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Gavin Schmidt

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Climate scientist, occasional juggler, even more occasional author, curious about how the world works. Now @

New York, NY

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Joined December 2012

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Gavin Schmidt

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Yeah, I’m done here. Thanks for all of the good moments over the years (and there were some!). Thanks for the folks I wouldn’t have encountered elsewhere. But it’s turned into the Nazi bar and I literally am too old for that 💩. Find me on Bluesky if you like.

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7 years

Global average monthly temperature distributions since the 19th Century from GISTEMP #joyplot

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Heat waves are red Cold spells are blue The first are more common now By a factor of two

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The warm trends are red Cold ones should be blue The maps are nearly monochrome Because of CO2

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Some personal news...

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Analysis | The Energy 202: Biden creates new climate adviser role at NASA

Gavin Schmidt will serve in the newly created position of senior climate adviser.

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TFW someone makes up something scary you supposedly implied and that tweet gets 10’s of thousands more likes than anything you actually said. 🤨

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I have a commentary in Nature about our disquieting inability to explain why 2023 was so warm.

Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory

Nature - Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed.

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History of the continents: 540Ma to present. Data from

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The Arctic warming is getting a lot of attention this week, but I keep seeing references to the warming being twice as fast as the global mean, and that's not right. It's more like 3 times the global mean.

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July 2016 was absolutely the hottest month since the instrumental records began.

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Now climate deniers are denying the existence of basic mathematics because it’s inconvenient for them. 🤣

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"If you are a climate scientist please remember to never back down on your research. This issue is too important. We need people with courage in this fight."

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My thoughts on the recent Reveal article:

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How much of the world is warming faster than the global average? Pretty much everywhere people live.

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To be clear, the additional warming this century is almost all within the control of human choices related to emissions. No matter what happens, we are always going to be able to make more climate friendly choices. Neither we, nor the ecosystem, are ‘doomed’ to > 3°C warming.

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Study Confirms Climate Models are Getting Future Warming Projections Right – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

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Study Confirms Climate Models are Getting Future Warming Projections Right - NASA Science

A new evaluation of global climate models used to project Earth's future global average surface temperature finds that most have been quite accurate.

science.nasa.gov

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4 years

The parallels between climate and covid-19 contrarians...

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5 years

Since this comes up a lot, a quick run though of the testable, falsifiable, science that supports a human cause of recent trends in global mean temperature.

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IS YOUR CHILD TEXTING ABOUT CLIMATE SCIENCE? WTF = what's the forcing? IMO = ice-margin oceanography LOL = land-ocean linkages STFU = sensitivity to factors underlying FYI = forgo yellow ice LMAO = let's model atmosphere-ocean SMH = surface mean humidity JFC = just fix climate

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Roses are infrared Ultraviolets are blue Why is climate changing? Because of CO2.

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3 years

Guys, for the love of everything holy, please, please, have somebody on who knows what the heck a climate model is!!! @joerogan

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Holy moly. I don't think I can do this. First words out of Peterson's mouth in the Joe Rogan interview are complete self parody. I can't even dunk on it.

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#Elni ño is trending for obvious reasons, but let me inject a note of caution...

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This tweet is just to let normal people know that even climate scientists are having an impossible time trying to work out what is going on at #COP26 and what of any of it will matter.

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The potentially record-shattering extreme heat weather forecasts for the Pacific NW are pretty shocking, but some folks keep getting the climate change connection wrong.

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The most impressive things about @GretaThunberg are her clarity and authenticity. Precisely why the insincere purveyors of confusion like Lomborg see her as a threat.

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This probably doesn’t need to be said, but planning for low probability, high impact, worst case scenarios is looking pretty smart right now.

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6 years

Some thoughts on the @IPCC_CH #SR15 report. "The best time to start [reducing emissions] was 25 years ago. The second best time is today."

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RealClimate: IPCC Special Report on 1.5ºC

RealClimate: Responding to climate change is far more like a marathon than a sprint. The IPCC 1.5ºC Special report (#SR15) has been released: The press release Frequently Asked Questions The Summary...

www.realclimate.org

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"I'm a climate scientist" - boring - academic - are we all doomed? "I read the entrails of the planet" - mysterious - ominous - maybe you should wash your hands?

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"I'm a historian" - boring - academic - is this going to be on the test? "I am a master of the past" - mysterious - ominous - maybe you can time-travel

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We’ll be seeing a lot more ‘it’s cold where I am, global warming is bogus’ in the coming days and months (and years and decades). Pretty much in line with how much it’s warming…

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Just for fun calc: iceberg will add 0.1mm to sea level as it melts because fresh (no salt). It wld have been 2.8mm if not already floating.

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I have thoughts about scientists ‘debating’ contrarians, conspiracists and assorted bad faith actors (or authors). For reference, I speak w/25 years experience of being a ‘public’ climate scientist…

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@NateSilver538 Lots of folks can’t get vaccinated (immune compromised, severe allergies, under-16 yr olds etc.). They still deserve protection.

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Don't take your eye off the ball... It's the long term trends that matter.

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Please, save us from retired physicists who think they’re smarter and wiser than everyone in climate science because they worked out an energy balance model four decades ago... 🙄

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Opinion | How a Physicist Became a Climate Truth Teller

After a stint at the Obama Energy Department, Steven Koonin reclaims the science of a warming planet from the propaganda peddlers.

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5 years

This is complete nonsense. People are called deniers when they continually ignore valid scientific research in favor of hand waving and confirmation bias - nuance and uncertainty have nothing to do with it, regardless of what they tell themselves.

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@KenCaldeira @hsaunders6 In the climate arena, people who express nuance and uncertainty are called 'deniers'

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This is what ‘debate’ with pathological liars looks like. There is literally nothing they won’t claim & people on the side of reality are supposed to defend themselves from increasingly bizarre claims. Yet some people insist that these folks are acting in good faith 🤣

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Doing great work on high profile climate reports: Impressive Stepping up to explain & educate: Vital Getting personally attacked for no other reason than their public outreach: Appalling (tho not unexpected) Carrying on with the #scicomm regardless: Remarkable Kudos to @KHayhoe

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6 years

#10YearChallenge annual temperature anomaly yr prior to 2009 and yr prior to 2019.

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There are some things we should be scared of every day.

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The First Climate Model Turns 50, And Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly via @forbes

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A quick 🧵 on Lomborg etc. I was once asked by someone prominent in the tech/internet area whether there was anything to the his critiques of climate change mitigation. I said no, but I could tell he really wanted me to say yes. Lomborg's shtick is definitely appealing. But why?

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One of the ironies of a successful campaign to avoid worst case scenarios is always that the people who fought every effort will claim afterwards that there was never any need for any action. That is both predictable and false. But it will be a small price to pay.

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8 years

Hilarious screw up by @DavidRoseUK and #FailOnSunday 1st picture is 'evidence' of misconduct, 2nd shows diff when baselines are correct.

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I made two graphics to deal with the more foolish claims being made with respect to CO2. 1) Human activities are responsible for at least 1/3rd of atmospheric CO2 (and growing):

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8 years

Above the fold this morning.

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6 years

I'm not sure what Dawkins thinks he's doing here (I have a pretty good idea), but a) reductive approaches to climate are bottom-up (not top down), b) causes & impacts of, & responses to, climate change all have sociological components that intersect w/feminist concerns…

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Just met somebody who works on a feminist approach to climatology, as opposed to a top-down reductive approach.

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Leading Nasa climate expert (me!) says July likely to be hottest month on record

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Leading Nasa climate expert says July likely to be hottest month on record

Gavin Schmidt of Goddard Institute for Space Studies warns of likelihood of new high as heatwave bakes large parts of planet

www.theguardian.com

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Amount of energy needed to melt berg is ~330000000000000000000 joules. If it takes 10 yrs, it'll only take 0.2% of annual energy imbalance.

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It's update day for the comparison of climate model projections to observations! Reference page:

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this enough global warming for you?

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This story is... unconvincing. First off it’s just two scientists (no publication), one of whom has made similar (unsupported) claims before & ignores the context that permafrost & methane have been degrading in this region since it was inundated in the early Holocene.

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'Sleeping giant' Arctic methane deposits starting to release, scientists find

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Apropos of nothing, the extent to which human activity is causing global warming is all of it.

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What's Really Warming the World? Climate deniers blame natural factors; NASA data proves otherwise

What's Really Warming the World? Climate deniers blame natural factors; NASA data proves otherwise

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Tomorrow’s opinion in the FT

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The world is warming faster than scientists expected

[FREE TO READ] Fossil fuel groups and investors cannot afford to ignore the warnings

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I can't help myself, climate deniers are too dumb. part 374: The response to @billmckibben 's tweet about sea ice anomalies in Antarctica is whatever the opposite of a chef's kiss is. [The waiter's fart?]

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Sneak peak for how 2019 is shaping up compared to climate model projections.

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6 years

I have an op-ed in @nytopinion How Scientists Cracked the Climate Change Case

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Opinion | How Scientists Cracked the Climate Change Case (Published 2018)

The biggest crime scene on the planet is the planet. We know the earth is warming, but who or what is causing it?

www.nytimes.com

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8 years

No surprise here, planetary warming does not care about the election. Now including October data.

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These people are so predictable with their nonsense, and yet I can't quite get over how disappointing it is that they can't see science as something deeply interesting and important...

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3 years

I did a thing.

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Opinion | What Climate Change Looks Like From Space (Published 2021)

The impact is etched on land and ice across the planet.

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1 year

I see that there is some mo[o]re BS going around. Maybe I can help edit that.

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10 months

With the huge September data in, we can confirm that we expect 2023 to be the warmest year in the record (99% probability).

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3 years

“Peterson has managed to absorb the first part of George Box’s famous dictum that ‘all models are wrong’ but appears to have not worked out the second part ‘but some are useful’”

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‘Word salad of nonsense’: scientists denounce Jordan Peterson’s comments on climate models

Speaking on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Peterson claimed the climate was too complex to be modelled accurately, which was quickly shot down by scientists

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2 years

Dreamt that I quit academia to open a paleoclimate-themed bar called ‘Cene. Cocktails like the: KT impact (you’ll only want to have one!), the PETM (hot!), the Last Glacial and Snowball Earth (made with liquid N2). The Anthro would have extra CO2.

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3 years

Clearly there’s a market for this stuff, but it’s just exaggerated hyperbole. Negative effects != global crop failure Increased risk != most humans dead 6°C != uninhabitable Yes, increasing climate change multiplies risks & dangers, but how is this helpful? Timelines wrong too

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Ben See

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Remember: 1. Global crop failures by 2°C. 2. Most humans dead by 4°C. 3. Earth uninhabitable by 6°C. 4. We risk 2°C by 2035. 5. We risk 4°C by 2065. 6. We risk 6°C by 2095. One tweet is worth a million newspaper front pages.

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Hahahahaha… climate deniers now throwing the UAH MSU record under the bus in favor of totally made up nonsense. It was only ever a question of time…

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6 years

Great new resource for Earth history folks. Chris Scotese and Nicky Wright's PaleoDEMs (1x1 resolution, 0 to 540 Ma) are now online Example for the end Cretaceous (w/modern outlines for comparison):

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It seems obvious to me that one can discuss, debate, and debunk ideas without it being done on a stage with a time limit and no fact checking? Do people really think that trial by combat is the best way to ascertain truth?

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If you don’t think R.F.K. Jr. should be publicly debated, says @DouthatNYT , “you need some other theory of how the curious can be persuaded away from his ideas.”

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6 years

This is a thing that is possible.

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NASA chief says he changed mind about climate change because he "read a lot", talked to experts

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7 years

Claims of a substantial gap between model projections and observed temperatures are not true (2017 update edition).

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6 years

Models are how you encapsulate theories and test against observations. No models? Then no predictions and no science.

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@mikemcgibney You're talking about the models. Which are not science. You are correct that Republicans disagree on the non-science parts.

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3 years

@ClimateBen Might I suggest that you present your conclusions as your conclusions, and refrain from putting words into other people's mouths? The 'quotes' you took were from a blog interview, not a peer reviewed paper.

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For @marcorubio @jaketapper and anyone else, it’s a good thing that scientists have indeed already looked at how much recent trends in climate are due to human activity. [narrator: it was all of it]

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What's Really Warming the World? Climate deniers blame natural factors; NASA data proves otherwise

What's Really Warming the World? Climate deniers blame natural factors; NASA data proves otherwise

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Apparently there are enforceable limits on what people can say about climate scientists in public. Good to know.

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5 years

This is legitimately nuts. That some political parties take anti-science stands cannot be allowed to dictate limits on discussions of science.

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Saying climate change is real could be seen as partisan activity during election campaign, Elections Canada warns

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2 years

Read this thread. Then ponder the fact that I was also quoted in the same article, but I did not receive a single comment. 🧐

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Last week, I was quoted in an AP article interviewing scientists who are pushing back on the emerging narrative that there's nothing we can do about climate change -- that we're doomed, no matter what. Since then, I've gotten phone calls, emails, and actual mail in response.

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It's been quite warm... any way you look at it.

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Excellent interactive on climate risks, country by country. ⁦ @nytclimate ⁩

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Opinion | Every Country Has Its Own Climate Risks. What’s Yours? (Published 2021)

Flooding, heat stress, fires? Tell us where you live and we’ll tell you the threats.

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6 years

If someone says they don’t know precisely how much human activity is contributing to climate change, ask them what level of precision they are aiming for and which actual decisions are dependent on that.

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2 years

While most people have heard of climate change, general understanding of the climate system as a whole is poor. So perhaps a thread for relevant factoids that people might find interesting is worthwhile? I'll start off with a few and add more later... #ClimateFacts

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7 years

Hey @nytimes , where is the "intellectually depth", "honesty" or "bravery" in setting up transparently thin strawmen to rail against?

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We see this with all of the anti-science bad faith arguments. Regardless of how often people have pointed out how silly it is, or that it makes no logical sense, or that there would be no motive to doing something like that, the smugs will continue to make it.

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This is flat out 💩 from Epstein. Misreading of vague quotes instead of actually looking at the scientific papers that have all the information. Turns out that Hansen (et al!)'s projections bracketed what happened. Mini 🧵...

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NYT in 1986: "Average global temperatures would rise by 1/2 - 1 °F from 1990 to 2000 if current trends are unchanged, according to Dr. Hansen’s findings. Dr. Hansen said the global temperature would rise by another 2 to 4 degrees in the following decade." #Catastrophizing

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5 years

With Nov GISTEMP anomalies posted, 2019 is #2 YTD, and this will be 99.9% likely to be the ranking for the full year. - 5th year clearly > 1°C above late 19th C - closes out warmest decade in record

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Please stop doing this. The 1.5ºC/2ºC levels from the Paris Agreements are for the global mean temperature changes - not northern hemisphere land (which warms faster than the ocean or the southern hemisphere).

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"In an area including the whole of Europe, most of North America and Asia the average temperature last summer was 2.07C hotter than between 1850 and 1900" Forget 1.5C or 2C. We are already beyond. Catastrophic news. No two ways about it.

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What it means for the Pacific NW is that there will be a very high attribution to climate change for the upcoming event and the exact numbers will depend on how hot it really gets. And the hotter it gets, the larger the attribution will be. Regardless of cause though, stay safe!

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As I've predicted since Jun, 2018 is going to come in as 4th warmest year in the modern record and 4th year in a row more that 1ºC above late 19th Century in GISTEMP.

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4 years

A reminder that politicization generally follows what political leaders decide to politicize, not how well or poorly scientists communicate the underlying facts.

@LSEPublicPolicy

LSE School of Public Policy

@LSEPublicPolicy

4 years

😷 Only a tiny minority of the British public are very unwilling to wear a mask, and there's little evidence of a partisan divide - unlike in the US, say @sarahobolt and @soccerquant #LSEThinks 👇

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7 years

Claim of a substantial gap between model projections for global temperature & observations is not true (updated with 2017 estimate):

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4 years

In the horse-race for the warmest year, 2020 is ahead of 2016 by a nose, but it's going to be a photo-finish. Either way, the margin is likely to be within the uncertainty of our ability to estimate the true real world anomaly.

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8 years

#thanksNASA for the satellite monitoring of clouds, ozone, temperature, energy fluxes, rain etc.

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4 years

"The IPCC model"

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Paul Graham

4 years

What phrase signals that the person using it doesn't understand your field? Example: "Computer error."

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Gavin Schmidt

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Nothing illustrates the vacuity of what passes for climate scepticism in the UK than Matt Ridley retweeting Toby Young who publishes a piece by Chris Morrison based on total bollocks.

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5 years

My god these people are stupid.

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Gavin Schmidt

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7 years

We should dedicate February as #findaclimatescapegoat month as yet again some political scientists try to find ways to blame climate scientists for the lack of progress in CO2 emission reductions, instead of, say, politics.

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2 years

The warm trends are red Cold ones should be blue The maps are nearly monochrome Because of CO2 (updated #climatevalentine )

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Gavin Schmidt

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7 years

New page @RealClimate for keeping track of comparisons btw climate model projections & observations.

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Gavin Schmidt

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9 months

I know this seems like it’s exciting news, but really folks, we do not know the precise difference between yesterday’s global mean temperature and the pre-industrial to 3 sig figs or to the nearest 0.01°C.

@CopernicusECMWF

Copernicus ECMWF

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9 months

🌡️ ERA5 data from @CopernicusECMWF indicates that 17 November was the first day that the global temperature exceeded 2°C above pre-industrial levels, reaching 2.07°C above the 1850-1900 average and the provisional ERA5 value for 18 November is 2.06°C.

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Gavin Schmidt

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2 years

#NitrogenTuesday

@DevanshiDubey07

Devanshi Dubey. #savesoil

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2 years

Carbon and Nitrogen are two main components of #soil . Both of them can do wonders for all living microorganisms which automatically increase the quantity of soil. #SaveSoil #SaveSoilMovement

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7 years

Dangers that can be avoided by not saying their name: 1) Beetlejuice 2) Candyman. Climate change? Not so much.

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Gavin Schmidt

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6 years

People who dismiss these concerns (read the comments), & those of the humanities and sociology more generally, are simply signaling that their version of the culture wars is more important than actually dealing with these problems. We don't really have time for that any more.

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6 years

Update day for model-observation comparison plots. @RealClimate

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Why do Willie Soon's correlations fail as soon as there is new data available?

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