Strategies and science for adaptation to sea level rise. Prof at Berkeley. On Twitter to learn. Perpetually surprised. She/her. @kzhill@mastodon.online
May 13, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
@NASA projects global sea level will rise *on average* by 10-12 inches by 2050. Some places will see more than a foot in 30 years.
The first seawall built 7k years ago was in response to “just” 8 in over 30 years. It failed. 🧵
@bberwyn sealevel.nasa.gov/news/232/sea-l…
Unlike seawalls, earthen dikes and other landforms can be added to without removing the original structure. And the material in them can be bulldozed to new locations over time.
And then there was the time Jenny Durkan (at the time earning the support of the sick WA state dem party as a political assassin) called one of our Board members (a university provost), demanded she change her vote or the party wouldn’t support her partner’s reelection campaign🧵
And, the time when Steve Williamson (king county labor, husband of @RepJayapal) made a secret deal to kill our transit project then demanded that I resign while calling in remotely to a board meeting. Tryin’ real hard to put a person in her place. And…
Mar 28, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This article says the problem w seawalls is that they’re made with Portland cement, which requires a lot of fossil energy to manufacture.
But it ignores the real problems with seawalls - made of anything. 🧵 apple.news/AJOG6n6rsQyuIn…1. Seawalls reflect wave energy and cause erosion of sand or wetlands on their seaward side. Beaches in front of them have to be nourished w more and more sand, or they go away.
And…
Apr 27, 2019 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Hey, @joobilly. My comments were not a personal attack. I was trying to critique your essay, and I think I did that. But feelings of being attacked are always legit, so I apologize.
Maybe I can clarify why - to me- my twitter thread was not “punching down at a post-doc” 1/n
Your bio says you’re the Director of the @McHargCenter - that sounds like an important role, doesn’t it? Sorry I didn’t look up your salary or whether you have job protection. But I know the McHarg Center launch is important to @PennDesign and so I assume you know that too. 2/n
Apr 26, 2019 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Finally had a minute to read this. Lots of thoughts. First, I agree with most of it, and have been saying the same thing for years - that big splashy design firms exaggerate the value of their work re #climate, a lot. Thread. placesjournal.org/article/design… via @PlacesJournal@joobilly
But the tone is so busy being snarky about that, and about @joobilly's idea that no landscape architects understand movement politics, that it erases an enormous amount of good work and writing by others in the field - as if we don't exist. 2/n
Mar 14, 2019 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Well. This looks like confirmation of the existence of a positive feedback loop that may make it even harder to prevent extreme sea level rise, and all the other #climatechange extremes.
Not surprised, but very concerned. (Thread) unenvironment.org/news-and-stori…
...the thing about this new Arctic study is, it’s a clear example of how #climatechange can be worse than what we’ve been told.
Most studies show it is likely to be worse, as we continue to do this puzzle- putting the complex pieces together, with an ever uglier result. 2/3
