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Dr. Robert Rohde
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Chief Scientist @BerkeleyEarth. Physics PhD & data nerd. Usually focused on climate change, fossil fuels, & air quality issues.
Zurich, Switzerland
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    Dr. Robert Rohde
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    Nov 25, 2020
    It's a hard time for everyone. I work for a small non-profit, @BerkeleyEarth, and we need your help. We fund our work with grants & donations. If you like our work on climate change, and have a bit spare, perhaps consider making a donation. Thank you. donate.berkeleyearth.org
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    Dr. Robert Rohde
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    Dec 31, 2024
    2025 = 45^2 It's a perfect square. It will probably be the only perfect square year you ever get to live in. The last time that occurred was in 1936. The next will be in 2116. So, make 2025 a perfect year for you.
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    Dr. Robert Rohde
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    Aug 5, 2025
    So DOGE-related cuts and early retirements eliminated 550 staff at the National Weather Service, and now the NWS is being granted special permission to hire 450 positions to relieve critical shortages. Such a waste of time and resources.
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    Andrew Freedman
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    Aug 5, 2025
    NEW: The NWS receives permission to hire up to 450 meteorologists/hydrologists/radar technicians after DOGE-related cuts. Agency also given a public safety exemption from federal hiring freeze. (1/2)
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    Dr. Robert Rohde
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    Dec 24, 2021
    To all the exasperated doctors and epidemiologists who saw this winter's COVID wave coming and wish that more had been done to prepare, We understand how you feel. Signed, All the climate scientists
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    Dr. Robert Rohde
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    Apr 3, 2023
    Story of police killing a little girl's goat is really sticking with me. As such, I read the actual lawsuit. If anything, some of the details therein make it even worse. If there is any justice, their needs to be a large punitive judgment in this case. Details follow. 🧵
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    Julia Shumway | jmshumway.bsky.social
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    Apr 1, 2023
    A young girl didn’t want to slaughter the goat she raised for 4H. The state senator who bought the goat at auction agreed to let it live out its days eating weeds. But sheriff’s deputies drove 500 miles to kill the goat and teach a 9-year-old a lesson. latimes.com/california/sto…
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    Dr. Robert Rohde
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    Mar 29, 2019
    Animation showing how the distribution over Earth's surface of annual average temperature anomalies has been shifting due to global warming since 1850. #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange
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    Dr. Robert Rohde
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    Mar 21, 2022
    🔥Heat wave in Antarctica, +38 °C (+68 °F) above normal. That's not an error, or a typo. The remote research station at Dome C recorded a temperature nearly 40 °C above normal for this time of year, beating the previous March record by a startling 20 °C.
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    Dr. Robert Rohde
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    Oct 2, 2019
    So, I made a little animation trying to explain how herd immunity works. When enough of the population has been vaccinated, a disease is no longer able to spread effectively, protecting even the unvaccinated. The percentage needed varies with the disease. #VaccinesSaveLives
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    Dr. Robert Rohde
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    Jan 16, 2023
    If it is not literally the warmest year ever, someone will complain that global warming has stopped. Year-to-year fluctuations are a normal part of the ongoing global warming trend. Don't be distracted by the noise.
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    Dr. Robert Rohde
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    Jul 10, 2025
    Some people are suddenly very opposed to cloud seeding and all forms of weather modification. Boy, are those people going to be upset when they realize how fossil fuel burning has been changing the composition of the atmosphere and modifying the weather for everyone.
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    Dr. Robert Rohde
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    Mar 5, 2020
    According to the official statistics, the coronavirus epidemic in China has been leveling off with more than half of patients already recovered. Only 119 new cases were reported yesterday, all but 5 of which were in Wuhan.
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    Dr. Robert Rohde
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    Aug 30, 2020
    It's rare, but thawing permafrost can literally cause the ground to explode outward due to a build-up of methane gas. Such formations, first seen in 2014, are a symptom of the rapidly warming Arctic.
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    The Siberian Times
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    Aug 29, 2020
    Giant new 50-metre deep 'crater' opens up in Arctic tundra. Blocks of soil and ice thrown hundreds of metres from epicentre of the funnel at the Yamal peninsula siberiantimes.com/other/others/n… #YamalFunnels2020
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    Dr. Robert Rohde
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    Apr 3, 2023
    Replying to @RARohde
    There can't be any real justice for Cedar, but if there is going to be justice at all, I hope the Fair and the Shasta County Sheriff are hit with a large judgment including punitive damages against them.
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    Dr. Robert Rohde
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    Mar 20, 2019
    Growth of the world's population over the last 12,000 years with respect to present-day national territories. Population estimates from the History Database of the Global Environment (HYDE) which was developed by @nlenvironagency.
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