Apollo Beach, Fla., averages 3 feet above sea level, with many homes directly on the water. Google Earth Risa Palm, Georgia State University and Toby W. Bolsen, Georgia State University
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US Energy Independence
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Oyster Takings Claims
Campo v. United States, No. 20-44, 2021 WL 6102151 (Fed. Cl. Dec. 23, 2021) [For a good discussion of the Louisiana law on property interests in oyster leases, see: John J. Costonis, Avenal v. State: Takings and Damagings in Louisiana,…
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BP P.L.C. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
This is a climate case based on public nuisance and misrepresentation. Defendants removed to federal court under the federal officer statute and the Circuit sent it back. Defendants appealed to the USSC, which accepted cert. and rule that when the…
FEMA Strategic Plans
FEMA Strategic Plan 2014–2018 – Obama Administration, mentions climate 8 times. FEMA Strategic Plan 2018–2033 – Trump Administration, mentions climate 0 times. FEMA Strategic Plan 2022–2618 – Biden Administration, mentions climate 93 times.
Mitigation Banking and Offsets – Bad Science and Failed Policy
Office, U.S.G.A., on Transportation, U.S.C.H.C. & Infrastructure, 2005. Wetlands Protection: Corps of Engineers Does Not Have an Effective Oversight Approach to Ensure that Compensatory Mitigation is Occurring: Report to the Ranking Democratic Member, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of…
Resources – Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion (MBSD) DRAFT Environmental Impact Statement
See also: River Diversion Research Articles The official site: Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion (MBSD) DRAFT Environmental Impact Statement Released for Public Review and Comment Note – in order to make it more difficult for reporters and others to use the files, they…
Introduction to Weather
Petition Requesting That The Federal Emergency Management Agency Amend Its Regulations Implementing the National Flood Insurance Program
Petition Requesting That The Federal Emergency Management Agency Amend Its Regulations Implementing the National Flood Insurance Program I. Introduction Flooding poses a significant threat to life and property and is the most common natural hazard in the United States. Since…
NASA Science Briefs – The Great Ice Meltdown and Rising Seas: Lessons for Tomorrow
The Great Ice Meltdown and Rising Seas: Lessons for Tomorrow By Vivien Gornitz — June 2012 As accumulating atmospheric greenhouse gases lead to further climate warming, sea level rise will accelerate, endangering coastal communities by more frequent flooding, exacerbated beach…
Meltwater pulses (MWP) during deglaciation – a model for rapid sea level rise
NASA Science Briefs – The Great Ice Meltdown and Rising Seas: Lessons for Tomorrow The Generation of Meltwater Pulses – video
Fake news and disinformation
The Bad News Game This is a learning tool on how to build effective fake news. The objective is to teach critical thinking about fake news and disinformation. The Bad News Primer on Dis/Misinformation The Bad News Game (Click on…
Drowned Worlds – Doggerland, the Neolithic Bridge between Britain and Europe
During the last glacial maximum, sea level was around 600 feet lower than today. Southeast Britain was connected to Europe by a land bridge called Doggerland, which is derived from the Dogger Banks which the name of the submerged area.…
Restoring Environmental and Climate Regulations
Sabin Center Climate Deregulation Tracker Harvard Regulatory Rollback Tracker Berkeley website focused on strategies for reversing the nearly 200 federal rollbacks Day 2 Actions
Floodplain Buyouts – History
Conrad, David R. Higher Ground: A Report on Voluntary Property Buyouts in the Nation’s Floodplains: A Common Ground Solution Serving People At Risk, Taxpayers and the Environment. National Wildlife Federation, 1998.
Siberian heatwave of 2020 almost impossible without climate change
Prolonged Siberian heat of 2020 A large, rapid multi-method attribution study, supported by observational and large ensemble model analyses, indicates with high confidence that extremely warm periods such as the 6 months of January – June 2020 over the Siberian…
Federal Circuit Rejects Court of Claims finding that MRGO Caused a Taking by Flooding
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NOAA – 2019 State of U.S. High Tide Flooding with a 2020 Outlook
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Sea level rise flooding of U.S. coastlines is happening now, and it is becoming more frequent each year. This flooding typically occurs when ocean waters reach 0.5 meter (m) to 0.65 m above the daily average high tide…
FloodFactor – Find your home’s Flood Factor – Tool for Determining Present and Future Flood Risk
https://floodfactor.com/ Flood Factor™ Defining American’s past, present, and future flood risk. Flood Factor is a free online tool created by the nonprofit First Street Foundation that makes it easy for Americans to finally find their property’s current and future risk of flooding,…
SOLVING THE CLIMATE CRISIS: The Congressional Action Plan for a Clean Energy Economy and a Healthy, Resilient, and Just America
Majority Staff Report, Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, SOLVING THE CLIMATE CRISIS: The Congressional Action Plan for a Clean Energy Economy and a Healthy, Resilient, and Just America (June 2020) Executive Summary American leadership and ingenuity are central to…
Law: Carbon Capture and Storage, Technological Advancements and Operational Hurdles – Feb 2020
“Law: Carbon Capture and Storage, Technological Advancements and Operational Hurdles” – recording National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Grant ECOLE: Emerging Technologies in Occupational Health and the Environment Workshop Program February 14, 2020 9AM-12:00 Noon 8:45 – Welcome 9:00 -10:15…
The Geology of the Katrina Disaster in New Orleans – a field trip guide
Nelson, SA. Hurricane Katrina – What Happened? The Geology of the Katrina Disaster in New Orleans Field Trip Guide (2015) This guide was prepared by Stephen A. Nelson Dept. Earth & Environmental Sciences at Tulane University. It is discussed on…
FEMA – Disaster Operations Legal Reference Manuals
Version 3.1 This mid-edition online update of the Disaster Operations Legal Reference (DOLR 3.1) describes the legal authorities for FEMA’s readiness, response, and recovery activities. It supersedes DOLR 3.0, issued in March 2017. Because this reference is not exhaustive, the…
California – Climate Change and Sea Level Assessment
Council, Ocean Protection. “State of California Sea Level Rise Guidance, 2018 Update.” Ocean Protection Council: Sacramento, CA, USA (2018): 84. This updated document, the “State of California Sea-Level Rise Guidance” (Guidance), provides a bold, science-based methodology for state and local…
The Paris Climate Change Agreement
The Paris Agreement – Full Text Sachs, Noah, The Paris Agreement in the 2020s: Breakdown or Breakup? (October 3, 2019). Ecology Law Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 1, 2019. The Paris climate agreement is at risk of falling apart in the…
FISCAL MONITOR: How to Mitigate Climate Change, IMF (2019)
FISCAL MONITOR: How to Mitigate Climate Change, IMF (2019) The projections included in this issue of the Fiscal Monitor are drawn from the same database used for the October 2019 World Economic Outlook and Global Financial Stability Report (and are…
Federal Disaster Insurance – Senate Report – 1956
Federal Disaster Insurance, Report of the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate (January, 9 1956) – large file LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY, November 30, 1955. Hon. J. W. FULBRIGHT, Chairman, Committee…
Geoengineering Resources
Geoengineering tag cloud Holahan, R. & Kashwan, P., 2019. Disentangling the rhetoric of public goods from their externalities: The case of climate engineering. Global Transitions, 1, pp.132–140. McLaren, D. et al., 2016. Public conceptions of justice in climate engineering: Evidence…
Hurricanes Affecting the Coast of Texas from Galveston to Rio Grande – 1956
Waves and high waters accompanying storms of hurricane intensity have periodically wreaked havoc along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of the United States. Adequate, and economic, design of shore structures to prevent or mitigate this damage requires historical knowledge of…