Chicago has been ranked the most climate-resilient city in the world.
No other U.S. cities made the list of the top 20 most resilient locations.
No other U.S. cities made the list of the top 20 most resilient locations.
Is Your City Prepared for Climate Disaster?
A new report ranks the world’s large cities on how well they have adapted to face climate risk.
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Chicago has been ranked the most climate-resilient city in the world.
No other U.S. cities made the list of the top 20 most resilient locations.
No other U.S. cities made the list of the top 20 most resilient locations.
Here’s the role that personal choice plays in climate: a lot of the things you can do for personal choice that are in some vague sense of the phrase good for climate are also good for preparing you to be climate adapted.
June 7, 2024 at 10:43 PM
Here’s the role that personal choice plays in climate: a lot of the things you can do for personal choice that are in some vague sense of the phrase good for climate are also good for preparing you to be climate adapted.
Today I was delayed getting to New York from Boston to do an interview about climate change because we haven’t adapted our transportation systems to climate change.
*chefs kiss*
*chefs kiss*
July 8, 2024 at 10:43 PM
Today I was delayed getting to New York from Boston to do an interview about climate change because we haven’t adapted our transportation systems to climate change.
*chefs kiss*
*chefs kiss*
A new report ranks the world’s large cities on how well they have adapted to face climate risk. Chicago, which has invested heavily in infrastructure meant to mitigate flooding and water pollution, is first on the list.
Is Your City Prepared for Climate Disaster?
A new report ranks the world’s large cities on how well they have adapted to face climate risk.
nyti.ms
September 3, 2026 at 7:25 PM
A new report ranks the world’s large cities on how well they have adapted to face climate risk. Chicago, which has invested heavily in infrastructure meant to mitigate flooding and water pollution, is first on the list.
I'm a researcher primarily in adaptation. We are not even adapted to where the climate is today.
If you think you can seawall your way through a 4°C planet, you are straight up dreaming.
Mitigation AND adaptation, or you end up with way more of option 3 for dealing with climate change: suffering.
If you think you can seawall your way through a 4°C planet, you are straight up dreaming.
Mitigation AND adaptation, or you end up with way more of option 3 for dealing with climate change: suffering.
I’m am adaptation scientist and here’s what I had to say about this—many years ago already.
March 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I'm a researcher primarily in adaptation. We are not even adapted to where the climate is today.
If you think you can seawall your way through a 4°C planet, you are straight up dreaming.
Mitigation AND adaptation, or you end up with way more of option 3 for dealing with climate change: suffering.
If you think you can seawall your way through a 4°C planet, you are straight up dreaming.
Mitigation AND adaptation, or you end up with way more of option 3 for dealing with climate change: suffering.
Our Ancestors Survived Massive Climate Shifts By Dying, And Being Replaced By Better-Adapted Organisms. Why Can’t We Do The Same?
May 25, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Our Ancestors Survived Massive Climate Shifts By Dying, And Being Replaced By Better-Adapted Organisms. Why Can’t We Do The Same?
Good quality housing: what the UK could learn from the Dutch
Affordable, sustainable, climate-adapted housing that matches regional and national needs is desperately required everywhere
By Professor Juliet Lodge
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Affordable, sustainable, climate-adapted housing that matches regional and national needs is desperately required everywhere
By Professor Juliet Lodge
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Good quality housing: what the UK could learn from the Dutch
Affordable, sustainable, climate-adapted housing that matches regional and national needs is desperately required everywhere
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Good quality housing: what the UK could learn from the Dutch
Affordable, sustainable, climate-adapted housing that matches regional and national needs is desperately required everywhere
By Professor Juliet Lodge
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Affordable, sustainable, climate-adapted housing that matches regional and national needs is desperately required everywhere
By Professor Juliet Lodge
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
“At 3C of global heating, climate damage cannot be insured against, covered by governments, or adapted to. That means no more mortgages or new real estate devt, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function and capitalism ceases to be viable.”
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:01 AM
“At 3C of global heating, climate damage cannot be insured against, covered by governments, or adapted to. That means no more mortgages or new real estate devt, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function and capitalism ceases to be viable.”
Chameleons can hide from a lot of things ... but not climate change: https://therevelator.org/chameleons-climate-change/
Even Chameleons Can’t Hide From Climate Change • The Revelator
These amazing, camouflaged reptiles have adapted to life in unique microhabitats, but that’s also made them more vulnerable to disruption.
therevelator.org
October 3, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Chameleons can hide from a lot of things ... but not climate change: https://therevelator.org/chameleons-climate-change/
‘It’s put the joy levels up’: the flood-prone London school with a climate-adapted playground
‘It’s put the joy levels up’: the flood-prone London school with a climate-adapted playground
When pupils could no longer play outside, St John’s school in Barnet decided to act, enlisting Trees for Cities to help rethink its outside space
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2026 at 11:43 PM
‘It’s put the joy levels up’: the flood-prone London school with a climate-adapted playground
✍️ Good quality housing: what the UK could learn from the Dutch
Affordable, sustainable, climate-adapted housing that matches regional and national needs is desperately required everywhere
By Professor Juliet Lodge
@julietl.bsky.social
Affordable, sustainable, climate-adapted housing that matches regional and national needs is desperately required everywhere
By Professor Juliet Lodge
@julietl.bsky.social
Good quality housing: what the UK could learn from the Dutch
Affordable, sustainable, climate-adapted housing that matches regional and national needs is desperately required everywhere
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 6:32 AM
✍️ Good quality housing: what the UK could learn from the Dutch
Affordable, sustainable, climate-adapted housing that matches regional and national needs is desperately required everywhere
By Professor Juliet Lodge
@julietl.bsky.social
Affordable, sustainable, climate-adapted housing that matches regional and national needs is desperately required everywhere
By Professor Juliet Lodge
@julietl.bsky.social
Large protected areas could provide an important buffer against climate-driven declines among cold-adapted birds in Northern Europe, according to research based on more than four decades of bird monitoring in Finland:
Large Finnish reserves help shield cold-adapted birds from climate change
Cold-adapted birds declined in smaller protected areas in northern Finland but remained more stable in larger reserves, according to a new study.
f.mtr.cool
September 28, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Large protected areas could provide an important buffer against climate-driven declines among cold-adapted birds in Northern Europe, according to research based on more than four decades of bird monitoring in Finland:
I gave out milkweed seeds last Halloween (yes I gave out other treats, I'm not a monster) to help provide monarch habitat.
Plant native plants! They grow really well and are very beautiful and are adapted for your climate so they need less work.
Plant native plants! They grow really well and are very beautiful and are adapted for your climate so they need less work.
April 4, 2026 at 8:52 PM
I gave out milkweed seeds last Halloween (yes I gave out other treats, I'm not a monster) to help provide monarch habitat.
Plant native plants! They grow really well and are very beautiful and are adapted for your climate so they need less work.
Plant native plants! They grow really well and are very beautiful and are adapted for your climate so they need less work.
More climate-adapted sci-fi inspo coming from places actually acting like there is a climate crisis
the future of urban logistics is trams and trike with trailers
July 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
More climate-adapted sci-fi inspo coming from places actually acting like there is a climate crisis
Maine Coons are generally MASSIVE, sturdy, fluffy cats adapted to survive outside in harsh winters, but more than happy to take advantage of human habitation and climate control.
November 29, 2024 at 12:44 AM
Maine Coons are generally MASSIVE, sturdy, fluffy cats adapted to survive outside in harsh winters, but more than happy to take advantage of human habitation and climate control.
In cities such as London, trees are already struggling with hot and dry summers. Botanists warn that we need to start replacing them with drought-adapted species
Urban trees in south-east England can't cope with the changing climate | New Scientist
www.newscientist.com
October 4, 2026 at 9:20 AM
In cities such as London, trees are already struggling with hot and dry summers. Botanists warn that we need to start replacing them with drought-adapted species
Tipping Point from the Stable Climate at ~280 ppm CO₂ (Holocene, during past 10,000 years) to a Stable Hothouse Climate at 560 ppm CO₂.
We are already at 560 ppm CO₂ equivalent and will likely (and pass) 560 ppm CO₂ later this century.
Simplified graph, adapted from @knmi.nl.
We are already at 560 ppm CO₂ equivalent and will likely (and pass) 560 ppm CO₂ later this century.
Simplified graph, adapted from @knmi.nl.
October 2, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Tipping Point from the Stable Climate at ~280 ppm CO₂ (Holocene, during past 10,000 years) to a Stable Hothouse Climate at 560 ppm CO₂.
We are already at 560 ppm CO₂ equivalent and will likely (and pass) 560 ppm CO₂ later this century.
Simplified graph, adapted from @knmi.nl.
We are already at 560 ppm CO₂ equivalent and will likely (and pass) 560 ppm CO₂ later this century.
Simplified graph, adapted from @knmi.nl.
Re-posting adapted version of 2023 thread originally posed elsewhere because, in this moment especially, the need for independent domain experts (in weather, climate, & beyond) to be supported in offering balanced, nuanced,& contextually accurate information to mass audiences has never been greater.
Scientific institutions must create--and sustain--new kinds of roles so that researchers can provide the deep public engagement necessary to respond effectively to the escalating impacts of #climate change. The status quo isn't working. nature.com/articles/d41...
Climate researchers need support to become scientist-communicators
Scientific institutions must create roles so that researchers can provide the deep public engagement necessary to respond effectively to the escalating impacts of climate change.
nature.com
March 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Re-posting adapted version of 2023 thread originally posed elsewhere because, in this moment especially, the need for independent domain experts (in weather, climate, & beyond) to be supported in offering balanced, nuanced,& contextually accurate information to mass audiences has never been greater.
Another nice piece from @rupertread.bsky.social about the inadequacy of the UK Climate Change Cmmittee report on a well-adapted UK and what we actually need to be doing
rupertsreads.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...
rupertsreads.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...
A Tale of Two Adaptations
Reflections on the Climate Change Committee’s Well-Adapted UK report, in the light of this summer’s heat storms and the Burnham ascendancy
rupertsreads.substack.com
July 21, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Another nice piece from @rupertread.bsky.social about the inadequacy of the UK Climate Change Cmmittee report on a well-adapted UK and what we actually need to be doing
rupertsreads.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...
rupertsreads.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...
Apparently there are people - genuine, intelligent people - who think climate policy is trying to maintain CO2 and temperature at 'arbitrary baselines'
The precise conditions to which all of human civilisation and its infratructure are adapted are... arbitrary?
The precise conditions to which all of human civilisation and its infratructure are adapted are... arbitrary?
November 19, 2024 at 10:31 AM
Apparently there are people - genuine, intelligent people - who think climate policy is trying to maintain CO2 and temperature at 'arbitrary baselines'
The precise conditions to which all of human civilisation and its infratructure are adapted are... arbitrary?
The precise conditions to which all of human civilisation and its infratructure are adapted are... arbitrary?
I raise this point frequently - we're not even well-adapted to the weather and climate extremes we already experience ('adaptation deficit', a la Burton 2009). Addressing that would go a meaningful way toward reducing total vulnerability to future climate changes www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
August 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I raise this point frequently - we're not even well-adapted to the weather and climate extremes we already experience ('adaptation deficit', a la Burton 2009). Addressing that would go a meaningful way toward reducing total vulnerability to future climate changes www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Species are currently adapted to the relatively cool conditions that have dominated over the past few million years. And we see in the paleoclimate record, rapid climate change has, in the past, been associated with mass extinction events.
March 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Species are currently adapted to the relatively cool conditions that have dominated over the past few million years. And we see in the paleoclimate record, rapid climate change has, in the past, been associated with mass extinction events.
In 2003, the U.S. military bombed Iraq’s national seed bank in Abu Ghraib, effectively eliminating hundreds of varieties of indigenous seeds adapted to growing in the drought-prone desert climate. A year later, U.S. law prohibited Iraqi farmers from seed saving. (First published in 2025 by Prism)
Saving Iraq’s Seeds, One Garden at a Time
Comprising a diverse range of backgrounds and ages, the collective fosters a space for voices of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian seed stewards from the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region…
www.thexylom.com
October 2, 2026 at 1:48 AM
In 2003, the U.S. military bombed Iraq’s national seed bank in Abu Ghraib, effectively eliminating hundreds of varieties of indigenous seeds adapted to growing in the drought-prone desert climate. A year later, U.S. law prohibited Iraqi farmers from seed saving. (First published in 2025 by Prism)
The world we've built is not adapted to the world we've created
More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UN
Floods, heatwaves and supercharged hurricanes occurred in hottest climate human society has ever experienced
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The world we've built is not adapted to the world we've created