This past couple of days on here, it's been striking to me how little climate models are debated now compared to IAM/climate economics models.
November 2, 2026 at 3:54 PM
This past couple of days on here, it's been striking to me how little climate models are debated now compared to IAM/climate economics models.
Proponents’ own models of the Bipartisan American Accountability + Jobs Act’s climate impacts expose its epic failure to protect our climate future. At best, #BAAJA leaves U.S. emissions over 2.1 billion tons short in 2040 of even a modest climate goal.
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November 5, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Proponents’ own models of the Bipartisan American Accountability + Jobs Act’s climate impacts expose its epic failure to protect our climate future. At best, #BAAJA leaves U.S. emissions over 2.1 billion tons short in 2040 of even a modest climate goal.
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even if AI made no errors (it won't), could reach zero climate impact (it can't), compensated people with their agreement over reselling their life's work and UBI'ed displaced careers (they won't), using local models without gov and corp mass surveillance (won't be capable enough) still: fuck this 👇
gonna go full cranky kong yammering here to say outright there has been a remarkable small beanification and mental atrophy spreading like wildfire of people who hands up feel it's impossible to do things without AI help which have been done forever before and without AI, gotta say: pretty upsetting
Cranky Kong Donkey Kong Country Pixel Art
Alt: Cranky Kong in Donkey Kong Country SNES game from the 90s in rocking chair rambling while rocking, leans forward to shake cane. long gray beard on humanoid gorilla.
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November 3, 2026 at 7:37 PM
even if AI made no errors (it won't), could reach zero climate impact (it can't), compensated people with their agreement over reselling their life's work and UBI'ed displaced careers (they won't), using local models without gov and corp mass surveillance (won't be capable enough) still: fuck this 👇
William Nordhaus was more critical to climate economics than Mickey Mantle was to baseball and Marilyn Monroe was to Hollywood. He died Friday, at 85.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Nobel Winner Nordhaus Broke New Ground Fusing Economics and Climate
William Nordhaus, who created revolutionary economic models of the effects of global warming, died Oct. 30 at 85.
www.bloomberg.com
November 3, 2026 at 12:16 AM
William Nordhaus was more critical to climate economics than Mickey Mantle was to baseball and Marilyn Monroe was to Hollywood. He died Friday, at 85.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
lot of takes amounting to 'we wouldn't have been able to even begin thinking about how to solve climate change without economic models, no matter how terribly misleading they were to begin with' and i pretty strongly disagree with this
November 2, 2026 at 12:14 PM
lot of takes amounting to 'we wouldn't have been able to even begin thinking about how to solve climate change without economic models, no matter how terribly misleading they were to begin with' and i pretty strongly disagree with this
Researchers at C2SM have modernised one of the world's leading weather and climate models, boosting its speed and energy efficiency. The upgraded model is already being used for production simulations on the Alps supercomputer, helping to improve forecasts of extreme weather and climate change.
Faster climate models, accurate weather forecasts
To better predict extreme weather and climate change, computer models must evolve. Researchers from the Center for Climate Systems Modeling (C2SM) have taken an important step towards this goal by mod...
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November 5, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Researchers at C2SM have modernised one of the world's leading weather and climate models, boosting its speed and energy efficiency. The upgraded model is already being used for production simulations on the Alps supercomputer, helping to improve forecasts of extreme weather and climate change.
29 inches of ☔️ in 3 days? 20" in 6 hours? All par for the course in a warming climate. A warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor. The weather trigger wasn't climate-driven, but the 🌧️ accumulation was climate-enhanced. Florida living is increasingly hard. balancedweather.substack.com/p/incredible...
Incredible rainfall causes flash flooding that leaves 2 dead in Florida
Melbourne sets a new record for wettest November ever - on November 2nd. Also - NWS retires a number of “vintage” weather models.
balancedweather.substack.com
November 3, 2026 at 9:16 PM
29 inches of ☔️ in 3 days? 20" in 6 hours? All par for the course in a warming climate. A warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor. The weather trigger wasn't climate-driven, but the 🌧️ accumulation was climate-enhanced. Florida living is increasingly hard. balancedweather.substack.com/p/incredible...
"We know when the #AMOC becomes critically unstable in those #climate model simulations, & it's at about 0.3C warming per dec. And we're currently at that specific level or even beyond that. For most climate models the AMOC eventually shuts down if you continue at this pace" - Dr. René van Westen
This Cold Spot is a BIG Problem... And it's Getting Bigger
YouTube video by PBS Terra
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November 4, 2026 at 12:44 AM
As the world speeds towards 2C of global heating, the risks of extreme weather disasters and climate tipping points are increasing fast. But current economic models used by governments and financial institutions entirely miss such shocks,
My post below notes the Nobel Prize honored such economics.
My post below notes the Nobel Prize honored such economics.
November 5, 2026 at 3:04 PM
As the world speeds towards 2C of global heating, the risks of extreme weather disasters and climate tipping points are increasing fast. But current economic models used by governments and financial institutions entirely miss such shocks,
My post below notes the Nobel Prize honored such economics.
My post below notes the Nobel Prize honored such economics.
I love how we’re being told by the same people whose models totally missed the climate impacts of shale that the climate impacts of baaja are minor
November 3, 2026 at 12:49 PM
I love how we’re being told by the same people whose models totally missed the climate impacts of shale that the climate impacts of baaja are minor
Without #ClimateChange, flood peaks in Europe from Storm Boris would have been as much as 22% lower, new models suggest in #ScienceAdvances. https://scim.ag/4itdstG
Evidence from 2024 Storm Boris indicates anthropogenic climate change amplifies floods more than extreme precipitation
Anthropogenic climate change intensifies extreme precipitation, but how it affects flood hazards remains uncertain. In September 2024, Storm Boris triggered catastrophic flooding across central Europe...
scim.ag
November 3, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Without #ClimateChange, flood peaks in Europe from Storm Boris would have been as much as 22% lower, new models suggest in #ScienceAdvances. https://scim.ag/4itdstG
William Nordhaus, who reshaped how economists think about the economic toll of a warming planet, has died.
Nobel Winner Nordhaus Broke New Ground Fusing Economics and Climate
William Nordhaus, who created revolutionary economic models of the effects of global warming, died Oct. 30 at 85.
bloom.bg
November 3, 2026 at 4:30 AM
William Nordhaus, who reshaped how economists think about the economic toll of a warming planet, has died.
Been trying not to pay too much attention to news the past few days for reasons, but this is a huge loss. We discussed his models on a OMB working group for discount rates and the social cost of carbon.
William Nordhaus Has Died. Nobelist Influenced Climate Policy. (Gift Article)
The Yale professor moved climate change into mainstream economic analysis.
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Been trying not to pay too much attention to news the past few days for reasons, but this is a huge loss. We discussed his models on a OMB working group for discount rates and the social cost of carbon.
This guy ran computer models that said climate destruction was OK as long as fossil fuel companies fixed at some unspecified future date. What a tool.
RIP — a giant
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William Nordhaus, Nobel laureate who integrated economics and climate change, devoted Yale citizen
William Nordhaus ‘63, Sterling Professor of Economics who won a Nobel Prize in 2018 for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis, died Oct. 30 at age 85.
news.yale.edu
November 1, 2026 at 10:17 PM
This guy ran computer models that said climate destruction was OK as long as fossil fuel companies fixed at some unspecified future date. What a tool.
economic models (which have a very poor record of success) to the same kind of scrutiny that climate models get, even though climate models are based on much more sound and verified principles than any economic model ever written.
November 2, 2026 at 9:56 AM
economic models (which have a very poor record of success) to the same kind of scrutiny that climate models get, even though climate models are based on much more sound and verified principles than any economic model ever written.
We’re teaming up with Google on NeuralGCM+ for faster, more reliable climate projections.
Multimillion-dollar, 3-year funding from google.org & support from Google Research will expand our team—& we’ll open-source models & workflows. 🧵
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Multimillion-dollar, 3-year funding from google.org & support from Google Research will expand our team—& we’ll open-source models & workflows. 🧵
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November 4, 2026 at 4:13 PM
We’re teaming up with Google on NeuralGCM+ for faster, more reliable climate projections.
Multimillion-dollar, 3-year funding from google.org & support from Google Research will expand our team—& we’ll open-source models & workflows. 🧵
buff.ly/ZIHkVju
Multimillion-dollar, 3-year funding from google.org & support from Google Research will expand our team—& we’ll open-source models & workflows. 🧵
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They’re going to have to rebreak Those broken climate models
November 5, 2026 at 9:08 PM
They’re going to have to rebreak Those broken climate models
Developing and implementing a property-rights based approach for defining welfare weights in economic models of climate change, from Simon F. Lang, Matthew D. Gordon, and Matthew J. Kotchen www.nber.org/papers/w35971
November 5, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Developing and implementing a property-rights based approach for defining welfare weights in economic models of climate change, from Simon F. Lang, Matthew D. Gordon, and Matthew J. Kotchen www.nber.org/papers/w35971
Do the economic models for climate change account for something like, say, a full on oceanic anoxic event?
Things that aren't, strictly speaking, temperature related?
Things that aren't, strictly speaking, temperature related?
November 2, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Do the economic models for climate change account for something like, say, a full on oceanic anoxic event?
Things that aren't, strictly speaking, temperature related?
Things that aren't, strictly speaking, temperature related?
I'd go as far as "we would have known exactly how to solve climate change and likely would have done it, except for obfuscation and interference by economic models"
November 2, 2026 at 1:02 PM
I'd go as far as "we would have known exactly how to solve climate change and likely would have done it, except for obfuscation and interference by economic models"
Best encapsulation yet, via @eroston.bsky.social: "Nobel Winner Nordhaus Broke New Ground Fusing Economics and Climate"
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Nobel Winner Nordhaus Broke New Ground Fusing Economics and Climate
William Nordhaus, who created revolutionary economic models of the effects of global warming, died Oct. 30 at 85.
www.bloomberg.com
November 4, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Best encapsulation yet, via @eroston.bsky.social: "Nobel Winner Nordhaus Broke New Ground Fusing Economics and Climate"
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
William Nordhaus: growth and climate
Carbon Trading was capitalism’s answer to climate change, but the models it was based on are badly flawed
https://www.counterfire.org/article/william-nordhaus-growth-and-climate/
Carbon Trading was capitalism’s answer to climate change, but the models it was based on are badly flawed
https://www.counterfire.org/article/william-nordhaus-growth-and-climate/
William Nordhaus: growth and climate
Carbon Trading was capitalism's answer to climate change, but the models it was based on are badly flawed, explains Michael Roberts Prominent mainstream economist William Nordhaus died last Friday ...
www.counterfire.org
November 5, 2026 at 6:36 AM
William Nordhaus: growth and climate
Carbon Trading was capitalism’s answer to climate change, but the models it was based on are badly flawed
https://www.counterfire.org/article/william-nordhaus-growth-and-climate/
Carbon Trading was capitalism’s answer to climate change, but the models it was based on are badly flawed
https://www.counterfire.org/article/william-nordhaus-growth-and-climate/
“We have more information about #Bigfoot sightings than we have about maybe 90% of mammals in North America”
🧪 A researcher is using all of this #cryptozoology data to test models that could predict #climate impacts on wildlife, as @leahbortskuperman.bsky.social reports for the @thenarwhal.ca:
🧪 A researcher is using all of this #cryptozoology data to test models that could predict #climate impacts on wildlife, as @leahbortskuperman.bsky.social reports for the @thenarwhal.ca:
What Bigfoot can teach us about predicting the impacts of climate change
Believe it or not, researchers are using Sasquatch data to better understand how well their methods for studying scientifically recognized species are working
thenarwhal.ca
November 2, 2026 at 2:30 PM
“We have more information about #Bigfoot sightings than we have about maybe 90% of mammals in North America”
🧪 A researcher is using all of this #cryptozoology data to test models that could predict #climate impacts on wildlife, as @leahbortskuperman.bsky.social reports for the @thenarwhal.ca:
🧪 A researcher is using all of this #cryptozoology data to test models that could predict #climate impacts on wildlife, as @leahbortskuperman.bsky.social reports for the @thenarwhal.ca:
Our Ai2 Climate Emulator (ACE) has already sped up climate simulations.
Our priorities for NeuralGCM+:
🌊 Couple atmosphere, ocean, & sea ice
🌡️ Add physics & test warmer climates
💻 Release models, frameworks, & documented workflows; improve GPU performance
Our priorities for NeuralGCM+:
🌊 Couple atmosphere, ocean, & sea ice
🌡️ Add physics & test warmer climates
💻 Release models, frameworks, & documented workflows; improve GPU performance
November 4, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Our Ai2 Climate Emulator (ACE) has already sped up climate simulations.
Our priorities for NeuralGCM+:
🌊 Couple atmosphere, ocean, & sea ice
🌡️ Add physics & test warmer climates
💻 Release models, frameworks, & documented workflows; improve GPU performance
Our priorities for NeuralGCM+:
🌊 Couple atmosphere, ocean, & sea ice
🌡️ Add physics & test warmer climates
💻 Release models, frameworks, & documented workflows; improve GPU performance