Pooja Shah

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Opinion | As a Climate Scientist, I Knew It Was Time to Leave Los Angeles After the Bobcat fire, the area no longer felt safe.

"As the planet gets hotter, climate disasters will get more frequent and more intense. The cost of these fires will be immense, and they will affect the insurance industry and the housing market."

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...

The California Wildfires Are the Latest Disaster Supercharged by Climate Change (Gift Article) Extreme weather events — deadly heat waves, floods, fires and hurricanes — are the consequences of a warming planet, scientists say.

"There's no get out of climate change free card" - me.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/c...

The chronicle of a fire foretold | Rebecca Solnit The current fires in Los Angeles are reminders of the costs of forgetting

A disaster is a function of three things: the hazard itself, people's vulnerability to the hazard, and their exposure. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social explains eloquently how the LA fires are a perfect storm of all three. Read more:

The fires in Los Angeles County are climate change in action. Today, I spoke with BBC News about how drought is causing devastating impacts in what should be the rainy season. Thanks to climate change, the fire season in California is now year round.

LA's wildfires sparked by rare collision of climate factors Extremely dry conditions and an hurricane force winds are overlapping unusually late in the year.

www.axios.com/2025/01/08/c...

How Solitude Is Rewiring American Identity A conversation with Derek Thompson on how social isolation is affecting both happiness and civic life

“Americans understand Americans less because we see Americans less,” @dkthomp.bsky.social told @lorakelley.bsky.social in The Atlantic Daily. “I don’t think there should be any confusion about why an anti-social century has coincided with a polarized century.”

Yes, Climate Change is Raising the Risks—and Stakes—of Extreme Wildfires Rising temperatures, parched forests, and shifting precipitation patterns are fueling severe wildfires with unprecedented impacts. There is still time to act.

Climate change is creating warmer, drier conditions that cause fire seasons in some regions like western North America to last longer and be more active. Read more:

Wildfire climate connection Climate change, including increased heat, extended drought, and a thirsty atmosphere, has been a key driver in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the western United States during the last ...

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change.

Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:

www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

JPMorgan Quits Climate Finance Group, Following Citi, BofA JPMorgan Chase & Co. just became the last of Wall Street’s biggest banks to abandon the industry’s largest climate-finance alliance.

Chase just became the last of Wall Street’s biggest banks to abandon the industry’s largest climate-finance alliance.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I'm trying out my own starter pack, and naturally, it's an ode to #energytwitter expats. Bluesky limits additions to 150, so my apologies for missing like 10x of our friends. go.bsky.app/P6pgVxa

Excited to join #Energysky here! Hi!

Scientists as political advocates Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...

A great summary of how (and why) science is political from Science Magazine: "Given the current political reality and the expansion of attacks on science, it is time for scientists to be more effective, forceful, and vociferous as their own political advocates."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Nice to see Clean Energy Leadership Institute (CELI) alumns collected here, contact @smcollins.bsky.social to get added!
go.bsky.app/7eG7W1Z

Started this starter pack with energy justice & climate justice folks. Let me know who I should add to it. go.bsky.app/HXiuKJ5
(P.S. yes this is my way of finding my friends that migrated to bluer skies)

@costasamaras.com @menrywy.bsky.social @leahstokes.bsky.social @sidersadapts.bsky.social