Dr. A.R. Siders
@sidersadapts.bsky.social
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audacious climate adaptation | assoc prof U of Delaware | social scientist + lawyer | #clifi #managedretreat #relocation #adaptationethics
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The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.
DOEresponseSite
On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding...
sites.google.com
Also the first time I'd heard of the show "Families Like Ours" - which follows a family through the national evacuation of the entire country of Denmark en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familie...
Books recommended by our audience (fiction & non-fiction): The Changes (Cadman)
Fire Weather (Voillant)
New York 2140 (Robinson)
Next Great Migration (Shah)
American War
Parable of the Sower
The Water Knife
The Great Displacement
Water Always Wins
Blackfish City
A great session on the importance of history, narratives, imagination, and imaginaries at the #MR25 conference @columbiauniversity.bsky.social !
I love this slide at #CZC2025 - what then, becomes possible? Conversations about innovation, creativity, and challenging the status quo for #coasts and #adaptation
Five panelists sitting at the front of an auditorium with an audience watching them. A slide behind says what then becomes possible with a picture of a coast.
I love it! the use of liminal for the psych and social and physical is just wonderful
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NOW LIVE! ✨
A hopeful game about collective resistance in a changing land, where each player plays four characters each! Uncover their pasts, passions and fears as you play, and help them build their future. There's a FREE quick-start preview over on Backerkit, so don't miss out! ✊
#solarpunk #TTRPG
Why We Fight - a solarpunk narrative TTRPG Launch Party
Get excited about Why We Fight - a solarpunk narrative TTRPG on BackerKit - come join!
www.backerkit.com
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A pleasure to host Prof. Jim Wescoat from MIT and Mr. Ghammaz Hussain from Beaconhouse National University in Pakistan today - thanks to @sidersadapts.bsky.social for moderating the panel !
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Trump's Environmental Protection Agency appointees will move to reverse its 2009 declaration that greenhouse gases endanger human health & welfare, a decision that underpins the agency's authority to regulate GHGs under the Clean Air Act www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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EPA moves to ditch finding that greenhouse gases cause harm
The recommendation by Lee Zeldin, the agency's administrator, could upend existing and future regulations on climate change.
www.politico.com
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See? It's not all bad news...
JUST IN: NASA says there's now a 3.1% chance an asteroid will hit Earth in 2032, up from 2.6% yesterday.

This is the highest risk assessment an asteroid has ever received, surpassing 2.7% in 2004
also - home energy retrofits. These keep people warm / cool / safe and help keep down heating/cooling costs. Cancelling those grants hurts people directly.
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SCOOP @bloomberg.com: Top officials at the US Department of Homeland Security received a memo from Sec. Kristi Noem on Friday ordering an immediate stop to work connected to climate change and the elimination of climate-related terms across the agency.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Ends Climate Work Inside Agency That Responds to Disasters
A memo sent to leadership at the US Department of Homeland Security orders the elimination of climate-related activities.
www.bloomberg.com
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Join the Climate Storytellers’ Summit on Thursday, April 10 from 4-6pm which I will be moderating. Read more details here:

environment.princeton.edu/climate-stor...
Terms sized by frequency. Min 500 mentions. Imperfect effort to combine single and plural (e.g., scientist, scientists) + to remove stop words (e.g., and, so, the) + common words (e.g., intellectual merit, access, will).

I kept "novel" because its 985 occurrences amused me
"Woke DEI grants at #NSF". A word cloud of ~3,400 grant titles flagged by US Senate Committee Commerce, Science & Transportation as "questionable projects that promoted #DEI or advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda."

Database at:
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...
a word cloud. the biggest words are: communities, students, and stem. a second tier of smaller words include: technology, education, engineering, evaluation, statutory, career, environment, teaching
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Submissions are open for the 2025 Conference!

Interested in sharing your ideas through a workshop, presentation, or panel? Fill out the form (link below and in bio) to be considered. Let's see what we can create and share together!

forms.gle/Y11VzaFwBQD6...

#solarpunk #solarpunkconference
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The new White House has already deleted dozens of environmental justice websites and reports. Worry not, they’re all backed up on various independent university websites. eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker-type...

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Federal Environmental Justice Tracker – Environmental and Energy Law Program
eelp.law.harvard.edu
@gruberte.bsky.social is an incredibly exciting interdisciplinary researcher! and an awesome human. go work with her!
🚨job alert🚨
Would you, or someone you know, like to channel something into thinking rigorously about how safe and electrified housing for everyone might also save the grid?

I'm hiring a postdoc! 1-2 years, remote ok, $75k/year. Focus: model scenarios on deep building efficiency & grid impacts
Some really interesting thoughts about #adaptation coming up: "we're becoming numb to disasters... so we need to change the stories we tell to give people hope"; "we need to fight misinformation and scapegoating"; "insurance will be a key debate" "people are frustrated and angry". Give it a listen!
📢 Check out climate adaptation predictions for 2025 on the latest @americaadapts.bsky.social Podcast. I give my predictions, along with other adapters like @Jesse_M_Keenan, @sidersadapts.bsky.social, Shaun Martin, and more! www.americaadapts.or... #climateadaptation #extremeheat #climatechange
America Adapts Podcast
Have you played with EnRoads? It's a simulator, not a game, but I enjoy the way you can stack different approaches to see the effects - a very simple interface with lots of detail if you dig in
en-roads.climateinteractive.org
I targeted industrial ag for the biodiversity score and went for efficiencies in concrete, shipping, electrification etc early for the emissions reductions