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The Breakthrough Institute Interactive Brokers Campus

Talk at the January 2025 American Meteorological Society’s annual meeting on research published here: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adab86

Last week, I wrote an opinion piece in The Free Press on perverse incentives in scientific publishing. I described the strong incentives researchers face to publish high-profile papers and how those incentives naturally push researchers to mold their research questions and the … Continue reading →

There is a formula for publishing climate change impacts research in the most prestigious and widely-read scientific journals. Following it brings professional success, but it comes at a cost to society. This is a version of a piece that is … Continue reading →

We have a paper out on a field of increasing importance in meteorology: The analysis of synoptic-scale extreme reductions in wind and solar power energy resources (i.e., wind and solar “droughts”). If you like talks more than papers here is … Continue reading →

A few people asked me about the accuracy of a recent NY Times Magazine / NY Times Daily Podcast story “How Climate Migration Will Reshape America”. It contains plenty of interesting discussion on e.g., property insurance under a changing climate … Continue reading →

Lecture on tipping points in the climate system from my frosh, general education level Global Warming course.