Alaskan glacial lake outburst: Nature (glacial-dam failure and climate change) produces mass fatalities, forcing scientific attribution (USGS/Hillary Toobin) to collide with White House communications and rescue logistics (Josh, Paul Hendricks, Claudia...
Alaskan glacial lake outburst: Nature (glacial-dam failure and climate change) produces mass fatalities, forcing scientific attribution (USGS/Hillary Toobin) to collide with White House communications and rescue logistics (Josh, Paul Hendricks, Claudia) and shaping political discourse on climate responsibility.
Events in This Arc
Josh barges into Leo's office to deliver an urgent USGS/Coast Guard briefing: Battletree Lake's natural dam failed in a glacial lake outburst, sending a 300-foot-wide wall of ice, water and …
In Leo's office a USGS briefing shifts from logistics to a seismic policy moment: Paul Hendricks reports evacuation challenges and Canadian Pavehawks en route, then hydroclimatologist Hillary Toobin bluntly attributes …
In a quiet, late-night bedroom scene Bartlet and Abbey process the political fallout from Will Bailey's off-the-cuff climate remark and the DAR incident. Abbey reveals she defused a potential DAR …