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Ken Caldeira
@kencaldeira.com
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Mostly mentoring a group of postdocs at Stanford. Senior Scientist at Gates Ventures. climate / energy / etc https://sustainablesolutions.stanford.edu/people/ken-caldeira Posts imperfectly represent the views of my former self and not my employer. .. more

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Kenneth Caldeira is an American atmospheric scientist. His areas of research include ocean acidification, climate effects of trees, intentional climate modification, interactions in the global carbon cycle/climate system, and sustainable energy. .. more

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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · Nov 18
Folks, I am really appreciative of people who have followed me and added me to their starter packs.

I post about climate science, energy system transition, and related issues.

I try to restrain myself to information and questions, and try to avoid unseemly opining in public.
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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 1d
The Democrats should start every interaction with journalists or Republicans with two questions:

1. Will Trump have a brain scan by a respected third-party to document his dementia (or lack thereof)?

2. Why is Trump so focused on preventing the release of the Epstein files?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump: "We call them the water drugs. The drugs that come in through water. They're not coming. There are no boats anymore. Frankly, there are no fishing boats. There are no boats out there period, if you want to know the truth. Does anybody go fishing anymore?"
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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 1d
Looks like CNN has gone the way of The Washington Post.
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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 1d
Democratic politicians need to get some training on how to deal with witnesses who don't answer uncomfortable questions and use them instead as an opportunity to go on the attack.

Pam Bondi may be a terrible person but she is skilled at getting in her sound bites and opposition research quips.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump: "We call them the water drugs. The drugs that come in through water. They're not coming. There are no boats anymore. Frankly, there are no fishing boats. There are no boats out there period, if you want to know the truth. Does anybody go fishing anymore?"
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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 3d
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'Jewish enough to be murdered,' but not buried in a Jewish cemetery
The rabbis in charge do not consider some victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack Jewish — even though their families do.
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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 3d
We assume Mueller was doing his job?
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 3d
It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...
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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 4d
Metrics are tools.

The primary question about a tool is whether it is useful in helping achieving our goals.

While science goes into developing metrics, the choice of what metrics to use depends on what your goals are.

The choice of metrics cannot be used to set overall goals.
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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 4d
sacrilege !
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blues4u.bsky.social @blues4u.bsky.social · 4d
Home of South Carolina Judge Who Blocked Feds From Accessing Voter Data Burns to Ground

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Home of South Carolina Judge Who Blocked Feds From Accessing Voter Data Burns to the Ground
The home of Diane Goodstein, a South Carolina judge who’s been receiving death threats after going up against Trump in September, burned to the ground in a suspected explosion Saturday. Her husband, f...
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Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 5d
@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.
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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 5d
““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+
Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 5d
You mean the movement that is trying to conserve American democratic principles and institutions, or were you talking about the Republicans?
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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 5d
I think we have found out who the real conservatives are and who was just after power and money.

Now, it is largely the Democrats and a few old-school conservative organizations that are trying to conserve traditional American values and institutions.
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Robert Ferry @robertferry.bsky.social · 5d
It is interesting to see how horse fodder and food was as much a part of our energy mix (20%) in 1820 as coal is today. In 1920 coal was up at 70%. Note these are percentages not quantities.
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Chart showing United States energy transitions over 200+ years per energy source.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5d
Per @washingtonpost.com: New polling shows most U.S. Jews say Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza — and 39% say genocide. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds
Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6d
In Portland, Oregon,(DHS) and (ICE) used pepper spray on the breathing hole of a peaceful protester who was wearing a blow-up frog costume.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 6d
NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...
ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 7d
“No self-respecting university could ever accept something like this,” said Lee Bollinger, a First Amendment scholar and former Columbia University president. “Trying to protect conservative ideas against being ‘belittled’ — that’s about as violative of the First Amendment interests as you can get.”
Colleges weigh whether to sign onto Trump plan or forgo federal benefits
A new proposal from the Trump administration would give colleges funding advantages if they adopt conservative priorities.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7d
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

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‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
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Rep. Greg Stanton @repgregstanton.bsky.social · 7d
Totally unacceptable that Speaker Johnson won’t swear in Adelita Grijalva immediately.

He refused to swear her in on Tuesday, and now he's refusing to swear her in tomorrow, though she is in Washington and stands ready.
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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 7d
BREAKING: The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.
Director of Eisenhower Library in Kansas ousted after refusing to give Trump administration a sword
The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.
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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 7d
Where is the so-called "pro-life" crowd now?

Concern stops at birth?
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 7d
Important to remember that stories about children killed by vaccine-preventable diseases when they're too young to be vaccinated are, beneath that, stories about the loss of herd immunity.

This baby caught whooping cough from somebody. That somebody was probably old enough to be vaccinated.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 7d
“A lot of times, you know, babies don’t cough; they just stop breathing,” warned Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Dan Edney as he discussed Mississippi's first infant death from whooping cough in 13 years.
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7d
"Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours.

'I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up. I asked if they had a warrant and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.'"
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 7d
Important to remember that stories about children killed by vaccine-preventable diseases when they're too young to be vaccinated are, beneath that, stories about the loss of herd immunity.

This baby caught whooping cough from somebody. That somebody was probably old enough to be vaccinated.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 7d
“A lot of times, you know, babies don’t cough; they just stop breathing,” warned Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Dan Edney as he discussed Mississippi's first infant death from whooping cough in 13 years.
Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases
A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 7d
Seven years since the bone-saw murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/d...
Office of the Director of National Intelligence: Assessing the Saudi Government's Role in the Killing of Jamal Khashoggi.
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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 7d
Many equate uncertainty with inaction, whereas uncertainty equals risk that, in many cases, should motivate action.

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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 7d
[Until Bluesky gives an edit feature, I should reread my post more carefully before posting.]

Agreed.

The person who is overconfident in their predictive skill gets listened to more than the person who is cognizant of the deeply uncertain condition in which we find ourselves.

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