Alexandra Tempus

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

[Alexandra Tempus @tempus_flies]

Professional news/personal dream: I’m writing a book for @StMartinsPress on America’s Great Climate Migration.
If you or people you know have been uprooted by the impacts of climate change, reach out—I want to hear your story.

[Alexandra Tempus @tempus_flies]

As climate reparations talk grows louder going into #COP27, I'm glad to share my convo with @OlufemiOTaiwo:

“What I hope is becoming clearer is that you actually can’t buy a new ecology, and people at the individual or household level can’t buy levees.”
https://t.co/7FMqANCF1f

[Alexandra Tempus @tempus_flies]

@npenzenstadler Water in Milwaukee is a whooooole thing. Good follows: @MKEWaterCommons and @TRUESKOOL414

Also, the @USWaterAlliance is holding its annual summit there this week.
https://t.co/skKG4vBhnh

[Alexandra Tempus @tempus_flies]

Watch us tear apart this terrible idea! Virtual! Thursday!

[Nick Penzenstadler @npenzenstadler]

Saw @tempus_flies previewing upcoming CapTimes fest talk on WI being a "Climate Change Haven"
and thought about it... then today Milwaukee got told not to use too much water because we pumped a bunch of sewage into the lake https://t.co/RJMcxkeu8T

[Alexandra Tempus @tempus_flies]

@anthonyflint @landpolicy Thank you, Anthony. All credit to climate survivors on the ground and those working hand-in-hand with them @AnthropoceneAL @betterbuyout

[Alexandra Tempus @tempus_flies]

Often politically abandoned, U.S. communities hit by climate disaster are turning to their own neighbors with a revolutionary question: should we move?

@landpolicy, I profiled Climigration Network, where locals are co-creating their own paths to safety:
https://t.co/sIE8BP0fmv

[Alexandra Tempus @tempus_flies]

@maevehiggins @RealHotTake This is lovely, esp coming from someone I could also list here. 🧡

[Alexandra Tempus @tempus_flies]

In a landlocked corner of my home state, half a dozen villages have moved or are moving out of their floodplains. It's an entire region bravely rethinking where we live in the face of climate change, and I am honored to document it for @theprogressive.
https://t.co/zd13Nc35fU

[Rob Moore @RobMooreNRDC]

Another cite! "Further, in January 2021, @NRDC and the @floodsorg jointly petitioned FEMA to amend its regulations implementing the NFIP to account for future conditions and climate change in FIRMs and minimum federal floodplain management standards." @joelscataNRDC

[Alexandra Tempus @tempus_flies]

Where climate mitigation and adaptation collide: Manchin's extended kin in Farmington.
“These last few years here in West Virginia, we’ve had unbelievable amounts of rain,” Mr. Hall said. “We’ve seriously considered not staying.”
https://t.co/rS0PhNeIbZ

[Alexandra Tempus @tempus_flies]

A stunning and haunting piece that really sees the people at its center and exposes the grief and indignity baked into the ways we deal with displacement. There is more of this horror in store if we don't build new systems to adapt
https://t.co/vwBFdYF0Yv

[Alexandra Tempus @tempus_flies]

From @paragkhanna & @ClimateComms: "We must shift from coastal to inland, from low to high elevation, and from resource-depleted to resource-rich areas—and we must do so sustainably..."
https://t.co/uINeYGT2Gp

[Alexandra Tempus @tempus_flies]

"[Insurance] nonrenewal increased by a staggering 203 percent from 2018 to 2019. This leaves people w/ few options: Use the state insurance program...which is extremely expensive and not very comprehensive; move out; or stay without insurance."
https://t.co/llsRR9jRMG

[Alexandra Tempus @tempus_flies]

“We can’t keep approving projects in remote locations, in wildlands, in high-fire risk areas that have high greenhouse gas emissions. We’re in another world now.”
https://t.co/HwCwEmFc0A

[Alexandra Tempus @tempus_flies]

In light of FEMA requesting public input on new floodplain management standards that will make communities more resilient, a reminder: FEMA regularly changes its flood maps at the the request of developers. My story from last year:
https://t.co/MUP6R4Pino

[Alexandra Tempus @tempus_flies]

“In the past, what everybody tried to do was build a Great Wall of China around whatever they owned....But for other people, it doesn’t work at all,” since it sends more water downstream, said Phil Stang, mayor of Kimmswick, Mo.
https://t.co/cw3KUT7BUe

[Alexandra Tempus @tempus_flies]

Cultures which see themselves as part of the land, and not outside of it, hold the keys to saving ourselves. #IndigenousPeoplesDay
https://t.co/r3fazbHtsN

[Alexandra Tempus @tempus_flies]

I’ll be at @ANHDNYC’s Fight Forward conference, moderating their panel on climate change and housing this Wednesday, Oct. 6! Excited to be in conversation with people doing this critical work on the ground, sharing how they #BuildCommunityPower. Join us!
https://t.co/6nV8cNp5eQ

[Association of State Floodplain Managers @FloodsOrg]

Climate change is 'a freight train' making some places too dangerous to live in, experts say:

https://t.co/Iwoz7KYih3

@cberginnis and @sidersadapts among those interviewed by @eweise for this @USATODAY article.

[Alexandra Tempus @tempus_flies]

"Without clear fed guidelines or industry standards each institution is developing its own method. The inconsistency could create an uneven playing field where major institutions continue to support housing investment in the path of climate change’s wrath."https://t.co/2iote4aeJ6

[Alexandra Tempus @tempus_flies]

"Carl, who is 28 and has cerebral palsy, struggled through the sweltering nights, and Hollins worried that the 100-degree heat index would trigger one of his seizures....'He has got to get out of this house,' she told herself."
https://t.co/h3Pg01kuuj