🏮Job alert: Climate risk postdocs🏮 We are hiring 2 postdocs in #climate risk assessment and management. Valuing the Sea-Level Adaptation Benefits of Earth Observations: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/201662 Integrated Climate Risk Management in Urban Coasts: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/201661

My colleagues & I spent the past three days immersed in questions about how to incorporate the effects of climate change and building a clean energy economy into macroeconomic modeling w/ an incredible group of scholars. Some take-aways ... 1/ nationalacademies.org/event/39824_06…

NaomiOreskes Clara Ross 🐝 Bad Climate Change Takes Christine Arena I actually wouldn’t say that — we aren’t writing about disinformation, but about how IPCC assessments of sea level rise projections get interpreted by adaptation policy users who we have every reason to think are interpreting in good faith.

Since The Discourse, courtesy The Hill, seems to have picked up on our paper on communicating sea-level rise uncertainty to assessment users, I posted a thread on Mastodon explaining it: fediscience.org/@bobkopp/11058…

How to express uncertainty in sea level rise? Really uncertain, deeply uncertain, Knightian uncertain, ... rdcu.be/de6aS

Brenhin Keller Since a number of people have written me about this article, here is my critique of it: Saul Elbein did a pretty nice job (especially since he was working off the press release and didn’t manage to get in touch with me)...

"Communicating future sea-level rise uncertainty and ambiguity to assessment users" published in NatureClimate was one of our top rated articles on Altmetric this past week. You can read the article here: go.nature.com/3NpBZ2X

1/n Here's why I think Ross Douthat got it wrong, actually dead wrong, today. And BTW I like a lot of his stuff. He talks about antivaccine activism and activists as though it's just one side of yet another woke issue or another small piece in America's culture wars. But...

It’s wholly expected, yet still remarkable that a columnist, feels free to pontificate on whether Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD should debate a prominent conspiracy therapist, w/o once looking at the scientific research on what constitutes effective science communication. nytimes.com/2023/06/24/opi…

Roger, did you read the paper or just search for the string “8.5”?

🌊 Let's start our week by sharing this fascinating article on communicating sea-level rise - it's by Bob Kopp Rutgers EOAS & colleagues, published in NatureClimate. An important topic! And it has a healthy Altmetric score too. Nature Portfolio #SeaLevelRise #scicomm

“The presence and magnitude of ambiguity in sea-level projections can affect how planners make decisions, and thus is important to communicate clearly and effectively” says Bob Kopp in a new study on how climate scientists communicate risk rutgers.edu/news/assessmen…

So bc I’m not here much I’ve largely missed the controversy, but is Patrick Brown basically upset the Nature editor let him resubmit rather than rejecting based on 1st round review comments? And somehow this is being blown up into the X/conservative media controversy of the week?

I just listened to this… it really was a great conversation!

What can satellite data do for you? 🌊🛰️🌏 Our new paper offers ideas on how coastal communities could use satellite data to dynamically adapt to sea level rise. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Ben Hamlington, @daverounce, Renee Collini, Marjolijn Haasnoot, Bob Kopp, Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation et al.

GOP learns the hard way: Turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker

This is actually a good reminder that when Republican so-called moderates demand bipartisanship, what they're really insisting on is Dem help in whitewashing GOP extremism and achieving distance from it.

NEW EXPERT VIDEO QUOTES: Climate scientist Bob Kopp weighs in on the new Berkeley Earth Global Temp Report released today. Reporters can use these quotes and clips freely in news stories. sciline.org/climate/2023-t…

"So we should view 2023 as a preview of what we might expect to see as years above 1.5 degrees C become increasingly common—and then in the 2030s, the norm." Bob Kopp SciLine sciline.org/climate/2023-t…

Remind me why I almost never on here… oh yes, I log on after a couple of months & find a random person responding to a 5-year-old thread about why “climate emergency declarations” are a poor fit for addressing the climate crisis by calling me a Nazi sympathizer.