You may find this map shocking. The crazy imbalance even surprised me! It’s the ratio of record highs vs record lows in each city since 2020. That’s right, in Miami there have been 115 daily record highs, but only 1 record morning low! Phoenix: 138 to 0!… 1/

📬 New newsletter is out. This edition highlights my interview with Dr. Shiran Victoria Shen on how #climate #adaptation emerges in China after the 2021 Henan floods — and what that reveals about governance, public pressure, and risk. Also sharing international episodes from the archive 🇦🇺🌍

🎙️ New podcast with @americaadapts.bsky.social 🎙️ #ClimateAdaptation in #China 🇨🇳 — what the 2021 Henan flood taught us about public demand, participation, and the limits of top-down policy. 🎧 www.americaadapts.org/episodes/pub...

🌏 New pod on #climateadaptation in #China. After the Henan flood, citizens used message boards to demand safety and infrastructure. A useful look at how public participation shapes adaptation. And a reminder that adaptation lessons don’t stop at national borders. 🎧 #climatechange #adaptation

🔥 New pod with climate writer Jeff Goodell, digging into what’s happened since The Heat Will Kill You First was published — and what hasn’t. Not a book review, but a conversation about the book’s legacy on why heat remains so easy to ignore. 🎧 #ExtremeHeat #ClimateAdaptation #podcast

Just in - "According to @climatecentral.org, 2025 ranks as the third-highest year (after 2023 and 2024) for billion-dollar weather and climate disasters..." + Interactive graphics/data: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv... + Climate Matters article: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

Register (1/15): The 4th briefing in our Climate Change and Human Mobility series examines how communities and local governments in California are addressing climate-induced displacement. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @americaadapts.bsky.social @mikemendezphd.bsky.social #scipol #caleg

Check out the latest America Adapts podcast focused on climate adaptation across Arizona, featuring me and adaptation leaders in Tucson, Phoenix, and Flagstaff! #climatechange #adaptation #resilience

New podcast alert! On-the-ground adaptation from the desert: shade that changes how people move, smarter heat-season ops, responsible water planning. 🌵 🎧 If it works here, parts of it can work where you live. 🙏 @CO2Foundation #Adaptation #climatechange #arizona #extremeheat #climaterisk

New America Adapts pod! 🎧 @keenanclimate.com joins me (again) to talk about his new book, North: The Future of Post-Climate America. It’s not about disasters — it’s about how the U.S. is already changing as we adapt. We also touch on Florida through a fictional chapter set in 2079! #Adaptation

🎧 Coming Monday to a podcast platform near you! 📖 #climatechange #climatemigration #adaptation Subscribe here! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

🌪️New episode of America Adapts! We take a real-time look at FEMA — what’s breaking, what’s actually working, and where things might go next. I’m joined by: Joel Scata (NRDC) Michael Coen (former #FEMA Chief of Staff) Samantha Medlock (former FEMA Assistant Administrator) Derrick Hiebert (AECOM)

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Great #climaterisk episode here if you haven't listened. @keenanclimate.com has some good advice - adaptation communication isn't just on bluesky starter packs. Talk to people. Have found this super useful here in CA.

New #podcast is out now: The Federal Climate Retreat and the Rise of a New Adaptation Ecosystem 🌎 As federal climate leadership pulls back, a new ecosystem of adaptation services are stepping up! 🔧📊 Conversations with Climate.us, EcoAdapt, Georgetown Climate Center, Probable Futures🌟 🎧 Listen!

🌊 Unmanaged Retreat 🌎 Isle de Jean Charles was supposed to show us how to move communities out of harm’s way. Instead, it became a tangle of politics, confusion & broken promises. Reporter Terry Jones joins me to unpack what really happened. 🎧 Have a listen! #ClimateAdaptation #ManagedRetreat

🌍🎙️ Re-release! @katharinemach.bsky.social joins me to unpack how the @ipcc.bsky.social really works—and how the media both succeeds and fails to tell its story. With the Trump admin dismantling the National Climate Assessment, the IPCC’s role matters more than ever. 🎧 #IPCC #climatechnae

Listen to our latest briefing via the @americaadapts.bsky.social podcast. #scipol #scicomm #climatechange

New (unusual) America Adapts #podcast: #ClimateChange & Human Mobility — rebroadcast from the @ccst.us series I moderated. We unpack “climate havens,” how climate stress can raise civil war risk, and why NAPs must plan for mobility. Listen here!

Interested in the impact of climate change on transborder migration? I was part of an interesting online seminar yday w UCSD's Barbara Walter & Stanford's Helene Benveniste hosted by California Council on Science and Technology moderated by @americaadapts.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlsO...

Twenty years after Katrina, what is fixed? What is still broken? Where are we headed? I joined @americaadapts.bsky.social to discuss these questions and the work we are doing at the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social on disasters, recovery and community resilience: www.americaadapts.org/episodes/20-...

🌀 20 Years After Katrina🎧 What’s been fixed, what’s still broken, and what’s now under assault. I talk with @andrewrumbach.bsky.social of @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, who went to New Orleans post-Katrina and has spent two decades studying disasters and resilience. #Katrina20 #ClimateAdaptation

Register: Climate Change and Human Mobility Across Borders Facing extreme #climate events, communities grapple with decisions to stay in place, or relocate to safer areas. 🔗 ccst.us/climate-chan... @americaadapts.bsky.social @stanforddoerr.bsky.social @goldmanschool.bsky.social #scipol #caleg

🌊 New pod of America Adapts! From #Acadia National Park, we dive into how the Schoodic Institute is generating the science that makes climate adaptation possible. 🦞🌲⛰️ 🎧 Listen! Adaptation only works when it’s grounded in science + partnerships — and Schoodic shows us how. #Climate #adaptation

It was great to join @americaadapts.bsky.social last month to talk about my book, Climate Change on the Battlefield. You can listen to the episode here:

Thanks to @americaadapts.bsky.social for having me on. We discussed my new book, Climate Change on the Battlefield, and why national adaptation plans *are* an investment in climate security!

🪖 Just dropped a 🔥 episode with Erin Sikorsky on how climate change is destabilizing global security—and how China is already adapting for advantage. 🎙️ We talk: 🌍 National adaptation plans 🇺🇸 U.S. backsliding 🇨🇳 China’s climate strategy 🚨 And why ignoring this is a threat multiplier #climatechange

'Twas a treat to speak on the America Adapts podcast about how we bridge housing justice and climate adaptation to secure safe, affordable, and resilient homes in a time of growing climate change impacts.

🔥 New America Adapts Newsletter! This one’s all about my latest episode: Innovations in Climate Risk & Insurance. Inside: episode resources, guest highlights, ideas for sharing, + a sneak peek at what’s next. 👉 mailchi.mp/3203f8774400...

Just out: Innovations in #ClimateRisk and #Insurance 🎙️ -Policy experts shaping reform -Insurance executives navigating high-risk markets -A Miami real estate agent on the front lines of a shifting market -Innovators using big data and tech to transform how we measure and manage risk Have a listen!

📰 New America Adapts newsletter! I break down the big ideas from the MR2025 Conference—climate mobility, managed retreat, relocation, and the stories shaping how we adapt. 🎧 Plus: Insights from Carlos Alvarado, Olga Loginova, Rob Moore, Macey Williams & more. 📩 Read it here: shorturl.at/jzJSi

A dangerous stretch of extreme heat is gripping much of the Southeastern U.S. this week. The most dangerous conditions are expected through midweek, particularly across areas from the Carolinas and Georgia down to Florida. Here's what else to know.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

🎙️ New podcast episode of America Adapts! Inside the MR2025 Conference: → Climate mobility → Managed retreat → Real estate + risk → A global call from 🇨🇷 Pres. Carlos Alvarado Retreat isn’t failure—it’s adaptation. 🎧 Listen!

If you missed Columbia University's Climate Mobility conference in June, you can learn more about it on @americaadapts.bsky.social. www.americaadapts.org/episodes/ins...

To illustrate just how much of the United States is uninsured against flood risk, take note of this statistic: Just 25 counties (nearly all of them coastal) account for 50% (!!!) of all active NFIP policies.

This heat wave mortality graphic tells quite the story. Europe needs to get over itself and start rolling out air conditioning.

New America Adapts podcast is up! I talk with Laurie Schoeman, senior #resilience person in Biden #WhiteHouse about what went wrong on adaptation—and what to do differently next time. Also: her work on LA’s post-fire Blue Ribbon Commission and why it matters now. #Climate #Adaptation #Wildfire #LA

New America Adapts #podcast: I talk w/ Robin Keegan—ex-FEMA, ex-HUD, Katrina veteran—about why disaster recovery is still broken, how climate change is making it worse, and what the current admin is doing to make sure it stays broken 🎧 #climatechange #DisasterRecovery #Resilience

Talking Climate is now a podcast! Every week, you can listen to the good news, not-so-good news, and what you can do on Spotify and Substack, narrated by the amazing Anne Cloud — and we’ve already got nine episodes ready to binge. Listen on Spotify:

NEW: Watch our discussion on Housing Costs, Insurance Rates, and Rebuilding After Disasters. Experts discuss #insurance innovations, #wildfire risk mitigation, the #housing crisis and more with @americaadapts.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYP9... #climate #risk #california #disasters

This has been a great series so far! Especially relevant as we head into the summer season.

Tune in Wednesday: How are recent disasters affecting the costs of housing, insurance rates, and decisions by communities on whether to move away from at-risk areas? Moderated by @americaadapts.bsky.social podcast host Doug Parsons. Register: ccst.us/register-hou... #wildfire #housing #caleg

How about a dose of authoritarianism in response?? Then a doubling down on extractive business models? :) Ugh... The fast-approaching risks are clear and terrifying. Where to point instead? At the moment, this brings to mind www.americaadapts.org @americaadapts.bsky.social podcast.

🎧 First-ever America Adapts episode all in Spanish! Partnered with @worldwildlife.org Mexico to spotlight their AI-powered mangrove #climate adaptation project, ManglarIA. I even speak a little Spanish—be kind 😅 #mangroves #conservation #espanol

Register and submit your questions for our June 4 discussion moderated by Doug Parsons @americaadapts.bsky.social. bsky.app/profile/ccst... #climate #wildfire #insurance #housing #scipol

My commentary @nytimes.com in re the ending of NOAA's reporting on billion-dollar disasters. “It defies logic,” [I] said. Without the database, “the U.S. government’s flying blind as to the cost of extreme weather and climate change.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/c...

🚨 New podcast: Dismantling F.E.M.A.: The Unmaking of Federal #Climate Resilience from the Inside Out with Victoria Salinas. Victoria joins America Adapts to talk about what was built—and what’s now being dismantled. #climatechange tinyurl.com/bdfu7sky

Join us: The next briefing in our climate change and human mobility series explores how #disasters are affecting the costs of #housing, #insurance rates, and decisions by communities on whether to move away from at-risk areas. Moderated by @americaadapts.bsky.social. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...