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Andrew Dessler

What Andrew Dessler thinks about America

@andrew-dessler · 20 positions · 0 changes of mind

Professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M; writes The Climate Brink with Zeke Hausfather.

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  1. Our readingThe economic damage from climate-driven wildfire smoke deaths exceeds all other previously estimated categories of U.S. climate damage combined.

    climate change

    Their wordsYou read that right: The cost of climate-worsened wildfire smoke alone is larger than what earlier studies said every other estimated cost of climate change would be, combined.

    ↗♫ Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ♫theclimatebrink.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

  2. 9 days earlier

  3. Our readingThe 1930s U.S. Dust Bowl heat wave was caused by destructive farming practices rather than fossil-fuel emissions.

    Their wordsThe relevant human activity was not fossil-fuel combustion but bad farming practices that contributed to the Dust Bowl.

    ↗Fixing one of climate’s worst plotstheclimatebrink.com 1st of 3 in this piece

  5. Our readingExpanded irrigation in the central U.S. during the mid-20th century cooled the surface and suppressed heatwave frequency there.

    Their wordsIrrigation cools the surface, and the expansion of agriculture and irrigation in the central U.S. in the middle of the 20th century played a key role in why heatwaves were low in the middle of the 20th century

    ↗Fixing one of climate’s worst plotstheclimatebrink.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

  6. 7 days earlier

  7. Our readingThe intense U.S. heat of the 1930s was driven by regional natural variability plus human-caused poor land management (the Dust Bowl), not global warming.

    climate change

    Their wordsthe heat of the 1930s was a regional event, due to a combination of unforced variability and human activities (poor agricultural land management).

    ↗Raw Data, Wrong Answerstheclimatebrink.com 3rd of 3 in this piece