Max Dugan-Knight

I'm as depressed as anyone about the US dropping all climate ambition but more important for global climate is which path countries like 🇮🇳 take en route to energy abundance. This @ember-energy.org analysis shows India is skipping the "fossil detour". ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

This is obviously a good thing for global emissions. It's also a good thing because it weakens the position of fossil exporters like the US eager to keep us trapped in fossil dependence. Those powers are losing the energy future despite their best efforts. The world is better for it.

I'm as depressed as anyone about the US dropping all climate ambition but more important for global climate is which path countries like 🇮🇳 take en route to energy abundance. This @ember-energy.org analysis shows India is skipping the "fossil detour". ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

That is genuinely great news. Pakistan is similarly embracing cheap solar and storage. www.volts.wtf/p/pakistans-... Countries developing now have access to clean energy tech at a price that beats out most fossil energy sources.

Personal update time! I have a new job and a new Substack: maxdk.substack.com Job: I am moving to Databricks as a Solutions Architect. Substack: I want to keep thinking and writing about the data behind climate change and the tools we have to fight it. I'd love to have you follow along!

It’s not often I strongly disagree with every other person quoted in an article in which I am also quoted. But I have to admit that’s true of this @businessinsider.com story that came out Sunday. www.businessinsider.com/malibu-ocean...

Insurers have the most advanced modeling capabilities, the most up to date data, they are extremely financially motivated to accurately price risk, and as of this year in California they are allowed to use forward-looking predictive models (CAT models) to assess future wildfire risk.

It’s not often I strongly disagree with every other person quoted in an article in which I am also quoted. But I have to admit that’s true of this @businessinsider.com story that came out Sunday. www.businessinsider.com/malibu-ocean...

"Before the fires, it would not have been possible to buy on the beach in Malibu at a price this low". How you interpret this fact says a lot about how much attention you are paying to climate risk.

It’s not often I strongly disagree with every other person quoted in an article in which I am also quoted. But I have to admit that’s true of this @businessinsider.com story that came out Sunday. www.businessinsider.com/malibu-ocean...

To be clear, the author Lauren Edmonds does a terrific job laying out the positions and making a complex topic clear. The different viewpoints are part of what make it a great article. And the other sources quoted come at this from a very different angle from me and have different backgrounds.

In our spring report about the upcoming wildfire season we projected abnormally high risk in several parts of Western Canada 🇨🇦 But the fires so far have surpassed my expectations. Here's our latest update on wildfire risk in Canada www.deepskyclimate.com/blog/wildfir...

Hot and dry conditions have pushed risk to new levels and new parts of Canada 🥵 I'm particularly worried about worsening conditions in more densely populated areas like southern parts of BC, Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.

Pleased to see Deep Sky Research cited in this great article on an under-reported topic 🌽📉 “We’re losing 120 calories per person, per day, for every degree of global warming.” www.forbes.com/sites/felici...

This is one of those slow-moving trends with many input variables that's hard to directly attribute to climate change. If we struggle to connect deadly storms and flooding with climate change, helping the public understand how climate change is impacting food security will not be easy.

This may be very millennial of me. But a magazine feels like "real news" in a way that online articles still don't. So it was a bit shocking to see my research cited in TIME Magazine the other day.

The deadly flooding in Texas this week makes the article's message even more important. Climate change is causing extreme weather events to strike more and more often. This is not an abstract, confusing climate science-y concept -- it is claiming lives today.

We're all getting used to warmer temperatures 📈 In the UK you hear a lot about the heat wave of 1976 but those temps would not have been out of the ordinary today. I'm quoted in this article which takes a broader view: uk.news.yahoo.com/heatwave-197...

The Trout and Buck fires burning in New Mexico right now are precisely in the darkest red part of Western NM that our report identified. Evacuations have been ordered and a state of emergency declared. Thinking of all affected. www.deepskyclimate.com/blog/insurer...

New Deep Sky Research report out today: "Insurers Retreat as 2025 Wildfire Risk Reaches Dangerous Levels" Insurance companies are abandoning homeowners in high risk wildfire areas 🏚️ And fire risk in 2025 poses serious threat 🔥 Some findings in thread 🧵 www.deepskyclimate.com/blog/insurer...

...or raising prices.

New Deep Sky Research report out today: "Insurers Retreat as 2025 Wildfire Risk Reaches Dangerous Levels" Insurance companies are abandoning homeowners in high risk wildfire areas 🏚️ And fire risk in 2025 poses serious threat 🔥 Some findings in thread 🧵 www.deepskyclimate.com/blog/insurer...

Canada also faces elevated risk across Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba. Manitoba fires have already evacuated thousands, killed 2, and have filled our air with dangerous levels of smoke. These underlying risk conditions show this is only the start.

New Deep Sky Research report out today: "Insurers Retreat as 2025 Wildfire Risk Reaches Dangerous Levels" Insurance companies are abandoning homeowners in high risk wildfire areas 🏚️ And fire risk in 2025 poses serious threat 🔥 Some findings in thread 🧵 www.deepskyclimate.com/blog/insurer...

Severe drought in the US Southwest is driving record fire risk across large swathes of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Southern California as well as Midwestern states: Nebraska, South Dakota, and others.

New Deep Sky Research report out today: "Insurers Retreat as 2025 Wildfire Risk Reaches Dangerous Levels" Insurance companies are abandoning homeowners in high risk wildfire areas 🏚️ And fire risk in 2025 poses serious threat 🔥 Some findings in thread 🧵 www.deepskyclimate.com/blog/insurer...