Gardiner Allen Brown
gardinerbrown.bsky.social
Gardiner Allen Brown
@gardinerbrown.bsky.social
Environmental essays, disaster studies, environmental humanities
PhD student, UC Berkeley department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Reposted by Gardiner Allen Brown
This is a region known as “flood alley” as the risks of flash flooding are already so high.

As always, though, climate change takes existing risks and makes them worse – in this case, warmer air holds more water vapor, increasing risks of heavier downpours.

More by @zhonggg.bsky.social here:
As the World Warms, Extreme Rain Is Becoming Even More Extreme
www.nytimes.com
July 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I regularly daydream about quitting to go work at my favorite yarn producer
January 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Right there with you today. Had to dump half a cup of coffee down the drain before it was too late (it was already too late)
December 4, 2024 at 7:13 PM