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"Save a nickel, kill a thousand" & destroy the next generation of scientists. emnetwork.substack.com/p/save-a-nic...

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I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.

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Takeaway from First Street Forecast: "Insurance market relies heavily on historical data, failing to adequately account for climate risk in its premium...dominated by short-term, one-year policies: is the future even insurable?...insurance is neither a long-term strategy nor a reliable safety net."

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Our research university leaders are totally failing us in the authoritarian moment. Not even trying to loudly & publicly defend the project of academia or the institutions. Just choosing a combination of “keep our heads down” & anticipatory compliance. Shamefully inadequate to the moment.

submitted 9 days ago • 43 comments

This level of conflict of interest and lack of transparency is unprecedented and rife with opportunity for self-enrichment. This is unacceptable.

submitted 12 days ago • 341 comments

Cuts to low income health care, tax cuts for multinational corporations Cuts to food assistance, tax cuts for estates over $14 MILLION Cuts to Ed grants & school lunches, tax breaks for businesses buying equipment The Trump agenda is a transfer of wealth from bottom to top

submitted 12 days ago • 54 comments

Latest payout data for Hurricane Helene from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) shows >96% of the $4.4B in "to-date" losses coming from Florida. Despite catastrophic inland flood damage, limited NFIP policy coverage means North Carolina accounts for just 3% of the event payout.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

not that anything matters but the offending keyword "climate," i.e. average weather, is a concept that exists apart from "climate change"

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

The need for affordable appropriate housing and climate change impacts are inextricably linked. Housing policy that does not consider climate change and vice-versa, is not looking at the big picture. ncnewsline.com/2025/02/10/f...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

This is very good. Clear and succinct.

submitted 20 days ago • 83 comments

Doing nothing will be even more expensive in a few years. And to avoid the water from flowing into homes at lower elevations once the roads are raised, the community will most likely have to pay for storm water pumps to remove the excess water.

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It is very easy to call your representatives’ offices. They have to log your calls and the call numbers are meaningful. You don’t even have to try to convince anyone; just call and tell them your concerns. They are there to represent you. Let them know what that means. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

submitted 27 days ago • 124 comments

Even as the need for emergency housing increases, the next new 'shiny' thing is 'doing away with FEMA' - an idea that is a total 'disaster' in the making. @samlmontano.bsky.social has great insights how this can lead to a privatization of disaster response. insideclimatenews.org/news/0512202...

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Since they’re now in office doing what they said they were going to do I’m going to re-share my analysis of Project 2025’s potential impact on FEMA. www.disaster-ology.com/blog/2024/12...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

LOVE this. Kudos to NRDC/Milliman for putting this together. Houses that flood will flood again, and that hits right in the pocketbook.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Polar vortex and frigid air all the way down to southern US. We have SNOW in eastern North Carolina today!

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Insurers claim, & media often repeats, that industry financials are so bad that they need more deregulation or else. They justify this pointing to "underwriting losses" (premium income minus payouts). But new data shows that # has been positive in many recent years AND other income -> big PROFITS!

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Super interesting collaborative flood mitigation and community resilience work! www.linkedin.com/pulse/work-u...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

It is entirely logical to be furious at the fossil fuel industry, whose decades-long campaign of corrupting politicians, crafting fake science, sowing false doubt, and lying at an industrial scale has brought us to this moment. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...

submitted 44 days ago • 160 comments

NC Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin seeks to throw out 60,000 votes from the 2024 election to challenge his loss to Allison Riggs by 734 votes. To see if your vote is on the list of contested ballots, check the link below and contact your state party office: ncnewsline.com/wp-content/u...

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

So...not just coastal cities, naval bases, fishing communities... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

This is a wild story.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

The risky business of predicting risk. Climate change is unpredictable, but local governments know which areas are increasingly flooding and where the risks are in the community. The models could integrate such qualitative observation data to increase accuracy or maybe they are already doing it.

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In Medellín, a city of 2.5 million people in Colombia, the Green Corridors urban restoration project has planted 880,000 trees and 2.5 million plants, reducing pollution and bringing temperatures down by 2 degrees C. #ShareGoodNewsToo reasonstobecheerful.world/green-corrid...

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I was approached re: the Finnish decision to downgrade MDPI & Frontiers journals in 🇫🇮 rankings (THE article). This decision was based on broad patterns, including in our recent study "The strain on scientific publishing" (link: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...) A quick 🧵 1/n #SciPub #AcademicChatter

submitted 66 days ago • 10 comments

This is a fantastic interview about the economic impacts of climate change @scrawford.bsky.social with @whitehouse.senate.gov. We are in the consequences era. Will be including this in my upcoming Spring 2025 course on Disasters and Climate Change.

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

Lessons to be learned here.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Historically, FEMA post-disaster assistance funds have been based on loss, not need. Money flowed to those with more assets, properties with higher values, predominantly white homeowners. It's a flaw in the program design. Seems like the federal government is recognizing the heir property issue.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Buying a home, but don't know what the risks are? @nrdc.org has some good advice for you! www.nrdc.org/stories/choo...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Would not have thought of Teton, WY as high risk and high insurance premiums. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

A timely call from @climatessn.bsky.social Requesting proposals for for social science research into climate obstruction. cssn.org/grants/reque...

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Reinsurance data offers one of the best proxies of the worsening climate crisis. This chart shows the evolution of insured losses related to natural disasters - from almost none, to a significant amount every year.

submitted 95 days ago • 3 comments

Not surprising with FEMA's ballooning bills, we will see more stories like this. Homeowners who cannot afford to rebuild to the mitigation standards will sell or forgo insurance and/or communities will drop out from NFIP flood insurance even at the cost of future development.

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs. I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 88 days ago • 22 comments

An excellent post-election piece on the need to reform how US Democrats manage cities and infrastructure. Even if I sometimes disagree with Hayden, he is always worth reading.

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

The impact of insurance coverage (lack of) on housing markets is worth looking at. Data is hard to get, any ideas? insideclimatenews.org/news/2511202...

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments