Connie Sorensen retweeted
This article says climate change is “believed to have played a role” in the UK's extreme heat this week.
As a climate scientist, let me fact-check that.
First, climate change is not a religion. No belief is required. It is about evidence.
And the evidence has been crystal clear for more than two decades: climate change is making heat waves hotter, longer, more frequent and more dangerous.
In fact, science has advanced far beyond saying climate change merely “played a role.” Today, we can quantify how much more likely and how much hotter climate change made a specific event.
Here's the bottom line:
Climate is changing. Humans are responsible. And we are experiencing the impacts now. That’s the bad news.
The good news is that solutions already exist, and the majority of people care - 89%, around the world!
But meaningful action depends on helping people understand not just what is happening: we need to know how it affects our lives (this heat wave being example A today) and what we can do about it.
That’s the opportunity this reporting missed.
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Connie Sorensen retweeted
It’s a rough time to be a scientist.
You spend decades learning how to measure things properly.
How to separate signal from noise.
How to distinguish hazard from risk.
And then you open your phone and watch fear beat data - again and again and again.
In the lab, we argue about controls, concentrations, confidence intervals.
Online, people argue about screenshots, podcasters and blogs.
This little molecule in my hand?
The dose matters.
Exposure matters.
Evidence matters.
Being a scientist today means doing more than running experiments.
It means explaining, clarifying, correcting - over and over and over again.
So yes - it’s a rough time to be a scientist.
But it’s also the most important time to speak up.
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When have you ever in history heard a world leader speak like this "Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH!" Trump said these words, ending his Easter morning post.
Connie Sorensen retweeted
The US-Israel have just bombed and destroyed a synagogue in Tehran.
Iran is home to West Asia's second largest Jewish community.
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