Baylor Fox‐Kemper

Baylor Fox-Kemper

@baylorfk.bsky.social

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Oceanography, Climate & Music all at #BrownUniversity. Opinions my own, facts are everybody's.

https://fox-kemper.com

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 3d

Some nice coverage of our new report on who's blocking action on climate in the Rhode Island legislature.

This is a "blue state" with huge Democratic majorities.

Yet 21 of 22 priority bills of statewide climate and environment organizations in 2025 died in committee.

ecori.org/the-usual-su...

The Usual Suspects When It Comes Climate Action Obstruction in Rhode Island - ecoRI News

The first sentence of the report grabbed my attention. “After stunning successes in 2021 and 2022, climate action has slowed in Rhode Island.”

ecori.org

Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · 6d

Find it here!
www.npr.org/people/57654...

Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · 9d

Keeping X online is doing more damage to X than any ban could.

Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · 17d

www.agu.org/chapman-sea-...

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Baylor Fox‐Kemper

Anson Cheung @ansonhcheung.bsky.social · 19d

Excited to share our new paper (w/ @aakashsane.bsky.social @baylorfk.bsky.social) where we used the CESM-LME and information theory to understand Pacific decadal variability! 🌊
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

Understanding the characteristics and drivers of Pacific decadal variability in the Community Earth System Model Last Millennium Ensemble

link.springer.com

Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 24

Thanks for the details.

Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 23

Not my intent.

Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 23

I'm sorry if I offended by using a list that included you, but it included you with no publications that sort.

Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 23

I actually don't know. I find your published papers to be interesting and take down sacred cows. I always recommended my students take your classes.

Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 22

Not sure; in this specific instance you can ask James L. Powell...

www.jamespowell.org

James Lawrence Powell

www.jamespowell.org

Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 22

I thought you were kidding, but www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSZP...

Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 22

This is an underappreciated aspect of peer review. It is a structured way to hash out the details in slow, thoughtful time.

Corollary: The number of climate skeptic peer-reviewed papers is small (skepticalscience.com/peerreviewed...), while climate change science PRPs are growing exponentially.

Peer-reviewed papers by climate skeptics

Examines the science and arguments of global warming skepticism. Common objections like 'global warming is caused by the sun', 'temperature has changed naturally in the past' or 'other planets are war...

skepticalscience.com

Reposted by Peter A. Stott, Baylor Fox‐Kemper, Stacy D. VanDeveer

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · Dec 22

👇

The more I think about it, the more I incline to the opinion that the most important thing of all is not to lose hope and faith in life itself.
Anyone who does so is lost, regardless of what good fortune may befall him. And so, from the bottom of my heart, my New Year's wish is that you not lose your hope, faith and ability to delight in the world-even if the world is the way it is. If you can manage that, everything else will come; if you give in, nothing can help you.
Václav Havel
Letter to his wife, Olga
21st December 1980

Reposted by Tatiana Ilyina, Baylor Fox‐Kemper

PLOS Climate @plosclimate.org · Dec 21

For day 20 of our #PLOSClimateCountdown, we're highlighting an Opinion piece by Helene Hewitt and colleagues:

"Towards provision of regularly updated climate data from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project"

🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 20

www.ecorenewableenergy.com.au/articles/cha...

Eco-Powr Electricity Generating Bikes for a Greener Workout

Transform your workouts with electricity-generating spin bikes. Produce renewable energy, reduce your carbon footprint, & save energy bills while staying fit.

www.ecorenewableenergy.com.au

Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 20

For me, a highlight of the year was getting to know you a little and work on a paper together. Happy New Year!

Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 19

And as for the matter of the alleged uncleanliness of our business, ye shall soon be initiated into certain facts hitherto pretty generally
unknown, and which, upon the whole, will triumphantly plant the sperm whale-ship at least among the cleanliest things of this tidy earth. -- Melville

Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 19

Butchers we are, that is
true. But butchers, also, and butchers of the bloodiest badge have been all Martial Commanders whom the world invariably delights to honor.

Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 19

Doubtless one leading reason why the world declines honoring us
whalemen, is this: they think that, at best, our vocation amounts to a
butchering sort of business; and that when actively engaged therein, we
are surrounded by all manner of defilements.

Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 19

“Living in truth requires courage, especially when that truth is ugly.” – Dexter Morgan

Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 18

Thanks for making my holiday season festive. Greensleeves has nothing on this!

Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 18

It would be funny if there were multiple Rockies as a team of mascots

Reposted by Wolfgang Crämer, Baylor Fox‐Kemper, John Fasullo

Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · Dec 18

Still waiting for the Climate Working Group (TM) to respond to the many critiques of the DOE-commissioned report, but meanwhile the hits keep coming...

The Rate of U.S. Coastal Sea‐Level Rise Doubled in the Past Century. Piecuch (2025)
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

The Rate of U.S. Coastal Sea‐Level Rise Doubled in the Past Century

Tide-gauge records are used to quantify relative sea-level (RSL) acceleration along the contiguous U.S. (CONUS) during the past century Average CONUS RSL rates doubled from 2 mm yr−1 ${\text{yr}}...

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Baylor Fox‐Kemper

Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · Dec 17

NCAR folks, especially folks who are currently here at AGU -- I know it's a really tough day amid a week that was supposed to be about celebrating science. Would be interested in how you're feeling and how this has affected your week and your presentations. I'm on Signal @chelseaeharvey.01

Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 17

Roger, we didn't always agree, but on this point we do.

Roger Pielke Jr. @thehonestbroker.bsky.social · Dec 17

Shutting Down NCAR Is Vindictive Governance
Damaging the nation to own the libs is dumb policy

rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/shutting-d...

Shutting Down NCAR Is Vindictive Governance

Damaging the nation to own the libs is dumb policy

rogerpielkejr.substack.com

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Roger Pielke Jr. @thehonestbroker.bsky.social · Dec 17

Shutting Down NCAR Is Vindictive Governance
Damaging the nation to own the libs is dumb policy

rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/shutting-d...

Shutting Down NCAR Is Vindictive Governance

Damaging the nation to own the libs is dumb policy

rogerpielkejr.substack.com

Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 17

I just called our Rhode Island congressional delegation. Do your part!

Henri F. Drake @henrifdrake.bsky.social · Dec 17

I just called on my senators ( @padilla.senate.gov and @schiff.senate.gov ) and my congressman ( @congressmin.bsky.social ) to save NCAR from being dismantled by Trump. NCAR saves lives, strengthens the economy, and benefits our nation in countless ways.

Do your part!

agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...

Save NCAR from being dismantled today!

The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.

agu.quorum.us

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Henri F. Drake @henrifdrake.bsky.social · Dec 17

Save NCAR from being dismantled today!

The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.

agu.quorum.us

Reposted by Alessandro Tagliabue

Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 17

Everyone always asked why I moved to landlocked Colorado to do oceanography. Because it was the world's largest concentration of climate scientists. Because of NCAR and NOAA.

In Boulder, fewer are alarmists; they are overwhelmingly problem solvers.

NCAR's science is patriotic. Vought is not.

🌊

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · Dec 17

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado

The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

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Flavio Lehner @climateflavors.bsky.social · Dec 17

I came to the US over 10 years ago for a postdoc at NCAR. It changed my life and supercharged my ability to do science. NCAR's unique community nature makes it a global node in atmospheric and climate research. It's really not possible to overstate its value for science and society.

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