Andrew Revkin

And the science finds this.

There's a new weather attribution group.

It's WXRisk on Twitter.

This does pretty good work on how much of what just happened was some tweak in the storm from global warming, from CO2 changing weather.

And the media glom onto that, as I did in the 80s, 90s, 2000s.

But the reports also have a section on, by the way, the vulnerability that was built in this region was a big driver of loss.

So discriminating between loss

Change in what's happening on the ground and change in the climate system is never solely about CO2.

In fact, Lorenz Bauer, B-O-U-W-E-R, I first wrote on his work in 2010 in the New York Times.

And basically in 2010, there was no sign in the data of climate change driving disasters.

Climate change is up here.

Disasters are on the ground.

They depend on how many people are in the way, how much stuff you built in the way.

And so far, we've done so much of that so fast in the 20th century, particularly, that it completely dominates.

It makes it impossible to discriminate how much of that disaster was from the change in weather from global warming.

And that's very much in our control, theoretically.

Yeah, I wrote a piece recently in my Sustain What column saying if you go on there for the entertainment value of seeing those knockdown fights, I guess that's useful if that's what you're looking for.

The thing I found Twitter invaluable for

but it's a practice.

It's just like the workouts you do or, you know, it's how do I put this tool to use today thinking about energy action in poor communities?