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Vince Cooper

@vtcoop.bsky.social

Climate scientist investigating climate dynamics and paleoclimate. Currently a Houghton Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT @eapsmit

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My first sole-author paper is now published! πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰

It's the culmination of a lot of thinking, so I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks to the friends, colleagues, and reviewers who helped make this happen 😊

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

02.02.2026 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“£ Register & join CESM Paleoclimate Working Group Meeting on Feb 12

Hybrid community meeting on paleo modeling, proxy data, & model–data integration. Talks cover deep-time, isotopes, community efforts & coordination

Register for virtual link www.cesm.ucar.edu/events/worki...

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02.02.2026 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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As the authors note, it is critical to account for the pattern effects during paleo periods to turn their ECS estimates into modern analogues: eartharxiv.org/repos...

02.02.2026 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Recent assessments have found the last glacial maximum implies a climate sensitivity of 2.4C (1.4C to 5.0C): www.science.org/doi/...

And the Pliocene implies a sensitivity of 3.1C (2.3C to 4.7C): www.pnas.org/doi/10....

Paleoclimate evidence generally provides the strongest constraint on high ECS.

02.02.2026 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Check out the @pnas.org highlight for our new paper on how Paleoclimate Pattern Effects in the Pliocene lead to tighter constraints on the modern response to CO2 (a.k.a. climate sensitivity)

30.01.2026 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Paleoclimate pattern effects help constrain climate sensitivity and 21st-century warming | PNAS Paleoclimates provide examples of past climate change that inform estimates of modern warming from greenhouse-gas emissions, known as Earth’s clima...

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/...

23.01.2026 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 98    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

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