Peter Jacobs

@pjacobs.bsky.social

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climate science (paleo, modern, future); public understanding of science (consensus, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6951-7126 Mastodon: fediscience.org/@peterjacobs Bird Site: https://twitter.com/past_is_future

A screenshot of Sabrina Carpenter singing "Nobody's Son" on Saturday Night Live with parody lyrics displayed as text on screen. The parody lyrics read, "Here we go again penetrated What a familiar feeling Entire seventh floor's An open door To active measures spieling Probably should have known The threat's home grown Corrupt and self-deceiving There's no tool or gun 'cept Angleton's Left for me to believe in."
A two panel image showing someone flicking earbuds out of their ears, signalling dislike for what they presumably just heard.
A chihuahua wearing reading glasses with a lit cigarette hanging out of its mouth reads something on a smartphone, with a disgusted, incredulous expression.
Himawari-9 Band 13 brightness temperature satellite data of Super Typhoon Bavi from @cyclonicwx.bsky.social cyclonicwx.com
Apollo Creed standing with Rocky Balboa with a speech bubble.
Convicted war criminal moments before drinking cyanide.
A photo of the Deathmatch Island tabletop role playing game by Tim Denee of Old Dog Games.
Bill Murray walks across a golf course facing the camera and tossing a club aside in disgust.
A quote tweet that reads: "It’s always like this. The “martial race” talks a big game about how they were raised from birth to understand military values and discipline and then some liberal intellectuals either bayonet their whole line or figure out a way to drop a miniature sun on their cities." The quoted tweet reads: On this day in history: July 2, 1863, the Confederacy got its butt handed to it on a platter by a liberal arts college professor on sabbatical. Don't mess with college professors."
A four panel plot of Northern Hemisphere extratroptical summertime temperature anomalies, showing wiggles up and down but temperatures for the most part remaining within a relatively narrow band until the right most panel, where both the proxy data (in black) and surface instrumental data (in red) rise rapidly during modern times. This is the left most panel.
A screenshot of the original printing of the HP Lovecraft story "The Rats in the Walls" from Weird Tales Vol. 3 No. 3. It features words and a black and white illustration. The words read: "A Tremendous Tale That Rises Steadily To a Terrifying Climax The Rats in the Walls By H. P. Lovecraft In this image, "J. J. Angleton" is typed over "HP Lovecraft".
A quotetweet pointing out that the Zapruder film has evolved over time from being used as evidence of JFK not being killed by Oswald to being claimed as part of a false flag to prove it was Oswald.
Sabrina Carpenter performing "Manchild" on Saturday Night Live, with the lyrics replaced with references to Tulsi Gabbard's dumping a bunch of conspiracy stuff before resigning as Director of National Intelligence.
A very sweaty David Byrne in 1983. Original photo probably by Lynn Goldsmith).
A screenshot of a soon to be defunct Wordpress climate denial blog that reads: "RIP Climate Etc. Posted on June 23, 2026 by curryja | 49 Comments by Judith Curry It’s time to declare victory against climate stupidity and move on. Well, the definition of victory here is about as fuzzy as that for the Iran war. Here is a summary of why Climate Etc. is being euthanized:"
A shrine to a deceased celebrity strewn with flowers, cigarettes, candles, and liquor. In this case former CIA counterintelligence legend James Jesus Angleton.
A prayer candle with the face of CIA counterintelligence legend James Jesus Angleton on it.
An idiot Lab Leaker claiming that the ODNI selectively declassified docs meant to get people to falsely believe Fauci helped China Frankenstein up the pandemic saying the documents mean "A modified virus becomes the most likely origin."
People riding the Loch Ness Monster ride at Busch Gardens.
Email from ODNI documenting that the DOE had changed its assessment to SARS-CoV-2 *not* being genetically engineered, NLT March 2023.
Ryan Gosling in The Big Short saying "Look at him. That's my quant"
The Brain from Arthur tired and smoking
"I have never talked to Baer, but I can speak with some authority about the joint CIA-FBI investiga- tion looking for this Russian mole."
@GabrieleCarrer "Ha spacciato come nuove informazioni vecchie e per nulla esplosive sui “biolab”. E anche revocato alcune valutazioni sulla Sindrome dell’Avana. Gli ultimi giorni di Tulsi Gabbard a capo dell’intelligence americana sono un regalo alla Russia, e in particolare a un’unità del GRU."
Michael Weiss failing to understand why Tulsi Gabbard would promote a Russia friendly anti-US government biolab conspiracy theory when she also is facilitating an anti-US government conspiracy theory about Havana Syndrome attacks being covered up.
Mekhi Phifer with his eyes closed touching his forehead with a lit cigarette between his fingers.
A filthy bird trudging away from the sea.
The famous "me and my friends would've k:lled E.T. with hammers i can tell you that much" tweet with E.T. scribbled out and "Shelby Foote" typed over it.
A graph of CO2 parts per million over the ice core record through today (about 800,000 years worth). Part 1 of 4.
Red Rocks of Sedona AZ against a blue sky and white clouds.
A time series of public opinion from Gallup showing people correctly perceive that human activity rather than nature is driving climate change by about 2-1.
Lab Leaker idiot Andrew Noymer whining about a biosafety paper that correctly did not blame the pandemic on the Lab Leaker conspiracism he believes.
The 2022 Majority House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence report discussing the incorrect media reports about November 2019 briefings of about the COVID-19 pandemic.
A screenshot of Brendan Fraser from The Whale.
NOAA NCEP CPC CFSv2 relative NINO3.4 SST anomaly forecast showing tropical pacific temperatures warming to a median peak of around 2.5K between October and January.
A cropped hovmöller diagram showing zonal wind values for the equatorial (5N-5S) pacific, with high values representing a westerly wind burst (WWB) appearing in the forecast.
Jesse Watters on Fox News telling his gullible audience that crashed UFOs with 7 foot tall reptilian aliens have been recovered.
A chart of coffee prices using BLS data from Wolfstreet.com showing coffee rapidly accelerating in price per pound since 2020.
@BarackObama I often hear folks say, “Donald Trump sent me a check during the pandemic.” I want to make sure you understand this: Congress sent you a check. By the way, Joe Biden also sent you a check during the pandemic, just like I gave people relief during the Great Recession. The difference is that we didn’t put our names on it – because it wasn’t about feeding our egos or advancing our politics, it was about helping people. So don’t be giving him credit for that. And don’t give him your vote, either. There’s only one candidate in this election who cares about you, and that’s Kamala Harris.
A tweet from @HansMahncke: "Leaving everything else aside, how is this even a real post in May 2026 under a President Trump administration? These people sound as rogue as ever, which was already obvious when they tried to dismiss the Russiagate hoax as mere “tradecraft errors,” forcing Tulsi Gabbard to step in and publicly call them out. I like John Ratcliffe. He did important work on both Russiagate and Covid origins in the past. But a CIA director who allows this kind of totally inverted garbage to be pushed out under his watch does not appear to have control."
Basquiat with a speech bubble over his head as though saying the above skeet.
Screenshot of Robert Rohde, a sane climate scientist, noting that 2024 was on track to be another record hottest year with Paul R. replyguying him that things were looking cooler ACKSHUALLY.
Daily sea surface temperature (SST) data from Copernicus / ECMWF, between 60°N and 60°S, showing that late April and early May 2026 values are comparable to the hottest SSTs on record for this time of year, from 2024.
A cropped version of an image higher up in the conversation: Figure 1. The Enduring Racialized Effect of Burdens in Voting, Louisana Registration Rates, 1878-2000.
Protocols once confined to scientific journals have been salted across the internet. Companies sell synthetic bits of DNA and RNA directly to consumers online. Scientists can split up sensitive aspects of their work and outsource the tasks to private labs. And all of those logistics can now be managed with the help of a chatbot. Kevin Esvelt, a genetic engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shared conversations in which OpenAI’s ChatGPT explained how to use a weather balloon to spread biological payloads over a U.S. city. In another chat, Google’s Gemini ranked pathogens by how much they could damage the cattle or pork industries. Anthropic’s Claude produced a recipe for a novel toxin adapted from a cancer drug. Other chats contained information that Dr. Esvelt — known in his field as something of a Cassandra — felt was too dangerous to share. A scientist in the Midwest, who requested anonymity because he feared professional reprisal, asked Google’s Deep Research for a “step-by-step protocol” for making a virus that once caused a pandemic. The bot spit out 8,000 words of instructions on acquiring genetic pieces and assembling them. While the response was not entirely accurate, it could have still significantly helped someone with malicious intent, the scientist said.
Four panel cartoon of a kid who looks a little like Ed Norton hanging a red blanket and creating monsters/demons and fire using paint and cardboard and finally laying down rolling on the ground in horror.
A bottle of IW Harper bourbon.
A line graph of GISTEMP annual temperature anomalies, with a jagged bright red line growing from left to right across the page. The Y axis is labeled Temperature Anomaly in degrees Celsius, running from -.5 to 1. The X axis is labeled Year, running from 1880 to past 2000, with the plotted data extending to 2025. Although there is year to year variability, from around 1950 there is a clear upward trend. The highest values are for 2024, 2023, and 2025 respectively.
A line graph of GISTEMP March temperature anomalies, with a jagged bright red line growing from left to right across the page. The Y axis is labeled Temperature Anomaly in degrees Celsius, running from -.5 to 1. The X axis is labeled Year, running from 1880 to past 2000, with the plotted data extending to 2025. Although there is year to year variability, from around 1950 there is a clear upward trend. The highest values are for 2025, 2024, 2016, and 2026 respectively.
A close-up view from the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II crew’s lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, captures a total solar eclipse, with only part of the Moon visible in the frame as it fully obscures the Sun. Although the full lunar disk extends beyond the image, the Sun’s faint corona remains visible as a soft halo of light around the Moon’s edge. From this deep-space vantage point, the Moon appeared large enough to sustain nearly 54 minutes of totality, far longer than total solar eclipses typically seen from Earth. This cropped perspective emphasizes the scale of the alignment and reveals subtle structure in the corona during the rare, extended eclipse observed by the crew. The bright silver glint on the left edge of the image is the planet Venus. The round, dark gray feature visible along the Moon’s horizon between the 9 and 10 o’clock positions is Mare Crisium, a feature visible from Earth. We see faint lunar features because light reflected off of Earth provides a source of illumination. https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009298/art002e009298~orig.jpg
A close-up view taken by the Artemis II crew of Vavilov Crater on the rim of the older and larger Hertzsprung basin. The right portion of the image shows the transition from smooth material within an inner ring of mountains to more rugged terrain around the rim. Vavilov and other craters and their ejecta are accentuated by long shadows at the terminator, the boundary between lunar day and night. The image was captured with a handheld camera at a focal length of 400 mm, as the crew flew around the far side of the Moon. https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009282
Graphic with Artemis II Flyby Day schedule in EDT. The lunar flyby events stream on HBO MAX, Netflix, YouTube, Peacock, Amazon Prime, and on the NASA+ app. \n \nFlyby Day Schedule (all times EDT) \nNASA+ COVERAGE BEGINS - 1 p.m. \nARTEMIS II CREW PASSES THE APOLLO 13 DISTANCE RECORD \u2013 1:56 p.m. \nCrew remarks- 2:10 p.m. \nLUNAR OBSERVATION PERIOD (FLYBY) BEGINS \u2013 2:45 p.m. \nPREDICTED LOSS OF COMMUNICATION AS CREW HEADS BEHIND THE MOON\u202F\u202F(ESTIMATED TO LAST 40 MINUTES) \u2013 6:44 p.m. \nARTEMIS II CREW MAKES CLOSEST APPROACH TO THE MOON \u2013 7:02 p.m. \nARTEMIS II CREW REACHES MAXIMUM DISTANCE FROM THE EARTH\u202F - 7:07 p.m. \nPREDICTED ACQUISITION OF SIGNAL WITH INTEGRITY \u2013 7:25 p.m. \nECLIPSE PERIOD BEGINS WITH MOON ECLIPSING SUN \u2013 8:35 p.m. \nLUNAR OBSERVATION PERIOD (FLYBY) CONCLUDES \u2013 9:20 p.m. \nSOLAR ECLIPSE PERIOD ENDS \u2013 9:32 p.m. \nNASA+ COVERAGE CONCLUDES - 9:45 p.m.
Wiley Top cited article Congratulations to: Peter Jacobs Whose work has been recognized as a top cited article in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres A NASA GISTEMPv4 Observational Uncertainty Ensemble Among work published between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024.
Earth as photographed from Artemis II on April 2nd using a Nikon D5. Clouds are visible as while swirls above the blue of the ocean. The landmasses of Africa and Europe are visible in the lefthand side of the image while South America is faintly visible beneath clouds on the right. Aurorae at both poles appear as green textured light, while airglow lights up oxygen molecules more uniformly along the limb. The Earth is eclipsing the sun, which lights up the limb on the lower right of the Earth and also zodiacal light illuminates a triangular pyramid of cosmic dust pointing down in the same direction, towards Venus. Close in, nightlights and dust are visible. Credit: Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman / NASA
Column integrated total water vapor shows Hawai'i getting lashed with precipitation for weeks starting around the 11th. Data from NASA GSFC's GEOS-FP near-real-time analysis product.
A monochromatic photo of a young Jim Angleton.
An image of late 1990s Belfast, with many people walking down the street. In the foreground, a man in an Adidas windcheater wearing a ski mask is holding an Uzi. Behind him is Uncle O'Grimacy.
A screenshot of the original printing of the HP Lovecraft story "The Rats in the Walls" from Weird Tales Vol. 3 No. 3. It features words and a black and white illustration. The words read: "A Tremendous Tale That Rises Steadily To a Terrifying Climax The Rats in the Walls By H. P. Lovecraft In this image, "J. J. Angleton" is typed over "HP Lovecraft".
A screen grab from the original Twin Peaks television series. An exterior night shot showing a woman in a fur coat standing next to a distinctive neon sign consisting of a blue neon square framing a painted playing card style "one eyed Jack", the lone eye also outlined in neon blue. Inside the square the letter J is also done in neon, colored red.