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Disaster Law Headcanon: During particularly stressful periods, he not only becomes an insomniac but also, the one or two hours he does manage to sleep, a somnambulist. The crew has had to awaken Bepo so he can very gently scoop him up and put him back to bed. One of the first few times it happened Law almost Counter Shocked Shachi because he foolishly tried waking him up.
The Thin Gray Line
The Thin Gray Line
“Bureaucrat” is just another name for public servant. It has been said that a thin blue line of police protects us from the worst elements of society. But it is a thin gray line of underpaid, overworked, anonymous bureaucrats who protect society against more insidious risks — risks ranging from nuclear contamination to climate change to unsafe food. Due to Trump’s government shutdown, by the way,…
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From the Wildfire Files
From the Wildfire Files
I don’t normally do this, but given the terrible wildfires now hitting the state, I thought it was worth doing a reprise of some posts on the subject from earlier this summer. Of course, there’s more information in the original posts, if you want to click over to them.
Spreading Like Wildfire
In 2017, wildfires burned 10 million acres in the Western United States, destroying 12,000 homes, killing…
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Wildfires: Managing the Risks
Wildfires: Managing the Risks
Wildfires are already a serious problem, and climate change will only make the problem worse, as I’ve discussed in my two prior posts. Reducing carbon emissions can help keep the problem from growing, but we need to deal with the risks we’re already facing. That is going to require a portfolio of risk management strategies. We need to ramp up all of them.
Land Use Controls.
There are increasing…
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Burning in the Heat
Burning in the Heat
Fires have been unusually severe lately. According to one scientist,
“’[I]n the late 20th and early 21st century, with these hot droughts, fires are ripping now with a severity and ferocity that’s unprecedented,’ says Tom Swetnam. . . . A fire in the Jemez Mountains Swetnam studies burned 40,000 acres in 12 hours, a ‘horizontal roll vortex fire’ that had two wind-driven counter-rotating vortices…
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Maladaptation
Some economic models of climate change come out with low damages because they assume smooth and effective adaptation efforts. That never made much sense. There’s a little inertia in social systems, and planning major projects can take a long time. Some of what we’re seeing lately is worse than that, however. We’re saying cases in which we’re doubling down on strategies that don’t work or even…
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Did Super Typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana) Expose the Philippines as a Vulnerable Country to Disasters?
Did Super Typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana) Expose the Philippines as a Vulnerable Country to Disasters?
The Center for Research and Epidemiology Disasters (CRED) ranked the Philippines as one of most disaster-prone countries in the world. The Philippines is also fourth in the world among countries hit by the highest number of disasters over the past 20 years, according to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR). In terms of tropical storms, the country is visited by an…
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Super Typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana) Exposed the Philippines as a Vulnerable Country to Disasters?
Super Typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana) Exposed the Philippines as a Vulnerable Country to Disasters?
The Center for Research and Epidemiology Disasters (CRED) ranked the Philippines as one of most disaster-prone countries in the world. The Philippines is also fourth in the world among countries hit by the highest number of disasters over the past 20 years, according to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR). In terms of tropical storms, the country is visited by an…
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