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Category Archives: Climate Change Preparedness
EPA draft Climate Change Adaptation Implementation Plans for public comment
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has posted for public comment EPA's draft Climate Change Adaptation Implementation Plans for 7 National Programs and 10 Regions. Other agencies should follow EPA's example and solicit public review of their plans, which should become … Continue reading
Obama Executive Order on climate change preparedness (Part 2) -- a long-overdue step forward
President Obama's Executive Order "Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change" takes a step on implementing the administration's Climate Action Plan issued in June. This Part 2 of our summary covers Federal Agency Planning for Climate Change Related … Continue reading
Obama Executive Order on climate change preparedness (Part 1) -- a long-overdue step forward
“Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change,” a presidential Executive Order issued November 1, continues the development of a national climate change preparedness process, which we first called for in March 2008, back in the Bush-Cheney climate … Continue reading
21st Century climate extremes and the next "Greatest Generation"
Can catastrophic events serve as lasting climate wake-up calls? Why do some disasters have deep and long-lasting consequences for our society while others do not? And what can we do – and should we do – in advance of such events … Continue reading
Cities taking initiative on climate change preparedness
We have seen all-too-much evidence that the U.S. is unprepared for a rapidly changing climate. In the absence of coherent national climate policy, local leaders are moving forward. New York Mayor Bloomberg announced a hugely ambitious strategic approach and 45 … Continue reading
Undermining preparedness: flood mapping budget slashed
"The government’s response to the rising need for accurate [flood insurance] maps? It’s slashed funding for them," reports ProPublica. Washington's complicity in undermining preparedness for extreme events is bipartisan: Congress has cut the flood mapping budget by more than half … Continue reading
Federal budget sequestration begins to undercut extreme event preparedness
So it begins: The 2013 wildfire season finds the government facing cutbacks in firefighters, equipment, fire prevention, and recovery, as a result of federal budget sequestration cuts. And due to an ongoing agency-wide hiring freeze, the National Weather Service office serving the … Continue reading
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Climate change preparedness “Guardian of Gotham”
Among their “Ten people who mattered” in 2012, the science journal Nature included Cynthia Rosenzweig, co-chair of the New York City Panel on Climate Change and senior research scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. We strongly agree … Continue reading
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Flood Insurance Reform Act could promote better climate preparedness
Federal flood insurance reform legislation enacted this year could aid proactive state and local preparedness for climate change, sea level rise, and flooding. The beleaguered National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) was overhauled in June and the changes should keep the … Continue reading
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"The insurance industry is finally waking up and smelling the climate chaos coffee"
"What is the increasingly risk-exposed insurance industry doing to prepare and plan for increasingly intense extreme weather fueled by climate change? The answer is, not surprisingly, much, much too little," writes former CSW senior research associate Anne Polansky on her new … Continue reading
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