David HoApr 4, 2023

So…I wrote a thing. Now there’s a citation for the “CDR as Time Machine” analogy.

Carbon dioxide removal (#CDR) is not a current climate solution — we need to change the narrative

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00953-x

Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution — we need to change the narrative

Drastically reduce emissions first, or carbon dioxide removal will be next to useless.

Show threadDavid HoApr 8, 2023
In three days, this has been read more than all the things I’ve written in the last 30 years combined. 😩
Show threadJohn KennedyApr 8, 2023
@davidho It could be worse. The most read thing I ever wrote - by a few orders of magnitude - was a twitter thread about getting an orange stuck in my mouth.
Show threadDr Rebecca NestorApr 9, 2023
@micefearboggis @davidho oh yes, this work of genius https://diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2022/08/06/some-scientists-think/
Some scientists think

In which I stick a whole orange in my mouth and survive to be a scientist.

Diagram Monkey
Show threadJohn KennedyApr 9, 2023
@rebeccaclimate @davidho Yes. That one. I hadn't really twigged what I'd done until someone pointed out that whatever I had done, whatever I will do, my most famous contribution to science will always be that twitter thread.
Show threadDr Rebecca NestorApr 9, 2023
@micefearboggis @davidho parts of it remind me of the scene in A Fish Called Wanda where Kevin Kline is torturing Michael Palin by putting a pear in his mouth and chips up his nostrils. Crying laughing, and also moments of ‘how did John survive that?’ anxiety. You may have a second career waiting…
Show threadRuth MottramApr 9, 2023

@rebeccaclimate @micefearboggis @davidho my colleague Steffen spent 25 years researching #ClimateChange and the North Atlantic.

And then he took and shared this photo..

(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/18/photograph-melting-greenland-sea-ice-fjord-dogs-water)

Photograph lays bare reality of melting Greenland sea ice

Research teams traversing partially melted fjord to retrieve weather equipment release startling picture

The Guardian
Show threadDr Rebecca NestorApr 9, 2023
@Ruth_Mottram @micefearboggis @davidho to be fair, that’s quite some photo
Show threadJohn KennedyApr 9, 2023
@rebeccaclimate @Ruth_Mottram @davidho It really is.
Show threadRuth Mottram
@micefearboggis @rebeccaclimate @davidho yeah it was quite a week for those of us back in the office too...
Apr 9, 2023 at 7:38pmWeb
Show threadDr Rebecca NestorApr 9, 2023
@Ruth_Mottram @micefearboggis @davidho oh yes? Tell us more?
Show threadRuth MottramApr 9, 2023
@rebeccaclimate @micefearboggis @davidho well the image went pretty viral and I spent about 5 days answering journalists phone calls, Steffen being almost completely out of touch in Greenland..
And then one of the press outlets in Denmark made an FOI request to check we hadn't said something that was scientifically inaccurate (we hadn't).
And I'm pretty sure neither of us will ever make as deep a social impact with our science than that photo...