November 28, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – As sea levels rise and extreme weather increases, it is becoming increasingly important to understand and accurately forecast flood risks. If we can predict where it will flood days in advance, people can be evacuated and infrastructure better protected. To read the actual ...
Read More...November 25, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – “Over the past 40,000 years, ice sheets thousands of miles apart have influenced one another through sea level changes, according to new research. As the climate cooled, during the last Ice Age, water became locked up in land ice in the Northern ...
Read More...November 25, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – A new analysis from FEMA measures disaster risk by considering socioeconomic factors that make communities more vulnerable. “Instead of analyzing only the likelihood of a disaster and the damage it would cause, FEMA also assessed 78 socioeconomic factors such as a community’s ...
Read More...November 23, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Greenhouse gas emissions have reached record levels in the atmosphere at 411.3ppm, despite worldwide coronavirus lockdowns. The small dip in emissions due to COVID was less than the natural variation seen every year. To read the actual article click here.
Read More...November 22, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Adapting to climate change will take many approaches including reducing emissions, increasing natural carbon sinks, and tech-based carbon removal. As of now, the tech-based carbon removal methods are currently exceptionally expensive and have not been implemented on a large scale to know ...
Read More...November 22, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – If there is one thing this year has shown us, it is that if we don’t prepare for and manage health disasters using experts and the best evidence, people will suffer and die. Former directors of the CDC and Prevention’s National Center ...
Read More...November 22, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – With financial regulators around the world recognizing the need to account for the economic impacts of climate change, U.S. investment banks will be forced to assess their climate exposure. “More than half the syndicated loans of major US banks are in sectors ...
Read More...November 18, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – According to a new analysis, the current rate of sea level rise is 4.8 mm/year, not the 3.2 mm/year previously reported in the IPCC report from 2014. The increased rate of rise is due primarily to the accelerated melting of the Greenland ...
Read More...November 17, 2020 By Sharon Gray in Newsletter
Article Synopsis – Researchers have found that Greenland’s glaciers “lost ice in the late-19th and early-20th century at rates that rival or surpass those seen today, which means that ice loss on Greenland could exceed even the worst-case projections”. It also means that “models used ...
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