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@PeterGleick

Climate/water scientist; US National Academy of Science; MacArthur Fellow; 2018 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization. Opinions are my own.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    17 Mar 2018

    To my Twitter followers who wish I could refocus on & issues and less on politics: I wish I could, but I can't. Our society and sense of who we are face unprecedented threats and I add my voice to those fighting back. I hope to resume normal programming shortly.

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  2. Retweeted
    16 hours ago

    How worried must Pence be about being dumped from the ticket to go these lengths to spend hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars at a Trump resort?

    Rather than spend the night in Dublin, Pence will stay at a Trump owned resort on the other side of Ireland and commute for the day on Air Force Two
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  3. 16 hours ago

    Every scientist or meteorologist on Twitter gets these pretty much every day.

    Climate change is not man-made Mr. Morales. It’s been happening since the beginning of time. Shame on you for your “opinion” during this natural disaster. Please stick to the updates on hurricane Dorian.
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  4. Retweeted
    20 hours ago

    If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a Nazi... Oh, I meant duck. Sure.

    A Twitter employee asked why their employer won't ban neo Nazi tweets like they banned ISIS tweets. The answer is that if you teach an AI to ban Nazis, it bans a lot of Republicans.
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  5. 20 hours ago

    We're still doing this?

    Nashville school bans "Harry Potter" series, claim books "risk conjuring evil spirits"
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  6. 21 hours ago

    First, 44% is not "over 50%," so that's a lie. Second, thanks Obama!

    Since my election, many trillions of dollars of worth has been created for our Country, and the Stock Market is up over 50%. If you followed the advice of the Failing New York Times columnist, Paul Krugman, you’d be doing VERY poorly - you’d be angry and hurt. He never got it!
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  7. Retweeted
    23 hours ago

    On Thurs 9/5, will moderate a panel on water at the 2019 Planetary Health Annual Meeting at Stanford University. Learn more and register:

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  8. 22 hours ago

    If you are near New Haven on September 11th, go hear great music and a great conductor, Marika Kuzma, in a concert for the Earth and our vulnerable .

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  9. 23 hours ago

    If you're anywhere near New Haven, CT on September 11th, go to this concert for Mother Earth. Great musicians, great conductor, free!

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  10. 23 hours ago

    Umm, what?

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  11. Retweeted
    Sep 1

    By the time this ignorant man learns there's a Category 5 for hurricanes, we'll have had to add a Category 6 because is making them more dangerous.

    0:21
    President Trump: "I'm not sure that I've ever even heard of the Category 5. I knew it existed, and I've seen some category 4s -- you don't even see them that much but the category 5 is something that I don't know that I've ever even heard the term other than I know it's there."
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  12. Sep 1

    When thinking about the strength and damage of , know that it passed over (and gained strength from) waters 0.5 to 1°C hotter than normal and hit the Bahamas where sea levels are 9 inches higher than they were a century ago. All because of human-caused .

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  13. Sep 1

    By the time this ignorant man learns there's a Category 5 for hurricanes, we'll have had to add a Category 6 because is making them more dangerous.

    0:21
    President Trump: "I'm not sure that I've ever even heard of the Category 5. I knew it existed, and I've seen some category 4s -- you don't even see them that much but the category 5 is something that I don't know that I've ever even heard the term other than I know it's there."
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  14. Sep 1

    I saw that movie. Ended badly.

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  15. Sep 1

    Category 5 ignorance. Maybe Cat 6.

    0:21
    President Trump: "I'm not sure that I've ever even heard of the Category 5. I knew it existed, and I've seen some category 4s -- you don't even see them that much but the category 5 is something that I don't know that I've ever even heard the term other than I know it's there."
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  16. Sep 1

    That's four Cat 5 Atlantic hurricanes, but also three Cat 5 Pacific typhoons since Trump's election. (Hurricanes are called typhoons in the Pacific Ocean)

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  17. Sep 1

    Remember, this powerful man has available to him more information, access to any expert on any subject, more data and intelligence specialists than anyone on the planet, and yet he's less aware and less informed than a ten-year old with a smartphone. Embarrassing and dangerous.

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    President Trump: "I'm not sure that I've ever even heard of the Category 5. I knew it existed, and I've seen some category 4s -- you don't even see them that much but the category 5 is something that I don't know that I've ever even heard the term other than I know it's there."
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  18. Sep 1

    It's not just that Trump is incapable of empathy and grossly ignorant. It's that he's uneducable. This is the fourth Category 5 hurricane since he took office.

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    President Trump: "I'm not sure that I've ever even heard of the Category 5. I knew it existed, and I've seen some category 4s -- you don't even see them that much but the category 5 is something that I don't know that I've ever even heard the term other than I know it's there."
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  19. Sep 1

    The stupid, it burns.

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    President Trump: "I'm not sure that I've ever even heard of the Category 5. I knew it existed, and I've seen some category 4s -- you don't even see them that much but the category 5 is something that I don't know that I've ever even heard the term other than I know it's there."
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  20. Retweeted
    Sep 1

    : and the | via

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  21. Sep 1

    I'm going to go with "everything" except maybe earthbound asteroids. And probably not even them.

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