U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit Climate Explorer
There is a large and growing number of web applications serving climate data. Notably, the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit (toolkit.climate.gov/ tools) has over 500 digital tools in its catalog catering to a wide range of users.
Read moreSea Level Rise Projections and Visualizations
On October 31st, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) began in Glasgow, Scotland. There, the parties to the Paris Agreement are expected to ramp up their commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions so that the world may prevent some of the worsening effects of climate change.
Read moreWhat Climate Change means to our Crucial Snowpack
Originally published in The Seattle Times on March 23, 2018
“Low mountain snowpack raises water-supply fears in Washington” was a Seattle Times headline on January 6, 2015. Just one year later, another headline proclaimed, “Snow pack in good shape, likely well into spring”.
Climate Change and Our Natural Resources: A Report from the Treaty Tribes in Western Washington
A group of twenty member tribes of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission (NWIFC) recently released a report detailing how climate change is apt to impact the ocean, freshwater and terrestrial systems of western Washington.
Read moreA New Synthesis Report on Climate Change in the Puget Sound
A new state of the knowledge report from the University of Washington’s Climate Impacts Group on climate change in the Puget Sound region was released in November (Mauger et al. 2015).
Read moreThe Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has produced a series of reviews of the state of the global climate and its expected changes. Portions of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) from the IPCC have been made available recently.
Read moreAssessing One’s Carbon Footprint
The issue of global warming may seem remote to many residents of the Pacific Northwest, especially as winter weather has returned with a vengeance at the time of this writing. Nevertheless, global warming and climate change are real, and will have serious repercussions for the environment and human society.
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