Tom Wood
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Tom Wood
@TomWoodScience
Climate scientist at @KingsCollegeLon | Research Associate in Unseen Climate Extremes | Postdoc in @kclgeography / @Kings_SGA.
Leeds, England Katılım Mart 2017
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@TomWoodScience @BoseProtik @li_thal1 Hello! We're aware of login issues on agu.org affecting membership renewals. Our team is working on it, and we appreciate your patience.
To support affected users, the abstract deadline is extended to Thursday, 31 July at 5 PM ET.
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🚨 Hurry! The abstract submission deadline is tomorrow. Now is the time to submit your abstract and ensure your research has a spot at #AGU25.
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@ArnabDatta321 @nytopinion Being pragmatic about fossil fuels means leaving them in the ground. When your policy proposal is ascientific, it is no longer evidence-based. It’s just politics, and, while doing what is politically expedient may be easier, that does not mean that it is the right course.
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Climate advocates might feel hopeless with Pres-elect Trump returning to the WH.
They shouldn’t.
I wrote about how to make progress for @nytopinion:
1. Focus on innovation and industrial strategy
2. Be pragmatic about fossil fuels
3. Expand the interests that gain from decarb
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£1 in every £5 spent by low-to-middle income households’ goes on rent.
Alongside rising housing costs food insecurity has increased significantly.
It is now three times its pre-pandemic levels, with 1-in-5 Britons in 2023 skipping meals or eating less.
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Tom Wood retweetledi
Despite being a climate summit, COP is often held in countries that are putting their foot on the accelerator of environmental collapse.
Last year's COP was held in Dubai, and climate scientist @TomWoodScience was shocked by the gap between rhetoric and reality.
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Yet another depressing failure of COP is on the cards it seems.
James Murray@James_BG
Key text on climate finance is down to five pages and includes an attempt at a compromise. - $1.5tr overarching goal *by* 2035 - $250bn sub goal from industrialised nations, but appears to include private finance and MDB contributions - invites emerging economy contributions
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Tom Wood retweetledi
An ERA5 animation showing the unprecedented November 2024 Typhoon outbreak in the Western Pacific Ocean.
Just incredible.
GIF
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“It was a screaming example of everything that is wrong with the attitude of society: the juxtaposition of hyper-consumerism, wholly reliant on fossil fuels, and vulnerable people [at the conference] screaming out to us, ‘Do something about this’ – and not being listened to."
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We spoke about my experience at COP28 in Dubai.
On the view from my hotel window:
"On the right ... the Dubai Marina, full of fancy restaurants & supercars. On the left, stretching out...as far as the eye could see, one of the biggest natural gas plants in the world...
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Tom Wood retweetledi
Important new study shows that current climate models underestimate the human-caused slowing of the #AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation), because they neglect freshwater influx from Greenland melt and other sources. /1
nature.com/articles/s4156…
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@_alice_evans Describing generative AI as a "fad" is incredibly short sighted.
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Should universities teach students how to use generative AI?
Here is another academic’s critique👇
But if universities’ role is to skill students for labour market, we might consider employers’ preferences.
I respect academics’ principles, but the costs may be born by students
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As we near #COP29, this needs to be front and centre of our thoughts. The plausibility of remaining under 1.5K is fading rapidly - we need to refocus on damage limitation and be aware of voices resigned to failure.
Tom Wood@TomWoodScience
... and 2024 could be even hotter.
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@James_BG But they don't show uncertainty bands on their figures and leave caveats for the footnotes. This should be up front and centre, and the massive downside / worst-case from using more credible damage functions IMO should be emphasised as the potential impact is so huge.
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@TomWoodScience Yup. In fairness, they do acknowledge the huge uncertainties, but these exercises are always inherently deeply flawed.
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This is already bleak af from the OBR, but also if you think 3C of warming will only deliver a 5% hit to GDP I have a Miami beachfront condo to sell you.
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In fairness to the OBR, it recognises this fact repeatedly throughout the report.
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@ProfJeroenBergh @JKSteinberger You even refer to degrowth as being a "young field" yourself, by the way. Why nitpick?
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Jeroen van den Bergh@ProfJeroenBergh
@jasonhickel Well-written but Hickel is wrong. In a young field like degrowth it makes absolute sense to assess all studies that stress a degrowth focus in their title. When the result is unfavorable, one cannot compensate this by pointing at studies whose degrowth connection is less evident.
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@ProfJeroenBergh @JKSteinberger First point really just semantics, but fine. Would be interesting to know if papers critical of the topic are more likely to include the name in the title. I'm not partisan. Limiting search to titles seems an unnecessary restriction leading to potentially unfair representation.
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Not to brag, but having led a large project on degrowth, "Living Well Within Limits", which published 33 papers, roughly half of which were data analysis and modelling, only 1 would have qualified for the parameters of the study cited. This is not indicative of anything. 🤷♀️
Rutger Bregman@rcbregman
Devastating review of the degrowth literature (561 studies): --> 'few studies use quantitative or qualitative data...' --> [those that do] 'tend to include small samples or focus on non-representative cases' -->'large majority (almost 90%) are opinions rather than analysis'
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@ProfJeroenBergh @JKSteinberger It's not unusual for a paper to not include the name of the field it relates to in the title. It seems you missed a lot of literature by not including the abstract and keywords in your initial search.
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Tom Wood@TomWoodScience
@NBraakmann @v_fisch_romito @ProfJeroenBergh @IvanVSavin Savin et al. searches for the terms in the title only while Engler et al. include the abstract and keywords. Savin et al. approach is pretty flawed in my view. It's not unusual for a paper in a field to not include the term for that field... (1/2)
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@JKSteinberger So you suggest that a large majority of papers on degrowth using hard methods tend not to have the term "degrowth" in their title. I wonder why, and find this a weak defense against our review's findings. With 561 studies, a few additional ones wouldn't anyway alter the results.
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