Andrew Dessler
@AndrewDessler
Prof of Atmospheric Sciences & climate scientist @ Texas A&M; AGU and AAAS Fellow; Native Texan; find out what I think at http://www.theclimatebrink.com
profile picture pupdate: strong consensus for: dog, but more professional. Introducing my new profile pic:

Renewable energy isn’t causing power prices to rise dallasnews.com/opinion/commen…
Have you seen people pushing this figure, which purports to show that renewable energy raises energy costs? It's BS.
It's time to build a macrogrid.
"A severe cold snap in 2021 froze up many coal- and gas-fueled power plants in Texas, causing a huge blackout. Oklahoma and New Mexico next door had plenty of spare power, but because they were part of another grid they had no way to send it quickly where needed."
It is getting expensive for insurance companies to cover our properties. And it is getting costly for us as well. After 3 years of double-digit increases, Texans are paying 50% more on average for homeowners policies than in 2021. wfaa.com/article/money/…
Inside Climate News: Weather Extremes Caused by Climate Change Are Driving Up Food Prices, a New Report Says insideclimatenews.org/news/21072025/…
A year ago today, Yordan Alvarez hit for the cycle
Hold on ... I thought carbon dioxide was "plant food" wsj.com/articles/extre…

No, coal doesn’t mean jobs and cheap energy. Not only is the worst fossil fuel when it comes to #climagechange… it’s expensive & unhealthy.
Let me clear this up: Yes—Russia tried to help Donald Trump win the 2016 election. No—Russia didn’t change vote tallies or hack voting machines successful to change the outcome. What did happen? Russia used cyber warfare to try and sway the outcome. That included: •Running…
On The Climate Brink, @hausfath has posted an analysis of how renewable energy changes the cost of electricity. He finds a reduction in cost with deployment of RE.
Two weeks ago, Marco Rubio said USAID “has little to show since the end of the Cold War.” Days earlier, a Lancet study estimated that USAID global health programs have saved 90 million lives—not since 1991, but since just 2001.
More global woke, amirite? Saudi Arabia signs $8.3bn deals for 15GW solar and wind projects power-technology.com/news/saudi-ara… via @Power_OnlineMag