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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Italy’s always a bit late on the best global trends, so no wonder we still have old-school climate deniers. This guy was offered an entire page on a newspaper arguing there are no statistically significant changes in summertime temperatures in Italy. His own plot says there’s a 0.5C/decade trend.

Italian newspaper denying climate change. Title says “It’s an average June. If you don’t believe me check for yourself meteorological data”

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Looks like folks think it's ok to lie in an op-ed on @theguardian.com because cumulatively the authors have "100 years of climate science experience". I think science should not be misinterpreted to make a political point (even 1 I agree with), and what you see in the screenshot is totally false.

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Since I get these kind of messages at least once a month, I think it bears repeating publicly what I wrote already elsewhere: I do not, out of principle, use my time (even 10’) to consult/help/brainstorm/chat with companies that want to make money out of climate intervention or weather modification.

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The first line makes a generic statement about the fact that scenarios are used to provide plausible descriptions wrt to a range of variables. Later on, when describing the RCPs, van Vuuren says the following, stressing internal consistency, the meaning of “representative” and more.

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Judge for yourself: we can just wave this away because his brain is cooked, but we can also ask if there’s reasons why people overall misunderstand the process (is it official from a committee or is it bottom-up?) and why there has been so much focus on “rejecting” RCP8.5.

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Sometimes I go into my Facebook “tags” tab:

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... Keeping with the theme of the week that seems to be arguing over GWP20 and GWP100, what better week to have our paper out where we say they're both kinda meh and we propose a new one? 😆 @hausfath.bsky.social

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Last week we hosted the 16th Annual Workshop of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) at the The University of Tokyo. A great success and, as always, a pleasure and honor to represent this community, and to see over 100 participants from all over the world (every continent!)

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

How impolite of things to be blooming While the world’s on fire Pointless, defiant, simple beauty In this Economy???

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Also, yes, we did it! Boys just need to have fun sometimes, and thanks for the reviewers for being game (one of them did complain you do not “brew” CIDER so we had to rename one of the sections…)

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I objectively can’t find anything more nuanced than this sorry journalist friends

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Today I spent some time just sitting in the Damon Room at the Mesa Labs, staring at the wall of honors, where so many of NCAR accomplishments are memorialized. So much expertise, so much brilliance, so much willingness to serve. Coming here is always the best way of finding reasons to keep fighting.

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Wonderful spending seven full days at one of the places I hold most dear in my heart, #NCAR, for three different workshops (two CESM winter meetings, one I help manage as co-chair of the Whole Atmosphere Working Group, and a mid-project meeting with the Planetary Sunshade Foundation)…

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Fellas, at which point of the timeline are we when the vanilla hot gay couples on Facebook with normally just cheesy shirtless reels uses poly to bait you into abolishing ICE?

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Main finding is that, overall, these feedback balance out and result in changes that are independent of injection rates: if you aim to cool more, you don't end up with worse or better health outcomes (but regionally this varies). Air quality is complicated and not always fully represented in ESMs...

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

We looked at various drivers, including cooling-driven surface O3 changes, drivers of changes in particulate matter, and internal variability, combined with up to date exposure–response functions to understand the ultimate impacts.

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Our review is now live! We have provided a large, comprehensive take of not just what we know, but also what we still need to know, and how, about how marine ecosystems could be affected by marine CDR and by Sunlight Reflection Methods (SRM). agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I mean it will be personal, and I said, I wish the title was clearer, but the article itself does hammer this point home:

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

2025 was a weird year with its ups and downs, and its big fights and tears and lots of what I think is valuable work, and I said yes to many things I shouldn’t have, but I guess above all it was when I ended up on stage with NDT and on his podcast and we partook of his alcohol stash after.

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Just hopping in here to brag about my best gift this year courtesy of my mom. Happy holidays y’all!

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The Pelicans decided to prove you wrong and now there’s an overtime!

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Just published to wrap up the year: “Response of Tipping Elements to Different Strategies of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection” We analyzed the response of various climate metrics relevant to a set of climate tipping element under SSP2-4.5 and under a set of SAI scenarios modeled using CESM2.

Fig 2 from the linked paper, showing how different SAI strategies would affect different climate tipping elements.

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

When I say you’re completely making this up to have a fictional argument with me about something I didn’t say, I mean it. I have a deep respect for you and your work and I’ve always tried to engage politely with you. If you’re not interested in doing the same and want a boogie-man, F off however.

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Thanks Ben, was a pleasure! FWIW, today's my last class in my Climate Dynamics course (because I'm leaving for the IPCC LAM meeting Saturday) and it's also the only one where we discuss SRM and its potential problems, so this is my last slide for the day...

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I just finished this fantastic trilogy of 80s feminist sci-fi (I’d never heard about before going to my local bookstore!) that explores a future world where the 19th amendment has been repelled [then many wacky things happen in pure 80s sci-fi style]. A good reminder of how flimsy progress is..

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

They do to their investors - here’s from their pitch deck from last year…

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I’m sure is just a coincidence, but the Syracuse Orchestra today is playing Beethoven’s Seventh, which premiered at a concert celebrating Napoleon’s defeat. He dedicated the Third to Napoleon as a champion of liberty, but ripped the dedication from the manuscript when he declared himself Emperor.

Note from the program: True, the Seventh appears to be a work of absolute music, without a program. It doesn't have an explanatory subtitle (as the Third does); it doesn't serve to describe external scenes (as the Sixth, the Pastorale, does); nor does it set a verbal text (as the Ninth was later to do). Nonetheless, since that historically charged premiere, it has had a political edge, sharing the anti-authoritarian spirit of such works as the prison-rescue opera Fidelio (the final version of which was premiered just a few months later). That aura of social commitment has remained for over two centuries. The popular second movement (encored at the premiere) was transformed by activist folksinger Pete Seeger into a song whose opening words (grammar sacrificed in favor of rhythm) are "We'll work together, though we work different"; Daniel Barenboim chose the Seventh to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

This is how I see that convo... 😆

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I just finished reading “The Terraformers” by @annaleen.bsky.social and it made me so happy I need to share it here. It is rare to find such forward-looking, powerful sci-fi that manages to be hopeful about humanity while not shying away from its problems.

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Out as preprint, we have some very interesting results looking at the radiative forcing impacts of the 2022 Hunga eruption. Based on the outcomes of the related OMIP, with many models from all over the world participating in this effort, we find a robust cooling signal from the Hunga volcanic plume.

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Nothing. You can spend the whole day clicking every link in the CGD website and you won’t find the acronym spelled out anywhere… www.cgd.ucar.edu/about/missio...

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Our paper exploring in depth the potential response of the Atlantic Meridional Circulation (AMOC) to Stratospheric Aerosol Injections led by Ewa Bednarz at NOAA CSL is now available online! Check out the paper here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Title and authors for the paper just published as announced in the post "Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Could Prevent Future Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Decline, But Injection Location is Key"

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

WG1, Chapter 9 reporting for duty 🫡 Very excited to participate in the next @ipcc.bsky.social Assessment Report, especially in a chapter with so many great colleagues and friends!

A list of the authors for the upcoming IPCC assessment, WG1 Ch9

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

The Cornell Atkinson Center is now accepting applications for our 2026 Postdoctoral Fellowships in Sustainability at Cornell Atkinson! Reach out if you’re interested & read more details below 👇 www.atkinson.cornell.edu/cornell-atki...

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Been thinking a bit about this long exchange I read here yesterday about AC being a luxury or not. I think this is the largest obstacle to framing degrowth around “sufficiency” for me: you’ll always find someone that finds your necessity as a luxury. What if they’re in charge of what you can have?

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Ryan O’Loughlin and I have a new preprint where we ask: When are small-scale field experiments in solar geoengineering worth pursuing? philsci-archive.pitt.edu/25840/ We contrast concepts of “luxury” and “moonshot” research as a starting point to discuss criteria that could guide the community…

Title and abstract of the preprint mentioned at the link.

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This started from an observation: if SRM is “cheap and easy”, and including it in an Integrated Assessment Model makes it always happen… why isn’t the world doing SRM? We explain this by discussing different phases in which risks perception play different roles in shaping how SRM is conceived.

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Can we make testable hypothesis about how the perception itself of SRM -from publics, countries, decision makers- would affect different futures? And if yes, how do we go about building 1? What can outlining & modeling assumptions about how risks of climate change and of SRM tell us about our world?

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

The web-based version of the emulator described in the preprint now up on the website: simulator.reflective.org 🥳

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Juan I can’t wait to see you in person again!! 😁 today we had ice cream with Shuchi and Kate after we landed from SA.

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

@hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social called this one first (and was attacked for it) www.compactmag.com/article/the-.... What is the point of lying so stupidly about things as different as fluoride, EM radiation, vaccines and geoengineering (even if the latter currently doesn't exist)? I have some ideas.

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

As you can see, you have it reversed. Now, I don’t think that crazy wackos being against something is necessarily a good reason why one should be pro something, nevertheless, these are the facts.

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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Better screened than quoted, but this is also relevant:

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