Atmospheric Sciences professor at U. Utah. Believer that it really is turtles all the way down. Opinions predetermined and not my employer's.
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17 Jun 2022
Thread: New paper in @EGU_ESD with @ProfSteveKeen and @prof_grasselli shows a 50-year fixed relationship between world economic "wealth" - not the GDP - and global primary energy consumption. Implication? Our future is tied to even our quite distant past
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May 22
New paper out in @EGU_ACP "Toward less subjective metrics for quantifying the shape and organization of clouds". We describe new methods for objectively describing fields of irregularly shaped fractal objects with a range of sizes, focusing on cloud fields
acp.copernicus.org/articles/…
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Apr 23
A terrific post on recent work with Matheus Grasselli on the thermodynamic forces driving economic inflation, particularly -- but not exclusively -- within the context of damages from climate change
"The Thermodynamic Endgame of Industrial Civilization"
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Apr 6
The old of civilization is always falling apart even as it newly grows. Additional decay forced by climate change need only grow by 0.1%/year to lead to civilization collapse by 2070, sooner for higher rates. We will collapse slowly then all at once.
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A really odd thing about existing Integrated Assessment Model descriptions of climate damages is that they imply (as we describe) absurdly low rates of economic inflation even for catastrophic warming egusphere.copernicus.org/pre…...
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It's almost as if the expectation of economists is that widespread crop failure or infrastructure damage would do nothing to prices. Doesn't add up.
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Mar 24
New preprint out by myself and Matheus Grasselli in @EGU_ESD showing how a global hyperinflationary shock is an expected consequence of climate change, plausibly emerging in the next few decades.
egusphere.copernicus.org/pre…
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Tim Garrett retweeted
27 Oct 2025
The arc of history is long but it bends towards a lethally hot supercontinent 250 million years from now
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Tim Garrett retweeted
25 Sep 2025
“The Arctic Ocean became a net CO2 source…contributing to prolonged carbon input, temperature rise and ocean acidification during the PETM. These findings highlight potential major perturbations to Arctic carbon cycling under future climate change.”
25 Sep 2025
Article: Enhanced aerobic oxidation of methane in the Arctic Ocean intensified carbon dioxide emissions during the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, potentially extending the event
@MethanoClimate @ChemClimatology
nature.com/articles/s41561-0…
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💡What powers the world🕯️
Humanity's energy demands are constantly increasing, relying on a growing supply of fossil fuels & "renewable" energy."Civilization grows by efficiently using an energy surplus to transform the earth's crust into the stuff of us"
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18 Nov 2023
In a world sustained by combustion, even just maintaining the GDP at current levels accelerates CO2 emissions and the rise in concentrations. To stop this either:
1. We proactively collapse the economy now, or
2. Wait for climate change to do it for us later🧵
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Tim Garrett retweeted
18 Aug 2025
251.9 mya
16 Aug 2025
i wonder if the scariest moment ever in history has happened yet
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Tim Garrett retweeted
14 Aug 2025
We just checked and there’s still no snow in the forecast.
In the 1940s, the study of snow science and avalanche mitigation in North America began right here at Alta, thanks to the work of intrepid USFS Snow Rangers.
🎥: Sverre Engen
🤠: Monty Atwater and Ed LaChapelle
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1 Aug 2025
Not the first time I've posted this, but I always find it quite fascinating how well it continues to hold. For over *two thousand years*, atmospheric CO2 perturbations have scaled with the world GDP. Aren't the implications for climate change mitigation pretty simple...?
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3 Jul 2025
This could be better framed as asking “what will the OBBB bill do for the global economy?”. The global economy is stably carbon based. So, if it hurts the economy through idiocy then it reduces CO2 emissions
2 Jul 2025
Compared to what Trump can do via executive action alone, if the Senate-passed #OBBB becomes law:
1. US greenhouse gas emissions would increase by ~190 million metric tons per year in 2030 & 470 million tons in 2035
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And there is this in case @RnaudBertrand is interested:
x.com/nephologue/status/1303…
8 Sep 2020
Latest news: We need to return to 353 ppm CO2 to restore the energy balance and stop global warming
essd.copernicus.org/articles…
That requires rewinding civilization energy demands back to 1960.
tinyurl.com/y6ht39tj
Good times ahead.
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CO2/GHG are the waste products of a combustion-driven & interconnected civilisation and must be addressed globally. UK emission cuts are irrelevant amid rising global CO2 levels.what Arnaud as a China Lobbyists is defending is the growth paradigm.
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26 May 2024
We're collectively growing at an extraordinary pace of about 2.4% per year, fast enough to add as much to our daily resource demands in the next 30 years as we have since the dawn of civilization. If you feel it's hard to keep up, there's a reason... 🧵
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19 Mar 2025
When will we draw a link between an accelerating rise in CO2 emissions and the surge in renewables? Renewables do not replace, they do not simply add, but by catalyzing the construction of a hungry civilization, they spur
19 Mar 2025
Jaw dropping: "Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record."
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Tim Garrett retweeted
12 Mar 2025
"A potentially more concerning explanation for the drop in cloud cover is an emerging low-cloud feedback, whereby low cloud cover decreases with rising temperature, which...could lead to more future warming than currently anticipated"
12 Mar 2025
March editorial: Temperature rising - on the recent period of exceptional warmth
nature.com/articles/s41561-0…
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Tim Garrett retweeted
8 Feb 2025
The neoliberal dream of fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch was always the destruction of US democracy and the elimination of government (except for its repressive organs police, courts, prisons, military ofc), and now he has won.
What now? A short 🧵.
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Tim Garrett retweeted
7 Feb 2025
Big graupel and water totals at Alta today. Peak hourly water equivalent so far is 0.41"
The record at that site is 0.54" from 10-11 UTC 5 Jan 2008. Radar image below. Snowfall generated over the Alpine Ridge in a southwesterly atmospheric river just ahead of a cold front.
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5 Feb 2025
Wasatch Weather Weenies: Why the National Science Foundation Matters: wasatchweatherweenies.blogsp…
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