As summer kicks off with a nationwide heatwave, we are reminded of the dangers that heat can have on human health. Climate scientists warn that these record temperatures we're experiencing will continue to be more common and intense. This urgency was the driving force behind the HeatWise Policy Partnership Summit held last week at Duke University. The summit brought together over 100 leaders from various sectors including #Americares Associate Director of Climate and Disaster Resilience Nate Matthews-Trigg, MPH, NMCEM, CEM, to develop strategies for making communities more resilient to extreme heat. The Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability will publish a report with concrete recommendations based on the summit’s discussions in order to help leaders at all levels understand how to implement effective heat resilience strategies. Read more about how Americares is changing to meet the need of communities experiencing extreme heat: https://lnkd.in/ezWGarr6
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As climate change intensifies, extreme weather events like heat waves, storms, and flooding pose significant challenges. That's why organizations and communities are actively working on enhancing their infrastructure resilience. Click below to join this insightful LinkedIn Live event featuring Erkan Erdem, Ph.D., Principal at KPMG, and Sarah Kapnick, Ph.D., Chief Scientist for NOAA as they dive into NOAA's crucial role in Climate Science and Technology, driving a more resilient future for the U.S. #climatechange
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As climate change intensifies, extreme weather events like heat waves, storms, and flooding pose significant challenges. That's why organizations and communities are actively working on enhancing their infrastructure resilience. Click below to join this insightful LinkedIn Live event featuring Erkan Erdem, Ph.D., Principal at KPMG, and Sarah Kapnick, Ph.D., Chief Scientist for NOAA as they dive into NOAA's crucial role in Climate Science and Technology, driving a more resilient future for the U.S. #climatechange
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As climate change intensifies, extreme weather events like heat waves, storms, and flooding pose significant challenges. That's why organizations and communities are actively working on enhancing their infrastructure resilience. Click below to join this insightful LinkedIn Live event featuring Erkan Erdem, Ph.D., Principal at KPMG, and Sarah Kapnick, Ph.D., Chief Scientist for NOAA as they dive into NOAA's crucial role in Climate Science and Technology, driving a more resilient future for the U.S. #climatechange
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#ClimateChange will change the world as we know it. Soon those changes will be so evident that we need to prepare good answers for the kids and grandkids. Here an hypothetical dialogue 👇 Hypothetic Kid: « Why didn’t your generation engage in #ClimateAction when there was still time to do something about all this? » Hypothetic Grownup: « I guess we were busy making money? We did not want to change? And even if I wanted to, you understand, what could I do by myself? » Hypothetical Kid: «You knew and did nothing? It’s outrageous!» Here below a first non-hypothetical alarming sign from the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in the Ocean that acts as thermostat for so many Northern Nations. The #AMOC can cause havoc if or when collapsing. Let me be absolutely clear, these changes are irreversible and pervasive as the The Guardian article describes 👉 https://lnkd.in/eC5-6fJJ Following this #Science paper 👉 https://lnkd.in/eEXxKVQ2 using improved #EarthSystemModels and #EarthObservations the mechanism controlling Ocean currents can be better represented. There is still #hope as we understand it. It does not have to be that way, the world 🌎🌍🌏 must unite to manage the #ClimateCrisis and the heat trapping #GreenhouseGases that are causing it. The time for #ClimateFinance and #ClimateAction is now! ⏱️
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Our paper is out in PLoSOne quantifying the financial costs of climate change from the loss of lake ice Climate change is happening and a consequence of warming air temperatures is changes in ice patterns such as shorter ice durations, more free-thaw cycles, and ice-free years. Most temperate communities rely on lake ice for cultural importance, local recreation, transporation, and ecological services. In our paper, we looked at the revenue generated from ice-based activities and how the change in duration will result in a loss of income for communities assocaited with the lake. The paper was a long-time coming and is part of a growing body of research assigning dollar-values to the cost of climate change. I think this is really important for contextualizing climate change not as something abstract, but something having real-world implications today and in the coming decades. Big thanks to my collaborators Arshad Imrit, Andrew Fleck, Iestyn Woolway, & Sapna Sharma. #climatechange #lakeice #globalwarming #economy https://lnkd.in/eZbdE-2m
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Global weather in the CY 2023 has shattered many records. As the trend persists into 2024 (mainly due to drivers like El Niño, greenhouse gas concentrations, and other natural variations), governments and organizations must join forces to adopt systems-wide de-risking strategies, build capacities, and scale for anticipatory action approaches including social protection systems. Further, in the Global Risk Report 2024, extreme weather events rank in the top both on the two-year and ten-year horizon.
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