Ed Carr

One thing we are missing is an aesthetic for the climate change era that conveys not just the facts, but a visceral understanding of how much of the discourse and decision making is utterly bonkers. Efforts to date have failed to produce climate change’s Dr Strangelove

Climate community: we need to recapture the narrative, and this is a foundational part of what needs to be communicated.

NEW PAPER: In a new paper, jointly published in @agu.org Earth's Future & @ametsoc.org BAMS, and co-led by Melissa Kenney, @costasamaras.com and me, 175 authors outline priorities to guide the future of scientific assessments of climate change in the United States. 🧵

If you need to put social media discourse in perspective, this is great!

One of my mantras to students and mentees: you have to be good enough to be in the room/conversation. Lots of people are that good. But if you are in the room/conversation, at least you have a shot.

I would have replied, but replies seem to be locked. So now I quote post with an answer: We’re all still here. We are not facing global food system collapse. We’re just choosing to no longer engage with a shouty, anonymous, doomer account because there’s work to do and we’re doing it.

Final “AI in research” thought for the AM: I was on a team call recently and actually had to write in the chat “We should not be citing articles we have not read.” Forget worrying about hallucinated bibliographies. That can only happen if people aren’t reading. Worry about basic research practice

Whatever you might think about democratic socialism, calling a $15 million effort to discredit it a “war” fails to capture how tiny this amount of money is in relation to any given cycle of campaign spending. It’s basically a rounding error with a press release www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...

This is an important point. While some hard limits (cannot be overcome by any means) to adaptation might be identified through biophysical research, identifying most hard limits and all soft limits (we hit because we choose not to do things that are needed) requires actually trying to adapt.

🌎 SEI US introduces a new research program: Climate and Equity. Combining the forces of three previously separate teams, this program advances policy innovation in just energy transitions, #CarbonMarkets, food systems, #CleanEnergy and more. Read on for details 👀 buff.ly/reW3UvQ

Haaland looks like the lead character of the Pixar movie “The Nice Soccer Giant”

While I agree that the conversion of Balogun’s red card suspension into a probationary period is shaky at best, I grow weary of the use of “unprecedented” to describe it. FIFA did the same thing for Ronaldo to let him play the opener in the group stages. Where was the UEFA/global outrage then?

Penalty maxxing

A lot of the “Trump got Balogun a pardon” reporting seems rather credulous. I’d believe Trump made a call. But organizing a team of lawyers? To do what, exactly? I’d love a lot more sourcing…

Holy mother of God

Brazil doing all it can to lose this game.

I blame Neymar.

Folks, this is just FIFA being FIFA. Staggering incompetence at many levels, but hard to see US-led corruption here. Balogun is a beneficiary of birthright citizenship and everything Trump et al hate. If this was Pulisic, on the other hand…

Er, the Athletic is reporting that Falogun will be available tomorrow! www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...

Treaty of Tordesillas jokes giving me Intro to Human Geography nostalgia from my University of South Carolina days…

I just want to make this chart my epitaph, my personality, my avatar, my everything

Out of office

I've long felt we should withdraw a player from each side every five minutes until someone scores. Nothing like a little 5v5 on a full pitch to open things up!

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Thank you to The Poetry Shop for partnering with me to raise awareness about migraine, an often invisible neurological disease that impacts 1 in 6 households in the US. The Poetry Shop is donating 15% of sales of HEMICRANIA in June to @milesformigraine.bsky.social, as am I (dm for signed copy) 🧠💜

A lot of acronyms here but this is important #sustainability work and @edwardrcarr.com's work on climate-reslient development (IPCC lead in AR6) makes him perfect for the task. See our IPCC AR6 discussion below with @fisherdanar.bsky.social & @avastmachine.bsky.social.

Following a proposal by UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen at #GEFcouncil71, Council members appointed Edward Carr as an interim Chair of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel for one year, retaining the current panel membership for the interim period. #GEFassembly2026

This is shocking, deeply saddening news. I knew Raúl mostly online, but the one time we overlapped at an Association of American Geographers meeting he ran up to me and gave me a hug. Just a lovely guy dedicated to helping people do good work…

A little professional news! I'm excited to be rejoining STAP and working with the GEF family again!

Actively tearing down the US research enterprise is a disaster for the country.

That was great

The team at Reimagining Conservation has released its first issue paper! The first one explores global conservation as an American Value. Have a look and join the conversation informing our efforts to build a reimagined approach to the US role in global conservation.

Lisa was one of the CLA’s for my chapter in AR6, and she is right on here. She speaks from experience because AR6 was affected by COVID and the last authors’ meeting virtual. It did not go well and it was hard to engage in the homestretch of the report. In person is not ideal but it is critical.

Tax breaks for government employees makes no sense, even on the merits – just give them a raise if you want them to make more money.

C’mon now, there were usually landlines around somewhere…maybe even with call waiting!

This is one of those “either lying or astonishingly uninformed” moments and both are disqualifying for a cabinet secretary.

There's a really impressive front between Boston and Worcester right now - a 17 degree swing (from 64 in Somerville to 81 in Worcester) on the drive home. It seems quite stationary at the moment...