Dargan M. W. Frierson

@darganf
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climate, justice, music

Associate Professor, Atmospheric Sciences, UW-Seattle

@Blort Yessss also mandolin, but there's no emoji for that
The Climate Justice Alliance's annual report is out. Their wins this year include stopping a highly polluting peaker power plant from going online in Astoria, NYC, and forcing Bay Area refineries to install scrubbers on their smokestacks.
https://climatejusticealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WEB-2021-CJA-Annual-Report.pdf

It's weird to experience social media without constant interruptions from companies trying to sell you stuff! Just in case anyone is missing the ads, here's a fossil fuel ad from 1962 in which they flex about how much glacier their product could melt. https://books.google.com/books?id=k00EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA86-IA2&pg=PA86-IA2#v=twopage&q&f=false

The direct heating effect of fuel burning is swamped by the heat-trapping effect of the released CO2 within just 2 months, and ends up over 100,000 times larger. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015GL063514

#climate #energy

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We are co-hosting the #ClimateJam right now! Games aren't due until May 1, so there's still plenty of time to join a team and make something cool. The theme is "Empathy and Equilibrium" https://itch.io/jam/climate-jam-2022
Climate Jam 2022 - Hosted by IndieCade, the IGDA Climate SIG and Games For Our Future

A game jam from 2022-04-22 to 2022-05-10 hosted by Seattle Indies & IndieCade. When? April 22 to May 1, 2022 Where? Online, safely from home! https://www.indiecade.com/climate-jam-2022/ Theme: Empathy and Equilibrium We are once...

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Hi! I'm Dargan, I work on #climate modeling, teach about #ClimateJustice, and make interactive #visualization things using #GodotEngine.

I also love to sing songs about science! 🪕🎸🎵

#introduction