ADAM TOOZE

Whereas Trump started 2020 running on a strong economic platform, that net positive has swung negative this year. ft.com/content/64ceaf… https://t.co/ezfieqpbMa

A Sociological Perspective on the Karabakh War: A Conversation with the inimitable Georgi Derluguian youtube.com/watch?v=Wfj8_H… https://t.co/gE277L3xmu

I don’t think the ructions btw the Trump team and the Chamber of Commerce have received the attention they deserve. Surely a significant pointer to search by US capital for way out of Trump quagmire. @alaynatreene axios.com/trump-pence-us… https://t.co/YBTkgaa7Dz

2020 was always going to be a big year for global climate diplomacy: adamtooze.com/2020/01/20/the… But Xi’s 22 September announcement has changed the game. 3 pieces: On implications for EU adamtooze.com/2020/10/19/chi… For US adamtooze.com/2020/09/25/how… And for EM adamtooze.com/2020/10/17/wel… https://t.co/P9eFtQV6cK

I don’t think the ructions btw the Trump team and the Chamber of Commerce have received the attention they deserve. Surely a significant pointer to search by US capital for way out of Trump quagmire. @alaynatreene axios.com/trump-pence-us… https://t.co/HJukgijT5c

2020 was always going to be a big year for global climate diplomacy: adamtooze.com/2020/01/20/the… But Xi’s 22 September announcement has changed the game. 3 pieces: On implications for EU adamtooze.com/2020/10/19/chi… For US adamtooze.com/2020/09/25/how… And for EM adamtooze.com/2020/10/17/wel… https://t.co/FPf8JhEQ4O

RT @PP_Rubens: How insanely beautiful can sunlight on a cloud be? This insanely beautiful. The Maas at Dordrecht, 1650, by Aelbert Cuyp, wh…

RT @LSEReviewBooks: 'The crises of the 2010s transformed the EU. The EU moved from a politics of technocratic and depoliticised rule-making…

Thank you for dredging this back up … remarkable set of data this! twitter.com/OberstWKlink/s…

@APercy_LIFE “Shimmering" is another of his phrases that I love.

"reanalysis has been integrated into the infrastructure of climate knowledge. Each round will bring new revisions to the history of climate. Well into the future, we will keep right on reanalyzing the past:” The images shimmer within a narrow band yet never settle down. Edwards https://t.co/Z3f16SBUmd

"if you want global data, you have to make them. You do that by inverting the infrastructure, recovering metadata, and using models and algorithms to blend and smooth out diverse, heterogeneous data that are unevenly distributed in space and time.” Edwards Vast Machine 321 https://t.co/PhaLbzgHPc

@noahsalz Yup. Its an amazing book!

Learned a new word: “inhomogeneities” – breaks in time series data caused by changing modes of measurement, classification etc. H/t Paul Edwards Vast Machine https://t.co/uCMV3yvCx5

RT @Jmhaas: Interesting piece by @mclaren_erc : A brief history of climate targets and technological promises, based on this nature article…

New word: nephanalysis (analysis of cloud types, amounts, water content, etc.) https://t.co/6tudBeHUIl

A facsimile receiver for NASA'ss Automatic Picture Transmission system, circa 1964. Buy one of these APT ground station for c $30,000 and NASA’s satellites would send you weather pictures whenever they crossed your territory. H/T Edwards Vast Machine. https://t.co/IJR78Am9A0

“Beijing now argues that China was a creator of the order that emerged in 1945, and that the threat to that order comes from US, not China,” Mitter writes. “China is creating a circuit of memory” to challenge idea that USA “liberated:” the Pacific. ft.com/content/a75e8a… https://t.co/CIi2JrHTx9

RT @AdamPosen: This is an incredible resource of @Trade__Talks episodes – for professors and educators, for writers and reporters, for the…

@TomWlost @ForeignPolicy Thanks!

How US National Meteorological Center improved accuracy of its 36-hour high alt forecast for North America, 1955 – 88. On S 1 scale, a standard measure of predictive skill, 20 represents a perfect forecast; 70 represents a useless one. From Edwards Vast Machine One for @SoberLook https://t.co/0fyeqCzDHg

RT @ForeignPolicy: To imagine that China’s strategy is a propagandistic diversion or a concession to Western diplomacy is both to overestim…

Dogon A.D. (1972/1977) Julius Hemphill – alto sax, flute Baikida E.J. Carroll – trumpet Abdul Wadud – cello Philip Wilson – drums Dennis Pohl – cover art for Freedom release Wow @adamshatz this rocks! @Jderbyshire en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogon_A.D. https://t.co/thQtsB6Ara

“I am violently anti-Communist, and I was probably a good deal more militaristic than most. . . . My opinions have been violently opposed to Marxism ever since … I had about a three-month taste of it in Hungary in 1919.” John von Neumann on his role in the atomic bomb program. https://t.co/PoABjhDltI

By 1960, the data library at the US National Weather Records Center had 40 m punch-cards on file and was adding 4 m per year -> by 1966 there was overflow to Renaissance-style halls and fear building would collapse under weight of card database. Edwards Vast Machine https://t.co/nllsIQwVyg

June 1937. "Baltimore, Maryland. For every Social Security account number issued an 'employee master card' is made in the Social Security board records office. These are punched by hand and can then be sorted by Hollerith/IBM punch-card machines. shorpy.com/node/14750 https://t.co/RpXm29u56N

RT @OptimoPrincipi: 1/5) This man was violently killed in 2nd century Roman London; forensic science and the study of Ancient DNA tells us…

"If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with banknotes, … “ Keynes. An actual WPA program in New Deal involved creating a climate data set by manually punching 20 m upper-air observations taken by balloon and radio sonde for processing by IBM punch-card machines! H/t Edwards https://t.co/8fjfhgEUal

RT @alexisgoldstein: @Frank_vanlerven @ecb @Lagarde @Isabel_Schnabel @Frances_Coppola @AnnPettifor @NVJRobins1 @UliVolz @ProfSteveKeen @des…

RT @HarvardMapColl: I tend to give a lot of credit and meaning to engravers' and mapmakers' design choices, but sometimes… https://t.co/G…

“The more or less continuous conflict btw warm, moist currents of air so resembled the tide of battle along the western European battle front that the Norwegian school applied the name “front” to the boundary between different air currents” F. W. Reichelderfer 1941 h/t Edwards https://t.co/dDeOosPRKp

44 in this image is a 13-year old Lewis Hamilton chasing down a rival in the rain in 1998. youtube.com/watch?v=BfCZqd… https://t.co/xSPBiP0npf

Global warming as seen in 1938: temperature anomalies, 1890 – 1935 (computed frm 147 stations, grouped and weighted by area). G. S. Callendar, “The Artificial Production of CO2 & Its Influence on Temperature, ” Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorological Society (1938) https://t.co/3DUzp2h4C3

RT @basiloberholzer: China takes the climate stage socialeurope.eu/china-takes-th… via @socialeurope @adam_tooze @energiestiftung @mahaenggi

1883 Austrian meteorologist Julius von Hann published 1st edition of his Handbook of Climatology , which would remain the standard textbook in theoretical climatology for 50 years. Deborah’s Coen complex psychological portrait is unforgettable! https://t.co/63H8jyKV3j

RT @PhilWight: "The United States does have a unique role with regard to fossil fuel producers. The United States was the architect and anc…