You are here

Home

Climate Change

Primary tabs

Thu, 2011-06-23 09:24 — mdmcdonald
The Climate Change working group is focused on bringing climate science to effective regulatory policy and stimulating the growth of a green economy.

The mission of the Climate Change is to bring climate science to effective regulatory policy and stimulating the growth of a green economy.

Add Content to this group

Click to add a new Group Post Simple to this group
Click to add a new Group Post Simple w Images to this group
Click to add a new Group Post to this group
Click to add a new PRIVATE Group Post to this group
Click to add a new TASK to this group

Members

John Girard Kathy Gilbeaux Maeryn Obley mdmcdonald scottt@stetsone...
Subscribe to group

Email address for group

climate-change@m.resiliencesystem.org

Tornado Activity in the US May Have Broken a Nearly 40-Year Record

Wed, 2019-05-29 08:37 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

FILE - In this May 23, 2019 file. Photo, tornado damage is seen in Jefferson City, Mo.  AP

kens5.com - Associated Press and TEGNA Staff - May 29, 2019

After several quiet years, the United States was threatening to break a major record for tornado activity this week as a volatile mix of warm, moist air from the Southeast and persistent cold from the Rockies clashed and stalled over the Midwest . . .

. . . The storms Tuesday were the 12th straight day that at least eight tornadoes were reported to the National Weather Service. If the service confirms that they were tornadoes, it would break the U.S. record for most consecutive days with at least eight tornadoes in each of those days . . .

. . . Scientists also say climate change is responsible for more intense and more frequent extreme weather such as storms, droughts, floods and fires, but without extensive study they cannot directly link a single weather event to the changing climate.

(CLICK HERE - READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

Country / Region Tags: 
United States
General Topic Tags: 
Climate
Extreme Weather
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Situation Report

Sea Levels May Rise Much Faster Than Previously Predicted, Swamping Coastal Cities Such as Shanghai, Study Finds

Tue, 2019-05-21 22:58 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

Icebergs off coast of Greenland. - Credit: Kertu / Adobe Stock

CLICK HERE - STUDY - PNAS - Ice sheet contributions to future sea-level rise from structured expert judgment

cnn.com - by Sareena Dayaram - May 21, 2019

Global sea levels could rise more than two meters (6.6 feet) by the end of this century if emissions continue unchecked, swamping major cities such as New York and Shanghai and displacing up to 187 million people, a new study warns.

The study, which was released Monday, says sea levels may rise much faster than previously estimated due to the accelerating melting of ice sheets in both Greenland and Antarctica.

The international researchers predict that in the worst case scenario under which global temperatures increase by 5 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100, sea levels could rise by more than two meters (6.6 feet) in the same period -- double the upper limit outlined by the UN climate science panel's last major report.

(CLICK HERE - READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

Country / Region Tags: 
Global
United States
General Topic Tags: 
Climate
Sea Level
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Situation Report

Climate Change - What's the Big Deal With a Few Degrees?

Thu, 2019-05-16 08:07 — Kathy Gilbeaux

https://youtu.be/6cRCbgTA_78

Climate scientist, Katharine Hayhoe explains the impacts of temperature increases from climate change.

CLICK HERE - PBS - What's the Big Deal With a Few Degrees?

CLICK HERE - BIO - Katharine Hayhoe

Country / Region Tags: 
Global
United States
General Topic Tags: 
Climate
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Situation Report

IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Tue, 2019-05-07 08:55 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

CLICK HERE - Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) - ipbes.net

nationalgeographic.com - by Stephen Leahy - May 6, 2019

The bonds that hold nature together may be at risk of unraveling from deforestation, overfishing, development, and other human activities, a landmark United Nations report warns. Thanks to human pressures, one million species may be pushed to extinction in the next few years, with serious consequences for human beings as well as the rest of life on Earth.

“The evidence is crystal clear: Nature is in trouble. Therefore we are in trouble" . . .

(CLICK HERE - READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

CLICK HERE - UN Report: Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’; Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’

Country / Region Tags: 
Global
United States
General Topic Tags: 
Climate
Collapse
Ecosystems
Environment
Vulnerability
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Problem
Situation Report

NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER TROPICAL CYCLONE REPORT - HURRICANE FLORENCE (AL062018) - 31 August–17 September 2018

Fri, 2019-05-03 22:03 — Kathy Gilbeaux

CLICK HERE - NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER TROPICAL CYCLONE REPORT - HURRICANE FLORENCE (AL062018) - 31 August–17 September 2018 (98 page .PDF report)

Stacy R. Stewart and Robbie Berg - National Hurricane Center - 3 May 2019

Florence was a long-lived, category 4 hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) that made landfall along the southeastern coast of North Carolina near the upper end of category 1. Florence caused devastating freshwater flooding across much of the southeastern United States and significant storm surge flooding in portions of eastern North Carolina. Florence resulted in 22 direct deaths and was also associated with 30 indirect fatalities.

CLICK HERE - National Hurricane Center - 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season

CLICK HERE - National Weather Service - Historical Hurricane Florence, September 12-15, 2018

 

Country / Region Tags: 
United States
General Topic Tags: 
Climate
Extreme Weather
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Situation Report

National Storm Surge Hazard Maps

Tue, 2019-04-30 08:31 — Kathy Gilbeaux

https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=d9ed7904dbec441a9c4dd7b277935fad&entry=1

This national depiction of storm surge flooding vulnerability helps people living in hurricane-prone coastal areas along the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), Hawaii, and Hispaniola to evaluate their risk to the storm surge hazard. These maps make it clear that storm surge is not just a beachfront problem, with the risk of storm surge extending many miles inland from the immediate coastline in some areas. If you discover via these maps that you live in an area vulnerable to storm surge, find out today if you live in a hurricane storm surge evacuation zone as prescribed by your local emergency management agency. If you do live in such an evacuation zone, decide today where you will go and how you will get there, if and when you're instructed by your emergency manager to evacuate. If you don't live in one of those evacuation zones, then perhaps you can identify someone you care about who does live in an evacuation zone, and you could plan in advance to be their inland evacuation destination – if you live in a structure that is safe from the wind and outside of flood-prone areas.

National Hurricane Center - National Storm Surge Hazard Maps - Version 2
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/nationalsurge/

Country / Region Tags: 
United States
General Topic Tags: 
Climate
Extreme Weather
Land Use
Map
Sea Level
Visualization
Vulnerability
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Situation Report

Underwater: Rising Seas, Chronic Floods, and the Implications for US Coastal Real Estate (2018)

Mon, 2019-04-29 10:01 — Kathy Gilbeaux


CLICK HERE - STUDY - Union of Concerned Scientists - Underwater - Rising Seas, Chronic Floods, and the Implications for US Coastal Real Estate (28 page .PDF document)

ucsusa.org - June 2018

Sea levels are rising. Tides are inching higher. High-tide floods are becoming more frequent and reaching farther inland. And hundreds of US coastal communities will soon face chronic, disruptive flooding that directly affects people's homes, lives, and properties.

Yet property values in most coastal real estate markets do not currently reflect this risk. And most homeowners, communities, and investors are not aware of the financial losses they may soon face.

This analysis looks at what's at risk for US coastal real estate from sea level rise—and the challenges and choices we face now and in the decades to come.

(CLICK HERE - READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

Country / Region Tags: 
United States
General Topic Tags: 
Climate
Economics
Sea Level
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Problem
Situation Report

Melting Permafrost in Arctic Will Have $70tn Climate Impact – Study

Wed, 2019-04-24 09:17 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

Greenhouse gases, which have been frozen below the soil for centuries, have already begun to escape. Photograph: John Mcconnico/AP

CLICK HERE - STUDY - Climate policy implications of nonlinear decline of Arctic land permafrost and other cryosphere elements

Study shows how destabilised natural systems will worsen man-made problem

theguardian.com - by Jonathan Watts - April 23, 2019

The release of methane and carbon dioxide from thawing permafrost will accelerate global warming and add up to $70tn (£54tn) to the world’s climate bill, according to the most advanced study yet of the economic consequences of a melting Arctic.

If countries fail to improve on their Paris agreement commitments, this feedback mechanism, combined with a loss of heat-deflecting white ice, will cause a near 5% amplification of global warming and its associated costs, says the paper, which was published on Tuesday in Nature Communications.

Country / Region Tags: 
Global
United States
General Topic Tags: 
Climate
Economics
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Problem
Situation Report

Greenland is Melting Even Faster Than Experts Thought, Study Finds

Tue, 2019-04-23 04:56 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

CLICK HERE - STUDY - PNAS - Forty-six years of Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance from 1972 to 2018

cnn.com - by Jen Christensen - April 23, 2019

Climate change is eliminating giant chunks of ice from Greenland at such a speed that the melt has already made a significant contribution to sea level rise, according to a new study. With global warming, the island will lose much more, threatening coastal cities around the world.

Forty percent to 50% of the planet's population is in cities that are vulnerable to sea rise, and the study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is bad news for places like New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Mumbai.

(CLICK HERE - READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

CLICK HERE - NASA - GRACE-FO - Greenland Ice Loss 2002-2016

Country / Region Tags: 
Global
United States
General Topic Tags: 
Climate
Sea Level
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Situation Report

In trial run for hurricane season, South Miami’s solar-powered mayor went off the grid

Mon, 2019-04-15 20:38 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

Solar panels on the roof of South Miami Mayor Philip Stoddard’s energy-efficient home in South Miami on Saturday, April 13, 2019. Stoddard went off the grid for seven days to test the house’s readiness for hurricane season and used only solar panels and two Tesla wall batteries to power his home. Daniel A. Varela ***@***.***

miamiherald.com - by Linda Robertson - April 15, 2019

Hurricane season is coming and Philip Stoddard is ready . . .

. . . Stoddard, a champion of solar energy and green living, took his family on a trial run in preparation for the next Irma or Andrew . . .

. . . He turned off the main power switch located in a panel on the side of his house . . . For the next seven days, he and his family were able to operate the central air-conditioning unit during an unseasonably hot March week, all appliances, computers, lights, TV, solar water heater with an electric on-demand booster, and backyard pond pump, and charge the car without once running out of juice.

(CLICK HERE - READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

 

Country / Region Tags: 
United States
General Topic Tags: 
Adaptation
Climate
Energy
Grid
Renewables
Resilience
Solar
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Solutions

Pages

howdy folks