Andrew Dessler

Prof of Atmospheric Sciences & climate scientist @ Texas A&M; AGU and AAAS Fellow; Native Texan; find out what I think at

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profile picture pupdate: strong consensus for: dog, but more professional.

Introducing my new profile pic:

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The livestream has some great talks, so you should tune in.

https://t.co/wMzVQE05gG

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On The Climate Brink, I've posted my talk from the Weather and Climate Livestream on "How Science Works in Three Steps".

https://t.co/FQol9iBwFB

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The Climate Livestream is going on! There have been a lot of terrific talks so far.

My talk on "How science really works in three easy steps" is next, starting at 10:40 pm ET.

Watch here: https://t.co/wMzVQE05gG

[Heatmap News @heatmap_news]

The U.S. has been consistently terrible at predicting its future energy mix,@AndrewDessler argues. So what makes us think we’ll be any better at estimating the cost of the energy transition?

Read more:

https://t.co/H3BCOq1FRO

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Heatmap News republished my Climate Brink article on why the future of energy is hard to predict. Take a look!
https://t.co/PukodF4jf9

[Nahel Belgherze @WxNB_]

Hard to believe I’m even writing this.

Meteorological summer hasn’t even begun, yet Paris, France has already logged more days above 32°C (89.6°F) than its annual average.

[Will Maddux @MLBMetrics]

This is insane

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I'm really looking forward to attending this meeting on climate attribution science and the law (June 10-11). I'm on a panel about "Defending Science in the Current Political Climate". In-person attendance is full, but you can register to attend it online.
https://t.co/RymvngDHlO

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

Predicting the future of energy is hard, and reality has a way of moving in directions we don't anticipate. @AndrewDessler has a new piece over at The Climate Brink on how energy systems have evolved in the US compared to expectations (link below)

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The AGU is looking for an editor-in-chief for AGU Books.

More info here: https://t.co/psxfWNPzYt

Apply here: https://t.co/ubtWGRsguQ

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.@matthewgburgess pointed me to a good Economist article that makes basically the same point
https://t.co/rjCqIoKV7Y

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On The Climate Brink, I write about how hard it is to predict the future of our energy system. The failure of past predictions should make us hesitant to put too much faith in future predictions.

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https://t.co/xBfr9UG1Jq

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

Two things can be true:

• RCP8.5 was never a realistic "business as usual" scenario
• The world has made real progress bending the emissions curve downward

@Peters_Glen, Piers Forster, and I explain in a new article (link below).

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I've been updating the figures and adding new ones. Check out the github repository to see the latest and greatest.

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These plots of actual changes in energy produced vs. what the experts predicted tell an important story. I've created updated plots, and you can get the code to reproduce them, or make other versions, here:
https://t.co/n0Mg0YRs4A

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here is coal in the same units as solar & wind. note that this is total coal consumption, not just electricity from coal

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@WHPAADDD good idea

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Why is admitting that climate change is real such a personal issue to so many people? Is your mother an oil rig?