Hey everyone in the East Bay who just got woken up by this nonsense, make sure you submit a felt report at USGS DYFI (Did You Feel It): earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

🚫 During the Palisades Fire, a drone hit a firefighting aircraft—forcing it out of service when every second mattered. 🔗 www.dailynews.com/2025/09/15/s...

Hi, I’m Larry. I’m an Asst Prof of Earth and Env. Science where I teach courses primarily in the atmospheric and ocean sciences. My students and I also conduct research that focuses on climate change education.

Without noticing it particularly, I've found I'm now over 900 followers. Very gratifying. It would be a great Christmas present if I could get to a round 1000 by December! Meanwhile, it's been terrific to have such great engagement and dialogue. My thanks to everybody who had read and responded.

This is a great example of local actions that both reduce carbon pollution (climate mitigation by enabling carbon free active transportation) and also increase the resilience to climate impacts (climate adaptation by designing systems to handle increased amounts of rainfall due to climate change).

That's right. What's more alarming is ~97% of the current highway storm drains in the United States were designed using rainfall information that was published in *1961* using 1930s-1950s data. We're using infrastructure built for the rainfall of nearly a century ago. engrxiv.org/preprint/vie....

I'm unreasonably fond of "box o' rocks" heat storage. Get a bunch of bricks/gravel/whatever, wrap 'em in resistive heating elements, heat 'em up when it's sunny or windy, use the heat when it's not. Stupid-simple and robust. I've seen 50-year-old "box o' rocks" apartment heaters still going strong.

Progress continues with the new PolarWx tropical page — the “models” tab for each storm has been redesigned for easier browsing of past runs, with a new section for viewing forecast track & intensity trends for each model: polarwx.com/tropical

Just like NOAA provides weather info for communities, NOAA should provide free, credible, & actionable information about a range climate impacts. For some climate hazards, they do. But not yet for future rainfall. Our new paper provides a workaround until they do. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Let's try something new. What was the best coffee you ever had?

I'm giving social media a go after a hiatus, so hi! I'm a Kiwi volcanologist working on Ngāuruhoe (Mt Doom) in NZ, the 2021 La Palma/Tajogaite eruption impacts, seafloor geologic hazards, & collaborate w. @geotenerife.bsky.social. More on my work here: janinekrippner.weebly.com Nice to meet you❤️🌋

After having a great geo call with @earthjay.bsky.social yesterday, I am inspired to give this platform a go again! So here is my latest writing. Over the last few years I have been doing the classic newspaper column writing scicomm style. www.teawamutunews.nz/2025/09/pani...

Headline's a bit exaggerated but shows how bad environmental stewardship can directly increase business risk. That's what we showed in our latest paper: carbon is as much a risk management issue as it is a climate issue. Some LNG supply chains are at high-risk of being major carbon liabilities.

Interesting demonstration project for “phytomining” (growing gmo-ed crops to extract nickel from soil…instead of digging it out of mines) in South Africa. Plants concentrating to up to ~8% Ni by weight on otherwise in-arable lands? www.fastcompany.com/91406694/thi...

Toxic landfills and storm surges don’t mix: when hurricanes hit, they can unleash leachate, methane, and poisons into water and soil. But bond markets ignore the risks. Column today - open.substack.com/pub/susanpcr...

Exclusive: Some of the biggest names in climate tech are forming a new coalition to map out the future of decarbonization.

Important new paper from @marshallburke.bsky.social on the devastating toll of wildfire smoke in @nature.com "climate-driven smoke deaths result in economic damages that exceed existing estimates of climate-driven damages from all other causes combined in the US" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our latest research on fire impacts on snow melt timing across the Western US was just published in @aaas.org Science Advances. Read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

These are the exact expected consequences when the total daily precipitation amount on the earth increases simultaneously as it is dstributed over a smaller fraction of its surface area doi.org/10.1038/s416...

Catastrophic “hyperclustering” and recurrent losses: diagnosing U.S. flood insurance insolvency triggers Nayak+ doi.org/10.1038/s443... "long-term resilience requires aligning financial, structural, and non-structural interventions with distinct regional risk patterns"

Do you work on Distributed Energy Resource management, Virtual Power Plants, etc? Then you might be interested to know that we estimate your services could save hundreds of billions of dollars in distribution grid reinforcement as we electrify our homes and vehicles.

We are excited to announce the release of the Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas, an effort to map ongoing and future environmental hazards and their impacts on society, and to provide up to date evidence on what policies and interventions work to reduce impacts: adaptationatlas.org. Quick thread

Latitude reports on a new study showing that combined-cycle gas turbines slated for service in 2030–31 are now going for $2,000+ per kilowatt — up to 75% more than near-term projects. www.latitudemedia.com/news/gas-tur...

Bravo again! Part 1 of 3 article on Portland schools and earthquake risk. www.oregonlive.com/education/20...

The Case for a National Disaster Research Strategy issues.org/national-dis...

Hot Drought of Summer 2023 in Southwestern North America agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

🌊 >70% of W. Atlantic coral reefs will transition into net erosional states by 2040. If warming >2°C (SSP2–4.5+), 99% eroding by 2100. Sea level will rise 0.3–0.5 m above reefs by 2060, 0.7–1.2 m by 2100, boosting coastal flood risk www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1) New paper! Replacing US fossil-fueled vehicles & appliances with electric versions could improve health & climate outcomes, but could cost up to $790 billion in distribution grid reinforcement. Strategic demand-side management could cut 2/3 of those costs.🔌💡 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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NEW SHIFT KEY We’re Already in a Post-Oil Energy Security Age I spoke with JP Morgan’s in-house scientist & head of climate advisory about how the geopolitics of energy are changing, what her startup clients want to know right now, & why adaptation is underrated shows.acast.com/65bac3af0334...

If you want to see what a best-in-class climate scientist with a lens on geopolitics and energy can do in the financial sector - read Sarah Kapnick's new report on energy system politics for JP Morgan. A few of my favorite figures below 🧵1/ www.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...

🧪🛰️🛢️ A huge haze in the Cantarell Oil Field (Golfo de México). A largely under monitored area because satellite algorithms have a real hard time detecting these hazes (cirrus & sunglint) and get a realistic picture of how much is there. Check out much more info in Alt-image @barrylefer.bsky.social

*** Research Highlight *** Ibrahim is a first-year PhD student in @EOI_lab, and his research focuses on #LandSubsidence #hazards and #risks to critical #infrastructure, integrating cutting-edge techniques in #remotesensing, #ML, and physical #modeling. He enjoys playing #soccer. Well done!

New paper out today in GRL: Drying of the Panama Canal in a Warming Climate (shorturl.at/TJ3aj) Main finding: Low water levels in Gatun Lake (main reservoir for Panama Canal) become more frequent and severe in a warming climate, particularly under higher emissions pathways

What's wrong with the way the US government subsidizes the municipal transit systems' procurement of buses? Why do the buses cost so much? And what can be done about it? New from Ed Glaeser, Samantha Silverberg via @brookings.edu Hutchins Center and AEI. www.brookings.edu/articles/pay...

We're hiring! We have an open search for an Assistant Professor in physics of the ocean and/or atmosphere in Columbia's Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Please circulate this information to good candidates, and apply yourself if you are one! Ad & link to apply: apply.interfolio.com/173819

Join us this Thursday for the second in our great lineup of speakers for the Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics - Irene Montasterolo on the materiality of climate risks and the Network for Greening the Financial System scenarios: cepr.org/events/event... #EconSky #GreenSky

Love seeing the science and academic community use Sill! It's great for more than just news!

I’m proud to say that @noaa.gov and NCEI has released a 1 year retrospective on #Helene using ESRI Story Maps. arcg.is/aqCD4 Here is a brief thread of how this came to be and how NOAA can still do good things (even while wearing pajamas).

Full version of Climate Conflict Vulnerability Index now online. Our index maps the (co)occurrence of climate and conflict risks on a global level. The index is updated quarterly and provided at a 0.5° gridded spatial resolution. Explore the data here: climate-conflict.org/www

Really appreciate using @sill.social as a daily digest of the most talked-about news and papers from my follows - the Links section is excellent, especially since it includes not just top items shared, but also who posted and any additional commentary they had to share.

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩

Event response means researching disasters in real time to understand their impacts - a fast-paced role that requires a lot of creativity to come up with data on the fly.

New paper led by Alex Saunders (University of Arizona) shows index insurance outcomes can be sensitive to choice of metric and dataset - important insights for those using index insurance as a means to reduce vulnerability agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

I would just like to point out that this is a spectacular choice of cover image for this story.

Lately, photographer Ragnar Visage started sharing video footage of past Iceland eruptions and I feel like no one sees it. Check out this video and his channel. So mesmerizing! ⚒️🧪 #Geology 🌋 youtu.be/aSOdrS2R3jA?...

🚨 Our annual report is officially live! We compiled the latest #government #data on the issues shaping policy decisions in #Congress right now. #DataViz Read the full report here: https://usafacts.org/research-and-initiatives/reports/america-in-facts/

Yet another Nat Cat job? Actually, we're searching for TWO experts, specialized in tropical cyclones or earthquakes. US or UK, remote work definitely an option. Great job for an ECR physical scientist looking to join the insurance/reinsurance industry! eedu.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

neat paper using AI to improve flood forecasts in the US for discharge- more accurate that the National Water Model and Google's Flood Model- agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

We’ve just launched the Risk‑KAN Starter Pack! A curated toolkit to kickstart collaboration, insight, and impact at the intersection of emergent risks, climate change & disaster resilience 🌍 And stay informed on all the events organized by our Working Group leads. Take a look: go.bsky.app/SpGzhJJ