Summer is here. Planet Detroit, in partnership with Great Lakes Now, hosted a compelling panel featuring experts from the National Weather Service, Eastside Community Network, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, and the Dearborn Public Health. They delved into the increasing frequency of significant weather events in Southeast Michigan, such as extended heat waves, high-intensity rainstorms and worsening air quality due to ozone and smoke from Canadian wildfires. Get informed and watch here:
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Week 3 and 4 of Things you may not know about Arizona: Week 3: Arizona became the 48th state and last of the contiguous states on February 14, 1912. Week 4: Arizona's disparate climate can yield both the highest temperature across the nation and the lowest temperature across the nation in the same day.
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Every single challenge America faces have dozens of Industry and Professional organizations who could be part of the solution. Your country needs you.
“Join First Street’s experts, Head of Climate Implications, Dr. Jeremy Porter; Senior Research Analyst, Evelyn Shu; and CEO and Founder, Matthew Eby as they delve into their newly published research that led to the discovery of “Climate Abandonment Areas,” in the journal Nature. What you’ll learn: Locations in the USA that are defined as “Climate Abandonment Areas,” areas that are declining in population because of flood risk. The First Street Foundation models behind the identification of Climate Abandonment Areas and how they work. How Climate Abandonment Areas impact property values, neighborhood composition, and commercial viability. Which areas are forecasted to cross the tipping point and become Climate Abandonment Areas in the near future. “ https://lnkd.in/eKgPsia2
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Having accessible and reliable data like this will help us plan for current and future resiliency in our region.
After years of work, we’re thrilled to introduce MN CliMAT, an interactive online tool allowing Minnesotans to access highly localized climate projections: https://lnkd.in/gcp3TD4C The data include detailed information about temperature, precipitation, ice cover, soil moisture and other variables critical to informing how and where we prepare for the impacts of climate change. Users can view projections down to the 2.5-mile scale, visualizing how even specific towns may be impacted in the coming decades. We’re grateful to our partners at the Minnesota Department of Commerce, University of Minnesota Extension and the Minnesota Sea Grant Sea Grant College Program for supporting this effort! Please check out the tool and stay tuned for more information on upcoming training and workshops!
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As a child in Southern California, I grew up hearing that it "never rains" here. That myth was comforting in its simplicity, but this year's events have shattered that old adage. For the first time ever, the Los Angeles metro area was placed under a "high risk" warning for flash flooding—a stark reminder that the climate is changing faster than we ever imagined. An atmospheric river, stretching all the way from Hawaii and supercharged by warmer ocean temperatures, pummeled the region. My mother, an East Coast gardener who resented the water-hoarding succulents of our California garden, would scarcely recognize the place now. The infrequent, light rains of my youth have given way to life-threatening downpours. This isn’t just an odd weather pattern; it’s a sign of the future. We’ve long comforted ourselves with the idea that the cataclysmic impacts of climate change are decades away, that we have time to plan, to engineer our way out of this. But the truth, as Dr. Andrea Dutton from the University of Wisconsin-Madison emphasizes, is that these "average" predictions obscure the immediate dangers we're already facing. Sea levels are rising faster than they did in the last century, and those smooth curves we see on climate models are dangerously misleading. We need to rethink our approach, recognizing that sudden, dramatic changes—like those that occurred thousands of years ago—could happen again, much sooner than we expect. The time to act isn't decades from now; it's today. Our climate is shifting beneath our feet, and we need to prepare for the unexpected. The old adage about California weather has never felt more outdated.
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While summer offers many advantages, it is also a season marked by extreme heat and other natural disasters. From understanding the long-term health effects of hurricanes to optimizing strategies to prevent drowning, NICHD research seeks to understand the impacts of climate change and help ensure safe participation in summer sports. Learn more at https://go.nih.gov/35XZycU. #NICHDimpact
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🎞️ Watch: Nicole Beck, CEO of Esri Partner 2NDNATURE, presents a compelling view of how we can solve our water problems by embracing rainwater in this inspiring TED Talk. https://ow.ly/7srn30sEPaX
Rainwater strategies for climate resilience | Nicole Beck | TEDxSantaCruz
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🎞️ Watch: Nicole Beck, CEO of Esri Partner 2NDNATURE, presents a compelling view of how we can solve our water problems by embracing rainwater in this inspiring TED Talk. https://ow.ly/YYGz30sF3HY
Rainwater strategies for climate resilience | Nicole Beck | TEDxSantaCruz
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Frigid cold weather in the U.S. #emergencyresponse #emergencypreparedness and #emergencymanagement professionals are screaming the question, "WHY WOULDN'T YOU GO TO THIS WEBINAR?" Argonne National Laboratory Center for Climate Resilience and Decision Science at Argonne National Laboratory is hosting it on Jan 31 & Feb 1 to unveil the soon-to-be newly relaunched Climate Risk and Resilience Portal (ClimRR) Oh, did I say it's FREE! Think about it.
🚨 WEBINAR ALERT! 🚨 This month we will be releasing the newly upgraded Climate Risk and Resilience Portal (ClimRR) – developed at Argonne National Laboratory – which provides free, dynamically downscaled climate projections for the United States. Please join Argonne’s Thomas A. Wall, Ph.D. and Carmella Burdi, FEMA and AT&T for one of two webinars (January 31 or February 1) to learn about ClimRR's newly enhanced ways to visualize and analyze future climate hazards like extreme heat, heavy rainfall, wildfire and drought on top of layers of local demographic and infrastructure data. Registration is free: https://lnkd.in/dWJPnNfp
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Want something “cool” to do this summer? Put on your operational forecaster hat and learn how to monitor and forecast sea and lake ice-related events! In our latest lesson, “Forecasting Impactful Sea and Lake Ice Events,” you’ll use weather, water, geographical, and satellite information along with observations and forecasts to evaluate sea or lake ice conditions at vulnerable locations. ❄ Take the lesson: https://lnkd.in/gX_Cq-wM 🌦 Discover 1,000+ free weather, water, and climate resources on COMET MetEd: https://lnkd.in/g7f4VZV3
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In the near future the best places to live in the USA will be equidistant from the north and south, and from coast to coast. Especially with climate change as heating costs in the north and cooling costs in the south get more and more expensive. Especially central California and the mid-Atlantic states.. the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware.
