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WE NEED TO LEARN HOW TO LIVE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE AND PREPARE FOR A CHANGED CLIMATE FUTURE. CK: Fire mitigation is a social welfare issue and should not be driven by a profit motive, but rather is a broader public good issue. This applies to land, forestry, building and energy management. We are talking about […]

SPEND MONEY ON FIRE MITIGATION RATHER THAN FIRE SUPPRESSION. CK: When we talk about all these different solutions, what we have had as a sort of status quo is that we are putting all of our funding into fire suppression. There has been no recognition that we are basically burning money when we do this. […]

LET’S BUILD OUR HOUSES IN A WAY THAT THEY ARE LESS FLAMMABLE. CALIFORNIA IS LEADING THE NATION IN THIS. CK: An area [of fire mitigation] we look closely at is home hardening. This means building our houses in a way that they are less flammable. California is leading the nation in this. We are the […]

In December of 2007, a newly created California State Agency, the Sierra Nevada Conservancy presented a Climate Change Symposium in Nevada City. Dan Cayan, of Scripps Institute of Oceanography/US Geological Survey, set the tone for the day with his keynote presentation of charts showing climate change impacts on various regions in the U.S. In a […]