Bryan Lawrence
@atmbnl.bsky.social
Prof of Weather and Climate Computing, UK National Centre for Atmospheric Science and University of Reading. Expat kiwi. Walker. Currently mainly at @bnlawrence@mastodon.nz
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A thread on Felix Klein, Emmy Noether, and credit where credit is due.
Felix Klein gave a lecture at the Mathematical Society of Göttingen #OTD in 1918. The title was “On Hilbert’s first note on the foundations of physics." 🧪 ⚛️ 👩🔬
Felix Klein gave a lecture at the Mathematical Society of Göttingen #OTD in 1918. The title was “On Hilbert’s first note on the foundations of physics." 🧪 ⚛️ 👩🔬
January 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
A thread on Felix Klein, Emmy Noether, and credit where credit is due.
Felix Klein gave a lecture at the Mathematical Society of Göttingen #OTD in 1918. The title was “On Hilbert’s first note on the foundations of physics." 🧪 ⚛️ 👩🔬
Felix Klein gave a lecture at the Mathematical Society of Göttingen #OTD in 1918. The title was “On Hilbert’s first note on the foundations of physics." 🧪 ⚛️ 👩🔬
I am heartily sick of getting invitations to important meetings with strategic implications with only two or three weeks warning. It’s like people think we are sitting with empty diaries desperate to prioritise their meeting!
NERC, UKSA I’m looking at you!
NERC, UKSA I’m looking at you!
January 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I am heartily sick of getting invitations to important meetings with strategic implications with only two or three weeks warning. It’s like people think we are sitting with empty diaries desperate to prioritise their meeting!
NERC, UKSA I’m looking at you!
NERC, UKSA I’m looking at you!
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Pre-emptive obedience everywhere ... I am curious to know if even Hitler or Putin had a ride this easy? (Serious question, and I don't know the answer). What happened to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_of... ?
January 4, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Pre-emptive obedience everywhere ... I am curious to know if even Hitler or Putin had a ride this easy? (Serious question, and I don't know the answer). What happened to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_of... ?
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This is a very important issue. The success rate of proposals is so low that people spend all their time, writing proposals and not doing actual science. Another way science is broken.
Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS
Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper
aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...
www.pnas.org
January 4, 2025 at 3:55 AM
This is a very important issue. The success rate of proposals is so low that people spend all their time, writing proposals and not doing actual science. Another way science is broken.
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I really don't think this is a great narrative to promote. It's not as if climate scientists haven't been very vocal about the risks associated with climate change/global warming and just because it *might* be faster than some kind of best estimate doesn't imply "confused".
January 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I really don't think this is a great narrative to promote. It's not as if climate scientists haven't been very vocal about the risks associated with climate change/global warming and just because it *might* be faster than some kind of best estimate doesn't imply "confused".
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Ooohhhh, climate change is real when a golf course is involved but not when 8 billion lives are.
Got it.
Got it.
January 1, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Ooohhhh, climate change is real when a golf course is involved but not when 8 billion lives are.
Got it.
Got it.
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Climate scientists be like..
January 1, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Climate scientists be like..
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"A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science" | My new article with Peter Hotez in #SkepticalInquirer: skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-tr...
A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science | Skeptical Inquirer
Over the past decade, many of us in the scientific community have come to appreciate the existential threat we face today—a threat unlike any we’ve witnesse ...
skepticalinquirer.org
December 31, 2024 at 3:20 PM
"A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science" | My new article with Peter Hotez in #SkepticalInquirer: skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-tr...
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I see that a lot of people still need to look at this infographic about the difference between carbon removal (CDR) and carbon capture (CCS).
carbon180.org/blog/the-dif...
carbon180.org/blog/the-dif...
August 20, 2024 at 6:45 PM
I see that a lot of people still need to look at this infographic about the difference between carbon removal (CDR) and carbon capture (CCS).
carbon180.org/blog/the-dif...
carbon180.org/blog/the-dif...
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72% of polio cases are asymptomatic.
24% get a sore throat or fever.
1-5% headache and neck stiffness (meningitis).
0.1–0.5% paralysis.
Can you imagine the internet with a polio epidemic where >99.5% of people are totally fine?
24% get a sore throat or fever.
1-5% headache and neck stiffness (meningitis).
0.1–0.5% paralysis.
Can you imagine the internet with a polio epidemic where >99.5% of people are totally fine?
December 31, 2024 at 4:16 AM
72% of polio cases are asymptomatic.
24% get a sore throat or fever.
1-5% headache and neck stiffness (meningitis).
0.1–0.5% paralysis.
Can you imagine the internet with a polio epidemic where >99.5% of people are totally fine?
24% get a sore throat or fever.
1-5% headache and neck stiffness (meningitis).
0.1–0.5% paralysis.
Can you imagine the internet with a polio epidemic where >99.5% of people are totally fine?
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The psychological challenge of climate change - our brains are hard-wired to respond to immediate threats, not a slow-motion disaster happening at a global scale (and that's not even considering the tsunami of misinformation hitting us every day).
December 18, 2024 at 10:01 PM
The psychological challenge of climate change - our brains are hard-wired to respond to immediate threats, not a slow-motion disaster happening at a global scale (and that's not even considering the tsunami of misinformation hitting us every day).
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Come work at He Pou A Rangi, New Zealand's Climate Change Commission, as General Manager, Evidence and Advice. This leadership role will steer the Commission's multi-year work programme providing independent advice and monitoring of climate action.
centralagenciesjobs.cass.govt.nz/jobdetails/a...
centralagenciesjobs.cass.govt.nz/jobdetails/a...
December 24, 2024 at 2:21 AM
Come work at He Pou A Rangi, New Zealand's Climate Change Commission, as General Manager, Evidence and Advice. This leadership role will steer the Commission's multi-year work programme providing independent advice and monitoring of climate action.
centralagenciesjobs.cass.govt.nz/jobdetails/a...
centralagenciesjobs.cass.govt.nz/jobdetails/a...
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“Farmers are driven to poor practice by the pressure to increase short-term yields.”
Add soil salinity to the long list of reasons why our food system is teetering on collapse.
Building this system around shareholder profit, rather than feeding people, may well be humanity’s greatest mistake.
Add soil salinity to the long list of reasons why our food system is teetering on collapse.
Building this system around shareholder profit, rather than feeding people, may well be humanity’s greatest mistake.
Global food production at increased risk from excess salt in soil, UN report warns
Scientists say climate crisis and poor agricultural practices to blame with serious implications for crop yields
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2024 at 9:00 AM
“Farmers are driven to poor practice by the pressure to increase short-term yields.”
Add soil salinity to the long list of reasons why our food system is teetering on collapse.
Building this system around shareholder profit, rather than feeding people, may well be humanity’s greatest mistake.
Add soil salinity to the long list of reasons why our food system is teetering on collapse.
Building this system around shareholder profit, rather than feeding people, may well be humanity’s greatest mistake.
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Anyone interested in #climatepolicy out there?
Take 2 min to watch/read below how we're building the next generation of #EarthSystemModels and Integrated Assessment Models tailored to inform mitigation strategies in support of achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement.👇https://bit.ly/ESM2025video
Take 2 min to watch/read below how we're building the next generation of #EarthSystemModels and Integrated Assessment Models tailored to inform mitigation strategies in support of achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement.👇https://bit.ly/ESM2025video
ESM2025 EU research project
This is the presentation video of ESM2025 EU research project on Earth system model development.ESM2025 is a European research project on Earth System modell...
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December 11, 2024 at 8:05 AM
Anyone interested in #climatepolicy out there?
Take 2 min to watch/read below how we're building the next generation of #EarthSystemModels and Integrated Assessment Models tailored to inform mitigation strategies in support of achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement.👇https://bit.ly/ESM2025video
Take 2 min to watch/read below how we're building the next generation of #EarthSystemModels and Integrated Assessment Models tailored to inform mitigation strategies in support of achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement.👇https://bit.ly/ESM2025video
Kudos to Australia for having an Earth System Science plan … which is in part about prediction, which is good, since they seem to have launched it next year
December 11, 2024 at 9:10 AM
Kudos to Australia for having an Earth System Science plan … which is in part about prediction, which is good, since they seem to have launched it next year
Another set of bogus university rankings came out today (I think). They have sustainability ratings. Great, I think. Then I look at them, and I go, “What? Huh?” Then I look up the weightings. Their definition of sustainable is not mine!
December 10, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Another set of bogus university rankings came out today (I think). They have sustainability ratings. Great, I think. Then I look at them, and I go, “What? Huh?” Then I look up the weightings. Their definition of sustainable is not mine!
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"it's an older meme, sir, but it checks out..."
December 7, 2024 at 8:06 PM
"it's an older meme, sir, but it checks out..."
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A shameless plug for my study with a similar recommendation. Considering the full ensemble spread is important for sub-selecting models for dynamical downscaling. Climate sensitivity-based selection doesn't necessarily work well (CMIP5-based, so pre hot-model). journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
journals.ametsoc.org
December 7, 2024 at 7:49 PM
A shameless plug for my study with a similar recommendation. Considering the full ensemble spread is important for sub-selecting models for dynamical downscaling. Climate sensitivity-based selection doesn't necessarily work well (CMIP5-based, so pre hot-model). journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
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Okay. Someone has a sense of humor and has definitely heard him speak
December 7, 2024 at 11:02 PM
Okay. Someone has a sense of humor and has definitely heard him speak
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Don’t forget Valencia, Spain.
Don’t forget those who insisted that actions needed to avoid the #ClimateCrisis were “too expensive.”
Don’t forget all the record-breaking, historic or “100 year” events we’ve seen lately.
They’re not the “new normal.
It’s going to keep getting exponentially worse.
Don’t forget those who insisted that actions needed to avoid the #ClimateCrisis were “too expensive.”
Don’t forget all the record-breaking, historic or “100 year” events we’ve seen lately.
They’re not the “new normal.
It’s going to keep getting exponentially worse.
December 7, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Don’t forget Valencia, Spain.
Don’t forget those who insisted that actions needed to avoid the #ClimateCrisis were “too expensive.”
Don’t forget all the record-breaking, historic or “100 year” events we’ve seen lately.
They’re not the “new normal.
It’s going to keep getting exponentially worse.
Don’t forget those who insisted that actions needed to avoid the #ClimateCrisis were “too expensive.”
Don’t forget all the record-breaking, historic or “100 year” events we’ve seen lately.
They’re not the “new normal.
It’s going to keep getting exponentially worse.
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John, wait until you find out trees aren't real eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/t...
There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
Dendronization – Evolving into a tree-like morphology. (In the style of “carcinization”.) From ‘dendro’, the ancient Greek root for tree.
eukaryotewritesblog.com
December 8, 2024 at 2:41 AM
John, wait until you find out trees aren't real eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/t...
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We call it Earth only because we're land dwellers. This image shows how massive the Pacific Ocean is, covering 1/3 of the Earth's surface.
This cloudless image of the Earth centered on the Pacific was produced by NOAA satellites, which took photos over eleven ten-day periods and merged them.
This cloudless image of the Earth centered on the Pacific was produced by NOAA satellites, which took photos over eleven ten-day periods and merged them.
December 8, 2024 at 6:16 AM
We call it Earth only because we're land dwellers. This image shows how massive the Pacific Ocean is, covering 1/3 of the Earth's surface.
This cloudless image of the Earth centered on the Pacific was produced by NOAA satellites, which took photos over eleven ten-day periods and merged them.
This cloudless image of the Earth centered on the Pacific was produced by NOAA satellites, which took photos over eleven ten-day periods and merged them.
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The regional climate sensitivity of ESMs (dXreg/dTglob) is found to be mostly independent from the ESMs' global climate sensitivity (dTglob/dCO2). Hence "hot models" can be used to derive regional climate changes as function of global warming
See also:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
See also:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
December 8, 2024 at 8:32 AM
The regional climate sensitivity of ESMs (dXreg/dTglob) is found to be mostly independent from the ESMs' global climate sensitivity (dTglob/dCO2). Hence "hot models" can be used to derive regional climate changes as function of global warming
See also:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
See also:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....