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Daniel Swain in LA Times: Extreme storm could overwhelm Southern California dam and flood thousands
Federal engineers have found that a dam protecting the high desert communities of Victorville, Hesperia, Apple Valley and Barstow falls short of national safety standards and could erode and collapse…
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Daniel Swain in the Weather Channel: Parts of Fire-Weary California Suffer Through One of the Longest Waits For the Rainy Season on Record
Parts of California may reach one of their driest starts to the rainy season on record with no rain in sight to quench the fire-weary state’s thirst. In recent weeks…
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Jon Christensen in City Lab: California’s Wildfires Are Not a Morality Tale
The fire-scorched state’s history has long been marked by calamities. But its latest disaster did not come to teach Californians a lesson. “Every crisis is not an apocalypse, and every…
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Jon Christensen in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: A not-so-hot take on California fires, climate change, smoke waves—and the stories we need, to survive
Jon Christensen writes for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists about climate change and California’s wildfires. “We are living in a world of media hot takes. They come at us fast and furious,…
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2018 Pritzker finalist in Options: Nat Geo lines up trailblazing women on screen and in print
If you are looking for cool inspiration, meet the Women of Impact — a group that does not hesitate to go where their heart leads — on the National Geographic…
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Daniel Swain in NPR: Assessing Recent California Wildfire Damage
Daniel Swain spoke with NPR’s Leila Fadel about California’s wildfires. He noted the damage has been light compared to past wildfire seasons.
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Daniel Swain in LA Times: California fires were bad, but they could have been much worse
Daniel Swain, climatologist with UCLA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said the air pressure differential between the high desert and the coast turned out to be smaller than…
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Daniel Swain in Inside Climate News: Another Rising Cost of Climate Change: PG&E’s Blackouts, Now Needed to Prevent Wildfires
“This weekend was a confluence of both bad luck and long-term climate trends, plus those other issues,” said Daniel Swain a climate scientist at UCLA.
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Indigenous peoples on the front line of the climate crisis
By Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim I’m Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, an Indigenous Mbororo woman from Chad and an environmental activist. Climate change is inflicting a terrible humanitarian crisis on my people. The…
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No Longer Small
By Varshini Prakash My name is Varshini Prakash, I’m 26 and I’m the Executive Director and Co-founder of Sunrise Movement. My generation has grown up bearing witness to the crisis…
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The worldwide movement for climate justice is having a moment. And just in time.
By May Boeve As I write, Greta Thunberg is making her way to the UN Climate Summit by sailboat. Millions around the world will join her in a Global Climate…
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Daniel Swain in LA Times: No rain in sight for L.A. area for next few weeks; critical fire weather warnings extended
The unusually long Santa Ana wind event is expected to ease Thursday evening. And with it, the fire risk will be reduced as well. The expected 30-hour “extreme red-flag” warning…
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Daniel Swain in LA Times: Extreme winds fueled fires and toppled big rigs. But firefighters were prepared for battle
“There’s actually record cold air mass right now over the Rockies and the Great Basin,” said Daniel Swain, climate scientist with UCLA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. In…
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Mary Nichols in New York Times: White House Pressed Car Makers to Join Its Fight Over California Emissions Rules
Monday’s surprise move by General Motors, Toyota and other auto giants to back President Trump in his fight with California over pollution rules came after days of White House pressure…
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Daniel Swain in NPR: Scientists Studying Extreme Winds And Wildfires
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain spoke with NPR about the impact of winds now wildfires. Firefighters in California are bracing for more unusually strong winds in the days ahead. Scientists are…
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Alex Hall in the Daily Beast: The Weird Weather Fanning the Flames in Northern California
Alex Hall, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences and director of the Center for Climate Science at UCLA, told The Daily Beast that temperature increases driven by climate change…
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Pablo Saide in Daily Bruin: Santa Ana winds to reach as high as 80 mph as Getty fire rages on
Pablo Saide, an assistant professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, said in his research he has found that the smoke from the fires can have strong health impacts. “How the…
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Mary Nichols in Fortune: Trump’s Emissions Fight With California Pits GM Against Ford
General Motors Co., Toyota Motor Corp. and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV plan to back President Donald Trump in a contentious battle with California officials over automobile emissions rules, splitting with…
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Yifang Zhu in One Zero: Startup Molekule Is Using the California Wildfires to Sell Its Crummy Air Purifier
As a technology, air purifiers land somewhere between legitimate health device and dubious wellness product. Many health researchers suggest that certain purifiers can reduce harmful airborne pollutants. “I recommend that…
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Daniel Swain in LA Times: Extreme warning issued ahead of brutal Santa Ana winds, the strongest since 2007
“The magnitude of the wind gusts really [is] going to be a concern,” said Daniel Swain, climate scientist with UCLA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. “The actual winds…
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Alex Hall in Daily Bruin: Santa Ana winds to reach as high as 80 mph as Getty fire rages on
Alex Hall, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at UCLA, said the fires are currently being driven by strong, dry winds coming from the interior west of North America.…
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Daniel Swain in Mercury News: California fires: Is climate change making the winds stronger?
“We have wind records going back to the 1940s,” said Park Williams, a bio-climatologist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York. “We don’t see any trend one way…
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Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim in Ms. Magazine: Meet the TEDWomen 2019 Speakers
The theme for this year’s TEDWomen is “Bold + Brilliant,” setting the bar high for our curatorial team to search for the world’s best, brightest—and yes, most daring—leaders, pioneers, activists…
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Ann Carlson in Bloomberg: GM, Toyota side with Trump in emissions battle with California
General Motors Co., Toyota Motor Corp. and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NVplan to back President Donald Trump in a contentious battle with California officials over automobile emissions rules, splitting with major…
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Yifang Zhu in The Guardian: A special kind of hell: fires, smoke and heat turn LA into a deadly paradise
“We’re expecting to see more and bigger wildfires if the climate continues in its current path,” said Yifang Zhu, environmental health sciences professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.…
