A Climate Institute Publication
Photo By Arctic Warrior/CC BY-ND 2.0 Brian Fowler Staff Director, Climate Institute After a nearly decade long hiatus from approving energy
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Over the last several years, our Chief Climate Scientist for Climate Change Programs, Mike MacCracken, has submitted legal declarations in lawsuits seeking to force the Bureau of Land Management to prepare environmental impact assessments regarding the climate change implications of their leasing of particular sites in Wyoming.
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It is time to invest in new technologies and formulate new policies to make California’s water infrastructure more adaptable in the face of a new and changing climate.
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But cut off the water to a city—cut it off entirely and permanently—and what would happen?
“The Water Knife” is a frightening, bleak meditation on how climate change could turn us into monsters.
Although the possibility has been given short shrift in climate protection discussions, the US may be the most vulnerable of all Earth’s industrialized nations to climate change.
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In conclusion, just a short period of time spent in the Alaska Arctic gave me the opportunity to see firsthand significant environmental phenomena which have been tied to a changing climate. These anecdotes are vivid and memorable, though not as robust as the systematic observations of trends over time across a broad geography.
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In June, the Children’s City museum in Dubai opened its Earth Sciences Gallery. Designed in partnership with the Climate Institute, the Earth Science Gallery teaches children about the earth’s history and climate.
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However, because of all that is left out, the estimate that impacts will only reach about 1 to 3% of GDP clearly represents a lower bound. Indeed, the paper is roughly equivalent to the fire brigades of London issuing a report on their success in taking an optimal route when called to face the recent massive apartment building fire.
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