Climate Change and Extreme Weather
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2017 Shatters Records with $306 Billion in Damages from Climate-Linked Disasters
The nation’s third-hottest year on record is now officially its costliest for billion-dollar natural disasters. Sixteen $1 billion-plus weather and climate-related events killed at least 362 people. The United States suffered its worst wildfire and hurricane seasons in modern history, according to a report released Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Read the entire article at The Huffington Post. […]
Climate Change in the American Mind
Recent Yale national survey finds that the number of Americans “very worried” about global warming has reached a record high. Download the entire report at Yale Climate Change Communication. Americans increasingly view global warming as a threat. Since Spring 2015, more Americans think it will harm them personally (50%, +14 points), their […]
Extreme Heat Waves are Changing How We Live
Read the entire article at Time Science. Heat waves are nothing new, but they have increased in frequency and severity in recent decades as a result of climate change. And each extreme heat event reveals another way our society simply isn’t built for such high temperatures, from our transport systems to the agriculture industry. […]
How Rising Seas and Coastal Storms Drowned the U.S. Flood Insurance Program
Read the entire article at YaleEnvironment360. Sea level rise and more severe storms are overwhelming U.S. coastal communities, causing billions of dollars in damage and essentially bankrupting the federal flood insurance program. Yet rebuilding continues, despite warnings that far more properties will soon be underwater. The federal insurance program has subsidized thousands […]
Alaska – Village Threatened by PermaFrost Melt
The tiny village of Newtok near Alaska’s western coast has been sliding into the Ninglick River for years. As temperatures increase — faster there than in the rest of the U.S. — the frozen permafrost underneath Newtok is thawing. About 70 feet of land a year erodes away.
Sea Level Rise Pushes Salt Water into Everglades
Cimate change and other hurdles mean it will take more water — and potentially more taxpayer money — to save the Everglades, according to new scientific findings. Rising seas and warming temperatures are threatening to worsen damage already done by decades of drainage and pollution, caused by development and farming overtaking the Everglades.
Growing water stress drives desalination push in Kenya
Read the full article online at http://www.climatechangenews.com “After a year of severe drought, Kenyan authorities are resorting to desalination to quench the thirst of coastal communities. In the face of an unprecedented emergency, the technology, which is used to remove salt from the sea to produce drinkable water, is now seen as a lifeline by both […]
COP21: Malawi’s battle to hold on to forests
Read the full article online at http://www.bbc.com “You’d be pushed to find a more uplifting display of the transformative power of renewable energy. In a one-room house in rural Malawi, the little face of six-year-old Rachel is framed in a soft white halo. On a bamboo mat lies a maths book alongside a bundle of fine twigs […]
NASA releases eye-popping view of carbon dioxide
Read the full article online at http://climate.nasa.gov “A new NASA supercomputer project builds on the agency’s satellite measurements of carbon dioxide and combines them with a sophisticated Earth system model to provide one of the most realistic views yet of how this critical greenhouse gas moves through the atmosphere. Scientists have tracked the rising concentration […]
Are we living in the Anthropocene epoch? Scientific body says “yes”
Read the full article online at http://newatlas.com “In the relatively short time we’ve been walking the Earth, humans have left an undeniable impact on the planet. Now a scientific body has unanimously agreed that our actions have altered the Earth’s natural processes enough to usher in a new geological epoch. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to […]
