David Wallace-Wells

@dwallacewells

Central Park East. Deputy editor and climate columnist for New York magazine. Author of THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH.

Joined March 2011

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    Next month, will publish my big climate book, The Uninhabitable Earth, in which I try to take a very broad, and very long, view of the state of the climate crisis and all the ways it promises to transform how we live on this planet—all of us. (1/x)

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  2. In Vietnam alone, land mines and other munitions have killed 40,000 since the end of the war. It may take 300 years for remaining explosives to be cleared. The last Vietnamese person to be killed by unexploded U.S. munitions probably hasn’t been born yet.

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  3. 14 hours ago

    Boulder is about to go from 74°F to -1°F in the span of about 48 hours. Yeehaw.

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  4. 16 hours ago

    Barcelona's climate emergency plan is 860M euros if scaled to NYC, or $946M. This is not exceptional, as NYC is spending $1.5B on the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project alone, which will raise the East River Park eight feet.

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  5. THE YEAR OF NO WINTER 100 heat records broken in Norway. Hottest January ever recorded in Sweden & Denmark. Flowers of spring everywhere.

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  6. 21 hours ago

    This image from Calipso sensor (a point-down laser for cloud and aerosol height detection) unmistakably prooves the from have reached the same heights of volcano clouds.

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  7. “The keywords ‘climate action’ and ‘climate emergency’ were generally not searched for in the past, but their use increased 20-fold in 2019.”

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  8. Feb 1

    🔸Pakistan Declares National Emergency to Battle Locusts🔸 Facing worst locust attack in decades with insects destroying crops on a large scale in Punjab province, the country’s main region for agricultural production.

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  9. Feb 1

    "Current estimates show it would cost about $73tn to completely convert the world to renewable energy. That is a little less than one year’s worth of the total world economy. The investment would pay for itself in seven years."

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  10. Feb 1

    Scientific paper: travel restrictions failed to stop the spread of H1N1. Look, I get it. Travel bans seem like an intuitive way to halt spread. But all the evidence from similar epidemics shows that the benefits are minimal and the risks are enormous.

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  11. Feb 1

    "It’s common to describe the present split within the Democratic Party as pitting its left against its center. A different way to put it is that the Party is split between its likely future and its current reality."

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  13. .’s engine partner plans to flight test short-haul electric engines by 2023. amazing how quickly climate solutions in challenging sectors are going from “never going to happen” to “here’s our roadmap”.

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  14. Feb 1

    Today's China: A doctor in Wuhan warns his college classmates a virus is spreading and urges them to take care. The police call him in for "rumor" mongering. He goes back to work. And then he becomes ill. With and many great colleagues

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  15. Feb 1

    Hadn't known until recently that global undernourishment--hunger--has actually been rising for several years, both absolutely and as share of the population: . (HT fact-checker )

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  16. Feb 1

    The world consumes 65% more coal today than it did in the year 2000. And our just-released report forecasts global demand will remain broadly stable over the next 5 years. Explore the key findings ⬇️

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  17. Feb 1

    In response to a press inquiry about the president's altered map, a normally unflappable spokesman for the National Hurricane Center. wrote a one-word email to higher ups: "HELP!!!"

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  18. Feb 1

    As Forests Burn Around the World, Drinking Water is at Risk "More than 60% of the water supply for the world’s 100 largest cities originates in fire-prone watersheds" Intense rains can erode denuded slopes, washing ash, sediment & debris into waterways.

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  19. These are striking results. According to the latest release of the Edelman Trust Barometer, a majority of people (56%) around the world agree with the statement "capitalism does more harm than good." Here's how it breaks down by country:

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  20. Feb 1

    US total oil consumption: Year 2000: 38.292 trillion btu Year 2019: 38.295 trillion btu The US does not face a problem of oil demand growth. Rather, it has a wicked problem (yeah, I'm from Boston) with oil dependency. That's the problem to confront.

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  21. I think we continue to profoundly underestimate the potential economic upsides of acting on climate.

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