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Kelly Hereid

@kellyhereid.bsky.social

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Climate scientist, geologist, and catastrophe modeler, Liberty Mutual. Posts on all things hurricane, wildfire, flood, earthquake, tornado. Sassy takes are mine not employer's. 📍Oakland, CA Website: hereidk.strikingly.com

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · Jun 17

Really excited to share a project we've been working on with Swiss Re, examining challenges to implementing landscape-scale wildfire mitigation and where the insurance industry needs to get creative to crack some roadblocks: www.libertymutualgroup.com/documents/wi... 1/🧵

Wildfire risk reduction in a changing climate

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 1m

Sheesh - a tsunami big enough to push coral boulders 100s of m inland in the British Virgin Islands around the year 1400, likely sourced from an earthquake on the Puerto Rico Trench.

Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 35m

This is cool - new paper from Hali Kilbourne et al. 'Dating a Medieval Tsunami With Uranium-Series Techniques on Caribbean Corals' agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Dating a Medieval Tsunami With Uranium‐Series Techniques on Caribbean Corals

Uranium-series analyses provide dates for 15 annually banded coral skeletons on the low Caribbean island of Anegada A subset of the corals was likely washed ashore in a Puerto Rico Trench tsunami...

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 1h

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 1h

And a nice writeup of the story here: www.science.org/content/arti...

Big U.S. West Coast earthquakes could come as a one-two punch

Cascadia and San Andreas fault zones appear to generate synchronized earthquakes

www.science.org

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 1h

Looks like @goldfinger300.bsky.social @earthjay.bsky.social just want to make sure everyone is awake over here, with paleoseismic evidence for Cascadia triggering the northern San Andreas ⚒️🧪

"may represent direct evidence of stress triggering and partial synchronization of these two great faults"

Unravelling the dance of earthquakes: Evidence of partial synchronization of the northern San Andreas fault and Cascadia megathrust | Geosphere | GeoScienceWorld

pubs.geoscienceworld.org

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 2h

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 15h

Defending the highway to the NC Outer Banks is problematic: “It’s the overwash of sand that built these islands in the first place and allows them to persist," Moore said. "By blocking that process to defend roadways and buildings, we’re starving these islands of the lifeline they need to exist.”

Why efforts to protect Highway 12 could be making flooding worse

A UNC-led study says decades of road protection efforts may be accelerating erosion and putting the Outer Banks at greater risk.

www.wral.com

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 1d

Such a flex

Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 1d

Can't believe I spent decades on the butter tubs or smushing cold butter slabs, horrible.

Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 1d

Since it took me until into my 30s to learn this, I'll also add that salted butter lasts for like... weeks... on a countertop.

Constant soft butter in a butter dish is a gamechanger for toast consumption (feel free to interpret that as positive or negative at your discretion).

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Clemens Vasters 🇪🇺🇩🇪 @clemens.vasters.com · 1d

Techmeme front page:

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 1d

🤳EXCLUSIVE: We analyzed real data from over 800 U.S. TikTok users to reveal how the app transforms casual users into power users.

Extremely proud of this one, over a year in the making w/ @richardsima.bsky.social Leslie Shapiro @asteckelberg.bsky.social @ence.bsky.social

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Here’s how TikTok ‘power users’ end up scrolling 4 hours a day or more

Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

wapo.st

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Panagiota Kotsila @pkotsila.bsky.social · 1d

Grantham Institute and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, new report:

Climate change driven changes to the temperatures caused 16,469 additional excess deaths across 854 cities, almost 70% of estimated summer deaths.

spiral.imperial.ac.uk/entities/pub...

Summer heat deaths in 854 European cities more than tripled due to climate change

Focusing on 854 European cities, this study found climate change was responsible for 68% of the 24,400 estimated heat deaths this summer by increasing temperatures by up to 3.6°C. The analysis was le...

spiral.imperial.ac.uk

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The Weather Retort @weatherretort.com · 1d

June tornado in North Dakota is now the first EF5 in 12 years

www.weatherretort.com/p/june-torna...

June tornado in North Dakota is now the first EF5 in 12 years

We continue to watch the tropics and various other spots.

www.weatherretort.com

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 1d

easy. ipcc wgi, wgii, wgiii

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

Brassica oleracea / Brassica oleracea / Brassica oleracea

Three dudes dressed three very different ways - first in a more conservative suit and tie, second in a short sleeve shirt and hat, third in a pink vest and tie

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

This is an extremely common food-GHG pattern for food providers in North America and Europe, but it never fails to surprise people the first time they run the numbers and see it!

Just one food, beef, can account for 40-50% or more of the GHG emissions related to an organization’s food purchases.

Dr. Sarah Fortner @erthsarah.bsky.social · 1d

A reality check for me was working with students on an internal carbon accounting platform that Bon App our food provider uses. Beef was less than 5% of our purchases but around 50% of our food emissions even with international work to be plant forward.

apnews.com/article/plan...

A recipe for avoiding 15 million deaths a year and climate disaster is fixing food, scientists say

Scientists are presenting new evidence that the worst effects of climate change can’t be avoided without a major transformation of food systems.

apnews.com

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Arvind Ravikumar @arvindpawan1.bsky.social · 2d

China shows what energy dominance might look like. Not only does China export more clean tech than US does fossil fuels, Chinese exports are (i) accelerating, and (ii) highly diversified across products & destinations.

This is a major warning sign for the US!

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

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 4d

going back to school to get my BA in Posting

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 4d

Syracuse University, which costs $100,000 per year, has opened a school to give degrees in podcasting and social media influencing 🫥

Betting on the Creator Economy, Syracuse University Opens Academic Center for Podcasters and Influencers

The shift in course offerings follows a recent decision to pause admission for 20 undergraduate majors, including fine arts and digital humanities.

www.artnews.com

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 4d

[Jeff Goldblum voice] infrastructure, uh, finds a way.

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 5d

We are the renewables state! Wish our leadership understood that better.

www.douglewin.com/p/texas-now-...

Texas Now #1 in Batteries, Too: Grid Roundup #79

Texas passes California in batteries; ERCOT's residential DR program to be discussed by stakeholders today; Texas' gas interconnection queue up 170% in 18 months; new October peak demand record set

www.douglewin.com

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Steve Bowen @stevebowen.bsky.social · 5d

***Another New Paper Alert***

We dive into the relationship of ENSO phase and rapid intensification (RI).

Since 1980: We find that >80% of hurricanes that strike the US mainland, and cause >$5bn in economic damage, go through RI in its lifecycle.

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

The Global Influence of ENSO on Rapid Intensification of Tropical Cyclones

Frequency of rapid intensification differs considerably for individual tropical cyclone basins and different ENSO phases Atlantic rapid intensification occurs more frequently in La Niña and less ...

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Patrick Rafter @oceanandclimate.bsky.social · 5d

Today, we published a study long in the making on how upper and subsurface tropical Pacific waters responded (and maybe will adjust) to warmer global climate. Here’s the story of how we got here after 15 years. many authors but shout out @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Persistent eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean upwelling since the warm Pliocene

Upwelling generates a nutrient-rich “cold tongue” in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (EEP), with impacts on global climate, oceanic biological productivity, and the carbon cycle. The cold tongue ...

www.science.org

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Dr. Crystal A. Kolden @pyrogeog.bsky.social · 6d

Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires

Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

www.science.org

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 6d

Saw these signs walking around the other day, this attitude is how I ended up moving to Oakland since it had so much more available housing than Berkeley when I moved in a few years ago.

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Stephen Stapczynski @sstapczynski.bsky.social · 6d

GAS TURBINE SHORTAGE 🚨⚡

Orders for turbines for natural gas power plants are vastly outpacing supply, threatening the world’s ability to keep pace with rising electricity demand

🧵 Thread on how we got here and what it means for power-hungry nations

www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 6d

I’m old enough to remember when natural gas was the “bridge fuel.”

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 6d

Here we have the CEO of the largest solar and wind developer in the United States NextEra, calling renewables the bridge to natural gas.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

AI-Driven Demand for Gas Turbines Risks a New Energy Crunch

Orders for turbines to power natural gas plants are vastly outpacing supply, threatening the world’s ability to keep pace with rising electricity demand.

www.bloomberg.com

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