EPA. 2015. Climate Change in the United States: Benefits of Global Action. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Atmospheric Programs, EPA 430-R-15-001. About this Report This report summarizes and communicates the results of EPA’s ongoing Climate Change Impacts and…
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Trump, The Koch Brothers and Their War on Climate Science
TRNN SPECIAL: Trump, The Koch Brothers and Their War on Climate Science
Well Under 2 Degrees Celsius: Fast Action Policies to Protect People and the Planet from Extreme Climate Change
Well Under 2 Degrees Celsius: Fast Action Policies to Protect People and the Planet from Extreme Climate Change. Report of the Committee to Prevent Extreme Climate Change (2017) Climate change is becoming an existential threat with warming in excess of…
Standing Rock/Dakota Access Pipeline Resources
PBS Newshour: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/tribes-across-north-america-converge-standing-rock-hoping-heard-2/
The First Earth Day
The History of Earth Day
Unfinished Business A Comparative Assessment Of Environmental Problems Overview Report – 1987
This is a pivotal report in US Environmental Law. It looked at whether the EPA was spending too many resources on low level toxic exposures, at the expense of other environmental risks, including climate change. It later became a…
2017 – Draft of the US Climate Change Report
2017 – Draft of the US Climate Change Report A draft report by scientists from 13 federal agencies, which has not yet been made public but was obtained by The New York Times, concludes that Americans are feeling the effects…
Climate Change Communication and Denial
A primary issue in addressing climate change is that many people either deny its existence or deny or downplay man’s role in driving it. The usual answer is that we need more education about climate science. Cultural cognition research questions…
THE ROAD TO ACTION: Financial regulation addressing climate change
THE ROAD TO ACTION: Financial regulation addressing climate change (original link) Our report finds that investors, asset managers and banks urgently need a way to identify and measure how companies are responding to the risks of climate change. The cost of…
The Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax
The Climate Leadership Council: The Conservative Case for Carbon Dividends (2017) There are many traditional conservatives who understand and believe in climate change. Consistent with their small government beliefs, they see a carbon tax as the best approach to reducing…
A bitter scientific debate just erupted over the future of America’s power grid
A bitter scientific debate just erupted over the future of America’s power grid Scientists are engaged in an increasingly bitter and personal feud over how much power the United States can get from renewable sources, with a large group of…
Climate Change Litigation Databases
Climate Change Litigation Databases About: This website provides two databases of climate change litigation, one for U.S. climate change litigation and one for non-U.S. cases.
Sustainable Humanity Sustainable Nature our Responsibility
Joint Workshop of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, 2-6 May 2014 – Are Humanity’s dealings with Nature sustainable? What is the status of the Human Person in a world where science predominates? How…
Scott Pruitt – EPA Secretary – Is Climate Change Real?
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Hearing entitled, “Nomination of Attorney General Scott Pruitt to be Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency” January 18, 2017 16. Are you aware that each of the past three decades has been warmer…
Arctic Report Card: Update for 2016
J. Richter-Menge, J. E. Overland, and J. T. Mathis, Eds., 2016: Arctic Report Card 2016, http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card. Highlights The average surface air temperature for the year ending September 2016 is by far the highest since 1900, and new monthly record highs…
Sea Level Rise Threatens Major US Navel Bases
Kelly A Burks-Copes et al., Risk Quantification for Sustaining Coastal Military Installation Asset and Mission Capabilities (RC-1701) (2014). (original link) Objective The objective of this project was to develop and test a risk-based methodology to evaluate threats to critical installation assets…
Climate Change and Security in South Asia
GMACCC Publishes “Climate Change & Security In South Asia: Cooperating For Peace” A GMACCC report published on 31 May 2016 warns that a recent drought in India which has affected over 330 million people – causing displacement and threatening farms –is…
Drought Resources
Ten Civilizations or Nations That Collapsed From Drought
The Digital Coast
The Digital Coast What is the Digital Coast? This NOAA-sponsored website is focused on helping communities address coastal issues and has become one of the most-used resources in the coastal management community. The dynamic Digital Coast Partnership, whose members represent…
Are the Syrians the first official climate change refugees?
When we talk about future climate change refugees, the picture that comes to mind is starving people looking to leave a drought stricken country whose economic system has failed. Tragic, but within the international law system, these would be economic…
State of the Climate 2014
Blunden, J. and D. S. Arndt, Eds., 2015: State of the Climate in 2014. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 96 (7), S1– S267. International report confirms: 2014 was Earth’s warmest year on record Climate markers continue to show global warming trend…
ARkStorm – The weather equivalent of the Big One for California
Keith Porter et al., Overview of the ARkStorm scenario (2011). I Sue Wing, A Rose & A Wein, Economic impacts of the ARkStorm scenario, Overview of the ARkStorm Scenario 2010–1312 (2010). Overview of the ARkStorm Scenario (orginal site) By Keith Porter,…
Corps of Engineers systematically underestimates river flood risk
Robert E Criss, Statistics of evolving populations and their relevance to flood risk, Journal of Earth Science 1–7 (2016). ABSTRACT: Statistical methods are commonly used to evaluate natural populations and environmental variables, yet these must recognize temporal trends in population…
National Flood Insurance Program: Evaluation
National Flood Insurance Program: Evaluation (FEMA – 2006) Original Link The NFIP Evaluation Capstone Study summarizes what was done, what was learned, and recommendations made. It synthesizes the sub-study findings into a coherent report evaluating the aspects of the Program…
Tying Flood Insurance to Flood Risk for Low-Lying Structures in the Floodplains
Tying Flood Insurance to Flood Risk for Low-Lying Structures in the Floodplains Authors Committee on Risk-Based Methods for Insurance Premiums of Negatively Elevated Structures in the National Flood Insurance Program; Water Science and Technology Board; Division on Earth and Life…
Western Water – Resources
Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study – WWW site Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study – Executive Summary (2012) Report predicting that the demand on the river will exceed capacity by 100% by 2050. Chasing Water…
Weather and Storm Forecasting Resources
NOAA NOAA QuickLook Site reporting on Water and Surge Levels Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services
US Cap and Trade Resources
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is the first market-based regulatory program in the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. RGGI is a cooperative effort among the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,…
President Obama’s Climate Action Plan
Read President Obama’s Climate Action Plan in its entirety and fact sheet. PROGRESS REPORT: Highlighting Federal Actions Addressing the Recommendations of the State, Local, and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience, JULY 2015 View the Infographic In June…
Geoengineering Resources
Geoengineering tag cloud Why Hacking the Atmosphere Won’t Happen Any Time Soon Michael Zürn & Stefan Schäfer, The paradox of climate engineering, 4 Global Policy 266–277 (2013).