Did every single person in these states experience a disaster? Each of these states received a statewide disaster declaration in 2021
WA
MT
CA
WA
TN
MO
NY
NE
If not then this headline is wrong
Pro tip: Federal Disaster Declarations reflect presidential politics + disasters
A lie is born
1-"More than 32% of Americans live in a county or state that has been declared a disaster area by FEMA"
2-"Nearly 1 in 3 Americans live in a county hit by a weather disaster in the past 3 months"
3-"Nearly 1 in 3 Americans experienced a weather disaster this summer"
Climate change is real & aggressive adaptation and mitigation policies make good sense
So does that mean that we can just make stuff up?
I do not understand the quality control problems in climate journalism but they are spectacular
I was going to ignore this silly article, but once the US president starts parroting falsehoods as truth, scienciness as journalism becomes a bit more noteworthy and worthy of critique
For those curious, I've been watching the misuse of disaster declaration data for more than two decades
Use climate data to see climate trends💡
Downton & Pielke Jr 2001. Discretion without accountability: Politics, flood damage & climate. NHR 2:157-166 doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)…
Why are more people covered by disaster declarations in 2021 than in 2016?
WP: "The expanding reach of climate-fueled disasters, a trend that has been increasing at least since 2018"
Actually: We had an election & the new guy declares disasters differently than the previous guy
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Storm surge is a function of a storm and the current sea level
Long-term sea level rise of course raises the level of the sea but has absolutely no effect on storm surge from a particular storm
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I increasingly see the claim that SLR makes storm surge worse
This is incorrect
It’s like saying a 6 ft man is 5,286 ft tall in Denver
SLR & storm surge are both important scientific concepts, purposely confusing them is a bad idea
Even as SLR has increased over the past century+ societal vulnerability to storm surges has decreased, there is no reason to expect that with dedicated effort this trend will not continue
In the @WSJ@BjornLomborg uses our analyses of hurricane landfalls to argue that "the frequency of hurricanes making landfall in the continental U.S. has declined slightly since 1900"
I doubt I'm actually in @TheFIREorg database
My experiences highlighted below
We can add to those
➡️Targeted by the White House
➡️Investigated by Congress
➡️Investigated on campus
➡️Seen all four successful initiatives I created/led on campus shut down
➡️and more 🤓
I ❤️ tenure
I applaud @TheFIREorg for calling attention to these issues for scholars, which come from the right & from the left
They are incredibly difficult to experience & talk about
I'm stubborn/dumb/tenured & have made it thru the worst of it