ClimateFran
professor @UCDavis | climate change economist / scientist / general nerd | White House CEA 2022-23
franmoore.faculty.ucdavis.edu
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- 🚨Our new paper led by Dr. @zialyle.bsky.social looked at how climate change poses risks to US drinking water utilities & if their bonds disclose these risks to investors. Utilities serving 67 million people have high risks, but 36% of their bonds don't mention climate: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
- With cold outbreaks sweeping parts of the US, some have argued that climate change is to blame. But the proposed mechanism remains quite controversial in the scientific community, and the number of extreme cold events have been decreasing almost everywhere: www.theclimatebrink....
- I'd like to report a y-axis crime…
- This was one of my favorite #AGU25 talks this year
- New paper looks into "The debt burden of tropical cyclones and climate change" => across all TC-exposed countries, debt-to-GDP ratios are on average 30% higher due to the cumulative effects of TCs since 1990, while GDP levels are on average 10% lower eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
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- ICYMI with a quick screenshot as sales pitch. Simply feed your estimation a bunch of .parquet files on disk and run it as normal. This example takes 180m rows of NYC taxi data and computes the model in < 1 second. On a laptop.
- Things are grim. But in more frivolous news... @jamesbrandecon.bsky.social and I have been chipping away at `dbreg`, a 📦 for running big regression models on database backends. For the right kinds of problems, the speed-ups are near magical. Website: grantmcdermott.com/dbreg/ #rstats [1/2]
- My @washingtonpost.com colleagues worked round the clock this weekend to expose the truth of what's happening in Minneapolis and bring urgent weather news to millions facing dangerous cold and snow. If you value this work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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- Things are grim. But in more frivolous news... @jamesbrandecon.bsky.social and I have been chipping away at `dbreg`, a 📦 for running big regression models on database backends. For the right kinds of problems, the speed-ups are near magical. Website: grantmcdermott.com/dbreg/ #rstats [1/2]
- Really excited to see this paper out!! Led by @vtcoop.bsky.social we show that if you use cold and warm paleoclimates together, you can reduce uncertainty in Earth's climate sensitivity by quantifying the pattern effect and more precisely constrain future climate change www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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- Texas power buildout in one picture: wind (green) laid the foundation, solar (yellow) is the new wave, and energy storage (purple) is clustering around load. This is the grid transition, mapped.
- Explanation Of Board Game Rules Peppered With Reassurances That It Will Be Fun theonion.com/explanation-of-boar…
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- If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
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- 2025 was a massive year for me as an R developer. This past year I've branched out and focused on bringing interfaces to some of the most exciting geospatial technologies to the R community. Here's a summary:
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- My new article with @cary-coglianese.bsky.social, titled "Loper Bright's Disingenuity," has been published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. We argue that, even as the Loper Bright decision claimed to overrule Chevron, it preserved Chevron's core. pennlawreview.com/2025/12/23/l...
- If you think of "hiring in entry level positions" as "procuring labor to do the tasks entry level people do" then you probably do think AI is a magical headcount reduction machine. But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.
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- This is bunk. These sites are chosen to not interfere with radar systems, according to the process listed on...the Department of Energy's website: windexchange.energy.gov/projects/rad...
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- From wildfire warnings to flood forecasts, NCAR's research impacts everyone in America. President Trump's attempt to dismantle it for political vengeance is beyond reckless. We will fight against this dangerous scheme every step of the way.
- Wind developers: "We're ready to build." Grid: "Please hold. Your call is very important to us. Estimated wait time... 8 to 12 years."
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- This is not an exaggeration: There is not a single weather forecaster, TV meteorologist, airline pilot, computer scientist, or climate scientist in the WORLD whose work or life wasn't directly or indirectly improved or influenced by the science done at NCAR. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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- Everyone getting excited about #AGU25?? To keep up with the madness, I've updated my AGU conference feeds! Collects posts from the official AGU account, + #AGU25 and #AGU2025 hashtags AGU 2025 is chronological: bsky.app/profile/did:... What's Hot AGU25 for algorithm sort: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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- Updated CEPR eBook is stacked with great writers and, for some reason, me on "Changes in Federal Climate Policy." I'm assuming this was a data entry error, but I'll take it. Check out the rest of the free eBook here: cepr.org/publications...
- Wow. The AEA has issued a life time ban against Larry Summers. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...
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