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- A great civilization brought low by climate change (and, no, it’s not us)
Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette, February 28, 2020.
Speaking on “The Ancient Maya Response to Climate Change: A Cautionary Tale” at the Peabody Museum on Thursday, February 27, 2020, Arizona State University Professor Billie L. Turner II discussed how climate change — likely made worse by unchecked development — brought low one of the great civilizations of our hemisphere over a thousand years ago.
- Apocalypse Creep
This American Life, Feb. 11, 2022
A woman wakes up and discovers her backyard has disappeared, and other stories from places slowly coming apart
- Climate Change Adaptation: Enhanced Decision Making
Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) researchers are developing decision frameworks to improve the ability of the Department of Defense (DoD) to assess the potential impacts of climate change on military installations and facilitate appropriate adaptive responses.
- Climate Change Journalist Warns: 'Mother Nature Is Playing By Different Rules Now' (37 min)
NPR Fresh Air, Oct 24, 2017. Terry Gross interviews author Jeff Goodell, who writes that American cities are under threat from extreme weather, rising sea levels and lax enforcement of environmental regulations. His new book is The Water Will Come.
- Most atolls will be uninhabitable by the mid-21st century because of sea-level rise exacerbating wave-driven flooding
Curt D. Storlazzi, Stephen B. Gingerich, Ap van Dongeren, Olivia M. Cheriton, Peter W. Swarzenski, Ellen Quataert, Clifford I. Voss, Donald W. Field, Hariharasubramanian Annamalai, Greg A. Piniak and Robert McCall. Science Advances 25 Apr 2018: Vol. 4, no. 4, eaap9741 We project the impact of sea-level rise and wave-driven flooding on atoll infrastructure and freshwater availability under a variety of climate change scenarios. We show that, on the basis of current greenhouse gas emission rates, the nonlinear interactions between sea-level rise and wave dynamics over reefs will lead to the annual wave-driven overwash of most atoll islands by the mid-21st century.
- NPR - Massive Antarctic Ice Shelf Will Be Gone Within Years, NASA Says
Massive Antarctic Ice Shelf Will Be Gone Within Years, NASA Says Scott Neuman, May 15, 2015 4:01 PM ET
- Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak's Northeast Corridor
By Christopher Flavelle and Jeremy C.F. Lin, December 20, 2018, Bloomberg Businessweek By the middle of this century, climate change is likely to punch a hole through the busiest stretch of rail in North America. Parts of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor route, which carries 12 million people each year between Boston and Washington, face “continual inundation.” Flooding, rising seas, and storm surge threaten to erode the track bed and knock out the signals that direct train traffic. The poles that provide electricity for trains are at risk of collapse, even as power substations succumb to floodwaters.
- ‘Sunny day flooding’ worsens at NC beaches — a sign sea rise is decades too soon, studies say Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/technology/article210413904.html#storylink=cpy
Abbie Bennett, News & Observer, May 5, 2018 Living in cities threatened by sea-level rise could be like living near an active volcano, according to NOAA oceanographer William Sweet. Some parts of the Earth are seeing sea levels rise far beyond average, and it's just a waiting game before some areas are inundated with sea water, studies show. The East Coast of the U.S. is experiencing "sunny day flooding" that scientists didn't expect for decades yet.