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Alexandra Tempus @tempus_flies

Writing a book on America's Great Climate Migration for @StMartinsPress. 3x climate reporting fellow. Midwesterner in California.

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Alexandra Tempus@tempus_flies
5 Mar 2021
Professional news/personal dream: I’m writing a book for @StMartinsPress on America’s Great Climate Migration. If you or people you know have been uprooted by the impacts of climate change, reach out—I want to hear your story.
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As climate reparations talk grows louder going into #COP27, I'm glad to share my convo with @OlufemiOTaiwo: “What I hope is becoming clearer is that you actually can’t buy a new ecology, and people at the individual or household level can’t buy levees.” progressive.org/magazine/rep…

Reparations as a Construction Project

An interview with philosopher Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on his climate justice-centered framework for ‘remaking the world.’

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Watch us tear apart this terrible idea! Virtual! Thursday!
Nick Penzenstadler@npenzenstadler
12 Sep 2022
Saw @tempus_flies previewing upcoming CapTimes fest talk on WI being a "Climate Change Haven" and thought about it... then today Milwaukee got told not to use too much water because we pumped a bunch of sewage into the lake bit.ly/3DhCnxa
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Often politically abandoned, U.S. communities hit by climate disaster are turning to their own neighbors with a revolutionary question: should we move? @landpolicy, I profiled Climigration Network, where locals are co-creating their own paths to safety: lincolninst.edu/publications…
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In a landlocked corner of my home state, half a dozen villages have moved or are moving out of their floodplains. It's an entire region bravely rethinking where we live in the face of climate change, and I am honored to document it for @theprogressive. progressive.org/magazine/fin…
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@RobMooreNRDC
26 Oct 2021
Another cite! "Further, in January 2021, @NRDC and the @floodsorg jointly petitioned FEMA to amend its regulations implementing the NFIP to account for future conditions and climate change in FIRMs and minimum federal floodplain management standards." @joelscataNRDC
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Where climate mitigation and adaptation collide: Manchin's extended kin in Farmington. “These last few years here in West Virginia, we’ve had unbelievable amounts of rain,” Mr. Hall said. “We’ve seriously considered not staying.” nytimes.com/2021/10/17/clima…

As Manchin Blocks Climate Plan, His State Can’t Hold Back Floods (Published 2021)

As the senator thwarts Democrats’ major push to reduce warming, new data shows West Virginia is more exposed to worsening floods than anywhere else in the country.

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A stunning and haunting piece that really sees the people at its center and exposes the grief and indignity baked into the ways we deal with displacement. There is more of this horror in store if we don't build new systems to adapt washingtonpost.com/nation/20…

The last days inside Trailer 83

As climate disasters increase, a last-gasp FEMA camp for wildfire survivors tests the government’s obligations to the displaced.

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From @paragkhanna & @ClimateComms: "We must shift from coastal to inland, from low to high elevation, and from resource-depleted to resource-rich areas—and we must do so sustainably..." scientificamerican.com/artic…

America's Next Great Migrations Are Driven by Climate Change

Too many people are moving to the wrong places

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"[Insurance] nonrenewal increased by a staggering 203 percent from 2018 to 2019. This leaves people w/ few options: Use the state insurance program...which is extremely expensive and not very comprehensive; move out; or stay without insurance." grist.org/burning-issue/the-…

The wildfire housing crisis

For the third year in a row, California temporarily banned insurance companies from dropping homeowners and renters in several California counties affected by fires.

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“We can’t keep approving projects in remote locations, in wildlands, in high-fire risk areas that have high greenhouse gas emissions. We’re in another world now.” sandiegouniontribune.com/new…

Judge strikes down envisioned Otay Ranch housing project, citing wildfire, climate change

The Sierra Club and a host of other environmental groups, backed by the California attorney general, have notched their latest victory against a spate of rural housing developments proposed in...

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In light of FEMA requesting public input on new floodplain management standards that will make communities more resilient, a reminder: FEMA regularly changes its flood maps at the the request of developers. My story from last year: texasstandard.org/stories/pr…

Presto Chango: How Flood Map Revisions Allow Building In Risky Areas

A Houston neighborhood that was built on former flood plane land experienced significant flooding during Hurricane Harvey.

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“In the past, what everybody tried to do was build a Great Wall of China around whatever they owned....But for other people, it doesn’t work at all,” since it sends more water downstream, said Phil Stang, mayor of Kimmswick, Mo. wsj.com/articles/as-mississi…

As Mississippi River Flooding Gets Worse, 100 Mayors Try a New Fix

River cities partner with hunting group and others to store water in natural areas, potentially reducing by 10% the chances of a levee overtopping.

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Cultures which see themselves as part of the land, and not outside of it, hold the keys to saving ourselves. #IndigenousPeoplesDay grist.org/protest/indigenous…

Study: Indigenous resistance has staved off 25% of U.S. and Canada's annual emissions

A new study shows indigenous resistance cut emissions by at least 25%.

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I’ll be at @ANHDNYC’s Fight Forward conference, moderating their panel on climate change and housing this Wednesday, Oct. 6! Excited to be in conversation with people doing this critical work on the ground, sharing how they #BuildCommunityPower. Join us! anhd.org/events/2021-annual-…
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Association of State Floodplain Managers@FloodsOrg
29 Sep 2021
Climate change is 'a freight train' making some places too dangerous to live in, experts say: money.yahoo.com/climate-chan… @cberginnis and @sidersadapts among those interviewed by @eweise for this @USATODAY article.
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"Without clear fed guidelines or industry standards each institution is developing its own method. The inconsistency could create an uneven playing field where major institutions continue to support housing investment in the path of climate change’s wrath."grist.org/housing/housing-ma…

Even U.S. bankers are getting anxious about climate change

The mortgage industry is sounding the alarm on climate risks.

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"Carl, who is 28 and has cerebral palsy, struggled through the sweltering nights, and Hollins worried that the 100-degree heat index would trigger one of his seizures....'He has got to get out of this house,' she told herself." npr.org/2021/09/22/103911052…

Entergy Resisted Upgrading New Orleans' Power Grid. Residents Paid The Price

Entergy failed to rebuild a stronger system after hurricanes repeatedly damaged its electric grid. Then Hurricane Ida knocked out power for more than a week in the middle of a heat wave.

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"[Charleston] has turned mainly to the concept that homes and businesses need to be concentrated in the highest possible areas, or an elevation-based zoning that could prove a national model for how to grow in the face of climate change." postandcourier.com/rising-wa…

Charleston's dilemma: How to fix a housing crunch without building in places that flood

Charleston needs more housing. It also needs to make sure those homes don't flood in the future. The question, then, is where to put them?

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"It is important to emphasise that most climate displacement will be internal, because a huge industry is mushrooming around the notion, favoured by the ignorant, that there will be hordes of climate migrants clamouring at the borders of the global north." Maeve gets it:
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I’ll be on CNN tonight at 6:35 pm EST talking America’s Great Climate Migration, and how we might rise to meet its challenge. Tune in if you can!
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