Presentation on building local resilience to climate change in Salt Lake City. This presentation was given at the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association's annual Symposium held every July in Broomfield, Colorado.
Teaching Climate Literacy in High Schools & UniversitiesKim Nicholas
In this talk, given November 2019 at the Lund University Teaching and Learning Conference, I answer four research questions.
The TL DN answer is in () below, see slides for more details:
1. What does one need to know to be climate literate? (Understand the IPCC Summary for Policymakers, which we made into a teaching framework, please use it!)
2. How well do universities teach climate literacy? (poorly)
3. How well do high schools teach climate literacy? (poorly)
4. How much do high schools focus on high-impact climate actions? (very little)
Presentation on building local resilience to climate change in Salt Lake City. This presentation was given at the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association's annual Symposium held every July in Broomfield, Colorado.
Teaching Climate Literacy in High Schools & UniversitiesKim Nicholas
In this talk, given November 2019 at the Lund University Teaching and Learning Conference, I answer four research questions.
The TL DN answer is in () below, see slides for more details:
1. What does one need to know to be climate literate? (Understand the IPCC Summary for Policymakers, which we made into a teaching framework, please use it!)
2. How well do universities teach climate literacy? (poorly)
3. How well do high schools teach climate literacy? (poorly)
4. How much do high schools focus on high-impact climate actions? (very little)
Understanding and responding to the New Normal. This presentation was given at the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association's annual Symposium held every July in Broomfield, Colorado.
This presentation was given by Bob Henson of Weather Underground. You can watch the whole presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qaq0PEs74o
Understanding and responding to the New Normal. This presentation was given at the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association's annual Symposium held every July in Broomfield, Colorado.
This presentation was given by Bob Henson of Weather Underground. You can watch the whole presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qaq0PEs74o
This presentation shows how visualising the impacts of climate change on local communities, along with visual depictions of adaptation or mitigation, can be a very useful to drive local engagement in vulnerable areas. Presentation by Stephen R. J. Sheppard
PhD., ASLA.
Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning, UBC, Vancouver, Canada
The 14th Summer Environmental Health Sciences Institute took place in Houston, TX the week of 7/14/2014. This workshop on climate change, comes from educational designers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research. While you may not have been able to join us, you can still review content and download all the activities at our website: https://scied.ucar.edu/events/clone-climate-change-connections-2014
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The Carbon Cycle
Responses to Student Guide to the Carbon Cycle
Presentation given by Tim Quinn with the Association of California Water Agencies at the Session: "The Current State of Water: How did we get here" at the Great Valley Center's Sacramento Valley Forum on October 28, 2009 in Chico, CA.
A Geological Perspective On Global WarmingPaul Schumann
By Peter Rose
The relative contribution of Man's activities, as opposed to Nature's activities,,to the observed recent rises in Earth temperatures, is unresolved. In addition to the oft-noted inability of climate modeling to reproduce the documented recent past, a major shortcoming of contemporary climate studies is that they rest upon very short time spans, whereas climate change considered from a geological perspective encourages much less anxiety about the climate future of the world. If it turns out that most observed global warming is the result of natural causes, as seems increasingly likely, proposed voluntary economic initiatives by Western nations to limit CO2 emissions will constitute a serious and unnecessary economic wound, self-inflicted at the worst possible time. Sunspot cycles suggest that we are about to enter -- indeed may have already begun -- an extended period of global cooling. Recent unsavory revelations (“Climate Gate”) have cast doubt on thedependability of the science underpinning Anthropogenic Global Warming.
Peter R. Rose (BS, MA, PhD, Geology, University of Texas at Austin) is a certified petroleum geologist who was Staff Geologist with Shell Oil Company; Chief, Oil and Gas Branch of the U.S. Geological Survey; and Chief Geologist and Director of Frontier Exploration for Energy Reserves Group, Inc. (now BHP Petroleum (Americas), Inc.). In 1980, he established his own independent oil and gas consulting firm, Telegraph Exploration, Inc. His clients include most major U.S. companies and prominent independents as well as many international firms and state oil companies. Dr. Rose has explored for oil and gas in most North American geological provinces and has published and lectured widely on U.S. resource assessment, basin analysis, play development, prospect evaluation, and risk and uncertainty in exploration. He has taught extensively at the professional level and was a 1985/1986 AAPG Distinguished Lecturer.
Nature Nights: A Low-to-No Snow FutureDesLandTrust
Mountain snowpacks have historically acted as large, natural reservoirs of water, as well as providing awesome recreational opportunities. In recent decades, however, snowpack has declined—another sign of a changing climate. If our climate continues to warm, snow loss will be exacerbated across the Western US, termed a “low-to-no snow future.” Join the Deschutes Land Trust, Dr. Alan Rhoades, and Dr. Erica Siirila-Woodburn to learn about the possibility of a low-to-no snow future in the Cascades. Dr. Rhoades and Dr. Siirila-Woodburn will offer proactive solutions to both mitigate the extent of and adapt to the changing conditions of a low-to-no snow future. Learn how you can help make a difference in our (hopefully!) snowy future.
Canada Europe Energy Summit
Al Monaco, President and CEO, Enbridge Inc. addressed an audience of distinguished leaders from the Canadian energy sector, as well as prominent European-based investors, innovators, and thought leaders, at Canada House in London on Nov. 20, 2012.
Colorado's Solar Thermal Roadmap to Growth: Big Economic Opportunities AheadLeslie Martel Baer
Despite the best solar thermal resource in North America, Colorado is currently under-utilizing this key renewable technology. This roadmap outlines the economic opportunity in terms of market size, potential installed capacity and installation growth rates, job growth rates, fossil fuel offsets, energy consumer cost savings, and public cost savings due to positive health impacts, reduced environmental impacts, tourism, and more.
1. Why sustain?
Thoughts for municipal leaders
Southern Westchester Energy Action Consortium
28 January 2012
Sarah Lawrence College
Mayor Leo Wiegman, Croton-on-Hudson, NY
SWEAC Jan.2012 slide 1
2. Reasons to believe
a) $ savings?
b) Climate adaptation?
c) Better health?
d) Safer transportation?
e) Better foodways?
f) National security?
g) All of the above
SWEAC Jan.2012 slide 2
5. Why measure?
“When I die, let earth
and fire mix: It matters
not to me, for my affairs
will be unaffected.” —
ancient Greek proverb
“If you cannot measure
it, you cannot improve
it.” — Lord Kelvin
SWEAC Jan.2012 slide 5
Did you pay more for maple syrup this year? Already in New York since 1970:Spring comes, on average, a week or so earlier. Winter snow cover is decreasing. Rising sea levels are increasing the risk of flooding. Summers have more super-hot days. Diseases typical of warmer climates are appearing. Warmer average temperatures cause more intense precipitation. Food production capacity is changing due to warming trend. Asthma rates have quadrupled in past 25 years. Maple syrup production is limited to freezing nights followed by above freezing days.www.dec.ny.gov/energy/44992.html
We can choose to be overwhelmed and do nothing. But, in my book, doing nothing in NOT an option. Start somewhere. Anywhere. And you wil feel better. I promise. The plumber in Montreal who figured out this work-around while they laid new pipe felt better in the end!
We have two stark choices: Do nothing and care not what comes after us. Or engage with active work on something. And that starts by measuring.
For example, my village tallied up our greenhouse gas emissions from all village government operations. We learned some surprising facts. Our number1 energy cost was pumping water from our wellfield to our 2000 customers. Our number 1 emissions source was our buildings due to oil-fired heating plants. But a surprisingly large cost came from lighting our streets and parks at night: $88,000 or about 17% of our annual fuel cost. At low tide, we have just about 5 square miles of dry land. So that number got me thinking.
We have since completed greenhouse gas inventories for a half dozen other municipalities in the Northern Westchester Energy Action Consortium. Again, the r
esutls of actually measuring carefully were really eye-opening.
Meet the Connect-the-Dots t-shirt company. A product system, or life cycle, can begin with extracting raw materials from natural resources in the ground and generating energy. Materials and energy are then part of production, packaging, distribution, use, maintenance, and eventually recycling, reuse, recovery, or final disposal. In the case of a simple t-shirt, the stages involve a wide variety of impacts due to fertilizer used to grow the cotton, dyes and water used to manufacture the shirt, and bleaches and detergents used by the owner to wash the shirt. Source: Adapted from Remmen A, Jensen AA, Frydendal J (2007) Life Cycle Management: A Business Guide to Sustainability. (Life Cycle Initiative, United Nations Environment Programme). www.unep.fr/scp/lcinitiative/publications/
Life cycle analysis can be extended beyond measuring the energy flows into measuring the money flows over time. Adding a cost analysis component over a life span of a facility can produce some surprising results. The Whole Building Design Guide program finds that 92% of the total cost of a building over its 30 year life is the human cost of the personnel salaries, while design, construction and maintenance are only 8% of the life cycle costs. That is a powerful argument for designing and operating healthy, efficient, and comfortable buildings in which to work and live!
There are two forces at play. One says “wait” and “don’t do something rash.” I sympathize with that feeling. But I reject that for my own approach. Why? My father was a country doctor in New Hampshire, schooled in the old country ways (not the USA). When a patient called our home in the middle of the night, he would not say, “Ok, Benoit, this baby can wait until the snow stops or the sun shines.” He would doff his cap, start up his Volvo, and go out to the farm house.
What atmosphere do we want to leave our grandkids?
