John Timmer

Chief science wrangler for Ars Technica. Writes, edits, and teaches science communications.

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I seem to have picked up some new followers.

Just a note that I won’t be using Twitter much until it’s under management that has a greater commitment to limiting the spread of misinformation.

Until then:
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@BWJones Based on the frame, I’m looking at a relatively recent vintage of Specialized?

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@ValidScience @annmcelhinney Yes, I have noted that you interpret everything through the lens of politics. It’s quite striking.

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@ValidScience @annmcelhinney I also feel compelled to note that people like McIntyre and Curry are the opposite of rigorous science people. For a deep dive on paleoclimate reconstructions, we covered the National Academies of Science report on the issue when it came out.

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@ValidScience @annmcelhinney We’ll likely cover the case when it wraps up, if that’s what you’re asking.

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@Timodc We clearly already have sufficient capacity to supply Europe, as evidenced by this and the previous winters. Why build additional capacity that will necessarily go unused if we try to meet our climate targets?

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@paranoiacs Oooh, I saw the Kinks on that tour!

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@ValidScience @HazelAppleyard_ @chloecole We reported on a study, and accurately described the results of that study.

Again, I’m getting the sense that you don’t actually care about research, just whether you like the results.

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@AtomsksSanakan @ClimateOfGavin That’s always the fallback, isn’t it? The claim that a scientific consensus is a result of some nefarious suppression of dissent, and there’s some majority of scientists who don’t believe it but are too afraid to speak out.

You see that claim with evolution all the time.

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@ValidScience @ClimateOfGavin Have you ever actually read our climate coverage beyond looking who we quoted? Because it doesn’t say any of that.

Put differently: if you find something that’s inaccurate, we’ll issue a correction. If you just don’t like it, that’s a you problem.

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@ClimateOfGavin I’m suspecting that I’m included among the deluded, so this implies that I’m engaging in self-harm?

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@ValidScience @ClimateOfGavin I’m not entirely clear why I was tagged, for that matter.

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@UrbanAchievr Hard to identify the moderates when they refuse to moderate anything.

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@ClimateOfGavin @mtobis They should poll me about my trust in Lomborg.

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@AstroKatie Needs a “fuck that bullshit” option.

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@Amakawrites_ @Moregutz72 @AnnFinkbeiner @ashleythesmart @JacqEHoward @Ntellectual @SciFleur Yes, expect an answer tomorrow (it’s a holiday in the US today).

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@MTabarrok @orzelc I wish I were as optimistic as you.

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@MTabarrok @orzelc Again, strong disagree. We’ll need negative emissions, and we’ll want to limit ocean acidification. Plus the other pollutants associated with fossil fuel burning kill millions of people annually.

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@hannahjwaters @tvjrennie @QuantaMagazine Fantastic news - best of luck there.

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Also a great reminder that John Paul Jones did not deserve to be overshadowed.

[The Paranoid Style @paranoiacs]

Beamed in from an alternate universe where Zeppelin's main aim was to be as funky as The Meters instead of louder than The Who, “Trampled Under Foot” is five and a half minutes of cathartically blissful groove which hints at the truly great disco band they might well have become.