Sara S. Moore
@stripeygirlcat.bsky.social
(she/her) Climate change adaptation researcher + Resilience Analyst at the CPUC, Sacramento. Opinions are my own. 🏳️🌈
http://pacificadaptation.blogspot.com
http://pacificadaptation.blogspot.com
A little belatedly sharing a post I wrote in October for my climate adaptation research blog "The Past Is Not An Option" about the oddity of clean fuels proponents supporting measures to keep California's oil refineries open.
Strange bedfellows indeed!
tinyurl.com/3r2kx74y
Strange bedfellows indeed!
tinyurl.com/3r2kx74y
Strange Bedfellows
California is in an energy transition, moving from dirty to cleaner fuel sources, and things have been moving fast— faster than expected . F...
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November 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A little belatedly sharing a post I wrote in October for my climate adaptation research blog "The Past Is Not An Option" about the oddity of clean fuels proponents supporting measures to keep California's oil refineries open.
Strange bedfellows indeed!
tinyurl.com/3r2kx74y
Strange bedfellows indeed!
tinyurl.com/3r2kx74y
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Hydrology Paper of the Day @iopp-environment.bsky.social on how climate change affects the Sierra Nevada snowpack and irrigation in California: the need for regional-scale studies; application of the CESM2 model; logistic regression; and why rainfall may cause the mountains to be the Sierra Lluviosa
💧☀️ Read in #ERW how climate change impacts mountain snowpack and the implications this has for agricultural water security in California 🫗🌽
🔗https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/3033-4942/ade7aa
#Environment #Water #Agriculture #ClimateChange #Snow #Irrigation #Hydrology #WaterResources ⛲🌾
🔗https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/3033-4942/ade7aa
#Environment #Water #Agriculture #ClimateChange #Snow #Irrigation #Hydrology #WaterResources ⛲🌾
October 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @iopp-environment.bsky.social on how climate change affects the Sierra Nevada snowpack and irrigation in California: the need for regional-scale studies; application of the CESM2 model; logistic regression; and why rainfall may cause the mountains to be the Sierra Lluviosa
Today the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and UC Berkeley Human Rights Center co-published a white paper on how the Sonoma County Agricultural Access Verification Card Program (“Ag Pass”) program affects farmworkers’ well-being and economic security during wildfires tinyurl.com/ycx5u5y3
Working During Wildfires: The Sonoma County Ag Pass Program and the Health, Safety, Economic Security, and Data Privacy of Agricultural Workers - Berkeley Human Rights Center
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October 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Today the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and UC Berkeley Human Rights Center co-published a white paper on how the Sonoma County Agricultural Access Verification Card Program (“Ag Pass”) program affects farmworkers’ well-being and economic security during wildfires tinyurl.com/ycx5u5y3
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📢 New open-access webserver from the Wallace Initiative - to understand the vulnerability of protected areas to climate change and help increase the area’s resilience
🟢 ~98,000 reports
🟢 one for most of the terrestrial protected areas in the world >1km2 in size
Access here ➡️
🟢 ~98,000 reports
🟢 one for most of the terrestrial protected areas in the world >1km2 in size
Access here ➡️
Index of /
Wallace-pARCs
wallaceparcs.uea.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
📢 New open-access webserver from the Wallace Initiative - to understand the vulnerability of protected areas to climate change and help increase the area’s resilience
🟢 ~98,000 reports
🟢 one for most of the terrestrial protected areas in the world >1km2 in size
Access here ➡️
🟢 ~98,000 reports
🟢 one for most of the terrestrial protected areas in the world >1km2 in size
Access here ➡️
I updated my adaptation research blog with information about how to plant the right tree in the right place in California! Things can go wrong if you don't plan ahead. pacificadaptation.blogspot.com/2025/08/righ...
Right Tree, Right Place
Trees are often pointed to as a panacea for climate change, the most cost-effective environmental engineering we can do to cool the planet. ...
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August 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I updated my adaptation research blog with information about how to plant the right tree in the right place in California! Things can go wrong if you don't plan ahead. pacificadaptation.blogspot.com/2025/08/righ...
I think this is the first instance of the state setting up a protection plan for a plentiful species that faces extinction under future climate conditions
LA Times article on the Western Joshua Tree Conservation Act - from Aug 16, 2025, reprinted w/o paywall
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
LA Times article on the Western Joshua Tree Conservation Act - from Aug 16, 2025, reprinted w/o paywall
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
California approves an unprecedented plan to protect Joshua trees from climate change threats
California has approved an unprecedented plan to protect the iconic Joshua tree from climate change and development.
www.yahoo.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I think this is the first instance of the state setting up a protection plan for a plentiful species that faces extinction under future climate conditions
LA Times article on the Western Joshua Tree Conservation Act - from Aug 16, 2025, reprinted w/o paywall
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
LA Times article on the Western Joshua Tree Conservation Act - from Aug 16, 2025, reprinted w/o paywall
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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As a public service, people will find the original pdf files of all the U.S. National Climate Assessments, 2001-2023, publicly available at: www.patrickgonzalez.net#us_national_...
July 15, 2025 at 3:42 AM
As a public service, people will find the original pdf files of all the U.S. National Climate Assessments, 2001-2023, publicly available at: www.patrickgonzalez.net#us_national_...
Something I'm telling myself today, maybe someone else needs to hear: despair is a LUXURY
Those on the front lines of structural racism & climate impacts don't have a choice, they have to cope w/ what's happening, they don't get to check out
Rest. Then return to building a safer & more just world.
Those on the front lines of structural racism & climate impacts don't have a choice, they have to cope w/ what's happening, they don't get to check out
Rest. Then return to building a safer & more just world.
July 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Something I'm telling myself today, maybe someone else needs to hear: despair is a LUXURY
Those on the front lines of structural racism & climate impacts don't have a choice, they have to cope w/ what's happening, they don't get to check out
Rest. Then return to building a safer & more just world.
Those on the front lines of structural racism & climate impacts don't have a choice, they have to cope w/ what's happening, they don't get to check out
Rest. Then return to building a safer & more just world.
The March 19 EO "Achieving Efficiency Through State and Local Preparedness" required a National Resilience Strategy within 90 days (June 17). Did anything get published? I mean after Biden's National Resilience Strategy (20 p.) or National Adaptation & Resilience Strategy (898 p.) published in Jan.
June 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The March 19 EO "Achieving Efficiency Through State and Local Preparedness" required a National Resilience Strategy within 90 days (June 17). Did anything get published? I mean after Biden's National Resilience Strategy (20 p.) or National Adaptation & Resilience Strategy (898 p.) published in Jan.
I was recently voted on to the City of Davis' Climate & Environmental Justice Commission & before I'm sworn in I have to do some onboarding trainings. I'm watching the conflict of interest training- it has a slide that just says "Do Not Take Bribes" - with a photo of ex-SF Public Works Dir. M. Nuru
June 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I was recently voted on to the City of Davis' Climate & Environmental Justice Commission & before I'm sworn in I have to do some onboarding trainings. I'm watching the conflict of interest training- it has a slide that just says "Do Not Take Bribes" - with a photo of ex-SF Public Works Dir. M. Nuru
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Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number—
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many—they are few.
—Percy Shelley
In unvanquishable number—
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many—they are few.
—Percy Shelley
June 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number—
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many—they are few.
—Percy Shelley
In unvanquishable number—
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many—they are few.
—Percy Shelley
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Scoop: NOAA's climate portal, climate.gov, will soon no longer publish new content after its staff were recently dismissed.
Former staff fear that the website may become a mouthpiece for the administration's anti-science views.
My latest for @theguardian.com:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Former staff fear that the website may become a mouthpiece for the administration's anti-science views.
My latest for @theguardian.com:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired
Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content
www.theguardian.com
June 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Scoop: NOAA's climate portal, climate.gov, will soon no longer publish new content after its staff were recently dismissed.
Former staff fear that the website may become a mouthpiece for the administration's anti-science views.
My latest for @theguardian.com:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Former staff fear that the website may become a mouthpiece for the administration's anti-science views.
My latest for @theguardian.com:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Just a reminder as you get your signs ready for next Saturday please put a message on both sides of your sign
The people standing behind you also want to know what you have to say
The people standing behind you also want to know what you have to say
June 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Just a reminder as you get your signs ready for next Saturday please put a message on both sides of your sign
The people standing behind you also want to know what you have to say
The people standing behind you also want to know what you have to say
My entry point into adaptation work was a 2008 talk by journalist Isabel Hilton on the dire implications of the loss of the Himalayan glaciers. After, there was a stunned silence. A voice asked "what can we do?" She said "work on climate adaptation." I wrote down the word "adaptation."
A small group of monks, scientists, government officials and community members gathered today in Langtang, Nepal, to mark the decline of one of the most studied glaciers in the central Himalaya.
May 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
My entry point into adaptation work was a 2008 talk by journalist Isabel Hilton on the dire implications of the loss of the Himalayan glaciers. After, there was a stunned silence. A voice asked "what can we do?" She said "work on climate adaptation." I wrote down the word "adaptation."
This sucks.
“What seems so strange to me,” said Jason Vogel, deputy director of the Climate Impacts Group and co-director of the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative, “is that what initially appeared to be an attack on climate science [...] is becoming an attack on vulnerable communities.”
“What seems so strange to me,” said Jason Vogel, deputy director of the Climate Impacts Group and co-director of the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative, “is that what initially appeared to be an attack on climate science [...] is becoming an attack on vulnerable communities.”
The canceled program, called the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative, was responsible for a plan to reduce illness and save lives in extreme heat in the wake of the 2021 heat dome, among other things.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Trump administration pulls plug on UW climate research partnership
A research collaborative hosted at the University of Washington has worked alongside communities to help them adapt to climate change.
www.seattletimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This sucks.
“What seems so strange to me,” said Jason Vogel, deputy director of the Climate Impacts Group and co-director of the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative, “is that what initially appeared to be an attack on climate science [...] is becoming an attack on vulnerable communities.”
“What seems so strange to me,” said Jason Vogel, deputy director of the Climate Impacts Group and co-director of the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative, “is that what initially appeared to be an attack on climate science [...] is becoming an attack on vulnerable communities.”
Went to the Ruth Asawa retrospective at the SF MOMA today, looking at her work honoring those sent to detention under EO 9066 and the Alien Enemies Act & wondering when the monuments to the "Alien Enemies" removed to El Salvador and elsewhere w/o due process will be built
May 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Went to the Ruth Asawa retrospective at the SF MOMA today, looking at her work honoring those sent to detention under EO 9066 and the Alien Enemies Act & wondering when the monuments to the "Alien Enemies" removed to El Salvador and elsewhere w/o due process will be built
The Guardian on the resurrection of FEMA's Future Climate Risk Index (now Future Risk Index), "the first free, localized resource showing how much climate change impacts will cost American communities."
Trump’s 'climate' purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool originally developed by the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for local planners to identify the future risk of extreme weather events the US.
The Guardian has recreated the future climate risk index as a free tool.
The Guardian has recreated the future climate risk index as a free tool.
Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The Guardian on the resurrection of FEMA's Future Climate Risk Index (now Future Risk Index), "the first free, localized resource showing how much climate change impacts will cost American communities."
The Columbia River Treaty, important for #flood control and #irrigation in the U.S. northwest, due for renewal, is on pause - parties are supposed to give 10-year advance notice if they plan to exit but I expect the current U.S. administration will try to just walk away, claim the terms are illegal
This is Not Good for us in Cascadia -- and could be quite bad depending on how this turns out. Our electricity, our flood control, and our salmon and orca depend on a good renewal of the Columbia River Treaty.
US pauses water-sharing negotiations with Canada over Columbia River
Break in talks comes as Trump escalates trade war with Canada and threatens its sovereignty
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The Columbia River Treaty, important for #flood control and #irrigation in the U.S. northwest, due for renewal, is on pause - parties are supposed to give 10-year advance notice if they plan to exit but I expect the current U.S. administration will try to just walk away, claim the terms are illegal
Attention NorCal climate peeps! This looks like a great opportunity in Davis - full time Climate Action and Resilience Program Manager, deadline for applications April 11, focuses on both GHGs and natural resource protection
greenjobs.greenjobsearch.org/jobs/climate...
greenjobs.greenjobsearch.org/jobs/climate...
Climate Action and Resilience Program Manager - City of Davis - greenjobsearch.org
Climate Action and Resilience Program Manager Salary: $98,009.18 – $119,131.17 Annually Location: Davis, CA Job Type: Full-time Job Number: 00914 Department: City Managers Office Opening Date: 03/11/2...
greenjobs.greenjobsearch.org
March 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Attention NorCal climate peeps! This looks like a great opportunity in Davis - full time Climate Action and Resilience Program Manager, deadline for applications April 11, focuses on both GHGs and natural resource protection
greenjobs.greenjobsearch.org/jobs/climate...
greenjobs.greenjobsearch.org/jobs/climate...
Our new paper in Science on the environmental implications of the destruction of Kakhovka dam in Ukraine.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Environmental effects of the Kakhovka Dam destruction by warfare in Ukraine
The use of water as a weapon in highly industrialized areas in the Russo-Ukrainian war has resulted in catastrophic economic and environmental damages. We analyze environmental effects caused by the m...
www.science.org
March 19, 2025 at 6:56 AM
At the Mahmoud Khalil rally at the DHS building in Sacramento today with my new sign "Dissent is Patriotic" - the other side of my sign says "Without Free Speech Democracy Dies"
March 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
At the Mahmoud Khalil rally at the DHS building in Sacramento today with my new sign "Dissent is Patriotic" - the other side of my sign says "Without Free Speech Democracy Dies"
I casually thought hm have we created a national #adaptation strategy yet? YES, it's 898 pages and it was launched by DOS... Jan. 10, 2025. So, yay? Talk about turning in your term paper at the last minute. At least it lives on the UNFCCC website so it won't disappear.
U.S. National Adaptation and Resilience Planning Strategy - United States Department of State
Climate change is already impacting every community in the United States. From extreme heat to devastating floods, supercharged hurricanes and unprecedented wildfires, these extreme weather events pos...
2021-2025.state.gov
March 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I casually thought hm have we created a national #adaptation strategy yet? YES, it's 898 pages and it was launched by DOS... Jan. 10, 2025. So, yay? Talk about turning in your term paper at the last minute. At least it lives on the UNFCCC website so it won't disappear.
Is the National Climate Assessment dead? Is the USGCRP on the bone pile? The website is still up, but so is the NPS Climate Change Response Program's website. Not sure what to make of it.
March 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Is the National Climate Assessment dead? Is the USGCRP on the bone pile? The website is still up, but so is the NPS Climate Change Response Program's website. Not sure what to make of it.
On behalf of my gay male friends and anti-Putin Russian gay male friends in particular I would appreciate fewer homophobic Trump/Putin memes
March 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
On behalf of my gay male friends and anti-Putin Russian gay male friends in particular I would appreciate fewer homophobic Trump/Putin memes
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