By Cheryl Pellerin26 November 2013 WASHINGTON (American Forces Press Service) – The effects of climate change are already evident at Defense Department installations in the United States and overseas, and DOD expects climate change to challenge its ability to fulfill its mission in the future, according to the first DOD Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap [pdf]. […]
By PATRICK McGEEHAN and GRIFF PALMER6 December 2013 LONG BEACH, N.Y. (The New York Times) – For Kathryn Fitzgerald and her young daughter, Megan, home was a modest three-bedroom house here, on a tightly packed segment of Delaware Avenue two blocks from the Atlantic Ocean. That was the only home that Megan had ever known, […]
By Greg Hanscom13 December 2013 (Grist) – It’s a balmy, mid-November morning in Miami Beach, Fla., and I’m sitting at one of the cafe tables in front of the local Whole Foods, sipping a cup of coffee, and watching the tide come up. Oh, you can’t see the ocean from here. The tide is gurgling […]
By Jeffrey Goldberg 21 November 2013 (Bloomberg) – The spruce man with the trim mustache and the grim-faced bodyguard is dozing in his seat. A flight attendant leaves him a hot towel, and then another. The bodyguard, who wears the uniform of the Kiribati National Police—the shoulder patch depicts a yellow frigate bird flying clear […]
26 November 2013 (BBC News) – The New Zealand High Court has rejected a bid by a man from the Pacific island nation of Kiribati to stay in the country as a climate-change refugee. Ioane Teitiota – whose work visa had expired – had said rising sea-levels meant there was no land in Kiribati he […]
17 November 2013 (Jewish News One) – Newly released video filmed by an aid worker shows the storm surge caused by Typhoon Haiyan on 8 November 2013, with two big waves hitting Hernani town in the Philippines. He, along with five others, took refuge in the top floor of a boarding house and said that […]
By Athena Yenko 14 October 2013 (IBT) – A leak draft report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) obtained by News Corp revealed major findings on what the world will be like under a changed climate. The report, Working Group II AR5, is due for release in March in Yokohama, Japan. A section […]
By John Dorschner9 November 2013 (Miami Herald) – While most residents in South Florida still have no worries that global warming could dramatically lower housing prices, land-use attorney Sam Poole has already developed a plan to sell his house in a low-lying Fort Lauderdale neighborhood. Poole has heard some scientists predict that the first financial […]
By Michael Mann 16 November 2013 (ecowatch.com) – It is with a heavy heart and a respectful hand that I write this. Super Typhoon Haiyan has only just passed, and the devastation cannot yet even be fully understood. With that in mind, please consider a donation to the Philippine Red Cross. But that will only […]
By Caitlin Werrell and Francesco Femia13 November 2013 (Climate and Security) – U.S. naval installations are built at sea level. Sea level rise, therefore, leads to an increasing set of complications for these installations. You don’t have to look further than Norfolk, Virginia to see this reality playing out. Sea level rise also potentially adds […]
