It’s not only cold snaps that can threaten your water supply, but any of a multitude of climate and weather related possibilities. Anything that threatens the power grid or the quality of the water supply itself, can cause water pumping stations to shut down. Part of the solution is to stock up on water just before disaster strikes, and consider catching the rain…
The article discusses the increasing severity of forest fires due to climate change, particularly in the West. It highlights the economic and health risks associated with drought-induced fires, citing past destructive seasons. The main solution is reducing fossil fuel emissions, conserving water, and preparing for future challenges posed by drought and wildfires.
Welcome to the inaugural semi, bi-weekly “What’s Hot in Climate Change” post (pun intended!). The Climate Advisor pours over scores of climate change articles from various media outlets and reputable scientific sources almost daily, so it seemed that besides just twittering out these articles, it might be helpful if we directed readers to the best of the bunch from the past week or two. So this will be a regular update of what this blog thinks are the best stories from the previous few weeks. There may also be occasional book reviews and other fun and/or interesting stuff. We will… Read More »What’s Hot in Climate Change, 11 July 2016
Climate change will likely lead to drought in the Southwest that make the historic Dust Bowl of the 1930’s look like good times. A bunch of scientific studies assessing the risk of drought were recently covered in various media outlets, including Forbes, National Geographic, Scientific American and elsewhere. Several of these media reports are based on an excellent paper, published in Science Advances, called “Unprecedented 21st century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains.” Their findings were not encouraging. In this paper, scientists from NASA, Columbia and Cornell Universities used historical tree ring data and something called the Palmer Drought Severity Index… Read More »Climate change, drought and the future of America