Dr. A.R. Siders
@sidersadapts.bsky.social
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...
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September 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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.
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🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨
Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.
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Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.
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DOE climate report response form
We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me.
We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.
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July 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨
Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.
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Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.
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A great session on the importance of history, narratives, imagination, and imaginaries at the #MR25 conference @columbiauniversity.bsky.social !
June 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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
June 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I love this slide at #CZC2025 - what then, becomes possible? Conversations about innovation, creativity, and challenging the status quo for #coasts and #adaptation
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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
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
March 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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
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
Favorite quote: closing the State Dept Climate Office is “just strategically fucking dumb"
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Rubio eliminates office that oversees climate talks
The Office of Global Change was notified Thursday that it would be shuttered.
www.politico.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Favorite quote: closing the State Dept Climate Office is “just strategically fucking dumb"
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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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 !
March 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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
February 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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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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
This is the highest risk assessment an asteroid has ever received, surpassing 2.7% in 2004
February 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
See? It's not all bad news...
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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...
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
February 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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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...
environment.princeton.edu/climate-stor...
February 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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...
environment.princeton.edu/climate-stor...
"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-...
Database at:
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...
February 13, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"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-...
Database at:
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...
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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
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
January 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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
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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A new scoping review by Muccione et al. identifies key themes in climate education research, and calls for their integration into policy-relevant assessment reports
journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
A scoping review on climate change education
The growing urgency of the climate crisis necessitates innovative educational approaches to equip people with the knowledge and skills to address climate challenges and be able to influence policy eff...
journals.plos.org
January 25, 2025 at 7:22 AM
A new scoping review by Muccione et al. identifies key themes in climate education research, and calls for their integration into policy-relevant assessment reports
journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
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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
January 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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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@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
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
January 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
@gruberte.bsky.social is an incredibly exciting interdisciplinary researcher! and an awesome human. go work with her!
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
January 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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!
I expected a cute little phone game about #climate and emissions reductions, and I was wrong. The sheer number of interconnected policies, infrastructure, research options and political allies / foes is daunting and impressive!
January 13, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I expected a cute little phone game about #climate and emissions reductions, and I was wrong. The sheer number of interconnected policies, infrastructure, research options and political allies / foes is daunting and impressive!
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LA is burning & our implicit political baseline is still that climate policies are acceptable if and only if they require zero sacrifice or even mild lifestyle change on anyone's part.
Public will not have to change lives ‘radically’ for climate goal, MPs promised
Lifestyle change, such as diet and travel, are not in the scope of the 2035 goal
www.independent.co.uk
January 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
LA is burning & our implicit political baseline is still that climate policies are acceptable if and only if they require zero sacrifice or even mild lifestyle change on anyone's part.
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For the thousands of people asking "How do we fix this #wildfire problem?", @michaelwara.bsky.social wrote an excellent white paper 3 years ago that neatly lays out the basics of the multipronged approach. It still holds. @stanfordwoods.bsky.social hosted a discussion panel as well.
woodsinstitute.stanford.edu
January 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
For the thousands of people asking "How do we fix this #wildfire problem?", @michaelwara.bsky.social wrote an excellent white paper 3 years ago that neatly lays out the basics of the multipronged approach. It still holds. @stanfordwoods.bsky.social hosted a discussion panel as well.
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“these devastating wildfires… will continue to get worse as the planet continues to get warmer. And the planet will continue to get warmer as long as we continue to burn fossil fuels”
@michaelemann.bsky.social
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@michaelemann.bsky.social
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‘Wildfires will get worse as the planet gets warmer’, says climate scientist
We spoke to Michael Mann, a climate scientist from the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
www.channel4.com
January 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM
“these devastating wildfires… will continue to get worse as the planet continues to get warmer. And the planet will continue to get warmer as long as we continue to burn fossil fuels”
@michaelemann.bsky.social
www.channel4.com/news/__trash...
@michaelemann.bsky.social
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In Altadena, part of it was the shock ... And part of it seemed to be a kind of fatalism, a feeling that the more existential the threat, the less our society or our political system seems able to address it.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
‘Half the Country’s Thinking Magically’: California Fire Victims Grapple with the Political Paralysis Over Climate Change
They’re still in shock. But for now, even in a blue city in a blue state, disaster does not bring climate change to residents’ front of mind.
www.politico.com
January 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
In Altadena, part of it was the shock ... And part of it seemed to be a kind of fatalism, a feeling that the more existential the threat, the less our society or our political system seems able to address it.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
“No, I don’t. I think we’re fucked." - Altadena resident, asked if people might start connecting climate change & disasters.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
‘Half the Country’s Thinking Magically’: California Fire Victims Grapple with the Political Paralysis Over Climate Change
They’re still in shock. But for now, even in a blue city in a blue state, disaster does not bring climate change to residents’ front of mind.
www.politico.com
January 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“No, I don’t. I think we’re fucked." - Altadena resident, asked if people might start connecting climate change & disasters.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...