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Stories from the Forgotten Coast With the Katrina-anniversary media gone, the hard work continues	Annie Ducmanis	23 Oct 2007	Grist Feature
A version of this piece originally appeared on the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors website. FEMA trailer camp, Plaquemines Parish, La. Photo: Marni Rosen The many communities of color along the Gulf Coast, be they African American, Creole, Native American, or Vietnamese American, have much in common -- and not just because they're still struggling to get back on their ...
Topics: climate change impacts, environmental justice, Louisiana, Mississippi, severe weather (all these topics)

Fresh water in peril Investments are needed to stave off climate-induced water crisis	Andrew Dessler	22 Oct 2007	Gristmill
To me, loss of freshwater supplies is the scariest impact of climate change. After all, I can imagine adapting relatively successfully to a warmer world. I cannot imagine adapting to a world with less freshwater. That view was reinforced by a great article on water in The New York Times Magazine. Read it and then forward it to all of your friends. Over on inkstain, John Fleck also has a bunch of terrific blog entries about the ongoing water crisis in the Southeas ...
Topics: water crisis, climate change impacts, climate, severe weather (all these topics)

Good News for People Who Love Bad News Reports bring various doomy and gloomy predictions		22 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 1:52 PM on 22 Oct 2007 Indeed, the depressing reports come fast and furious. German-based Energy Watch Group says the world has already reached peak oil, and predicts that production will now fall by 7 percent a year. The Worldwatch Institute suggests that 21 cities that will have populations of 8 million or more by 2015 are highly vulnerable to havoc wreaked by rising seas. The comprehensive &qu ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change impacts, energy, news, oil, severe weather (all these topics)

It's getting hot in here 2007: A record-setting U.S. drought year	Joseph Romm	16 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) just issued its September report -- and the West and Southeast continue to scorch: About 43 percent of the contiguous U.S. fell in the moderate to extreme drought categories (based on the Palmer Drought Index) at the end of September. Here is the U.S. Drought Monitor (darker = drier): Here are some of the drought records being set around the country: Drought and mild temperatures have pushed Lake Superior ...
Topics: climate, climate science, severe weather (all these topics)

It's the Heat and the Humidity Climate change will bring more humidity and heat-related deaths		10 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 12:31 PM on 10 Oct 2007 Climate change is increasing global humidity, according to a new study in Nature. If the globe heats as projected, air stickiness could increase globally by up to 24 percent by 2100. Says study coauthor Katharine Willett, "Although it might not be a lethal kind of thing, it's going to increase human discomfort." For a lethal kind of thing, we turn to a study ...
Topics: climate, climate science, New York City, news, severe weather (all these topics)

Marathon meltdown A first-hand view from Chicago's overheated marathon	Grist	09 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Photo: sterno74 Chicago's annual marathon was shut down early on Sunday due to oppressive heat and humidity, which led to dozens of hospitalizations. Grister Sarah Hardin was on the scene and offers this first-hand report: ----- It's become a tradition for my geographically widespread family to converge on Chicago in October for the city's annual marathon. We've been volunteering at the marathon ever since my cousin married the operations m ...
Topics: severe weather, Chicago, sports (all these topics)

Running a Fever Heat shuts down Chicago marathon		08 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 12:11 PM on 08 Oct 2007 Sweltering humidity and 88-degree temperatures forced yesterday's Chicago marathon to shut down early for the first time in its 30-year history. One runner died, more than 300 were hospitalized, and thousands were really irritated. sources:� Chicago Sun-Times, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Seattle Times, Detroit Free Press From the Archives Into the Speech. Obama will outline energy plan i ...
Topics: climate, green living, news, severe weather, sports (all these topics)

Neither trick nor treat Pumpkin production is down for second year in a row	Sarah van Schagen	02 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Halloween may still be four weeks away, but this story's already got me spooked: Scorching weather and lack of rain this summer wiped out some pumpkin crops from western New York to Illinois, leaving fields dotted with undersized fruit. Other fields got too much rain and their crops rotted. It's the second year in a row that pumpkin production has been down. First we're losing our woolly turtlenecks and now our jack-o'-lanterns? Scary. Good thing no on ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, food, holiday, severe weather (all these topics)

What the Hail? Air pollution makes hail bigger		13 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 4:47 PM on 13 Sep 2007 Caution: air pollution causes big ol' hail. From the Archives Trouble Cropping Up. Climate change will cause agricultural output to decline significantly, says study. Can You Greenwash Yourself With It? Talking Rain adds organic water flavors. Permanent Depress. Top 10 most polluted places on earth tallied by Blacksmith Institute. News Archives
Topics: air pollution, news, severe weather (all these topics)

Katrina revisited John McQuaid explains the lessons we should have learned from Hurricane Katrina	Lisa Hymas	12 Sep 2007	Gristmill
In an new series in Mother Jones, John McQuaid reports on what we should have learned from Hurricane Katrina. McQuaid knows what he's talking about -- three years before the storm, he coauthored an award-winning series predicting all-too-accurately what would happen to New Orleans if it were hit by a big-time hurricane, and he's since coauthored the book Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms. His MoJo series includes an i ...
Topics: Louisiana, severe weather (all these topics)

'We should already be moving to prepare and protect ourselves' Mooney on hurricanes and climate change	David Roberts	07 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Chris Mooney has a piece in the L.A. Times about the current hurricane season and the connection between hurricanes and climate change. It echoes the sensible line taken in Chris' book. This is the crucial bit: When it comes to the hurricane-global warming relationship, neither outright alarmism nor dismissive skepticism are warranted. Rather, taking the limited information that we have and making the most of it should lead to a stance of cautious, well-informed ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, severe weather (all these topics)

Australia faces the 'permanent dry,' as do we Drought predicted to spread across Australia and the United States	Joseph Romm	06 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The story of Australia's worst dry spell in a thousand years continues to astound. Last year we learned, 'One farmer takes his life every four days.' This year over half of Australia's agricultural land is in a declared drought. How bad is it? One Australian newspaper is reporting: Drought will become a redundant term as Australia plans for a permanently drier future, according to the nation's urban water industries chief ... 'The urban water industry ha ...
Topics: Australia, climate, climate science, severe weather, United States (all these topics)

Hurricanes are getting stronger -- thanks to global warming! Climate change is increasing the frequency of Category 5 storms	Joseph Romm	04 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Global warming has long been predicted to make hurricanes more intense. Well, now we are seeing more intense hurricanes. Chris Mooney has a great post on the recent storm surge of Category 5 hurricanes, now that Felix has joined that once-elite club. He notes: There have now been 8 Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes in the past 5 years (Isabel, Ivan, Emily, Katrina, Rita, Wilma, Dean, Felix). There have been two Atlantic Category 5s so far this year; only three ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, severe weather (all these topics)

We won't even help our own For mitigation over adaptation: the argument from cynicism	David Roberts	04 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The second anniversary of Katrina has passed, marked by me only with craven silence. There are three Katrina tidbits I wanted to pass along, though, as they are germane to the argument over whether humanity can or should adapt to ongoing climate change. The first is from a year ago. Jim Rusch, who was then acting governor of Idaho and who is likely to take over Larry Craig's recently vacated Senate seat, said this: Here in Idaho, we couldn't understand how peopl ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, Louisiana, politics, severe weather (all these topics)

Storms a brewin' Global warming will spawn severe storms and tornados, reports NASA	Joseph Romm	31 Aug 2007	Gristmill
We have known for a while that global warming is making our weather more extreme, especially extreme heat, drought, heavy rainfall, and flooding. Now we have more predictions: NASA scientists have developed a new climate model that indicates that the most violent severe storms and tornadoes may become more common as Earth's climate warms. Perhaps that is why we have been setting records for tornados lately. This is especially bad news for this country because, as th ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, severe weather (all these topics)

No Looking Back Los Angeles Times series looks at NOLA's rebuilding effort two years later		30 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
No Looking Back Los Angeles Times series looks at NOLA's rebuilding effort two years later The two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is a largely grim occasion, but a Los Angeles Times series has found cause for inspiration. In a 10-story installment, the paper appraises the rebuilding effort in New Orleans and the innovation it has sparked -- particularly in ...
Topics: green building, innovation, Louisiana, news, placemaking, severe weather, urban planning (all these topics)

Katrina A good analysis of the fateful hurricane's political aftermath	David Roberts	29 Aug 2007	Gristmill
There are lots of Katrina retrospectives floating around today, on the 2nd anniversary. If I were a better man, maybe I'd write one, but thinking back on those events makes me feel sick, helpless rage all over again, and I'm about to head to a picnic with my two boys, so I'm gonna choose to stay happy instead.If you're looking for smart commentary on Katrina and the political aftermath thereof, check out this from Statfor. See also Chris Mooney's lessons learned, one, ...
Topics: Louisiana, politics, severe weather (all these topics)

Hurricane Katrina and the myth of global warming adaptation When it comes to climate change, prevention is more important than adaptation	Joseph Romm	29 Aug 2007	Gristmill
G. Gordon Liddy's daughter repeated a standard Denier line in our debate: Humans are very adaptable -- we've adapted to climate changes in the past and will do so in the future. I think Hurricane Katrina gives the lie to that myth. No, I'm not saying humans are not adaptable. Nor am I saying global warming caused Hurricane Katrina, although warming probably did make it more intense. But on the two-year anniversary of Katrina, I'm saying Katrina showed the limitati ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, Louisiana, severe weather (all these topics)

The Best Defense Is a Good ... Marsh Two years after Katrina, New Orleans is still succumbing to water	Wayne Curtis	29 Aug 2007	Dispatches
is a freelance writer who's written for The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, American Scholar, Preservation, and American Heritage, and is the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails. He recently traded Maine winters for New Orleans summers. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 Wednesday, 29 Aug 2007 NEW ORLEANS, La. Katrina left these boats high and dry -- b ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Oil, Dispatches, Louisiana, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather, urban planning, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

'An unspeakable tragedy' In Greece, 170 fires burning, 37 dead, and government shaken	Kit Stolz	26 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Over 170 fires are now burning in Greece. Mostly they are wildfires in the hills, but yesterday a fire broke out in Athens itself that required ten engines to quell. Thirty-seven have been killed, including several firefighters. The prime minister has called the disaster "an unspeakable tragedy." Temps reached 42 degrees Celsius, or about 108 degrees Fahrenheit, in Athens, according to the Associated Press. The fires have been burning for weeks, an ...
Topics: Greece, severe weather (all these topics)

Warming will worsen water wars The magnitude of drought and floods will increase with climate change	Joseph Romm	24 Aug 2007	Gristmill
A very good article in the Washington Post lays out the problem we face. 'Global warming will intensify drought, and it will intensify floods,' explains Stephen Schneider, editor of the journal Climatic Change and a lead author for the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Why? As the air gets warmer, there will be more water in the atmosphere. That's settled science ... You are going to intensify the hydrologic cycle. Where the atmos ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, severe weather, water conflicts, water crisis (all these topics)

Shameless self-promotion Friday Writing about Mooney, writing about storms	Kate Sheppard	10 Aug 2007	Gristmill
I reviewed Chris Mooney's new book, Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming, for The American Prospect, and it's up today. Gristmiller Kit Stolz reviewed it here a while ago, but uh, mine is ... longer. Anyway, the book is good, though not the galvanizing polemic that made his first book, The Republican War on Science, a bestseller. But Mooney's got quite the knack for telling the back story on how science and politics became friends w ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change impacts, severe weather, shameless self-promotion (all these topics)

Hansen 2: Iowa edition of Declaration of Stewardship Hansen gives a talk in Iowa about climate change impacts	Joseph Romm	09 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Hansen writes faster than I can blog. He has posted a 'talk given at Des Moines last Sunday, with description of Declaration of Stewardship slightly edited for clarity.' He talks about the 'three major consequences of global warming, if we go down the business-as-usual path, with fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions continuing to increase': First, there is the extermination of species. We could drive half of the plant and animal species on the planet to extincti ...
Topics: biodiversity, climate, climate change impacts, oceans, severe weather (all these topics)

As flooding cripples New York City transit system ... Only cyclists and walkers remain calm	Maywa Montenegro	08 Aug 2007	Gristmill
At around 4:30am today, a powerful storm swept through New York City and surrounding areas, dumping nearly two inches of rain over Central Park in just one hour before spinning into 'tornado-like' gusts in Brooklyn. The downpour was over soon enough, but the sudden surge of water flooded our subway system, causing every major line to be shut down. Service on buses and trains into the city was either suspended or delayed, right in the midst of rush hour on a swe ...
Topics: New York, New York City, public transportation, severe weather (all these topics)

Grunwald tears the Corps of Engineers a new one In a devastating new magazine piece	David Roberts	08 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Speaking of newsmagazine pieces with refreshingly strong points of view, don't miss the always excellent Michael Grunwald's cover story in the current issue of Time: "The Threatening Storm." It's a detailed, enraging indictment of the Army Corps of Engineers -- its incompetence before Katrina and its ongoing failure to protect the Gulf coast from future hurricanes. While the details are fascinating, everything you need to know is contained in the devastati ...
Topics: Louisiana, severe weather (all these topics)

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