Jesse M. Keenan

Jesse M. Keenan

@jessemkeenan.com

Favrot II Associate Professor of Sustainable Real Estate and Urban Planning, Tulane University https://jessemkeenan.com/ North: The Future of Post-Climate America (Oxford University Press) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/north-9780197641613

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We hope that this paper can help ground serious discussions about mitigating AI-enabled terrorism risk. Paper (coming to arXiv/SSRN soon): www.belfercenter.org/research-ana...

belfercenter.orgA Pre-mortem on The First Major AI-Enabled Terrorism Event and The Choices That Could Enable it: Plus 9 PredictionsFrontier AI developers' model reports and the dedicated risk-assessment teams at governmental AI institutes such as UK AISI and US CAISSI now treat a major AI-enabled cyber, biological, or chemical te...
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North: The Future of Post-Climate America explores this in detail, but recent credit dispersion & yield trends are resulting in absolute constraints on capital that is happening faster than I anticipated. I’m not sure planning scholars understand what is on the horizon. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

wsj.comMunicipal Bond Investors Face Elevated Risks From Rising Costs of Natural DisastersIncreased costs are forcing investors, already battered by the recent turbulence in global bond markets, to be more careful with one of the safest asset classes available.
Jesse M. Keenan
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If you are at @princeton.edu today and tomorrow, please come by for a visit. I'm honored to be delivering the Bradford Seminar tomorrow. I'm looking forward to seeing so many great colleagues and learning plenty along the way. environment.princeton.edu/event/north-...

environment.princeton.eduBradford Seminar: “North: The Future of Post-Climate America" - High Meadows Environmental InstituteJesse Keenan, professor for Tulane University, will present “North: The Future of Post-Climate America.” This seminar will be held in-person (PUID holders only) and available via livestream (open to a...
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It was such an honor to visit @cmu.edu. Thanks to the leadership of their faculty, including the great @costasamaras.com, they are one of the top places in the world to study & research how we mitigate & adapt to climate change. It was great to meet these high-impact students, post-docs & faculty.

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NEW PAPER: In a new paper, jointly published in @agu.org Earth's Future & @ametsoc.org BAMS, and co-led by Melissa Kenney, @costasamaras.com and me, 175 authors outline priorities to guide the future of scientific assessments of climate change in the United States. 🧵

doi.orgResearch Priorities for Robust Climate Assessments in the United StatesA network of climate assessments plays a critical role in synthesizing the state of science to support evidence-based decision-making To support future U.S. and sub-national climate assessments, ...
Jesse M. Keenan
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I write about this in North: The Future of Post-Climate America (Oxford). Dengue is coming. jessemkeenan.com/north-book

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There was just a locally acquired case of dengue fever reported in Virginia, USA. The climate is becoming more suitable, the compatible mosquito species (Aedes) is already there, and we’ll likely see more cases across a wider area. Link: tinyurl.com/2pu4xrc5

Jesse M. Keenan
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In Keenan’s book North: The Future of Post-Climate America, he works to dispel this mythology of climate havens. “There is no such thing as a climate haven,” he writes, “there are merely better and worse places to live.” @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91575258/det...

fastcompany.comThe wishful thinking of 'climate havens': Canada's wildfire smoke is debunking myths about the MidwestCities like Detroit and Duluth, Minnesota, were once thought to be safer from the impacts of climate change. Their air quality this week says otherwise.

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Jesse Gourevitch
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🚨 I’m pleased to share a new open-access article published today in the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy: “Managing Unpriced Climate Risks in US Housing Markets” 🚨

Jesse M. Keenan
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Part 2 coverage of our research @theguardian.com from perspective of folks working on community relocation, receiving communities, ecological restoration, & flood control. Politicians can deny all they want but these env & socioecon shifts are well underway. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comNew Orleans residents on warning to abandon sinking city: ‘Nobody wants to leave home’After a recent study found New Orleans is at a ‘point of no return’ amid the climate crisis, some locals say they will ‘only leave if forced to’. But what would it take to stay?

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Frances Butler
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Sitting on a ferry stalled in the English Channel waiting to join the infernal London heat while finishing @jessemkeenan.com’s excellent book about climigrants going north. Only thing is right now London is hotter than southern Spain where l’ve just come from #ClimateImpacts #Weird

Jesse M. Keenan
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“One of the most impressive and comprehensive non-fiction books on climate change ever written is “North” (2025), by climate adaptation expert Jesse Keenan of Tulane University.“ (big shoes to fill but I’ll take it @drjeffmasters.bsky.social) yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/06/clim...

yaleclimateconnections.orgClimate fiction envisions the future of hurricanes and sea level rise » Yale Climate ConnectionsThree excellent cli-fi novels envision a plausible future where sea level rise and climate change-intensified hurricanes cause massive economic disruption in the U.S.

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Dr. Jeff Masters
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I review three cli-fi works that predict that hurricanes combined with sea level rise will bring about economic hardship of the kind I have been warning about for years: a collapse of the coastal property market, resulting in people abandoning hurricane-prone coastal areas. @jessemkeenan.com

yaleclimateconnections.orgClimate fiction envisions the future of hurricanes and sea level rise » Yale Climate ConnectionsThree excellent cli-fi novels envision a plausible future where sea level rise and climate change-intensified hurricanes cause massive economic disruption in the U.S.

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americaadapts.org
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🎙️ What happens when you gather hundreds of adaptation professionals in one place? In latest pod, short conversations from the National Adaptation Forum covering 🌳 urban forestry, 🏥 public health, ⚽ sports, 🥽 VR, 🎥 communications, and more. Couldn't make #NAF? This episode is for you. #adaptation

americaadapts.orgMeet the Adapters: Conversations from the National Adaptation Forum — AMERICA ADAPTS The Climate Change PodcastMeet the Adapters: Conversations from the National Adaptation Forum. Ep. 254.
Jesse M. Keenan
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"We've been saying this for a while, and we've been saying this to the global community ... to environmental justice advocates, to climate change activists, we've been saying: The fight is here in Louisiana," Andreanecia Morris www.realtor.com/news/trends/...

realtor.comEerie Study Warns New Orleans Residents To Relocate—but How Do You Move an Entire City?Louisiana could lose 75% of its wetlands by 2070, making a managed relocation of New Orleans residents urgent as climate change transforms the coastline.
Jesse M. Keenan
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“Andreanecia M. Morris, executive director of HousingNOLA, a partnership between community leaders and organizations working on New Orleans' affordable housing crisis, says while these findings may shock outsiders, local stakeholders have been sounding the alarm for the past 20 years.”

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ClimateFran
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Very interesting paper teasing out the nuances of flood risk distribution in the US using an incredible individual-level dataset. Documents a huge concentration of flood risk among the very highest income group - lots of wealthy people enjoying the coast and river views from their second homes.

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The New Republic
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While ​local lawmakers obsess over how to keep Democrats in majority-Black districts from governing, their state is literally shrinking. “Between the chronic stress of land loss and sea level rise, New Orleans’s days are numbered." trib.al/zgcvHnx