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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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Climate Scientist, Prof @TexasTech , Chief Scientist @nature_org , Climate Ambassador @WEAnews , Mom @joinsciencemoms . Tweets 100% my own 🇨🇦🍁

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@KHayhoe

Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

2 months

I don't use X very much any more, but I'd love to see you elsewhere! For the short & up to date content I used to provide here, see Threads & Bluesky. For longer commentaries, see LinkedIn & my newsletter. And for the fun stuff, check out IG + Pinterest. All links below ⬇️

@KHayhoe

Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

1 year

Looking for more from me than tweets? I regularly share unique content on a dozen other online platforms...and you won't see most of it on Twitter. Browse this thread for direct links and dive in!

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@KHayhoe

Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

4 years

Just to be clear, the carbon in the atmosphere is at a 15 million year high. So, no.

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The Hill

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President Trump: "Our carbon, our atmosphere -- the level of environmental cleanliness is at its all-time best."

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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Hi, I��m a climate scientist. You may know me from my greatest hits including, “No, it’s not a natural cycle,” “Yes, I know it’s been warmer before (and the only reason YOU know is because we scientists told you so),” and “Just because it’s on YouTube doesn’t mean it’s true.”

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You know something's up when there's even a #WomensMarch in Lubbock TX, the 2nd most conservative city in the US. During a dust storm.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

7 years

Our 600 page climate report in one tweet: It's real It's us It's serious And the window of time to prevent dangerous impacts is closing fast

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

4 years

People worry about how much land we'd need to supply the US with clean energy. Well, @elonmusk and I have independently calculated it and we both come up with something roughly comparable to the area we currently use for maple syrup or golf. A square about 100-120 miles per side.

@FarmPolicy

FarmPolicy

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This map gives you a rough sense of all the ways U.S. land is used. Much of U.S. land serves specific purposes, such as the 2 million acres devoted to golf courses or the 3 million acres for airports.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

6 years

At the hearing for the deputy @NASA administrator today, nominee Jim Morhard was asked by @EdMarkey if he agrees with the scientific consensus that humans are the dominant influence on climate. He said he couldn't say. Well, I'm a scientist, and I can. Here's why. (thread)

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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As a female climate scientist, blocking is the only thing that makes my engagement here on Twitter/X possible. Daily, I receive comments that range from disparaging to downright vile. Since Oct, my tweets can attract thousands of trolls (real people) and bots (not real). 🧵

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

1 year

Here are the big takeaways from the @IPCC_CH Synthesis Report released today. First, climate change has already caused widespread and substantial losses to almost every aspect of human life on this planet, and the impacts on future generations depend on the choices we make NOW.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

4 years

For the gazillionth time: Climate change is not a religion. It is a science. Do I believe in it? No. I look at the data, and the data is clear: it's real, it's us, it's bad, and the time to fix it is NOW.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

1 year

Being a scientist, I had to check the math. Turns out it's even worse. You could have made $53,000 (£44,000) a day or $20 million per year since Jesus was born and still not make the profits Shell did in 2022.

@GreenpeaceUK

Greenpeace UK

1 year

SHOCKING FACT: If you earned £40,000 a day from when Jesus was born to the present day, you would still not make as much as Shell did in profits last year

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

I wrote the climate scenarios chapter myself so I can confirm it considers ALL scenarios, from those where we go carbon negative before end of century to those where carbon emissions continue to rise. What WH says is demonstrably false.

@JohnFBruno

John Bruno

5 years

Great piece by @yayitsrob Note WH claim assessment was based on the “most-extreme scenario" is untrue. It wasn't based on any one scenario. Much of it described impacts already happening! And the "worse-case" was just the business-as-usual, do nothing approach favored by WH.

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1 year

Climate change is real, it’s human-caused, its impacts are serious … and there are solutions if we act now.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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#AustralianWildFires climate denial claims, "it's arson! it's been warmer before! fire's natural!" The truth? Human-induced climate change is a threat multiplier. It takes existing risks + amplifies them beyond imagining, affecting every living thing on this planet: including us.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

6 years

As Isaac Asimov said in 1980: "Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

Let me share a sad reality. @AC360 asked if I could join them tonight or talk #NationalClimateAssessment . I just arrived at @TED , and I really need to practice my talk, I replied. Please! they said, we will send a car! Ok, I said. It’s important. I will do it. (story continues..)

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

"Was it caused by climate change?" is the most common question when we hear about an extreme event. But when it comes to hurricanes, that's the wrong question. The right one is, "how much worse did climate change make it?" (thread)

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

The Fourth US National Climate Assessment was released on Friday. Since then, a number of politicians + pundits have made statements about it that are not accurate. As an author, I'm here to set the record straight. Here we go! (thread)

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Fourth National Climate Assessment: Summary Findings

This report is an authoritative assessment of the science of climate change, with a focus on the United States. It represents the second of two volumes of the Fourth National Climate Assessment,...

nca2018.globalchange.gov

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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Less than 20 years ago, the world was headed for a >4C warmer world by 2100. The amount of change that would occur under that much warming, that fast, was almost unimaginable and certainly unsurvivable for human civilization + a large percentage of the world's species. (thread)

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

One of the most encouraging studies I've seen in a long time! @DanielleFLawson and colleagues found that kids can change their parent's minds about climate - with daughters having the strongest influence on conservative fathers. Yea!

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Children Change Their Parents' Minds about Climate Change

Study of students schooled on the issue showed them going on to shift their elders’ attitudes

www.scientificamerican.com

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

Wow! I am INCREDIBLY HONOURED to receive this amazing award! For everyone here -- working every day to tell people climate change is real, we need to act now, and there IS hope -- you are part of this too. We are all in this together, and together we will prevail!

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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I get my hair and make up done, we drive across the city, I do the interview, Anderson is lovely, the whole thing takes three hours .... and they don’t air the interview. Instead, they give more airtime to Santorum, so he can to continue to spread disinformation.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

4 years

Given that even a doctorate has never stopped ANY of these types of men from disrespecting my expertise, I'm quite confident that there's not a single economics degree on the planet that would cause him to respect her. You go @GretaThunberg !

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Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin tells climate change activist Greta Thunberg to get an economics...

Thunberg, 17, spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where she made an impassioned plea for the world to stop using fossil fuels.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

Climate Change: It's real. It's us. It's serious - and becoming dangerous. But there are solutions, and there is hope. The science is clear: the faster we reduce our emissions, the less impacts there will be. #ClimateStrike

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

3 years

I am honoured to be joining @nature_org as their new Chief Scientist!

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

When it comes to what climate goals we should be aiming for, there are a lot of "magic numbers" floating around - 2 degrees, 12 years, 350ppm, net zero emissions, and more. Here's a short thread explaining the scientific basis--or lack thereof--for each.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

1 year

@tottaway22 @SophiaKianni Air pollution from burning fossil fuels is responsible for 10 million premature deaths every single year.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

4 years

"As climate scientists we take absolutely zero pleasure in being right. We are terrified...but we cannot look away, for the sake of our families, for the sake of people we don’t know and for the sake of the natural world." @ClimateHuman speaks for us all.

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Op-Ed: With global heating, expect inferno seasons in the American West

Even talking about records is starting to feel pointless when every year is practically guaranteed to be hotter than the last.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

4 years

The fact that a global pandemic will only cut carbon emissions by single digits illustrates how “people focus way, way too much on personal footprints, and whether they fly or not, without really dealing w the structural [sources]" as @ClimateOfGavin says

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The world is on lockdown. So where are all the carbon emissions coming from?

The air is clear, the roads are clear, and dammit greenhouse gases are stubborn.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

1 year

It’s time to face the facts: climate change is happening, and we’re the cause. The impacts are far reaching and out our civilization at risk. But there’s still hope, if we act now. We CAN make a difference!

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

7 years

This is no joke. All we have left to monitor Arctic sea ice, the most sensitive part of our climate system, are 3 old decaying satellites.

@JacquelynGill

Dr. Jacquelyn Gill

7 years

A satellite monitoring the Arctic broke. We had a replacement ready and paid for. Congress ordered it destroyed.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

1 year

This iconic graph tracks how rapidly our planet is warming. Yet every time it's shared on Twitter, someone always asks, "Why does it begin in 1850?" The answer is simple: it's when we first had enough thermometers to compute a truly representative global temperature average.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

The answer is very simple: without human emissions of heat trapping gases, the earth would be slowly, gradually cooling. So how much of the current warming is manmade? All if it and then some.

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🌍 Calling Political BS 💙

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Australian natural disasters minister David Littleproud: 'I don't know if climate change is manmade'. Then ask a climate scientists FFS. ⁦ @MichaelEMann ⁩ ⁦ @KHayhoe ⁩

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"We spent a long time thinking we were engaged in an argument about data and reason," @billmckibben says about the climate movement over the last three decades. "But now we realize it's a fight over money and power."

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

Things people regularly assume I don’t know: 1. Earth’s been warmer before 2. Natural cycles exist 3. Volcanoes produce CO2 + CH4 4. CO2 can promote plant growth 5. Solar panels don’t work at night 6. The Bible says there will always be seasons What else?

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

“Even if you flip the chart upside-down it’s still going up!!” Thank you @ronnychieng for giving voice to what every climate scientist is thinking but is too polite to say.

@TheDailyShow

The Daily Show

5 years

Trump doesn’t understand climate change and @ronnychieng is sick of explaining this s**t.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

2 years

When did scientists determine that higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere would warm the planet? In the 1850s. When did people decide to cast doubt on the science? In the 1990s. Yes, that's how young climate denial is. 🧐

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

2 years

Climate action in 3 steps: 1. Reduce everything we can, as much as we can, first. 2. Offset the rest (which is impossible to do if we don't reduce everything we can first). 3. Build resilience to the impacts we can no longer avoid. Why? Because the only other choice is suffering.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

But time is the most precious resource we have, and there is not enough to go around – so when we choose how to spend our time, it just makes sense to be sure it will be used profitably and not squandered. So twitverse, tell me: what wd YOU do with such requests in the future?

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

People often ask why I'm a climate scientist in a political science department. The short answer is: because climate change is the most political science and more physical science isn't what's stopping us from acting on climate. These political scientists get it:

@BrendanNyhan

Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)

5 years

New Iyengar Massey review essay in PNAS on "Scientific communication in a post-truth society"

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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When we see climate changing, we don't automatically jump on the human bandwagon, case closed. No, we rigorously examine and test all other reasons why climate could be changing: the sun, volcanoes, natural cycles, even something we don't know yet: could they be responsible? ..

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

2 years

Climate Change: It's real. It's us. It's serious - and becoming dangerous. But there is hope: there are solutions. The faster we cut our emissions and take carbon out of the atmosphere, the less suffering there will be. #EarthDay2022

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

I remember when that wind farm exploded .... oh wait ...

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ABC News

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DEVELOPING: A shelter in place order has been issued as a fire rages at an ExxonMobil refinery in Baytown, Texas. It's the latest in a series of fires in Houston area involving the petrochemical industry.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

6 years

So in conclusion: if you don't think humans are the dominant source of warming, you are making a statement that does not have a single factual or scientific leg to stand on. Yet leaders of science agencies are saying exactly that today. This is the world we live in.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

2 years

This short clip is a master class in how to communicate the risk of climate impacts and the urgency of climate action. Give it a listen!

@bmay

Brendan May

2 years

Here’s the Lord Turner clip. Every word, from a business and finance leader.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

I don’t get paid for any of this - but I think he does, doesn’t he? And this is not the first time this has happened. Chris Hayes’ program canceled three times, once when I was literally in a chair with that earpiece in my ear. When @MSNBC called me again this week, I said...

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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... I would be delighted to talk to you, but in order to be a wise steward of my time, I need a guarantee the interview will air, barring a major disaster, an assassination, or the end of the world. They did not reply.

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Half the oxygen we breathe comes from tiny phytoplankton in the ocean. Every day is #EarthDay

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

Please don’t get me wrong – I’m not whining or complaining. I am enormously grateful for any and all media who wants to talk climate, and equally grateful for the opportunity to do so. I talk to high school newspapers, Christian podcasts, and even sports blogs!

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3 years

whoop! It's my favourite meme day

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

4 years

As the economic slow-down due to the coronavirus pandemic shutters industry, air pollution and carbon emissions are dropping. A lot of people have asked what this means for carbon emissions and climate change. Here is a short explainer. (thread)

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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Nearly every climate denial argument I’ve ever heard falls into one of these five categories. 1 - it’s not real 2 - it’s not us 3 - it’s not bad 4 - it’s too hard/costly to fix 5 - it’s too late And you know which is growing the fastest these days? The last one 😳

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Me: here's something good a [person, city, co, org] is doing Twitter: IT IS NOT ENOUGH Of course not. If it were, we would've fixed climate change. But if we don't celebrate & share our first steps-or worse, if we shame people for them!-how do we expect bigger ones to happen?

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

“It’s cold outside...I’d like a little global warming now!” Your annual reminder that one snowstorm over the US east coast does not invalidate decades of observations around the entire world showing that yes, the planet is warming.

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Climate vs Weather | Global Weirding

It's freezing outside, so all that talk about global warming is just a bunch of hooey...right? Find out on this brand new episode of Global Weirding.Brought ...

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

Also, apologies to @ted . He is not @TEDTalks . I imagine this must happen a lot, but I am sorry ;)

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

4 years

Imagine you toss a match on a pile of green wood. Now imagine you toss the same match on a pile of dry tinder. What happens? That's how "the fires were human-caused" and "climate change made them a lot worse" can both be true.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

4 years

It’s been 55 years since scientists formally warned a US president of the dangers of unchecked carbon emissions. How accurate was their warning? Pretty much dang on. Read:

@davelevitan

Dave Levitan

4 years

I decided to do a bit of a close read of one particular part of a 1965 report sent to Lyndon Johnson, on atmospheric carbon dioxide. Because I hate myself, you see.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 months

Ever notice how nearly every climate denial argument fall into just one of FIVE categories? But here's the twist: they all share ONE goal - preventing action. So don't be distracted: debunk briefly, then pivot immediately to positive, constructive solutions for a better world.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

3 years

What a lot of people still don't understand - and need to, ASAP - is that we humans are the biggest source of uncertainty in determining the magnitude future change. We are the problem. But that means we can be the solution, too.

@dwallacewells

David Wallace-Wells

3 years

“On current trends, the probability of staying below 2 °C of warming is only 5%, but if all countries meet their nationally determined contributions and continue to reduce emissions at the same rate after 2030, it rises to 26%.”

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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The six stages of climate denial are: it's not real. It's not us. It's not that bad. It's too expensive to fix. Aha, here's a great solution (that actually does nothing). And - oh no! Now it's too late. You really should have warned us earlier. Sound familiar?

@IceSheetMike

Mike MacFerrin

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The right wing’s instantaneous flip from “it’s a hoax” to “let millions die in service to the ‘market’” is the same script they play with climate change, to a tee. They want you to do nothing.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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We re-analyzed 38 studies that questioned whether climate is changing and/or humans are responsible, and found an error in each that, when corrected, brought them in line with the scientific consensus. Our study's been downloaded >100k times now!

@RasmusBenestad

Rasmus Benestad

@RasmusBenestad

5 years

Impressive. 'Learning from mistakes in climate research' has been downloaded 100,000 times. @KHayhoe @johnfocook @hohygen

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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It is striking how many daily headlines are talking about events that were exacerbated by climate change. Here is just a short rundown from today as an example of the many many ways climate change is affecting us HERE and NOW. Please add any I missed. (Thread)

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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Climate change isn't a future threat; it's a present reality. That's the bad news. Here's the good news: we have the solutions and we know what to do. There's still time to rewrite our future if we act now. (image by @ed_hawkins )

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

6 years

The bottom line is this: We've known since the work of John Tyndall in the 1850s that CO2 absorbs and re-radiates infrared energy, and Eunice Foote was the first to suggest that higher CO2 levels would lead to a warmer planet, in 1856. Read it here:

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The American Journal of Science and Arts

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

The second volume of the 4th US National Climate Assessment is now live. It lays out exactly how climate change is affecting every region and most sectors of the US:

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Fourth National Climate Assessment: Summary Findings

This report is an authoritative assessment of the science of climate change, with a focus on the United States. It represents the second of two volumes of the Fourth National Climate Assessment,...

nca2018.globalchange.gov

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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The psychological distance that kept many from recognizing how climate change is no longer a distant issue is eroding quickly these days, as the impacts become visible and relevant.

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French ski resort closes permanently because there’s not enough snow | CNN

La Sambuy, a family skiing destination in the French Alps, is the latest winter sports resort to permanently close because global warming has shrunk its ski season to just a few weeks.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

2 years

Is #COP26 enough? No. Did anyone expect it to be enough? I sure didn't; this is a more ambitious effort to work together than anything we humans have ever, ever accomplished. But is it more than we had 2 weeks ago? YES. And there's a lot more to be done; so let's get on with it!

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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Climate change is real. The warming we’ve observed is entirely human-caused.* Its impacts are serious, including making heat waves, wildfires, hurricanes, droughts and floods more severe and more dangerous.** But there are solutions and we can fix it.*** 💪🌱

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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Today, @pontifex released Laudato Deum, an update on the 2015 encyclical. It's not so much a breath of fresh air as it is a bucket of ice water, straight to the face of those who are standing in the way of and delaying climate progress. Here are a few highlights:

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

1 year

On climate change, we often assume people are either believers or deniers. I don't like either label, because climate change is not a religion. Instead, I prefer the 6 categories identified by @YaleClimateComm for the US.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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I loved my gas stove, but two years ago I had the chance to move to induction. I took it & never looked back - and never will. Why not? Because gas stoves aren't just bad for climate change, they're bad for YOU.

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Your gas stove could be hurting everyone around you

Gas stoves leak methane and air pollutants even when the burners turned off, a new Stanford report on US households shows.

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1 year

@nathaliejacoby1 Zero paid maternity leave, and it is not tolerated in any other high income society other than the United States

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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Today, climate is changing faster than any time in human history. As a result, our trillions of dollars of infrastructure - homes, roads, cities and ports - were built for a climate that no longer exists, unprepared for the climate risks we face today.

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On the Highway to Climate Hell

The world's infrastructure was built for a climate that no longer exists.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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Some argue that we have to choose between the environment or the economy … as if the economy - or humans themselves - could float around in outer space without the air, water, land, and resources this planet provides. The planet doesn’t need us: we need it. #WorldEnvironmentDay

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

6 years

No one - NO ONE - has been able to explain how increasing levels of CO2, CH4 and other heat-trapping gases would NOT raise the temperature of the planet. Yet that must be done first, if we are to consider any other sources as "dominant".

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

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There's lots of announcements and news coming out of #COP28 . I'm here to rank them for you from a climate scientist's perspective, using 🌴 for the wins and 🤦‍♀️ for the facepalms. Did I miss something? Let me know and I'll add it to this list! #ClimateAction #COP28FromHome 🧵

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

When it comes to a changing climate, the bottom line is this: It’s real. It’s us. Scientists agree. The impacts are already here and now. But by acting now we can still avoid the most serious and even dangerous impacts. Our future is in our hands.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

2 years

Every day is #earthday !

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

4 years

Kudos to @kwelkernbc for finally asking the right climate question during a presidential debate: not "Do you believe in it" but rather "How are you going to fix it?"

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

7 years

I am not stunned. I work with climate projections & am already grimly resigned to my "future" maps looking just like the real world today.

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Prof Michael E. Mann

7 years

"Late-September heat wave leaves climate experts stunned" by Joe Romm of @ClimateProgress :

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

6 years

Could it be the sun? No: the sun's energy has been going down at the very time that the average temperature of the planet continues to rise. For more info, read: and no, even a Grand Minimum wouldn't save us. See:

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

I could not agree more.

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Eric Herring

5 years

This message is so much better than '12 years left to stop global warming'

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

3 years

When I was young we didn't have a TV so on Friday nights my parents would rent movies and a projector from the library. Those documentaries are how I learned, at age five, that this is what a scientist looks like. And I've never looked back. @JaneGoodallInst #WomenInScience

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

This says it perfectly.

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5 years

Spotted this - don’t know the source but love it!

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

4 years

"Relieved" is exactly the right word!

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Scientists relieved as Joe Biden wins tight US presidential election

Nature - The new president has the opportunity to reverse four years of anti-science policies — but he also inherits a nation divided.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

6 years

There are five stages to climate denial: 1/ it’s not real (it’s a Chinese hoax) 2/ it’s not humans: let’s witch-hunt the scientists 3/ warmer is better! 4/ it’s too expensive to fix 5/ it’s too late; you scientist’s really should have warned us earlier. Here we see stage 5:

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Elizabeth Kolbert

6 years

Of all the positive feedbacks in the climate system, this one may be the most dangerous: We're screwed, so why bother? From the great @eilperin & @chriscmooney

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

6 years

Moreover, when @RasmusBenestad + I + others examined dozens of published papers (so much for the 'we are suppressed like Galileo!' myth) claiming to minimize or eliminate the human role in climate change, guess what we found? Errors in every single one.

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Here’s what happens when you try to replicate climate contrarian papers | Dana Nuccitelli

Dana Nuccitelli: A new paper finds common errors among the 3% of climate papers that reject the global warming consensus

www.theguardian.com

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

6 years

Could it be orbital cycles? Are we just getting warmer after the last ice age? No: warming from the last ice age peaked 1000s of yrs ago, and the next event on our geologic calendar was another ice age: was, until the industrial revolution, that is. Read:

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

How cool is this.

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Massimo

5 years

In the village of Nashtifan, Iran, some of the oldest windmills in the world, with what may be the earliest windmill design in the world, still spin. Made of natural clay, straw, and wood, they have been milling grain for flour for an estimated 1,000 years

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

4 years

Dear colleagues, if you are going online for the first time this semester and are scrambling for content, I'm happy to share my recorded lectures for my general climate science/impacts/comms/solns class with you for educational use. Send your affiliation, class + contact info!

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

9 months

Climate change doesn't care about your beliefs or your opinions. It's a human-caused crisis driven by our heat-trapping gas emissions and it puts at risk our food, water, health, infrastructure, economy, and nearly every other aspect of human society and the natural environment.

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Covid doesn't care about your beliefs or your opinions or your understanding or your optimism. Covid is a virus that transmits by airborne spread, mutates rapidly, and causes damage to every biological system in your body, with increasing risk from every reinfection.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

I’m a climate scientist. I’m also an evangelical Christian. And I’m Canadian, which is why it took me so long to realize the first two things were supposed to be entirely incompatible.

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Opinion | I’m a Climate Scientist Who Believes in God. Hear Me Out. (Published 2019)

Global warming will strike hardest against the very people we’re told to love: the poor and vulnerable.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

4 years

Myth #1 : the wildfires stop at the border. Truth: By definition, maps based on US federal data don't show fires outside US borders; but it doesn't mean they don't exist. Here's a US map (left) and 🇨🇦 map (right). We do a bit better with recognizing we're part of a continent 😁

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

7 years

A thermometer isn't democrat or republican. It won't give you a different number depending on how you vote. #climatefacts

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2 years

When it comes to climate solutions, we don’t have time for single “wins” - we need solutions that cut emissions AND make us more resilient to climate impacts AND save money AND reduce pollution.

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California to install solar panels over canals to fight drought, a first in the U.S.

California will be the first state in the nation to install solar panel canopies over canals to combat drought and climate change.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

4 years

Cassandrafreude (n). the bitter pleasure of things going wrong in exactly the way you predicted, but no one believed you when it could have made a difference. I've finally discovered the word that describes how nearly every climate scientist feels, h/t @fretmistress .

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

2 years

You're doing all you can to cut your carbon footprint; then a gas leak produces 18,000 annual cars' worth of methane in a single hour, and you despair. THIS is why your climate shadow is so much more impt than your footprint. We need systemic soln's.

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Unregulated Texas Gas Pipeline Triggers a Huge Methane Leak - BNN Bloomberg

A leak that lasted a little more than an hour on a natural-gas pipeline in Texas had the same estimated warming impact as the annual emissions from 16,000 cars.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

6 years

Will more scientific information change people's minds if they're convinced otherwise? Generally not. But does that mean there's nothing we can do or say? Absolutely not! This Global Weirding episode explains:

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If I just explain the facts, they'll get it, right?

Global Weirding is produced by KTTZ Texas Tech Public Media and distributed by PBS Digital Studios. New episodes every other Wednesday at 10 am central. Brou...

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

6 years

Could it be volcanoes? No: though a big eruption emits a lot of soot and particulates, these temporarily cool the planet. On average, all geologic activity, put together, emits only about 10% of the heat-trapping gases that humans do. For more, read:

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

5 years

Yesterday, someone asked me if I ever get angry. Yes. THIS is what makes me angry: those who deliberately promote the harmful and hateful heresy that caring about God’s creation and loving the poor and the vulnerable is somehow in opposition to the Christian faith.

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

2 years

10 arguments against climate change people sent me today* and 10 Global Weirding episodes I made years ago that debunk them: A fun thread * yes, literally today.

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