada yada

To understand what this means, realize that climate change is fundamentally an energy balance problem. Energy in for the Earth comes from the Sun, energy out comes from heat (IR

If you hear a "reasonable middle bro" who "cares deeply about the environment" but tells you that "climate change is not making hurricanes worse," they're gas-lighting you. Let's examine the

I was asked by @shellenbergerMD if I disagreed with his recent testimony. I can’t thread a reply, so I’m putting it into a new tweet thread. The answer is YES.https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1290330797459660800?s=20

quick note about the ridiculous claim that "climate change science can't be falsified". of course climate science is falsifiable. to show this, you have to break it down to its

The last term of the Drake equation is a term for the lifetime of a civilization capable of sending radio waves into space. If it's a century or two, this

Some thoughts on models in thread form:Climate models are based on physics. Their code describes the fundamental processes that we know drive atmospheric processes: radiative transfer, thermodynamics, the idea gas

Science is based on models. Show me some "data" and I'll show you a model.https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1248581686352318464 See this thread for more of my ranting on this. It's perfect quarantine reading.https://twitter.com/

I heard that Fred Singer passed away. My condolences to his friends and colleagues. I've known Fred for many decades — I first met him in the late '80s when