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Peter Jacobs
@pjacobs.bsky.social

climate science (paleo, modern, future); public understanding of science (consensus, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience)

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6951-7126
Mastodon: fediscience.org/@peterjacobs
Bird Site: https://twitter.com/past_is_future .. more

Environmental science 41%
Geology 16%

(readers, this is not actually "neat").

It's pretty neat that from 2015 on there were numerous, articulate, educated voices warning that this stuff was a real risk, and instead of the Fourth Estate uplifting those voices and acknowledging how much it has contributed to what's happening, prestige media went all in on billionaire propaganda

Indications that reductions in Chinese / East Asian aerosols over land rather than ship tracks may be increasing global radiative forcing and regional North Pacific forcing especially (e.g. Chen et al. 2025; Smith et al. ESSOA preprint).

doi.org/10.1029/2025...
essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....
Last year was obviously the warmest on record for the North Pacific Ocean...

This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every year from 1854-2025 using @noaa.gov ERSSTv5 data.
if you want to know what it is like in minneapolis, I don’t even have to scroll on facebook to find a horror story. it’s basically my whole feed.

everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.
Meanwhile, look at this subheader

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This #webinar session, together with Peter Bijl and Heike Zimmermann, will explore the polar #climate history with views from both poles and perspectives from the distant past in the Paleogene to more recent changes during the last glacial cycle and Holocene.
🔗 Register here: egu.eu/2XIDOJ
Powerful piece in STAT this morning from some NIH staff members who have resigned

www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...

1/3
The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left
“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.
www.statnews.com

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Big anti-government protests, state forces reacting with violence, and the national leader is on social media flailingly claiming the protestors were put up to it by outside agitators.

This post is about Iran.

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Last year was obviously the warmest on record for the North Pacific Ocean...

This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every year from 1854-2025 using @noaa.gov ERSSTv5 data.

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The National Weather Service office in Fort Worth, TX is looking for student volunteers this summer. This is a great experience if you are interested in a career with the NWS or more broadly within operational meteorology, research-to-operations, and related fields.

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ahhh the reader emails i get sometimes on the muskland empire beat are like nothin else....

Imagine telling your 2009 self the former pro-wrestler and host of "Conspiracy Theory" would have a better empirical & moral take on the regime murder of a school mom during a mass purge of immigrants than the publisher of Skeptic magazine.

Many such cases.

The next version planned will smell like Virginia Slims (with a hint of I.W. Harper bourbon).

But this one smells like orchids (specifically a hybrid of Cattleya Bow Bells and Cattleya Barbara Dane 😉).

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That's the inherent tension we're living with right.

Journalists are supposed to oppose authority and hold truth to power.

But journalistic institutions are authoritarian and don't reward the above.

It's a shame there's not a more efficient way to say "a statement that is at odds with video and witness accounts". You'd think in a language with as many words as English someone would have come up with one to cover such a common yet important situation by now?
Getting there.
Getting there.
im sorry i know it sucks but journalists are going to have to be willing to get fired for simply describing what they see happening with their own eyes, you look like fucking morons
"Was the officer struck by the vehicle, as President Trump insists, or did the car pass by or around him?"
If we only had some trusted institution that could adjudicate between competing claims by relying on facts.
This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Donate to Support for Renee Good’s wife and son, organized by Mattie Weiss
Please support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating … Mattie Weiss needs your support for Support for Renee Good’s wife and son
www.gofundme.com

There are multiple videos clearly contradicting the narrative being pushed by the people ultimately responsible for this. Incredibly low bar for media outlets to clear. And yet.
"Was the officer struck by the vehicle, as President Trump insists, or did the car pass by or around him?"
If we only had some trusted institution that could adjudicate between competing claims by relying on facts.
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
Live coverage: Thousands of people are attending a vigil near the scene of the fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis.

Vigils are also being held in Duluth and Mankato.

Continuing coverage: bit.ly/3MMvefi

📷️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.

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With an annual budget that is 10 times the size of the agency’s total surveillance spending for the last 13 years, ICE is going on a shopping spree, creating one of the largest, most comprehensive domestic surveillance machines in history. Here’s what they are buying. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a new budget under the current administration, and they are going on a surveillance tech shopping spree. Standing at $28.7 billion dollars for the
www.eff.org

drop an alien not from star trek or star wars

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Yes exactly. It’s just like the Melian Dialogue in Thucydides, when the Athenians point out that the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must, and then I presume go on to win the war in style (can’t remember what happens immediately after, something about Sicily?)
Baybeeeee we love to see it. Pay this man
one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it