Gavin Schmidt
@climateofgavin.bsky.social
Climate scientist, juggler. Bikes etc. Blogging at https://www.realclimate.org - data visualization, explainers, and debunking.
Given the recent COVID-19 origins revival and Fauci witchhunt, just a reminder that I have written a book that answers to the best of our knowledge the question; and dismantles the many disinformation campaigns around the various lab leak narratives. Free access: open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
Lab Leak Fever
The COVID-19 Origin Theory that Sabotaged Science and Society
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"I work in physics research and the AI situation makes me feel insane." www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/c...
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Does anyone have a link to an official source that shows the deadline to submit papers so they can be included in IPCC AR7 WGI? Web search gives me March 2027 for submission and October 2027 for acceptance but not from an official source.
Nature Climate Change has an online collection of reviews, opinion pieces, and research on climate change communication.
Climate change communication
Effective climate change communication enhances public climate mitigation and adaptive behaviour, building resilience against intensifying climate hazards.
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Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>
This is a key point. Reducing CO2 emissions to net zero is needed to stop things getting worse. On it's own it doesn't turn back the clock. But some ppl (you know who) pretend that emission cuts are unrelated to climate impacts via extreme weather. They are dissembling.
ClimateBook@climatebook.bsky.social · 2d agoThis thread highights a subtle and difficult messaging problem. Achieving netZero will not reverse the impacts of the current climate, which has been heated up by historical CO2 emissions. It is too late for that. The point of netZero is to prevent the future situation from getting even worse. ..
It’s time to reread this wonderful book.
Federal agencies are rushing to move hundreds of workers into new buildings. Employees say the moves are significantly disrupting their work. n.pr/3TzChv9
Bedbugs, bad Wi-Fi: Federal workers say forced summer relocations have been chaos
Federal agencies are rushing to move hundreds of workers into new buildings. Employees say the moves are significantly disrupting their work.
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As RFK Jr and Trump desperately try to gaslight us about the #COVID pandemic, remember that 1.2 million Americans died-- one of every 300 people in the country. The COVID-19 vaccine SAVED 3.2 million lives, prevented 18 million hospitalizations, & averted more than $1.15 trillion in medical costs.
Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/
"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
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“No one has the moral authority to sell what they merely hold in trust for the next generation.” Bars.
Legendgerry@gerald-t-mc-evoy.bsky.social · 5d agoOh wow. FIFA is done. www.uefa.com/news-media/n...
The only interesting thing to come out of the absurdly stupid Fauci hearing this week (I despair for the future of science-informed policy making), were Fauci’s real time notes. Reading the whole thing is a great reminder of what happened and how hard it was. drive.google.com/file/d/1C2Wg...
2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf
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Said this before, and will keep saying it: Prior to vaccine availability in the US, almost 1 in 5 people hospitalized during the pandemic DIED. For those admitted to an ICU it was more like 40-50%. The vaccines, and then the combination of vaccines and less lethal variants, changed everything.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d agoRunning out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
And by June 2021, almost every single COVID death was in unvaccinated people It was essentially entirely preventable—but folks like RFK Jr, who lied by saying the COVID vaccine was “the deadliest vaccine in history,” were doing all they coul to derail vaccination 😢 2/2 www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
Nearly all COVID deaths in U.S. are now among unvaccinated
It is a staggering demonstration of how effective the shots have been and an indication that deaths per day — now down to under 300 — could be practically zero if everyone eligible got the vaccine.
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Morning Bluesky This is correct, by Paul Krugman: “1.2 million Americans died from Covid — a number that would have been much lower if MAGA misinformation hadn’t caused so many people to refuse vaccination” See: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... 1/2 paulkrugman.substack.com/p/reality-is...
Reality is a Communist Plot
Of MAGA and the totalitarian mindset
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So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...
Our last, best chance to cool the Earth
We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...
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This is one of the best things I've read in a while about the psychology of car supremacy, and how those of us who even *question* it are viewed as heretics. Thanks to @pflax1.bsky.social for sending this my way.
We Don’t Have a Culture of Convenience in North America. We Have a CULT of Convenience.
And you can tell the difference by what happens when you question it.
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Another outing for the Silurian Hypothesis! www.cnn.com/2026/07/25/c...
If another advanced civilization lived on Earth before us, would we know? | CNN
Two scientists explored the idea that there was another civilizaton before humans, which harnessed energy and wiped itself out. To investigate, they looked deep into the Earth’s past but also far into...
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On The Climate Brink, @zekehausfather.com and I revisit the warmth of the 1930s. This seems to be one of the most important denier arguments out there. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/raw-data-w...
Raw Data, Wrong Answers
What happens to the 1930s temperature record after correcting measurement biases and station coverage
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Take a look: @metoffice.gov.uk are recruiting a 'global coupled model development scientist' Closing date 9 August. careers.metoffice.gov.uk/join-us/sear...
Met Office Careers
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"It has been a truly humiliating few weeks for Elon Musk and his followers, and it’s only going to get worse. If I weren’t laughing so much, I would almost feel sorry for them."
You Will Never See Elon Musk's The Odyssey
The humiliation of the Tesla Weirdo is complete.
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Trying to appease liars who seek your destruction for ideological reasons does not, in fact, make them stop trying to destroy you. Abandoning your values to chase after people who oppose you at their very core does not make anyone else trust you more. The results—unsurprisingly—are the opposite.
There are people who will tell you with a perfectly straight face that climate change impacts are not that bad, nothing to panic and rapidly phase out fossil fuels about. And anyway this destruction is about failure to adapt so it's sort of their fault.
Dr. Prakash Kashwan@pkashwan.bsky.social · 2w ago"The number of people evacuated in France and Spain has now passed 250,000...Both countries are facing unprecedented blazes that are spreading unchecked despite the efforts of many hundreds of firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft." www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
