Guillaume Mauger

One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”

“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath

Some costs aren’t costs.

New paper from my @cig-uw.bsky.social colleagues on the importance of direct funding to community-led organizations to advance their own resilience priorities.

This case study is based on a small-grants program run by the NW Climate Resilience Collaborative, which was terminated by NOAA in May.

If you haven't registered for this free webinar, it's not too late! Wed (11/5), 2 pm PT.

It’s never been more important for the public to understand the value of our science and the threats facing it. The media offers scientists a megaphone for doing this. Come learn how to use it effectively. 📣🧪👇🏼

Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.

For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.

There's still time to register! Join me and @guillaume-mauger.bsky.social tomorrow at 1pm PT to take stock of federal and regional resources for informing climate adaptation in the Northwest.

Unprecedented water rationing to begin in WA’s Yakima Basin Reservoirs in the Yakima River Basin are expected to run out of water early next week.

Washington's drought is so bad state officials are turning off the water for an entire river basin.

I called an irrigator to talk about it and he said the cuts don't affect him. That's because he already ran out of water last month. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

🏜️ Let’s talk #drought…

After a “summer of flooding” in many U.S. locations, the last 2 months have seen the tap shut off for a large portion of the country:
⬆️ 25% increase in abnormally dry areas
⬆️ 12% rise in drought (D1–D4)
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Our Climate Future Webinars | Climate Impacts Group A CIG Webinar SeriesWe’re building a just and resilient world where people and nature thrive in a changing climate. This new webinar series will expand access to 30 years of research, data, and tools,...

For folks in the NW concerned about continued availability of federal climate tools and resources, come join our webinar:

Taking stock of available resources for understanding and responding to climate risks in Washington and the Northwest.

*New date & time: Oct 16, 1pm PT.

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A dark day for Northwest journalism: @cascadepbs.bsky.social is axing the @cascadepbsnewsroom.bsky.social, laying off 17 people, per internal memo obtained by @kuow.org.

Cascade PBS got ~10% of its budget from Corp. for Public Broadcasting. Unclear why its whole newsroom had to be axed.

Our Climate Future Webinars | Climate Impacts Group A CIG Webinar SeriesWe’re building a just and resilient world where people and nature thrive in a changing climate. This new webinar series will expand access to 30 years of research, data, and tools,...

For folks in the NW concerned about continued availability of federal climate tools and resources, check out my webinar next week w/ @guillaume-mauger.bsky.social:

Taking stock of available resources for understanding and responding to climate risks in Washington and the Northwest.

Register here 👇

Too Hot to Handle? Managing the Ecological Impacts of Extreme Heat in the Northwest. Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center. 2025 Deep Dive. Planning Committee: NW Climate Adaptation Science Center, UW Climate Impacts Group, US Geological Survey, WA Dept of Fish and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Squaxin Island Tribe, Portland State University.

The NW Climate Adaptation Science Center recently convened 100 scientists & managers to synthesize what's known and unknown about the ecological impacts of the 2021 PNW heat wave, and what can be done to manage risks from extreme heat events.

Products now available! 👇 nwcasc.uw.edu/programs/act...

Sharing without clicking on news in social media - Nature Human Behaviour Over 75% of links to news shared on Facebook during the election seasons of 2017–2020 were forwarded without the sharer first clicking on them. Extreme and user-aligned political content was shared mo...

Three quarters of the news stories studied were shared without clicking and reading the article - something I’m guilty of myself all too often. But it’s not good practice!

“virality of political content on social media (including misinfo) is driven by superficial processing of headlines and blurbs”

Me too! A good reminder to slow down and be mindful.

black car with a red x and a bright yellow car with a green check mark. It's getting dark out earlier, be sure to add a bright coat of paint to your vehicle. Remember road safety is a shared responsibility.

Shared Responsibility.

@thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

Still wrapping my head around the fact they did this while we were under a red flag warning - gusty winds and low humidity meant firefighting crews were especially needed and facing higher fire danger that day.

Floodlines The story of an unnatural disaster. Hosted by Vann R. Newkirk II.

On the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina I listened to the truly excellent podcast "Floodlines". It can sometimes be hard to really understand what it feels like to experience a natural disaster. This podcast does it, without shying away from the hard truths. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/flo...

Bainbridge Island Council Pushes to Downsize Affordable Housing Project » The Urbanist # All but one councilmember asked the Low Income Housing Institute to come back with a design that eliminates around a quarter of the planned units, after intense criticism of the height and parking r...

NEW STORY // Bainbridge Island Council Pushes to Downsize Affordable Housing Project
www.theurbanist.org/2025/08/22/b...

Bicycles Deliver The Freedom That Auto Ads Promise.

Source Footage Via:
@lukebornheimer.com @streetsforward.org @sfbikebus.com

As we watch the public radio ecosystem start to crater, I’ve been thinking about Eric Klinenberg’s prescient 2002 book Fighting For Air, a warning of what’s to come…

In a democracy, government employees can voice respectful dissent to their leadership. But today, EPA leadership retaliated against its own employees for expressing disagreement w/ the admin’s actions & policy directions. Punishing gov't employees for this expression is an alarming development. 🧵

Republicans’ ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Not So Beautiful for the Climate Four research firms project that the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act will raise greenhouse gas emissions and likely put U.S. and global climate goals out of reach

Not least among the many potential harms in this legislation, both the Senate and House versions of the bill "would imperil global goals of limiting temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius since the Industrial Revolution, the target laid out in the Paris Climate Agreement."

Washington Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Funding for Tribes (WA-CRAFT) | Climate Impacts Group The UW Climate Impacts Group has launched a small-grants program to support Washington coastal Tribes in building resilience to climate change. This initiative is a direct response to feedback gathere...

Please share! The UW Climate Impacts Group is launching a small-grants program supporting the climate resilience efforts of Washington coastal Tribes. Application period now open - apply here:

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030.

Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.

GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.

This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.

www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

Here's a gift link to the piece about how the world's richest man decided to kill the world's poorest children. wapo.st/3GjK8qn

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.

Our final updates have been posted to the Climate.gov website, and this will be our final post to our social media channels.

I’m choked up seeing this—it’s shameful.

Iranian refugees got snatched by “immigration agents” dressed like bounty hunters in West LA’s Sawtelle neighborhood.

We’re really about to send them back to a country we just bombed? A regime known for jailing, torturing, and killing its own people?

as the bombs tick
#KeepTellingofGaza #GazaGenocide