The Center for Climate & Security's latest update to our Military Response to Climate Hazards Tracker is a doozy -- in Aug/Sept, we identified 70+ military deployments on 6 continents in response to hazards like floods, wildfires, and droughts. Hundreds of thousands of troops deployed (not a typo!)
In August and September 2024, the Military Responses to Climate Hazards (MiRCH) tracker identified 72 military deployments in response to hurricanes, extreme precipitation, wildfires, and drought.
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Extremely pumped with these two evidence briefs from the brilliant Tom Marois (co-published with @cplusc.bsky.social) on the critical role that public banks can- and should- play in addressing the 21st C's grand challenges. The future must be public- including the means of financing it
Public banks of one type or another exist practically everywhere on earth. There too is nothing new about public banks. However, since the 2008-09 global financial âŚ
Lennon song: Show me the source of the leak, that drips and turns honest men weak McCartney song: Terry the plumber is an honest man, heâll fix your pipes as fast as he can [tempo change] itâs PIIIIIPE TIIIIIME [key signature change, tempo change] helovespipeshelovespipes
Every time someone corrects my vocabulary it just makes me think fewer of them.
I have my roots in these places. My first storm was Elena in '85, small by comparison but damaging enough to our neighborhood to stick in my memory. You grow up with hurricane seasons and the anxiety sets in your bones, where it's never a matter of if something will happen, but how bad it will be.đ
Report: For Tampa Bay, Helene was the worst storm in a century. Tampa Bayâs regulars â our barkeeps, retirees, refugees â all had the same reaction this week in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene... Surprise. Never seen it this bad. www.tampabay.com/hurricane/20...
Itâs been 103 years since the famed 1921 direct hit.
'We are in desperate need of a politics that looks catastrophic uncertainty square in the face.' www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The point of highlighting the vertiginous degree of uncertainty is that we might not be making nearly as big a deal of...
'We are in desperate need of a politics that looks catastrophic uncertainty square in the face.' www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The point of highlighting the vertiginous degree of uncertainty is that we might not be making nearly as big a deal of...
"Some residents of Floridaâs Palm Beach are pursuing a lawsuit against the county comptroller over his decision to invest $660mn of local taxpayersâ money in Israeli bonds since the outbreak of conflict in October."
Publicly reported divestment decisions remain rare despite activist campaigns