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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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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · 8d
I eagerly await lower prices for RI electricity!

Reposted by Baylor Fox‐Kemper

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Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social · 8d
In December the Trump admin issued stop work orders on 5 offshore wind farms that were all over 40% completed

Courts have now allowed all 5 to continue construction

www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
Trump receives 5th straight loss in offshore wind fight
A federal judge sided with Sunrise Wind on Monday in its bid to lift the administration’s freeze on construction of the project.
www.eenews.net

Reposted by Jonathan M. Gilligan

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · 9d
New perspective paper on using accurate emulators (ML-based or toy-model-based) like dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI... and dx.doi.org/10.5194/egus... together with Earth System Models to get more out of both!

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Rewiring climate modeling with machine learning emulators
Communications Earth & Environment - This Perspective argues that machine learning emulators could transform climate modeling by co-designing with simulators, aligning goals, data, and...
rdcu.be

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · 13d
You could volunteer!

Reposted by Peter Thorne

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · 13d
Enormously interesting to work on this article. John Nicklas defends his PhD, including his contributions to this work and dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI... on Friday!

Reposted by Baylor Fox‐Kemper

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 19d
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

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · 22d
Find it here!
www.npr.org/people/57654...

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · 25d
Keeping X online is doing more damage to X than any ban could.

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Jan 8
www.agu.org/chapman-sea-...
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Reposted by Peter Thorne, Baylor Fox‐Kemper

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Anson Cheung @ansonhcheung.bsky.social · Jan 6
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

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 24
Thanks for the details.

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 23
Not my intent.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 22
I thought you were kidding, but www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSZP...

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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

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

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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...

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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

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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!

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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

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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.

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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.

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 19
“Living in truth requires courage, especially when that truth is ugly.” – Dexter Morgan

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 18
Thanks for making my holiday season festive. Greensleeves has nothing on this!

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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

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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

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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

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Baylor Fox-Kemper @baylorfk.bsky.social · Dec 17
Roger, we didn't always agree, but on this point we do.