Just an animated map showing last year’s extreme weather events around the country. Amusing if you don’t think about it. Very worrisome if you do. Extreme Weather Map
Tag Archives | climate change
New Webinar: The Front Lines of Climate Change
Next Wednesday (November 30th) at 2PM CST the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium will be hosting what sounds like an interesting webinar on how climate change is impacting Bangladesh (for those who don’t know, that nation…
Army Corps of Engineers Releases Updated Sea Level Rise Procedures
The Army Corps of Engineers has updated its circular (“Sea-Level Change Considerations For Civil Works Programs“) spelling out how it will approach designing its projects to address sea level rise. If your community has any…
City Folds Climate Change Adaptation into Hazard Mitigation PlanCity Folds Climate Change Adaptation into Hazard Mitigation Plan
“Hazard mitigation is very important and there’s a lot of value in looking at past events, but we know with climate change that we can’t use the past to project what the future will be…
Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Awarded $1.3M for Climate Change Research
From a press release (PDF) shared by Janet Freedman: The Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (WBNERR) has been awarded a $1.3 million grant by the National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) Science Collaborative to…
San Francisco Bay Adopts Climate Change Regulations
The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission has voted unanimously to pass a development plan for land within 100 feet of the bay’s coastline. The plan—which requires that decisions about land use in the…
What’s the Relationship Between Climate Change and Extreme Weather?
Some scientists give us the rundown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmJfsjYfVNU (From Climate Communication)
Need an Example? Check Out this Climate Change Adaptation Plan
Not sure how to get started on a climate change adaptation plan? Have a look at what the San Francisco Bay area has drafted with their new “Climate Change Hits Home” report. The plan includes:…
FEMA Study Finds National Floodplains Projected to Grow by 40-45%
As reported in the New York Times, at last week’s Coastal Zone conference in Chicago, FEMA shared some results from a pending study looking at the projected effects of climate change on the National Flood…
East Coast Sea Level Rising Faster than it has in at Least 2,000 Years
This isn’t good news. According to a new study to be published online by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week, sea level is rising faster along the U.S. East Coast than…
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