IoES in the News
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Cara Horowitz in The New York Times: California Recall Vote Could Weaken the State’s Aggressive Climate Policies
UCLA Law’s Emmett Institute co-executive director Cara Horowitz says that a recall of Gov. Newsom could stymie California’s effort to cut its GHG emissions by 40% by the end of…
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Is it time to conserve water by not flushing the toilet? Alex Hall and Stephanie Pincetl weigh in
People are being asked to do their part to conserve water: take shorter showers, don’t let the faucet run, fix that leaky sprinkler and so on. Which begs the question:…
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Daniel Swain quoted in The Guardian — ‘Fire weather’: dangerous days now far more common in US west, study finds
The hot, dry, and windy weather conditions fueling the huge wildfires that have besieged the western US this summer have increased in frequency over the past 50 years, a new…
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Daniel Swain in The New York Times: Lake Tahoe Suffocates With Smoke
With a fast-expanding wildfire roaring just one ridge away from the Tahoe basin, residents were in flight this week from smoke so toxic and thick that it spiked past the…
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Daniel Swain in Bloomberg: Life-Threatening’ Rain Targeting New Orleans Has Climate Link
The kind of ‘life-threatening’ rainfall that could flood New Orleans from Hurricane Ida likely has a link to climate change. “Any given hurricane today is holding more water and producing more precipitation…
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Daniel Swain weighs in on Hurricane Ida in Forbes
UCLA weather expert atmospheric scientist Daniel Swain astutely tweets, “50 – 100 mile jog to the right/east from the current ensemble mean track centerline would bring Ida right over the warmest part…
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Yifang Zhu in Daily Bruin: UC system maintains first-place ranking nationally in green power use
Yifang Zhu, an environmental health sciences professor, explained there are numerous opportunities for UCLA to become more sustainable, such as collaborating with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power…
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Jared Diamond: Covid-19 made people realize global problems for the first time
Covid-19 can help us make global decisions to solve mankind’s greatest problems, chiefly climate change, social inequality, and unsustainable use of natural resources, said Jared Diamond, biologist & professor at…
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Courtney Cox honoring UCLA IoES with a special performance for its October gala
The actress filmed a video during a rehearsal with musicians Natasha Bedingfield and Rod Castro for a special performance on October 13 in honor of UCLA’s Institute of the Environment…
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Alex Hall in The Los Angeles Times: California faces unprecedented dangers as record heat, dryness combine with fierce winds
To Alex Hall, director of the UCLA Center for Climate Science, and others, the wildfire conditions this year underscore how the changing climate is fundamentally altering the dynamics of fighting…
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Ted Parson in MIT Technology Review: How the world already prevented far worse warming this century
The landmark, ozone-addressing Montreal Protocol is an example of countries coming together to tackle a massive environmental problem. Distinguished professor Ted Parson discusses with MIT Technology Review the lessons learned…
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Daniel Swain in Newsweek: California’s Dixie Fire Grows to Over 568K Acres as Triple Digit Temperatures Are Expected
“It’s very unlikely that this fire will be contained before the winter rains and snows arrive,” Swain previously told Newsweek, “and that has been the case really ever since this fire made…
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Edward Parson in the Los Angeles Times: The new report on climate change is dire. What can I do about it?
“One of the most important things that individual citizens can do is for themselves to understand the problem & support … candidates for political office who understand the severity of…
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Daniel Swain in Newsweek: When Will The Dixie Fire Be Contained? Wildfire Could Burn Until Winter Rain Arrives
“It’s very unlikely that this fire will be contained before the winter rains and snows arrive,” UCLA climate scientist Swain added, “and that has been the case really ever since…
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Deepak Rajogopal in Storage Café: Best Metros for Electric Cars
IoES Professor Deepak Rajagopal weighs in for Storage Cafe: in order for EVs to be successful, we must make sure cities – including multifamily units – have charging infrastructure &…
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Daniel Swain in Salon: The Dixie Fire is moving too fast for California’s emergency alert systems
Even though California has been bracing itself for a potentially devastating fire season by spending hundreds of millions of dollars on prevention measures, some experts say the state hasn’t invested enough in…
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Daniel Swain in Grist: The best-case climate scenario is going to be extremely hard
On Monday, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report that makes it unequivocally clear that human beings have locked in a measure of warming for the planet that…
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Christa Hasenkopf Interview for Berkely Earth: How can a $10 million dollar investment help address global air inequality?
In the second episode of Berkeley Earth’s podcast “Data Points,” they speak with atmospheric scientist, and air quality open-data advocate Dr. Christa Hasenkopf from UCLA’s Institute of Environment and Sustainability…
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Daniel Swain weighs in for Grist: The Dixie Fire is moving too fast for California’s emergency alert systems
Even though California has been bracing itself for a potentially devastating fire season by spending hundreds of millions of dollars on prevention measures, some experts say the state hasn’t invested enough…
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Alan Barreca in The Los Angeles Times: Northwest heat wave swamped the vulnerable, was a harsh climate wake-up call
“The really important and complex point is that places that are already hot — and are going to get hotter — are already adapted. They have air conditioning and they…
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Alex Hall in NPR: In California, 1 State Is Seeing 2 Drastically Different Responses To The Drought
Every corner of California is in drought, and it’s playing out very differently in two of the largest metropolitan areas – San Jose and Los Angeles. Climate change is affecting…
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Dennis Lettenmaier in The Guardian — West Nile virus: another alarming side effect of US drought
A growing body of research shows that the West Nile virus can thrive in drought conditions in the American West. According to UCLA scientist Dennis Lettenmaier, tools to combat the…
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Rebecca Shipe in the Daily Bruin: UCLA researchers to study effects of wastewater spill in Santa Monica Bay
UCLA researchers tested water for environmental hazards affecting ocean life following a recent sewage spill in the Santa Monica bay. The 17 million gallons of sewage spewed from the emergency-use…
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Alex Hall Quoted in The New York Times: A Crucial System of Ocean Currents Is Faltering, Research Suggests
Alex Hall, the director of the Center for Climate Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved in the study, said that although the findings did…
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Gregory Okin in Popular Science: How to lower your dog or cat’s carbon pawprint
“I like dogs and cats, and I’m definitely not recommending that people get rid of their pets or put them on a vegetarian diet, which would be unhealthy,” UCLA geography…
