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Ken Rice @kenrice.bsky.social · 3d

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Since effective communication often involves repeating things, I thought I would repeat what others have pointed out already. The underlying issue is that there is a narrative in the climate skepto…

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 5d

My latest on The Climate Brink:

Is this the most embarrassing error in the DOE Climate Working Group Report?

The DOE CWG authors confuse detection and attribution with emergence.

Is this the most embarrassing error in the DOE Climate Working Group Report?

mistaking detection for emergence

www.theclimatebrink.com

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 9d

Last week the German Meteorological Society warned that "the 3-degree limit could be exceeded as early as 2050".

While not possible to fully rule out, the assessed warming scenarios we published in the IPCC AR6 report find this to be extremely unlikely.

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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · 10d

Its Doors Open Days at @uni-of-edinburgh.bsky.social!

All weekend, find Euclideans at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh and learn more about how the #Euclid mission will transform our understanding of the Dark Universe. 🌀🔭🌌 #ROEopen

A small crowd of people, including members of the public and University of Edinburgh scientists, chatting and standing around the Euclid pop up exhibition. This includes a large display of Euclid’s first mosaic, containing lots of stars and galaxies, in the background against the wall. On the right side of the room is a small model of the Euclid spacecraft, as well as tabletop activities.

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George Beckett @markgbeckett.bsky.social · 10d

All set for @lsstuk.bsky.social at #DoorsOpenDay #ROEOpen #lsst

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Ken Rice @kenrice.bsky.social · 10d

RealClimate: “But you said the ice was going to disappear in 10 years!” www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: “But you said the ice was going to disappear in 10 years!”

RealClimate: Almost two decades ago, some scientists predicted that Arctic summer sea ice would 'soon' disappear. These predictions were mentioned by Al Gore and got a lot of press. However, they did ...

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Ken Rice @kenrice.bsky.social · 10d

RealClimate: Time and Tide Gauges wait for no Voortman www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: Time and Tide Gauges wait for no Voortman

RealClimate: Here we go again. An obscure, methodologically poor, paper published with little to no review makes a convenient point and gets elevated into supposedly 'blockbusting' science by the merc...

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Ken Rice @kenrice.bsky.social · 14d

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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 14d

The people I work with are not stupid people and our climate predictions of 30 years ago of global warming have proved to be accurate. Just saying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

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Ken Rice @kenrice.bsky.social · 17d

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

The US right claimed free speech was sacred – until the Charlie Kirk killing

Rightwingers had long complained of a censorious leftwing ‘cancel culture’ but seem happy to now reframe that as ‘consequence culture’

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Ken Rice @kenrice.bsky.social · 17d

I'm not quite sure what you're suggesting then. I don't think anyone argues that energy balance estimates aren't useful. It's mostly a suggestion that Nic Lewis has tended to be over-confident about his analyses and that - as many have suggested - these estimates have tended to be biased low.

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Ken Rice @kenrice.bsky.social · 17d

But it's not just uniform vs Jeffreys. There are other priors and there are other ways to estimate ECS. As Andrew points out, if your method suggest a good chance of the ECS being < 2K, then there's probably an issue with the method, or it's at least worth considering this.

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Ken Rice @kenrice.bsky.social · 18d

Credit to @atomskssanakan.bsky.social for providing the data.

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 19d

New from me on The Climate Brink: The Cartoon Villain's Guide to Killing Climate Action
www.theclimatebrink....

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Willard @climateball.net · 21d

@kenrice.bsky.social traces the trend of the limits of justified disingenuousness

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chart showing how Nic Lewis tends to increase bit by bit the median climate sensitivity

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Ken Rice @kenrice.bsky.social · 22d

The evidence is public. Martz thinks that "most of the warming could be natural" 🤦. (This isn't a surprise, of course).

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ESO @eso.org · 23d

1/ A rising telescope under a rising Sun and Moon! 🔭☀️🌕

This montage is a kaleidoscope of moments from the construction of our Extremely Large Telescope.

Creating this #ELT collage took Boris Häußler, an ESO astronomer in Chile, years of meticulous planning.

The image shows seven hexagonal images put together like a flower. All the images show the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in front of an orange sun or moon rise. All the hexagons are dated and show the ELT assembly at the specific date.

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Ken Rice @kenrice.bsky.social · 23d

I used to think that climate change was a somewhat unique example of a topic that was challenging to discuss publicly. The last few years have made me realise that it's not just climate change; we seem incapable of having nuanced discussions about any complex/contentious topic.

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Ken Rice @kenrice.bsky.social · 24d

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Koonin providing clarity on climate?

It seems that the US Department of Energy has now disbanded the Climate Working Group that drafted the report that I discussed in this post. However, about a week ago, Steven Koonin – one of …

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Ken Rice @kenrice.bsky.social · 29d

Caught a bus today to pick up my car and wanted to go to the last stop. When we got to the second last, the bus driver checked if I wanted to get off. When we got to the last stop, I asked why and was told it's because most people who go to the last stop have fallen asleep and missed their stop :-)

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Ken Rice @kenrice.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Alastair Lawless @alastairlawless.bsky.social · Sep 7

Ah yes, “Lord Monckton”. After all these years, still comedy gold.

youtu.be/w833cAs9EN0

Sacha Baron Cohen's Latest Character | The Hamster Wheel

YouTube video by The Chaser

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Ken Rice @kenrice.bsky.social · Sep 7

He is a Viscount which - I think - is higher than a Lord. However, rather confusingly, might also be referred to as Lord ...., when being addressed.

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Ken Rice @kenrice.bsky.social · Sep 7

If you would like to watch a rather blunt YouTube videos about why Ridley - like Monckton - is not someone whose views you should take seriously, this one is pretty good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-gd...

Matt Ridley is Lying to You About Climate Change

YouTube video by Professor Dave Explains

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Ken Rice @kenrice.bsky.social · Sep 7

I should have added that at about the same time as this, maybe even roughly the same day, I was involved in "discussions" with another Viscount (Ridley) which led me to muse that I was "annoying" two Viscounts at the same time.

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · Sep 7

I totally agree, the two articles you mention are really worth reading - esp by those not asking what science 'is' (or even worse 'should be') but how it's 'done'. (This one is also good: diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/08/10/e...)

Everything not written down

Science is a process. If we consider it merely for the purposes of momentary illumination as an animal, then it is an animal that blunders around somewhat blindly and clumsily, consuming things and…

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Ken Rice @kenrice.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Some thoughts about doing science

I’ve often thought that science communicators should spend a bit more time discussing what we might call the scientific method and a bit less time highlighting what are seen as exciting scien…

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