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Northern Manhattan Climate Resilience Workshop - April 4, 2015

Thu, 2015-04-09 15:23 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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On April 4, 2015 a climate change planning workshop was held for West Harlem, Washington Heights, and Inwood. The workshop brought local stakeholders together to develop community-based responses to climate related events including heat waves and hurricanes, among others.

The "Northern Manhattan Climate Change Resilience Project" is a collaborative planning process for ensuring that New York City's response to climate change meets the needs of low-income and other marginalized communities in Northern Manhattan and beyond. In additon to advocating for public policies that reverse the city's legacy and trajectory of socio-economic inequality, participants will work to develop systems of local cooperation that can support social resilience in the face of climate change.

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A Community Response to Extreme Weather Emergencies

Tue, 2015-04-07 22:38 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

climateresil-weact.nationbuilder.com - by Dee Aheme - April 7, 2015

On Saturday April 4th, I participated in an amazing and eye-opening climate change planning workshop for Northern Manhattan.  The room was packed from wall-to-wall with over 65 diverse community members from West Harlem, Washington Heights, and Inwood, many of whom were my fellow WE ACT members, and all of whom were gathered with one goal: to help Northern Manhattan’s low-income and working class residents prepare for the climate crisis.

We know that due to global warming we are already seeing more frequent ‘extreme weather emergencies’ and we can expect that those conditions will get worse over the coming years.  We know that in the NYC area we will see summer heat waves intensify and winter storms become more severe, with greater risk of flooding due to rising sea-levels.  The big question posed at this workshops was: what are we going to do about it?

RSVP HERE FOR THE APRIL 11TH WORKSHOP

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Building the Knowledge Base for Climate Resiliency: New York City Panel on Climate Change 2015 Report

Fri, 2015-04-03 19:11 — Kathy Gilbeaux
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Report Contents

Documents observed climate changes and provides climate projections for the first time through 2100 for temperature, precipitation, and sea level rise

Presents new maps for the coastal flood risks through 2100 for the current 100-year (1% annual chance of occurrence) and 500-year (0.2% annual chance of occurrence) coastal flood events

UCCRN - Climate Change and Cities: First Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network

Thu, 2015-04-02 16:06 — Kathy Gilbeaux
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UCCRN - Climate Change and Cities: First Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network

http://uccrn.org/what-we-do/arc3-report/

NYC Panel on Climate Change Report

Thu, 2015-04-02 16:02 — Kathy Gilbeaux
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NYC Panel on Climate Change Report

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.2015.1336.issue-1/issuetoc

Center for Climate Systems Research - Earth Institute | Columbia University

Tue, 2015-03-31 21:59 — Kathy Gilbeaux
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Planetary Boundaries: Guiding Human Development on a Changing Planet

Fri, 2015-03-20 17:30 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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CLICK HERE - RESEARCH - Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

As Science publishes the updated research, four of nine planetary boundaries have been crossed: climate change, loss of biosphere integrity, land-system change, altered biogeochemical cycles (phosphorus and nitrogen). Image source: F. Pharand-Deschênes /Globaïa

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Planetary Boundaries 2.0 – new and improved

As Science publishes the updated research, four of nine planetary boundaries have been crossed

Four of nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed as a result of human activity, says an international team of 18 researchers in the journal Science (16 January 2015). The four are: climate change, loss of biosphere integrity, land-system change, altered biogeochemical cycles (phosphorus and nitrogen).

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Researchers Link Syrian Conflict to a Drought Made Worse by Climate Change

Thu, 2015-03-05 22:09 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

Women working in fields in northeastern Syria in 2010.  A new report suggests extreme drought in Syria was most likely a factor in the violent uprising that began there in 2011. Credit Louai Beshara/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

CLICK HERE - STUDY - Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought

nytimes.com - by Henry Fountain - March 2, 2015

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Interaction of Atlantic and Pacific Oscillations Caused 'False Pause' in Warming

Sat, 2015-02-28 23:05 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Ocean and sky (stock image) / Iakov Kalinin / Fotolia

CLICK HERE - RESEARCH - Atlantic and Pacific multidecadal oscillations and Northern Hemisphere temperatures

sciencedaily.com - February 26, 2015

The recent slowdown in climate warming is due, at least in part, to natural oscillations in the climate, according to a team of climate scientists, who add that these oscillations represent variability internal to the climate system. They do not signal any slowdown in human-caused global warming.

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US faces worst droughts in 1,000 years, predict scientists

Sun, 2015-02-15 13:21 — Maeryn Obley

Cattle roam dirt-brown fields on the outskirts of Delano, in California’s Central Valley. Scientists predict future droughts will be far worse than the one in California. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images

Image: Cattle roam dirt-brown fields on the outskirts of Delano, in California’s Central Valley. Scientists predict future droughts will be far worse than the one in California. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images

theguardian.com - February 12 2015 - Suzanne Goldenberg

The US south-west and the Great Plains will face decade-long droughts far worse than any experienced over the last 1,000 years because of climate change, researchers said on Thursday.

The coming drought age – caused by higher temperatures under climate change – will make it nearly impossible to carry on with current life-as-normal conditions across a vast swathe of the country.

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