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Examples of #Climate_Resilience Examples include preparing a city for a flood by increasing stormwater infrastructure or managing the heat island effect in a city by planting shaded trees. The private sector also uses climate resilience planning to manage risks and benefit from new opportunities.

Unraveling the narratives endorsed by #ClimateChange denialists: Who are the main propagators of this misinformation? This report from the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN) analyses conspiracy theories, how they are disseminated, and the impact they have on public perception. By examining the disinformation surrounding recent droughts and floods, the report reveals how false narratives undermine public understanding and climate action. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dCqrwx3T 📷 Adam Sébire/Climate Visuals #OceanCommunications #OceanClimateAction

Today marked a commemoration tree planting holiday towards victims lost through floods. It's evident now that the effects of climate change are catastrophic and thus we are awaken to the urgency of action, more than ever there's need for climate resilience. Action started with the tree planting and should be kept through various other ways such as taking care of the planted trees and continuous capacity building on environmental resilience. #ClimateAction #Treeplanting #Kenyastrong 

In recent years, the demand for climate risk information has surged, leading to the emergence of numerous providers. However, this has also raised critical questions: How can we trust the data being provided, and how do we ensure we are using these outputs appropriately? These concerns have put a spotlight on so-called ‘black-box’ models. At Fathom, we have always been committed to transparency—we aim to make our models as ‘clear-box’ as possible. This has perhaps never been more important than when dealing with future extreme events. Today, we are proud to share a significant milestone in our transparency journey. We have published the methodologies behind our global flood model, including the procedures and results of our forward-looking climate projections, in one of the world’s top peer-reviewed journals. This concludes a development project years in the making. Kudos to all of the team involvement, particularly the paper leads Oliver Wing and Professor Paul Bates CBE FRS

Supercharged thunderstorms: have we underestimated how climate change drives extreme rain and floods? “…Yes, a hotter atmosphere has the capacity to hold more moisture. But the condensation of water vapour to make rain droplets releases heat. This, in turn, can fuel stronger convection in thunderstorms, which can then dump substantially more rain.” “This means that the intensity of extreme rainfall could increase by much more than 7% per degree of warming. What we’re seeing is that thunderstorms can likely dump about double or triple that rate – around 14–21% more rain for each degree of warming…”

Pioneering new research has been published today, which presents the most comprehensive flood mapping framework to date. Representing years of work, the trailblazing research paper - led by our Chief Research Officer Dr Oliver Wing and co-authored by numerous Fathomers, reveals the most accurate projections of flooding under climate change yet published. Congrats to all the authors on seeing this research through to publication in Water Resources Research 🎉 Professor Paul Bates CBE FRS, Niall Quinn, James Savage, Peter Uhe, Anthony Cooper, Tom Collings, Nans Addor, Natalie Lord, Simbi Hatchard, Jannis Hoch, Joe Bates, Izzy Probyn, Sam Himsworth, Josue Rodriguez Gonzalez, Malcolm Brine, Hamish Wilkinson, Christopher Sampson, Andrew Smith, Ivan Haigh, Jeffrey Neal Read more about the research: https://lnkd.in/eBe8HAwh #researchpaper #floodrisk #waterresources #climaterisk

https://lnkd.in/g57M8x_f VEERABHADRAN RAMANATHAN AND THE ATMOSPHERIC BROWN CLOUD “…We also show that greenhouse gases and sulfates, by themselves, do not account for the magnitude or even the sign in many instances, of the observed trends [in climate change]. Thus, our simulations suggest that absorbing aerosols in atmospheric brown clouds may have played a major role in the observed regional climate and hydrological cycle changes and have masked as much as 50% of the surface warming due to the global increase in greenhouse gases. The simulations also raise the possibility that, if current trends in emissions continue, the subcontinent may experience a doubling of the drought frequency in the coming decades…” Nature

Timely excerpt from this wonderful book: “The Inflation Reduction Act ……..put close to $400 billion into clean energy. “ and “ The US Congress finally passed a piece of climate legislation ….. 34 years and 35 days after climate scientist Jim Hansen first testified before the Senate, in 1988, that climate change was real and dangerous”. We can clearly see this danger now in the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene. Instead of using this tragedy to spread misinformation and creating chaos, let’s talk about solutions instead. #HurricaneHelene #climatechange #climateresilience #cleanenergy

Today marks a special day for me as the first scientific paper to which I could contribute since working at Fathom was published in Water Resources Research. And it's not just some paper, but a really important one as it underpins Fathom’s #Global #Flood #Map. Even though the paper is full of scientific gems, here my personal key take-away messages: 1. Climate change will increase flooding globally; 2. Reducing carbon emissions is essential to minimize this increase; 3. The burden of an increase of flooding is not evenly shared with some regions likely to be affected more than others. For a great non-technical summary, see here: https://lnkd.in/ecM39jNS. For those who want to go into the weeds, follow this link to the paper: https://lnkd.in/eaxJ5zm5

Research released today demonstrates that even under the most conservative climate change scenario, coastal flooding is projected to increase by 99% by 2100. A truly sobering thought considering 800m+ people live within 1km of a coastline.   This pioneering new research has been published today, which presents the most comprehensive flood mapping framework to date.   Representing years of work, the trailblazing research paper - led by our Chief Research Officer Dr Oliver Wing and co-authored by numerous Fathomers, reveals the most accurate projections of flooding under climate change yet published. https://lnkd.in/enGnDXE2 #Flood #Climatechange #Risk #Engineering