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UCLA's Rajit Gadh discusses the future of EVs and green energy with / @CBSLA
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The #PritzkerGenius award community brings together brilliant minds from around the world to share what they’ve learned. At the annual award ceremony, nominees share their favorite books. Here’s what they brought in 2022.
Via : All the rain and snow are undoubtedly good news for CA's water supply, but unlikely to end the drought altogether. UCLA's says “we’d need a couple wet years in CA back to back to make us feel like we’re out of the drought here.” nytimes.com/2023/01/12/us/
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If you think the Great Gas Stove Debate was hot this month, wait for a coming federal appellate decision in the CA Restaurant Assoc challenge to Berkeley’s landmark ban. Via dwell.com/article/gas-ba
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Via : There's no law preventing a private company from tinkering w/ geoengineering, like releasing SO2 in the stratosphere to alter climate. UCLA’s @pason_ted called it a case of “a rogue pseudo-scientist claiming to help the environment.” washingtonpost.com/business/energ
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“It’s not just better for our future to use electric heating and cooking appliances fueled by increasing amounts of renewable energy, but for our pocketbooks, too,” editorial board writes:
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Fact Check: Wrong ❌
Volcanoes emit just 1/60th of the CO2 humans emit per year
“[Volcanic emissions are] not the same as what we’re doing, which is 365 days a year ... for decades and decades and decades"
- prof for
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Just a reminder that a volcano in Greece has put more CO2 in the atmosphere in 24 hours than humans have In our entire existence.
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Rajit Gadh spoke with on how electric cars will affect California's electric grid.
"it’s a matter of time, education, awareness and incentives”
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From dry to wet and back again — spoke to about how climate change is driving “weather whiplash.”
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📢How to accurately map Amazon Forest deforestation ? Using the best images and the best tools : Planet NICFI images + Deep Learning ! Link to the paper : doi.org/10.3390/rs1502 #RStats #rstudio #Tensorflow
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"We are getting exactly what we need to bust the drought, but we still have two-thirds of the wet season to come and we could get very little precipitation," said Hall. "You know, it's very unpredictable."
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Via : A study led by found that areas of high particulate concentration also have higher levels of toxicity. “We found that the locations that are really close to freeways have the highest toxicity levels in general,” she said. latimes.com/environment/st
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As director of the state-funded, $12 million California Conservation Genomic Project, UCLA’s Brad Shaffer leads a team of 114 geneticists mapping the state’s biodiversity.
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With a pilot program in the nation’s busiest port complex, researchers from , & have created a way for non-scientists to use a complex DNA test to help track fish and other marine animal populations
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From : professor Brad Shaffer is leading the state-funded $12-million California Conservation Genomics Project
110 researchers are genetically mapping the state’s biodiversity for conservation
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Drought and the Colorado River: Localizing Water in Los Angeles
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For journalists and other interested parties regarding the ongoing extreme rain/precipitation and flooding in California
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Just decided to commit to another YouTube "live office hours" session focused on ongoing storm sequence and growing flood risk at 8:30am PT this coming Monday, just prior to what will likely be the most problematic storm of the sequence. #CAwx #CAwater youtu.be/zjqmsPrJpMA
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"Atmospheric rivers can transport volumes of water many times that of the Mississippi River, doing so all in the air above your head," says Dr. Daniel Swain, TNC Climate Fellow and Climate Scientist #AtmosphericRiver
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's Brian Garcia, , & on preparing for another rain storm and what this precipitation means for CA's ongoing drought w/ :
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With extreme wildfires also on the rise, the increase in heavy precipitation also increases the likelihood of deadly debris flows in burn scar areas. ioes.ucla.edu/article/climat
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In California, warming is making a “megastorm” — projected to be a $1 trillion disaster, the largest ever — twice as likely. scientists and government officials are in the process of developing this ArkStorm scenario and how to respond. ioes.ucla.edu/article/climat
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This is true not just in California but across the United States — putting millions at risk of catastrophic flooding. ioes.ucla.edu/article/extrem
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Warming weather due to climate change is setting the stage for worse flooding — straining the system of reservoirs ioes.ucla.edu/article/a-warm
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The background is that California is in the largest megadrought in 1,200 years (ioes.ucla.edu/article/megadr). However, parched land can only soak up so much rainfall — it doesn’t help much with extreme events. ioes.ucla.edu/article/parche
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As atmospheric river-driven storms bring life-threatening flooding to California, a summary of what researchers have learned in the past couple of years (1/6):
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“There’s already active river flooding with levee breaks in Sacramento County, so that’s the stage for something pretty intense coming in” - climate scientist Daniel Swain ()
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Check out our latest pod, Developing and Deploying Disruptive Ideas! interviews , whose transdisciplinary work advances urban sustainability science and decision-making for water, energy, transportation, and land use systems!
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Via story “Recent storms give drought-weary California cause for hope, but will they continue:” of said there is a “tilt in the odds toward drier-than-average conditions January through spring.”
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After wildfire threatened the family farm and left her community "uninsurable," alum Hunter Connell founded — a company that uses artificial intelligence to more precisely identify climate risks.
Her story:
ioes.ucla.edu/article/spurre
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Want to know more about the ordinance requiring new homes to be electric?
's Rajit Gadh joined on to discuss impacts on the state energy grid and renewable energy
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"You just see this bright twinkling and it's dark, but it's not empty. Just being there in this silence and this darkness, but then being surrounded in the top by this blanket of twinkling stars."
- Jules de la Cruz, environmental science student
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Smallhold farmers in the most vulnerable areas of the world are often left out of sustainability efforts to prevent deforestation.
Via 's Congo Basin Institute, here's their story:
youtu.be/ixyv9qitRHE
Freight trucks account for 57% of petroleum use in India, worsening air quality and contributing to climate change.
A new / study shows how electrifying the fleet makes economic and environmental sense.
ioes.ucla.edu/article/electr
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Via : UCLA’s reminded that the desalination technology will continue to evolve, while emphasizing that it is by no means the sole solution to the Western water crisis. “It’s not the only or best answer — period,” he said. thehill.com/policy/equilib
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See three climate change themed art shows followed by a panel discussion at #elpuebloLA on Dec. 17 -- or stop by just for the art this week.
Details:
ioes.ucla.edu/event/3-climat
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Air for disadvantaged L.A. residents is more polluted, more toxic
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