Deepest Sleeper
@deepest-sleeper.bsky.social
mostly just observing. climate change, news, energy topics.
this century? boy I hope that, by the end of the century, we will get there. Not in 2050 but 2100? Or a couple decades earlier? that's really impossible?
November 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
this century? boy I hope that, by the end of the century, we will get there. Not in 2050 but 2100? Or a couple decades earlier? that's really impossible?
makes sense, will have to read it
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
makes sense, will have to read it
need to read this, look amazing. but since the formation of the moon? maybe from a human perspective? feels a little self-aggrandizing.
November 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
need to read this, look amazing. but since the formation of the moon? maybe from a human perspective? feels a little self-aggrandizing.
Still trying to wrap my head around all this but it seems like, if we don't publicly SAI, someone will do it.
Unless I am wrong and things are being slightly overblown as @weatherwest.bsky.social explains here: bsky.app/profile/weat...
idk I find it all very confusing!
Unless I am wrong and things are being slightly overblown as @weatherwest.bsky.social explains here: bsky.app/profile/weat...
idk I find it all very confusing!
Also, I do think it is rather likely that the *magnitude* of the increased rate of global warming due to aerosol unmasking is overstated by recent simple regressions using the last 5-15 years of temperature. How exactly that shakes out is the subject of some urgent/important ongoing research.
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Still trying to wrap my head around all this but it seems like, if we don't publicly SAI, someone will do it.
Unless I am wrong and things are being slightly overblown as @weatherwest.bsky.social explains here: bsky.app/profile/weat...
idk I find it all very confusing!
Unless I am wrong and things are being slightly overblown as @weatherwest.bsky.social explains here: bsky.app/profile/weat...
idk I find it all very confusing!
I am particularly interested in understanding how this (and related recent papers) figures into James Hansen's recent work. It seems to corroborate this part of his letter 9 mos ago: bsky.app/profile/ryan...
5) One telltale sign, they note, is the unplanned experiment occurring over the oceans as a result of new Shipping Fuel regulations, which reduced the amount of sulfate aerosols. They argue this unmasked GHG warming AND reduced Earth's reflectivity (via cloud feedbacks).
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I am particularly interested in understanding how this (and related recent papers) figures into James Hansen's recent work. It seems to corroborate this part of his letter 9 mos ago: bsky.app/profile/ryan...
Great article. I was reviewing this new study: phys.org/news/2025-11...
Wondering: Do you think this new study changes our central ECS estimates?
Most relevant to the article: What do you think about the "marine cloud brightening" idea mentioned here? I hadn't considered spraying seawater.
Wondering: Do you think this new study changes our central ECS estimates?
Most relevant to the article: What do you think about the "marine cloud brightening" idea mentioned here? I hadn't considered spraying seawater.
Cleaner air may be accelerating warming by making clouds less reflective
Earth is reflecting less sunlight, and absorbing more heat, than it did several decades ago. Global warming is advancing faster than climate models predicted, with observed temperatures exceeding proj...
phys.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Great article. I was reviewing this new study: phys.org/news/2025-11...
Wondering: Do you think this new study changes our central ECS estimates?
Most relevant to the article: What do you think about the "marine cloud brightening" idea mentioned here? I hadn't considered spraying seawater.
Wondering: Do you think this new study changes our central ECS estimates?
Most relevant to the article: What do you think about the "marine cloud brightening" idea mentioned here? I hadn't considered spraying seawater.
why block me? this is a sincere response to your article. thin skin I guess?
October 31, 2025 at 7:32 PM
why block me? this is a sincere response to your article. thin skin I guess?
I disagree with Gates but I am not sure your accusation that he is speaking in bad faith works. After all, Trump was elected in part bc of backlash against Biden era clean energy policy. Better just to debate the note on the merits.
October 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I disagree with Gates but I am not sure your accusation that he is speaking in bad faith works. After all, Trump was elected in part bc of backlash against Biden era clean energy policy. Better just to debate the note on the merits.
And yet Jim Farley thinks that the EV market in the US is going to cut in half: www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/f...
curious if you agree. Hopefully there are buyers for this car.
curious if you agree. Hopefully there are buyers for this car.
Ford CEO expects EV sales to be cut in half after end of tax credits
Farley said the industry learned that "partial electrification," such as hybrids, are easier for customers to accept for the time being.
www.cnbc.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
And yet Jim Farley thinks that the EV market in the US is going to cut in half: www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/f...
curious if you agree. Hopefully there are buyers for this car.
curious if you agree. Hopefully there are buyers for this car.
Yes, I guess I was asking if the last warm few months, and the emerging research related to clouds/reduced albedo had already definitively shifted the "mainstream" to Hansen. And that all makes sense. My hope is we can get to "net zero" some time before 2100. If he is right, we are pretty doomed...
October 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Yes, I guess I was asking if the last warm few months, and the emerging research related to clouds/reduced albedo had already definitively shifted the "mainstream" to Hansen. And that all makes sense. My hope is we can get to "net zero" some time before 2100. If he is right, we are pretty doomed...
When do you think we will reach 2C? Are you of the opinion that Hansen is right?
The high EEI + the forest sinks maybe failing (www.newscientist.com/article/2497...) make me feel like he is right. But I am trying to figure out what the consensus is right now.
The high EEI + the forest sinks maybe failing (www.newscientist.com/article/2497...) make me feel like he is right. But I am trying to figure out what the consensus is right now.
One of Earth’s most vital carbon sinks is faltering. Can we save it?
For decades, forest, grasslands and other land ecosystems have collectively absorbed up to a third of the carbon dioxide we emit each year - but this climate buffer may be collapsing far sooner than a...
www.newscientist.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
When do you think we will reach 2C? Are you of the opinion that Hansen is right?
The high EEI + the forest sinks maybe failing (www.newscientist.com/article/2497...) make me feel like he is right. But I am trying to figure out what the consensus is right now.
The high EEI + the forest sinks maybe failing (www.newscientist.com/article/2497...) make me feel like he is right. But I am trying to figure out what the consensus is right now.
We tried to "de-platform" Trump, Tucker, etc. It didn't work. I do not agree with this criticism. It is okay to talk to people, as long as the interview is critical (I haven't listened yet to be fair).
October 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
We tried to "de-platform" Trump, Tucker, etc. It didn't work. I do not agree with this criticism. It is okay to talk to people, as long as the interview is critical (I haven't listened yet to be fair).
it's a stupid piece, they should publish the linked piece too (love Lib Currents!) but it's the opinion page of a newspapers. It's ok to publish this.
October 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
it's a stupid piece, they should publish the linked piece too (love Lib Currents!) but it's the opinion page of a newspapers. It's ok to publish this.
I agree with this but it's unfortunately the Republican party that is arbitrarily destroying our scientific funding apparatus, preventing solar build via permitting malfeasance, and otherwise doing nothing not motivated by "owning the libs."
October 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I agree with this but it's unfortunately the Republican party that is arbitrarily destroying our scientific funding apparatus, preventing solar build via permitting malfeasance, and otherwise doing nothing not motivated by "owning the libs."
"Durable policy does not emerge from those fighting a perceived battle between good and evil, but through a collective commitment to working together among people who might disagree about aspects of science and politics, but who are willing to set aside those differences to pursue shared interests"
October 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"Durable policy does not emerge from those fighting a perceived battle between good and evil, but through a collective commitment to working together among people who might disagree about aspects of science and politics, but who are willing to set aside those differences to pursue shared interests"
"uncritically platforming it." What year is it? 2015? Anti-immigrant politics absolutely has a strong organic constituency. Just shouting "astro-turf" is not going to work.
September 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"uncritically platforming it." What year is it? 2015? Anti-immigrant politics absolutely has a strong organic constituency. Just shouting "astro-turf" is not going to work.
@arvindpawan1.bsky.social might be someone to ping here. Wondering if he would think that monitoring and leak-plugging activities in the US might or might not improve the situation.
September 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
@arvindpawan1.bsky.social might be someone to ping here. Wondering if he would think that monitoring and leak-plugging activities in the US might or might not improve the situation.
Do you mind explaining a bit more why you are less worried about the AMOC than other components? People like Stefan Rahmstorf, as well as the Economist article that others have linked, seem to think this would lead to failing monsoons in asia, crop failures in Europe, etc.
September 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Do you mind explaining a bit more why you are less worried about the AMOC than other components? People like Stefan Rahmstorf, as well as the Economist article that others have linked, seem to think this would lead to failing monsoons in asia, crop failures in Europe, etc.
The fix is in
Judy Curry unwittingly spills the beans
www.theclimatebrink.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
bsky.app/profile/jdcm...
oh look, it's Cuomo using "uhoused" while the more popular, more left-wing, candidate just uses "homeless" like a normal person. it's not a huge deal but it's a small thing that will help. that is all.
oh look, it's Cuomo using "uhoused" while the more popular, more left-wing, candidate just uses "homeless" like a normal person. it's not a huge deal but it's a small thing that will help. that is all.
It’s funny that Cuomo used “unhoused” in his big callout post, while Zohran uses “homeless”
August 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
bsky.app/profile/jdcm...
oh look, it's Cuomo using "uhoused" while the more popular, more left-wing, candidate just uses "homeless" like a normal person. it's not a huge deal but it's a small thing that will help. that is all.
oh look, it's Cuomo using "uhoused" while the more popular, more left-wing, candidate just uses "homeless" like a normal person. it's not a huge deal but it's a small thing that will help. that is all.
They don't use this language as much, but they did, all the time, constantly, in ~2020-2022 which colored people's perceptions of party and who its platform was for (i.e. gave the impression that Dems were only fighting for grad students in the humanities)
August 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
They don't use this language as much, but they did, all the time, constantly, in ~2020-2022 which colored people's perceptions of party and who its platform was for (i.e. gave the impression that Dems were only fighting for grad students in the humanities)
all that being said politicians who used this language in 2021 have largely stopped and Third Way should make positive suggestions instead.
August 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
all that being said politicians who used this language in 2021 have largely stopped and Third Way should make positive suggestions instead.