The waters will rise, this spring and in years to come
It looks like the devastating flooding in the Midwest is just the beginning of an unprecedented flood season, according to a statement from the National Water Center. As Vox reports:…
Category Archives: Extreme Events
Cities begin to fill the void on floodplain regulation
InsideClimate News highlights Mexico Beach, Florida in a story about the trend of cities and towns ditching outdated FEMA guidelines on flood zones. A growing number of municipalities are requiring…
From Bomb Cyclone to Cyclone Idai
Extreme weather in two parts of the world is in the news this week: Southern Africa, where more than 2 million people have been affected by a tropical cyclone, according…
Arctic heat transformations
The great frozen (for now) expanse of the Arctic is both a linchpin of climate change and a signifier of the effects of climate change. For the latter, look to…
The heat is rising – as is fossil fuel’s toll on fresh water
May, June and July were the hottest on record for the continental United States. No surprise to those of us living here. From Joe Romm’s summation of NOAA’s report on…
The temperature of climate change inequality, part two
We got another lesson in warming-equals-volatility this week. A climate model reported in a paper in Science Advances shows that southern hemisphere countries, particularly those in Amazonia and Southern Africa,…
The temperature of climate change inequality
It’s clear that poorer people in the developing world are going to bear the brunt of climate change. A report presented at the European Geosciences Union meeting this month adds…
