Kate Marvel

Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 28, 2024 at 22:42 UTC

Its been a big week for enhanced rock weathering!

First a major study was released by PNAS finding strong positive results from a 4-year field trial in the US corn belt:
➡️ ~2.5 tons CDR / hectare/yr
➡️ Higher yields and lower N2O emissions
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 27, 2024 at 17:42 UTC

overfull hbox (badness 10000)

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 27, 2024 at 16:58 UTC

I’m not against encouraging young people to consider science as a career but I think we ought to be honest with them about how much time they’ll spend managing python environments

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 26, 2024 at 21:18 UTC

I feel seen

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 26, 2024 at 19:06 UTC

Everyone’s all “let’s coordinate to make models operational and use AI and construct the literal Matrix” and I would settle for, like, “agree when the year begins”

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 26, 2024 at 14:40 UTC

Climate sensitivity 🎶it’s 3, hi That’s the problem, it’s 3 At tea time Everybody agrees It might be 4 but maybe not and probably nothing higher It must be exhausting depending on the prior 🎶

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 26, 2024 at 14:32 UTC

(The climate sensitivity is the eventual warming in response to doubled atmospheric CO2, an experiment we should definitely not be doing)

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 26, 2024 at 14:31 UTC

We wanted to 1) easily update our estimates as new info comes in 2) fairly and systematically incorporate expert judgement 3) replace ourselves with machines because honestly we’re sick of arguing about this and don’t want to do it anymore

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 26, 2024 at 14:31 UTC

We have a new preprint out discussing how to handle uncertainties in assessing the climate sensitivity to CO2.
egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 10, 2024 at 14:48 UTC

Thank you so much for everything you’ve done!

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 09, 2024 at 19:14 UTC

I think poeting is very valid!

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 09, 2024 at 19:11 UTC

Rude

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 09, 2024 at 17:15 UTC

a psyop targeting me, personally

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 09, 2024 at 16:47 UTC

Me: I wrote some code, may I post it on your website please GitHub: pull —rebase push origin master push origin branch commit fast forward checkout -b you absolute moron pull commit -m “deleted entire repository forever”

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 23, 2024 at 12:53 UTC

You wrote a book?!?!? Very excited to read it!

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 15, 2024 at 16:13 UTC

yes! i have to promise to uphold the Constitution, especially the section that says ECS is 3K

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 15, 2024 at 15:02 UTC

With gratitude and sadness, I’ve said goodbye to the *wonderful* Project Drawdown.  Tomorrow, I’ll be taking the oath of office to join NASA. Excited to work with the world's coolest gov agency, university partners, and my friends at Drawdown to advance the science of climate solutions.  Ad astra ✨

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 03, 2024 at 20:12 UTC

getting ready to talk to journalists about 2023 temperature records

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 02, 2024 at 19:27 UTC

i would like to nominate Planet Earth for the 2024 climate communication award, this is a very effective way of conveying the urgency of climate change

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 02, 2024 at 18:03 UTC

My comfort reads: -cozy mysteries -Jane Austen - transcripts of podcasts about lower-carbon cement

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 19, 2023 at 15:51 UTC

This book was sooooooo good

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 15, 2023 at 18:26 UTC

the limit does not exist

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 15, 2023 at 18:23 UTC

i vote for DANECITFP (Direct Air Not Emitting Carbon In The First Place)

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 15, 2023 at 18:23 UTC

yes, funny how much easier it is to C than to R

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 15, 2023 at 18:08 UTC

The good news is that if emissions fall to zero DAC could capture infinity percent of US annual CO2

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 15, 2023 at 17:24 UTC

Happy Chanukah to all! May there be light (and may most of it be from renewables)

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 15, 2023 at 17:21 UTC

Electrification = efficiency.   Now *that* is a holiday miracle.

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 15, 2023 at 17:21 UTC

Electrification allows us to convert energy directly into work, without turning it into heat first.  This is great, because it means an electrified and renewable future will need less energy to do the same stuff.

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 15, 2023 at 17:20 UTC

Why are we so wasteful?  Two words: fossil fuels.  Burning stuff is a WILDLY inefficient way to convert energy to work.

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 15, 2023 at 17:20 UTC

Energy is useful if you want to do stuff.   Unfortunately, in the US, we’ve decided that 2/3 of our energy should be used to… not do stuff.

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 15, 2023 at 17:20 UTC

Chanukah is the best holiday because it's all about energy efficiency

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 15, 2023 at 17:05 UTC

Carbon Brief: a climate nerd's dream come true ❤️

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 14, 2023 at 19:08 UTC

honestly given the speed of COP process probably more like next year

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 14, 2023 at 19:07 UTC

i would also like an orderly and just transition away from doing that

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 14, 2023 at 19:06 UTC

I call for an orderly and just transition away from witch burning

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 14, 2023 at 19:05 UTC

better than setting live stuff on fire

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 14, 2023 at 18:35 UTC

some day soon kids will be like "is it true that people used to make energy by setting old dead stuff on fire?!?!" and this will make me feel 1) old and 2) happy

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 14, 2023 at 18:08 UTC

Hard agree. I used to hope that demonstrating success by "traditional" metrics (Nature papers/ grant $/whatever) would make universities cut researchers some slack on the public-facing stuff, but that's not the way it works

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