What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 5 Dr. Susanne Moser
By Vicki Robin, Susanne Moser, Resilience.org
In this episode Dr. Susanne Moser brings her work’s emphasis on climate change adaptation to the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Tag: climate change adaptation
Arctic Is Thawing So Fast Scientists Are Losing Their Measuring Tools
By Dahr Jamail, TruthOut
We’ve never experienced anything like this: We are living with the full knowledge of our collapsing biosphere and watching huge portions of it vanishing before our very eyes.
The Reality of Climate Change
By Jody Tishmack, Anima/Soul
It’s time to admit defeat and retreat to higher ground. The consequences of waiting too long to address rising greenhouse gases are now unfolding and the pace is increasing. This is the reality that is already here.
How Tribes Are Harnessing Cutting-Edge Data to Plan for Climate Change
By Terri Hansen, YES! magazine
The tribes in the Pacific Northwest are leaders in climate adaptation and have mounted multifaceted responses to the threats they face, Krosby said. CIG’s tailored, state-of-the-art climate data further provide resources and data at a level of detail not yet available to most cities around the country.
The Fight to Save Coffee from Climate Change Heats Up
By Stephanie Parker, Sustainable Food Trust
Climate change is threatening coffee in Central America. Temperatures are rising, making it harder to grow high-quality Coffea arabica in the altitudes where it is currently grown.
The Flood Washes over us
By Jody Tishmack, Anima/Soul
Can a “never-seen-before ” weather event that happens every few years really be called “never-seen-before”? Does a “1 in a 1,000 year” event that happens twice in two years become a warning of something different happening?
Brace for Impact: It’s Time to Build the Fight for Climate Adaptation
By Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik, New Internationalist
The fight to tackle climate change has two core branches: mitigation (curbing excessive greenhouse gas emissions) and adaptation (addressing the effects of climate change that are already unfolding). But although both areas are needed, the public tends to focus on the former in discussions on climate change.
Let Nature be Nature
By Albert Bates, The Great Change
We had two scientific papers shoved under our door, and both of are serious sources of hope for a world undergoing climate shock. They represent the two sides of the solution ledger, adaptation and mitigation.
How Science Can Help to Halt The Western Bark Beetle Plague
By Richard Schiffman, Yale Environment 360
For residents of the Rocky Mountain region of the United States and Canada, global warming is not an abstract concept.
Four degrees of devastation
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
If greenhouse gas emissions aren’t stopped soon, unprecedented and deadly heat waves will become the new normal in most of the world.
Sailors and Solomon Islanders: Working together to take on Climate Change
By Britt Basel, Cornellsailing.com
After two weeks of workshops and meetings, this group had come up with their Climate Change Adaptation Plan for the village.
Ancient Landscapes Point to Dramatic Climate Change
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network
Scientists believe Chinese civilisation could have been founded by climate refugees after the collapse of an Inner Mongolian culture over 4,000 years ago.