Great and challenging conversations on my book on climate and security at UMass Boston, MIT and Harvard. Thanks @MIT_SSP for bringing me up. Thanks to @StacyDVanDeveer @fravel & @dustintingley for being terrific hosts at different institutions. 1/

https://twitter.com/mit_ssp/status/1651243283820040192

I had a number of trenchant questions the last two days on the project and want to use this thread to more fully address and puzzle through answers as the questions stayed with me. 2/

A short essay on my new book, how the field and my professional trajectory over the last two decades led to this book. Exploring Climate Security: Why Bad Outcomes Occur in Some Places and Not Others - go.shr.lc/3yiGcyb via @NewSecurityBeat I reflect a bit on the 2004 essay that @geoffdabelko commissioned from me and @Climate_Intel that initially got me into the field 2/ wilsoncenter.org/publication/th…

I did a thread earlier today thanking people for helping me with my book States and Nature. I now want to send a shout out to folks for their intellectual inspiration which includes some I thanked earlier and others. 1/

https://twitter.com/busbyj2/status/1517914190673027073

The climate security literature wouldn't exist without the foundational work of @TadHomerDixon 2/ press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…

My book States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security came out last month (chapter 2: open access now). I've been meaning to write this thread of thanks. 1/ cambridge.org/core/books/sta… First off, thanks to @AlbertsonB2 and our son Will for patiently bearing with me as mid-pandemic I tried to put this to bed. 2/

Short thread on my recent paper on hot spot mapping and climate security for @ssrc_org. Special thanks to @TCarayannis @Alejandrag1042 & Francisca Aguayo for shepherding this over the finish line. 1/ ssrc.org/publications/v… I've been involved in efforts to visualize climate security risks for more than a decade including projects supported by the US Department of Defense & USAID. Hot spot maps can potentially help decision-makers identify locations of concern at the national or subnational level. 2/

This graphic is stunning. Here is the wider story. washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/… They also allow you to see how rate of new cases compares to testing, deaths, and percent positive by state with a slider over time.

Because of testing delays, we have no idea where the virus is, making it necessary to cancel major conferences and public gatherings all over the country. China gave us time and we squandered it. Had we followed the advice of. @ScottGottliebMD we could have known early that Washington was a site of outbreak and contained it at a low level but instead the virus circulated undetected for weeks there and elsewhere while people spread it around the country.

Thrust of NSC/Happer comments on Schoonover testimony is that there have been more extreme climate changes in human history and the current moment isn't unusual. Except, we ain't done yet. It's just getting started, and it's already bad. NSC/Happer comments on the science section are just climate denialist talking points. Climate scientists like @KHayhoe @MichaelEMann @bobkopp @ClimateOfGavin can easily debunk. But they shouldn't have to because it's already been written in the National Climate Assessment!

Glad to see more thought on the international dimension. Will dig in.

https://twitter.com/JayInslee/status/1136275512030949377

Inslee includes an expansive section on trade that includes a number of ideas including a climate duty on imports. Similar to the idea that @MBazilian and I wrote about a few weeks ago …townjournalofinternationalaffairs.org/online-edition…