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Another recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1998214/california-and-denmark-sign-comprehensive-agreement-on-climate-and-tech\">deal will bring Danish flood management expertise to California’s delta region\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12060700 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251016-DUBAICHOCOLATES-09-BL-KQED.jpg']Experts said agreements like these aren’t new, but they are more visible given the vacuum of federal climate leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom is not the only U.S. governor attending the conference or \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.org/cop30-local-leaders-forum/\">meetings\u003c/a> happening around the formal event. 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"content": "\u003cp>Srivathsan Ramanujam loves looking up at the sky from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sunnyvale\">Sunnyvale\u003c/a> Baylands Park and watching plane after plane soar overhead. The protected \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1998966/rising-tides-drive-a-bay-area-push-to-bring-back-vanished-marshlands\">wetland\u003c/a>, which spans more than 100 acres, served as his most beloved childhood playground. As a kid, he enjoyed spotting red-tailed hawks soaring overhead and shorebirds skittering along the multicolored salt ponds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to come out here and even eat the local pickleweed, which I insisted tastes like French fries,” Ramanujam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the 17-year-old is a self-proclaimed outdoors and aviation nerd. His passion began during the pandemic, when Ramanujam’s dad bought him his first drone with a high-definition camera to keep him occupied and to get him outside. After learning how to fly it in his backyard, he eventually purchased a second drone and began exploring the nearby marshes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just so addictive,” Ramanujam said. “Wetlands are the first thing you see when you land in the Bay Area. The beautiful colors, red, pink, green.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s worried that rising sea levels, driven by human-caused climate change, could swallow the baylands he loves so dearly. Climate scientists predict that melting ice caps and expanding ocean waters could cause the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997729/oysters-snails-and-a-wall-that-protects-against-climate-change-one-tile-at-a-time\">seas to rise\u003c/a> anywhere between a foot by 2050 and more than six feet by the end of the century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of drowning in fear, Ramanujam channeled his love for the bay into mapping more than 1,000 acres of wetlands across the South Bay. More than 80% of the Bay Area’s tidal wetlands were destroyed in the 19th and 20th centuries, and he wants to help decision-makers better understand what’s left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1998766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998766\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-14-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Srivathsan Ramanujam holds his drone at Sunnyvale Baylands Park in Sunnyvale on Oct. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On weekends and after school, Ramanujam sends his drones soaring over the marsh, allowing him to create high-definition maps, photos and videos that track elevation, erosion and plant health. He would like to show how the area has changed over time and identify the marshland areas most vulnerable to future flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many evenings, the Archbishop Mitty High School senior can be found at his computer, sorting through data and layering thousands of images to create maps that he publishes on his website and in videos on his YouTube channel. He convinced a few of his friends to help present his work to the City of Fremont’s Environmental Sustainability Commission back in June and to the Bay Conservation Development Commission in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is also partnering with researchers from San Jose State to map how coastal erosion is affecting underserved communities in the Monterey Bay region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1998762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998762\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-04-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Srivathsan Ramanujam flies his drone at Sunnyvale Baylands Park in Sunnyvale on Oct. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I hope these maps encourage youth to come into this field and try to save their backyard,” Ramanujam said. “I want the next generation to be able to enjoy it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramanujam presented his latest findings at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfestuary.org/state-of-the-estuary-conference/\">State of the San Francisco Estuary Conference\u003c/a> this week. He wants to encourage leaders to accelerate efforts to restore the Bay Area’s historic waterfront to “its original glory.” He believes his maps will help researchers as data becomes harder to find due to recent federal cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liv Juvera, an environmental planner with the San Francisco Estuary Partnership, said she was excited to receive Ramanujam’s request to present a research poster at the conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had not heard directly from a high schooler before who was so eager to present,” Juvera said. “Him being so tenacious and eager to invest in conservation and restoration of the estuary through his work is singular.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1998763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998763\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-05-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Srivathsan Ramanujam flies his drone at Sunnyvale Baylands Park in Sunnyvale on Oct. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Juvera said he could help planners better understand how to meet the regional goal of eventually restoring 100,000 acres of tidal marsh. Today, the Bay Area has met over half its goal. Ramanujam’s research can provide “tangential” insight into how to make communities “more resilient to sea level rise and by proxy flood risk reduction,” Juvera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Ramanujam was the only high schooler who presented a poster at the conference, she said other young people shared ideas, panels, sessions and research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hopes more young people will work to protect and restore San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more youth that get engaged in taking care of the estuary, the better,” Juvera said. “It’s exciting to see people who still want to do good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Srivathsan Ramanujam loves looking up at the sky from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sunnyvale\">Sunnyvale\u003c/a> Baylands Park and watching plane after plane soar overhead. The protected \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1998966/rising-tides-drive-a-bay-area-push-to-bring-back-vanished-marshlands\">wetland\u003c/a>, which spans more than 100 acres, served as his most beloved childhood playground. As a kid, he enjoyed spotting red-tailed hawks soaring overhead and shorebirds skittering along the multicolored salt ponds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to come out here and even eat the local pickleweed, which I insisted tastes like French fries,” Ramanujam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the 17-year-old is a self-proclaimed outdoors and aviation nerd. His passion began during the pandemic, when Ramanujam’s dad bought him his first drone with a high-definition camera to keep him occupied and to get him outside. After learning how to fly it in his backyard, he eventually purchased a second drone and began exploring the nearby marshes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just so addictive,” Ramanujam said. “Wetlands are the first thing you see when you land in the Bay Area. The beautiful colors, red, pink, green.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s worried that rising sea levels, driven by human-caused climate change, could swallow the baylands he loves so dearly. Climate scientists predict that melting ice caps and expanding ocean waters could cause the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997729/oysters-snails-and-a-wall-that-protects-against-climate-change-one-tile-at-a-time\">seas to rise\u003c/a> anywhere between a foot by 2050 and more than six feet by the end of the century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of drowning in fear, Ramanujam channeled his love for the bay into mapping more than 1,000 acres of wetlands across the South Bay. More than 80% of the Bay Area’s tidal wetlands were destroyed in the 19th and 20th centuries, and he wants to help decision-makers better understand what’s left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1998766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998766\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-14-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Srivathsan Ramanujam holds his drone at Sunnyvale Baylands Park in Sunnyvale on Oct. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On weekends and after school, Ramanujam sends his drones soaring over the marsh, allowing him to create high-definition maps, photos and videos that track elevation, erosion and plant health. He would like to show how the area has changed over time and identify the marshland areas most vulnerable to future flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many evenings, the Archbishop Mitty High School senior can be found at his computer, sorting through data and layering thousands of images to create maps that he publishes on his website and in videos on his YouTube channel. He convinced a few of his friends to help present his work to the City of Fremont’s Environmental Sustainability Commission back in June and to the Bay Conservation Development Commission in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is also partnering with researchers from San Jose State to map how coastal erosion is affecting underserved communities in the Monterey Bay region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1998762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998762\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-04-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Srivathsan Ramanujam flies his drone at Sunnyvale Baylands Park in Sunnyvale on Oct. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I hope these maps encourage youth to come into this field and try to save their backyard,” Ramanujam said. “I want the next generation to be able to enjoy it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramanujam presented his latest findings at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfestuary.org/state-of-the-estuary-conference/\">State of the San Francisco Estuary Conference\u003c/a> this week. He wants to encourage leaders to accelerate efforts to restore the Bay Area’s historic waterfront to “its original glory.” He believes his maps will help researchers as data becomes harder to find due to recent federal cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liv Juvera, an environmental planner with the San Francisco Estuary Partnership, said she was excited to receive Ramanujam’s request to present a research poster at the conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had not heard directly from a high schooler before who was so eager to present,” Juvera said. “Him being so tenacious and eager to invest in conservation and restoration of the estuary through his work is singular.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1998763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998763\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-05-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/10/251008-DRONEMARSH-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Srivathsan Ramanujam flies his drone at Sunnyvale Baylands Park in Sunnyvale on Oct. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Juvera said he could help planners better understand how to meet the regional goal of eventually restoring 100,000 acres of tidal marsh. Today, the Bay Area has met over half its goal. Ramanujam’s research can provide “tangential” insight into how to make communities “more resilient to sea level rise and by proxy flood risk reduction,” Juvera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Ramanujam was the only high schooler who presented a poster at the conference, she said other young people shared ideas, panels, sessions and research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hopes more young people will work to protect and restore San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more youth that get engaged in taking care of the estuary, the better,” Juvera said. “It’s exciting to see people who still want to do good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Glaciers in California’s mountains are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/3284/californias-vanishing-glaciers-a-defining-moment\">disappearing fast and will likely be gone\u003c/a> by the end of the century. Geologists found that these glaciers have been in place since before humans came to the Americas. This means there is no precedent in the last 20,000 years for their disappearance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new research challenges a previous assumption that California’s glaciers had waxed and waned into disappearance since the end of the last glacial period, offering a new understanding of their history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glaciers offer a touchstone — something we can literally hike to and touch — providing a link between our past and present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason this work is important is because climate change feels abstract and nebulous,” said Andrew Jones, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lead author on a study\u003ca href=\"https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx9442\"> published Wednesday in \u003cem>Science Advances\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “You hear about two degrees Celsius of warming. To most people, that’s just an imperceivable difference on their home thermostat. But our findings here are tangible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To accompany the paper, Jones and his co-authors released comparative photographs showing before and after pictures. For instance, in the late 1880s, when John Muir was studying glacial flow with wooden stakes, the East Lyell Glacier in Yosemite covered a broad sweep of the mountainside. Today, it is just a few blobs clinging on in the hollows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1998701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250930-MACLURE-GLACIER-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998701\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250930-MACLURE-GLACIER-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250930-MACLURE-GLACIER-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250930-MACLURE-GLACIER-01-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250930-MACLURE-GLACIER-01-KQED-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250930-MACLURE-GLACIER-01-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maclure Glacier in Yosemite National Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Andrew Jones)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This glacier will be familiar to anyone who has hiked south from Tuolumne Meadows toward Donahue Pass. Backpackers who love the Sierra Nevada may be likewise familiar with other glaciers evaluated by the research team: Maclure, Conness and Palisade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers, however, had to access these glaciers without the benefit of trails. The fieldwork was grueling, Jones admitted with a laugh: “Man, the hiking was really difficult, honestly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research team traversed glacial moraines — large deposits of rock out in front of glaciers — places that had been covered by ice until a few decades ago. From there, they collected samples of bedrock just below glaciers to determine, through isotopes, how long it had been since that rock was last exposed to sunlight. “The [moraines] are very loose, very treacherous. You step on a boulder and it slides,” said Jones. “You’re like, ‘Oh that’s not good.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones also said he had to laugh at the effort he and other members of the research team put into packing ultralight, bare bones gear. They did things like snap toothbrushes in half to save a few ounces, only to then carry out backpacks full of pounds of rock for testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was all the sacrifice of ultralight for none of the benefit,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To determine whether California’s glaciers had disappeared and reemerged since the last glacial maximum, the team used carbon-beryllium isotopes to evaluate those recently exposed rocks. Jones uses a battery analogy to explain. When the ice is gone and rock is exposed, the sun can “charge up” the rock. When the glacier comes back, the charge slowly recedes. But they found no “charge” at all in the glaciers tested in and around Yosemite.[aside postID=science_1992917 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/05/2014-05-12t120000z_163168172_gm1ea5d0e0o01_rtrmadp_3_climatechange-antarctica_wide-dc872b259e838b06facf859b790dcd5ad4af35cf-1020x573.jpg']“That tells us that rock has not seen the light of day for a very, very long time.” They estimate at least 10,000 years, probably 30,000 years. That’s before humans began living on this continent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This finding contrasts with the history of glaciers in the Swiss Alps, which have expanded, shrunk, expanded, and then, with global heating, begun to shrink again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the glaciers in the Sierra Nevada have shrunk so much that they no longer flow or move, which geologists consider “alive.” A slow slide downhill is a hallmark of normal glacial behavior — and it results in beautiful glacial carving of rock — but to do that, it has to be of a certain thickness. Many of California’s glaciers are now too small and thin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Sierra Nevada glaciers are all gone, as projected in 2100, the generation of kids living now will be the first humans ever to see the rocks below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glacial loss feels like emotional loss for many who love the mountains. But here, amid the sadness, there is room for perspective and hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain glaciers are more sensitive to climate signals than other indicators, like the polar ice sheets. Changing the trend of an ice sheet is a huge undertaking — like turning a colossal ship. A glacier, like Lyell, is comparatively a small boat — one that can turn quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our decisions really do matter in how many glaciers survive,” Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we succeed in bringing down the concentration of warming gases in our atmosphere closer to levels we saw in the late 1980s (350 parts per million), glaciers globally would have a good shot at stabilizing, perhaps even starting to grow again. Just as their loss has heralded a heating planet, one that is suffering as if from a fever, their reappearance one day could be an early signal of a planet returning to health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>California embarked on a new phase of climate leadership on Friday, as Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055461/california-lawmakers-reach-last-minute-deals-on-climate-energy\">package of bills\u003c/a> aimed at charting the state’s course through a perilous energy transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation includes an extension of California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053867/affordability-concerns-at-center-of-cap-and-trade-renewal-debate\">marquee program\u003c/a> to reduce pollution from refineries and power plants, reaffirming the state’s commitment to limit planet-warming emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But changes to that cap-and-trade program — and accompanying bills on electricity and fuel supply — reflect a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055786/energy-climate-and-ai-regulation-take-center-stage-in-sacramento\">struggle\u003c/a> by lawmakers to manage both the impacts of climate change and the move away from fossil fuels, which each threaten to drive up energy costs for residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to effectively transition,” Newsom said before signing the bills at the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. “This is not an ideological endeavor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in the practical application business,” he said. “We have got to manifest our ideals and our goals. And so this lays it out, but it lays it out without laying tracks over folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has reached a unique moment, state leaders and analysts argue. The state is far enough along in its transition away from fossil fuels that it needs to maintain two energy delivery systems at once: oil and gas on one side and electricity built on carbon-free energy on the other. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023129/how-climate-change-complicating-california-democrats-affordability-agenda\">juggling act\u003c/a> is costly, messy, and requires intentional planning and often unsavory compromises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1927246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1927246\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-71394652-e1758301123123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A truck carries a shipping container past an oil refinery at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles on July 6, 2006, in Long Beach, California. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state of limbo, which will likely last decades in California, has been labeled “\u003ca href=\"https://emilygrubert.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Grubert-and-Hastings-Simon-2022-Designing-the-mid-transition-A-review-of-medium-t.pdf\">mid-transition\u003c/a>” by Emily Grubert, a sustainable energy researcher at the University of Notre Dame. Grubert said California is among the first places “actually dealing with many of these questions of managed transition” away from fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How the state of California deals with the transition of [oil] refining really is going to inform the way that many, many other transitions occur,” Grubert told lawmakers last month, including how the state will move away from gas and towards electricity for tasks like heating and cooling homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and fellow Democrats faced a bevy of challenges as they \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052825/whats-next-for-californias-landmark-climate-program\">negotiated\u003c/a> the climate package in the waning hours of the legislative year. Voters remain anxious about rising energy costs. Two \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910826/california-considers-more-drilling-and-other-concessions-to-big-oil-as-gas-prices-rise\">refineries\u003c/a>, Phillips 66 in Los Angeles and Valero in Benicia, announced plans to close, threatening a spike in gas prices. And wildfires made more intense by climate change have devastated California communities and driven up insurance and electricity \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027878/california-lawmakers-aim-lower-electricity-bills-but-theyll-face-tough-choices\">costs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Balancing acts, political compromises\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The five bills Newsom signed on Friday reflect the delicate balancing act facing lawmakers during this transitory period. The agreements brought both wins and losses for the state’s powerful utilities and oil and gas companies — and left many environmental justice advocates frustrated over the lack of emphasis on reducing local air pollution in low-income communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had five huge planes all circling, and we had to make sure they didn’t crash into each other,” said Sen. Josh Becker, a Democrat representing the Peninsula. “Really, the feeling was they were all going to land or none of them were going to land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1971419\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1971419\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/12/RS46184_GettyImages-2823144-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1283\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/12/RS46184_GettyImages-2823144-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/12/RS46184_GettyImages-2823144-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/12/RS46184_GettyImages-2823144-qut-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/12/RS46184_GettyImages-2823144-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/12/RS46184_GettyImages-2823144-qut-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/12/RS46184_GettyImages-2823144-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wilmington ARCO refinery is seen before dawn on Dec. 19, 2003, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under Assembly Bill 1207, companies will face more strict pollution limits each year until 2045 — that’s the “cap” in the renamed Cap-and-Invest program. State regulators will more closely monitor the financial help oil companies get to follow the program’s rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the most important U.S. climate policy for the foreseeable future,” said Kyle Meng, a professor at UC Santa Barbara. “In the absence of any climate action from D.C., for California to signal this commitment for two decades, that’s a really big deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a separate bill, Senate Bill 237, eases regulations on oil drilling in Kern County and gives the governor new powers to loosen clean fuel standards if gas prices spike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compromise is an attempt to appease both environmental advocates and oil companies and address the upcoming \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036695/shocking-news-valero-announces-plans-to-end-operations-at-benicia-refinery\">refinery closures\u003c/a>. The state’s demand for gas has consistently declined in recent years, peaking in 2017, according to California Energy Commission data. But supply of both crude and refined oil from California is dropping far faster, leaving a yawning gap that is concerning to state leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to legislative concessions, the Energy Commission voted last month to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/oil-gas-newsom-profits-prices-california-435d63922284a93130c40bac9558f093\">delay\u003c/a> capping oil company profits until at least 2030 — an about-face from two years earlier, when Newsom called a special session that resulted in that very law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taken all together, the package of bills and policy changes is by no means a reversal of the state’s aggressive plan to wean itself off of fossil fuels. But the course correction showed that some leading Democrats are worried that the pace of its transition was too rapid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I probably voted for every bill that went through the legislature to get us off of fossil fuels,” said Lorena Gonzalez, a former Assembly member, while speaking at a Public Policy Institute of California conference last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was very much and am very supportive of a transition to a new energy economy,” said Gonzalez, who is now president of the California Labor Federation. “That being said, the legislature, myself included, rushed this idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Real-time policy for real-time problems\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 254 adds $18 billion to the state’s Wildfire Fund, which utilities can tap into to stave off bankruptcy if their equipment has been found to spark a wildfire. With Southern California Edison facing potential exposure from the Eaton Fire, lawmakers leveraged the desire from utilities to replenish the fund to include reforms that aim to lower electricity rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley professor Meredith Fowlie said Senate Bill 254 is an example of California acting as a laboratory for policies to make electricity more affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1995288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1995288\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/12/84004858_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/12/84004858_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/12/84004858_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/12/84004858_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/12/84004858_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/12/84004858_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/12/84004858_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/12/84004858_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Department of Water and Power (DWP) San Fernando Valley Generating Station on Dec. 11, 2008, in Sun Valley, California. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of this policy is being made in real time in response to challenges that are manifesting in real time,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 254 will allow the state to issue bonds to finance the construction of transmission lines at a cheaper price than utilities. The legislation also gives regulators more tools to rein in the money power companies spend to prevent wildfires, a key driver of higher electricity rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new cap-and-invest program will shift the biannual “climate credit” rebate that appears on customers’ bills to the hottest months of the year when Californians are using the most electricity. It will also boost the credit on electric bills by reducing it on gas bills — further incentivizing the energy transition at a household level.[aside postID=news_12056655 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Middlebrook-2-1020x765.jpg']“You’ve got these too-high electricity prices distorting consumer incentives,” Fowlie said. “So when I’m choosing between a heat pump and a natural gas furnace, electricity sure looks expensive. It would be really nice to bring the differences and those prices closer to the true differences in costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some analysts said Newsom and legislative leaders failed to strike the right balance in the climate-energy deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been producing oil for almost 140 years,” said Paasha Mahdavi, an associate professor in political science at UC Santa Barbara. Allowing the companies to drill more in Kern County is like “squeezing a lemon at its dear end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahdavi said the easier-to-reach fuel has already been extracted there, which means companies must rely on techniques that are energy-intensive. This creates significant pollution for nearby communities and the planet overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through his own \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60e06de426582d24ad4e2ab7/t/68bb4c15f1beef2669830de8/1757105173357/Mahdavi+-+Analysis+of+Californias+oil+refineries+amid+declining+demand.pdf\">analysis\u003c/a>, Mahdavi found that gasoline demand could be met by supply from in-state refineries and by imports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahdavi is on the side of a coalition of environmental justice groups that \u003ca href=\"https://mavensnotebook.com/2025/09/11/press-release-ca-environmental-groups-decry-this-year-as-the-states-worst-legislative-year-for-the-environment-and-climate-in-recent-history/\">labeled \u003c/a>the outcome “the worst legislative year for climate and environmental protection in recent memory.” The coalition said the balancing act between climate leadership and consumer prices failed to reduce\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050096/californias-clean-air-program-for-polluted-communities-faces-crossroads\"> local pollution\u003c/a> for Californians who live near hotspots such as refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a real responsibility to ensure that the fourth largest economy in the world, a progressive leader on climate, is really committed to not only climate policies, but ensuring that they’re deployed equitably,” said Asha Sharma, state policy manager with the Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">\u003cem>Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to effectively transition,” Newsom said before signing the bills at the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. “This is not an ideological endeavor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in the practical application business,” he said. “We have got to manifest our ideals and our goals. And so this lays it out, but it lays it out without laying tracks over folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has reached a unique moment, state leaders and analysts argue. The state is far enough along in its transition away from fossil fuels that it needs to maintain two energy delivery systems at once: oil and gas on one side and electricity built on carbon-free energy on the other. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023129/how-climate-change-complicating-california-democrats-affordability-agenda\">juggling act\u003c/a> is costly, messy, and requires intentional planning and often unsavory compromises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1927246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1927246\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/GettyImages-71394652-e1758301123123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A truck carries a shipping container past an oil refinery at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles on July 6, 2006, in Long Beach, California. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state of limbo, which will likely last decades in California, has been labeled “\u003ca href=\"https://emilygrubert.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Grubert-and-Hastings-Simon-2022-Designing-the-mid-transition-A-review-of-medium-t.pdf\">mid-transition\u003c/a>” by Emily Grubert, a sustainable energy researcher at the University of Notre Dame. Grubert said California is among the first places “actually dealing with many of these questions of managed transition” away from fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How the state of California deals with the transition of [oil] refining really is going to inform the way that many, many other transitions occur,” Grubert told lawmakers last month, including how the state will move away from gas and towards electricity for tasks like heating and cooling homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and fellow Democrats faced a bevy of challenges as they \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052825/whats-next-for-californias-landmark-climate-program\">negotiated\u003c/a> the climate package in the waning hours of the legislative year. Voters remain anxious about rising energy costs. Two \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910826/california-considers-more-drilling-and-other-concessions-to-big-oil-as-gas-prices-rise\">refineries\u003c/a>, Phillips 66 in Los Angeles and Valero in Benicia, announced plans to close, threatening a spike in gas prices. And wildfires made more intense by climate change have devastated California communities and driven up insurance and electricity \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027878/california-lawmakers-aim-lower-electricity-bills-but-theyll-face-tough-choices\">costs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Balancing acts, political compromises\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The five bills Newsom signed on Friday reflect the delicate balancing act facing lawmakers during this transitory period. The agreements brought both wins and losses for the state’s powerful utilities and oil and gas companies — and left many environmental justice advocates frustrated over the lack of emphasis on reducing local air pollution in low-income communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had five huge planes all circling, and we had to make sure they didn’t crash into each other,” said Sen. Josh Becker, a Democrat representing the Peninsula. “Really, the feeling was they were all going to land or none of them were going to land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1971419\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1971419\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/12/RS46184_GettyImages-2823144-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1283\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/12/RS46184_GettyImages-2823144-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/12/RS46184_GettyImages-2823144-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/12/RS46184_GettyImages-2823144-qut-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/12/RS46184_GettyImages-2823144-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/12/RS46184_GettyImages-2823144-qut-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/12/RS46184_GettyImages-2823144-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wilmington ARCO refinery is seen before dawn on Dec. 19, 2003, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under Assembly Bill 1207, companies will face more strict pollution limits each year until 2045 — that’s the “cap” in the renamed Cap-and-Invest program. State regulators will more closely monitor the financial help oil companies get to follow the program’s rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the most important U.S. climate policy for the foreseeable future,” said Kyle Meng, a professor at UC Santa Barbara. “In the absence of any climate action from D.C., for California to signal this commitment for two decades, that’s a really big deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a separate bill, Senate Bill 237, eases regulations on oil drilling in Kern County and gives the governor new powers to loosen clean fuel standards if gas prices spike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compromise is an attempt to appease both environmental advocates and oil companies and address the upcoming \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036695/shocking-news-valero-announces-plans-to-end-operations-at-benicia-refinery\">refinery closures\u003c/a>. The state’s demand for gas has consistently declined in recent years, peaking in 2017, according to California Energy Commission data. 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That hearing, which is set to conclude next month but may be extended, will produce an opinion from the hearing officer as early as 2026 and a decision from the board members on whether to oppose the tunnel or side with Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the board is updating the \u003ca href=\"https://mavensnotebook.com/explainers/statewide-and-delta-planning-processes/bay-delta-water-quality-control-plan-bay-delta-plan/\">Bay Delta Water Quality Control Plan\u003c/a>, a massive proposal for protecting the estuary that could reduce the likelihood of extracting water from the river system, essentially making a tunnel project less feasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California leaders are grappling with an enormous question due to the significant alterations in the state’s waterways and the threat posed by human-caused climate change: How much water needs to remain in rivers to keep the system safe from environmental collapse?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s how far we’ve let this go,” said Ashley Overhouse, water policy adviser at Defenders of Wildlife. “We are at the point where we want to make sure that we are keeping the delta functional on a last lifeline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1996925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1996925\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. 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In June, Newsom tried to tie similar bills to the passage of the state budget, but legislators pushed those plans out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued to call on the Legislature to ease the permitting process, but his administration failed to get it passed during this legislative session. The Newsom administration did not respond to KQED’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Water Contractors association of public water agencies, among the supporters of the tunnel project, said it would have helped save its customers millions of dollars and vowed to support legislation next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if action is delayed this year, the need for modern delta conveyance has never been greater, and the sooner we are able to make a decision on construction, the less that construction will cost,” said Jennifer Pierre, general manager of the State Water Contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians for Water Security, a coalition of dozens of local governments, family farms, labor unions and business groups, said they are “disappointed that the negotiations” stalled. The group said the tunnel project could have captured enough water during last year’s atmospheric rivers “to meet the needs of 9.8 million people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1996804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1996804\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/DeltaGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/DeltaGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/DeltaGetty-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/DeltaGetty-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/DeltaGetty-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/DeltaGetty-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/DeltaGetty-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/DeltaGetty-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The potential site of the water tunnel center intake on the Sacramento River on Sunday, March 1, 2020, in Courtland, California. Fishermen, water sports advocates, farmers and environmentalists are lining up on differing sides of the issue regarding plans to build a tunnel system to move San Joaquin River Delta water to southern California. \u003ccite>(Santiago Mejia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom said the tunnel is imperative for adapting the state to a hotter and drier climate that could result in a 10% reduction in water by the 2040s. California’s current water system is outdated and unprepared to handle the supercharged storms and droughts of the future, Newsom said in May, adding that not investing in a new tunnel would cost Californians more in the long run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For at least six decades, and multiple governors, California leaders have sought to export more water from Northern California to the south. The proposal for the delta water project has had several transformations, including plans for a canal and twin tunnels. When Newsom came into office, he promoted the idea of a single tunnel, known as the \u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/deltaconveyance\">Delta Conveyance Project.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the State Water Project captures, moves and stores enough water to be used by 27 million people and service 750,000 acres of farmland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Walker, professor emeritus of economic and urban geography at UC Berkeley, who said he helped defeat the original canal project with his research, called the project a “zombie idea that won’t … go away” because of Central Valley agribusiness and developers in Southern California who want more water to make more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t care what the water board decides,” Walker said. “It won’t solve a problem that can’t be solved. 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The bridge runs alongside the Sacramento River, which is a main tributary of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The Delta is the hub of California’s water supply, distributing fresh water to two-thirds of the state’s population and millions of acres of farmland. \u003ccite>(Joyce Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Walker called the single tunnel the “ugly stepchild” of an idea that Californians defeated more than half a century ago and has “no business being built because it’s a bad investment that will not do what it’s supposed to do, which is solve the water problems for California south of the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents framed Newsom’s tunnel plan as one that aligns with President Donald Trump’s January \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023248/trump-again-wades-into-california-water-use-fight-drawing-skepticism-from-experts\">executive action\u003c/a> that aimed to redirect more water from Northern California southward to farms and cities. At a rally last Friday on the steps of the Capitol, one opponent of the tunnels said the Legislature needs to stop Newsom from “turning into Trump in order to defeat Trump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenfield, with San Francisco Baykeeper, said the tunnel project is likely to cost as much as $\u003ca href=\"https://baykeeper.org/press_release/tribal-leaders-and-environmental-advocates-demand-lawmakers-reject-delta-tunnel-fast-tracking-legislation-in-day-of-action-for-water-justice/#:~:text=Advocates%20cited%20a%20recent%20report,greater%20burdens%20on%20working%20families.\">100\u003c/a> billion, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996769/newsom-pushes-fast-track-20-billion-delta-tunnel-california-water\">five times higher than the amount\u003c/a> the Newsom administration proposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Newsom desperately wants to win approval for his tunnel so he can claim that he’s done more than President Trump to help the Central Valley industrial nut farms and corporate landowners who export water from San Francisco Bay’s estuary,” Rosenfield said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents said sucking more water out of the Sacramento River and into the tunnel would eviscerate delta communities, adding that the water is needed for the viability of fish and wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tribal leaders also believe diverting more water from the Sacramento River will put “tribes in a position of lacking access to the things that we need for our cultural practices,” said Malissa Tayaba, vice chair and director of traditional ecological knowledge of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians. “Everything that we need comes from the river. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the board is updating the \u003ca href=\"https://mavensnotebook.com/explainers/statewide-and-delta-planning-processes/bay-delta-water-quality-control-plan-bay-delta-plan/\">Bay Delta Water Quality Control Plan\u003c/a>, a massive proposal for protecting the estuary that could reduce the likelihood of extracting water from the river system, essentially making a tunnel project less feasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California leaders are grappling with an enormous question due to the significant alterations in the state’s waterways and the threat posed by human-caused climate change: How much water needs to remain in rivers to keep the system safe from environmental collapse?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s how far we’ve let this go,” said Ashley Overhouse, water policy adviser at Defenders of Wildlife. “We are at the point where we want to make sure that we are keeping the delta functional on a last lifeline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1996925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1996925\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/GavinNewsom2025AP2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom stands in front of a state flag during a press conference about President Donald Trump’s tariffs on April 16, 2025, at an almond farm in Ceres, California. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As part of the board’s water quality control plan process, it’s considering a request from the Newsom administration to relax regulations on the amount of water that must stay in the delta ecosystem, Overhouse said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water advocates and environmental organizers are highly critical of Newsom’s plan, arguing that it would devastate riverine ecosystems and surrounding communities. They are dubious of the administration’s argument that the tunnel is the right solution to make the state system more resilient to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Baykeeper Science Director Jon Rosenfield applauded the Legislature’s decision to rely on processes that would require the tunnel project to undergo environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the Legislature got that message, understood it, and recognized it as true to California’s values and spurned the governor’s efforts to waive California laws for pet projects,” Rosenfield said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Newsom’s trailer bill could have streamlined water rights and other aspects of the project, which his administration estimates could cost $20 billion. In June, Newsom tried to tie similar bills to the passage of the state budget, but legislators pushed those plans out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued to call on the Legislature to ease the permitting process, but his administration failed to get it passed during this legislative session. The Newsom administration did not respond to KQED’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Water Contractors association of public water agencies, among the supporters of the tunnel project, said it would have helped save its customers millions of dollars and vowed to support legislation next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if action is delayed this year, the need for modern delta conveyance has never been greater, and the sooner we are able to make a decision on construction, the less that construction will cost,” said Jennifer Pierre, general manager of the State Water Contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians for Water Security, a coalition of dozens of local governments, family farms, labor unions and business groups, said they are “disappointed that the negotiations” stalled. The group said the tunnel project could have captured enough water during last year’s atmospheric rivers “to meet the needs of 9.8 million people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1996804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1996804\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/DeltaGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/DeltaGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/DeltaGetty-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/DeltaGetty-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/DeltaGetty-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/DeltaGetty-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/DeltaGetty-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/DeltaGetty-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The potential site of the water tunnel center intake on the Sacramento River on Sunday, March 1, 2020, in Courtland, California. Fishermen, water sports advocates, farmers and environmentalists are lining up on differing sides of the issue regarding plans to build a tunnel system to move San Joaquin River Delta water to southern California. \u003ccite>(Santiago Mejia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom said the tunnel is imperative for adapting the state to a hotter and drier climate that could result in a 10% reduction in water by the 2040s. California’s current water system is outdated and unprepared to handle the supercharged storms and droughts of the future, Newsom said in May, adding that not investing in a new tunnel would cost Californians more in the long run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For at least six decades, and multiple governors, California leaders have sought to export more water from Northern California to the south. The proposal for the delta water project has had several transformations, including plans for a canal and twin tunnels. When Newsom came into office, he promoted the idea of a single tunnel, known as the \u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/deltaconveyance\">Delta Conveyance Project.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the State Water Project captures, moves and stores enough water to be used by 27 million people and service 750,000 acres of farmland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Walker, professor emeritus of economic and urban geography at UC Berkeley, who said he helped defeat the original canal project with his research, called the project a “zombie idea that won’t … go away” because of Central Valley agribusiness and developers in Southern California who want more water to make more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t care what the water board decides,” Walker said. “It won’t solve a problem that can’t be solved. We have to live within our variability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1996921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1996921\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/SacramentoDelta-8_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/SacramentoDelta-8_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/SacramentoDelta-8_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/SacramentoDelta-8_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/SacramentoDelta-8_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/SacramentoDelta-8_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/SacramentoDelta-8_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/05/SacramentoDelta-8_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three Mile Slough Bridge on Sept. 10, 2021. The bridge runs alongside the Sacramento River, which is a main tributary of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. 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At a rally last Friday on the steps of the Capitol, one opponent of the tunnels said the Legislature needs to stop Newsom from “turning into Trump in order to defeat Trump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenfield, with San Francisco Baykeeper, said the tunnel project is likely to cost as much as $\u003ca href=\"https://baykeeper.org/press_release/tribal-leaders-and-environmental-advocates-demand-lawmakers-reject-delta-tunnel-fast-tracking-legislation-in-day-of-action-for-water-justice/#:~:text=Advocates%20cited%20a%20recent%20report,greater%20burdens%20on%20working%20families.\">100\u003c/a> billion, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996769/newsom-pushes-fast-track-20-billion-delta-tunnel-california-water\">five times higher than the amount\u003c/a> the Newsom administration proposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Newsom desperately wants to win approval for his tunnel so he can claim that he’s done more than President Trump to help the Central Valley industrial nut farms and corporate landowners who export water from San Francisco Bay’s estuary,” Rosenfield said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents said sucking more water out of the Sacramento River and into the tunnel would eviscerate delta communities, adding that the water is needed for the viability of fish and wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tribal leaders also believe diverting more water from the Sacramento River will put “tribes in a position of lacking access to the things that we need for our cultural practices,” said Malissa Tayaba, vice chair and director of traditional ecological knowledge of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians. “Everything that we need comes from the river. 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"content": "\u003cp>On the morning of Sept. 9, 2020, Rodney Earl Jackson, Jr. woke up to the buzz of his cell phone. It was his mother, telling him to open his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> apartment window and peer outside. It was late enough for the morning light to shine down on his Duboce Park neighborhood, but instead the streets were cloaked in darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where was the sun?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immediately I shut the window, and I said, ‘I’m not dealing with this right now,’” Jackson recalled. His mother, based a few blocks away in the Fillmore, asked if he knew what was happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had no idea, he said, and tried to go back to sleep. “Because I thought I was in a dream. It felt like I hadn’t really woken up yet,” Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a hundred miles north of the Bay Area,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1998245/the-summer-that-changed-california-forever\"> wildfires\u003c/a> tore through towns, homes and forests. Winds carried massive amounts of smoke into the skies over the Bay Area. The pollution scattered blue-light wavelengths, leaving only reds and oranges to shine through. Not only was it dark, the sky was an eerie orange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson is an actor who’s appeared on Broadway, with deep roots in the Bay Area. He was born and raised in San Francisco before attending college on the East Coast, and returned home more than a decade ago to co-found the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbatco.org/\">San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1998329\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998329\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-24-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-24-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-24-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of the musical The Day the Sky Turned Orange rehearses at the American Conservatory Theater studio space in San Francisco on Aug. 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is familiar and exciting to Jackson, but on that dark day, it was frightening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wanted to know how others felt: did it all seem like a dream to them, too? And what meaning were they making from it? So he started interviewing people. The product of those conversations is a musical called “The Day the Sky Turned Orange,” premiering this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play invites the audience back to that apocalyptic day, which crashed like a roaring wave on top of pandemic isolation and a national racial reckoning sparked by the murder of George Floyd. Jackson and his co-creators hope that revisiting a day marked by often-repressed emotions will help us process them and move forward.[aside postID=science_1998209 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/GettyImages-1271601364.jpg']“I don’t think that we’ve actually fully recovered from that moment. I know I haven’t,” playwright Julius Ernesto Rea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rea said coming together in a physical space and going back in time gives the actors and the audience the opportunity to release some of their bottled-up emotions, especially those surrounding the changing climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the play is trying to figure out how we grieve the future that we thought we had, so that we can invite new visions of the future,” Rea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One memorable song is “\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/7ExTYE1QYCZMXjWtH5YEe3?si=ZlmDzrXQREyeGupFBM-Wtg\">How Far Gone\u003c/a>,” written by musicians Olivia Kuper Harris and David Michael Ott. It acknowledges the damage people have done to the planet and climate, and asks how long it will take to act on climate change:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What’s crazy is how I exploit you\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When you give and you give I ignore you\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If I could take it back, I would take it all back, I would turn the clock back\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show is an example of the belief held by Jamie Beck Alexander of Project Drawdown that “\u003ca href=\"https://www.edf.org/degrees/how-green-any-job-project-drawdown-s-jamie-beck-alexander\">every job is a climate job\u003c/a>,” and anyone can use their passions and skills to talk about climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1998327\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998327\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-19-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of the musical The Day the Sky Turned Orange rehearses at the American Conservatory Theater studio space in San Francisco on Aug. 19, 2025. The new production reflects on the September 2020 day when wildfire smoke turned the Bay Area sky orange. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The creative team behind the production is furthering public conversation on climate, not just through the show but through a series of post-show “talkbacks,” short conversations, which will cover topics such as how to take action on climate change and eco-anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthering conversations about climate change is what scientist and communicator Katharine Hayhoe \u003ca href=\"https://www.ted.com/talks/katharine_hayhoe_the_most_important_thing_you_can_do_to_fight_climate_change_talk_about_it\">argues\u003c/a> is the most important thing an individual can do about the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows the majority of people care about climate change, but don’t talk about it, skewing public perception of how important the issue is. A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-01925-3\">global survey\u003c/a> of 130,000 people showed that nearly 9 out of 10 want stronger action to combat climate change, but mistakenly think they are in the minority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What can we do to break this vicious cycle?” Hayhoe asks in a TED Talk with more than four million views. “The number one thing we can do is the exact thing that we’re not doing: talk about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1998330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998330\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-38-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-38-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-38-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-38-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-38-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of the musical The Day the Sky Turned Orange rehearses at the American Conservatory Theater studio space in San Francisco on Aug. 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sharing support for climate action could unlock a “social tipping point” and push leaders to act, the research suggests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson knows many people don’t want to read the science surrounding climate change. “But maybe I can give them another lens so they can feel it’s accessible,” Jackson said about the musical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show’s music is inspired by pop, R&B and hip hop, with the goal of reaching a broad audience. It’s deeply rooted in the Bay Area, with clear celebrations of its diversity and even homegrown dance moves like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/947949/\">Smeeze\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play itself follows the arc of four main characters: a student, a teacher, a therapist and someone who has long COVID but doesn’t know it yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1998268\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998268\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-15-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Director Rodney Earl Jackson Jr. holds a rendering of the set before a rehearsal for the musical The Day the Sky Turned Orange at the American Conservatory Theater studio space in San Francisco on Aug. 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The Day the Sky Turned Orange” not only tackles climate, but brings the audience back to the overlapping crises of 2020. A powerful scene comes at the end of the production, as a high school student builds a time capsule to capture the moment. One by one, actors place items in a box: a COVID test, a knitting project, an oxygen mask. It’s a cathartic moment for the characters and begs the question– what do you still need to let go of so you can move forward?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the medicine that you don’t think you need,” Rea said. The audience “walks out not realizing that they needed to talk about their feelings from the pandemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the show’s more catchy tunes is an ode to San Francisco, invoking the city’s energy and joy. It’s called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZKZPXtqiyM\">Good Day\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I see the Golden Gate, this is our home.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Wake up, new day in San Francisco,\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sun’s up, see my people in the Castro. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Get up, we gotta change the world.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>It’s a good day, good day. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Day the Sky Turned Orange” is co-produced by the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company and Z Space, and runs at Z Space in San Francisco from Sept. 5 to Oct. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I don’t think that we’ve actually fully recovered from that moment. I know I haven’t,” playwright Julius Ernesto Rea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rea said coming together in a physical space and going back in time gives the actors and the audience the opportunity to release some of their bottled-up emotions, especially those surrounding the changing climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the play is trying to figure out how we grieve the future that we thought we had, so that we can invite new visions of the future,” Rea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One memorable song is “\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/7ExTYE1QYCZMXjWtH5YEe3?si=ZlmDzrXQREyeGupFBM-Wtg\">How Far Gone\u003c/a>,” written by musicians Olivia Kuper Harris and David Michael Ott. It acknowledges the damage people have done to the planet and climate, and asks how long it will take to act on climate change:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What’s crazy is how I exploit you\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When you give and you give I ignore you\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If I could take it back, I would take it all back, I would turn the clock back\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show is an example of the belief held by Jamie Beck Alexander of Project Drawdown that “\u003ca href=\"https://www.edf.org/degrees/how-green-any-job-project-drawdown-s-jamie-beck-alexander\">every job is a climate job\u003c/a>,” and anyone can use their passions and skills to talk about climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1998327\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998327\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-19-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of the musical The Day the Sky Turned Orange rehearses at the American Conservatory Theater studio space in San Francisco on Aug. 19, 2025. The new production reflects on the September 2020 day when wildfire smoke turned the Bay Area sky orange. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The creative team behind the production is furthering public conversation on climate, not just through the show but through a series of post-show “talkbacks,” short conversations, which will cover topics such as how to take action on climate change and eco-anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthering conversations about climate change is what scientist and communicator Katharine Hayhoe \u003ca href=\"https://www.ted.com/talks/katharine_hayhoe_the_most_important_thing_you_can_do_to_fight_climate_change_talk_about_it\">argues\u003c/a> is the most important thing an individual can do about the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows the majority of people care about climate change, but don’t talk about it, skewing public perception of how important the issue is. A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-01925-3\">global survey\u003c/a> of 130,000 people showed that nearly 9 out of 10 want stronger action to combat climate change, but mistakenly think they are in the minority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What can we do to break this vicious cycle?” Hayhoe asks in a TED Talk with more than four million views. “The number one thing we can do is the exact thing that we’re not doing: talk about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1998330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998330\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-38-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-38-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-38-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-38-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/250819-ORANGESKYDAYART-38-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of the musical The Day the Sky Turned Orange rehearses at the American Conservatory Theater studio space in San Francisco on Aug. 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sharing support for climate action could unlock a “social tipping point” and push leaders to act, the research suggests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson knows many people don’t want to read the science surrounding climate change. “But maybe I can give them another lens so they can feel it’s accessible,” Jackson said about the musical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show’s music is inspired by pop, R&B and hip hop, with the goal of reaching a broad audience. 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"content": "\u003cp>Mariska Keasberry and her crew of builders got to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/burning-man\"> Burning Man\u003c/a> in Nevada early this year. As they finished setting up camp — in anticipation of more than 100 people joining their setup in the coming days — they felt proud of their efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, from a distance, they saw a wall of white approaching them — fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next two hours, as the sandstorm enveloped them, they tried to save what they had just built. But the raging dust “ended up taking out about 70% of our infrastructure,” Keasberry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of the week, they would rebuild their camp again and again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some ways, this felt a little bit like ‘Building Man,’” said Keasberry, an Oakland resident who has been going to the festival since 2016 and now co-leads a camp called The Heart Collective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the sandstorm was followed by several days of rain and near-triple-digit heat. And multiple years of this kind of extreme weather on the playa — including the torrential rain that created a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BwGNfm/\">mudpocalypse\u003c/a>” in 2023 — have caused some \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/BurningMan/comments/1n5svhh/processing_a_really_tough_burn_has_anyone_else/\">attendees to question\u003c/a> whether to return to Black Rock Desert. They’re also wondering if human-caused climate change is threatening the viability of future burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1998364\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998364\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/BurningManGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/BurningManGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/BurningManGetty1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/BurningManGetty1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/BurningManGetty1-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents between puddles and mud on the grounds of the Burning Man festival on Sept. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(David Crane/picture alliance via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the outside in — \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@humminglion/video/7542051848904068382\">or even the inside out\u003c/a> — the weather at this year’s burn sure looked biblical. Burning Man officials state clearly on their website to “\u003ca href=\"https://burningman.org/event/preparation/faq/\">be prepared for volatile extremes\u003c/a>,” including excessive heat, freezing temperatures, swift thunderstorms, up to 70 mph winds and intense dust storms. The Burning Man Project, the nonprofit that organizes the festival each year, did not respond to KQED’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online, the organization \u003ca href=\"https://burningman.org/event/preparation/faq/#Preparation\">wrote\u003c/a>: “In Nevada, there is a saying: if you don’t like the weather, stick around for five minutes and it will change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Only one thing is completely predictable about the weather in the Black Rock Desert: Unpredictability,” they added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how standard is this kind of extreme weather for Burning Man and how much do scientists think climate change could impact (or even cancel) this festival in the coming years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jump straight to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#HowtypicalwasthisyearswildweatherforBurningMan\">How typical was this year’s wild weather for Burning Man?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhatabouttheduststormsBurningManisfamousfor\">What about the dust storms Burning Man is famous for?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#SoclimatechangeisnotcancelingBurningMananytimesoon\">So, climate change is not canceling Burning Man anytime soon?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Isnttheinclementweatherkindofthepoint\">Isn’t the inclement weather kind of the point?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"HowtypicalwasthisyearswildweatherforBurningMan\">\u003c/a>How typical was this year’s wild weather for Burning Man?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Daniel McEvoy, a climatologist at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, said the wind, rain, dust and heat Burners experienced this year were not out of the ordinary for late summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t all that unusual,” McEvoy said. “It was just sort of the timing of everything that seemed to happen to coincide right with the first few days of Burning Man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Black Rock Desert is a barren lake bed — and during late August, this place often witnesses a wide range of weather, McEvoy said.[aside postID=news_12054241 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-1020x680.jpg']Typically, this part of the Black Rock Desert is extremely hot in August, but McEvoy said excessive heat wasn’t an issue this year. Instead, multiple days of rain pelted attendees, along with strong winds and a dust storm. But those events were by no means the strongest that Burners have lived through in recent years. In 2023, as much as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/burning-man-festival-flooding-entrance-closed-d6cd88ee009c6e1f6d2d92739ec1ca18\">an inch of rain fell\u003c/a> within a 24-hour period, swamping the camps and trapping tens of thousands of attendees in an impassable playa — a situation that drew international attention due to videos posted by high-profile attendees like \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/03/entertainment/diplo-burning-man\">Diplo\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McEvoy views that muddy year as “much more of an anomaly” than the 2025 burn. However, he said the effects of \u003ca href=\"https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anthropogenic\">anthropogenic \u003c/a>climate change are likely slowly altering weather patterns on the playa. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1995420/climate-scientists-warn-of-growing-whiplash-effect-on-weather-patterns\">A warming climate can mean a “juicier” atmosphere\u003c/a> — so when storms occur, especially thunderstorms, they can be more intense and cause major flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, for the Great Basin area, which houses Burning Man, summertime rainfall is expected to \u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/9b8hClYpANikLAl5h9hRtzJf7P?domain=climatetoolbox.org\">increase by around 10 to 15%\u003c/a> by the mid to late century, McEvoy said. He also noted that future Burns could be significantly hotter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, understanding how weather patterns are changing on the playa is challenging because of the lack of long-term weather stations there. The closest are in places like Reno, about 100 miles to the south, and Winnemucca, about 70 miles to the east.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhatabouttheduststormsBurningManisfamousfor\">\u003c/a>What about the dust storms Burning Man is famous for?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>McEvoy said it’s hard to quantify whether human-caused climate change is intensifying the winds that cause the festival’s legendary dust storms. But he notes that winds increase during the formation of a thunderstorm, picking up dust, which loosely suggests that if there are more or stronger thunderstorms, the sandstorms that precede them could also worsen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other factors that can determine the intensity of a sandstorm, too. For instance, long-term droughts, exacerbated by a warming planet, supply more dust for winds to carry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1998369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998369\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/BurningManGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1228\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/BurningManGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/BurningManGetty2-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/BurningManGetty2-768x472.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/BurningManGetty2-1536x943.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maxar satellite imagery of the 2023 Burning Man Festival held in the Black Rock Desert, about 100 miles north of Reno, Nevada. \u003ccite>(Satellite image (c) 2024 Maxar Technologies via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There are places on the planet that are so good for providing dust to the atmosphere, and the Black Rock Desert is one of those,” said Mike Kaplan, professor emeritus at the Desert Research Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just the Great Basin where sandstorms are downright nasty. Kaplan said Northern Mexico is going through a severe drought and is having “one of the \u003ca href=\"https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/archives/64258\">busiest dust storm years\u003c/a> in history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Kaplan, what Burners lived through this year mirrors more natural climate variability than a “man-made signal,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Burning Man didn’t exist, nobody would know what even happened,” Kaplan said. “It would have just been another dust storm in the Black Rock Desert.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"SoclimatechangeisnotcancelingBurningMananytimesoon\">\u003c/a>So, climate change is not canceling Burning Man anytime soon?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Climate scientists, like McEvoy, suggest that if Burning Man organizers push the event back by a few weeks or even a month “to the end of September, the chances for a lot of these extremes would go way down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a cooler time of the year,” McEvoy said.[aside postID=science_1998214 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/Newsom-Denmark-2000x1333.jpg']But by contrast, Kaplan isn’t so sure that moving the event would decrease the probability of poor weather, because the desert is already the land of extremes and is influenced by “very complicated” global systems. As a result, it can be “hard to sort out the relationship between these very massive circulation systems and one fairly localized weather event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many Burners, including Keasberry, the festival taking place around a holiday weekend is a key practicality for being able to make the trip. Stephen Wade, who is from San Francisco and participated in the Beardhaus camp this year — which provides beard care and hosts drag shows on the playa — also wondered if other issues, like bugs or wet weather, might become a problem later in the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But will climate change eventually phase out Burning Man’s viability in the coming years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see any reason to believe that climate change would eliminate Burning Man,” McEvoy said, “at least not in the next few decades. I do think it will increase the likelihood of these extreme events becoming more common.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Isnttheinclementweatherkindofthepoint\">\u003c/a>Isn’t the inclement weather kind of the point?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For many Burners, including Keasberry, the high highs and low lows are part of what makes Burning Man so transformative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While “all forms of going to Burning Man are valid,” she said, “if you’re not getting humbled, are you doing Burning Man right? I don’t think we go to Burning Man for it to be easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/BurningMan/comments/1mv4c3b/ok_its_time_for_my_annual_preburning_man_rant_and/\">Commenters on a recent Reddit thread\u003c/a> echoed Keasberry: “Burning Man is at its BEST when the weather is at its WORST,” the main author wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@steelandfeels/video/7545216286356147487\" data-video-id=\"7545216286356147487\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@steelandfeels\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@steelandfeels?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@steelandfeels\u003c/a>Burning Man is a protest of convenience culture. Break everything and then figure it out. Or find someone who can teach you how. After 9 years, I’ve become a generalist in electronics, welding, CAD, LEDs, automotive, batteries, solar, plumbing and team building. Necessity is the mother of figuring it the f*ck out, and convenience and self doubt prevents us from taking the first steps.\u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - David Date\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7545216240671787806?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ original sound – David Date\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Nuwer, a Brooklyn resident and first-time co-lead of the camp Burning Sensation, agreed that this year’s burn felt especially cathartic after enduring the wind and rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want the lows to go too low, but I think having that juxtaposition of hardship and joy really helps to heighten the significance of the experience,” Nuwer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ultimately, she said, there is a point at which it’s no longer worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had moments on the playa [this year] where I said, ‘this is a one and done for me,’” she said. “I remember thinking, when I was lying there crouched in this collapsed \u003ca href=\"https://shiftpod.com/\">shift pod\u003c/a>, ‘someone is gonna lose their life during this storm.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weather hasn’t stopped Nuwer from going yet, but she said that could change. Black Rock City is a massive conglomeration of camps, each offering something different — from techno dance parties to smoothie stations to enormous art displays — and a huge part of the appeal for many Burners is exploring the site beyond their own camps and getting lost amid it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuwer said if the bad weather was too constant to leave her camp, “it would no longer be worth it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, some Burners \u003cem>are \u003c/em>reassessing their future Burns. Wade said most camps already put tons of effort into creating a safe environment for participants. Now, it’s about informing campers about emergency procedures and adapting on the fly — like when his camp transformed their Budget rental truck into a mini club during the rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can either wallow in the fact that we have set up and take down our camp three times in three days, or we can learn how to adapt our structures to make them easier to take down,” he said. “And then also learn how to socialize and party in that space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following this year’s weather debacle, Keasberry said, after many years of camping, she might finally make an upgrade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I finally feel like I’m one of those Burners who’s like, ‘it might be really nice to have an RV,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCeDp_MY_h4G6VWj_-VPl-BJlQ3Uya2H0vxRZZd_47BpXwVA/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article has been updated to correct the term “shift pod,” which is a type of shelter.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some ways, this felt a little bit like ‘Building Man,’” said Keasberry, an Oakland resident who has been going to the festival since 2016 and now co-leads a camp called The Heart Collective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the sandstorm was followed by several days of rain and near-triple-digit heat. And multiple years of this kind of extreme weather on the playa — including the torrential rain that created a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BwGNfm/\">mudpocalypse\u003c/a>” in 2023 — have caused some \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/BurningMan/comments/1n5svhh/processing_a_really_tough_burn_has_anyone_else/\">attendees to question\u003c/a> whether to return to Black Rock Desert. They’re also wondering if human-caused climate change is threatening the viability of future burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1998364\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998364\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/BurningManGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/BurningManGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/BurningManGetty1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/BurningManGetty1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/BurningManGetty1-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents between puddles and mud on the grounds of the Burning Man festival on Sept. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(David Crane/picture alliance via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the outside in — \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@humminglion/video/7542051848904068382\">or even the inside out\u003c/a> — the weather at this year’s burn sure looked biblical. Burning Man officials state clearly on their website to “\u003ca href=\"https://burningman.org/event/preparation/faq/\">be prepared for volatile extremes\u003c/a>,” including excessive heat, freezing temperatures, swift thunderstorms, up to 70 mph winds and intense dust storms. The Burning Man Project, the nonprofit that organizes the festival each year, did not respond to KQED’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online, the organization \u003ca href=\"https://burningman.org/event/preparation/faq/#Preparation\">wrote\u003c/a>: “In Nevada, there is a saying: if you don’t like the weather, stick around for five minutes and it will change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Only one thing is completely predictable about the weather in the Black Rock Desert: Unpredictability,” they added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how standard is this kind of extreme weather for Burning Man and how much do scientists think climate change could impact (or even cancel) this festival in the coming years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jump straight to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#HowtypicalwasthisyearswildweatherforBurningMan\">How typical was this year’s wild weather for Burning Man?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhatabouttheduststormsBurningManisfamousfor\">What about the dust storms Burning Man is famous for?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#SoclimatechangeisnotcancelingBurningMananytimesoon\">So, climate change is not canceling Burning Man anytime soon?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Isnttheinclementweatherkindofthepoint\">Isn’t the inclement weather kind of the point?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"HowtypicalwasthisyearswildweatherforBurningMan\">\u003c/a>How typical was this year’s wild weather for Burning Man?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Daniel McEvoy, a climatologist at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, said the wind, rain, dust and heat Burners experienced this year were not out of the ordinary for late summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t all that unusual,” McEvoy said. “It was just sort of the timing of everything that seemed to happen to coincide right with the first few days of Burning Man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Black Rock Desert is a barren lake bed — and during late August, this place often witnesses a wide range of weather, McEvoy said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Typically, this part of the Black Rock Desert is extremely hot in August, but McEvoy said excessive heat wasn’t an issue this year. Instead, multiple days of rain pelted attendees, along with strong winds and a dust storm. But those events were by no means the strongest that Burners have lived through in recent years. In 2023, as much as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/burning-man-festival-flooding-entrance-closed-d6cd88ee009c6e1f6d2d92739ec1ca18\">an inch of rain fell\u003c/a> within a 24-hour period, swamping the camps and trapping tens of thousands of attendees in an impassable playa — a situation that drew international attention due to videos posted by high-profile attendees like \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/03/entertainment/diplo-burning-man\">Diplo\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McEvoy views that muddy year as “much more of an anomaly” than the 2025 burn. However, he said the effects of \u003ca href=\"https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anthropogenic\">anthropogenic \u003c/a>climate change are likely slowly altering weather patterns on the playa. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1995420/climate-scientists-warn-of-growing-whiplash-effect-on-weather-patterns\">A warming climate can mean a “juicier” atmosphere\u003c/a> — so when storms occur, especially thunderstorms, they can be more intense and cause major flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, for the Great Basin area, which houses Burning Man, summertime rainfall is expected to \u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/9b8hClYpANikLAl5h9hRtzJf7P?domain=climatetoolbox.org\">increase by around 10 to 15%\u003c/a> by the mid to late century, McEvoy said. He also noted that future Burns could be significantly hotter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, understanding how weather patterns are changing on the playa is challenging because of the lack of long-term weather stations there. The closest are in places like Reno, about 100 miles to the south, and Winnemucca, about 70 miles to the east.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhatabouttheduststormsBurningManisfamousfor\">\u003c/a>What about the dust storms Burning Man is famous for?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>McEvoy said it’s hard to quantify whether human-caused climate change is intensifying the winds that cause the festival’s legendary dust storms. But he notes that winds increase during the formation of a thunderstorm, picking up dust, which loosely suggests that if there are more or stronger thunderstorms, the sandstorms that precede them could also worsen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other factors that can determine the intensity of a sandstorm, too. For instance, long-term droughts, exacerbated by a warming planet, supply more dust for winds to carry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1998369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998369\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/BurningManGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1228\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/BurningManGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/BurningManGetty2-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/BurningManGetty2-768x472.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/09/BurningManGetty2-1536x943.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maxar satellite imagery of the 2023 Burning Man Festival held in the Black Rock Desert, about 100 miles north of Reno, Nevada. \u003ccite>(Satellite image (c) 2024 Maxar Technologies via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There are places on the planet that are so good for providing dust to the atmosphere, and the Black Rock Desert is one of those,” said Mike Kaplan, professor emeritus at the Desert Research Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just the Great Basin where sandstorms are downright nasty. Kaplan said Northern Mexico is going through a severe drought and is having “one of the \u003ca href=\"https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/archives/64258\">busiest dust storm years\u003c/a> in history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Kaplan, what Burners lived through this year mirrors more natural climate variability than a “man-made signal,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Burning Man didn’t exist, nobody would know what even happened,” Kaplan said. “It would have just been another dust storm in the Black Rock Desert.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"SoclimatechangeisnotcancelingBurningMananytimesoon\">\u003c/a>So, climate change is not canceling Burning Man anytime soon?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Climate scientists, like McEvoy, suggest that if Burning Man organizers push the event back by a few weeks or even a month “to the end of September, the chances for a lot of these extremes would go way down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a cooler time of the year,” McEvoy said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But by contrast, Kaplan isn’t so sure that moving the event would decrease the probability of poor weather, because the desert is already the land of extremes and is influenced by “very complicated” global systems. As a result, it can be “hard to sort out the relationship between these very massive circulation systems and one fairly localized weather event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many Burners, including Keasberry, the festival taking place around a holiday weekend is a key practicality for being able to make the trip. Stephen Wade, who is from San Francisco and participated in the Beardhaus camp this year — which provides beard care and hosts drag shows on the playa — also wondered if other issues, like bugs or wet weather, might become a problem later in the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But will climate change eventually phase out Burning Man’s viability in the coming years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see any reason to believe that climate change would eliminate Burning Man,” McEvoy said, “at least not in the next few decades. I do think it will increase the likelihood of these extreme events becoming more common.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Isnttheinclementweatherkindofthepoint\">\u003c/a>Isn’t the inclement weather kind of the point?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For many Burners, including Keasberry, the high highs and low lows are part of what makes Burning Man so transformative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While “all forms of going to Burning Man are valid,” she said, “if you’re not getting humbled, are you doing Burning Man right? I don’t think we go to Burning Man for it to be easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/BurningMan/comments/1mv4c3b/ok_its_time_for_my_annual_preburning_man_rant_and/\">Commenters on a recent Reddit thread\u003c/a> echoed Keasberry: “Burning Man is at its BEST when the weather is at its WORST,” the main author wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@steelandfeels/video/7545216286356147487\" data-video-id=\"7545216286356147487\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@steelandfeels\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@steelandfeels?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@steelandfeels\u003c/a>Burning Man is a protest of convenience culture. Break everything and then figure it out. Or find someone who can teach you how. After 9 years, I’ve become a generalist in electronics, welding, CAD, LEDs, automotive, batteries, solar, plumbing and team building. Necessity is the mother of figuring it the f*ck out, and convenience and self doubt prevents us from taking the first steps.\u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - David Date\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7545216240671787806?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ original sound – David Date\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Five years later, the fires sparked by that lightning storm remain a turning point for California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2020 fire season burned more land than any in recorded state history, reshaped firefighting strategy and left thousands of people — from mountain residents to state officials — permanently changed. As climate change fuels hotter summers and more explosive blazes, the lessons of 2020 matter more than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We woke up in the middle of the night to lightning strikes all over the place. It was beautiful, but also terrifying,” said Leigh-Anne Lehrman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was staying in Woodside, recovering from cancer surgery, away from her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873396/i-cant-abandon-this-community-months-after-czu-fires-survivors-struggle-to-rebuild\">home in the Santa Cruz Mountains\u003c/a>. 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His wife woke him up and said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Look at how windy it is out there. Lightning is everywhere,’” Dean recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She stepped outside onto their deck, which was covered in sticks. “She turns around to come back in to get her shoes and right then, like half of a redwood [tree] landed right on the deck,” Dean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farther north, Sonoma County resident Nate Ericson was camping in Humboldt County for his birthday when he saw a post on Facebook that family members were evacuating their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m freaking out,” Ericson recalled. “I start driving home. And I see the Mendocino Complex Fire. Just this massive, massive plume going up into the sky, like everything in me was, ‘Turn around, you’re going the wrong way, but I had to get home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A season like no other\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wildfires fueled by extreme heat, supercharged by climate change, roared across an area of California larger than the combined land mass of Delaware and Rhode Island. The firestorms lasted for months, destroyed 9,000 structures and killed 31 people, forever altering the lives of countless more — some fled, others were imprinted by fear and distrust — and the operations of CalFire, the state’s firefighting agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the mid-August lightning strikes, several hundred fires sprang up, some merging into massive “complexes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1968917\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1968917 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/RS44588_GettyImages-1228132420-1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1264\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/RS44588_GettyImages-1228132420-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/RS44588_GettyImages-1228132420-1-qut-800x527.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/RS44588_GettyImages-1228132420-1-qut-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/RS44588_GettyImages-1228132420-1-qut-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/RS44588_GettyImages-1228132420-1-qut-768x506.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/RS44588_GettyImages-1228132420-1-qut-1536x1011.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watch the Walbridge fire, part of the larger LNU Lightning Complex fire, from a vineyard in Healdsburg, Calif., on Aug. 20, 2020. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We ended up in a situation where we had multiple megafires going on at the same time,” said George Morris III, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/about/executive-staff/profile-list/george-morris-iii\"> CalFire region chief\u003c/a> responsible for the units from Monterey County up to the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Land burned in and to the north of wine country in the LNU Lightning Complex, in the East Bay not far from San José in the SCU Lightning Complex, and to the south in Santa Cruz County, where a series of fires ignited outside of Big Basin State Park that smoldered for days where firefighters could not access them, Morris said. “That was a ticking time bomb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winds that kicked up around Aug. 18 caused a turning point. Separate fires coalesced into the CZU Lightning Complex Fire that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1974648/last-years-santa-cruz-lightning-fires-still-causing-trouble\">ripped through 85,000 acres\u003c/a>, burning some redwood forests not typically home to megafire and the communities of Boulder Creek, Bonny Doon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1974779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1974779\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/05/KQED_BigBasin_Fire_09102020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/05/KQED_BigBasin_Fire_09102020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/05/KQED_BigBasin_Fire_09102020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/05/KQED_BigBasin_Fire_09102020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/05/KQED_BigBasin_Fire_09102020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/05/KQED_BigBasin_Fire_09102020-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/05/KQED_BigBasin_Fire_09102020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Redwood trees after the CZU Lightning Complex wildfires burned much of the area at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on Sept. 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The sound of the CZU Fire approaching Dean’s home in Bonny Doon reminded him of the movie \u003cem>Backdraft\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounded like a jet airplane,” he said. “And at the same time, you hear propane tanks exploding in the background as the fire was coming down the mountain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Power and cell service were out. Many of Lehrman’s friends evacuated, and she worried about her daughters. “I started really panicking, and then I couldn’t reach them at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Firefight overwhelmed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As Lehrman panicked about her daughters, fire officials across the state faced a grim reality as the scale of the disaster overwhelmed firefighters. Wildfires continued to flare up — in Plumas, Tehama, Glenn, Butte, Modoc — practically everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The August Complex, which started as 37 separate fires, merged into the state’s first recorded “giga-fire,” topping a million acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1968871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1705px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1968871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/ap_20234112251700-web-c98ebb85f512e1267d60886e6cb6c12967731dfe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1705\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/ap_20234112251700-web-c98ebb85f512e1267d60886e6cb6c12967731dfe.jpg 1705w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/ap_20234112251700-web-c98ebb85f512e1267d60886e6cb6c12967731dfe-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/ap_20234112251700-web-c98ebb85f512e1267d60886e6cb6c12967731dfe-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/ap_20234112251700-web-c98ebb85f512e1267d60886e6cb6c12967731dfe-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/ap_20234112251700-web-c98ebb85f512e1267d60886e6cb6c12967731dfe-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/ap_20234112251700-web-c98ebb85f512e1267d60886e6cb6c12967731dfe-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1705px) 100vw, 1705px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A forest burns as the CZU August Lightning Complex fire advances, Aug. 20, 2020, in Bonny Doon, California. \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Every time you thought you were going to get ahead of the original lightning-caused fire, it gave way to other mega fires,” Morris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figuring out how to position fire crews was somewhat like playing the game Risk. If you spread out on the board too far, Morris said, “Now you’re not prepared to deal with a threat here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morris said 2020 was a watershed moment in his 29-year career. He blames the severity of the fires on climate change drying out vegetation, the increasing encroachment of housing into the wildland urban interface and human activity starting fires, mostly by accident.[aside postID=news_12010708 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/004_BoulderCreek_BigBasinRedwoods_08172021_qed-1020x680.jpg']“Our largest and most damaging fires really have occurred in the last 20 years. That’s the reality,” Morris said. “There were damaging fires in the past, but they weren’t happening at the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, with its Mediterranean climate, has always had a recipe for fire and it’s always been part of the landscape. But now, with 40 million people on that land, it’s a problem like it has never been before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the 2020 fires, said Zeke Lunder, “ran like crazy for a few days and [then had] a lot of beneficial effects after that initial wind-driven run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lunder is a fire mapper and analyst. He runs well-informed but unofficial video briefings about fires through his YouTube channel and media company, “\u003ca href=\"https://the-lookout.org/\">The Lookout\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the start of September, he said things took a turn for the worse. Winds shifted and moved from land to the ocean, ripping across forests hot, dry and fast — winds like the Santa Anas — and they tend to be associated with the most damaging fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 8 was an “Armageddon” wind event that blew up fires across the West Coast, including the Bear Fire in Butte County that ran 30 miles and killed 16 people in a single day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1969499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1687px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1969499\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/09/gettyimages-1228423923-b86494382decf6f35ebe09faefee6c7b23e3e9ec.jpg\" alt=\"Butte county firefighters watch as flames tower over their truck during the Bear fire in Oroville, California on September 9, 2020.\" width=\"1687\" height=\"1264\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/09/gettyimages-1228423923-b86494382decf6f35ebe09faefee6c7b23e3e9ec.jpg 1687w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/09/gettyimages-1228423923-b86494382decf6f35ebe09faefee6c7b23e3e9ec-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/09/gettyimages-1228423923-b86494382decf6f35ebe09faefee6c7b23e3e9ec-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/09/gettyimages-1228423923-b86494382decf6f35ebe09faefee6c7b23e3e9ec-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/09/gettyimages-1228423923-b86494382decf6f35ebe09faefee6c7b23e3e9ec-768x575.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/09/gettyimages-1228423923-b86494382decf6f35ebe09faefee6c7b23e3e9ec-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1687px) 100vw, 1687px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butte county firefighters watch as flames tower over their truck during the Bear fire in Oroville, California on Sept. 9, 2020. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Intense winds blew flames up a canyon, blocking evacuation routes. The Bear Fire was part of the North Complex Fire, an amalgamation of several fires along the middle fork of the Feather River. It was one of the many areas around the state that did not and could not get all the help they wanted as officials coordinating the response made hard decisions with fires threatening Livermore, Susanville, Quincy and other big cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then we have this fire out here in the middle fork in a roadless area that’s like 20 miles from the nearest cabin,” Lunder said. “It’s like, OK, well, those guys aren’t getting any air tankers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the firestorms of 2020 burned 4.2 million acres across California — the largest number since records have been kept. It’s believed to be\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010708/how-often-should-wild-lands-burn-to-stay-healthy\"> on par with the average number of acres\u003c/a> burned in the state prior to western settlement, when fires started by lightning were allowed to burn freely and when native Indigenous people intentionally set fires for many purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 2020, CalFire said it increased its ranks and boosted year-round positions, invested in aircraft that can fight fires at night and adopted technology that helps firefighters know better when a fire has sparked, how it is burning and what it might do next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To capture memories from the 2020 fire siege, Morris wrote a\u003ca href=\"https://34c031f8-c9fd-4018-8c5a-4159cdff6b0d-cdn-endpoint.azureedge.net/-/media/calfire-website/our-impact/fire-statistics/2020-fire-siege.pdf?rev=80330d3b3d2e4216bf66e684c7784ad3&hash=ADFD85D92AA9DDBCAC1826F67F8DFFAB\"> 122-page report\u003c/a> of the event from CalFire’s perspective, which includes a timeline and narrative accounts, printed in large format and placed in each station around the state. It’s bigger than most other items on the shelf, Morris said, “so that people always remember the weight of 2020.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Moving on, with scars\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma and Santa Cruz counties, Lehrman, Dean and Ericson did their best to make it through. Ericson did arrive safely back at his home in Sonoma County. But the stress of season after season of fires — on top of housing costs — made him decide, California just wasn’t worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I needed to go,” Ericson said. “That almost broke me, and I had to move to save my mental health, so that’s why I’m in Wisconsin now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dean and his wife lost their house in Bonny Doon. It’s been rebuilt and just finished. He’s waiting for the final inspections. He credits the county with trying to make it easier for people rebuilding to get permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1998153\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998153\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/250819-2020-FIRESTORM-ANNIVERSARY-KQED_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/250819-2020-FIRESTORM-ANNIVERSARY-KQED_1.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/250819-2020-FIRESTORM-ANNIVERSARY-KQED_1-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Dean’s home burned in Bonny Doon after it was rebuilt. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Brian Dean)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, construction was a pain and expensive — he hadn’t known he was underinsured. And now his insurance costs have soared. Before the fires, he paid about $2,400 a year. Now it’s $9,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he said the experience has helped him better cope with stress, or maybe just worry less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When something that bad happens and something else bad happens, you’re just numb,” Dean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lehrman’s daughters and the pets did get out safely and stayed with friends while the fires raged. Their home burned. Finding a new house to rent in the area, so her youngest daughter could remain at the same high school, felt near impossible. Lehrman contacted 40 landlords before one said yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is now recovered from cancer and lives in Woodside with her husband, though she would rather not live in the mountains anymore. She said she leaves for her dad’s home in Santa Rosa whenever the weather feels ripe for fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whenever there’s high wind or it smells like smoke, anything like that, I’m gone,” Lehrman said. “I have a very, very low threshold for evacuation.”[aside postID=science_1998021 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/240109-CAWindStorm-069_qed.jpg']The experience helped her realize how little she needs to be happy, that family doesn’t depend on a certain house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure I would have believed that before,” Lehrman said. “I always associated family with our home, but now we can reconstitute our family dynamic in any room that we are in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her advice to other Californians facing fire risk: prepare, get good insurance — even if you’re a renter — and know there’s life to live after you get through it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preparation is good advice. As apocalyptic as the fires may have felt for Californians living through it — and they did feel bad, especially in the midst of a pandemic when many people were forced to stay inside due to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890211/dangerous-air-as-california-burns-america-breathes-toxic-smoke\">weeks of toxic smoke\u003c/a> — dry lightning bursts down onto California roughly every decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can look at 1999, 2008 and then 2020,” Morris said. “But in the era of the megafire, the propagation of large and damaging fire has been really pronounced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means another lightning-driven wildfire is highly likely in the near future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As another fire season looms, the lessons from five years ago remain clear: California’s survival depends on how quickly it adapts to a world where megafires are the norm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2020 fire season burned more land than any in recorded state history, reshaped firefighting strategy and left thousands of people — from mountain residents to state officials — permanently changed. As climate change fuels hotter summers and more explosive blazes, the lessons of 2020 matter more than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We woke up in the middle of the night to lightning strikes all over the place. It was beautiful, but also terrifying,” said Leigh-Anne Lehrman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was staying in Woodside, recovering from cancer surgery, away from her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873396/i-cant-abandon-this-community-months-after-czu-fires-survivors-struggle-to-rebuild\">home in the Santa Cruz Mountains\u003c/a>. Her daughters, one in college and one in high school, stayed behind to hold down the fort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1998154\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998154\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/250819-2020-FIRESTORM-ANNIVERSARY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/250819-2020-FIRESTORM-ANNIVERSARY-KQED.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/250819-2020-FIRESTORM-ANNIVERSARY-KQED-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/250819-2020-FIRESTORM-ANNIVERSARY-KQED-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Dean’s home burned in Bonny Doon before (top) and after the fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Brian Dean)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She knew enough about the wildfire risk in her neighborhood to be “instantly very concerned because both the girls were there alone,” Lehrman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not far away, Brian Dean, also a resident of the mountains, remembers the wind. His wife woke him up and said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Look at how windy it is out there. Lightning is everywhere,’” Dean recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She stepped outside onto their deck, which was covered in sticks. “She turns around to come back in to get her shoes and right then, like half of a redwood [tree] landed right on the deck,” Dean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farther north, Sonoma County resident Nate Ericson was camping in Humboldt County for his birthday when he saw a post on Facebook that family members were evacuating their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m freaking out,” Ericson recalled. “I start driving home. And I see the Mendocino Complex Fire. Just this massive, massive plume going up into the sky, like everything in me was, ‘Turn around, you’re going the wrong way, but I had to get home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A season like no other\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wildfires fueled by extreme heat, supercharged by climate change, roared across an area of California larger than the combined land mass of Delaware and Rhode Island. The firestorms lasted for months, destroyed 9,000 structures and killed 31 people, forever altering the lives of countless more — some fled, others were imprinted by fear and distrust — and the operations of CalFire, the state’s firefighting agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the mid-August lightning strikes, several hundred fires sprang up, some merging into massive “complexes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1968917\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1968917 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/RS44588_GettyImages-1228132420-1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1264\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/RS44588_GettyImages-1228132420-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/RS44588_GettyImages-1228132420-1-qut-800x527.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/RS44588_GettyImages-1228132420-1-qut-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/RS44588_GettyImages-1228132420-1-qut-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/RS44588_GettyImages-1228132420-1-qut-768x506.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/RS44588_GettyImages-1228132420-1-qut-1536x1011.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watch the Walbridge fire, part of the larger LNU Lightning Complex fire, from a vineyard in Healdsburg, Calif., on Aug. 20, 2020. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We ended up in a situation where we had multiple megafires going on at the same time,” said George Morris III, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/about/executive-staff/profile-list/george-morris-iii\"> CalFire region chief\u003c/a> responsible for the units from Monterey County up to the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Land burned in and to the north of wine country in the LNU Lightning Complex, in the East Bay not far from San José in the SCU Lightning Complex, and to the south in Santa Cruz County, where a series of fires ignited outside of Big Basin State Park that smoldered for days where firefighters could not access them, Morris said. “That was a ticking time bomb.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winds that kicked up around Aug. 18 caused a turning point. Separate fires coalesced into the CZU Lightning Complex Fire that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1974648/last-years-santa-cruz-lightning-fires-still-causing-trouble\">ripped through 85,000 acres\u003c/a>, burning some redwood forests not typically home to megafire and the communities of Boulder Creek, Bonny Doon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1974779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1974779\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/05/KQED_BigBasin_Fire_09102020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/05/KQED_BigBasin_Fire_09102020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/05/KQED_BigBasin_Fire_09102020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/05/KQED_BigBasin_Fire_09102020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/05/KQED_BigBasin_Fire_09102020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/05/KQED_BigBasin_Fire_09102020-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/05/KQED_BigBasin_Fire_09102020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Redwood trees after the CZU Lightning Complex wildfires burned much of the area at Big Basin Redwoods State Park on Sept. 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The sound of the CZU Fire approaching Dean’s home in Bonny Doon reminded him of the movie \u003cem>Backdraft\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounded like a jet airplane,” he said. “And at the same time, you hear propane tanks exploding in the background as the fire was coming down the mountain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Power and cell service were out. Many of Lehrman’s friends evacuated, and she worried about her daughters. “I started really panicking, and then I couldn’t reach them at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Firefight overwhelmed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As Lehrman panicked about her daughters, fire officials across the state faced a grim reality as the scale of the disaster overwhelmed firefighters. Wildfires continued to flare up — in Plumas, Tehama, Glenn, Butte, Modoc — practically everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The August Complex, which started as 37 separate fires, merged into the state’s first recorded “giga-fire,” topping a million acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1968871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1705px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1968871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/ap_20234112251700-web-c98ebb85f512e1267d60886e6cb6c12967731dfe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1705\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/ap_20234112251700-web-c98ebb85f512e1267d60886e6cb6c12967731dfe.jpg 1705w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/ap_20234112251700-web-c98ebb85f512e1267d60886e6cb6c12967731dfe-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/ap_20234112251700-web-c98ebb85f512e1267d60886e6cb6c12967731dfe-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/ap_20234112251700-web-c98ebb85f512e1267d60886e6cb6c12967731dfe-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/ap_20234112251700-web-c98ebb85f512e1267d60886e6cb6c12967731dfe-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/ap_20234112251700-web-c98ebb85f512e1267d60886e6cb6c12967731dfe-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1705px) 100vw, 1705px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A forest burns as the CZU August Lightning Complex fire advances, Aug. 20, 2020, in Bonny Doon, California. \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Every time you thought you were going to get ahead of the original lightning-caused fire, it gave way to other mega fires,” Morris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figuring out how to position fire crews was somewhat like playing the game Risk. If you spread out on the board too far, Morris said, “Now you’re not prepared to deal with a threat here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morris said 2020 was a watershed moment in his 29-year career. He blames the severity of the fires on climate change drying out vegetation, the increasing encroachment of housing into the wildland urban interface and human activity starting fires, mostly by accident.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Our largest and most damaging fires really have occurred in the last 20 years. That’s the reality,” Morris said. “There were damaging fires in the past, but they weren’t happening at the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, with its Mediterranean climate, has always had a recipe for fire and it’s always been part of the landscape. But now, with 40 million people on that land, it’s a problem like it has never been before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the 2020 fires, said Zeke Lunder, “ran like crazy for a few days and [then had] a lot of beneficial effects after that initial wind-driven run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lunder is a fire mapper and analyst. He runs well-informed but unofficial video briefings about fires through his YouTube channel and media company, “\u003ca href=\"https://the-lookout.org/\">The Lookout\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the start of September, he said things took a turn for the worse. Winds shifted and moved from land to the ocean, ripping across forests hot, dry and fast — winds like the Santa Anas — and they tend to be associated with the most damaging fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 8 was an “Armageddon” wind event that blew up fires across the West Coast, including the Bear Fire in Butte County that ran 30 miles and killed 16 people in a single day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1969499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1687px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1969499\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/09/gettyimages-1228423923-b86494382decf6f35ebe09faefee6c7b23e3e9ec.jpg\" alt=\"Butte county firefighters watch as flames tower over their truck during the Bear fire in Oroville, California on September 9, 2020.\" width=\"1687\" height=\"1264\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/09/gettyimages-1228423923-b86494382decf6f35ebe09faefee6c7b23e3e9ec.jpg 1687w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/09/gettyimages-1228423923-b86494382decf6f35ebe09faefee6c7b23e3e9ec-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/09/gettyimages-1228423923-b86494382decf6f35ebe09faefee6c7b23e3e9ec-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/09/gettyimages-1228423923-b86494382decf6f35ebe09faefee6c7b23e3e9ec-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/09/gettyimages-1228423923-b86494382decf6f35ebe09faefee6c7b23e3e9ec-768x575.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/09/gettyimages-1228423923-b86494382decf6f35ebe09faefee6c7b23e3e9ec-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1687px) 100vw, 1687px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butte county firefighters watch as flames tower over their truck during the Bear fire in Oroville, California on Sept. 9, 2020. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Intense winds blew flames up a canyon, blocking evacuation routes. The Bear Fire was part of the North Complex Fire, an amalgamation of several fires along the middle fork of the Feather River. It was one of the many areas around the state that did not and could not get all the help they wanted as officials coordinating the response made hard decisions with fires threatening Livermore, Susanville, Quincy and other big cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then we have this fire out here in the middle fork in a roadless area that’s like 20 miles from the nearest cabin,” Lunder said. “It’s like, OK, well, those guys aren’t getting any air tankers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the firestorms of 2020 burned 4.2 million acres across California — the largest number since records have been kept. It’s believed to be\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010708/how-often-should-wild-lands-burn-to-stay-healthy\"> on par with the average number of acres\u003c/a> burned in the state prior to western settlement, when fires started by lightning were allowed to burn freely and when native Indigenous people intentionally set fires for many purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 2020, CalFire said it increased its ranks and boosted year-round positions, invested in aircraft that can fight fires at night and adopted technology that helps firefighters know better when a fire has sparked, how it is burning and what it might do next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To capture memories from the 2020 fire siege, Morris wrote a\u003ca href=\"https://34c031f8-c9fd-4018-8c5a-4159cdff6b0d-cdn-endpoint.azureedge.net/-/media/calfire-website/our-impact/fire-statistics/2020-fire-siege.pdf?rev=80330d3b3d2e4216bf66e684c7784ad3&hash=ADFD85D92AA9DDBCAC1826F67F8DFFAB\"> 122-page report\u003c/a> of the event from CalFire’s perspective, which includes a timeline and narrative accounts, printed in large format and placed in each station around the state. It’s bigger than most other items on the shelf, Morris said, “so that people always remember the weight of 2020.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Moving on, with scars\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma and Santa Cruz counties, Lehrman, Dean and Ericson did their best to make it through. Ericson did arrive safely back at his home in Sonoma County. But the stress of season after season of fires — on top of housing costs — made him decide, California just wasn’t worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I needed to go,” Ericson said. “That almost broke me, and I had to move to save my mental health, so that’s why I’m in Wisconsin now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dean and his wife lost their house in Bonny Doon. It’s been rebuilt and just finished. He’s waiting for the final inspections. He credits the county with trying to make it easier for people rebuilding to get permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1998153\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998153\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/250819-2020-FIRESTORM-ANNIVERSARY-KQED_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/250819-2020-FIRESTORM-ANNIVERSARY-KQED_1.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/250819-2020-FIRESTORM-ANNIVERSARY-KQED_1-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Dean’s home burned in Bonny Doon after it was rebuilt. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Brian Dean)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, construction was a pain and expensive — he hadn’t known he was underinsured. And now his insurance costs have soared. Before the fires, he paid about $2,400 a year. Now it’s $9,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he said the experience has helped him better cope with stress, or maybe just worry less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When something that bad happens and something else bad happens, you’re just numb,” Dean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lehrman’s daughters and the pets did get out safely and stayed with friends while the fires raged. Their home burned. Finding a new house to rent in the area, so her youngest daughter could remain at the same high school, felt near impossible. Lehrman contacted 40 landlords before one said yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is now recovered from cancer and lives in Woodside with her husband, though she would rather not live in the mountains anymore. 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"content": "\u003cp>In a conference room high atop Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, looking out upon a sea of fog on Friday, officials from California and Denmark signed an agreement between the two governments focused on climate, technology and cybersecurity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underlying the press conference was a theme of inclusivity, which Gov. Gavin Newsom said “distinguished” California from the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our mindset is about encouraging people from all over the world to feel like they belong, they’re seen, they’re heard. It’s an economic strategy. And I feel like all those values are challenged at the moment,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said the memorandum of understanding will bolster commercial and research ties between the country and state, which would largely focus on green energy, sustainability and artificial intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the most comprehensive kind of agreement we have made so far with any American state and we are extremely happy to do so,” said Lars Løkke Rasmussen, foreign minister and former prime minister of Denmark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1998251\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1851px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/Declaration.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/Declaration.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1851\" height=\"851\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998251\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/Declaration.jpg 1851w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/Declaration-160x74.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/Declaration-768x353.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/Declaration-1536x706.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1851px) 100vw, 1851px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A delegation from Denmark, led by Minister for Foreign Affairs Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Ambassador of Denmark to the U.S. Jesper Møller Sørensen, joined Governor Gavin Newsom and state officials on Aug. 22, 2025 to sign a partnership advancing climate collaboration, technology and innovation. \u003ccite>(California Governor's Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rasmussen cited an example where the two entities are working with Stanford University to map \u003ca href=\"https://mapwater.stanford.edu/\">groundwater reservoirs\u003c/a>, in which “researchers, companies and policy makers from Denmark and California worked together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governments agreed to the goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2045 by transitioning to clean energy and employing “climate smart agriculture,” among other things. They stated an intent to collaborate on “digital and cyber resilience,” and share knowledge on emerging technologies and sustainability. The work would take place through international visits and strategic dialogues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked by a Danish journalist whether he was leading the U.S. resistance against President Trump, Newsom responded, “I don’t know if you’ve been watching my Twitter feed, I’m doing what I can.”[aside postID=science_1998169 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/08/ZeroEmissionVehiclesGetty.jpg']Newsom has recently copied Trump’s social media style, firing off missives with all capitals and lots of exclamation-points, trolling, name-calling and grandiose statements. Newsom’s mocking posts have led to a surge in his social media engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their press release announcing the Danish-Californian partnership, Newsom officials cited several other examples of collaboration between the state and countries, which included Sweden, Mexico and China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Field, director of the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford, said climate partnerships between California and other countries date back at least to the George W. Bush administration, if not longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“International collaboration is going to continue to be an important part of tackling the climate crisis and with the lack of engagement of the federal government, states have an opportunity,” Field said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We in California and countries around the world are trying to figure out how to build the economy that’s going to run us through the 21st century,” Field said. “Relevant technologies and agreements like this really help lay the foundations for those technologies being built.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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