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Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ Profile picture
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This 🧵is NOT for those in harm's way in the LA-area catastrophe. Find local advice and help. It is for those facing similar #wui fire risks elsewhere (this is not "wildfire"; it's an urban firestorm sparked by wildfire) and eager to stay safe. As you see the rush to explain the vast losses, look for the word #grandfathered. You won't see it much but it's vital. Here's why. 1/Image
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California has fine building codes for #wildfire risk reduction. osfm.fire.ca.gov/what-we-do/cod…. But in most communities, huge numbers of homes and other buildings are exempt because they were built before the new codes went into force. That's where the word #grandfathered comes in. There are other issues. But I'm just focusing on those exemptions for the moment. 2/Image
The @CountyofLA "after action" report on the 2019 #woolseyfire that devastated Malibu lays this out.
3/ file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/s…Image
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Read the report and then, as the coverage flows forward from the current disaster, keep watch for "grandfathered" as assessments of the thousands of destroyed structures in the #palisadesfire #eatonfire #PasadenaFire and the rest are done in the weeks ahead. I'll be writing a #sustainwhat post on this drawing on insights from folks like @MichaelWWara @headecon and others. Get in touch if you have insights! 4/Image
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For resources on these issues explore @headecon ibhs.org/wildfire/wildf… and its CPAW project cpaw.headwaterseconomics.org @IBHS_org ibhs.org/wildfire/wildf… @FederalAlliance cpaw.headwaterseconomics.org 5/ Image
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Here's my initial post on this ongoing catastrophe #palisadesfire #emgtwitter 6/ revkin.substack.com/p/wild-fire-is…Image
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Oct 3
Just had a wide-ranging discussion with my old climate blogging antagonist Joe Romm (now @PennCSSM etc) and, boy, he had a message for "#cleanenergy" VC folks and others thinking of #GreenHydrogen as a climate fix... Here are some nuggets and link to the full #sustainwhat show... 1/
Joe Romm on why #GreenHydrogen doesn't add up.. 2/
"#greenhydrogen" is a waste of resources... 3/
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Aug 13
A big #glof is under way in Alaska and portions of the city of Juneau are being told to evacuate. Below you can see the wild ice/water dynamics upstream in 2023. The Mendenhall glacier periodically blocks and builds a floodwater lake and then releases a glacial lake outburst flood. You can track breathless headlines or simply go to the great website below for realtime details. 1/2Image
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More on the #juneau #glof evacuation and flood warning from @NWS weather.gov/ajk/suicidebas…Image
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Aug 5
I criticized some of @ClimateDefiance's targets and tactics in the past (as they tried to press Biden to move farther left when he was so threatened from the right).

But I recognize that #responsediversity is inevitable (you don't want society to move in lockstep facing a complicated threat).

And I have to say they picked a clever target disrupting a Lee Zeldin Hamptons breakfast days after his EPA moved to undermine its own climate regulations. And what a lunatic response from some of the congregation (particularly the guy named Simon assaulting a protestor with a chair).

And here's the thing. The New York Times obsessively covers the Hamptons, and climate, but ran zilch about the protest? In fact, the only coverage I've found is The The East Hampton Star and Common Dreams. Anyone else? The Instagram link and story links are in thread.Image
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.@ClimateDefiance video of their @epaleezeldin protest. Any Hamptons folks recognize chair-wielding Simon?instagram.com/reel/DMqQanpPf…
East Hampton Star story on the Zeldin protest in the Hamptons. easthamptonstar.com/government/202…
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Jul 11
1. I actually don't think there's as much disagreement here as it might seem. Clearly @MatthewCappucci is not blaming the girls or their counselors. But - clearly - the multi-million-dollar for-profit camp will own a substantial part of the responsibility for the scope of human losses. As the @Nytimes vividly reported, the $5-million expansion of the camp along Cypress Creek did not include relocating vulnerable cabins along the Guadalupe (there's way more from @AndrewRumbach and others on this elsewhere revkin.substack.com/i/167764976/ca…). ⤵️Image
2. Boosting community resilience to natural - and unnatural - hazards) is, like so many issues today, a systems challenge, as @oldscarf1stweek says. But it's clear in disaster-risk-reduction circles that, particularly for hyperlocal threats like this kind of flood or tornadoes, the "last mile" is, too often, where the gap between warning and response exists. @oldscarf1stweek is spot on that more must always be done by professionals (#EMG professionals, @NWS community outreach staff (those unfilled positions...), local meteorologists and media, social media and telecomm folks, and of course local elected officials). But that includes property owners too. ⤵️
3. As for when accountability should be explored, there's a longstanding debate. It'd be great if the country had a National Disaster Review Board, as I and others have long argued. But we don't, meaning the press and experts like Matt have to dive in, and - yes - sometimes doing so when audiences outside of a particular disaster zone are tuned in. @paulkrugman just wrote a piece worth reaading on this (I think the headline is flawed because it's not *just* about politics, but the issues are well described): "When it comes to disasters, accountability delayed is accountability denied." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/should-we-po… ⤵️Image
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Jul 10
“It’s like pitching a tent in the highway... It’s going to happen, sooner or later — a car is going to come, or a big flood is going to come.” - Anna Serra Llobet, quoted in a powerful @nytimes deconstruct of the built vulnerability at Camp Mystic. Story link below. 1/

She's been at this a long while. See below.Image
2. Camp Mystic Cabins Stood in an ‘Extremely Hazardous’ Floodway - @ByMikeBaker @merlerker @harrys_stevens @TmarcoH in @nytimes nytimes.com/interactive/20…
3. More on #sustainwhat from a few days ago: revkin.substack.com/p/closing-the-…
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Jun 5
Surreal but real report from @HannahAllam at @propublica recalls my '06 reporting showing that 24-year-old Bush appointee George Deutsch was trying to muffle @NASAGISS climate scientist @DrJamesEHansen. (Fugate Instagram reel). But the @DHSgov move is potentially way more consequential. (And don't miss the part where Team Trump has cut the CP3 office from 80 downt to 20 people.) 1/
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Here's the 2006 outcome: George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters' access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word "theory" at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, agency officials said.

Mr. Deutsch's resignation came on the same day that officials at Texas A&M University confirmed that he did not graduate from there, as his résumé on file at the agency asserted. nytimes.com/2006/02/08/pol… 2/Image
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Subsequent 2007 hearing on Political Influence on Climate Change Research (don't count on any oversight this time around) c-span.org/program/house-…Image
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