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Dr. A.R. Siders

@sidersadapts.bsky.social
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audacious climate adaptation | assoc prof U of Delaware | social scientist + lawyer | #clifi #managedretreat #relocation #adaptationethics

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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🌊📊 #Postdoc opening: Coastal Adaptation Governance Research + practitioner partnerships. Interdisciplinary. Decisions, policies, ethics. First review Feb 1 careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job... #adaptation #resilience #academicjobs
Elevated houses on a stormy coast, with the large text "postdoc, coastal adaptation governance, first review Feb 1".
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
well stated by @staceyabrams.com
Photo of Stacey Abrams with the quote: "This isn't about politics. It's about power. Yesterday's decision tells the GOP that if they are mean enough, cruel enough, and patient enough, we will give in."
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 02/09/2025
The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.
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DOEresponseSite
On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding...
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 31/07/2025
🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨 Please RT this so as many people see it as possible. forms.gle/BL9xUAfRxA...
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DOE climate report response form
We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Also the first time I'd heard of the show "Families Like Ours" - which follows a family through the national evacuation of the entire country of Denmark en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familie...
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Books recommended by our audience (fiction & non-fiction): The Changes (Cadman) Fire Weather (Voillant) New York 2140 (Robinson) Next Great Migration (Shah) American War Parable of the Sower The Water Knife The Great Displacement Water Always Wins Blackfish City
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
A great session on the importance of history, narratives, imagination, and imaginaries at the #MR25 conference @columbiauniversity.bsky.social !
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I love this slide at #CZC2025 - what then, becomes possible? Conversations about innovation, creativity, and challenging the status quo for #coasts and #adaptation
Five panelists sitting at the front of an auditorium with an audience watching them. A slide behind says what then becomes possible with a picture of a coast.
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I love it! the use of liminal for the psych and social and physical is just wonderful
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Stop, Drop & Roll @sdrgames.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
NOW LIVE! ✨ A hopeful game about collective resistance in a changing land, where each player plays four characters each! Uncover their pasts, passions and fears as you play, and help them build their future. There's a FREE quick-start preview over on Backerkit, so don't miss out! ✊ #solarpunk #TTRPG
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Why We Fight - a solarpunk narrative TTRPG Launch Party
Get excited about Why We Fight - a solarpunk narrative TTRPG on BackerKit - come join!
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Favorite quote: closing the State Dept Climate Office is “just strategically fucking dumb" www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
politico.com
Rubio eliminates office that oversees climate talks
The Office of Global Change was notified Thursday that it would be shuttered.
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Saleem H. Ali @saleemali.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A pleasure to host Prof. Jim Wescoat from MIT and Mr. Ghammaz Hussain from Beaconhouse National University in Pakistan today - thanks to @sidersadapts.bsky.social for moderating the panel !
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 27/02/2025
Trump's Environmental Protection Agency appointees will move to reverse its 2009 declaration that greenhouse gases endanger human health & welfare, a decision that underpins the agency's authority to regulate GHGs under the Clean Air Act www.politico.com/news/2025/02... 🔌💡
politico.com
EPA moves to ditch finding that greenhouse gases cause harm
The recommendation by Lee Zeldin, the agency's administrator, could upend existing and future regulations on climate change.
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@ghoshworld @ghoshworld.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
See? It's not all bad news...
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
also - home energy retrofits. These keep people warm / cool / safe and help keep down heating/cooling costs. Cancelling those grants hurts people directly.
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Zahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
SCOOP @bloomberg.com: Top officials at the US Department of Homeland Security received a memo from Sec. Kristi Noem on Friday ordering an immediate stop to work connected to climate change and the elimination of climate-related terms across the agency. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump Ends Climate Work Inside Agency That Responds to Disasters
A memo sent to leadership at the US Department of Homeland Security orders the elimination of climate-related activities.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Join the Climate Storytellers’ Summit on Thursday, April 10 from 4-6pm which I will be moderating. Read more details here: environment.princeton.edu/climate-stor...
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Terms sized by frequency. Min 500 mentions. Imperfect effort to combine single and plural (e.g., scientist, scientists) + to remove stop words (e.g., and, so, the) + common words (e.g., intellectual merit, access, will). I kept "novel" because its 985 occurrences amused me
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"Woke DEI grants at #NSF". A word cloud of ~3,400 grant titles flagged by US Senate Committee Commerce, Science & Transportation as "questionable projects that promoted #DEI or advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda." Database at: www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...
a word cloud. the biggest words are: communities, students, and stem. a second tier of smaller words include: technology, education, engineering, evaluation, statutory, career, environment, teaching
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SolarPunk Conference 2025 @solarpunkcon.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Submissions are open for the 2025 Conference! Interested in sharing your ideas through a workshop, presentation, or panel? Fill out the form (link below and in bio) to be considered. Let's see what we can create and share together! forms.gle/Y11VzaFwBQD6... #solarpunk #solarpunkconference
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PLOS Climate @plosclimate.org · 25/01/2025
A new scoping review by Muccione et al. identifies key themes in climate education research, and calls for their integration into policy-relevant assessment reports journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
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A scoping review on climate change education
The growing urgency of the climate crisis necessitates innovative educational approaches to equip people with the knowledge and skills to address climate challenges and be able to influence policy eff...
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The new White House has already deleted dozens of environmental justice websites and reports. Worry not, they’re all backed up on various independent university websites. eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker-type... 🧪🌎
eelp.law.harvard.edu
Federal Environmental Justice Tracker – Environmental and Energy Law Program
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
@gruberte.bsky.social is an incredibly exciting interdisciplinary researcher! and an awesome human. go work with her!
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Some really interesting thoughts about #adaptation coming up: "we're becoming numb to disasters... so we need to change the stories we tell to give people hope"; "we need to fight misinformation and scapegoating"; "insurance will be a key debate" "people are frustrated and angry". Give it a listen!
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Have you played with EnRoads? It's a simulator, not a game, but I enjoy the way you can stack different approaches to see the effects - a very simple interface with lots of detail if you dig in en-roads.climateinteractive.org
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I targeted industrial ag for the biodiversity score and went for efficiencies in concrete, shipping, electrification etc early for the emissions reductions
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I expected a cute little phone game about #climate and emissions reductions, and I was wrong. The sheer number of interconnected policies, infrastructure, research options and political allies / foes is daunting and impressive!
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
that title makes me think of this one:
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/01/2025
LA is burning & our implicit political baseline is still that climate policies are acceptable if and only if they require zero sacrifice or even mild lifestyle change on anyone's part.
independent.co.uk
Public will not have to change lives ‘radically’ for climate goal, MPs promised
Lifestyle change, such as diet and travel, are not in the scope of the 2035 goal
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Building back better is hard because people also want build back fast and those don't always go hand in hand. btw just noticed your work - very cool! We're training cohorts of undergrads on EnRoads to do sci communication. Hoping they'll do the full ambassador route.
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
these are amazing! Thanks so much for sharing. All are going on my TBR list (at the top)
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
do you have any favorite stories? your own or others'? asking for myself and for a class on "storytelling in the climate crisis" I'll teach next year
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Dr. Crystal A. Kolden @pyrogeog.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
For the thousands of people asking "How do we fix this #wildfire problem?", @michaelwara.bsky.social wrote an excellent white paper 3 years ago that neatly lays out the basics of the multipronged approach. It still holds. @stanfordwoods.bsky.social hosted a discussion panel as well.
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Birmingham Climate Justice Coalition @brumcjc.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
“these devastating wildfires… will continue to get worse as the planet continues to get warmer. And the planet will continue to get warmer as long as we continue to burn fossil fuels” @michaelemann.bsky.social www.channel4.com/news/__trash...
channel4.com
‘Wildfires will get worse as the planet gets warmer’, says climate scientist
We spoke to Michael Mann, a climate scientist from the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
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David Siders @davidsiders.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
In Altadena, part of it was the shock ... And part of it seemed to be a kind of fatalism, a feeling that the more existential the threat, the less our society or our political system seems able to address it. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
politico.com
‘Half the Country’s Thinking Magically’: California Fire Victims Grapple with the Political Paralysis Over Climate Change
They’re still in shock. But for now, even in a blue city in a blue state, disaster does not bring climate change to residents’ front of mind.
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
ooh! I loved braiding sweetgrass but hadn't seen Serviceberry - I will check it out. Thanks!
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I told him to repost the story! he's mainly on Tw*tter so let's hope we can lure him to be more active here.
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
true! "worst" will mean something different to different people and depends on time scales etc. some people are already facing existential threats - the worst Writers like you are so critical in conveying climate and a range of possible consequences - or hopeful solarpunk futures!
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
great point - in the midst of a crisis, people are understandably focused on immediate concerns. Some crises present opportunities for big changes, tho, that might not be possible if people quickly rebuild without change. What did you see after Helene? Did your community make changes?
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
as his sister, I'm a little annoyed that posting my brother's article has gotten more engagement than all my previous posts combined. tagging @davidsiders.bsky.social now so you all can follow him 😋
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
that would be epic. I fully support.
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
agreed! when I think about that Holdren quote - our options are mitigate, adapt, or suffer - and then I see the suffering .. it can be a good reminder why the fight is so important
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
In full disclosure, yes, it's written by my brother. No, I had nothing to do with the story. Nice article, Dave! we'll make a climate reporter of you yet
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
My news feed on LA wildfires splits half heartbreaking stories of loss & and half scientific studies on climate attribution. This article illustrates why the two are so disconnected - why knowing climate played a role might not matter to many.
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
“No, I don’t. I think we’re fucked." - Altadena resident, asked if people might start connecting climate change & disasters. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
politico.com
‘Half the Country’s Thinking Magically’: California Fire Victims Grapple with the Political Paralysis Over Climate Change
They’re still in shock. But for now, even in a blue city in a blue state, disaster does not bring climate change to residents’ front of mind.
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Amy Hanauer @amyhanauer.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
"I’m willing to pay literally any amount of money, just so long as I don’t have to pay a fixed, reasonable amount of money in taxes regularly."
mcsweeneys.net
I Will Pay Any Amount to Not Pay My Taxes
I’ve gotten myself into a bit of a jam. A series of natural disasters is barreling towards my home, and there is a severe shortage of resources and...
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
agreed! I console myself by thinking of "resilience" in terms of constructive ambiguity - sometimes vague words can enable political moves that precise language would block
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Why does it matter? ICF has a 2021 primer on why the US needs a NAP: www.icf.com/insights/env... Or check out this America Adapts podcast: www.americaadapts.org/episodes/fed...
icf.com
The Need for a US National Climate Adaptation Strategy
The lack of a national adaptation strategy could lead to missed opportunities in the fight against climate change. Here’s what the federal government can do to rally the nation.
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
🚨 BIG NEWS - *US National Adaptation Strategy* released and transmitted to UNFCCC. That's right - the US has a National Adaptation Plan! unfccc.int/sites/defaul... #climate #adaptation #UNFCCC #RebelScienceAlliance
A report cover with the title "US National Adaptation and Resilience Planning Strategy" and four drawings in a square of natural scenes.
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