Daniel Bailey
@danielbailey99.bsky.social
Former Science Editor of the NASA Climate Change website and member of Skeptical Science. Facts and integrity matter.
Here's places that could suffer from the effects of 1 and 6 meter sea level rise. Getting long in the tooth but still serviceable.
skepticalscience.com/mapping_sea_...
skepticalscience.com/mapping_sea_...
Sea level rise: coming to a place near you
It has been said that our coastal cities are but castles made of sand. And like sand, they will fall into the sea, eventually. No one can tell the day or the hour, but with the expected rise of sea ...
skepticalscience.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Here's places that could suffer from the effects of 1 and 6 meter sea level rise. Getting long in the tooth but still serviceable.
skepticalscience.com/mapping_sea_...
skepticalscience.com/mapping_sea_...
Fortunately we have global observational data, so one's personal anecdotes are rendered meaningless. The human-driven changing of Earth's climate is well-understood and well-documented.
November 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Fortunately we have global observational data, so one's personal anecdotes are rendered meaningless. The human-driven changing of Earth's climate is well-understood and well-documented.
Eyewall vs the eye itself.
As an analogy: the rubber part of a car tire is the "eyewall" and the metal rim of a car tire corresponds to its "eye".
As an analogy: the rubber part of a car tire is the "eyewall" and the metal rim of a car tire corresponds to its "eye".
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Eyewall vs the eye itself.
As an analogy: the rubber part of a car tire is the "eyewall" and the metal rim of a car tire corresponds to its "eye".
As an analogy: the rubber part of a car tire is the "eyewall" and the metal rim of a car tire corresponds to its "eye".
With implications for Northern Europe, yes. The globe as a whole will continue to warm.
www.carbonbrief.org/ocean-curren...
www.carbonbrief.org/ocean-curren...
October 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
With implications for Northern Europe, yes. The globe as a whole will continue to warm.
www.carbonbrief.org/ocean-curren...
www.carbonbrief.org/ocean-curren...
No scientific evidence points to that. Or was that just a throwaway quip?
October 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
No scientific evidence points to that. Or was that just a throwaway quip?
It's always fascists.
October 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It's always fascists.
Congratulations!
October 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Congratulations!
An even bigger-picture view of temperatures vs "the sun":
October 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
An even bigger-picture view of temperatures vs "the sun":
Olorin groks all.
October 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Olorin groks all.
While it is true that the Vikings referred to Greenland as such largely for marketing purposes it in no way implied ice-free conditions in Iceland.
October 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
While it is true that the Vikings referred to Greenland as such largely for marketing purposes it in no way implied ice-free conditions in Iceland.
Ice has been present in Iceland since at least the mid-Holocene. Since humans have colonized it, glaciers and ice caps have been always present.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Ice has been present in Iceland since at least the mid-Holocene. Since humans have colonized it, glaciers and ice caps have been always present.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Is that an attempt at sarcasm?
October 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Is that an attempt at sarcasm?
It's almost like something has...changed.
/sarc
/sarc
October 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
It's almost like something has...changed.
/sarc
/sarc
Props, for Voltaire.
October 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Props, for Voltaire.
The GOP is only interested in rulership, and not actual goverance, as the past 50 or so years attests.
October 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The GOP is only interested in rulership, and not actual goverance, as the past 50 or so years attests.
Instead of turtles all the way down, it's fascists.
October 2, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Instead of turtles all the way down, it's fascists.
Pathological liars lie, pathologically.
Whodathunkit?
Whodathunkit?
October 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Pathological liars lie, pathologically.
Whodathunkit?
Whodathunkit?
Vocal minority vs silent majority. The power of the paid lobby.
September 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Vocal minority vs silent majority. The power of the paid lobby.
I liked Alligator Loki. Better than baby Antman.
September 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I liked Alligator Loki. Better than baby Antman.
There's simply no alternative other than the cessation of the burning of fossil fuels en masse. We have scalable replacement technologies already in use, costs won't be onerous and the transition will spur GDP. But it will require billionaires to equitably share a multi-trillion $ pie.
September 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
There's simply no alternative other than the cessation of the burning of fossil fuels en masse. We have scalable replacement technologies already in use, costs won't be onerous and the transition will spur GDP. But it will require billionaires to equitably share a multi-trillion $ pie.