Ken Rice
@kenrice.bsky.social
Interested in #scicomm, in particular about astronomy and climate change. Professor of Computational Astrophysics and Head of Institute for Astronomy, Univ. of Edinburgh. Views own, of course.
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this is a very impressive analysis of some of the statistical "oddities" in Pielke Jr's analysis that normalized climate impacts are declining. Everyone should read this.
economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/r...
economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/r...
Roger Pielke Jr.’s Appallingly Bad Analysis of Billion Dollar Disasters – Economics from the Top Down
In a recent paper called Scientific integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters”, Roger Pielke Jr. published a chart that's so bad I've devoted a whole essay to debunking it.
economicsfromthetopdown.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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I've been involved in this CH4 vs CO2 thing for years, and indeed GWP* is a concise embodiment of the concept I proposed in my Annual Reviews article on short lived climate pollution. I cannot understand why something like GWP*, which demonstrably
October 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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I discussed the issues a couple of years ago @realclimate.org www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
and the latest barrage of op-eds adds nothing to their argument.
and the latest barrage of op-eds adds nothing to their argument.
RealClimate: Watching the detections
RealClimate: The detection and attribution of climate change are based on fundamentally different statistical frameworks and shouldn't be conflated.
www.realclimate.org
October 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I discussed the issues a couple of years ago @realclimate.org www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
and the latest barrage of op-eds adds nothing to their argument.
and the latest barrage of op-eds adds nothing to their argument.
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This is a good corrective to the BS narrative flowing through the Pielke/AEI/NYP/EID/DOE nexus. Their argument is designed so that we can never ever attribute extreme events to emissions - even singular events that would have *never* [for some suitable finite approximation] have happened before.
Today from @lesleyclark.bsky.social and @saraschonhardt.bsky.social + contribs from me:
www.eenews.net/articles/cli...
www.eenews.net/articles/cli...
October 10, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Pretty good sign that the work is both impactful and effectively communicated.
October 10, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Pielke… Ridley… lab leak fanatics and climate deniers that attack ordinary scientists are often the same players.
Imagine the media would, instead of framing the science or scientists as the problem, rather wake up to the same old anti-science actors, tactics and agendas.
Imagine the media would, instead of framing the science or scientists as the problem, rather wake up to the same old anti-science actors, tactics and agendas.
October 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Koonin spending an entire WSJ column criticizing @nationalacademies.org’s report for not being a review of his DOE climate contrarian report when (1) to my knowledge, the Academies have never reviewed a gov’t report without being asked (though such an independent review, or comparable, is necessary…
Opinion | Another Tale of Climate Change Bias
The government should stop funding the National Academies’ climate studies until they shed the political conformity.
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October 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Koonin spending an entire WSJ column criticizing @nationalacademies.org’s report for not being a review of his DOE climate contrarian report when (1) to my knowledge, the Academies have never reviewed a gov’t report without being asked (though such an independent review, or comparable, is necessary…
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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?
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
October 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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?
The DOE CWG authors confuse detection and attribution with emergence.
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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.
While not possible to fully rule out, the assessed warming scenarios we published in the IPCC AR6 report find this to be extremely unlikely.
September 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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.
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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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
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
September 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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
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
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September 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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 ...
www.realclimate.org
September 28, 2025 at 6:39 AM
RealClimate: “But you said the ice was going to disappear in 10 years!” www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
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...
www.realclimate.org
September 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
RealClimate: Time and Tide Gauges wait for no Voortman www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
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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...
September 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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New from me on The Climate Brink: The Cartoon Villain's Guide to Killing Climate Action
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September 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
New from me on The Climate Brink: The Cartoon Villain's Guide to Killing Climate Action
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@kenrice.bsky.social traces the trend of the limits of justified disingenuousness
andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/c...
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September 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
@kenrice.bsky.social traces the trend of the limits of justified disingenuousness
andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/c...
andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/c...
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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.
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.
September 15, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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.
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.
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.
September 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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.
