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Jul 11, 2022 | Climate Change Report, Climate Matters, Extreme Heat, Rain and Snow

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.

Nov 5, 2021 | Climate Change Report, Climate Matters, Flooding and Streamflow

Sea 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.

Apr 4, 2018 | Climate Change Report, Climate Matters, Rain and Snow

What 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”.

Jan 5, 2017 | Climate Change Report, Climate Matters

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.

Dec 4, 2015 | Climate Change Report, Climate Matters

A 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).

Nov 4, 2013 | Climate Change Report, Climate Matters

The 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.

Mar 8, 2011 | Climate Change Report, Climate Matters

Assessing 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.