Sociologist studying institutional responses to climate change; @columbiaclimate. Itinerant Montanan.
New York, USA
Joined May 2013
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Ian Gray retweeted
A figure from EPA related to Rob's point below
Pretty stunning: *No* major estimate of climate change’s financial costs includes the cost of these wildfire smoke days, @MarshallBBurke tells me
In other words, any estimate you’ve ever read of climate change’s costs did not include the cost of this
heatmap.news/climate/wildfir…
This and the reporting on the Colorado River water rights wrangling just reinforces my admiration for @paolobacigalupi ‘s the Water Knife. Dark but ahead of the curve. nytimes.com/2023/05/23/clima…
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2002! Cynthia Rosenzweig has always been on the ball: "...the Metro East Coast Assessment, which was published by the Columbia Earth Institute in 2002...it was also one of the first studies of how climate change would affect urban areas in general." news.climate.columbia.edu/20…
Nice turn of phrase : “We don’t know what, if anything, will work, which is why, perhaps, the movement needs both: flippant attention grabbing as well as surgical shutdowns, in a *diversity of disruptions*.” nytimes.com/2022/10/20/opini…
This really is such a key part of the story about the magnitude of Ian's destruction, and why deregulating land use decision-making in favor of real estate growth is the wrong direction for reducing climate vulnerability
npr.org/2022/10/08/112730295…
Reading about CGFI. Many things catch the eye, but this: "Mainstreaming ‘spatial finance’ – the integration of geospatial data and analysis into financial theory and practice...Space is now the finance frontier." Insurance-level risk analytics here we come
cgfi.ac.uk/about/
When your growth machine = coastal real estate development, you are inviting people to run toward negative equity. Tough bullet to bite, but better building codes cannot replace proactive and precautionary land use planning. washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
You know you’re settling in to your new home when you update your Twitter feed’s rare bird alerts @BirdCentralPark
True: "A main concern was that insurance companies might respond to risks outlined in the map by canceling policies...State officials argued that insurance companies have had similar tools for years and that the map wouldn’t change rates or policies."
eenews.net/articles/wildfire…
“Solving climate change requires resources; misappropriating these resources makes solving the problem harder. We need to stop subsidizing oil extraction…in the name of fighting cc and stop burning billions in taxpayer money on white elephant projects” nytimes.com/2022/08/16/opini…
Treadmill of Protection in action: “it’s almost impossible to generate the local funds to raise that levee if you don’t facilitate some sort of growth behind the levee,” Mr. Peterson said. “You need that economic activity to pay for the project.” nytimes.com/interactive/2022…
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“…so far in France this year, the surface of woodland consumed by flames is nearly six times as much as the full-year average for 2006 to 2021.” Huh, didn’t know they had the same forest management problems as we do in the U.S.
nytimes.com/2022/08/11/world…
Ian Gray retweeted
Despite glaring shortcomings (offshore oil, no $ for housing, ect) IRA makes some interesting down payments on forest restoration and investments in capacity at land management agency. Looking forward to others' analysis, but here's some things that jump out
“Pat was a cherry-picker, searching for bits of data in which the facts, for a limited period, seemed to contradict the community’s view on human-caused climate change,” [Hansen] said. “Overall, he was selling bullshit…” eenews.net/articles/patrick-…
Besides the threat to the peat forests, biodiversity, and the atmosphere, the legacy of extractivism in the region = violence, dispossession, and fragmentation for forest communities
I discuss the disastrous implications for the planned auction of oil concessions in the rainforest and peatlands of Democratic Republic of Congo, in today’s print New York Times. nytimes.com/2022/07/15/opini…
Ian Gray retweeted
Get ready for life in the Pandemicene. Our @Nature study on climate change found that bats (and their viruses) are on the move, and it's too late to stop it by cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The final (formatted) study is now online: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
