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Displaying 15 of about 57 resultsCities and the communities who live in them are significantly impacted by climate shifts in both means and extremes. These are already affecting the New York metropolitan region and will increasingly do so in the coming decades. This New York City Panel on Climate Change 2019 Report (NPCC3) provides co‐generated tools and methods for implementing r…
The Solutions to Coastal Disasters Conference series was developed to provide formal and informal venues for the exchange of information, tools and ideas relating to coastal hazards. This successful conference series has encouraged involvement by a broad audience of coastal professionals for multi-disciplinary approaches to coastal issues.
The Coasts,…
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Geneva – The World Meteorological Organization’s Annual Statement on the Status of the Global Climate said that 2011 was the 11th warmest since records began in 1850. It confirmed preliminary findings that 2011 was the warmest year on record with a La Niña, which has a cooling influence. Globally-averaged temperatures in 2011 were estima…
This report relates the findings of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) regarding the rise in global temperatures over the past ten years and the correlating rise in the frequency and severity of disaster events. The report is divided into six chapters: (i) chapter one assesses temperature data and analyzes it by continent; (ii) chapter two asse…
In 2011, freezing weather resulted in power outages and slick roads across Texas. In 2015, Winter Storm Goliath brought frigid cold and over 8 inches of snow in some areas to Western Texas. In 2017 freezing rain, sleet, and snow iced over roads, downed trees and triggered power outages in northwestern Texas.
Nonetheless, the February 2021 snowstorm in…
This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…
With extreme winter weather breaking out across the United States this week, a question in many people’s minds is—how is climate change affecting winter storms? I had the good fortune to chat about this with world-renowned expert, Dr. Jennifer Francis, Senior Scientist with the Woodwell Climate Research Center.
Rachel: Thank you…
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Neel Dhanesha
In your podcast, you said something I found fascinating: that infrastructure was just one part of the cause of the blackouts last year. Instead, you pointed to the energy market in Texas and how it works. Why was that so important to you?
Mose Buchele
A little over 20 years ago, Texas deregulated its energy market. And Texas is n…
This meeting will deal with all aspects related to the effects of climate on agricultural production and on the environment.
Themes
• Climate change
• risk identification and assessment
• social impacts
• resilience
• water
• hazards (droughts, floods, heat waves, frost)
• vulnerability and adaptation
The disasters just kept coming in 2021, from Hurricane Ida’s destruction across Louisiana and the Northeast to devastating wildfires in the West and damaging storms, tornadoes and floods. Nearly half the U.S. was in drought, and extreme temperature spikes disrupted power supplies just when people needed cooling or heating most.
In all, the costli…
This BAMS special report presents assessments of how human-caused climate change may have affected the strength and likelihood of individual extreme events.
The ninth edition of the report "Explaining Extreme Events in 2019 from a Climate Perspective", presents 15 new peer-reviewed analyses of extreme weather across four continents and one sea during 2…
This study finds that 17 million people were newly displaced by sudden-onset disasters worldwide in 2009, and over 42 million people in 2010. To meet this challenge, the study recommends that greater collaboration is required between those working in the fields of humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and development. I…
By Erik D. Olson
Earlier this week, 1 in 22 Americans didn’t have water or was on a boil water alert. Nearly 15 million people in Texas alone were without safe drinking water in the wake of the massive storm, cold snap, and power outages. Many more in Oklahoma, Louisiana, and other hard-hit Southern states also lost water or were on “voluntary” or mand…
Extreme weather events are those events which society is unable to cope with. They are by definition rare stochastic events. Europe has experienced on unprecedented rate of extreme weather events in the last 30 years. Heat waves occurred in France, Italy, Portugal, Russian Federation, Hungary and Bulgaria between 2000 and 2003. The annual number of warm…
This publication presents a summary of Practical Action's experience in Peru in the development of alternative climate change adaptation technologies using appropriate practices. It synthesises learning and outcomes of experiences looking at fostering adaptive capacity and building resilience, as well as reducing vulnerability to a wide range of hazards…