The Carr Fire, along with California's 2018 Camp Fire, “ended any delusion that humans could keep Mother Nature in check,” according to an Op-ed by Jeffrey Ball, scholar-in-residence at Stanford’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance and a lecturer at Stanford Law School.
According to Katharine Mach, “carbon stored in the biosphere is at risk if we don’t simultaneously get energy, industry, and transport emissions in check.”
“We hope to create a real ‘motion picture’ of the Bay Area over the last century to millennium,” says Liz Hadly on an investigation into a potential new epoch of geological time.
Negative framing of climate change “can be effective in terms of making people aware of the risk, but it’s not necessarily effective in terms of motivating change,” Gabrielle Wong-Parodi said in a July 31 panel.
“It seems...that Californians strongly recognize that climate change is not just about what’s happening to the average thermostat on planet Earth, but it’s really something [that] is driving up across complex hazards,” Katharine Mach says.
Mark Zoback and Jens‐Erik Lund Snee find that wastewater injection from oil and gas operations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area makes faults much more likely to slip.
“The growing environment is likely to be different 30 years from now in different regions,” says Noah Diffenbaugh. “But it’s an open question how growers and vintners respond to that.”
According to geophysics professor Bill Ellsworth, recent Bay Area earthquakes are on the same fault that caused a 5.8 earthquake in Livermore in the 1980s.
"The general public knows a lot about the actual Moon landing but not much more about its scientific importance," professor Sonia Tikoo-Schantz says in the context of how the Apollo 11 mission has shaped our understanding of the Moon and Earth.
“The main theme from the study is that we should avoid warming on the high end and do everything possible to meet the targets of the Paris Climate Agreement,” says Chris Field.
Geophysicists Greg Beroza, Bill Ellsworth and Simon Klemperer comment on recent earthquakes. “We expect more earthquakes in the next 20 years than in the past 20 years,” Klemperer says.
“To guarantee 100 percent emissions reductions from renewable energy, power consumption needs to be matched with renewable generation on an hourly basis,” Sally Benson says.
“This fault was what we call critically stressed – only a small change in conditions could cause that fault to move, which is ultimately what happened,” says Bill Ellsworth in the context of the 2017 Pohang earthquake.
