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The Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Knowledge Network has recently been launched as a map-based portal to share knowledge on climate change mitigation options for agricultural and food systems. The site aggregates environmental, climatic and social information to share and communicate research and tools to measure and adjust, with a focus on the resilience of [...]
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I had the pleasure to meet and interview Javier de la Torre at the recent FOSS4G event in Denver. de la Torre and his team at Vizzuality have been responsible for a wide array of interesting websites and crowdsourcing initiatives that are helping to gain understanding and perspective on issues of global environmental change. The [...]
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A new report by Canada’s National Round Table on Environment and Economy takes a close look at the economic impact of climate change in the country. The study estimates that costs of global warming may rise to $5 billion per year by 2020, and between $21 and $43 billion per year by 2050. The impacts [...]
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The National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK’s National Measurement Institute, has just released a report that calls for a new earth observation satellite to better calibrate our climate models. The report draws attention to the estimated rise in temperature that span from a broad range of ~2-10?C. Dr. Nigel Fox, head of Earth Observation and [...]
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The Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., will open a new exhibit titled, “Earth Lab: Degrees of Change,” next Thursday, Sept. 16. The exhibit focuses on the visualization of climate change, along with its impacts. The exhibit has at its center a simulation game where visitors take on the [...]
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The editor of the journal Remote Sensing has resigned, admitting that a paper by U.S. scientists Roy Spencer and William Braswell that cast doubt on man-made climate change should not have been published. The paper received a great deal of exposure from climate skeptics, but was widely dismissed by mainstream scientists. The editor Wolfgang Wagner [...]
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NASA researchers have just completed a satellite-imagery based map that shows both the speed and direction of ice flow for all of Antarctica. The map shows the flow of glaciers from the interior to the coast, and will prove useful for tracking changes due to climate change, and will help understand implications for sea-level rise. [...]
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Chicago is among the leading U.S. cities that is taking climate change seriously, with practical planning and action in place to combat the changes. To begin with, the city created a detailed model of changes with a century’s worth of historical observations of temperature and precipitation. The forecast showed that the city can expect “72 [...]
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This morning at The National Map Users Conference in Denver, Joel Scheraga, senior advisor for climate adaptation at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, addressed the group. He asserted that for us to be successful in combating and adapting to climate change, it is absolutely imperative to have ready access to geospatial information. truly believe we [...]
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