Tweets about natural hazards, climate change impacts, data science, and risk + resilience policy. PhD @PrincetonSPIA @Princeton
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New online Wildfire Mitigation Plan Database from PNNL. Over 400 wildfire mitigation plans from 170 utilities across 19 U.S. states. Useful to understand, compare, and improve strategies for managing wildfire risks to power infrastructure.
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Scientists have made a white paint that can make surfaces as much as eight degrees Fahrenheit cooler than air temperatures at midday, and up to 19 degrees cooler at night, reducing inside temperatures and cutting air-conditioning needs by as much as 40%.
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ALT Xiulin Ruan, a professor at Purdue University, wears goggles and holds a paint brush dripping with white paint. His other hand holds a plastic container of the white paint. Photo credit: John Underwood/Purdue University
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After 100s of hours of research (including reading 8 books on sea level rise), I feel like I have a good grasp of the accelerating U.S. flood risk from climate change. Part 1 of my 3-part series is up; part 2 is Friday; Part 3 (the best one!) is Monday. yaleclimateconnections.org/2…
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A new method by #PrincetonU researchers to calculate increases in flood probabilities worldwide demonstrates the urgency of quickly implementing coastal defense measures to mitigate the impact of climate-related sea-level rise. bit.ly/3NO8nMV
Why aren’t more flood mega-projects getting built at the coast? 🏗️ 🌊
I dug into this question with colleagues at Princeton and Rutgers...
cpree.princeton.edu/news/202…
Coastal Army Corps projects often don’t get built. Why? hint: it’s not just about $ to pay for it
Using original archive research, @bobkopp, @climateopp, and I open up the blackbox of project politics to try and understand the political factors at play
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Support could be achieved through new innovative designs that simultaneously address adverse environmental impacts and provide co-benefits (e.g., recreation).
2/4 When anchored to salient impacts on human systems and the natural environment, popular ESL metrics provide useful information to policy makers, stakeholders, and the general public.
3/4 However, aggregate global summary metrics generally lack the context of local exposure and vulnerability that facilitates translating hazards into impacts (e.g, IPCC WG1)
1/4 Changes in the frequency or height of contemporary extreme sea levels (ESLs) under various climate change scenarios are often used by climate and sea level scientists to help communicate societal concern regarding sea level rise (e.g., ESL "amplification factors")
🚨🚨 New article alert! 🚨🚨
Opinion: "Popular extreme sea level metrics can better communicate impacts" w @bobkopp @climateOpp and @ClimateCentral
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A study co-authored by @PrincetonSPIA's @ClimateQuant predicts that coastlines around the world will face extreme sea levels — exceptionally high seas due to tide, waves and storm surge — 100x more frequently by the end of the century: go.nature.com/3tI7Ce0
ALT Six graphs of a global map showing the increase of global warming levels over time
Join us virtually on Tuesday at 3pm EST. Looking forward to discussing both the history of megaprojects in Rhode Island and the political complexity involved in getting big flood protection built 🌊
Register below. Currently 100+ attendees and counting!
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🚨 NEW RELEASE 🚨 Cities are looking at building megastructures to defend against floods from powerful coastal storms. We review the role that politics plays, for public officials and for academics who study coastal resilience @ClimateOpp @rlshwom @BobKopp agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
New Research Review: Social conflict and politics are crucial factors in the conception, design, and implementation of coastal flood protection mega-projects. With @ClimateOpp @bobkopp @rlshwom cpree.princeton.edu/news/soc…