Bittle at the Baffler on flood and sea level impacts in the USA: “a neighborhood that feels more like an unclaimed frontier than a subdivision in one of the nation’s fastest-growing metropolitan areas. Dogs run free across acres of empty land, the sound of a falling acorn echoes for blocks” “Funded by the federal government, […]
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Bittle at the Baffler on Floods and Sea Level Impacts in the USA
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Also tagged climate change, flood insurance, flooding, floods, real estate, rising sea level
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Flood Buyouts, Savings and Climate Change
The AP article Flood buyout costs rise as storms intensify, seas surge reports: “‘… nearly half of the homeowners in Mosby signed up in 2016 for a program in which the government would buy and then demolish their properties rather than paying to rebuild them over and over. They’re still waiting for offers, joining thousands […]
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Also tagged climate change, flood insurance, real estate, rising sea level, sea level rise
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Earth Status 2018
Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970 according to a report issued on October 30, 2018 by the World Wildlife Foundation. Plummeting numbers of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds and fish around the world are an urgent sign that nature needs life support. Our Living Planet Report 2018 shows population sizes of wildlife […]
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Also tagged air quality, climate change, extinct, health
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Extreme Weather Events Getting More Extreme
The U.N. has released a report entitled, “Extreme Weather Continues in 2018 – a Continuing Call to Climate Action”. Addressing the dangers associated with extreme weather conditions, the Executive Secretary of the UN Climate Change Patricia Espinosa said: “We must keep an eye on the future. As the superstorms and monsoon flooding of last year […]
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Also tagged climate change, fires, flooding, floods, wildfires
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Can You Weather The Whether?
Sidd says: i can’t believe anybody is moving to the coast. But apparently some people like throwing their money into the ocean. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/the-latest-climate-threat-for-coastal-cities-more-rich-people paper on Miami Dade climate effect on real estate appreciation the higher the better… paper is at http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aabb32#supplementarydata may affect us at some point. lets b careful not to post more than […]
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California Increasing Weather Volatility
One of the most notable changes in weather doing to global warming is volatility. “We are not saying that the Earth’s temperature is just going to rise. In general, as energy is added to a system, the fluctuations in the system increase. So, we expect more storms, more droughts, more wildfires, more floods, more fluctuations […]
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Buyer Beware: Flood and Storm Damage
As sea levels rise and storms become more volatile, some areas are actually reducing their standards for building codes. The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety released their 2018 report. The analysis assesses the progress of 18 hurricane-prone coastal states along the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Coast in strengthening their residential building […]
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Climate Science Special Report: Human Induced
The Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Volume I has determined that climate change is being unduly accelerated by human activities. The report is an authoritative assessment of the science of climate change, with a focus on the United States. It represents the first of two volumes of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, mandated by the […]
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Also tagged atmospheric temperatures, climate change, diminishing snow cover, greenhouse gases, increasing atmospheric water vapor, melting glaciers, ocean acidification, oceanic temperatures, rising sea levels, shrinking sea ice, surface temperatures
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Climate Disasters Made for Costliest Year
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports: 2017 will be remembered as a year of extremes for the U.S. as floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, drought, fires and freezes claimed hundreds of lives and visited economic hardship upon the nation. Recovery from the ravages of three major Atlantic hurricanes making landfall in the U.S. and an […]
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Also tagged death, drought, fires, floods, global warming, hurricanes, tornadoes
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Bomb Cyclone: Extreme Weather Events
“‘Bomb cyclone’ blasting East Coast before polar vortex uncorks tremendous cold late this week. The most severe winter weather yet will assault the area late this week.” — washingtonpost.com (January 3, 2018) The bomb cyclone blizzard was a 1,000 mile wide Nor’easter classified as a “bomb cyclone” because of its sharp drop in atmospheric pressure. […]
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Also tagged blizzard, bomb cyclone, climate change, polar vortex, storms, winter
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