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VX Excerpt: National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Attributes Extreme Weather and Climate Events & Their Impacts to Human Caused Climate Change
As extreme weather grows more frequent and costly, the scientific ability to link a specific heat wave, flood, or drought to human-caused climate change has become central to how governments, insurers, and courts assess responsibility and risk. VX News here excerpts Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and Their Impacts, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's 2026 consensus study, chaired by James W. Hurrell of Colorado State University, which updates the Academies' 2016 assessment of extreme event attribution (EEA) science and extends the analysis into the emerging field of extreme event impact attribution (EEIA) — evaluating how much climate change shapes not just an event's physical severity, but its human and economic toll.
Think Big, Act Boldly: What Los Angeles Must Do Now
VXNews Feature: By Climate Resolve and Resilient Cities Catalyst, Think Big, Act Boldly: Implementing Proven Solutions on Urban Fire synthesizes 14 post-fire studies and 465 recommendations into four high-impact strategies—each with clear philanthropic entry points, implementation timelines, and notional budgets. Not another diagnosis of what went wrong. A plan for what comes next.
Not Business as Usual: Esther Kim on Rebuilding Altadena’s Commercial Corridors
In conversation, Esther Kim, an architectural designer with nearly two decades of experience across residential and commercial projects, shares why she founded Altadena Village Partners, an emerging grassroots effort focused on rebuilding Altadena’s commercial corridors after the fire. She reflects on the group’s origins (mostly architects and planners), their self-funded recovery initiative, and the shift from traditional top-down visioning toward an owner-centered recovery model.
Seattle's DOT Director Greg Spotts on Financing, Maintaining & Modernizing City’s Infrastructure
This VXNews interview, Greg Spotts, Director of Seattle's Department of Transportation (SDOT), focuses on the recent passage of Seattle’s Proposition 1—an 8-year $1.55 billion transportation levy that received 66% voter approval. T
